text: A make-up artist has applied her formidable skills to transform herself into a very seasonal figure - the Easter bunny. Maria Malone-Guerbaa, 41, from London, used nothing but paints to turn herself into an uncanny painting of a grey rabbit with blue eyes, wearing a red bow tie. The mother-of-two said she didn't use any prosthetics or special effects to achieve the amazing result. Scroll down for video . Make-up artist Maria Malone-Guerbaa (left) just used paints to transform herself into a bunny . The final result took three hours to achieve after Maria simply googled pictures of bunnies, picking one she liked best and replicating the image on her face. She used her own brushes and kryolan paint, special dense, long-lasting make-up used by professionals working with stage actors. Maria began her project by painting a white base layer to create the shape of the rabbit's face and ears, adding the animal's eyes (below her own) and nose and mouth (over her own). The sides of her face and forehead was then painted with black paint, to form the bunny's entire head. With grey paint, black dots stippled over the top and finally details like whiskers, and the bow tie that is drawn from Maria's neck up to her chin, the look was complete. Maria explained her inspiration for her rabbit scheme: 'My last couple of projects have been animal-themed so, with Easter coming up, it had to be a rabbit this time around. 'It takes me about three hours in total and I'll stop every 20 minutes or so to take a picture of my progress. 'I just went on my iPhone and searched for rabbits on Google Images. You get so many then that you can just form your own picture.' The final result has earned thousands of likes on Instagram, along with her other posts showing how she transformed her face into Jack Nicholson from The Shining, Stevie Wonder, a cougar and Freddie Mercury. Maria used only her brushes and professional kryolan paints to create bunny ears, bright eyes and a nose . She captioned the picture: 'I've got #hare in my face!' She said: 'It's amazing to see other people enjoying my work. I can't quite put into words how flattering it is and it makes the whole thing worthwhile. 'One lady even got in touch who'd been inspired to try it out herself. That was the pinnacle for me: it was so humbling to think that my work had inspired someone else to do the same thing.' Originally from Limerick, Maria says she's always had a passion for art but only began doing celebrity lookalikes after she started face painting for parties for her children Sophia, 14, and Adam, 11. She posted pictures online and added the caption, 'I've got hare in my face'
target: Maria Malone-Guerbaa, 41, used just brushes and paint to transform face .
  Posted pictures of the process ahead of the Easter weekend .
  London-based talent has also painted a cougar and owl on her features .