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The past year is defintately the worst year of my life, so many things thrown at me I feel like the big man upstairs is pushing me to see how far I'll go before I break...

Point of blog is....from tomorrow I do not have a job...at all!

I was made redundant 3months ago and have been temping since, got 3 job offers in one week a month ago and the one I decided to take ended up telling me they don't actually need me after 3weeks...So I'm back to square one!


The only job I can get until xmas is paying me £5.90 an hour in castlereagh council taking complaints from people who have not have their bins emptied...


So PLEASE, I BEG YOU! Good people out there...save me from this horrid place.

If I could get 4 shoots next week I would make around the same money as I would working 9-5pm...and I have a chance to go to interviews and have time to call people, apply for jobs.

So anyone who would like to help me out I'm free for shoots Morning, noon and night. I'll work my little ass off for anyone who wants to shoot with me. I'll provide very good rates from £20 an hour and am willing to travel if expenses are covered.

Oh also to make things worse....I'm 21 in 2weeks...oh dear help me.

Thanks guys,
Look forward to hearing from you.

Lisa x

Hello Everyone,

Well things have been rather rubbish (for want of a better word) recently for me. Got laid off 3 weeks ago from the photography studio I was working in....Good timing eh? No-one wants to employ anyone nowadays with this 'credit crunch' so...3 weeks later, about 20 recruitment agencies and 50 job applications later I'M STILL UNEMPLOYED!

So...As I now have plenty of free time on my hands, and not a lot of spare cash I think now would be a perfect time to advertise 'my services' (mean't in the best way possible obviously ).

Therefore- I am now available for shoots, fashion & lingerie, and with over 2 & 1/2 years experience in the modelling industry I've got all the experience needed for very productive shoot!

Anyone interested please conatct me for reasonable rates and tell me your ideas.

I've worked with many people on ths site I'd love to work with again and there's still lots of you out there I'd like to work with so get in touch...

Lisa

Tags: LisaCassells

Hello Everyone,

I'm feeling very lost...and I'm struggling. I guess I'm struggling to find my way...in life!

I really don't know what I want to do with my life...career wise I mean.

I left school after my A'Levels as I didn't know what I wanted to do so wasn't going to go to uni & waste losts of money doing a degree that I would most likely hate, drop out of, or would be completely rubbish when it comes to finding a job at the end. I've had 4jobs in the past 2years since leaving school and I can't say i've really enjoyed any...

Most of my jobs have been administration, sitting at a desk all day at a computer which really isn't me. I love to be active, I like to be on the move, I hate computers (and they hate me too)!

Now I'm working for a photography studio doing telesales, it's ok but at the moment the business is not doing well, there is a lot going on with owners trying to sell it & those who want to buy it having to bring in silent partners etc, no-one really knows what is happening at the moment or who even is the 'boss'. So we're either waiting on two things- The place to be bought and to be ran by someone else, alot of things change, or the sale to fall through & the current owner to shut the door on us leaving the staff un-employed.
I took this job because obviously I like photography, I like pictures, I like the idea of the company, but I had took the position in the hope that I would be promoted to Studio Host which is what i really want to do...but it seems now the current studio host will not be moving into the studio until November. Another thing is I really don't get paid well for this, money isn't everything I know and I'm not a person who puts money over everything but I'm coming 21 and I want to move out but I don't get paid enough to even think about it. But I don't know what job I want to move onto...

In the last month I've covered these options ...LOL...1. a Police Woman- My dad doesn't want me to join as he's got 30 years experience of it and said there is no way I would stick it. How could you send me to a fight of 6men in a bar? I'd be no help! Plus you gotta go through 2years training which I hear isn't pretty.
2. A nurse- but I would have to go back to uni which I can't afford and I'm not that good with my patience...
3.Vetenary Nurse- I LOVE ANIMALS! Love them! But after researching I need to go do training In Antrim (rather far from where I live) then there is a 2years waiting list to be taken on as a trainee.
4. Dog Trainer- LOL this is quite funny but I really love dogs so would like this, but again i enquired and there isn't a lot of places who will pay any half decent money to do this, unless you go self empolyed it's all volunteer work mainly.

Help People PLease??! I really need to find a career path soon, everyone close to me is going on about how un-settled I am and how I need to find my way in life.

I would love to consider modelling as a full time career but we all know I would need to move away to London as there just isn't the work here.

I'd love a career that involves animals, outdoors, being active, helping people or animals or both but I just can't seem to find anything that doesn't involve sitting at a desk doing paperwork & answering calls.

There are a few of you who know me so can any-one give me any advice on what to do??!

Thanks Guys,
Lisa

Hi All,

Well as some of you are aware i've started my new job in a photography company Studio22, loving it so far, great people to work for & with and also very interesting.

