How to Become a Hand Model
In Her Shoes: The Career and Life of a Hand Model
by Emily Co
How Did You Get Into This?
"I was a theater major in college, and the agent was much more interested in my hand. She made me go get my first manicure, and I kind of honestly thought she was a little crazy. I guess because I didn't know that hand modeling could be a job.
And then I got the manicure, and she loved my hand. She got me a job two weeks later, and then a couple months went by, and I had another job, and it sort of just grew from that. The whole entire time I was working on acting and trying to figure out how to take a step in that direction, and then in the last six years or so, I've been fully focused on hand modeling. It's such an interesting career, and it's so much fun being part of the set that's creating it with the people that I'm not even that interested in acting anymore. So yay to that agent for putting me on the right life course!"
