Make Our Soldiers Beautiful
When a soldier is serving overseas, looking good is on the bottom of the priority list. Whether they’re in the deserts of the Middle East or out to sea on a Navy ship, their job serving their country is what is most important. So although they may not focus on their looks, they definitely deserve pampering more than most.
This is where your salon, spa or cosmetology school can help support our troops. Lisa Hoffman, wife of actor Dustin Hoffman, has started a trend by donating more than $1 million worth of Lisa Hoffman Beauty products to troops and their families. Your salon or school may not be able to make a donation at that level, but everything counts.
Here are some fast, easy ways to support the troops:
• Collect donations at work or at school that can go to an organization that helps the soldiers. Operation Gratitude accepts monetary donations that go toward the shipping costs of sending the packages.
• If you receive small containers or bottles of health and beauty products from your suppliers you can donate those through Give2TheTroops. They have a wish list of all the health and beauty items soldiers have requested.
• Your salon, spa or school could offer discounts to soldiers and their families. The soldiers need to relax when they get home and it’s tough for their spouses and children to be at home without them, so they could use some pampering too!
These are just some small ways your school or business can help our troops overseas. A care package including their favorite shampoo or a soothing lotion would let them know we’re all thinking about them while they’re gone.
Is your beauty salon or cosmetology school participating in one of these charitable programs to help the troops and their families? Do you have any other ideas to help the soldiers?
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June 11th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
We have Operation Homefront http://idohair4money.multiply.com/calendar/item/10038/OPERATION_HOMEFRONT
Rivertown School of Beauty, Barber, Skin Care & Nails, in Columbus, GA. Home of FT. BENNING, the largest military reservation on the planet. We are providing hair, make up, and nails for a group of brides and couples re-newing vows before being deployed to Afganistan, on Saturday, June 13. I will be posting pictures and I will be blogging. Saturday, between 10a - 2:30p
June 14th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
We would love to take part in this! Our troops play a major part in every American’s life and they definitely deserve to be supported all the way
August 7th, 2009 at 6:48 am
About 3 yrs ago through another web site I came across something called Military Mission which as a participating provider (salon) I would give returning military personel a complimentary stress free service of their choice as a way of saying “thank you” for all their hard work and sacrifice. I love this idea and want to go forward with it but had come up empty handed. Can anyone help me find out who to contact in order to let this service be known?