LOLA MAJA & UGO IGBOKWE
Lola Maja-Okojevoh is a very popular make up artiste. She is the c.e.o of Sacred Creative Artistry and Ugo Igbokwe is an hair stylist and the c.e.o of Make me beauty place. Mr Ugo describes a model has a mannequin and a black canvass.
You as a model has to work with the make up artiste, photographer and hair stylist to bring your designs to life. As a model, you need to learn how to take care of your hair. Most time as a hair stylist, he has trouble with a model's hair. Styling doesn't mean putting your hair to curls or putting it to a certain style.
When you come for a shoot, come with your hair well prepared, shampooed and moisturised. Take care of your hair all the time. Most successful models are plain in appearance. When you come for a casting plain, with no make up or hair attachment, people will take you serious. The fact that you don't get a job at a casting doesn't mean you are not good enough.
How to take care of your hair and skin
Has a model, nothing must be on your hair most of the time, that's a restriction and holding yourself back. When you want to do a shoot for a hair company and the hair stylist attempts to cut your hair or colour your hair but you tell him no he shouldn't, that is a no no. The hair stylist should care about what to do or not what to do with your hair. As a model, shampoo and condition your hair every week. Every successful model do not keep permanent piece on their hair.
Being a beauty queen does not make you a model. If you have to be pretty to be a model, Alek Week does not have any business in modelling. It doesn't matter how you look, in terms of pretty, your skin matters a lot. Do less of drinking and partying before a shoot because if you have an hangover, it will show.
There is no hard and fast rules to taking care of your hair. As a model, you have to look after your hair, invest in your look, skin and hair. Having a nice personality is irrelevant, if a model with bad skin is booked, so much Money and time will be used to get it to perfection and the photographer has to do a lot of air brushing. You have to spend money and invest in yourself first before anyone can invest in you. Bad habits such as smoking, drinking and partying has to be stopped. For every model, you must have a place of practise, your place of practise is yourself
Rules
1. As a model, do not use products that contain alcohol.
2. Products that makes your hair stiff, avoid them.
3. Avoid the use of Shea butter, it is highly concentrated and makes your hair stiff. It sits on the surface of your hair and nothing goes into it.
4. Oil from vegetables and fruits are good for your hair not vegetable oil for cooking ooo. Use the type of oil that stays with water and not that which seperates itself from water.
5. Drink lots and lots of water.
6. Never go to sleep drunk.
7. Wash your face every night before you go to bed. If you do not wash of your makeup before going to bed the skin eats it and that affects your skin. Before washing your face, put warm water on your face first so your pores will open, wash your face, then rinse with cold water for it to close back.
8. For male models, learn to shave properly. Discover your hair direction. Try rubbing your palm on your face upwards and downwards. The direction you feel roughness shave against it. If you feel roughness while rubbing your palm upwards, shave downwards and vice versa. If you shave in the wrong direction, the hair breaks on the surface of the skin and that causes bumps.
7. Seek advice from professionals.
8. Use the right products for your skin.
9. Female models, for your bikini line, do not shave, wax
10. Try an avoid having hairs on your legs.
11. Always be ready for your shoot. Do not think you have to leave your hair dirty and smelly before you treat it.
12. Do not use white powder, use translucent powder
13. Avoid taking carbonated drink and sweet things, instead take fruits and lots of water.
I actually learnt a lot from this session. Before I used to feel all you need as a model is to be tall skinny and know how to walk and pose, I never knew it had to do with your skin too. Ever since Thursday, I have been careful with my intakes. I'm the type that take two bottles of coke everyday because I felt my mom after she gave birth to my siblings and I is still skinny, so I cannot get fat. I did not know I was destroying my skin too. Ever since Thursday, I stopped taking coke or any sugary food. I drank water instead. And for rice which is carbohydrate which I like eating too much which is not good for the body, I started eating it with egg and meat, then I take bananas then lots of water. In that way, the protein, water and fruit helps too surpress the carbohydrates I took in. So please model, eat less of carbohydrates and more of proteins, vitamins, fruits and lots of water. Its not about not growing fat but having a good skin. This are one of the things they look out for at castings if you do not know. I hope you learnt from this piece because I sure did. So keep checking here for more updates, thank you.
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