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Here’s how to pick your specific looks👇 Comment w Here’s how to pick your specific looks👇

Comment with the word ✨looks✨ and I’ll send The Ultimate Look Guide for Actors straight to your DM.

THEN...

✨ Simply pick out the headshot looks that resonate with you as an actor.

❌ Don’t over complicate this process.

Ask yourself these two questions...

✅ What roles can I believably play based on how I look?

AND

✅ What roles can I believably play based on my essence?

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Featured here: Actress Alexa Rose 🎬
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Wanna know the looks in your age group?👇 ⚡️Commen Wanna know the looks in your age group?👇

⚡️Comment with the word ✨looks✨ and I’ll send you my Ultimate Look Guide for the most popular headshot looks for actors in your age group.

You’ll learn:

✅ The categories and sub-categories in your age group.

✅ The specific headshot looks in those categories agents and managers are asking for right now!

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Featured here, the lovely Renee Pietrangelo
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“Perfect” headshots don’t book acting jobs.🚫 ✅ Ch “Perfect” headshots don’t book acting jobs.🚫

✅ Character does.

So many actors try to hide the very things that make them unique and castable.

But what you might see as a “flaw” is what an agent and casting director sees as your unique differentiation.

Like this post if it helped you with more acceptance!🫶
❌ In theory, that works. In reality, it fails. Wh ❌ In theory, that works. In reality, it fails.

Why? Because headshots are not “Real Life.”

✨ On TV, there’s CONTEXT. You have a set, a location, other actors, music, and dialogue to tell us who the character is.

✨ In an acting headshot, there’s NO CONTEXT. It’s just a close-up of your face and wardrobe. That’s it.

If your headshot wardrobe is too subtle or “realistic,” the Casting Director has to guess who you are.

And a confused mind says no. 

✅ This is why you should embrace the STEREOTYPE.

Since we don’t have a set, your clothes have to do the heavy lifting. You need to be “On-The-Nose.”

  The “Real” Gamer wears whatever they want.

 ✅ The Headshot Gamer wears a graphic tee.

  The “Real” Lawyer might wear a polo.

 ✅ The Headshot Lawyer wears a suit or sharp blazer.

Don’t dress for the reality. Dress for the Quick Read.

❤️ Comment with the word ✨wardrobe✨to get my Ultimate Wardrobe Guide ($4.97) with visual samples describing what to wear for each look in your category. $4.97 or complimentary when you book a headshot session!
Useful info like this usually lives behind closed Useful info like this usually lives behind closed doors.👇

A private client list, a paid coaching room, a casting office that actors can’t just email.

😱 This month, a group of us are propping those doors open.

Casting directors, coaches, agents, working actors, basically the people actors are usually trying to get ten minutes with, all in one place for the month.

✅ Each of us is giving away something we’d normally keep for the actors who pay us.

Mine is The Ultimate Look Guide.

🎉 The event is called the B.A.S.H. (Backstage Access Starts Here), and you can get in at no cost!

Comment ✨BASH✨ below and I’ll send you the link to the event.

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If the silence after you hit 'submit' makes you cr If the silence after you hit 'submit' makes you crazy👇

There's a gift in the B.A.S.H. for exactly that.

💁🏼‍♀️ For the whole month of August, one gift each from a room full of casting directors, coaches, agents, working actors, and of course yours truly.

Trainings, tools, challenges, the kind of straight talk actors usually only get AFTER they've hired one of us.

👌🏻 The best thing is it costs you ZERO dollars to walk in.

The trick is NOT to hoard.

❌ You don't win by opening everything and saving it all "for later," because later is where it goes to die, in a folder next to the 47 casting newsletters you also meant to read.

✅ Walk in, head straight for the part of your acting career that's been nagging at you, take what's useful, ignore the rest.

👉 One thing, actually used, beats the whole pile.

Mine is The Ultimate Look Guide for Actors. Learn what looks are right for you in your age group.

Doors open August 1st. 

Comment ✨BASH✨ below and I'll send you the link to this epic actor event.

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Want in on Headshot Sale Days (in LA)?👇 ✅ I offer Want in on Headshot Sale Days (in LA)?👇

✅ I offer them a few times a year but ONLY to actors on my email list where I send out tidbits on acting headshots; how to nail them every time.

Comment with the word ✨website✨ and I’ll send you the link to my Los Angeles headshot photography website.

Scroll ALL they way to the bottom and sign up!

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Theatrical vs commercial, the difference👇 ❌ First Theatrical vs commercial, the difference👇

❌ First, stop asking if a photographer specializes in “commercial” or “theatrical” headshots.

Here’s the truth: ⏬

❌ Your headshot session shouldn’t be about just commerical looks or theatrial looks.

✅ If you play the Love Interest in a one hour drama, you can also play the Love Interest in a commercial (maybe on a date!).

✅ The “Office Guy” in a procedural is the same “look” as the “Office Guy” in a commercial.

✨ 90% of headshot looks are actually crossover looks.

So, what changes from commercial to theatrical?

👎🏻 Not smiley vs. non-smiley.

💁🏼‍♀️ Your ESSENCE.

The “Blue Collar Worker” in a Target commercial has a different feeling, a different story, than the “Blue Collar Worker” in a show like Landman.

Your headshot session shouldn’t be just about capturing“smiley vs. non-smiley.”

👉 It should be about capturing an emotional arc from a bright, commercial essence, to a grounded, theatrical one for each crossover look.

You DON’T need two different headshot photographers.

You need one photographer who directs you like an ACTOR, so you showcase the arc of the character and provide headshots for both your commercial and theatrical agent in one session.

👣 Follow if this makes sense to you thespian!

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