And a good Sunday to you all. I hope your Saturday was well.
Yesterday I spoke of mentoring and why it should be incorporated into the study plans of pre and post graduate glute students. Today, I want to show you why I think it is so vital.
In addition to my teaching at a multitude of privates universities, I also do my fair share of off campus instruction within the modeling industry. Sometimes going on-location to help a particular photographer or model get the job done.
As you know, I teach our models of tomorrow how to build and show their fine posteriors so that they might have a better career in their chosen field. This takes months and months of hands-on instruction and one-on-one counseling. More often than not, I am kept awake until the wee hours of the morning making sure my students know their course work.
In my post yesterday, I mentioned that I spent most of last week at a new school. Sadly, I was called away in the early part of the week to help in an emergency case of ego adjustment.
When dealing with two models of equal status, they have a tendency to rub each other wrong and want to ‘one-up’ the other. The one-upmanship is natural, but the rubbing wrong is just a horror. In our case from last week, we also had some serious cases of sabotage by each of these models.
I can’t share their real names, so as to keep their reputations clean, I’ll just call the girl in the green outfit Model A and the girl in the yellow outfit Model B.
As you can see here,
B tried to sabotage A by pulling the outfit down, thereby making A expose more than she was getting paid for. In the industry, this is called “Yanking the Skank� and models hate this. They are making money with their bodies and don’t like giving parts of them away for free.
Since payback is a bitch, and so are most models, A attempted to get back at B by giving her the “Disappearing Thong Wedgie�.
This is when I was called.
You see, when a model is willing to abuse the apparel in order to make herself look better, you have very little time left before a full-on catfight is about to break out.
A catfight will ruin both your models, all of the apparel and most of your equipment and blow your whole photo shoot. No amount of make-up, new clothes or duct tape will repair the damage done and the session will have to be called off for at least a week (a lifetime in the fashion world).
I arrived on scene within an hour of the call. After an hour or so spent alone with each of the models in their respective trailers, we were able to get the shot.
And this is why I support mentoring programs.
Granted, I was well compensated for my travel and my time to this location, but I think I would have rather spent an hour or so with both the models in one trailer than separately as I did.