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2025

Stand back!! I'm having a rock star moment.

Heh. 

Yeah, I'm Mel. Mel Kobayashi - like Bond, James Bond, but not. 

I'm a Roadrunner Tasmanian Devil in Vancouver, Canada. I'm also 62 right now and just ramping up. For what? For more modeling, what a blast, and doing commercials, also a blast, with awesome food services that include hot food choices. 



Modeling is hard, hard work. I say that partly seriously, partly not. I started doing this in my mid-50s. My biggest challenge is to keep my eyes open when I smile, but not too open or I look like I've just spotted the last chocolate on a buffet table or been bitten by a zombie. Which are also lewks. 

I don't know how to walk, as in catwalk. Sure, I walk, the Mel Walk (read about it HERE), and I am absolutely game to do that for ANY big brand. Have your people contact my people - Lizbell Agency and Pamela Wise. (I can't believe I have people. Hahaha.) I could do a modelly walk with practice. My hybrid Zoolander face is ready, although pursing my lips and/or pouting requires SERIOUS LIGHTING, acting and makeup. 




I've been flashed on screens around the world. For whole seconds at a time! I was once in a trailer at movie theatres across Canada (I missed it) and on Toronto's biggest billboard (missed that too, dang!!). If the real Mel is impressive, imagine me a kabillion-meters high. Uh, no, don't. And I've been in digital and print stuff. There one minute, gone the next. 

I am also an artist - which I still find so weird to say about myself. What I mean is I see the world through my own Mel lens and translate that vision into what I wear, photos, videos, paintings and sketches, and what I write. 



I play wherever I find space to play. Lately, I've moved back into "the box." That place "outside the box" is super-duper crowded with people wandering around power-thinking. So I've crept back in there - it's so empty it echos. I'm going to pull down the lid, lock the door and redecorate. It's mine now. 
 


I sell my visual art pieces once in a while, have had shows, but mostly I post my work on Instagram. I take my own photos/videos unless I'm hanging out with friends and we do a collab, or if I do a "creative" collab with other photographers, makeup/hair artists and stylists. Each partnership is an exciting ride.

Finally, I am into encouraging people of all ages to dig deep and amplify their core rock star vibe. It's not really a rock star or necessarily bright colours; it's just that BAM!!, that energy that makes you tingle inside. That's rock star. 

My latest adventures took off intensively my early/mid 50s, so I know it's never too late to free ourselves. When you're new to it, it starts with the BRAIN, intention, and leeches out from there. Then the emotion takes over, the tingle, and it's time to strap ourselves in. Hold on.

Thanks for dropping by!! 

Happy trails!
Mel


18 comments:

  1. Melanie I so enjoy your site...it is my artistic fix to visit...and then you throw fashion in the mix...the two together...bliss.

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  2. Tamera, such kind words from a fashion maven. Your spreads are amazing. Thank you for that kind remark!

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  3. Hi Melanie! I am happy to discover your blog by chance! It's really inspiring and beautifully written.
    Cheers
    Hang

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  4. Lady. You Rock. Can't wait to read more.

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  5. Just found your blog today! Love your photos!!

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  6. Found your blog today and Love it! Adore the idea of the yellow skirt freak show. Will keep on following on the wonderful idea and your blog!

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  7. Waking up to opportunities -- that's what I'm noticing more and more as I move along through the decades. Its the confidence of age and I'm finding it wonderfully exciting!

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  8. Hello Melanie, I just discovered your site. I LOVE your unapologetic and fun loving attitude!!! If you ever visit Montreal - I would like to invite you for coffee. You are so INTERESTING!

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  9. I would like to use some of your photos in my blog -is ot possible ? Off course, if you agree. Your stylizations are amazing, Greetings

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  10. Melanie. I just happened upon your blog by chance. Rarely has anything made me laugh out loud in utter delight. Thank you for sharing your humour and style. I will certainly become a regular here!

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  11. First time visitor to your site via 40plusstyle. You are a delight. Fearless and I love it. Thanks and I'll be back again.

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  12. Oh, I love to see what you are up to, each time I stop by to visit your site. Please read this in an affectionate tone, as it is truly meant that way. "Honey, you are not put together right." In the southern United States, we reserve that high accolade for those who are courageous enough to expose their true selves to the world, and not hide behind either a mountain of big hair or the ubiquitous blue blazer and khaki trousers.

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  13. I am stealing that! "Perfection comes in many levels of quality" hahahahahahaha! Of course I'll put your name beside it.

    bisous
    Suzanne

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  14. Yes, this reflects the Melanie of 2016 - a little more wackadaisical and an possessor of CARDS.

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  15. I'm not sure how your blog has eluded me for so long, but I'm oh-so-happy I stumbled upon it. #goals in every way. Kudos!

    Liz
    www.stylishdisaster.com

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  16. This is so much fun to follow your evolution from your first "about me" post to this more recent one. You've got the chops and the style to be where you are, and it is a thing I admire greatly. Your eloquence is clearly spelled out in what you wear, how you turn a phrase, and your lively self-effacing humor that gives your blog it's sizzle!

    As I am solidly leaving my 50's, I can relate to how you grew up. I am a midwestern girl who knew at age 8 that I would live and thrive in NYC.

    I also love your quote about perfection ! TIpping my beret to you.
    Elle @

    http://www.theellediaries.com/

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  17. Love it, love it, love it. That's me. Edgy, full of colour showing how it can be done. Keep on rocking !!

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