Nambucca’s Tori-Lee Brown is loving her new purple pixie cut for more reasons than just because it looks super stylish – it’s also giving a regional family a week’s free accommodation in the city to access cancer treatment.
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Well, the money she’s been able to raise by giving her lush locks a big chop has.
On Wednesday afternoon (14th) Tori-Lee chopped a decent 20 inches or more off her long brown hair in support of the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave, which this year celebrated 20 years of fundraising for blood cancers.
Tori-Lee, 23, proudly stepped up to the hairdresser’s chair in honour of the strong women in her family – but especially for her Nan Janice, who battled and survived stage four Lymphoma 25 years ago and her cousin Cindy, who has been battling Lymphocytic Leukaemia for the past 14 years since her diagnosis at age 31.
“It’s heartbreaking [what my cousin is going through]. She is so brave and such a strong woman,” Tori-Lee said.
This is the first year Tori-Lee has taken part in the World’s Greatest Shave and knowing the struggles her Nan faced to get to treatment; and the challenges her cousin continues to face, Tori wanted to help in some way. The money she’s raised will go toward helping those who need support for travel, accommodation and treatment.
Tori-Lee is so close to making her $700 target.
