Packing for tomorrow's house move is pretty much finished. I have managed to fit my life into 4 large suitcases, 4 plastic boxes, 1 art/portfolio carry case and a large supermarket re-usable carrier bag. Quite impressed with myself. Of course that doesn't include the lovely antique oak dressing table and a couple of other bits of furniture but they are being given up to eBay. I felt an odd sadness looking at the empty room. And I realised how much I'm going to miss my sweet one-eyed kitty ><.

Wasn't intending that to sound as melancholy as it did! I am really excited about living in London. I have loads of shoots booked already taking me right up until mid-august. Though it appears I'm going to be sat in Londonderry airport all day on my birthday (August 5th) so I am hereby postponing my birthday until the following week, when I'm on holiday to LA (yeah, again!).

As is probably obvious from the journal title, there is a (very) small picture of me in the August 09 issue of Vogue Magazine. It's an advertising feature on vintage stores and I'm pictured for What Katie Did. I thought it was kind of cool :) (scan).

A little more substantial is the shiny A3 poster special that comes with issue 64 of the German Gothic Magazine, where I'm featured along with several other posters with my best Robert Smith impression. For a minute it made me want to dye my hair black, then I remembered how unpleasantly allergic I am to black hair dye..



Photography by Rebecca Parkes
Clothing: Samantha Cole London
Hair: Robert Masciave
MUA: Graziella Vella

I'm moving house on Friday and still haven't finished packing. I've thrown out several bin bags of junk and have another one full of stuff for the charity shop. I didn't quite realise how much stuff I have that I never use/wear/look at. I think I'll be posting a bunch of clothing for sale over at niceboots later on! I did find an old piece of artwork that I thought I had lost though.

Just got sent this shiny new pic from Allan Amato. We've been meaning to shoot the Antiseptic Siamese corset for ages now and finally got round to it after the TG Birthday weekend at the end of May. Amazing hair of course courtesy of Robert Masciave :)

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Edit: Changed the pic to a different version. I prefer Battle-Twins XD

I'm off to Nottingham on Saturday/Sunday to shoot a new collection for Angels Carrying Savage Weapons. I realised it's been almost exactly a year since I modelled thier last collection and had one of those 'woah last year really went fast' moments. I've had a lot of those the past couple of months!

Then next week (Wednesday 15th in fact) I shall be making my way to Speaker's Corner to take part in the Second Annual British Invasion. Toy Soldiers Unite!

I've been back in the UK since Friday but for various reasons haven't quite been able to collect my thoughts together enough for a proper journal update. Friday afternoon I was at Metropolis catching up with Robert and getting my sun-frazzled hair sorted and colour retouched. On a whim I decided to get the colour changed and now have plum/burgundy hair with orange fringe. Then I realised I have a shoot this coming weekend that I'm supposed to be ginger for. doh. No time to change it back now though!

As promised, I've uploaded a bunch of photos from Portugal. They are almost entirely lacking in people as I was technically working everywhere I went so could only quickly snapshot the landscapes. It is safe to assume that I was posing nude in each location not long after the photos were taken though. haha.

( photos of portugal... )

As the journal subject suggests, I'm also moving to London this week (Oh I do like to have a hectic life, not beside the seaside but that's the way that was going in my head). Bea Sweet has kindly given me her room for the next 2.5 months while she is away. Still need to find a place of my own by the end of September though. Either that or dump all my possessions in storage and go backpacking around Europe, I'm just pondering the costs!

Lastly for now, I have a (very very small!) book review published in the new issue of Bizarre Magazine. They asked me to pick my favourite book and review it in 100 words. I picked the Dancers at the End of Time by Micheal Moorcock. I'm not sure I'd say it was my favourite book of all time (those who know me in 'real life' probably know about my aversion to picking favourites of anything) and it's actually been several years since I properly read it. But it made a big impression on me back when I first read it, I fell totally in love with many of the characters and their decadent names (Iron Orchid Jherek Carnelian, Lord Jagged, The Eternal Concubine). In fact my pencil-weilding alter ego Malady Charlotina is a play on the name of one of the book's many characters. Bet no-one knew that!

I totally went over 100 words and left it down to the editors to trim it, which thankfully they have done without making me wound like a nitwit!



edit: I just had a look on Amazon to see if I could get a copy to re-read and the product description is creepily similar to what I wrote! O_o

Finally got a spare minute or two for the updating of the livejournal!

