Pick Me Up!

ONCE UPON A DREAM

Lifting the brunette wig over my blonde hair, the look started coming together. Complete with a yellow princess gown, sparkles covering my eyelids and pink, blushing cheeks, I knew I embodied the magic of a princess.

And I certainly felt like one, too.

Staring in the mirror, I was in awe at who was gazing back at me.

I was the spitting image of Belle, one of my favourite Disney princesses from the film Beauty and the Beast, who I’d looked up to since I was little.

I look just like her, I thought.

‘Who is this brunette in my house?’ my boyfriend Tom, 24, exclaimed.

Giggling at his shocked expression, I looked like a completely different person to my usual self, who usually wore jeans,

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