VESMIRA KRKIC is just 16-years-old, but has been the driving force behind her Year 11 school prom.

The Fartown teenager decided some time ago that she wanted her year group to have a celebration to remember.

To that end she set about organising a prom at the upmarket country house hotel Bagden Hall near Denby Dale and helping to raise thousands of pounds to pay for it.

She said: “We had to do a lot of fundraising – a lot.

“We had a sponsored walk in fancy dress, bake sales and ran a sweet shop. We did all sorts of things. Without the fundraising we didn’t think everyone who wanted to go would be able to afford a ticket.”

The Netherhall Learning Campus students ended up with nearly £3,000 in the bank, enough to subsidise tickets which were sold at £30 for their big night out on June 22. Around 80 students attended.

After all her hard work, we thought it was only fair to offer Vesmira and her two friends, Lydia Johnson and Mercy Dengure, both 16, the prize in our recent prom princess competition to help prepare them for their special event.

The three girls were booked in at the Biju concession in Huddersfield’s House of Fraser store last week for a package of beauty treatments including gel nails, eyebrow threading and individual eyelash extensions. The company now has its own beauty room within the store.

We also gave them a make-up consultation and the chance to model prom dresses from the store.

Like many 16-year-olds, the girls wanted to look their absolute best for the prom. Biju consultant Sonal Patel offered them a choice of hard-wearing gel nail colours – even nail extensions – shaped and tinted their eyebrows and gave them all long, but natural-looking eyelash extensions.

Then the girls were handed over to Estee Lauder consultant Susan Brown who created a make-up look for each.

We found evening dresses at Coast and Therapy for the girls to model and at the end of their two-hour makeover they certainly looked ready to party.

Although the Year 11 prom has come in for criticism in recent years as an expensive American import, none of the girls spent more than £80 on a dress and shared the cost of a limousine with a number of other friends.

And, after all, it is a rite of passage for teenagers about to go their separate ways.

Mercy, from Deighton, plans to go on to Netherhall’s Studio School to study sociology, creative media and business while Lydia, who lives in Dalton, hopes to move to Greenhead College where she will take A levels in business, economics and sociology. Vesmira is aiming for Huddersfield New College where she will study forensic and medical science, physiology, photography and business.

All three have ambitions to go to university.

But for now they’re just enjoying being 16 and prom princesses.

l Are you having a prom? Let our newsdesk know by phoning 01484 437712 or email editorial@examiner.co.uk. Also send your prom photographs in as jpeg attachments to the same email address.