What's in Modelling Courses and Modelling Training

Fashion Retail (Secondary Schools and Retailers)

Bridging students with real world Fashion Retail Industry. -Customer service -work experience

Model Camp ( 13-20 years old)

A boost of ones self esteem and two days of being a next top model, learning the secrets in photographic and runway style.
Amanda Bransgrove's Catwalk Studios are a great way for girls to gain new skills, poise and to become masters of their own appearance.
Over the past eight years this course has been a great spring board for aspiring models. Every girl will benefit from this two-day course that helps teens discover their potential and find new confidence in understanding the complexities of beauty, their inner confidence and self belief.

Runway Fashion ( 14 - 26 years old)

This three day workshop is for young models with a passion for success in becoming a top model, you will gain fashion imagery and a business look at New Zealand's fashion and modelling industry.
It includes runway model training, audition training, Photographic modelling and a photo folio shoot and much more.

Walk Offs (2 Hours, All Ages)

A two hour workshop for serious runway models. Open to all ages, signed models and new faces female and male.
Learn International runway skills - become the best you can for 2012.
Please bring HIGH heels or dress shoes for men Get up to speed in becoming professional and confident on the runway, learn to walk like an international model with confidence and discipline, learn to walk in runway high heels and be camera aware in your pose.

Burberry Spring 2012 London

Burberry Bold – No doubt, one of the most anticipated shows of London Fashion Week, the Burberry Prorsum spring 2012 collection was unveiled underneath the helm of creative chief officer Christopher Bailey with bold color and shape. The ensembles came in a myriad of hues ranging from deep mauve to asparagus green. With structured parkas, pleated dresses and the traditional trench, the Burberry girl once again reinvented herself for the new season with eclectic prints and flirty silhouettes.

Why you should choose a GHD hair straightener!

Preferred by the top hair stylists, celebrities of the world and the fashion industry, GHD styling irons and products are renowned for using cutting edge technology to produce flawless results. Famed GHD straighteners like the MKIV can twist, curl, wave, bounce and create any desired hair style. Combining Ceramic Technology with thermodynamics, GHD allows you to style without fear. GHD devotees include celebrities like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, and are known to grace the runways of Stella McCartney and Narciso Rodriguez.

Just take these videos from youtube, you would know that why you should have one of GHD hair straightener.

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9 tips to keep your beautiful hair healthy

1. Massage your scalp often. You can do this everyday before styling your locks; everytime you oil your locks and when you wash your locks. The massage helps increase blood supply to the scalp ensuring more nutrients needed for hair growth, also massage works as a stress reliever and remember no stress increases hair growth.
2. Avoid products with harmful chemicals that destroy your scalp and/or hair. Rule of thumb, if it's not safe for kids or your skin, then it ain't good enough for your hair.
3. Don't hold your hair too tight, it causes the hair to break. Many website encourage people to use hairclips when they retwist their locks, take it from me, this IS NOT a good idea. I know you want your locks to look like they were done by a professional loctician with all the tiny hairs held in the lock, but those hair clips usually break more hair than they hold. I have lost a couple of locks from this tip on websites, please don't do it.
4. Don't use too many products on your hair simultaneously. Some products are basic others are acidic while others are neutral, if you mix all of them on your hair, they'll be reactions taking place and something will end up burning, stinking and having build up.
5. Rinse out your locks until the water is clear regardless of what you put into your locks. Unlike straight hair, locks are like sponges that suck up everything into them, so squeeze out any residue that maybe left in the lock. And I think I should add wash your locks regularly to avoid stinking locks. They stink coz of sweat from the scalp.
6. Reduce the use of too much heat on your hair, I know most of us think that this rule only applys to straight hair but it doesn't. Always going into the drier to dry your locks ain't such a great idea after all, take a walk under the sun. If you're in Scandinavia where you only see the sun like twice a year, then try and retwist your hair early mornings so that you have the whole day for it to dry. The funniest thing is, most people I know guilty of this are Nairobians who are at the equator and have the sun all year round.
6. Exercise for great blood circulation throughout your body. Good blood circulation ensures that all cells have the required nutrients to function as required, it also helps to transport the waste from your cells for excretion by other organs.
7. Sometimes, as much as you try to avoid build up, it still does occur, so try once in a while not too often to soak you hair in Apple Cider Vinegar for about 15mins in between rinses to take out the build up. Don't do it too often because vinegar is acidic and when you use it too often on your hair it will destroy the hair follicles.
8. Balanced diet, you are what you eat. Nutrients will only be transported by your blood when they are supplied to the body in the first place.
9. My last and "favouritest" tip is don't care too much it's just hair. You changed from relaxed hair to locks to be free from all the rules on relaxers, don't walk in the rain, don't wet your hair, treat it every 2weeks, etc now you're locked and you got even more rules that's not how freedom works. I think the only reason free form locks, grow longer and waaayy healthier than most "modern" locks is cause the free forms only have the basic care, they are clean and oiled the rest is left to the hair.

