A teenager who took matters into his own hands after refusing to go the barbers for months has left himself looking like an iconic 90s movie character. Carly Bickerdyke says she pestered her 14-year-old son Mason Prady to get a haircut for months.
She says the teenager, from Stalybridge, was being too 'stubborn' to go to the barbers. But mum Carly was left stunned this week as she realised Mason had decided to have a go himself with a pair of kitchen scissors - and made himself look like Jim Carrey's character in Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd Christmas.
Mason grinned as he showed Carly, 34, his short, straight, bowl cut style fringe by appearing on the family's Ring doorbell camera so the mum-of-three could see it at work. A shocked Carly responded: "Why have you done that? You're not even funny."
Carly admits she was left 'crying with laughter' and pointed out to a confused Mason that he looked just like Jim Carrey - but the teen didn't know who he was. She said: "I've been telling him to get his hair cut for weeks and he's been saying no.
"He's quite stubborn, if he's not doing something, he's not doing it. His fringe was in his way and getting on his nerves so he trimmed it himself. They pressed the Ring doorbell and I was like 'what have you done, why?' and he said 'just because I wanted to'.
"I found it funny. I was crying with laughter. My cousin sent me a photo of the Dumb and Dumber haircut and Mason came in my room, I looked at him and couldn't un-see it.
"I said 'I can't talk to you Mason without seeing Jim Carrey. I can't look at you without laughing'. It's so funny.
He didn't even know who Jim Carrey was so he googled him and he was laughing at it. He's seen some of the films like The Mask but he doesn't know him by name. Him and his friends were in stitches looking at the pictures."
The year nine pupil had been growing his hair for months in the hope of getting a perm but his fringe had started to irritate his eyes. Luckily, none of Mason's school friends have seen his new do as it's the summer holidays and Carly is hoping a barber will be able to fix it.
Carly said: "We're going to get the barbers to sort it out. He'll have to have a short fringe and back and sides.
"He'll have to grow it out again if he wants a perm. He wouldn't mind letting his friends see, he'd still go to school because he knows it would make people smile.
"He's a character, he likes to make people laugh. He was probably trying to entertain himself with school being over.
"He gets bored very easily and has to be doing something all the time and it kept us all entertained for a few days because I couldn’t talk to him without laughing."
Carly said she and Mason's siblings, Ruby, 12, and Alfie, 10, are used to him pulling stunts like this. She added: "It's not the first time he's done something like this.
"He saw a trend on TikTok of people putting tape on their eyebrows so he did it and took his eyebrows off. It's normal for him.
"His siblings keep laughing. Ruby was googling Jim Carrey all night to show me photos. I'm going to get them to watch Dumb and Dumber."
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