Learning About Modeling (For Aspirers) 3

PREPARING FOR PHOTO SHOOT

By: Emmanuel Abazu

Practice – Practice – Practice!

Even top models spend time in front of the mirror– practicing expressions and poses to prepare for a photo shoot.

It is important to know how your face feels when you smile, or laugh, or frown, or pout. It is important to know how your body feels when it is posed in an attractive manner.

Practice facial expressions in front of the mirror – learn how your face feels with a perfect smile – no gums, eyes open – not squinting. Practice your poses in front of a mirror – while naked.

Yes – it says “naked”. With clothes on you have pockets, collars, etc. to “hang on” to. Without clothes – you have to learn how to place your hands and make them look attractive.

A Poor But Rich Family

By: Emmanuel Abazu

When I was in the SS2, we visited one of our friend's home for a lunch. I had no idea about where he lived, I mean, how could it be?! I just knew that he took the bus from his home to our school.

The moment we reached his house, I found the staircases of his building were not so good nor was his home painted very well. I can't describe in words but it was not even the type of house in which a typical middle class family lives in.

Judge Me Not

By: Emmanuel Abazu

I have a bad guy look or so I’ve been told and many times too. Whatever that means, I wouldn’t know. Sometimes, I go as far as asking some of the people that don’t really know me well, like some of my neighbors and colleagues and they are always like “Emmy, bad boy ni e joor. You look like that party freak, jasi kinda boy” and in my mind I go “mo daran o”. Most times, I try to argue with them but after a while I would notice it was a futile mission; they had formed an opinion about me without knowing me just by the way I look, the way I sometimes act like I don’t give a hoot about anything, the way I dress because I love to wear body hug dresses that show off my physique.  I know you’re doing the yimu thing but hey I’ve been told by many people so many times, so I love to flaunt my body whenever I feel like it.

Emmy's Tale: Season 1

By: Emmanuel Abazu

There is a woman I know who lives at Jakonde axis of Lagos state where my friend lives. My friend actually lives in a one room apartment (face me and face you) and you'd always see me there when I am bored or sad. Come and see my friend's compound, Chineke! The compound is very big,

I don't even know how many people live there, but I know of a woman called, "Mama Favour" who her husband always beats blue-black, leaving her with either a black eye or a broken ankle to nurse.

Attitude Is King

By: Emmanuel Abazu

I realized something recently about my favorite animal in the jungle,The Lion.

The Lion isn’t the fastest land animal.That would be the Cheetah, an awesome specimen of bio-engineering.

The Lion isn’t the biggest land animal on land.Just take a good look at the next elephant you come across and get back to me. The Lion doesn’t have the strongest jaws in the jungle.That would be the Hyena.

How To Be A Better Friend

By: Emmanuel Abazu

It can be easy in today’s technology world to allow our friendships to fall by the wayside of texting and tweeting and emailing instead of investing ourselves and our energy into actually spending quality time with people. And in an age where the phrase “I’m crazy busy” has become synonymous with “here’s my excuse why I’ve been a crappy friend to you”…I say it’s time to stop letting our friendships suffer in favor of work or Netflix or even romance. When all else fails…when the guy walks away or the dream job goes up in smoke or the seven-season series we’re binging on Netflix comes to an end (and what is life when that happens? I have to always spend a day gathering myself when a binge-watch is over)…our friends are the ones who will still be there. Rooting for us, supporting us, reminding us of who we really are when the rest of the world has forgotten. Having just come through a bit of a friendship storm with one of my dearest, I feel compelled to share what I learned through the experience. So here are a few ways you can (pretty easily) be a better friend.

What Depression Disguises Itself As

By: Emmanuel Abazu

She hears voices constantly and see things, they call it hallucinations.She finds it is so difficult explaining to people who don’t understand what depression really feels like. Depression disguises itself as so many things leaving her confused and more depressed. It disguises itself as

Dear People in Relationships: Stop Saying You Miss Single Life

By: Emmanuel Abazu

You may have forgotten that single life is not constant partying and casual sex.

