It took five years, grew 18 inches and cost his parents £4,200 in shampoo, conditioner and detangling spray.
But after being mistaken for a girl and called Rapunzel, five-year-old Rean Carter has made his first visit to a barber’s shop.
He went to his uncle’s aptly named hairdresser’s, Fellaz in Sunderland, to ask for a short back and sides because he was being teased at school.
