Hey guys! Welcome back to my channel!
Today I'm going to do a video about my time modeling in Japan!
If you guys haven't heard of this
I do the modeling for the Kabuki Face Mask ever since it came out
You can find these products in Tokyu Hands, in Loft, everywhere
It's everywhere! It's at the airport
I'm everywhere but nobody knows it!
My face is covered completely
and yeah, you can't tell who it is
but it is me! And I have a couple of them here
right here these are from my shoots.
They gave them to me while I was doing the shoots.
I'm not a big One Piece fan, but
I was just thinking that maybe this could be a good chance to do a giveaway!
The face packs that i am giving out are the animal face pack
This is one of the first ones that I ever did
and it has a panda and a tiger in there.
The second one is a One Piece one.
I'm gonna send these together because sending things are very expensive
Which, by the way, i did start a Patreon page if you guys are interested in supporting this channel.
I definitely want to make some money to do some more giveaways and travel more
and just make great content for you guys.
But yeah, so I have some great content coming up in the future so no worries about that!
It's been a couple weeks, I apologize for not posting a video.
There's a lot that's been going on in my life
and if you guys are interested in hearing more about the personal side of my life
you can head over to my second channel "Liz Kelly"
and find out more about day-in-the-life stuff and vlogs and my music
and how everything is going with me on a daily basis.
This channel is meant for Japan only so you guys can
choose what you want to watch or watch both, whatever you wanna do.
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and that being said, I'm going right into this video
Ok, so I have some clips from before when I was modeling.
I used to do it in Nagoya and I actually lived right next to the studio when I was doing it
And if you guys are wondering how I got this modeling position
It's through a friend of mine who had been working at the company Dentsu
for quite a while and they wanted a blond-haired girl to be their model.
The past few times I've been doing it's been very enjoyable and a great experience
I am in no way an experienced model.
It's a very different type of modeling.
Basically, they put these face masks on you and they try to wring it out as much as possible
but they also want it to stick on your face
so after they wring it out and everything they just plop it on your face
and they make sure it's nice and smooth
if there's wrinkles or anything they actually cut some of it
My face is extremely small, which apparently in Japan is like a huge thing
like girls that have small faces are like envied by other Japanese girls
I don't know, it's just the thing in Japan.
But yeah, they really really like the fact that I have a small face, but they don't at the same time
because they have to cut it and make it smaller just to fit my face.
So there's a lot of maintenance when it comes to modeling these things
Hey guys! I'm at the studio right now but I have to be quiet.
I'm about to get my hair done. Today is superheroes so it's pretty cool.
I'm super excited to do superheroes because we have Iron Man and Captain America
This is so exciting!
I hope I can get a lot of shots but we're gonna be busy.
So yeah! Let's get started!
That's true, but my friends always speak English.
Your friends do?
Yes, that's right.
Wow!
Ok, when they put them on they look so good
but they definitely don't look as good if you were to do it by yourself
because obviously you don't really care how good they look
But they're fun because you can take pictures with them
in the mirror with your friends at sleepovers! They're so much fun!
I've been doing it ever since and now I moved to Tokyo so they moved the studio to Tokyo.
A lot of them came from Tokyo anyway so this actually works out
I worked with another model I think he's half-Korean. He's also an actor.
So there were times when we would be together and we would be doing shoots together.
And then there are other times where they'll just Photoshop us in together.
They actually dress us up a lot!
Just to look the part. So for example, we did this Chinese type face mask
And they put a bunch of Chinese clothing on us and these huge head things, hats
I don't even know what they're called, but they were so heavy!
and it hurt so bad. Would probably never do that when you're dressing up with these on.
So they would dress us up, especially for Halloween.
I did a vampire one which was probably one of my favorites to do
Then there was one day where I did like a zillion shoots with like five different masks. It was crazy!
and they would put all these wigs on me
and it was mostly anime and manga characters which was pretty neat!
The process is very tedious and it usually takes a full day to do like three to four masks
It is very tiring. I actually would prefer to do more clothes modeling
because you move around a lot, do different poses, etc.
But basically, you just stand there and they tell you to
you know open your eyes or look this way
or look that way or hold a prop or something like that.
So it's not too much but it does take a lot of focus and a lot of stillness
and control of your body just to stand there for that long because once you start getting tired
your eyes kind of droop and they want your eyes to pop, so you have to open them really wide!
This whole experience has helped my Japanese definitely because I have to listen to directions
And throughout this experience, I've gotten a lot better doing it.
If you guys are interested in modeling there's a lot of agencies out there.
One of them that I know is called Avocado.
I know a few people who've joined that just to get some jobs.
With other companies, it's actually very difficult to model in Japan
There's a lot of competition when it comes to modeling.
So I definitely probably wouldn't choose it as my career.
But if you're interested in participating in this giveaway
comment down below which one you like the best and why.
not just between these two but the ones on the website, which one do you like the best?
and i will send you a message personally and send this to you guys.
Actually, I was in the newspaper not too long ago which was pretty cool
because there was a meeting for all the presidents around the world at the summit
And they gave these to all the presidents!
And they also gave the brochure to all the presidents so basically Obama saw my face!
He knows me, but he doesn't know that he knows me!
Yeah, that was pretty cool i thought that was really exciting.
I'm still everywhere, my face is everywhere so if you guys find it
just take a picture of it and send it to me on Twitter
Hashtag, I dunno, #modelkelly
It's pretty cool, it's interesting it's weird at the same time!
These, just so you guys know, are about $10 a piece.
They're not cheap, but they come with two in one pack.
This is a great souvenir if you guys are traveling in Japan to bring back home with you.
But anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next one!
Bye!