I arrived in Portugal (Faro, The Algarve) last Thursday evening, something like 10.30pm I think. Portugal is in the same time zone as the UK, hurrah! For some reason it took me ages to get over the jetlag from LA. The photographers had booked a large hire car to drive us and all thier equipment to the villa but when we arrived at the airport the car hire guy couldn't find it and all he had were two comically small 2 door cars. But we managed to squeeze everything into them anyway and off we went to the villa, which is on a hill top near Paderne, overlooking the coast. There is also a 12th century ruined castle nearby (Linkage) which I can see from the balcony plus we have our own windmill, it's so pretty. I have taken lots of photos but they'll have to wait till I'm back in the UK.

The days have kinda merged into one as the week has gone on so I probably got the order of things wrong, but I've mostly been shooting art nudes in various locations around the Algarve, including sunsets, beaches (oh hilarious moment with a hang glider, photos will follow) and amazing rock formations. There is another model called Erica who is here working with me too, not sure where her online profile is yet though. But she had been in contact with Portuguese photographer Andre Brito, who is probably the top photographer in Portugal. I've followed his personal art nude work for quite a long time so it was rather cool to meet him when he came to the villa for a day to shoot. Though also a little intimidating as he usually shoot super toned/muscled/tanned fitness models, not quite my genre. lol. Can't wait to see the pics though, the few I saw on the camera looked wicked.

Even though it's amazingly pretty here, I'm pretty much ready to come home now, shooting 7 days in a row in 25-30 degrees and slapping on inches of sunscreen several times a day is getting really exhausting (not to mention my hair is a complete state and my skin is rebelling against it all too). We fly back tomorrow, late evening (11pm?). My first port of call is Metropolis Hairdressing to catch up with Robert and also beg him to fix my sundried hair mess.

I've been bitten so many times by mosquitoes I've given up counting. Apparently the word Mosquitoe is Portuguese for 'Little Fly'. Random fact of the day...

Anyhoo, only got 30 minutes break time left and I need to go slap on yet more of the Factor 50 before venturing outside. Journal-decorating image - I'm on the cover of the July/Summer Ball 09 flyer for Torture Garden. Whee! :)

Photo: Phantom Orchid
Clothing: Bibian Blue
Hair/Makeup: Angela Holthuis

Got back from LA Monday afternoon after a 24hr+ journey because of delays, though it feels like only a few hours ago that I was at LAX airport

This trip was almost entirely holiday only, though I did shoot with stevedietgoedde, venuswept and Taslimur. Had a great time, almost as good as last month's London extravaganza but sadly didn't last as long. Highlights included circus night at the Edison, dinner at The Stinking Rose (omg soo good), a day exploring rockpools at Laguna Beach, day trip to Six Flags (where I screamed in a most girlish manner), hanging out with friends and meeting new people, some good lazing around on the world's comfiest giant beanbag whilst reading, listening and watching some of my favourite films.

Haven't been up to much else really, I've had a bit of a break from shooting. But back into the swing of things from tomorrow and the rest of July. Tomorrow I'm flying to Portugal to shoot for a week! Rather looking forward to that as I've not been to Portugal before (going to Faro, right on the South coast, it's going to be crazy hot!).

In other news, Steve gave me a copy of his GoeddeConcerto CD while I was in LA too...

"Robert Waechter, concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra/Opera de Nice, France, and Steve Diet Goedde, internationally renowned erotic photographer, have released an audio/visual collaboration entitled GoeddeConcerto. The CD features 21 concertos inspired by 21 photographs by Steve Diet Goedde. Robert personally picked the photographs which inspired him and then composed and conducted each individual piece for the CD. The CD contains a 24-page booklet of the photographs to accompany the music."

I have 3 images in the CD booklet from our first ever shoot in September 2007. It really doesn't seem that long ago!



I just got a couple of the new images we shot last week too...

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Latex neck corset by BlackLikorish Latex
Hair/MUA: Cammy Ellis

We also shot a gorgeous new dress from HMS Latex, should have those pics soon too! :)

It's been so long since I updated that I'm starting to put it off because I've done too much stuff to recall and record all at once. I had a couple of weeks without much internet.

