Macon salon gives free haircuts to students heading back to school

“We thoroughly enjoy doing it,” says the owner of the salon Beverly Pitts.

Pitts has been cutting hair in Macon for more than 20 years. She’s owned Hairline Beauty Salon since 1991 and has many regular customers. She added there were a lot of new faces that showed up for the salon’s “100 Kids Back to School Community Project.”

“We’ve been in this community a really long time and we feel like that if you’re a part of a community you should give back to that community,” explained Pitts. “Because they’ve supported us and it’s just the type of project that can help connect us better with our community.”

People lined up early to get the free hair cuts and hair-dos long before the salon opened at 7 a.m. Looking around at the crowded salon, Pitts knows she could not have pulled off the community project alone.

“Motivating Youth will be providing food, we actually will provide lunch for them,” she said. “The Omega Psi Phi has partnered with us and the Legacy Foundation with Vickie Scott has brought some school supplies.”

Major supporters of the effort were Virginia College Cosmetology students.

“They’ve been an extremely big help to us in getting this project done today,” Pitts continued.

Fifteen-year-old Tracie Frye got a free hair cut last year and now she comes back to the salon all the time.

“It’s great I love it,” says Frye. “My mentor Ms. June Lanell, she told me and she said the hairstylist were great,” she explained. “My friends they go to my school and I’ve been telling them about the hairstylist.”

“When a little girl gets her hair done it just makes her feel really well and we’re able to encourage them and have them excited about looking good for their first day of school,” Pitts said.

Pitts says the “100 Kids Back to School Community Project” was such a huge success and they are already preparing for next year.