LOCKDOWN has been a hair-raising experience as we either seek to tame our unruly manes or embrace our inner caveman.

With barber shops and hairdressers closed, many in Worcester have been forced to take drastic action, trusting their other half with a pair of scissors - brave indeed in these tense times. Others opted for a safer option, doing the job themselves and making a rather fine job of it. Necessity is the mother of invention so here is a gallery of some of the brilliant and sometimes frankly bizarre barnets Worcester has to offer. One woman used dog clippers to trim her husband’s hair and managed not to make a dog’s dinner of the job. The photos, courtesy of our readers, show some of us missed our vocation and should have forged a career in hairdressing, their skills with scissors and clippers a revelation, not least to themselves. Fay Louise Powell shaved her head for Cancer Research UK, raising £500. She said: “This charity is close to my heart with my dad suffering from prostate cancer and my nan and grandad both passing away from it.”

Catherine Luke managed to keep her luxurious locks with a tidy trim, no mean feat when she did the job herself. Hair dye came to the fore with some rather spectacular shades of purple in evidence. With some clever visual trickery Martin ‘Tiger King’ Harris gave himself a spectacular Afro - but look a little closer if you would. Joe Priest said of his own effort: “Business at the front, party at the back.”