Jill debuts as a Maybelline model

Before I became a full-time Rockstar Nutritionist, I took side work as a promotional model, campusing this fine city with my fliers, Vanna White wave, and khaki pants. As my company has grown, I’ve taken next to none of this kind of work. But I stay on the lists, just in case my company implodes and I need work, or better, something really ego boosting comes through. On one fine day in September, that ego booster came through: a casting notice for a model for Maybelline commercial--with a 5’10” minimum height requirement. I was SO in.

“I have arrived!,” I thought to myself with glee. Not only is my business growing so big that I don’t even have time to hand out fliers that no one wants, I was kind of the next Halle Berry. I admired my stats, practicing in my head the new verbiage that would describe me: Jill Jayne, Rockstar Nutritonist—ridiculously good looking.

The day of the shoot, they divided us all by height. The 5’5” girls were all put into pink dresses with ruffly, white camisoles and green ballet slippers. Their hair was curled into Farrah Faucet flips and their faces carefully crafted by make-up professionals. All the 5’10” girls were given sweat bands and ice packs. And told not to wear make-up so we didn’t sweat it into our eyes.

I was not a model in the traditional sense; I was cast as the Maybelline Great Lash Big mascara bottle. I danced through the streets of New York City for nearly 6 hours, featuring my elbows and shins on the Times Square Jumbotron. I specialized in “All the Single Ladies” by Beyonce and though I had limited mobility because of the armholes, I put my hands up!

My head is now back to regular size after wearing that costume.

GIVEAWAY:

I have one free bottle of Great Big Lash Mascara from the event, and a $1 off coupon. To enter:

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Winner will be selected at random November 11, 2009.