HAIRDRESSING and beauty therapy students at Bolton Community College showed off their skills at a competition in the Excel Centre.

The teenagers took part in themed contests in which their skills were put under scrutiny by lecturers and staff from the Manchester Road campus.

Categories included make-up and beauty competitions, in which students styled female models for a night on the town and an evening function, and men and women's hair styling.

Nail art students were given 90 minutes to apply and decorate acrylic nails along a "space" theme, and Level 3 students presented a themed style show entitled Funky Junk.