A KENT hairdresser hopes to set pulses racing when her face is splashed across a lad's magazine as part of their annual modelling competition.

TracyLittle, 22, is one of 100 women from across the country shortlisted to become the new face of FHM.

Tracy, who lives in Hanway, Gillingham, has been whittled down from hundreds of entries across the country in a High Street Honeys competition, which searches for a fresh faced girl next door.

Her fate lies in the hands of thousands of lads across the country who will decide if she is sexy enough to take home the £10,000 prize money and year's modelling contract with the magazine.

Tracy's agent, a former customer at the Supercuts hairsalon where Tracey works in Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre at Gillingham, sent in a photograph after reading about the competition.

She said: "I was at a stage in my life when I was itching to do something different so when Tony told me he was starting up his own modelling agency, I jumped at the chance to be signed up."

Tracy impressed judges when she was called up for an interview in London, last month.

"The judges asked me general get to know you questions and then took a Polaroid picture of me in a bikini," she said.

Friends, family and work colleagues have shown Tracy lots of support. Her friends have been wearing t-shirts encouraging people to vote for Tracy and customers have also been registering her as their favourite.

The finalists will soon be whittled down to 12 when the lucky winners will have professional photographs taken to feature in the magazine.

Tracy said: "I'm not really that fussed about winning although I really want to make the final 12, just for the experience of a professional photo shoot. There is another girl from Medway entered in to the competition and it would great if she made the final few as well."

Even if Tracy does not make the final dozen, she has certainly become a bit of a celebrity in Medway.

She said: "I have been making appearances in local pubs and clubs. The whole experience has been completely mad but I have been enjoying the attention."