It’s exactly one week until the start of NYFW SS13 and things are already starting to pick up as far as prep.

Of course, if you're a model, that prep work doesn't include finalizing runway samples, concepting beauty looks, planning your outfit changes, or organizing show invitations. It means making sure you look your absolute glowy best. Take familiar face and runway favorite Alana Zimmer, who, along with her pals Hanne Gaby Odiele and Jacquelyn Jablonski, jetted off to Hawaii last week to squeeze in some beach time and general r&r before the whirlwind of fashion month(s).

Alana sent us the above vacation snaps mid-way through the trip, with a caption:

“Hanne squeezed some lemons into my hair in hopes of highlights in Maui [1], and here’s Jacquelyn and I hiking in the volcano park around the Halema’uma’u crater [2].”

We say: Kudos to models who, weeks before walking in a zillion shows, are having a little fun with their own hair color. It's Sun-In done the way Mama Nature intended.

Stay tuned for part two of Alana's Hawaiian travel diary....