Do Not wax the day of your shoot.
Avoid laying on your face. Try getting used to sleeping on your back.
Drink eight glasses of water every day to hydrate your skin.
Use an alcohol-free toner to clean out pores.
Don't tug and pull the skin around your eyes. Be Gentle.
Don't take steaming hot baths or showers because it has an immediate drying affect. Keep it short.
After bathing, pat dry your skin and apply a body lotion to seal in the moisture.
Save heavier moisturizers for nighttime.
Use a humidifier in the Winter and dehumidifier in the Summer.
Exercise will increase your circulation and give your skin a healthy glow.
Never pick a mole.
For bags underneath your eyes, throw a couple of spoons in the freezer for about 10 minutes. Relax and apply to your eyes to reduce swelling.
Exfoliate your skin once a week including your neck.
Rinse your face in cool water to close your pores. This will help reduce their size.
After showering, apply lotion to your elbows, knees and feet.
A simple home remedy for blemishes is antibacterial soap.
Beauty rest is no myth. Your skin will be rejuvenated with a good night's sleep
Tidy up: everything about you from head to toe should be at its best and clean. (Fingernails, toenails, nose hair, back of neck shaved, etc.)
Have your brows professionally shaped and then keep them up by plucking the stray every few days. I will Pluck strays the day of the appt but probably will not have time to shape your brows.
72 hours before your appointment, avoid the following items (these items can give you oily skin and swelling):
a. Red meat
b. Alcohol
c. Caffeine
d. Spicy foods
e. Retin A and Alpha Hydroxy creams (causes skin peeling that will show with
photo makeup)
Avoid dry lips by putting Vaseline on your lips before bed and the morning of your shoot.
Exfoliate your lips by brushing them when you brush your teeth Get rid of body hair. Anywhere and EVERYWHERE it could possibly show.
For body (lots of skin showing) shots, be sure you get rid of tan lines by visiting a tanning booth a few times. Don’t do the spray on tan, it looks orange in photos and it looks streaky 90% of the time. Spray on tans have ruined shoots for everyone involved.
If you have facial hair and you are a woman you need to have it waxed before the Photo shoot. Peach fuzz wiil show up on your skin, infact it will look worse in the photos than it does in person. People get used to it, you may have it and no be aware until the photos come back.
Get rid of body hair. Anywhere and EVERYWHERE it could possibly show.
Bring strapless bras, nude undergarments and a tube top usually comes in handy.
Wear loose comfortable clothing to the shoot, clothes that bind will leave marks.
Notes you might want to keep in mind:
If you are paying the artist, feel free to give advice on how you want to look. The photos are yours and you will have to live with them. If it is a test shoot, editorial, commercial shoot or a shoot that someone else is paying for it’s best to keep quiet on makeup and hair. Chances are the artist knows what the photographer and art director want. It may not be what you prefer but normally the person paying for the shoot likes to make ALL the decisions.
If you are new at modeling it is a good idea to go ahead and let the artist make the decisions, even if you are paying her or him. In most cases they will know what will look better in the photos they are dealing with lights, backgrounds and lens filters that you probably are not familiar with. Telling an artist or stylist how to do their job or how you like your makeup is the quickest way to insure you won’t work much.
