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What Do Models Need? What do I need to do to get started? You need a brief resume, a portfolio and lots of determination. If you are serious about a modeling career, you will eventually need to hire a professional photographer to help you put together a professional looking portfolio. Do not go cheap or cut corners on this step. You don't have to spend thousands but you don't want the budget version either because your photographs are your major calling card. Before you have even completed this step, you can actually begin the application process to modeling agencies. You don't really need a complete portfolio to get started. Most agencies will accept standard 35mm photos and you can normally get by with two to four good pictures, at least several of which should include full and side view face shots. You will find addresses and phone numbers in the links below. In the meantime, try to find part-time work locally with clothing stores, fashion shops, hair styling salons, shopping malls, photographers, advertising agencies, retail shops or anyplace that sells, displays, or promotes products with human models. If you can't find any direct work as a model, then try to find work at a location that is closely related to the fashion industry. You never know when a contact could be helpful in the future and this job is all about personal contacts and being known.
What do I need to get started? Ah, the essential question. Do you have the right stuff to be a model? Are you young, tall, and beautiful, in that order of preference? These are the standard ingredients in traditional modeling. You may also have noticed that many of the so-called "supermodels" might not win out against other women in traditional beauty contests. Youth and height are clearly definable but beauty is not. Some young women may just have the "look" which may or may not be considered to meet a majority definition of being beautiful. Modeling agencies make their decisions primarily on the degree of natural beauty possessed by modeling candidates, which means without make-up or artificial enhancements of any kind. There is not much you can do about this requirement. You either have the "look" or you don't. And the "LOOK" that agencies want changes from season to season.
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