That she is.  Reminds me of the model in my avatar, who was fantastic.

Paid or trade, I do my best.

good

apparently a lot lately since you've been reading about it all over.


i think some level of standard should be expected. but thats why we reference check no?

I've never "turned someone away" yet, but I've been pretty unhappy on occasion.  A few times on a trade shoot, and a few on shoots where I paid.  Now, I try and make expectations very clear in advance.  It probably costs me a shoot on occasion, but I'll take that chance.

What's expected varies with the style, but just the fact that you're thinking about details speaks very well for you.

For example, I'd much rather a model show up with neat nails with clear polish, compared with, say, red nail polish.  For the BW nudes I usually do, red isn't going to look good.

For full color glamour nudes, it may be fantastic, but for BW art nudes, not so much.

I always ask what kind of makeup I am expected to be wearing. For a black & white film shoot I was told to wear evening makeup. For an art/gallery shoot they wanted natural makeup. Heck I even ask if they care if I have a bush or not! But, the devil is in the details;)

We need to shoot!

And, that's one of the details I go over, when relevant.  My standard statement: "Natural is fine, shaved is fine, trimmed is fine.  What's not fine is stubble or razor burn."

I also tell models who are new to lingerie to try it on in front of a mirror before they come to the shoot.

Flaking

Changing things in the middle of planning

Drama.

Just figure out what you want to do, and communicate, then follow through.  I don't think that's too much to ask.

The condition that results when females walk into a convenience store barefoot on a regular basis. Dirty, discolored soles of the feet.

This is also known as White Trash Sandals.

I really cannot add more than what others here have already wrote quite eloquntly. I recently had an experience where the MUA and I gave explicit intructions to the model a few weeks, and then again two days before the shoot, what we would like them to do. In the end though, the model did however they wished instead of what we asked. And even though we had both spent a consider amount of time and money prior to the shoot, and after a good friend, (another professional MUA in the industry), looked over the images I posted, I ultimately removed all them, and then promised my regular MUA we were never going to go through that again. If you don't have the basic respect for yourself to make a minimal effort on your appearance when you show up for a shoot, regardless if it's TF or paid, why would you expect for anyone to take you seriously? Enough said.

Oh god my pet hate people who upload crappy mobile pics and call themselvs a professional model ! They charge 40 pounds a hour when they havent evven a portfolio! It puts a name on the hole model thing as its them deemed not a proper job,not something any one could be good at and have amazing ideas, I didnt even charge anyone untill I worked a years tf and had a vast variety of pics ! Now newbies come on to the scene and get tons of work , when their port is not of a standerd wich could be deemd professional , not even to think about standerds of a shoot they would go to and wich of what they would actually look like!

Because "your best" is going to mean different things to different people.

I've shot with people who wanted me to wear a full face of flawless, perfectly applied make-up. I've shot with people who requested no make-up at all.  I've shot with a few people who reminded me to shave my legs the day before, and A WHOLE LOT of people who didn't give a hoot about that sort of thing, because it was irrelevant to the subject matter they were trying to capture.

When I traveled for shoots, there were times that I literally slept on people's floors, and times I camped outside because that was the budget I had for the trip, so my available hygiene "facilities" was a gallon jug of water to wash my face with, and the rear-view mirror of a rental car. There are a good many art models who also travel that way. It's not uncommon.

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That's understandable, but it would also be understandable to not pay someone for a half hour or so until they're actually ready to shoot.  Ideally, both parties would communicate.

Sleeping somewhere I "don't know" wasn't a bad situation. I made some AMAZING friends that way, and realized that you should have faith in strangers on the internet, because the vast majority of them are really great people.

That was just life as a traveling art model.

Ask Laura Unbound. Ask Model Sarah. Ask Indefinite Anomaly. Ask anyone who's traveled and modeled professionally, as an internet-based freelancer, for more than a year or two. Occasionally, you get some really nice accommodations, such as a hotel room -- but, a lot of the time, you're relying on the kindness of people you don't know. A lot of times, you're sleeping on a floor, a fold-out cot, or in a campground. 

It's exciting. It's thrilling. Life's an adventure when you're traveling that way, but it's not luxurious and you have to live humbly and find ways to work with what resources you have available to you.

Sending her away may seem harsh, but "truth in advertising" applies to the model's profile as much as to anything else.

The analogy would be ordering a steak and being served a hamburger - not what was on the menu, so please take it back.