"I spent £4k on an eyebrow transplant using hair from back of my head"
By Emma Dunn
A woman spent £4k on an eyebrow transplant – just like Chrissy Teigen – and says her new brows make her feel “younger” and more “confident”.
Siham Cyrine, 29, had hair from the back of her head transplanted onto her face.
She decided to have the four hour operation after feeling self-conscious of her thin eyebrows which she had overplucked as a teenager.
She previously tried microblading and spent 45 minutes every day just doing the make-up on her brows.
After researching and seeing the likes of Chrissy Teigen getting an eyebrow transplant she decided to go for it herself.
Siham had the transplant in November 2023 and is now delighted with her new full brows.
Siham, a content creator, from LA, California, said: “I had thick eyebrows growing up.
“I plucked a lot. I started to lose my eyebrows in my 20s.
“Eyebrows are so important to me.
“Now I love them so much.
“I feel so much more confident.”
Siham had naturally thick eyebrows growing up but after being bullied for them she ended up plucking them a lot.
She said: "People said 'you have a unibrow' and laughed."
She found her eyebrows never grew back and started thinning out even more in her 20s.
Siham tried microblading but found the ink bled out and didn’t give the desired shape she wanted.
She said: “I started researching other options. So many people overplucked, I thought there had to be a solution.
“I started seeing more about eyebrow transplants. Chrissy Teigen did it.”
Siham went for several consultations before settling on Dr. Ducu clinic in Westminster, London.
She had consultations to draw up the perfect eyebrow shape before a small portion of hair was taken from the back of her head.
The hair follicles were then placed carefully on Siham’s face in a four hour procedure.
Siham said her brows looked "really odd" at first and they scabbed over before her hair fell off.
She said: "You're back to where you started."
Siham's eyebrows then started to regrow in December 2023 and now four months later are nearly fully grown.
She said: “I used to spend 45 minutes on my eyebrows alone. When I didn't have make-up on my eyebrows were and insecurity.
“Now I only take ten minutes.
"I feel more myself.
"They make me feel a bit younger."
Siham says her eyebrows will take nine months to fully develop but she's already happy with the results.
She said: "Eyebrows are such a big part of your face and identity."
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Dad buys terminally-ill 18-year-old son "dream" $20k Mustang before he dies
By Ben Barry
A dad bought his dying teenage son his $20k dream car - as he doesn't have long enough to save for it himself.
Joseph Tegerdine, 18, started experiencing knee pain in 2019 when he was 13 years old but his parents Joe, 49, and Kerry, 46, put it down to "growing pains".
The pain persisted for a few weeks and started to keep Joseph up at night so he went for an x-ray and MRI at Methodist Richardson Medical Centre in Richardson, Texas, US.
The MRI results showed Joe had a synovial sarcoma - a rare type of cancer that tends to occur near large joints, mainly the knees - and he started chemotherapy 10 days later.
In May 2019, Joseph finished the treatment and went for a rotationplasty - a surgical procedure used to treat bone tumours in children that occur near the knee.
Joseph was given a 70 per cent survival rate but, in January 2022, Joseph was told the cancer had spread to his lungs and his hip and he had months to live.
After his terminal diagnosis, Joe went out and bought his son a 330 horsepower Ford Mustang as he had always dreamed of owning his own.
Delighted Joseph told his dad: 'I'm going to squeeze a few extra months of life just to be able to drive this'.
Now the family are making the most of the time they have left and have visited Los Angeles to see Taylor Swift, Florida to swim with Dolphins and are currently in Tokyo.
Joe, a businessman, from Springville, Utah, said: "Joseph had been talking about owning a Mustang for a couple of years.
"He was always talking to me about buying one but we kept putting it off.
"Once he got his terminal diagnosis I spoke to my wife and said there was no way he has enough time to save money - so I went out and bought him one.
"He was so excited, he told me he wants to squeeze out a few extra months of life to drive the car.
"He really wants to live life to the fullest. He is not interested in spending the last few months hooked up to machines.
"He wants a high standard of living."
The family was devastated when Joseph was first diagnosed.
Joe said: "They said they could see a growth.
