Beauty students are getting the chance to add Estée Lauder to their CV through a new college partnership.

Barking and Dagenham College has teamed up with the international beauty company’s Lauder Bureau, an in-house agency of beauty consultants.

The best students at the college, along with the Technical Skills Academy in Barking, will go through an internal selection process and if successful will be receive a placement at the Lauder Bureau.

Natasha Virdee, 19, from Chadwell Heath, and Amna Salim, 15, from Ilford, were the first two students to go forward under the new partnership. Natasha said: “I am working with Estée Lauder and getting a step closer to my ambition of becoming successful in the beauty industry.”