A former nursery nurse who taught herself make-up skills by painting children’s faces at work is using her incredible talent to transform herself into famous people. 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, during maternity leave in 2017 after having her daughter, Harper-Rae, now three, she decided to switch careers - 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. Ms Fay, 30, of Rossendale, Lancashire, who funds her studies with part-time cleaning work, said: “I started out completely self-taught. "I’d watch tutorials on Instagram and YouTube, then have an experiment myself with whatever I could find in the house. “During lockdown, I haven’t 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 Ms Fay's 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 and turn her hobby into a new career.