What do you want to be. An actress? Hairdresser? Baker? Firefighter? Business woman? What do you think, are you born as, for instance hairdresser? Do you come out of your egg and think: "Yep, I know I was born to make a great hairdresser and I don't have to learn anything, I AM one" Do you think that's realistic?
Well, I don't. To apply this to models: I think it isn't realistic to believe that supermodels are born. Of course, there is a lot of physique that you need to be lucky to have, but there is so much more to it. It is not only making sure you eat healthy, work out on a regular basis, always wash off your
make-up before you go to sleep after a night out, but you can LEARN how to model also. There are so many tricks and skills, it's a severe study. And it's confronting. You need to know your body better than anyone else, hide your flaws, accentuate your strenghts. Or as Tyra Banks says: make from your weakness your strength. This is what she always says when she mentions her big forehead. You have to open up, show yourself, put yourself out there and try the most extreme poses and faces you can. Be innovative. Creative. A nice person to work with.
Every week from now on, I will write about that: Skills and tips to be a (better) model. I participated in "Making of a model'. I started to learn modeling. I learnt how to pose. I learnt to think 2-dimensional. The photographer behind this? Ronnie Hertz. He has worked with international celebrities like Sophia Loren, Jerry Hall and Bryan Ferry, but also with Dutch celebs like Daphne Deckers, Katja Schuurman and Bridget Maasland. What I love in Ronnie's work is the uniqueness in his work. He doen't want to go with the current flow, so to speak, but let the style of photography from years ago shine through.
Okay, enough of that. What can you do to become a great model NOW?
Follow my weekly blogs on ILikeBirds.org and ... practice! Buy high heels, a mirror and shape up to practice your poses daily. I will post the first lesson Saturday the 25th.
What to aim for? Check Doutzen Kroes in this video:
Let me sum up all the lessons for you:
1. Were you meant to be a super model?
The Complete Course: Were you meant to be a super model? consists of the following lessons:
2. Were you meant to be a super model: Pre-work
3. Were you meant to be a super model: Reduced Masai Effect
4. Were you meant to be a super model: What’s with the shoulders?
5. Were you meant to be a super model: the Tiny Waist Lesson
6. Were you meant to be a super model: HELP! My arm has been cut off!
7. Were you meant to be a super model: Handy man
8. Were you meant to be a super model: some Voluptuousness
9. Were you meant to be a super model: Recap
These lessons including Dutch introduction are also be available on http://www.dutchmodelinfo.nl/
Click here for the next lesson: Were you meant to be a super model: Pre-work.
The 'Were you meant to be a super model'-lessons are based on the project Making of a Model by Ronnie Hertz.
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