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Mum with 'UK's biggest eyebrows' looks completely different without them

A mum who has the "biggest eyebrows in the UK" has shared a stripped-back photo of her without them.

Sammie-Jo Hailford, 27, said her extreme make-up look has attracted waves of abuse online and said she was even threatened in the street.

After painting huge eyebrows onto her forehead with liquid liner for the last year, she said some people had even threatened to call social services on her claiming she must be a bad mother.

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Now she has shared what she looks like after wiping her eyebrows off to her 90,000 TikTok followers, reports the Daily Star.

In her latest clip, she removes them using a wipe - and some elbow grease - and the video was quickly watched well over 1.3million times with 50,000 likes.

Jessie Ann Smith replied: "You're naturally pretty without all that make up."

Zoe Heinrichs added: "Seriously leave the brows off babe."

But Ashleee said: "Beautiful with or without. But what matters is what makes you feel comfortable. No one can tell you how you should dress or act or do your makeup."

Sammie-Jo Hailford has "Britain's biggest eyebrows" (Sammie-Jo Hailford)

Afterwards, Sammie-Jo told the Daily Star: "Personally I love myself without makeup and I also love myself with makeup.

"But I prefer myself with the makeup because I feel the brows make me feel liberated and free."

Earlier this week she explained why she enjoys making a statement with her brows.

She said: "I’m not a massive fan of beauty standards today.

"I feel like people are socially conditioned to only be beautiful if they are part of these standards and I just don’t agree with it and I don’t like it.

"I just like to make a statement and the brows do that for me.

"They started off normal size and they just got bigger over time and I just like to look different."

She added: "It would be cool if they were Britain’s biggest eyebrows.

"I’ve now created a hashtag called 'bigger the brow, bigger the boy' because it’s true and that’s what I say to my friends."

Since the interview, she has made headlines globally while gaining thousands of new followers.

And she caused a huge reaction online when she admitted to being threatened with social services.

She said: "People have said I shouldn’t be a mum and they are going to ring social services because of my eyebrows. It gets really extreme on the internet.

Sammie-Jo Hailford looks unrecognisable without her huge brows (Sammie-Jo Hailford)

"They can call social services because I have nothing to hide. My eyebrows don’t determine whether I’m a good mother or not."

She is now using her unique look to become a social media star.

And Sammie-Jo said she has been inundated with single men seeking her attention.

She said: "I've had a lot of hate and judgment for my eyebrows and makeup but I've also had a lot of people being nice and supportive and I've seen them fighting the negative people in comments - it was very overwhelming.

"I've had people tagging me saying I made the news in India, Australia, Nigeria and America and the whole thing has been crazy."

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