Amazing Celebrity Makeovers of Emma Pickles

00:04 COMM: 18 year old Emma Pickles from Halifax UK, has become an internet sensation through video makeup tutorials, which she posts online. Emma transforms herself into celebrities, fantasy figures, and movie characters, on her YouTube Channel, which reaches a global audience of millions. 00:22 EMMA: Some people paint to chill out and some people read. I like to do make up. It's just fun for me. 00:31 EMMA: I kind of have a face that I can kind of mould into anything anyway. 00:35 COMM: But two years ago Emma's life was very different and she struggled in social situations. 00:41 EMMA: I've always been quite quite, but during my last few years at school it kind of became a problem. I was afraid to like ask questions and it was really holding me back. 00:50 EMMA: I just developed this horrible social anxiety. 00:54 COMM: Emma was inspired to make her own video, after watching a makeup tutorial on YouTube. 00:58 EMMA: I found a video online and I tried it. I think I actually said in my first video, how nervous I was about just talking to the camera. 01:07 EMMA: Just playing with makeup that was I kind of realised that, oh I can do this. It sounds really big headed but I did kind of have a natural talent in it. 01:15 LIZ: She's overcoming things, she's doing things that she would never expect to do. It's overcoming shyness having to do these things, to pursue a career. 01:23 EMMA: But like this year I kind of enjoyed it, I kind of just enjoyed talking to new people and it's nice to be able to do that. 01:30 COMM: With her confidence bolstered, Emma was introduced to her boyfriend Brad. 01:34 EMMA: We started to get to know each other online, we'd been friends for a while, we've known each other for ages, since around June time really last year. 01:43 EMMA: It's nice, it feels like a proper relationship rather than just a school relationship. 01:48 COMM: Now, one and a half million views later, Emma's videos have more than thirty thousand subscribers from all over the world. 01:56 EMMA: One of them is nearly on half a million views now, and that, that just blows my mind. Why are that many people watching my videos. It's a nice feeling to know that your work is appreciated. 02:08 EMMA: And obviously any artist who puts their work out there in the world is scared of being judged. So it's nice that people are nice. 02:17 EMMA: And then that's it