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Mum's Hilarious Eyebrow Prank on Sleeping Baby Sparks Debate

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Nyakundi Report

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This archive report was first published on 29 October 2019.

Published on October 29, 2019, a photo of a mum's creative attempt to give her sleeping baby a dramatic look has gone viral.

Danielle McSherry-Schee, a 27-year-old stay-at-home mum from Fife in Scotland, couldn't resist the urge to use powder to draw dark eyebrows on her six-week-old daughter Isabella while she was asleep.

Sharing the photo on Facebook, Danielle joked that she was teaching her daughter a lesson for falling asleep while out, but later admitted she just really wanted to see what her fair child would look like with bold brows.

'Isabella has really fair hair and basically no eyebrows - I have always wondered what she would look like with them,' Danielle said.

'And one day a wave of inspiration came over me and I had to draw them on. I used my powder and just lightly drew on symmetrical eyebrows, a bit like mine.'

However, not everyone found the photo amusing, with one person commenting to accuse Danielle of 'child abuse.'

Despite the backlash, Danielle claims she has no regrets and would do it again, saying, 'Some people commented saying it is 'child abuse' which made me feel like I had done something wrong. But I didn't put my baby in danger and the other mums in the Facebook group defended me.'

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