Tag Archives: model advice
More pajamas!
I sure didn’t get into modeling imagining a future in flannel and slippers but apparently getting the cover of Vogue wasn’t as easy I’d thought it would be. My favorite part of this shot is that I look like a … 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…
Scenes from a Casting
Every day (that I wasn’t working) in Tokyo was filled with castings, where me and the other girls would find ourselves sitting in front of a panel of suits. Here are some of the grey suit men flipping through my portfolio. … Continue reading
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
Through a van window
I spent the first couple of weeks in Tokyo sitting in the back of the agency van, being shuttled from one casting (model-speak for an audition) to another. Though it was pretty boring staring into traffic all the time, I … Continue reading
Your parents are going to let you???
You’re going to Japan ALL BY YOURSELF? The thing people always used to ask (and still do) is how I managed to convince my parents to let me go to Tokyo on my own when I was 16 years old. … Continue reading
Filed under Homesick and Home Free
testing, testing…rounds 3 & 4
I remember once reading how Naomi Campbell was discovered by an agent while shopping with a friend, and then BAM, just like that, the next day she was on the cover of Vogue Magazine. I always wondered if she felt nervous … Continue reading
testing, testing: round two!
My parents forked over some money for a second testing about two years after the polka dot disaster–this time with a photographer that had a little more fashion sense. Unfortunately, the results weren’t much better… A word of advice: don’t bring your … Continue reading
Testing, testing: round one!
A ‘testing’ is modeling lingo for professional photographs. I don’t know why they call them that because it’s not like you have to study before hand, or fill out a multiple choice bubble sheet on your way out of the studio. … Continue reading
