SHE represented Australia growing up as a nation at the Olympic opening ceremony, but performer Nikki Webster is now growing up herself.

The 13-year-old is starting to use make-up, and was named yesterday as the face of Jager Cosmetics’ young women’s range.

“It’s a range for young women, and it’s so good to have someone young promoting it. It’s a great opportunity,” she said.

Nikki said she and her friends used make-up at weekends, but were not allowed to wear it to school. “I love make-up, and pink is my favorite color.”

The Jager range with the slogan “It’s a girl thing” boasts face powder, eyeshadow, lip-sticks and perfume as well as skin care products aimed at teenage girls.

Yesterday Nikki met Stefan, who owns a hairdressing salon chain and who raced at Sans Souci, Sydney, where the launch was held.

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Jenny Brown followed our hero girl on a 4352km journey as she brought Christmas cheer to families in the bush.

They came from everywhere, crossing the desert in dusty utes and trucks and four-wheel drives.

The children carried candles, their dads swigged cans of beer – and they travelled hundreds of kilometers just to see and hear Nikki Webster sing.

The 13-year-old star of the Olympics opening ceremony was Queen of the Outback during an epic, 4352km whistleshop tour aboard the Indian Pacific train.

Mobbed wherever she went – even in the middle of nowhere – Nikki travelled from coast to coast bringing festive cheer to some of this country’s most isolated communities.

And if our hero girl looked small in the centre of Stadium Australia, she seemed tinier still surrounded by the empty vastness of the Nullabor!
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“It’s a fearless talent,” says theatrical producer John Frost of Nikki Webster, the Sydney schoolgirl who rose above enormous sea creatures and floated into fame at the Olympic opening ceremony. “This kid just walks in and takes over and just commands the stage.” And she’s about to take charge of a lot more. When WHO caught up with Nikki just after her mesmerising and angelic performance as Dream Girl, the then 12-year-old spoke of her big chance. “I hope it makes me well-known,” she said, “because my dream is to make a CD and to be in a movie. And if I am well-known, people will buy the CDs and watch the movies – that would be my dream.” She must sleep with fairy dust under her pillow: earlier this month Nikki signed with Gotham/BMG Records and will soon take centre-stage in the recording studio. But first up is a trip to South Africa in February to star in the Hollywood film Vanilla Gorilla. Says Frost, who discovered Nikki when he cast her in his ’99 production of The Sound of Music: “I see a major career for Nikki.” That might be the understatement of the year.

Source: Who Magazine
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