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casting: the end
we’re back in the van, off to another casting–here’s one post-casting comment that sums it up best…
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these aren’t my lips
you can see in this close up that the make-up artist painted my upper lip way bigger than it is in real life. i’m not proud of it, but i will admit it here that ever since an … Continue reading
skinny jeans and a kimono
because what trip to japan is complete without a photo of you and a lady in a kimono (and a sumo wrestler but i already took care of that)? actually, what stands out for me most from this pic is … Continue reading
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suck it in!
the best part of this shoot was when kate (she’s the one sitting behind me in the pic above) couldn’t fit into the jeans and they had to cut them down the back and use duct tape to hold them together. … Continue reading
Behind the Make-Up
Everyone who saw my first set of testingphotos said the same thing: “ohmygod these photos are amazing…and they look nothing like you!” It was seriously insulting–and convinced me that, as you can see in this video, without a lot of … Continue reading
a Tokyo Toilet…
It’s the little things that are the hardest to get used to! Lucky for me, the toilet in my Tokyo apartment was the same plop-your-ass-on-the-rim kind that I grew up with, but most restaurants and public places in the city … Continue reading
My glamorous life…in anime
The only way the make-up artist could have made me look more like an anime character for this booking was if she’d had a pencil and a piece of paper…
Vending machine o-rama!
Tokyo is covered in vending machines! And here is the proof…
death by measuring tape…
There was nothing I grew to dread more as a model than the measuring tape. Bust. Waist. Hips. Bust. Wasit. Hips. Bust. Waist. Hips. I swear modeling agents get some secret satisfaction when the numbers are too high and they get … Continue reading
A ‘Model’ Apartment
In true Price is Right Fashion, my lovely roomie Jen is holding the door of showcase number one (a.ka. our dingy agency apartment). We were the only gaijin in the whole building, and just in case that didn’t make us … Continue reading
