Lucy Evangelista is our kind of gal.

The former Miss UK and Miss Northern Ireland has proved she's got brains as well as beauty by setting up her own modelling school, Voodoo IMS, along with fashion photographer, Ciaran O'Neill.

Rather than go down the model agency route, Lucy decided to set up a school in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter to help aspiring models at the first stage in their career.

"I started modelling at the age of 15," Lucy tells Sugahfix, "but I had no guidance and no idea who to talk to or where to start. I set up Voodoo International Modelling School to give girls the advice and security that I didn't have.