CREATIVE make-up students are using inspiration from working on last year’s Festival of Thrift by using messages about climate change in their end of year show.

Talented youngsters studying production and performing arts make-up at the Stockton Riverside College applied make-up for catwalk models at the Oxglam fashion show.

Eight months on, the students are reflecting on issues of plastic pollution and over-population following their time at the Kirkleatham-based thrift festival celebrating sustainable living.

Production arts lecturer Nina Harper said: “It’s far more complicated than it looks on Instagram. The students have to learn how to interpret a wide range of themes, understand the audience and the occasion and respond to the clothes, setting and lighting.

“They also have to consider hygiene issues as well as maintaining a professional demeanour and observing on-set etiquette.”

The students also transformed volunteers into scarred soldiers for the Festival’s Atonement Redux filming on Redcar beach. The students will return to the Oxglam fashion show at the seventh Festival of Thrift on September 14 and 15, at Kirkleatham, near Redcar.