The whirlwind version goes something like...*

From my last update (TG Birthday weekend) to a weekend in Edinburgh shooting with The Yerburys to tourist fun in London for a week or so (Highgate cemetary, NHM, Tower of London, London Bridge and other things), ate a lot of toast, walked from Clapham Common to Baker Street, ended up doing makeup for a shoot where I wasn't modelling, ate more toast, 2 photoshoots in 1 day for Jane Doe Latex and Antiseptic Fashion, last minute decision to go to the German Fetish Ball, £130 taxi ride, missed a flight, caught a flight the next day instead and went straight from airport to fashion show for Blacklikorish Latex, GFB was fab, mini tour of Berlin in crazy hot weather and a morning at the Pergamon museum (which I thouroughly recommend). I was finally on my way home when I got a call to go a casting in Battersea so went straight back to London, came back home again for a day (friday) and then yesterday back again to get my roots done for a shoot today for Robert Masciave.

I have to be up at 5am tomorrow for a location shoot, then I'm off to LA where I will collapse from physical exhaustion.

Will fit some post-office, optician and bank errands in there somewhere.

I also have a bunch of widely varying new pics to post! Firstly, the colourful cake themed corsets shot for Maya Hansen. Photography by Marcelo Aquilio.

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*warning do not read the following text if easily offended by lack of punctuation and grammar

Got the train to Edinburgh yesterday to shoot with The Yerbury's for the weekend. Thought I would have plenty of time on the 4.5 hour journey from London to get lots of work done but the free wi-fi stopped working after only an hour. The free wi-fi is the only reason I asked to be booked onto a NXEC train. doh! I didn't even realise it's a bank holiday this weekend, the train was suitably packed. Thankfully I was in the enviable position of having a seat reservation next to a window and my ipod was fully charged so I listened to John Farnham - You're the Voice on repeat to block out the bored child noises.

Today was spent shooting nudes, lots of twisty body shapes and back bending on my part. I've seen several of them already and they're really cool, especially the high key ones shot with the ring flash (a bit different to the usual style we shoot nudes, they almost look like finely detailed graphite or silver drawings). Faye did my hair in her trademark finger waving too, I kept it in to go shopping after the shoot and got some odd looks from the staff at Morrisons. lol.

Tomorrow is a latex-in-the-centre-of-Edinburgh day which should be fun! If the weather improves. I've been in London the past few days (doing actual tourist stuff and no work at all, joy!!! :D) and the weather has been unusually warm, but as soon as I get to Scotland it turned to rain and chillyness (though on the train journey up the weather was pretty glorious. The NXEC train takes a coastal route and the views of the North Sea around Berwick and into Scotland were amazing, I've never seen it so clear and calm looking! Didn't have my camera on me though ><).

I found a couple more pics from the Roxy Contin show too, still haven't found any from the Antiseptic show though. Will keep looking :)

Pics by Marcus T.



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I really need to concentrate more when doing shows, I always automatically look into the cameras which makes me look down at the floor instead of straight ahead like I should!

Torture Garden birthday weekender over for another year! It was all pretty hectic, with me, ugly_diamond, Allan, Alyssa, Oli and re_miel all crashing at my sister's place. Special thanks must go to Oli, who cooked us all breakfast everyday (even at 5pm in the afternoon. lol) and Alyssa for the awesome homemade banana cakes! :)

So Friday was the fashion show for Roxy Contin at the Colesseum club in Vauxhall. I was wearing an amazing coat and headgear that was a little reminiscent of a pilots hat. Bea Sweet made us all look amazing and sparkly with her makeup skills :)


Clockwise from top left: Vima, Chrys Columbine, Tasha, Myself, Skin and lovely French girl who's name I didn't catch. Image from Tony Mitchell at The Fetishistas

After the show I mostly just chilled out watching people dance and chatting, saving my energy for Saturday! I smiled when David TG didn't realise I had a twin sister and kept looking back and forth between the two of us before coming to talk to me!

Saturday was the main event at SE1, and I was doing another fashion show for Antiseptic Fashion. I was horrendously late for rehearsals due to sleeping in, which is rather unlike me but thankfully it was a pretty simple catwalk and people were still starting hair and makeup when I got there . I didn't get asked for ID by anyone which was a bit weird, as I arrived after the security had opened and got searched before they would let me in.

The show wasn't until 2.15am so I had a wander around in my new outfit from Lady Lucie (it's so cool, can't wait to get pics!) and checked out a few rooms. I haven't found any photos from the night yet. For some reason I managed to get a bit more drunk than I was intending and don't quite remember doing the runway! How embarassing! I did sober up a little afterwards though and had a pretty fun evening, complete with dancing to swing and jazz music. And a comedy stumbling-in-my-8inch-shoes-and-falling-onto-some-poor-guy moment.

I'll post more pics when I find them!

