Miss Anna Evans wrote:
Far as I can tell, glamour loves the long hair real hard.

That it does.

I see way more castings specifying long hair than short hair.

JoJo Suicide wrote:
Short hair is so much fun – no hair is a complete blast

I shave my head throughout the summer and love it!

The really big advantage of short hair is being able to use a wide variety of wigs. There’s nothing that can change your personality in an image as quickly as a wig change.

Wigs Are Awesome .. So Much Fun ...

Miss Anna Evans wrote:
Far as I can tell, glamour loves the long hair real hard.

theda wrote:
That it does.

I see way more castings specifying long hair than short hair.

IMO the majority of straight men prefer long hair.

VisionWorks Photography wrote:
when hiring female models for TV commercials, I would never hire a model with short hair. The point is very simple, when doing a commercial I am advertising a product only, I dont care about making fashion statements, so everything else have to fall under 'stereotypes'. By stereotypes women have long hair.

The exception would be if I am doing a commercial for a product marketed to punk rock chicks, then I would probably hire a short hair model, but this is the exception, not the norm

And yet, there are still plenty of short-haired models doing mainstream TV commercials.  Print, too. I see them all the time, selling things from yogurt to clothes.   You just have to look good with short hair; it has to work on *you*.

Emily Carrington wrote:

And yet, there are still plenty of short-haired models doing mainstream TV commercials.  Print, too. I see them all the time, selling things from yogurt to clothes.   You just have to look good with short hair; it has to work on *you*.

yea you are right, thinking about it...



this is a snapshot of a commercial I produced, and as you can see the female model has short hair, but I didnt hire her, the ad agency had already picked the models when they hired me to film the commercial, and she was great, one of the best models Ive worked with.

I guess the difference is when doing local TV commercials I hire models for $150 for around 4 hours, I dont have time to meet all the models, I do the hiring by pictures and a phone call. I sincerely wouldnt ask models to "meet" me for a $150 job.

When a model has short hair, I have to make sure it looks good on her and she is comfortable in it, you can not see that by picture, and if I am doing all the hiring by picture, it is a "safest" decision to hire a long hair model. If I was doing a casting it would be different but for local commercials I dont do castings, too much time.

VisionWorks Photography wrote:
yea you are right, thinking about it...



this is a snapshot of a commercial I produced, and as you can see the female model has short hair, but I didnt hire her, the ad agency had already picked the models when they hired me to film the commercial, and she was great, one of the best models Ive worked with.

I guess the difference is when doing local TV commercials I hire models for $150 for around 4 hours, I dont have time to meet all the models, I do the hiring by pictures and a phone call. I sincerely wouldnt ask models to "meet" me for a $150 job.

When a model has short hair, I have to make sure it looks good on her and she is comfortable in it, you can not see that by picture, and if I am doing all the hiring by picture, it is a "safest" decision to hire a long hair model. If I was doing a casting it would be different but for local commercials I dont do castings, too much time.

Yeah.  Do you double as a client or director for the commercials?  I'm not being snide, I'm just honestly curious how it works in your situation.   In my experience, with client shoots, the photographer doesn't have a say in who gets shot -- the client/agency determine that.

Also curious how a model with short hair cannot seem to be hired on the same conditions that a long haired model would be hired on (when you talk about long hair being 'safer').   A photo is a photo, and besides casting calls, it's what all agencies & clients I know use to hire models of all kinds.

VickyMV wrote:
I would love to hear of other peoples experiences and views on the subject.

Vic

www.clickmodel.com  -  I'm seeing either really long hair or short hair, not a lot of medium.

www.elitemodel.com -  again, either really longer or short, but a little of both.



and then we go to a smaller market,
http://www.wehmann.com/search_women.php

where it doesn't seem to matter much.

Emily Carrington wrote:

Yeah.  Do you double as a client or director for the commercials?  I'm not being snide, I'm just honestly curious how it works in your situation.   In my experience, with client shoots, the photographer doesn't have a say in who gets shot -- the client/agency determine that.

Also curious how a model with short hair cannot seem to be hired on the same conditions that a long haired model would be hired on (when you talk about long hair being 'safer').   A photo is a photo, and besides casting calls, it's what all agencies & clients I know use to hire models of all kinds.

Most of the time business owners hire me directly to produce their commercial, in that case I am the one hires the models although I always get an OK from the client on every model I hire.

Sometimes (especially with biggger clients) the business has an advertising agency, in that case its a collaborative process, sometimes they write the copy of the spots or hire the models, sometimes I do. Sometimes I develop a relationship with the ad agency so in the future they hire me to produce their spot for other clients, in that case when I come onboard my job is very simple, everything is ready for me to shoot.

Casting calls are a MUST for national spots or big projects but there is no rule on this, as mentioned I produced a lot of local commercials where I pay models $150 for 4 hours on location. In those cases no I dont make casting calls, like I explained I dont think its worth for a model to drive all the way for a casting of a $150 job and I can get the look I need by just looking at pictures.

I explained on the first post that when doing commercials I do not care for making fashion statements, I hire on stereotypes because the focus shouldnt be on the model  but on the product or service, because of that reason I hire models with long hair because to be honest I dont have time to analize if a model with short hair looks good or not, if it fits or not, there is a lot of other areas that I need to focus on besides choosing the model. Models with long hair are easier to fit into the stereotype of what I am advertising and thats it, I dont have to waste time on that decision. Is that a lazy decision? sure it is! I am just being honest with you, and also I am sure many others make a lazy decision similar to mine, there is just many other things that need preparing and you dont always have time to sit down, drink coffee and analize models, you just hire on the spot.

Please dont take this personal, I have nothing against models with short hair, since you are asking I am just being brutally honest explaining what my process is, thats all.

JoJo Suicide wrote:
Short hair is so much fun – no hair is a complete blast

I shave my head throughout the summer and love it!

The really big advantage of short hair is being able to use a wide variety of wigs. There’s nothing that can change your personality in an image as quickly as a wig change.

But you do need to choose carefully what you put on your head to project that personality. LOL



For the record, I am very partial to models with short, very short, and even no hair at all on their noggin.

Studio36

Kevyn Sage wrote:
I'm pretty sure I lost work when I cut it. Just my market, I guess. Then again I didn't get the greatest cut ever. I'm thinking about getting it cut again, but in a more versatile style.

I personally think you would look super with more of a boy cut style... like this



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-velocity- wrote:
this is the longest my hair's been in 4 years and i just hacked a bunch of it off to provide layers, have received no complaints.

i doubt anyone would bitch about the cut of my hair though... =P

///Leah

do you think someone is actually going to send you a message that says, "just wanted to let you know, i don't want to shoot with you because your hair is short?"