"If I were still single..." my friend says as he stares at a woman from across the bar. He loves his girlfriend, I think he's just had a few too many drinks — a suspicion that's confirmed when he launches into an unprompted story about "club chicks." People in long-term relationships tell stories about their weirdest hookups or their craziest nights out the same way an old man would sit on a porch and tell stories of how he could've played college ball if he didn't blow out his knee senior year. A friend rolls their eyes when their partner texts because they know they'll have to end their night early. "You're so lucky," they tell our single friends as they close out their tab. Or the classic, "If I had Tinder when I was single..." Hell, lots of taken people still have Tinder. It's uncomfortable. But the real problem is, the whole thing is total bullshit.

Learning About Modeling (For Aspires) 2

THE IMPORTANT OF PORTFOLIO 
By: Emmanuel Abazu

As a model, your profile and your portfolio are your resume. Every shoot you have, whether it be TFP or paid, is a job in which the interview process happens before someone even contacts you, so they need to both be well maintained. Here are some tips in the creation and upkeep of both to help you stay marketable and appealing to the huge community.

A Simple Meditation To Improve Your Love Life

By: Emmanuel Abazu

 "This is where the magic happens in your  relationship," says Dr. Laura Berman

When you're feeling frustrated with your love life or disconnected in your relationship, there's no benefit to allowing that negative energy consume you. Instead, says relationship expert and author Dr. Laura Berman, consider doing a simple meditation exercise that is designed to "turn off stress and turn on love."

The Choice We Make

By: Emmanuel Abazu

Positive or Negative Thinking?

"If you are not happy with your life or whatever happens in it, discipline your disappointments; it is not external but a result of our internal way we view, believe, and do things in the world."

The choices we make determine the quality of our lives, and whatever is happening in our lives, we use it to succeed or to fail, either it is good or bad, and it is mostly determined by our attitude.

Everything is mental; everything is a personal choice and a total responsibility of each one of us. Our attitude is the reason to do the necessary changes or the reason to blame others for our poor performances, for our mistakes or for our ignorance in certain topics.

Learning About Modeling (For Aspirers) 1

By: Emmanuel Abazu

WHO IS A MODEL?

A model is a person with a role either to promote, display, or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing) or to serve as a visual aide for people who are creating works of art or to pose for nude photography.

Modeling is considered to be different from other types of public performance, such as acting or dancing. Although the difference between modeling and performing is not always clear, appearing in a film or a play is generally not considered “modeling”.

9 Ways To Actually Adopt The Better Habits You Know Will Help You Succeed

Every year, we set goals for ourselves, often called resolutions. What we actually envision is a brighter future, brought about by the desired change in our daily routine or habits. You may want to lose weight, increase your client base or stop smoking. This means you have to alter an existing behavior and insert a new one in its place.
Change is always difficult, but it can be done, with a little bit of willpower. Try these simple steps to get you on track to better habits.

1. Decide what is important and why.

What is your motivation for wanting to develop a new habit? Will it improve your life? Envision the outcome if you don’t make the change. Then decide how you are going to make the change. If you want more clients, make more contacts; if you want to get more done in the day, get up an hour earlier; if you want to be healthier, instill an exercise regimen into the daily routine. Set a goal and then give yourself a timeline to complete it.

Embrace The Path

By Emmanuel Abazu

It may look sometimes like everyone else has it all together, has the perfect life,the perfect job,the perfect relationship,the perfect everything, has all of the answers and that everything comes easily to them.

It’s hard to keep up and to measure up and to get up when we get caught in this set of beliefs.
There’s no reason to worry, or wonder or make yourself sick with “what if this happens?” kinds of feelings, Just do what you can do today and then let it go. Do your best and let that be enough.

Men and Sugar Mummies Part 2

By Emmanuel Abazu

If you miss the part 1 of this article you can visit the main site www.emmyinspirationworld.blogspot.com. When you look at the corporate settings, you see some guys who are the female MD's pets. These ones come to work whenever they like, they leave the office whenever they like, and they insult the manager at every slight provocation. They go against all the laid down rules of the company. But what do they get at the end of the day? Promotion instead of a query or sack letter. Some of them do it the good boy way. They become too committed to their job; they close late and are always the last to leave the office.