First things first (although those who follow my twitter will already know what I think :p), the new Star Trek film is awesome! It's been such a long time since a film lived up to my hopes, especially Star Trek. I wont say much as I don't know what to say without spoiling the story somewhat, but I'd recommend it even if you're not a trekkie!

So that was Saturday, then on Sunday I made my way to London for the demonstration job for Tigi on Monday morning. The agency told us we had to get the 9am train to Rugby and it would cost £28 but when I turned up at Euston I was told it would be £60 because it was peak travel. Which kinda sucked as I didn't have £60. But then I went to the ticket office (happened to be holding my railcard) to ask why the agency had told me £28, and was told because I had presented my railcard and it was a Virgin train I could have an off-peak railcard fare for £22 O_o So got to Rugby and then taxi to the venue, arriving about 10.30am and we were told the clients wouldn't be arriving for another hour. So I drank lots of coffee and took some photos. The event was being held at Kilworth House Hotel, it was SO pretty!

( some photos!! )


And my new hair! They just added a purple section and brightened the copper a lot in the end. Didn't get a cut as I might be doing another shoot for them soon so need to have some hair to cut off! lol.

Today I had plans to go see the staff at Bizarre Magazine to discuss an upcoming shoot but got a phone call from a friend this morning asking if I could model for Hermes Pittakos' photoshoot as the model hadn't turned up. It was his exam on his makeup course so that was particularly rubbish of the model :( So I told Dave at Bizarre I'd be coming around 4pm instead as the exam shoot was going to be finished at 3pm.

Wasn't quite expecting that the shoot would involve me being covered in black pigment all over neck, shoulders and much of my face! Took rather a lot longer to remove than I was expecting (and the shoot totally over ran because the photographer deleted the previous students images and had to do them again before us!).


I was a half-robot with wig-helmet :)

So I ended up at Bizarre towers about 2 hours later than I was supposed to, still half covered in blackness and looking a bit of a state! They were all really cool though. We had a bit of a natter about sci-fi shows and other fab stuff, it was good. Dave also gave me some free porn and a copy of the Bizarre Girls book full of pretty pictures of fetish girls. Win!

Back at goth_amaltheas now, showered and ready for bed. The rest of the week in probably going to be quite hectix as people start arriving for the TG weekend!

Hmm spoke too soon, shoot tomorrow has been postponed until next month. But on the plus side this means I can go and see the new Star Trek film in the morning! *excited*

Just had another email from the booking agent about the hair job on Monday too, I get to pick whatever colour/combination of colours I want, how cool is that! Need to have a think what I want. Any suggestions?

To add to today's excitement, I've been booked to shoot for a week in Faro (Portugal) at the end of June! I've never been to Portugal before, I'm so looking forward to it. I think it's going to be really hot!

Also, I'm allowed to post the behind-the-scenes video from my shoot for Maya Hansen now. Maya is the blonde lady (I didn't realise that she was the model in many of her photos for a while - talented designer and gorgeous!) and the black kitty is called Dita :) Photos coming soon!

Rawr! Day off today. Spending some time going through my diary and organising the month in my head. April was kinda slow modelling-wise but May seems to be picking up again.

I'm shooting tomorrow in Wolverhampton, fashion and latex stuff I think with photographer John Barone. Hopefully I'll be doing some of my own fashion styling, I have a couple of random ideas I want to try out (involving animal print spandex :)).

On Monday I've been booked for a hair job in Rugby for Browns Hairdressing - I think it's a presentation/catwalk thing in association with Tigi but I've no idea what they're going to do with my hair yet! But it's cut & colour job so I shall have new hair just in time for the TG Birthday weekend, well timed! :)

So I'll be in London from Monday onwards, meeting Allan and Alyssa on Thursday when they fly in from LA as we're all staying at my sister's place for the TG weekend. I think it's going to be a rather busy house as a few of my sister's friends are staying over too! On the Friday ball I'm doing a fashion show for Roxy Contin and the Saturday ball another show for Antiseptic Fashion (LA invasion!!!). I think I'm doing a shoot or two while everyone from LA is in London too but the details are still to be sorted!

Then after the TG weekend is over with I have a few days break then up to Edinburgh for 2 days shooting with The Yerbury's which should be great (the first day latex goodies from HMS Latex and the second day some classic nudes).

