NEW Channel show Extreme Makeovers: On Fleek spotlights eight "extreme image lovers" from across the UK, including a human Ken doll, a "bad Barbie" and a "cyber mermaid".

Here's what you need to know about the one-off programme.





When does Extreme Makeovers: On Fleek air tonight?

The show airs at 10pm on Channel 4.

4 Make-up student Stephanie shows off her 'cyber goth' look Credit: Channel 4

What's it about?

The eight participants start out bare-faced and natural, then demonstrate what it takes to achieve their signature elaborate looks.

Gill Wilson, who commissioned the series, said: “It’s harder than ever to make a mark as an individual with make-up. Those we feature are pushing the boundaries to its limit, trying to create a look which is unique, shocking, utterly perfect or all three.”

Participant Jsky, 29, told the Manchester Evening News: “The show is about the whole process of what’s involved in our look. And as well as that, it also shows the comments we have to put up with, and how our friends and family deal with us having an extreme look."

4 Bronzer-loving Austen often gets mistaken for a woman Credit: Channel 4

Who is in it?

Jsky, real name Jason Warner, is a Manchester singer-songwriter, model and socialite. Last year he appeared on Channel 4's First Dates, where he had dinner with a transgender woman named Alex from Essex. He applies black face paint to his neck to create a more angular appearance.

Anime lover Rebecca, 21, is described as an ordinary girl from the Isle of Man — but in Japan she's a YouTube star known by her stage name Beckii Cruel, with more than 114,000 followers.

4 Credit: Channel 4

Extreme Makeovers: On Fleek airs tonight on Channel 4

Stephanie, 24, is a rainbow-haired, glitter-obsessed make-up student at University College Birmingham.

She demonstrates her "cyber goth" look, which takes an hour to complete.

Anders, 25, from Manchester, transforms his face through the use of contouring, revealing: “Normally my head looks like a meatball, but when I do my makeup I can look like a chiselled god from Greece.”

4 Anders uses contouring tricks to look like 'a god' Credit: Channel 4

"Tanorexic" Austen, 21, from Carnoustie, Scotland, admits he won't put the bins out without a full face of make-up. He whitens his teeth twice a day. At the care home he works in he is often mistaken for a "lass".

Mum of four Lisa, 42, from Wigan, describes herself as a "half hippy half goth curvy chick", as well as "Britain's only amputee pole dancer to date" (she lost her right leg below the knee after a car crash in 2007).

She weaves leaves into her hair and glues gemstones around her eyes to turn herself into a woodland goddess.

Glamorous Courtney claims she can make herself look like a size 8 on social media and dating sites, even though she's much larger.

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