Jennifer Zimmerman is a former teacher who has been writing and editing for the last three years. She has written numerous articles for eHow, Travels and Prefab and edited scripts and reports for DWJ Television and Inversion Productions. She is a graduate of Boston University and Lewis and Clark College.
SUPPLIES
- Portfolio of pictures
- Composite cards
Overview
Becoming a model is no easy task. Although not all models need to be the tall, thin beautiful women on the catwalks, all models do have certain genetic gifts, as well as professional representation. Blistex is a company that hires models for print campaigns, but it changes ad agencies and modeling agencies frequently, making it a hard brand for which to become a model.
Step 1
Find reputable modeling agencies in New York and send them your pictures or attend an open call. If they sign you, you are on your way to working as a model.
Step 2
Focus on your lips. Use a lip system (Mary Kay makes one) to care for your lips or see what lip treatments your local spa offers.
Step 3
Consider your pictures. Choose photos that emphasize your lips and/or ones that remind you of Blistex ads that you've seen.
Step 4
Become well respected at Mustoes (the current ad agency for Blistex) and any other ad agencies Blistex employs or might employ. That way they will think of you when they get an appropriate campaign for Blistex.
Step 5
Visit Visit4info.com, a website devoted to advertising news. Find out which agencies are currently working for Blistex and ask your agency to send you to all of their go-sees.
Step 6
Hope that Blistex resurrects its Most Beautiful Lips contest and make sure to enter.
TIPS AND WARNINGS
- TIP : Take some acting classes - not modeling classes - to help you loosen up in front of the camera.
- WARNING : Unless a company is completely local, there is no way to directly sign up to model for them. Most models don't choose the companies they work for.
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