Caring teenager Murren Mackay is donating 24 inches of hair to the Little Princess Trust cancer charity.
And the 13-year-old from Eastriggs is also hoping to raise £1,000 for the children’s ward at Dumfries Infirmary by losing her long locks.
Murren, who has been treated at the hospital for type one diabetes, said: “I am not nervous about it as I wanted to do it for a long time.