- I'm Ashey Covington and I make my living doing hand jobs.
Get your mind out of the gutter.
I'm a hand model.
(soft music)
You need to be born with good looking hands.
That's pretty much the standard and the baseline.
Nice, long, straight fingers,
sort of a gentle curve to the nail.
Lack of visible cuticles.
You don't want knuckles that protrude.
No hairy hands, although there have been hand models
that are specifically hired
because they have hairy hands.
You need to be able to have really steady hands.
Like your hands can't sort of shake.
Perfect tiny motions, over and over.
If they want your hand in the shot,
my head might be in the way and they don't really
want that, so you kinda have to be a contortionist,
and be able to stay in really crazy positions
for long periods of time.
So, my skin care routine is pretty intense.
I am constantly thinking hands first.
So, I moisturize,
gosh, maybe 20-30 times a day.
It's constant moisturizing.
I have stuff in my bag, I have it on my desk,
I have it in my car, just always grab a little
and constantly throwing it on.
And then I use natural soaps.
I wear gloves a lot of the time.
You have to, because if you get sun or you get
a slight little scratch or an imperfection,
that can cost you a job,
so you really have to think about hands first.
It's a very interesting career.
The best part, is that I get to be the model
who enjoys craft service.
Because while everybody else is worrying about
whether they're gonna fit into that dress
and how their silhouette's gonna look,
I know, my hands look great when I'm a size 8.
So, if I go below a size 8, my fingers start to get
a little bony and they just start to look more knuckly.
And the reason I get picked, is because my hands
don't look bony.
So therefore, I get to be the hands on top
of all these amazing, gorgeous faces and all of that
and holding the beauty products, but that's because I also
get to enjoy craft service.
- [Woman] Perfect.
(woman laughs)
How many times can I say hand job?
Hand job, hand job, hand job, hand job, hand job.
(Ashley laughs)