NYMAG's The Cut just published a really funny article about what it is like being a Paintbox handmodel. I know from personal experience :P but found the article to be hilarious. My favorite quote from the article is "...the life of a Paintbox hand model is a life of exquisite, almost unimaginable ennui and luxury." Being full of ennui, I felt inspired to repost the article! Read the full story by Dayna Evans here! "The most essential skill one can have as a Paintbox hand model is knowing how to hold a costly prop — whether a bar of chocolate, a flute of rosé Champagne, or a Brazilian passport — as if it were just about to slip out of one’s hands and come tumbling to the ground. One cannot grip anything too tightly or too gently."
I promise it isn't always as easy as it looks!
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Every now and then while hand modeling I have had to get a lot more than just my nails painted. Having your hands painted is not only a little strange, it is also quite challenging - you can't touch or move anything! While it can be a little difficult to get around on set, the pictures from these kinds of shoots tend to be really cool and completely different from your typical beauty or nails hand shoot. These are a few behind the scenes shots of my hands covered in paint and one in glitter. Glittered up hands have an equally cool effect but the glitter tends to get stuck everywhere so it is even messier.
While I really liked all the shoots that I have been painted on, I have a had a few issues with paint either irritating my skin or staining me. The best paints to use are obviously body friendly ones, acrylic paints look good but feels pretty bad and made my hand turn red even though the clean up was pretty easy. |
AuthorSusan Schell is a working hand model in Paris and NYC. Archives
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