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Daily Mirror
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Niamh Kirk & Julia Banim

Mum asks for blonde highlights and leaves salon with 'orange lion's mane'

A woman who decided to treat herself to some cool blonde highlights at a salon she'd never been to before was astonished to find the new 'do made her look like a lion with an orange mane.

Nat Tobin, 37, asked the hairdresser for some blonde highlights to be added to her brunette locks, in a way that would conceal some of her greys. Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that "an orange lion's mane was taking shape at the front".

Disability support worker Nat, from Gold Coast, Australia, spent an eye-watering £140 ($260) on her new barnet, only to be left with ginger hair she didn't ask for, and still visible greys.

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