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    Mind Blowing Gotta hone my look...[Please read)

    Backstory: When I set out to do something, I get downright obsessed until it is done as well as I can do it. I am determined to be a damn good stripper and make a ton of money. Art school ain't cheap, and neither is keeping up with a BF visits his European family on a yearly basis. Loft on Lake Geneva? Yes, PLEASE!

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    I'm 23 years old (have been told I look 19); 5'7", 116lbs (kinda light), 34B-24-37. Light skin, dark brown hair, grey eyes. I work out 3-4 times a week.

    I'm going out of state to dance, ideally at Camelot in DC for the first couple of months (as all my posts can show, I have been sleuthing the shit out of this place).

    My concerns are that my hair is too dark and my skin is too light. I'm of Cherokee/Scandinavian descent and I tan dark as hell, but I have literally avoided the sun since I was about 13 or 15 years old. I've read that the club lights can make pale girls look washed out and ghostly. Is this true?

    I've had honey-blonde hair before and it looked super cute -- I just can't go platinum because it looks awful. Do blondes make more bank or does it matter?

    What do you think I could do to get my look more up to par? -- especially considering Camelot as a club? I really, really want to work there when we go to DC.

    I'm fully aware and okay with using my looks as a tool, so I'm not really attached to anything. (Example: I prefer short hair, less maintenance but am growing it super long because I know it will help build the typical fantasy-girl image.) Whatever will work best for my customers and my bank account is what I am interested in. If that means the polar opposite of what I'm doing now, or just fairytale light hair/skin or dark hair/skin (I can look pretty ethnic) I'm down -- I just need a few pointers!

    Sorry for writing a novella! I really appreciate any help you could offer. If I could send you cookies in thanks, I totally would. But for now, Internet hugs!

    (The first one is of me when I was sick holding a book and I'm in a bathrobe in the other one, lol. It's been cold lately.)
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    Default Re: Gotta hone my look...[Please read - Pictures!]

    Everyone kinda glows under the lights, but taning makes it a good kinda glowing. Fake tanner works just as well

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    Default Re: Gotta hone my look...[Please read - Pictures!]

    I don't think its about hair colour etc, more about body and most important hustle read hustle hut.
    xoxo

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    Default Re: Gotta hone my look...[Please read - Pictures!]

    First off, I think you are hot as hell and you would do better than fine at any strip club you walked into.

    However, it seems that you want to re-invent yourself into the mother of all strippers, which is cool! Here are some things you can do to fit that mold.

    1. Tanning. Since you say that you get dark easily, I would go for the tanning. Hit the beds a few times or go the spray-on, self-tanner route. Dark tans are VERY strippery, they amoflauge cellulite and scars, and generally make you look nice and slim. I've never tanned because my fish-belly white skin doesn't know how. I also can't say that I've noticed that club lights wash me out--if anything, they are uber-flattering,

    2. Hair: Do the honey-blonde thing. Blonde is blonde, and any blonde is great for that stripper look. I don't think any one color banks more than the other, and if platinum blonde sucks on you, then by all means, don't do it. You can bank just as good with honey blonde.

    Okay, here are some other tips to stripperize yourself.

    1. NAILS. Get fake acrylic nails in a french manicure. I've never been the type to pay attention to fingernails, and I was surprised by the boost in my confidence level that cheap, drugstore, glue-on acrylic nails gave me. I felt so glamorous and strippery!

    2. FAKE EYELASHES. Wear them for each shift. They make your eyes pop.

    3. TONALIN. Start taking it. It makes a big difference in how toned you appear.

    4. HAIR EXTENSIONS. This will also give you the classic stripper look, but they're kinda pricey.

    That's what I have found had the most bang for my stripper buck. But honestly, like I said, you look great now. All these extra stripperizing tools will just be icing on the cake.

