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<p>PLAINS TOWNSHIP &#8212; Bridget Ryan grinned at Mary Lisa Lada.</p><p>&#8220;Now you&#8217;re stylin!&#8221; she said as Lada, of Larksville, admired her mirrored reflection, complete with three new streaks of pink adding a playful touch to her hair.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to get my whole head done,&#8221; Lada said.</p><p>For now, the extensions stylist Erin Pikul added to Lada&#8217;s hair at Deja Vu salon in the Route 315 Plaza would suffice.</p><p>Lada and four friends, all of them connected to A Center for Cancer Wellness, Candy&#8217;s Place, in Forty Fort, adopted a pink look Tuesday afternoon to draw attention to breast cancer awareness.</p><p>&#8220;I did it last year and people said, &#8216;Pink hair?&#8217; and then I would explain,&#8221; said Tina Romanowski, of Dallas, who went pink once again in honor of two friends who are cancer survivors</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to people&#8217;s reactions,&#8221; said Denise Reschauer, of Shavertown, a five-year survivor and volunteer at Candy&#8217;s Place.</p><p>Anyone who gets a pink extension at Deja Vu this month can rest assured the entire $10 fee will be donated to Candy&#8217;s Place to help offer free support services such as exercise, meditation classes and wigs to cancer patients, said salon co-owner Danielle Yedloski. &#8220;It&#8217;s a great cause.&#8221;</p><p>Reschauer agrees. &#8220;Candy&#8217;s Place made a tremendous difference in my life, with the support, the therapy, the joy I found there.</p><p>As a survivor, she tells newly-diagnosed patients, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever laugh and smile again, but you do. You will laugh again. You will smile again.&#8221;</p><p>There were plenty of smiles Tuesday at Deja Vu as women who may not have had hair to style during their treatments had fun watching stylists use heat wands to fuse the extensions to their own regrown locks.</p><p>&#8220;If you lose your hair, it reminds you that you have cancer,&#8221; said Candy&#8217;s Place executive director Chris Ostroski, also a survivor. &#8220;When it gets to look like what it did before, it makes you feel more normal. It (the cancer ordeal) is kind of a thing of the past.&#8221;</p><p>If you&#8217;d rather not have extensions, you can do what another friend of Candy&#8217;s Place did on Tuesday. Maggie Baker, of Shavertown, opted for pink dye to be applied directly to her hair because she believed the result would last longer.</p><p>Other individuals who want to sport pink hair this month are welcome to visit the salon, Yedloski said. Call 570-825-6111 for an appointment.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Hair stylist Bridget Ryan at Deja Vu salon in Plains Township puts a pink hair extension in Tina Romanowski&#8217;s hair on Tuesday for breast cancer awareness. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_pinkhair01.jpg</photo0><caption0>Hair stylist Bridget Ryan at Deja Vu salon in Plains Township puts a pink hair extension in Tina Romanowski&#8217;s hair on Tuesday for breast cancer awareness. </caption0><photoCredit0>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_pinkhair03.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Hair stylist Erin Pikul, left, at Deja Vu in Plains Township puts a pink hair extension in Mary Lisa Lada&#8217;s hair on Tuesday for breast cancer awareness. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/web1_pinkhair03.jpg</photo1><caption1>Hair stylist Erin Pikul, left, at Deja Vu in Plains Township puts a pink hair extension in Mary Lisa Lada&#8217;s hair on Tuesday for breast cancer awareness. </caption1><photoCredit1>Pete G. Wilcox | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p><strong>By Mary Therese Biebel</strong></p><p>mbiebel@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mary Therese Biebel at 570-991-6109 or on Twitter @BiebelMT</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Pink extensions benefit Forty Fort’s A Center for Cancer Wellness, Candy’s Place, during October