Beauty models wanted — and free model appointments if you want to sit
One page for two people. Somebody needs hands to practise on, and somebody would have her nails, lashes or hair done for nothing or for the cost of what is used up. Everything that decides it — the day, the hour, how long it takes, the money, the photographs — is on the advert before anyone commits.
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You are a student with a certificate and no hands to work on, a technician learning a new technique, a tutor with a practical day, or a salon with an hour that is going to go empty. You write what you need, people apply, you read them and pick. Your telephone number and your address are not on the advert, and the exact address goes out only to the person you accept.
If you would sit as a model
You choose the appointment, not the other way round. You can read the whole advert — the treatment, the day, the real length, what it costs you, the cancellation rule and whether photographs are wanted — and you can ask a question without applying. You are never charged, you never hand over a card, and nothing is a condition of turning up except turning up.
There is nothing live at the moment.
New model calls appear all the time. Come back in a day or two.
How a model appointment happens, start to finish
Five steps, the same five whichever side you are on. Nothing here is a booking in a salon diary: the appointment lives in the model finder and both people are reminded from it.
Somebody writes what she needs
A treatment, a day, a start time, a real length, how many models, what it costs — free, the cost of materials, or a reduced model price — and whether photographs are wanted. The advert carries the town. It does not carry a street.
People apply, or ask first
Applying answers the advert's own questions and accepts its conditions and its cancellation rule as they stood that day. Asking a question is a separate door and commits you to nothing at all.
She reads them and accepts one
There is no automatic acceptance and no queue that decides for her. An advert that fills stays on the page saying there are no places left, rather than vanishing on everybody who applied.
The exact address goes out
Where the advert said the address waits for acceptance, this is the moment it is sent — to the person accepted and to nobody else. Both sides are reminded twenty-four hours before, by e-mail and by notification.
The appointment happens, and that is the end of it
Either side can cancel with a link, at any time, at no cost. Afterwards the poster records what happened. If photographs were taken and you agreed to them, that agreement is the one thing that outlasts the day — and you can withdraw it whenever you like.
What it costs, and who pays whom
There are three shapes an advert can take and there is no fourth hiding behind a message. No money passes through Slotora for a model appointment at all — there is no deposit, no card field, no cancellation fee in either direction, and no commission to us out of anything settled between the two of you.
Free
You pay nothing. The person posting it needs the practice, the portfolio piece or the empty hour more than she needs the money.
The cost of materials
You cover what is used up on you and nothing else — the gel, the adhesive, the colour. It is a number, it is on the advert, and it is settled between the two of you on the day.
A reduced model price
A real price, lower than the usual one, because a student takes longer and the result is not guaranteed. Where the advert gives the normal price as well, you can see the difference rather than take it on trust.
- Being paid to sit is not one of the shapes. Nothing in Slotora can pay money out to a member of the public, so an advert here cannot offer you a fee — and one that does is describing something the product cannot do.
- Nobody may ask you for a deposit or a booking fee before the day. Through this finder nobody can: there is no card and no deposit anywhere in the path.
The money, in full: what a model pays and what nobody may charge
What happens to the photographs
Photographs are a separate agreement and never a condition of the appointment. Where an advert wants them it says so before you apply, and it says where they would be used — a portfolio, social media, a website, teaching. You agree to those uses and not to photography in general, the wording you agreed to is kept as it stood, and you get your own link to withdraw it at any time afterwards. You also do not send a photograph of yourself in order to apply: there is no field for one.
What we check, and what we do not
This is the part most marketplaces leave vague. We do not check anybody's identity, qualification or insurance — not the poster's and not the model's. Being over eighteen is a declaration each person makes and we record, not a document anyone has seen. What the product does instead is make certain things impossible: no contact detail of either side is ever on a public page, the exact address waits for acceptance where the advert says so, no money can move, and either side can walk away. You can report an advert or a person and you can block someone, which stops them reaching you in both directions; we do not promise how quickly a report is read, because nobody is on a rota.