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    girl, i think you're hot already! especially in the middle picture.
    what i did was-
    1.start airbrush tanning, the hand held type at a salon.
    2. i cut my hair to my chin in an angled bob and dyed it slightly darker with lowlights.
    3. if you wear contacts, try some colored ones, they look cool with fake eyelashes.
    4. i always wear the falsies anytime i go out at night or to work. they really do make your eyes stand out quite a bit.
    5. work out 3 times a week when you get up in the a.m. this really does do wonders for your body, stamina, and the way your skin looks.
    6. pedicures are important! Very Very Important! you wouldnt believe how many men and women tell me how much they stare at dancers feet! Almost all guys like bright, sunny colors and french pedicures on your toes. you dont have to pay $30 a week, go to walgreens or a drug store of some kind to the nail section, buy light pink base color, clear top coat, white polish, and those stickers you put on your nails as guides. might take you a minute to get it right, but it is much, much cheaper!
    7. blush. i always use blush with a little bit of a shimmery light highlighter on my upper cheekbones. Bronzer is great too, but only on the high points of your face.


    Good luck, but you dont need much looking the way you do..

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    Default Re: Gotta hone my look...[Please read - Pictures!]

    I just want to say I was a lot like you when I first started out (I'm still considered new!).

    Before my audition, I became obsessed with learning how to be the super stripper. I would scan through porno sites comparing myself to girls trying to figure out what would be the ultimate look and I spent hours and hours watching strippers on you tube trying to learn their floor moves and pole tricks. Fuck, I would even calculate the BMIs of PlayBoy girls, found the average of the ones I looked at (which is 19.7 by the way) and vowed that I MUST weigh that much to be able to strip.
    Just like you, I became obsessed with becoming a stripper and becoming the best one ever.

    I just want to say, don't worry because you definitely can do this! And here are some other tips:

    - Just be prepared, that no matter what you do, when you start off it will be new and different...and you will probably not get it right the first time

    - After awhile, I stopped trying to copy other looks and realized I did my best when I felt confident and happy. Don't try to look like everyone else. I'm not saying the advice already given in this thread is bad advice (tans and nails make anyone feel and look hot!), just don't be afraid to stand out or BE YOURSELF! standing out will get you noticed too!

    - No matter how stripperized you become in appearance, you need to learn how to hustle. Check out Hustle Hut before you go in for you audition.

    Good Luck and have fun <3

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    Default Re: Gotta hone my look...[Please read - Pictures!]

    Quote Originally Posted by indie View Post
    Whatever will work best for my customers and my bank account is what I am interested in. If that means the polar opposite of what I'm doing now, or just fairytale light hair/skin or dark hair/skin (I can look pretty ethnic) I'm down -- I just need a few pointers!
    Oh, and about appearance:

    I'm super tall and look very exotic (I am half Filipino). Even though I don't look like any of the other other girls, this has made a lot of men find me very attractive. There are 101 types of fantasy looks. Go for one that you personally like and play it up as much as possible. Have fun with your stripper identity!

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    Default Re: Gotta hone my look...[Please read - Pictures!]

    Remember that tanning is also a regional thing. In Wisconsin, it actually can look weird for strippers to be super tan, since it's so cold up here all of the time....so tanning definitely isn't necessary. But remember that your white skin could help you stand out and look more real.

    I think your exotic look could stand out in the best way possible, so don't lighten your hair (if you do anything at all)! Darker hair could even make you seem more racially ambiguous...which means you'll attract more customers! (i.e. if you look Japanese, you might attract more asian men, etc. So the more races you resember, the more customers you'll attract!) Longer hair could definitely help you play up the racial ambiguity and stripper fantasy of it all. But I think it'd be a travesty to bleach your hair into some kind of beachy look. Keep your dark hair!!

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    umm, you're hot- you have nothing to worry about.

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    i think you'd look hot with both the dark or the honey blond, just don't cut it short. on average i think 8 out of 10 times blonds do better. but you're the kind of brunnete that actually pulls it off well. i highly recommend clip in extensions as well. Tanning does look good, but you don't need to be skin-cancer-barbie, just not pasty.
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    I <3 that second picture of you.... you look stunning. I prefer the sidebang on you.

