Tomika Skanes

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Tomika Skanes (born on August 21, 1978 in Columbus, GA), is an established professional model/actress of African American and Korean American heritage. Her mother is full Korean and her father is African American. Her parents met while her father was stationed in Seoul, Korea. Tomika is the only girl and a middle child, she has two brothers, Jimmy Skanes (older) and Donald Skanes, JR (younger). After traveling to various military bases all over the world, her family finally settled in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tomika started her modeling career at age 22 when she was spotted at a basketball game, and has appeared in various videos for artists such as Ginuwine, Metallica, Jagged Edge, India.Arie, Ludacris, and OutKast.

Like Tila Tequila, Francine Dee, and others, Tomika has also modeled in the Import Racing Scene.

From the music video scene, Tomika was able to book jobs related to the music industry that include CD covers for OutKast's "Stankonia" CD cover 2002, the cover for Big Boi's 2003 CD "Speaker Boxx" and promotional material for 112's 2003 CD.

Tomika has done consistent print work, covers and editorial/pictorial spreads in many urban mainstream magazines such as Black Men mag, SSX, KING mag, XXL magazine and Smooth Magazine.

Her television work includes appearances in Beauty Shop the movie (starring Queen Latifah), a Boost Mobile Commercial (braiding Ludacris's hair), as one of the BET's Comic View models, etc.

You may have recognized and seen Tomika featured in major hair magazines such as Black Hair Sophisticates, Style Q, Metrostyles, Salon Profiles, Montage Magazine, etc.

Tomika studied at Georgia State University, where her major was Computer Science.

Currently, she resides in Atlanta where she designs websites for a living and owns a Modeling agency of her own called Industry Factor (http://www.IndustryFactor.com).