Having risked life and limb on several occasions and ended up muddied, bloodied, scared and soaking wet on many more for her Challenge Alison series, our intrepid Alison Bell wanted only one thing for Christmas: to be made a princess.

After 18 months of wonderful, often hair-raising challenges, this month’s was to make me a princess. In stepped my very own ‘fairy godmother’ Jacquie Brown and her team at the awardwinning Jacquies Beauty in Dumfries.

Gordon the photographer usually has to take pictures of me soaking wet, wearing an old hoodie or covered in mess of some description. I thought it would take weeks
to transform me, but all it took was two blissful days… and I wasn’t scared once!

On day one I was welcomed into the salon, then shown to a lovely wee room with exercise equipment and a television. Of course, I knew exactly what to do, and proceeded to tune in my favourite morning show. But this was not the point of the room as I was soon to find out.

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