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FEATURE - Rollentausch: Kindergärtnerin nutzt ihr Schmink-Talent für ihre Schützlinge und sich selbst
Toni in everyday make up (PA Real Life/Collect) *** Mum who taught herself to face paint while working in a nursery transforms herself
into everyone from Trump to Mr Bean using her make up bag
By Erin Cardiff, PA Real Life
*With video contact video@pamediagroup.com
A former nursery nurse who taught herself make up skills by painting childrens faces
at work is using her incredible talent to transform herself into famous people - ranging
from Donald Trump to Mr Bean.
Toni-Louise Fay's knack for face painting, which saw her being booked for children's
birthday parties, has come into its own during the Covid-19 lockdowns, when she has
made herself up as everyone from Boris Johnson to Eminem.
A nursery nurse for 10 years, she decided to switch careers during her maternity
leave in 2017 after having her daughter, Harper-Rae, three - enrolling on a two-year
special effects make up course.
Now studying for a second make up degree at UCEN Manchester, she has
entertained herself and her family during the pandemic, by making herself look like a
dead ringer for everyone from Mr Bean to Eastenders' Dot Cotton.
Toni, 30, of Rossendale, Lancashire, who funds her studies with part time cleaning
work, said: I started out completely self-taught.
"Id watch tutorials on Instagram and YouTube, then have an experiment myself with
whatever I could find in the house.
During lockdown, I havent had anybody else to practise on, so I had no choice but to
use my own face.
There are only so many different colourful eyeshadow looks you can do, so I started
thinking outside the box and going for famous faces instead.
Always a great lover of make up, one of Tonis favourite parts of her former role as a
nursery nurse was face painting for the children.
Soon she was such a dab hand with a brush and palette that she began earning extra
pin money by working at parties for local parents.
Then, in 2017, shortly after becoming a mother herself, she decided to take the
plunge
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