And quite a few new pics today! Seems to be a week for darker images rather than the colour-fest I've been having this year!
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1. Something a bit different to the urban/punky stuff I usually do for Drac In a Box clothing. My inner goth is totally in love with this outfit, the blouse especially. And anyone looking for an affordable corset - this and the overbust that I also shot (see the DIAB site) are incredibly comfy! Shot by rootofsilence Hair/MUA: Me	2. The second outfit I modelled from the new Lacing Lilith collection (see my previous journal entry HERE for the first one). I really like this one, there's something odd and creepy about the pose and my expression that is cool. Photography: rootofsilence Hair: Arno @ Metropolis MUA: Kirka Verinen
3. A pretty new pic for Lady Lucie Latex & Corsets. Photo by rootofsilence Hair (wig)/MUA: Me	4. Second outfit for VECONA (first one was the 'Sky Pirate' here. Photo and manipulation by Matt Frederick Hair/MUA: Amelia Ebanks

On Tuesday I modelled for another Yerbury Workshop at the beautiful Maunsel House about 10 minutes drive from my house. The last workshop we did there was back in February (linky) when the grounds were covered in snow, so we mostly stayed indoors but this time I spent the majority of the day outdoors.

Arrived around 9am and got ready with Lozie who was also modelling. She introduced me to Vaseline Cocoa Butter body oil which I absolutely have to get some of, it makes a really nice delicate sheen on the skin.

The morning was spent with Trevor giving a talk and then demonstrating how they work, setting up different shots with Lozie and I while the delegates listened and took a few of thier own shots.

Then break for lunch, they provide the most yummy food at Maunsel House! Home-made chicken and mushroom pie with many vegetables and then apple pie and custard for desert. I was pretty hungry and managed two helpings of main course and also polished off desert (and this was after eating plenty of coconut biscuits on the coffee breaks earlier! I think modelling naked makes me more hungry than usual!). I love the room that lunch is served in at Maunsel too, it's like a small bar with stone walls all totally covered in antique weapons and taxidermy mounts. I need to take some photos if I'm there again sometime!

After lunch the delegates split into two groups (one indoor group with Trevor and one outdoor group with Faye) and got to set up thier own shots and try out what they had learned in the morning. I modelled for both outdoor groups, really enjoying the mild weather. The wind was slightly chilly but I totally forget about that once I get into posing. Managed to get a little more scraped than I intended by doing odd poses on my shoulders on the hard groud (but it looked cool, this is the important thing!) and went home feeling tired but satisfied that I had done a good job. Muscles aching slightly the next day, but in that good way that means I wored hard!

There are several of Trevor ad Faye's images already up on their blog, I think this one is my favourite of me so far :)

I got back from my mini-holiday in Madrid on Sunday evening, tired and bleary-eyed but had a wonderful time.

Quick bit of background info, as I'm not sure I blogged about it at the time, but a month or so ago I won 4 free flights to Madrid with Easyjet, through some myspace promotion ("add the easyjet profile and you will be entered into our competition" type thing). This was rather perfect timing as Maya Hansen is based in Madrid and wanted me to shoot some of her new corset collection (which is totally wonderful - more on that very soon!).

Girls-only holiday with queen_tea, catherineday and ruby_redxxx followed, with one day shooting corsets and the rest doing fun touristy things, eating lots and taking many photos.

I thought I'd recount my trip in step-by-step photos so I don't forget anything! I took something like 150 photos so this make take a little time...

( many holiday photos under the cut! )

Phew! That took way longer than I was expecting!

Yesterday saw me make a very quick trip to London/Kingston to get my roots touched up before going to Madrid for a few days with catherineday, ruby_redxxx and queen_tea. Have just finished packing and will be heading off to the airport in the next couple of hours. Don't think I've forgotten anything, just need to grab some batteries for my camera!

I purposefully kept most of my time in Madrid free to do fun touristy things so I'll be shooting for Maya Hansen on Friday and that's it for work stuff. She sent me previews of the outfits I'll be modelling yesterday and they look really stunning! They are based on the colours of cupcakes and creamcakes, all decadent and colourful! I went and bought a bunch of matching accessories and hair things, I'm so bad when it comes to buying stuff for shoots when I'm really into the theme.

Not much else to write about for now but I will share more of the pics I just got from my shoot with Colin Ackerman. I totally love them! It's so nice every now and then to get to dress up in my own (non latex) wardrobe and style myself exactly how I want to!



( a few more under here... )

I might be shooting with Colin again next month too, if he lets me do my own styling again I may have to get out all the spandex animal print leggings I've been hoarding while they're 'in fashion' and easy to get hold of!

