00:00In terms of scouting a girl,
00:03you can be walking down the street.
00:04I found someone at Coney Island
00:06when I was just out with my friends.
00:08I found someone at CVS
00:10when I was just out shopping by myself.
00:12I've scouted someone at a Taylor Swift concert.
00:14The next step is just getting very basic pictures.
00:17So we'll get a few head shots, full body shots.
00:20I'll submit those to agencies in New York City
00:23or in LA, depending on their look.
00:26And we try to fly them out here pretty quickly.
00:29Hi, my name is Jasmine Dwyer
00:31and I scout models worldwide for a living.
00:37So tomorrow you guys have the beauty casting.
00:40I know it's a very specific posing,
00:42so I want to prep for that.
00:43Make sure you guys know how to pose.
00:44Plus it's the first time you guys are casting together.
00:48So that's like different.
00:49You're going to be able to have to pose as a couple.
00:51So I want to just practice a little bit, right?
00:54And if you feel your partner is doing this,
00:57you can't do that.
00:58So you need to be feeling what she's doing.
01:02Okay, good.
01:04Okay, now look at the camera cat.
01:06Good.
01:07Okay, this is very nice, isn't it?
01:09It is.
01:10Oh yeah, that's better.
01:11Look at us.
01:13I've been modeling since I was 14.
01:15I learned about the industry through that.
01:17My work as a model informs my work as a manager
01:20because I've actually lived it.
01:22I've been in like every situation.
01:24So for me, I come from like a lot more empathy
01:27and like I think that helps my girls.
01:30Your hands like have to always be...
01:31They're either like actually there or they have like intention.
01:34Okay.
01:35Right?
01:35So you can always like...
01:36You can grab that little skirt, you know, like holding it.
01:39Yeah, holding it.
01:40Okay.
01:40Okay, see here you went back to your Instagram face.
01:42I did.
01:42Right?
01:43So look at this.
01:43Yeah.
01:44And then the difference here where you're just like,
01:46you know that you're beautiful.
01:47I'm relaxed.
01:48I'm pretty.
01:49Like you don't need to be like showing us that.
01:51This is social media.
01:52This is...
01:52You're a beautiful model.
01:54Okay.
01:54Right?
01:54You see the difference?
01:55Yes, I do.
01:56All of that.
01:56Even that.
01:57Beautiful.
01:58After I scout someone, there's a lot of different things
02:00that I do to manage them.
02:02I'm CC'd on everything as the manager,
02:05who's making sure they're showing up on time,
02:07who's making sure they like know how to pose to the castings,
02:10doing their hair right.
02:11So when we're prepping for castings,
02:13a lot of these new faces don't realize like
02:16what specific brands want what.
02:18So just making sure they don't go in like completely unprepared.
02:23I'm going to stop here.
02:24Right?
02:24I'm going to make sure I see the cameras.
02:25I'm going to make sure I get my shot,
02:27which is going to go on Vogue runway.
02:29I'm going to see them.
02:30I'm going to turn.
02:33Okay. Clementine, you come out here as well.
02:36Beautiful.
02:37Remember, you're holding like heavy something.
02:39Stunning.
02:40Stop there.
02:41Nice.
02:42Okay.
02:42Now you turn around.
02:45Great.
02:46Do a little longer strides.
02:47A little longer.
02:48Yeah.
02:49There you go.
02:49Beautiful.
02:50And stop.
02:52Now look here.
02:52You're looking at the camera.
02:54And turn.
02:55Okay.
02:56Long stride.
02:56Long stride.
02:57So with scouting, I like to use social media.
03:01I initially started with social media.
03:03I use TikTok.
03:05I have my little hashtag,
03:06Scouter by Jasmine.
03:07And I ask people to post on it.
03:09Other than that, street scouting.
03:11I'll hit up the malls.
03:13I'll hit up the subway stations.
03:15And you kind of just have to wait it out.
03:18It's like a waiting game.
03:18So sometimes you'll just be walking down the street and usually go up to them.
03:22I'll be like, hey, I love your outfit.
03:26Just to like kind of braid the eyes.
03:28I'll compliment them.
03:28And then I'll say, my name's Jasmine.
03:31I'm a mother agency.
03:32Have you ever thought about modeling?
03:34And I'll give them my business card.
03:35If we have time, we'll chat.
03:37Otherwise, usually they go back.
03:39They research my agency.
03:41And then we set up meetings from that.
03:43So when I'm scouting people in public, there's a few categories that I'm scouting for.
03:48There's your general, like a fashion girl.
03:51And that I'm looking for height, a bone structure, something that's very charismatic.
03:56Then for like the more commercial beauty girls, things like strong eyes, an eyebrow that's
04:03maybe like really straight across, like freckles or gap tooth.
04:06Something that's like when you look at a girl, you're going to recognize her.
04:09And then that can then connect to a brand.
04:11And that's a girl who will make it very far as a model.
04:14For people interested in modeling, my suggestion to stand out or get noticed is first,
04:19you really got to take some good digitals.
04:21They can be simple.
04:22You don't need to pay anyone.
