A graduate of the BB'c training school, Carolyn learned how to age people by creating jowls out of latex, wax noses and bags under the eyes. After working on extras,she worked up to making up the stars of the productions. During her work on The Visitation, she was required to spend a day at the Museum Of Rural Life in Reading University to research the look of the 17th Century, in particular the common man of 17th Century England. .