Australian man Jimmy Niggles has simply shaved – in a single piece – his ‘million greenback beard’ for charity.
Impressed to begin non-profit charity Pores and skin Examine Champions (previously often called Beard Season) after shut mate Wes Bonny handed away from a Melanoma at 26 years outdated, Jimmy has been rising his beard out – and inspiring males round Australia to do the identical every winter – for 11 years.
The aim is to encourage individuals to get extra common pores and skin checks and to win the race towards melanoma by early detection.
Jimmy based the motion in 2010 and since then the standard problem has grown into a world motion.
The one one who has trimmed Jimmy’s Ned Kelly type beard throughout that entire time has been barefoot magnate Richard Branson. Different adventures Jimmy’s beard has had is lifting up a totally grown man and being reproduced as tattoos.
Final evening its escapades got here to an finish, nonetheless, at a ball hosted by Merivale’s Justin Hemmes and Jimmy, in addition to iconic Aussie radio stars and comedians Hamish Blake and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli.
The funding reached the golden A$1 million mark, and the beard was shaved.
Pores and skin Examine Champions shared the scenes on their Instagram story and profile.
Within the closing moments main as much as the reduce, Jimmy regarded on the digital camera and mentioned: “mate, we’ve simply executed the ultimate coatings on the million-dollar bear and we’re doing the stay auctions now. Then we’re main as much as the large shave.”
“That is actually making historical past.”
Then got here the climax – the beard being shorn off. As Blake exclaimed, “It’s actually beginning to transfer as one” and feedback like, “It’s like chopping an umbilical wire” got here flying in.
Test it out for your self beneath.
As Cancer Council NSW’s Pores and skin Most cancers Prevention Supervisor Liz King lately instructed DMARGE: “In NSW, males over the age of 40 are 1.5 occasions extra more likely to be recognized and a couple of.5 occasions extra more likely to die of melanoma than girls of an analogous age.”
“Worryingly, males typically have poorer solar safety behaviours than girls and usually tend to have interaction in behaviours that enhance their UV publicity and pores and skin most cancers danger; they’re extra more likely to be outside, much less seemingly to make use of SPF30+ sunscreen, and extra more likely to have tanned pores and skin (an indication of UV harm).”
There may be hope, nonetheless. King additionally instructed DMARGE, “We all know that 95% of pores and skin cancers are attributable to UV radiation, making it extremely preventable if we care for our pores and skin utilizing 5 types of solar safety (clothes, sunnies, hats, sunscreen, shade).”
“Having one another’s backs will finally scale back pores and skin most cancers danger and save lives.”
Talking of getting one another’s backs: we will solely hope tales just like the one beneath proceed flowing in (and as this challenge goes from power to power, they need to), as Jimmy has hit his very long time goal of elevating one million {dollars} for a focused nationwide pores and skin test program.
As for Jimmy’s beard: it has been captured in a glass dome and golden plinth, and given to the best bidder.