HER husband thinks she looks like Sinead O'Connor and loves her new look, her mum just thinks she's amazing and Laura Lovelace herself is just feeling the cold.

But the former Beaminster School pupil is also feeling very grateful to everyone who's made her head shave so worthwhile as she's raised more than £1,200 for the Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) charity.

She decided to go bald for the charity as a way of both paying tribute to her mum Sue Andrews whose kidneys failed necessitating a transplant and to the charity which helped her.

Laura, who now works in Waitrose in Bridport, said: "My mum's suffered with polycystic kidney disease for as long as I can remember.

"This year in March she had a kidney transplant because the disease caused kidney failure.

"While she was going through dialysis and everything that else that happened to her during that time she was really just held our family together and remained positive.

"She was just a real inspiration to me so I just wanted to do something to give back to the charity because without that charity coming up with dialysis and supporting all the research behind and things like that my mum wouldn't be here.

"I was inspired to do the head shave by Jo Harp one of my husband's friends who raised a lot of money. I wanted to do something that raised a lot of money and mum wouldn't let me do a sky dive.

"Donations are still coming in but so far we've raised more than £1,200."

Laura's not unused to different hairstyles but grew her hair long for her wedding last year and having decided on the head shave last December kept it growing it so she could also support the Little Princess Trust by donated her 16inch ponytail.

Apart from feeling the cold Laura's quite keen on her new look and husband Sam said he loves it.

She had the shave at Snip Hair and Beauty on the St Michael's trading estate.

Mum Sue, from Broadwindsor said she offered to do the head shave too.

"But Laura said I'd been through enough. I had peritonitis a couple of times too and almost missed her wedding last year through sepsis but was thankfully discharged from hospital less than 24 hours before she got married. It has been a tough time.

"I was waiting for a transplant for more than five years which is longer than average.

"Unfortunately I went into kidney failure because your kidneys deteriorate over time."

She had the operation at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

She can be supported at justgiving.com/fundraising/Laura-Lovelace

PKD causes numerous cysts to grow in the kidneys which can slowly replace much of the kidneys, reducing kidney function and leading to kidney failure. It is the fourth leading cause of kidney failure.