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A new mum booked a lash and brow appointment HOURS before her planned C-section so that she would look "perfect" giving birth - but admits she ended up looking "horrific".
Melissa Oakes was booked in for a planned C-section seven months into her first pregnancy after being told her baby was sitting breech in the womb. After being given an exact time and date to give birth, the construction firm secretary decided to undergo a full beauty transformation.
On the day of her planned birth, Melissa forked out £50 to have a set of Russian lashes applied and spent £15 getting her eyebrows waxed. Admitting she was "so bothered by how she looked", she also squeezed in a £25 spray tan in her kitchen the night before her caesarean and had her nails gelled blue for £25.
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Before heading to hospital, Melissa pampered herself, enjoying a bath, a full moisturising routine and curling her hair. The 28-year-old said her boyfriend Matthew Shaw, also 28, and her lash technician thought she was "crazy" for having her lash and brow appointments so close to giving birth.
Despite shelling out over £100 on beauty treatments, the mum-of-one said she would now opt for a less "extravagant" hospital look if she was to have another child.
Melissa, from Wigan, said: "Throughout my whole pregnancy my little girl was breech so her head was sitting in my rib cage. [Due to this] at my seventh month mark, I was booked in for a planned C-section and was given a date and time my baby would be born.
"I was absolutely petrified of giving birth and pushing so I think even if she wasn't breech, I would have still opted for a planned caesarean. Getting a C-section allowed me to prepare which is why
Kamila Valieva blamed her positive drug test on WHAT?!?
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