Stylists from far spoil Karoo women

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KAROO NEWS & VIDEO - Thanks to a kind-hearted group of stylists from across South Africa, approximately 80 women from Karoo farms recently enjoyed free beauty treatments.

Scissors on the Move is the brainchild of Antoinette Harris Coetzee, owner of a hair salon in Paarl, who wanted to spoil farm women affected by the ongoing drought.

Coetzee did not say what the name of her salon is, as she wanted the focus to be on the brave women of the Karoo.

Photo gallery: Special treat for Karoo women

Scissors on the Move tackled the long road, beautifying women in Cradock, Graaff-Reinet, Beaufort West, Merweville and Laingsburg. The team consists of six hairstylists, three barbers, one make-up artist, one chef, two drivers and two photographers, all from either Paarl, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth or Welgemoed.

All of them offered their services for free, to ensure that the women of the Karoo feel and look good, but also interact with each other while being treated.

"If you look good, you feel good. We wanted to raise their self-image," said team leader Yolanda Meyer. According to Meyer, farming associations helped the team identify women to spoil.

In Graaff-Reinet, grateful tears flowed at Salon Continental, who hosted the team. "Sometimes one is in such a deep dark hole that you do not know how to get out," said Maxie van Aswegen, who was in the treatment chair, about the special spoils. Bronwyn Grobbelaar said the team does not realize what they mean to the women.

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"We now feel that we look beautiful again." She added that it was amazing that someone thought of the farmers' wives, not only the farmers. Lucille van der Merwe said Scissors on the Move reminded her that there are still many people with good hearts.

Lucille van der Merwe, Maxi van Aswegen and Shermaine Morris (student hair stylist). Photos: Christo Vermaak.