Anyways, I thought that saying now I'm working with professional photographers and one girl who's just finished her degree in photography and I thought I know them all well enough now to bring in my portfolio and show them what I can do!

Kind of nerve racking showing it to people who do know their stuff, will they think I'm crap, laugh at the images or will they be taken back? Well it went ok, they were all very impressed by my range of shots so far, but knowing their stuff were able to pick out little tiny things that I would never see or think of at all.

They were able to tell when fake shadows had been put in shots, that my waist had been photoshopped smaller in one, what equipment had been used to take the various pics- be it a soft box or ringflash etc and how the shot had actually been executed to be the way it is now. This is all new to me, as I'm learning more & more everyday about the various and very vast ways of photography, equipment, photoshop, cropping images, use of gels etc etc etc.

Anyways, some shots I've been told to to take out cuz they look too amateur or the colours just are not right and it takes away from the rest of the shots that do look well. I was amazed to be told that they wern't sure about one of my fav images as the lighting had taken away the side of my nose in it...something that I would never have seen or think that anyone else has ever noticed.

The conclusion was that I have a very good range of pics & they couldn't believe how different I look in some. What I was told is that I lack some funky shots with dramatic make up and clothes. One of the girls was saying I should go down to the Art college and see if they need models as they put on fashion shows and also the photographers who specialise in fashion need models. They usually end up doing very dramatic things- like building a false wall & knocking a big whole in the middle, the shot is then the model climbing through the whole with big expressions, big actions. Get what I mean?? I think it sounds very cool.

I'm going down to the Art college tomorrow night after work to view the fashion students work as they have an exhibition on so I shall go and see if I can make any contacts from it, they may need a model in the future.

I love advice like this, it's keeps me going and thrives me to do better as from time to time I do think- shall i just pack it in?? I'm not in this for money, god knows if I was i'd have given up a few years ago...But I can't say I'm not in it for fame. I'd really like to achive something that makes me proud of myself and makes it worth all the effort, time & I guess money that I have invested into modelling.

So if anyone has any big ideas on how to improve my portfolio and how I can do things differently to make something of myself then please go ahead. Also if anyone is interested in creating the dramatic shots I've mentioned previously then please get in touch. It would be great to work with someone with these ideas.

Love as always to you all,
Lisa

Tags: LisaCassells Portfolio Fashion

Hi all,

Ok so at the moment I've been working for a slaes company since january doing Advertising sales. it's crap to say the least, very difficult as I've been brought in as a junior with no experience, not been given much training and set major targets. The company have a very big growth strategy but just don't have the structures in place i think to achieve it. I'm getting dragged into sales meeting and scrutinised all day long. Not good.

Good news- & this is where you come in-

I've been talking to 2 guys from Studio22 (based on S'field road belfast) who need a competant person to manage their diary. They are the main competition to Venture I think only much cheaper! I went for an interview today and what they expect is for me to be making 30 appointments a week, they have the capacity to shoot 46 portrait sessions a week, there is a guy who brings in leads from exhibitions (about 100 a week) so I then need to chase them up, sort out the true people interested from the time wasters and arrange for them to come in for their session.

Initially I will be expected to work 3days 1pm to 9pm and 2days 9am to 5pm until I get the targeted 30 appointments. Then after that it's up to me what hours i want to work and how many late nights i stay late. There is the opportunity to progress if I show enthusiasm and competancy. I think thsi would suit me better as it is something I like and I'm thinking it would be a fun environment to work in. There are 2 togs in the Belfast Studio & they also have studios in Cork, (London)Derry, and Ballymena.

Have any of you heard of this company? Do you know the men who run it? What do you think I should do? Is it a good job/industry for me or shall i stick it out here and see how I go??