    My advice is to simply look your best. I don't think changing your haircolor and tanning is really that necessary to bank because there are many different men out there with so many different types that if you prefer short dark hair, then rock that style.

    I used to have long hair. which I had a love/hate relationship with. loved it because I thought thats what men liked and i was under the impression that it was helping me make money... but I hated it because the maintenance sucked... and its so damn hot in miami. not to mention that putting my hair up for too long gave me a headache(because of the weight) soooo after much hesitation, I cut my hair.. and men still loved it. so I wound up cutting it even shorter and now I have an inverted bob. I think I look great with it and I think the confidence shows.. which I believe ultimately helps me at work.

    ok.. point of the story is... you are a good looking girl(im gonna assume your body is nice too) so you are bound to do well... def read through hustle hut because the tips come in handy.

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    I don't think you need to change a thing! Your dark hair and fair skin compliment each other and your fair(grey?) eye make you look even more unique. There was a girl Betsey that I worked with and she always banked. She had your coloring and your basic physique- tallish and slim.

    So you have the foundation down so you can concentrate on coming up with a few make up styles 1)full on glamor with a darker lipstick and nails 2)a smokey eye with a paler or more natural lipstick 3)a more low key,natural look. You can also work on putting your wardrobe together-your outfits,your shoes,your accessories. Then put your dance move arsenal together-some youtube videos,Sheila Kelley's the S Factor Strip Workout book,and whatever strikes your fancy.And study your Hustle Hut on Stripper Web.

    Give yourself a spa day before your first day-get the mani and pedi. In my opinion,stay away from the tanning. You look stunning just the way you are. Cheers! Harlow
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    Wow. Thank you all so much! I feel so much better about the whole thing now. Goodness gracious, so much good advice! I will definitely be up on my mani/pedis (I am excited to finally be able to justify getting them! At least once!) and I think I will definitely work the racially ambiguous angle. I can never seem to look completely white so I might as well! And it's way more fun.

    I'm very number-oriented -- I've already been reading the Hustle Hut, so all you ladies are straight-up brilliant there. The HH is awesome. I feel so much better equipped. Thank you so much!! And if anyone else has any further AMAZING advice to throw my way, I am all about it!

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    Don't change a thing! I as well prefer the side bang on you Blunt straight bangs are too harsh.

    I danced in Baltimore and was super pale and banked. Don't tan if you don't usually. I honestly think you will do great the way you look now. I should also add that I never got mani/pedis either, at least not at the salon. I just kept everything looking nice and clean, but not overly "done up". I never had fake nails, wasn't blonde (natural red hair), wasn't tan, and didn't generally look like a stripper at all - and honestly I think it helped me. So many people would comment that I "didn't look like a stripper" and then they gave me all their money lol ><

    Good luck! And let me know how Camelot works out....I've been curious about that place and it's only an hour from me.

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    Hi achickonspeed! Is that your pic now? You look gorgeous if so!

    Feel free to PM or friend me. I'll be going there in May. (Yeah, I like to prepare for things waaaay ahead of time.)

    Thanks so much!

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    Um, well, you're my new girl crush exactly as you are..


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    Quote Originally Posted by MissIngenue View Post
    Um, well, you're my new girl crush exactly as you are..
    Oh, you darling!

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    i would keep the hair dark, but tan slightly. definitely not to your full capacity, but enough to make you look a little ethnic. then you can be asian, or brazilian, or portuguese, or whatever you want.
    "If she wants to dance and drink all night, well there's no one that can stop her. She's going til the house lights come up or her stomach spills onto the floor. This night is gonna end when we're damn well ready for it to be over, worked all week long, and now the music is playing on our time. Yeah we do what we do to get by, and then we need a release!" - Against Me!, "Thrash Unreal"

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