Ocean Model Group is a Chicago's premier promotional staffing and modeling agency servicing models for trade shows, promotional models, product models, events & club models

For our event and promotional models, it’s important to understand where you fit into a successful promotional campaign. Your job is to represent a company’s brand message and interact with their consumer in the way that they mandate. To better do your job, take a look at the general ways to create a successful campaign [...]

Although Halloween can often be a day to dress unseasonally and uninhibitedly, we expect more from our models… and our modeling agency employees! Don’t take the easy route and dress like a sexy nurse, cop, construction worker or other municipal servant. Don’t try to sexify costumes that otherwise would not be sexy, like sexy lumberjack [...]

It’s days away from Halloween, and we’re sure our Chicago models are looking for costumes, just like we still are at our modeling agency! Just like everyone else, though, we don’t have a fortune to shell out on fancy costumes. Luckily, our tradeshow models are great at working with what their given, getting creative and [...]

As the temperatures begin to drop here in Chicago, and we feel that infamous wind start whipping, it’s finally time to break out your best beauty secrets for winter’s cold weather. This Chicago modeling agency wants its models to protect their skin and hair from the chapping and static that winter can bring. Here are [...]

The newly released book by the Olsen twins, Influence, is a must-read for our Chicago models. The publication contains revealing interviews with some of fashion and art’s major power players like John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Louboutin, Terry Richardson, Richard Prince and many others, as well as insight on the twins themselves.

Whether you are showing up to a tradeshow, a promotional event or a casting, we expect our Chicago models to be dressed in appropriate attire. If you have ever watched America’s Next Top Model, you know that Tyra is always getting after those girls about what they wear to castings, go-sees and judging. Simple, modest [...]

Models have to spend a decent amount of time maintaining their appearance– and thank goodness they do, because they come up with great tips for the rest of us! For our promotional models and for women everywhere, models at Cosmo Girl! offer advice on breakouts and workouts, and words to live by.

From Yigal Azrouel to Alexander Wang, designers are pairing their fall designs with dark eyes. Smokey or sharp, matte or shiny, daytime or evening, the dark eye is a must-have makeup skill for any woman. Our promotional models especially need to understand how to create and maintain the shadowy trend– we’re sure you’ll be running [...]

Our promotional models at Ocean are gorgeous in their own right, but every woman sometimes needs a little trickery to solve the simplest beauty issues. We all know the old vaseline-on-the-teeth tip used by beauty queens to ensure a smooth and shiny smile, but here are a few others to assist you with various slimming, [...]

All Chicago modeling agencies and fashion industry companies must be thrilled to hear this: Chicago Fashion Focus ended last night to a record crowd. According to Women’s Wear Daily, people are actually starting to take Chicago seriously as a fashion oriented city.