HELP! LOL

Muchos Love,
Lisa xxxx

Hello everyone, Ok need some help here. Story goes as this... 2 weeks ago as you know a few of the girls went to the Miss Universe competition in Belfast, I was quite disappointed with the 'standard' of girls that turned up to this compeititon, making me feel it was quite desperate as they hadn't enough entrants they opened it up to the public so Joe Blogs could come audition. We got this whole big speil about Fund raising for the comp etc then were taken for an 'interview' with the girls that run Vibe Models (some welsh model agency). Now from having been to the final auditions of Britains Next Top Model, interviews don't really worry me, but this girl asked me 2questions... Why do you think we should make you Miss Universe Uk & what would you do to promote the comp in our country if we did? I was in the room for no more than 2mins which I found quite weird as obv if they want a winner or strong contestant they need to know a little info on them. Anyways I've been selected as the finalist From N.I to go over & compete against 50girls in London for the title of Miss Universe UK, BUT i don't think I'm gonna go through with it as... 1. I don't feel this competition is a very well publicised or worth getting through to unless I actually make it past this next round to become Miss Universe UK (& lets face it my chances are slim -1 in 50), then i go through to the final competition held somewhere abroad & an all expenses paid trip. 2. I have to make my own way to the next round which is in London on 5th May, it's 2days long which means I wold have to pay for flights over to London & pay a hotel & food etc for 2nights- which i certainly cannot afford as we're talking £500 for a 1 in 50chance. 3. I need to raise £1000 sponsorship by 11th april, so like, 2weeks time, then I gotta raise all these other things to get through to the final, it seems a bit of a joke the amount you need to raise & it's all orientated about raising money for the comp & raising the profile of it in your area. So ok fair enough but if it is a decent comp then I don't see why you need to raise so much money, it should be funded by itself or by the sponsors they should already have behind them??? I just don't know if it's worth it, as if i don't get through this nxt satge it's a lot of money wasted, & I know nothing comes for free. I don't mind paying money if it's for something decent that could get me noticed, I paid near £200 for the flights to the Britain's Next Top Model auditions, which lasted a whole of 20mins, but still it was the experience. But I just don't have the feeling that this comp is worth it. I have never really heard of it or anyone that was in it (well tell a lie my friend showed me some girl in Thompsons one night that was the winner from N.I last year but I'd never heard of her or seen her before or havn't since..soooo...) Do you agree with me? or what you all think I should do? I would rather save myself to enter something a bit closer to home like Miss N.I, but If i can't enter if i go to this comp as Miss N.I entrants cannot have represented their country in any other national final competition before. ??? Confused!!!!! Am i making the right decision or just talking keek???? Thanks everyone, look forward to your advice. Lisa

Hey Everyone,

So the year got off to a good start & I had a loads of shoots in January then it all went belly up, one of my closest friends died, my nanna got phnemonia & my friends son was murdered- so i was really hating the world for a while. Was contemplating giving up modelling for a while cuz I kinda lost interest in everything but now- I can't say things are getting better, I've just descovered this world is a horrible place but thats never gonna change so now I've got the feeling of living each day as if it's your last.

So I wanna get some shoots booked, get me back into the swing of things. I've started going to the gym 3times a week so my little six pack is forming rightly & I'm feeling all round better within myself which will reflect in my confidence.

So if anyone wants a shoot don't hesitate to get in contact with ideas. I work up to Implied Topless & as you all know love my fashion shoots. I'm wanting to concentrate more on my make up skills for some generally different pics that steer away from 'the norm'. There are lots of you I have still to work with so -come on get in touch & anyone whom I have worked with if you wanna book me again I'll be more than delighted.

Hope to hear from you all soon,

Love Lisa

 

Ok so as you all should know by now I'm practically obsessed with fashion/catwalk/designers etc...

So I havn't yet been to Belfast Fashion Week- as usually i'm just WAAAAYYYYY too jealous cuz I WANNA BE UP THERE lol but I really wanna go this time and it's next week.. So get to the point Lisa-

How about a Folio girly night out...I was wondering if any of the girls would wanna all go together, cuz my normal friends just don't get my excitment & my boyfriend- well lets not even go there. So who better to go with than the ones who understand most & are actually interested. We can discuss our thoughts & criticism's & all in all just have a good night doing something we're all interested in.

It would be good to meet some of the girls I havn't met before & I think we'd have a good laugh. Though i dunno if we need to like book all our seats together, if we do one person can just book it & we'll all give the money on the night.

Any girls interested let me know & we can see what night suits best. Maybe Brendan can advise us of the best night to go.

Lots of lurve,

Lisa xxx

Hi Everyone,

as some of you seen my very close friend died last week. Her funeral was yesterday, possibley- no, actually it was the worst day of my entire life & I hope that I never have to go through that pain again. I'm completley heartbroken, havn't ate in 3days & i'm not even hungry, I've slept about 2 hours each night since I found out on Thursday & i'm just so emotionally & physically drained. I don't know how i'm gonna cope with this but I hope Rachel will give me the strength to go on somehow.

So to cut a long story short I'm not going to be very actively modelling for a while until I get my head sorted, rachel was so proud of me modelling so I don't want to give up completley but i'm not in a very good frame of mind at the moment & can't see any reason to smile so if I don't reply to emails please forgive me, I know there are some shoots i'm in talks about but I will explain to those togs personally. I want to concentrate all my energy & time on my friends who like me are hurting so much & for those who mean so much to me I want to spend my time with them showing them how much I love them as I hadn't had much time with Rachel in the last few months & I regret it sooooo much. I thought we would have the rest of our lives to see each other but I didn't know her life was gonna be cut so short.

I wish you all luck for the future months & hope to return to modelling later in the year.

Lots of Love,

Lisa xx

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