![]() “What you don’t see is there’s a camera over my neck, my head is bent all the way to one side, and I can only see with one eye what my hand is doing,” she says. For example, a beer commercial required Covington to slide a few beers across a table so that they stopped with the labels facing the camera. Much of being a hand model involves handling objects with absolute precision over and over again. “A lot of times it’s me crouched behind them trying to hide with my hand coming up under their arm and over their face,” Covington explains. And trying to maneuver around a celebrity so that nothing but your hands are in the picture can require some awkward acrobatics. Parts model Adele Uddo has doubled for celebs such as Natalie Portman and Reese Witherspoon. The next time you see a commercial featuring a famous actress applying a skin cream or mascara, remember this: That’s probably not her hand. She had no idea the book would become an overnight sensation, and has since tried to get in on the fame by touring with the cast, recreating the cover shoot in public, and selling apple-scented lotion. Kimbra Hickey, whose hands grace the cover of the book Twilight, only knew she was shooting a cover for a teenage romance novel. For example, a model might know the client is Baskin Robbins, but only find out on-set that she’ll be playing with Oreo cookies for the shoot. Hand models aren't always given a lot of detail about their assignments. THEY DON’T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT THEY’RE MODELING. “They won’t book us until a day or two before and so it’s not as lucrative as all these people make it out to be.” 4. “The last-minute flights are the really expensive ones,” she says. It’s for times like these that she keeps a go-bag packed and ready. Covington splits her time between the east and west coasts, and once flew to California twice in one week for an indecisive client. Plus, hand models get called in for last-minute work all over the country and often have to pay their own way. So while $13,000 for one day of work might seem like a small fortune, it might have to last for a few months if the work dries up. THEY CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY …īecause most hand models are freelancers, the amount of work they get in a month can fluctuate wildly. Female hands with shorter nails and nude or no polish are “mom hands,” good for cooking, cleaning, and showing off household items (sexist, but true) longer nails are great for “fashion hands” that model jewelry and high-end fashion items smaller hands can even be good for holding kids’ toys, since kids don’t always have the attention span for sitting still under hot lights for hours on end. But all of this can also depend on what “category” of hand modeling you’re hoping to break into. What are agents looking for in a hand? Long, straight fingers and wide nail beds for showing off polish. She was in the business for a while and made a lot of money.” “I looked at her hands and said, ‘Oh my god.’ I ran after her. “I once had a woman come in to the office and leave me an envelope,” she explains. “I was like, should I be offended by that?” she recalls.Ĭarmen Marrufo, a “parts” agent, sometimes stops people on the street or in the office to tell them they could have a career in hand modeling. ![]() Covington, for example, wanted to be an actress, but early in her career, an acting agent told her to forget her head and focus on her hands. Instead, they fell into it by getting noticed. ![]() Most hand models didn’t grow up dreaming of this career.
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