Easy Summer Hair

Summer brings a host of pleasures—days at the beach, languid afternoons and casual dinners alfresco. It’s also a time to simplify your beauty routine so you can clock more hours relaxing. One way to pare it down is to embrace what the weather can do for your hair, says celebrity hairstylist Serge Normant, who created the carefree styles shown here on Jessica Alba. We call these soft, ultrafemimine looks Fantastic Four(also the name of the movie Alba stars in this July) because they take so little time to create and work best after a day out doors, when the wind or the surf have given your strands a little texture. “You can skip a shampoo and your hair will end up looking even sexier.” says Normant. A global creative consultant for John Frieda. Normant knows a thing or two about gorgeous hair. He frequently styles Julia Roberts’s and Julianne Moore’s tresses. But don’t take this word. Try these looks and see for yourself how effortlessly gorgeous your hair can be.

FAQ: Are there any natural solutions for menstrual cramos

Q: Are there any natural solutions for menstrual cramos?

A: Essential fatty acid supplements may give you some relief. Though your cramps could be caused by your uterus being out of position and, in that case. Mayan abdominal massage may be worth trying. Since your uterus is held in place by ligaments, it can be displaced by anything from high-impact aerobics to taking a fall to having a baby. And a misaligred uterus can be the root cause of a number of symptoms, including menstrual cramps. During a 90-minute session, after discussing your health history with you, the therapist massages your abdomen to determine where you uterus is, then gently works on both your diaphragm and the area around your back, sacrum and your glutes to realign you.Even more, keep your style with styling tools is better. Depending on how severe your symptoms are, “It my take as little as one session or as long as several months to correct the uterine position and for the ligaments to gain enough strength and elasticity to keep your uterus in place.” Says Heather Heaney, a Toronto-based therapist trained in this technique.

IS HE THE ONE

Don’t say “I do” before reading this…seriously - By Cori Howard

Ask any woman: worth her gold to cocktail parties and dinner dates, and she’ll tell you that, while finding a match is one thing, quite another is figuring out if No.14 you met at speed dating more than a year ago is indeed the guy for you. Sure your taste in music and movies is compatible, you love cooking together, and you’ve talked politics and know what kind of relationship he has with his family. He can even hold his own at a dinner party with your ragtag team of friends.

  Not to get too Carrie Bradshaw here, but is he really the guy for you? And how can a girl go about finding that out?

  We’ve got two words for you: marriage prep. But don’t let that phrase scare you off. Think enriching your relationship, not necessarily taking the first step toward choosing a bouquet and hiring a DJ. After all, who has time to waste not finding out until years down the road that the guy you’re sexually attracted to, who has a successful career and a good relationship with his mom actually wants to retire at age 40 and travel the world on a shoestring? How hanged are your values—really?

  We all know this isn’t conversation you toss out over sashimi one right. You want to explore these topics, but you don’t want to explore these topics, but you don’t want to burn them into insurmountable issues that erode your communication or, worse, derail your relationship altogether. And that’s where marriage prep classes come in.

  Mostly, these courses are for couples that, if they’re not already engaged, are thinking long term. Some couples get to that point in six months. For others, it may take six years. The courses—which can range from a one-day $100 program to a weekend retreat costing nearly $1,000 are open to couples in any phase of their relationship, but marriage-prep teachers find it’s predominantly attracting couples on the verge of making the big decision: this is my life partner—wedding included, or not. As one Richmond, B.C., therapist/teacher, Benno Dreger, says: “I find I mostly see couples coming after the disillusionment sets in. They are wondering where the person they thought they had met has gone. And they want to find that person again.”

What started as a mandatory religious practice has now gone mainstream. Secular courses are proliferating across Canada, with one Toraonto therapist, Brian Murray, seeing as many as 800 couples a year.”We get some referrals from the clergy,” says Murray, a Toraonto marriage and family therapist and former pastor,” but, more and more, couples are being referred by friends.”

Easy Budget Methods

I haven’t written about finances in awhile, because these days I barely think about them.

That’s because for several years, I focused on getting out of debt — and these days, I live completely debt-free and worry little about

finances. It’s a beautiful thing.

However, recently a reader asked me to write about Simple Budgeting, and so I thought I’d revisit the topic. I’ll talk about how I deal with

finances these days, and then a Simple Budgeting method for those who aren’t exactly debt-free yet.

