Made-up

I am a self-confessed scruff. If I'm going out then I'll make the effort with hair and make-up, but for day to day life (with 4.30 starts) it's a bare face, tousled hair with jeans and T-shirt.

When I started planning my wedding, I knew this would have to be addressed. Yes I can do a passable blow-dry, and yes my make-up application is OK, but I know I've lots to learn. Forget the wedding, I really want to make an effort for my fiance - he's gorgeous and he deserves a bit more effort from me. While he's got no problem with me looking like a scruffy student, I know he loves it when I make a bit of an effort.

I told my beauty therapist that I was thinking of doing my wedding make-up myself, and once she'd picked herself off the floor, she made me promise I wouldn't. She has done more for my personal grooming than anyone else, but she knows my limits, and apparently wedding make-up IS the limit. So now I'm on the hunt for a make-up artist, close to where my family live.

I need a make-up artist who can make me look like myself. But better. What I don't need is anything frosted within a 5 mile radius of my face, or to have enough eye make-up to get me into drag-queen school. Is this possible?