04:23You don't need to do anything.
04:24You just take a little selfie, full body headshot.
04:28And if you submit them to agencies, you can find like good ones on models.com.
04:32You will get noticed if you have potential.
04:34So the rates for a model manager, a mother agent, my models don't pay the manager, AKA me.
04:41It's once they get signed to a booking agency, then the booking agency takes a 20% commission
04:47from the girl in America.
04:48Like that's the standard.
04:49And from that, they pay me a commission.
04:52So they pay me 10%.
04:53If a girl books a $100,000 job, the booking agency will take $20,000 from the talent.
05:02Then they'll also take $15,000 or $20,000 from the client side.
05:07Out of that, they will give me $10,000 from their cut.
05:12I think model management is definitely, in terms of income, it would be secondary to modeling.
05:19Just for me because I have built like a nice career.
05:22But yeah, I do it because I love it.
05:24Because I see like this new generation of girls who don't really have someone looking out for them.
05:29You make money.
05:30It's been great.
05:31But it's not like, I don't think that's the reason to do it.
05:34So Genevieve, what's your dream job?
05:37I would say I want to do a really big beauty campaign.
05:39Oh yeah, I see that.
05:41I would love to do like Maybelline.
05:42Yeah, totally.
05:43Or like Milk makeup.
05:45Milk would be so cute.
05:47Yeah.
05:48If we're talking beauty jobs, Glossier.
05:50Oh yeah.
05:50It would be so cool.
05:51I could see you doing that.
05:52Overall, either like Miu Miu or Prada.
05:55No.
05:56That would definitely be a dream.
05:58Oh, Chanel is gorgeous.
05:59Chanel beauty.
05:59Yes.
05:59I think my agency, Bambi Management, is very unique because of the community we've created
06:06within the girls.
06:07It's never been a business.
06:08It became a business like accidentally.
06:10At the start, it was like, it was me just helping these girls out.
06:15It was October of 2021.
06:18Aww.
06:19I remember.
06:20And I know like my entire life, I've been like the, like I've always been tall, like
06:25like five feet in third grade, kind of tall.
06:27And it's always like the, oh, you should model.
06:29You should do this.
06:30But I'm from like a really, really small town in Michigan.
06:33And it was always like, like I never had any idea how to get into this industry.
06:37I didn't know where to go, how to apply.
06:39And I get Jasmine's TikTok on my For You page.
06:42And she's like, hey, I'm a scouting agent and you should submit to me and like literally
06:47just send me a, like this was before like Bambi was even there.
06:50And I was such a little baby back then.
06:53You were.
06:53And I submitted and I think within the day you got back to me.
06:59I was very excited.
06:59And you were like, hey, like New York wants to sign you.
07:03Like, let's get on a Zoom call tomorrow or like within the next two days.
07:07And then I like was like, do I tell my parents?
07:11And I was like, I was on the same page as Lee.
07:13I was like, are you real?
07:13I think the modeling industry has definitely changed.
07:16When I started 15 years ago, I was too short to model overseas.
07:21Like I was too short at 5'8".
07:23Now I have girls from size zero to size 22.
07:27Our shortest girl is five foot four.
07:29So we got it all.
07:31And they're all working.
07:32Well, I think with Curve, like, I don't know, I'd always heard so many horror stories
07:36about the modeling industry and how you're held to really extreme standards
07:40and how people will always be telling you what's wrong with you.
07:44And with Curve modeling, like, I just feel like it's a very actually genuinely healthy part of the industry.
07:51Like from my first meeting with my agents, they were like, we don't care what size you are.
07:56We don't care what your measurements are.
07:57Like, we need you to like come in and keep them updated.
08:00But like whatever is healthiest for you, that's like great for us.
08:03I thought my only option was to like lose weight in an unhealthy way.
08:08Like I just didn't think I would ever become a model.
08:10So yeah, I don't know. It's been like super positive for me.
08:14I would say Jasmine's really helped me with like staying level-headed and being sure of myself
08:23because I have some trouble with that, as you know.
08:26I do.
08:28I know we talk just about every day about knowing what's meant for me
08:32and allowing it to happen and not worrying about the when.
08:36Yeah.
08:37Um, when things are going to happen.
08:39Just knowing that it's going to come, I guess.
08:42For me, I love when I'll get like a text being like, oh my God, like I wore my mini
08:48skirt
08:48and they said I was ugly and like these little things where I'm like,
08:52there is no way I could have ever sent that to my agent.
08:54So I appreciate that you guys kind of like trust me so much.
08:57Yeah.
08:58You know that like you can come to me with anything.
09:00We went from thinking you were AI to being like the closest friend in New York.
09:06I know too much about you guys.
09:08Oh God.
09:09I don't know if I need to know all this, but I know it all.
09:18I hope that my agency can set a new standard in the industry.
09:23I hope that other agencies can look at my agency and say, hey,
09:27she has a girl who doesn't fit the traditional size, but she's working.
09:30I really want my models to feel empowered.
09:33I want them to know that everything they're doing, they are in control of.
09:38I want them to know I have their best interest at heart.
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