How I Deal with Finances

As I said, these days my finances barely register on my brain. Now that I’m out of debt, it’s not a major issue for me, and I’ve automated

most of my finances.

Here’s what I do:

1. Income is streamed into my checking account automatically. My income is all electronic, so I never deal with checks. In a couple cases

I’ve purposely set up electronic payments when previously I was sent checks.

2. Savings & investments are automatically taken from the checking. If it’s not automatic, I might forget about it. Forgetting about it is a

good thing when it’s automatic though — I will check every few months and see how my savings and investments have grown.

3. I often make major payments all at once in the beginning of the year. Because I’ve been able to grow my savings account, now that I have

zero debt payments, I have a good cushion so that I can pay things like rent or other major expenses all at once in the beginning of the year.

This way I don’t worry about the payments each month, and I don’t spend money I might need for these payments.

4. Other bill payments are made automatically. If I don’t pay in one big lump sum, I’ll set up automatic monthly payments. I never worry

about paying bills. I just make sure there is enough in my checking account at all times to cover the total amount of my bills.

Make Lifestyle in Zen

I haven’t written about finances in awhile, because these days I barely think about them.

That’s because for several years, I focused on getting out of debt — and these days, I live completely debt-free and worry little about

finances. It’s a beautiful thing.

However, recently a reader asked me to write about Simple Budgeting, and so I thought I’d revisit the topic. I’ll talk about how I deal with

finances these days, and then a Simple Budgeting method for those who aren’t exactly debt-free yet.

How I Deal with Finances

As I said, these days my finances barely register on my brain. Now that I’m out of debt, it’s not a major issue for me, and I’ve automated

most of my finances.

Here’s what I do:

1. Income is streamed into my checking account automatically. My income is all electronic, so I never deal with checks. In a couple cases

I’ve purposely set up electronic payments when previously I was sent checks.

2. Savings & investments are automatically taken from the checking. If it’s not automatic, I might forget about it. Forgetting about it is a

good thing when it’s automatic though — I will check every few months and see how my savings and investments have grown.

3. I often make major payments all at once in the beginning of the year. Because I’ve been able to grow my savings account, now that I have

zero debt payments, I have a good cushion so that I can pay things like rent or other major expenses all at once in the beginning of the year.

This way I don’t worry about the payments each month, and I don’t spend money I might need for these payments.

4. Other bill payments are made automatically. If I don’t pay in one big lump sum, I’ll set up automatic monthly payments. I never worry

about paying bills. I just make sure there is enough in my checking account at all times to cover the total amount of my bills.

Change Your Lifestyle from Single

After last week’s article on How I Changed My Life, In Four Lines, I had many people ask the same question:

“I want to change a few different things in my life — health, debt, productivity, etc. Do I really need to do them separately, focusing on one thing only and nothing else until that change is done? Even if they’re in different areas?”

Yes, I would recommend you focus on one change at a time. Here’s why.

It’s very hard to make changes that stick, especially if you’re trying to focus on more than one. In my experiments, I’ve found very consistently that changing multiple things at once doesn’t work very well. Your focus gets spread thin, and in the long run you end up failing to stick to any of the changes. If you’ve tried and failed at multiple changes at once before, you’ll know what I mean.

So do one change at a time, for at least a month. Six weeks is better. Then you can focus on one more change, and so on. That’ll be about six to eight changes a year — changes that will stick. They will last much, much longer than ones that you apply thinner focus to.

What you’ll find is that this is enough. These little changes will really add up over time, and you’ll end up with major changes in your life after a year or two. Or you can just change your hairstyle first.

This method is effective. I’ve used it for six years to great success, and many of my readers have too. Most people use the less effective method of multi-changing, and fail to stick with things, and blame it on their “lack of discipline”. No, it’s just a less effective method than single-changing.

Patience is tough. We are geared to wanting lots of changes right now, and waiting seems too hard. We want instant gratification, because television and marketing has taught us that this is best. It isn’t. Waiting and doing things slowly is much more satisfying, I promise.

And most of us will read advice like this and say, “No, this doesn’t apply to me. I can do better than most people.” And maybe that’s true. My advice applies to people who have had trouble changing their lives. Those who are good at it might not need to follow the single-changing method. But most of us should do one change at a time.

Try it, and see what happens. I dare you.

Magic Makeup Tips for Face

This season, the look is clean and natural; the effect is one of ease. On the runways of Michael Kors, Stella McCartney, and Alexander McQueen, pale, neutral shades on eyes and subtle pops of color on lips were the way to go. We talked to four top Chicago-based makeup artists-Debbie Jacks, Cammy Kelly, DarcyMcGrath, and Pieter Verhoeven-for the latest tips and trends to freshen up your face. "Spring is all about a new beginning, so put your darker colors away and treat yourself to some new colors," says Verhoeven, a makeup artist for Ford Models. "They will brighten up your face and create a natural glow."


