Have you heard of Lauren Luck?

I was digging around on YouTube and discovered this delightful girl and her series of videos that show you how to put on makeup to achieve various (usually celebrity inspired) looks. The makeup tips are great, but Lauren herself is adorable and dead funny.

Lauren's getting quite a lot of notice from the videos now and has even had a BBC One piece done on her and has been hired by Barry M Cosmetics to do weekly tutorials on their webiste. It's a great story of a genuine person and I'm so glad that her personal qualities and her makeup talents are being recognized and rewarded.

I grew up on a 35,000 acre ranch that was an hour's drive to the nearest town. Fooling around with makeup was never high on the priority list. So as an adult I can be a bit intimidated by makeup and it is great to have such a real, sweet and down-to-earth person showing you the ropes. She really puts a chicken like me at ease. I'm always afraid I'm going to look like a clown. But, inspired by Lauren's videos and armed with their knowledge, I decided to play around with my makeup yesterday and was really pleased with the results. BlindHorse and I went out to dinner and a movie. At dinner, the waitress told me I looked just like Christina Ricci [link] .

Now, not only was it nice to be compared to a celebrity, but especially nice to be compared to a celebrity 8 years younger than me. Let's just say that I made a stop to buy more makeup to play with on the way to the cinema.

So, if you haven't heard of Miss Luck, do check her out on YouTube [link] . And before you go, tell me, has anyone ever said you looked like a celebrity? And who was it??