"We then had an MRI and that same day we got a call.
"My wife knew it would be bad news and they confirmed it was a synovial sarcoma.
"It was so devastating because not only did the doctor say it was one of the worst cancers and the hardest to treat.
"You didn't have Google to know that the statistics for survival were not good.
"We knew he would need to have his right leg amputated - it was horrible we just didn't know what the outcome looked like."
Joseph started chemotherapy on February 14, 2019 at Medical City Dallas Hospital, Taxes.
Then on May 3, 2019, he went for a rotationplasty.
Joe said: "Part of the treatment was that he would need an amputation.
"After the surgery, he had more chemotherapy until October 2019.
"He was the healthiest kid, he had never seen the inside of a hospital.
"His body was very strong and all the information they give you from when they take out the tumour looked very good."
In January 2022, scan results showed Joseph's cancer had spread to his lungs which took his survival rate from 70 per cent to 10 per cent.
He then underwent two surgeries to remove the tumour in his lungs which were successful.
Joe said: "After we got the all clear, Joseph started a drug trial where they would inject listeria bacteria into his body and programme them to kill the cancer cells.
"Unfortunately, in February 2023 his cancer spread to his hips.
"The doctor told us that we were talking about months and not years.
"Just a few weeks ago, doctors found a large tumour in his lungs and Joseph has now started radiation to prolong his life."
When he was growing up, Joseph had always dreamed of owning a Ford Mustang.
After his parents found out Joseph was dying they bought him his own car so he could drive around in it before he died.
Joe said: "He has been talking about it for a few years and constantly looking and searching for the perfect car.
"After our last hospital visit, I spoke to his mum and said there is no way he will save enough money in time to buy it so we bought him it ourselves.
"When we collected the car, Joseph was able to drive it home and he turned to me and said: 'dad, I'm going to squeeze a few extra months of life just to be able to drive this'."
The family have been making sure Joseph lives his final months to the fullest and is currently on holiday in Tokyo, Japan and are planning a trip in the summer depending on how well Joseph is.
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“Britain’s smartest dog” knows the names of all 231 of his toys
By Hannah Van De Peer
Meet “Britain’s smartest dog” - a border collie who knows the names of all 231 of his toys.
Martin Morris, 48, has been teaching seven-year-old Max the names of his toys since he was 12 weeks old.
Along with his wife, hospital cleaner Helen, 49, Martin has spent £1,115 on toys for Max - and now claims he can recognise every single one.
They shout the name of a toy - such as 'Hector the hedgehog' - from another room, and Max can root through seven bags of toys to find the correct one.
Martin, a taxi driver from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, said: “Max is a very talented boy - we think he should be famous.
“We’ve got seven wash baskets, overflowing with toys. We’re at 231 now, and he knows every one of their names.
“You can test him all you like - even with toys that haven’t seen the light of day in a while. He’ll still recognise it.”
Martin and Helen adopted Max - born from two working sheepdogs - from a farm in Manchester.
The “name game” has become a nightly ritual ever since - and the couple insist it keeps the pup sharp.
Martin said: “It’s taken us seven years to get to this stage - we read about the US collie called Chaser, who knows the names of 1,022 toys.
“But I don’t think any dog in the UK has managed to surpass 231 - making our boy the smartest.
“We’d buy Max a toy pretty much every week - Hector the Hedgehog, Sophia the Squirrel and Deeno the Dino, to name a few.
“And every night, before we go to bed, we play the name game.”
The “name game” involves Martin and Helen calling to Max from their bedroom, after lining a selection of his toys up on the floor.
They shout a name to him, and he has to run and identify the toy.
Martin says the hound has always been able to do this without treats, or any other incentive.
“We’ll go, ‘where’s…’ in an exaggerated voice - and then say the name of the toy.
“And off he’ll pop, looking for toys on the floor.
“He’ll smile at us afterwards, with this big smile that looks like a human’s.”
The couple have no plans to stop testing Max any time soon - and still buy a new toy for him every week. .
Martin added. “His favorite is Leo the Lion - he’s the first one we ever bought for him, and he still remembers him.”
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