Back to Basics

Too much foundation can make you look artificial-a faux pas for spring's clean, natural mood. "People tend to make a mask out of their foundation," says Kelly, who has worked with celebrities such as Nicky Hilton, David Schwimmer, and Anna Nicole Smith. A hint of pale pink on the cheeks can also liven up your look.

The products: Kelly is a fan of Armani when it comes to coverage. "Its foundations are right on for spring; they're not too shiny or shimmery," she says. Try Giorgio Armani's new Designer Shaping Cream Foundation ($65) at Saks Fifth Avenue, 700 North Michigan Avenue, and Nordstrom, 55 East Grand Avenue, or Laura Mercier's Stick Foundation ($40) at selected Neiman Marcus stores for a healthy-looking base. Both contain sunscreen for those early spring days.

When The Thing Goes on by Itself!

This is a story from my friend. Remember that it's funny but you should never have a try.

We've set a date for the wedding: a Sunday next September. Yes, we're on what you'd call the marriage fast track. And no, I'm not pregnant, although a number of people—including my own brother—asked if I was when we told them our date was less than six months away.

That's one good thing about a Sunday-night wedding: If we had wanted to say our I dos on a Saturday, we would have had to wait at least a year and my hair will get longer that i have to have a new wedding haircut design. Most of the places we've looked into are booked for Saturdays well into 2009. (I kissed the thought of a destination wedding goodbye last summer, after witnessing the headaches of hosting a big out-of-town to-do.) The Fiancé and I figure why wait, especially when—ahem—one of us is about to turn 34?

As of now, we're deciding between The Ritz-Carlton and The Drake—yeah, I know, a boring hotel wedding. "Funny for a girl who says she never envisioned herself having a traditional wedding," Seth said to me Thursday, on our way to see Cat Power, Colbie Caillat, and John Legend in a private concert at the Vic. True, but now that I'm here, there are more than a few reasons why a hotel wedding makes sense: a) these hotels have hosted countless weddings and know the drill better than even the most controlling wedding coordinator; b) a hotel is a one-stop shop for getting ready, pre- and post-nuptial partying, and provides rooms for out-of-towners and suburbanites; and c) it's just plain easy.

We can't really go wrong with either venue. The Ritz is the most modern of the more traditional hotels. That enormous crystal chandelier is magnificent; I like the location; and the city view isn't bad, either. If we're staying local, I'd like to incorporate the city of Chicago somehow, since we were both born and raised here.

And then we saw the Gold Coast Room at the Drake Hotel, and I got goose bumps—the true litmus test that my bride gene is developing. The grandiose ballroom, lined by ornate gold pillars, is very dramatic, as is the view overlooking Lake Shore Drive. Chicago doesn't get much prettier.

Since both hotels work with the same kosher caterer and can accommodate our rapidly growing guest list, the decision is up to us.

Did I mention I'm terrible at making big decisions?

This is the part where I ask for your help. Has anyone had, or been to, a wedding at the Ritz or the Drake? Did you love or hate it—and why? Please post your comments below. I need all the help I can get.

The ACCIDENTAL BIDE

-Think you and your live-in guy aren’t truly committed? Try splitting up and you may be surprise by the law says By Michele Sponagle 

“I don’t believe in marriage.”

   My friend Marissa”, who’s successful stockbroke, announced to a group of friends one night over cockrails at a downtown Toraonto lounge. “I just don’t want all the bassles that come with it –like drivorce,” she added. That comment struck me as funny, since Marissa’s boyfriend, a night manager with a medium haircut at a pizza joint, had been living with her for four year. “Guess what?” I chimed in. “In the eyes of the law, you are married for all intents and purposes. What’s yours is has what’s his is yours,” Her face went white and her jaw dropped “Congratulations,” I said.  “You’re accidentally married.” It’s amazing how few women know that cohabitation an put you in a similar position as a legally wedded wife—for better or worse. Living together seems like a more attractive option than marriage for many. In fact, the 2011 Statistics Canada Census report says that 12.8 percent of couples are common law, compared to just 3.9 percent in 1981, when the government started counting cohabiting twosomes. What you should know, though, is that in those intervening 25 years, a lot has changed. “The legal differences between marriage and cohabitation are melting before our eyes,” says Lloyd Duhaime, a family law lawyer in Victoria and the creator of Dubaime org, a legal-information site. “Those differences are getting smaller and smaller.”