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Nicola Dormer, with a completely unmade-up face, prepares to discover just how accessible - or not - the daily beauty ritual can be.

Careful with those tweezers! Nicola tackles her eyebrows first, beginning the intricate procedure with her left eye.

Time to put on some foundation. Just the small matter of unscrewing the container first - a challenge for Nicola's co-ordination.

Nicola applies the foundation, but will her fingers allow her to achieve that desired 'even skin tone'?

Nicola appears rather sceptical about the eyeliner pencil. She seems to be looking at it like it's some kind of lethal instrument.

Nicola attempts a tricky manoeuvre whilst applying eyeliner, holding down her eyelid with one hand whilst drawing on it with the other.

Oh, when will this torture ever end? Nicola tackles the looming horror of the mascara brush.

Head down, Nicola begins 'ironing her fringe' with the hair straighteners - though at least the non-slip handle helps considerably.

With her fringe done, Nicola removes the straighteners, but she doesn't seem very convinced by what's happened to her hair.

The eyes have it: a close-up of Nicola Dormer's face at the end of her beauty ritual, complete with skewed eyeliner streak and mascara stain on her nose. Oops!
(All photographs by Sarah Dormer.)