PAMPER PACKAGE: Design and Arts College student Lyssie Patterson works on Jilly Ching. Students from the college want to pamper people who are still suffering from the aftermath of the quakes.

Do you need a 'Quakeover'?

Students from the Christchurch's Design and Arts College want to give free makeovers and styling sessions to hard-hit Cantabrians to make them feel better about their lives.

The programme, called Quakeovers, offers makeup, face-painting and hair-styling to people struggling with the aftermath of the quakes.

Lyssie Patterson, 25, is part of the team. They have no money but still want to help out.

"I have been noticing how upset and stressed a lot of people are. They're renting homes and paying the mortgage for houses they can't live in at the same time," she said.

"They're living in houses with mouldy carpets and their toilets don't work."

Patterson particularly wants to help women with pampering sessions.

"They [some women] are using portaloos and the house is a mess. They don't have a lot of money to spend on themselves. I want to cheer them up and make them feel a bit better. It's more a health and wellbeing charity.

"I'm doing a course in makeup design and trying to think of ways to help people and cheer them up - not with money because I don't have any."

Men were also welcome to come in for a session and children could also get their faces painted.

So far, there were 12 students involved in doing free makeovers.

Patterson said people could either come into the Design and Arts College on afternoons and weekends, where they had basins to wash and style hair.

However, if residents could not make it to the college, stylists could possibly do the makeover at home.

"Mum put it on a TC3 Facebook group. A lot of people showed interest there," said Patterson.

People could nominate themselves or others on the group's Facebook page or email quakeovers@gmail.com.