BREAST cancer survivors and sufferers made Christmas feel a bit more festive by replacing their eyebrows with glitter, tinsel and decorations.

Members of the Younger Breast Cancer Network Facebook group decided to get creative by painting and decorating their eyebrows, which often fall out during chemotherapy.

Sam Evans, from West Oxford, decorated hers with green-glittered Christmas trees, borrowed from her seven-year-old daughter Hannah’s Christmas crafts set.

The 44-year-old said: “I was diagnosed in February 2013 and finished treatment about this time last year, but my eyebrows never grew back which is disappointing.

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“Lots of women on the group are still having treatment, which is particularly hard over Christmas. We started sharing pictures of our decorated eyebrows to give them a giggle and to tell them to stay strong.”

Summertown resident Naz Derakshan, pictured, who put pink angels on her eyebrows, added: “It’s to show that you can thrive in the face of adversity.”

The psychology professor, 42, was diagnosed with breast cancer in January last year and had treatment and surgery until August 2014.

She said: “When people’s hair falls out they can find that very debilitating, so this is to cheer ourselves up.”

The images were first shared on its Facebook group and then found a wider audience on Twitter.

The Younger Breast Cancer Network is open to women aged 45 or under who have had a breast cancer diagnosis.

Visit facebook.com/YoungerBreastCancerNetwork

 

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