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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Entertainment
Catherine Murphy

Former celebrity make-up artist turning Jurgen Klopp & Jodie Comer into amazing life-like cakes

A former TV make-up artist is once again painting the faces of celebrities but this time swapping her beauty products for icing sugars and flour.

Former Hollyoaks make-up artist, Leanne Harry, 46, has now turned her talents to creating "incredible" life like cakes of celebrities including Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and actress Jodie Comer.

Her designs and attention to details have been hailed as "amazing" and "brilliant" as people struggle to believe they're really created from cake.

Leanne said: "I use really similar techniques on my cakes as I did when I used to work in TV with airbrushing and getting shading right.

"I loved doing Klopp as I like him anyway and I really wanted to get stuck in doing his teeth.

"Depending on the design the cakes can take 20 to 40 hours to create, it's a complete process until they're complete I can't relax.

"There is a lot of pressure of making sure they look right, there is a fear of hecklers but the response is always positive as I don't think many have seen cakes like this before"

Leanne still works as a make-up artist in a salon but has praised her cake making as "saving" her sanity during the pandemic as although make-up artists have been allowed to work she described business as "horrendous" as no one is going out anymore.

She added: "The make-up side has been horrendous as even though we were open no one was going out or going to place they would need their make up doing.

"Making cakes gave me a reason to get up and stop watching Netflix, it saved my sanity."

Leanne's cake designs can be found on her Instagram @kakebyleanneharry which includes a Jodie Comer cake and a Captain Tom cake too.

Customers can order any celebrity or sport personality even own family members too.

Her Instagram is filled with comments from users amazed by her designs. One user commented on her Klopp design and said "Absolutely insane".

Another said: "Wow, you're very talented".

And, a third added: "Wow this looks amazing".

All orders can be placed through Leanne's Instagram.

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