Foundation Of Love

By Emmanuel Abazu

If your love for a Person lies only on the attention they give you, trust me! You don't really love that person!. How about loving them in their absent attention?..

Yes! I put it to you that, the best way to know if someone truly loves you, is to hold back your attention just a bit, to see if they'd feel concerned!

Either about what's wrong or If all is well..

I Stood Yesterday, I Can Stand Today

By: Emmanuel Abazu

I have been through the depths of hardship and sickness.  When people ask me what has kept me going through the troubles that come to all of us, I always reply, "I stood yesterday.  I can stand today.  And I will not permit myself to think about what might happen tomorrow."

I have known want and struggle and anxiety and despair.  I have always had to work beyond the limit of my strength.  As I look back upon my life, I see it as a battlefield strewn with the wrecks of dead dreams and broken hopes and shattered illusions--a battle in which I always fought with the odds tremendously against me, and which has left me scarred and bruised and maimed and old before my time.

Dear Forgiving Girl

By: Emmanuel Abazu

Dear Forgiving Girl,

What is it about forgiveness that is so difficult, even though holding a grudge or holding on to hurt or holding yucky old memories makes us feel so rotten.

What is it that makes it so hard to let go?

Forgiving someone does not mean that you let them back in your life. Forgiving is not ‘giving up’ or ‘giving in’, and it does NOT mean that you are saying that an injustice has not been done, or that you
agree with what happened, or that you are opening yourself up to be hurt again. It has nothing to do with saying something was ‘okay’, or that someone can escape the natural consequences of their actions. It has NOTHING to do with that other person.

Embracing Hardships

By: Emmanuel Abazu

In life we can be hit with rocks so big, leaving us bruises and scars so deep, that one can barely get up.

With every hit one falls, but God always catches us. He pulls those rocks off us and helps us by walking with us hand in hand.

Life will be filled with tests and hardships. I call them storms - storms that can consume so much of our being, storms that leave us holding on with all our might, struggling not to let go, struggling to survive.

My Dad Is The Most Inspirational Man In My World

By: Emmanuel Abazu

How many times have you ever thought of this question: “Who inspires you?” I know it might seem easy. But trust me, it is not. Especially when your answer should be clear and honest, identifying the person who has impacted your past and will continue to impact your future, I have spent a week already brainstorming who might be that person. I don’t want to give a random answer.

I identified several criteria for what makes a person influential. I looked up the characteristics of influential people. According to all the articles I read my person should hold these traits:

Men and Sugar Mummies Part 1

By Emmanuel Abazu

We see men all over the place. We call them men, but the question is how many of these men can actually boast of being REAL MEN. In my resident Lekki Phase 1, we had a lot of the so called Lekki big boys, with their big rides and cost apartments. We saw young girls fighting themselves and breaking their necks just to be identified with these happening guys.

 

Well, before I go into the main article for today, I want to let you know that I decided to treat this topic today due to the numerous text messages I get from some people asking me to link them up with sugar mummies and some who caused me of dating sugar mummies. Read below......

Faith, Fear and Future

 By: Emmanuel Abazu

(The 3F's Of Life)

Faith and fear are great measures to determine the future. Faith and fear are great infectious words because they spread like epidemics, but you must be careful of what you listen to and those you associate with.

Many people have allowed the faithless words of others to drive them into despair by which they end up being a failure.

To Your Dream in 2016 - Resolution For The New Year

By: Emmanuel Abazu

Your resolutions – introduction

As we start 2016, I would like to propose a toast. So wherever you are and whatever you are doing – stop! Get yourself a drink. It doesn’t matter what drink – water, wine, juice or whisky is fine. Grab that drink and let’s toast: “To your dreams in 2016!"

Okay, now that we have drink to your dreams, may I ask what those dreams are for 2016? Maybe I should have asked that before the toast.