Desperate housewives want their husbands turned into Brad Pitt, and the blokes want their wives to look like Angelina Jolie. Such requests are routine for award-winning face painter Catriona Finlayson, who has transformed the looks of thousands of people, from toddlers to grannies.
'I don't usually say no. But I'll persuade them to have something else because that would need a facelift and body sculpt,' she says with a grin. 'It's easy for me to make people look older and ill. It's a lot harder to make them look younger.'