By Mikayla van Loon
Nathan Muys completed his Greatest Shave for the Leukeamia Foundation, surrounded by friends, classmates and teachers on Friday 9 September.
The Grade 5 student at Victoria Road Primary School took his position on a make-do stage after three years of growing his hair.
Although it started as a desire for a mullet, when the pandemic prevented haircuts, Nathan took it upon himself to keep growing his hair for the charity.
Wanting initially to reach a target of $1000, Nathan surpassed that weeks out from the day and on the morning of his Greatest Shave, with one final donation, he ticked over to $2000 in total.
The three step process of sectioning Nathan’s hair into small ponytails, cutting and then shaving was done by hairdresser Raych on the Run.
Although all over within 15 minutes, cheers and claps, and private congratulations afterwards, were passed onto Nathan.
“I’m very happy. It feels good and fuzzy,” he said.
A little overwhelmed by the feel of his now very short hair, Nathan kept brushing his hands over his head.
Even though he’s only just returned to short hair, Nathan said the plan is to grow it long again, ready to shave it all over again for the Leukeamia Foundation.
The Chirnside Park school principal Lisa Branch invited Nathan’s fellow classmates to think about the weight of what he was able to do for a good cause.
“It’s a really lovely gesture to do something like that. It can be pretty confronting. Getting your head shaved is a pretty confronting thing and doing it in front of an audience even more so,” she said.
“But he’s done that in order to be generous to people who are in a position where that’s something they’ll need.
“Congratulations to you Nathan because it’s not just about the hair, it’s about where you’ve come as a person to think that’s an important thing to do.”
Nathan’s hair will now be donated to the foundation to create wigs for people receiving cancer treatment.
