Several men lined up to have their facial hair given a multi-coloured makeover in a Gorse Hill salon on Saturday.

The lucky volunteers had their faces adorned with rainbow beards and raised money for charity at the event in Flawless Hair and Beauty in Cricklade Road.

All the proceeds – standing at over £250 – will be donated to Crohns and Colitis UK. The men who volunteered their beards for the occasion are staff at Drove Primary School, and their students will be getting involved in the action at school this week.

As well as dyeing rainbow beards, the salon also hosted a cake bake and offered cut-price blow dries and cuts at the event.

The choice of charity came about as one of the salon’s beauticians suffers from colitis.

Ian Young, a nursery teaching assistant at Drove Primary School, was among those receiving the treatment. He said: “I knew some of the guys at work had grown beards over the Christmas period, so some of us already had a head start.

“We made posters, put them around school and asked children to bring in sponsorship for us.

“The children who brought the most sponsorship could shave the beards off in School.

"The nursery children were really excited, and the Year 6 children think it’s hilarious that we are all going to have multicoloured faces.”