What models are wanted for
Seven kinds of work — nails, lashes, hair, brows, make-up, skin and massage. Tattooing and piercing are deliberately not here. The reason on the advert is worth reading, because it tells you what the hour is really for: practice, a portfolio piece, a new technique being learnt, a teaching day, an assessment, content, or simply an hour that was going to go empty. A practical day is a different afternoon from a portfolio shoot, and both are different from a cancellation being filled.
Where, and how the towns work
Every advert names its town, so you can see what is near you before you read anything else. The town pages below are built from adverts that are actually live, which means there is never a town page waiting for you with nothing on it. Slotora is in six languages and you can switch at the top of any page; the model finder is not tied to a salon, a country or a calendar.
Questions people actually ask
Every answer here is true of the product as it is built today, not of a plan.
Is it really free, or will something be added on the day?
An advert is one of three things and it says which before you apply: free, the cost of the materials used on you, or a reduced model price. Where it is a number, the number is on the advert. Nothing can be added through Slotora, because no money moves through Slotora for a model appointment — there is no deposit, no card field and no fee of any kind in the path.
Do I get paid for sitting as a model?
No. Paid model work is not part of this. Nothing in Slotora can pay money out to a member of the public, so an advert here cannot offer you a fee, and an advert that offers one is describing something the product cannot do. If you are looking for paid work, this is the wrong place, and we would rather say so now than let you find out on the day.
Do I pay anything through Slotora, or hand over card details?
Neither. An accepted model appointment is not a purchase and not a salon booking: nothing in the path can take a payment, so there is no deposit to lose, no cancellation fee in either direction and no card field to fill in. Anything that is settled — the cost of materials, say — is settled between the two of you on the day, and we take no part and no commission.
Will my telephone number or e-mail address be shown to anyone?
No. No contact detail of either side is ever on a page a stranger can open. Messages go through Slotora, so you can ask and answer without giving out a number, and you do not send a photograph of yourself in order to apply — there is no field for one.
When do I find out the exact address?
The advert always shows the town. Where it says the exact address waits for acceptance, it is sent when you are accepted and to nobody else, and it is recorded that it was sent. Somebody who has not been accepted never sees it, and neither does anybody browsing.
Do I have to be photographed? Can I change my mind afterwards?
Photographs are always a separate agreement and never a condition of the appointment. An advert that wants them says so before you apply and says where they would be used — portfolio, social media, a website, teaching — and you agree to those uses rather than to photography in general. The wording you agreed to is kept exactly as it stood, and you get your own link to withdraw the agreement at any time afterwards.
Do you check who is on the other side?
No, and we would rather say it plainly than imply otherwise. No identity document, qualification or insurance is checked, on either side. Being over eighteen is a declaration each person makes and we record, not something anyone has verified. What is enforced is different: contact details are never public, the exact address waits, no money can move, and you can report a person or an advert and block someone so they cannot reach you in either direction.
Can I ask something before I apply?
Yes, and it is a separate door on purpose. Applying is a commitment — it answers the advert's questions and accepts its conditions and cancellation rule as they stood that day. Asking is not: you can ask whether there is parking, or how long it really takes, without committing to the hour.
What happens if one of us has to cancel?
Either side can cancel, with a link, at any time, and it costs nobody anything — there is no fee in either direction, however late it is. Both sides are reminded twenty-four hours beforehand, by e-mail and by notification. The only thing a late cancellation costs is the other person's afternoon, which is the reason to give notice rather than a penalty.
Do I need a Slotora salon account for this?
No. The model finder has its own accounts, with nothing joining them to a salon — a model has no salon, and the person posting an advert is a person rather than a business here. An accepted appointment lives in the model finder and not in anybody's salon diary, which is why both sides are reminded from here.
What if the advert is already full?
It stays on the page and says there are no places left, and it offers you no way in — which is deliberate. Taking a full advert down the moment it filled would leave everybody who had applied looking at a page that no longer exists, and showing a way to apply under the words "no places left" would be worse still.
The long read for this market
Written for a tutor in Britain rather than translated from somewhere else: twelve students, one practical day, and what to fix in the brief before you start recruiting.
Twelve students, one practical day, and nobody has brought a model