Friends cheer as Faye has head shaved for charity in Uckfield

Family and friends gathered to watch as 16-year-old Faye Kirby had her head shaved yesterday to raise funds for charity.

Some even took a turn with the clippers including mum Jackie Webber and Faye’s best friend Nicole Rome.

Ego hairdressers in Uckfield High Street was packed for the occasion and everybody agreed Faye was very brave. She was pleased to have raised more than £500 for Help for Heroes.

Grandmother Wendy Edwards said she had never seen her granddaughter without hair. “Even when she was born she had a lot of hair.”

It was hairdresser Katie Giddings who snipped off the first pony tail of hair and salon owner Jay Newlands who began work with the clippers on a Number 4 cut with input from many of the onlookers.

Then the cut went shorter to a Number 2 with Faye’s usual hairdresser Maisie Agate helping before Katie finished off the new look.

Faye, who lives on Manor Park, with her parents Jackie Webber and Mick Kirby, said her offer to shave off her hair started as a joke but before she knew it she was committed to the fund-raising.

“What I am doing is nothing compared with what the soldiers are doing for us in places like Afghanistan,” said Faye before her hair cut. “I think we should make sure they have everything they need to help them.”

Faye, who is on a creative, media and business course at the Sussex Downs College, brought a woolly hat with her ready for when she left the hairdressing salon.

She was due to finish her big day by playing rugby in the evening. She plays for the Brighton and Lewes 5th Sussex Barbarians.

Thanks to Ron Hill for the photographs. Faye is pictured below with her parents Jackie Webber and Mick Kirby, then with hairdresser Jay Newlands and her father Mick and finally with her friends crowding round to admire Faye's new look.

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