A Lanarkshire mannequin is now the face of Primark.
Kirsty Shearer has travelled internationally and modelled for quite a few high manufacturers since profitable a contest in 2018.
Now the 22-year-old from Rutherglen might be seen within the retail large's shops throughout the nation.
Kirsty informed our sister paper the Day by day File : "I appear to have the look advertisers go for, particularly now I've minimize my hair brief.
"At 5ft 6in, I am too brief to be a catwalk mannequin however commercially I seem like precisely what manufacturers like.
"Seeing my face throughout posters and pillars at Primark needs to be one of many highlights. My mum has been going around the shops and sending me images, as have my London pals. It is all very surreal."
Kirsty, a former Stonelaw Excessive pupil, beat greater than 2,000 rivals to win the inaugural #Scoutmescotland competitors, ran by the Day by day File, in 2018 and has since modelled all around the globe.
She added: "I've had probably the most unbelievable few years since profitable a contest I had no intention of coming into. I've modelled for Gucci within the German model of GQ journal and starred in a marketing campaign for Barbour footwear.
"It has been loopy and I've cherished each minute. I've gone from a shy, nervous schoolgirl to somebody who has no qualms about travelling alone all around the world, assembly stylists and performing in entrance of the digicam.
"I am signed to businesses in Glasgow, London, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Japan, Stockholm and Korea, which simply blows my thoughts. I've executed shoots in some very unique locations and met some unbelievable folks."
When Covid struck in 2020, the modelling business shut down for practically 18 months, which prompted her to take up a college diploma in trend branding at Glasgow Caledonian College.
She is now in her third yr on the course.
She added: "In 2019 my modelling profession was flying after which at first of 2020 there was no work so I made a decision to get a level.
"Modelling ignited my ardour for sustainable trend and once I full my research I am hoping to have a twin profession in modelling and trend. I've began an internship with designer Hayley McSporran and I have been volunteering with Sustainable Vogue Scotland.
"In the mean time I'm becoming modelling jobs round my research however once I end I plan to take a niche yr to mannequin and, if doable, head to the States."
Ross Younger, of Kirsty's mom company Colors, mentioned: "Good, lovely and with the sort of cool issue you simply cannot manufacture, Kirsty's worldwide modelling profession goes from power to power."
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