Yesterday I had what I think (if my rather bad memory serves correctly) my first outdoor location art nude shoot this year, somewhere around the border of Exmoor with photographer Gary Plumley. The weather was not being favourable and we spent a lot of time waiting for rain showers to pass! It was also incredibly windy which made it very very cold. We did manage to get some lovely pics done though, when the wind dropped and the sun came out from behind the clouds it was actually very pleasant!

We stopped for lunch (home made beefburger, chips, lots of hot coffee!) in a really nice rural pub that I didn't catch the name of. My heart kinda sank when looking out of the window it started hail-stoning out of nowhere but by the time we'd finished our coffee the sun was shining. Gotta love the random weather we have in the south west! After lunch we did some shots in a small wooded area surrounding some farmland, where I found a skull lying among the trees. I brought it home with me and only when I got home did the fattest spider I've ever seen crawl out of it and make me squeal like a girl. haha. The skull is cool though, haven't took any pics yet but I'm trying to decide if it is a sheep or a deer. I'd like it to be a lady deer but it's probably a sheep!

I also got a couple of pics from the shoot on friday with Colin Ackerman (the one I mentioned in my last post where the police woman turned up). I'm quite pleased with my styling efforts in these! :)


Post-apocalyptic rainbow brite

( couple more different ones... )

Off to bed now, off to London tomorrow briefly to get my roots done before flying to Madrid on Wednesday! Wheee!

This week has been fairly quiet, today was the only shoot I had booked and I was fairly enthusiastic about it after a weeks rest. It was quirky fashion at my favourite abandoned building location, and the photographer (Colin Ackerman) pretty much let me do all my own styling and stuff which was fun. I managed to shoot my gold sequin covered leggings for the first time, with leopard-print braces and a neck ruff :D And some other very colourful stuff.

The 3rd outfit was latex trousers and a suit jacket with very high heels. Unfortunately just as we'd finished the 3rd outfit we were approached by a community support police officer who told us she had recieved reports of suspicious activity (specifically 'middle aged man with a suitcase leading a young teenage girl' O_o). Both myself and the photographer were asked to fill out stop and search forms and then we had to leave which was pretty frustrating, but at least we had managed to do a full 3 outfits (we had planned 4) and the pics looked pretty cool.

I had to LOL though when I got back to Colin's car and realised I'd left my clothes and underwear in full view on the front seat after I'd changed into the 3rd outfit. God knows what the poor police lady must have thought at first. She was very nice about the whole thing when she actually spoke to us though. I'm glad she hadn't found us while we were shooting the first outfit though when all I had on my top half was the braces!

Aside from that, I've been waiting all week to post these lovely new pics by iberianblackart that we shot for FairyGothMother/Lulu & Lush. Morgana did all my hair and makeup too! I'm sure I already mentioned it but FairyGothMother were one of the first ever clothing companies I modelled for and it was really cool to model for them again. So many pretty things!

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(Lots more here too!) :)

After a much needed lazy Saturday, yesterday I ventured out to my favourite local derelict location to shoot some new stuff for the Drac In a Box Clothing catalogue with rootofsilence. Drac In a Box shoots are always fun cos I get to play dress up in various different "gothic/alt/punky" etc styles :)

We had only just started when a couple of chavs (yeah I hate that word but really they fitted it, by appearance anyway) turned up. I heard one of them on the phone to their friends telling them to come and take a look at the location. Thankfully they actually weren't agressive or anything and just seemed to want to look around the derelict buildings with thier friends. But I still felt a bit uncomfortable for some reason (instinctive reaction from my earlier years living on a council estate in Newcastle perhaps!).

But we continued shooting and eventually they left. The place is big enough anyway that it was pretty easy to move to a different area out of the way. Shooting was pretty difficult as it was a gloriously sunny day, so bright it was hard to keep my eyes open. But the bright light is quite good for showing the detail on black clothes! Unfortunately, we had only shot half of the outfits when the camera lens jammed almost shut so we had to abandon the shoot. Should be able to get the rest done next week though. Maybe it's not so bad as it gives me a chance to think up some different styling and maybe another location to make them a little different.

But anyway, here's some examples for now. Already up on the Drac In a Box website :)

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Doing these shoots always makes me wanna go back to dressing all gothic. Even though I'm more of a bright/colourful/80s/spandex devotee nowadays, I don't think I'll ever stop being a goth inside. lol.

In other news, April has pretty much been a "where did all the time go" sort of month. I'm flying to Madrid with catherineday, queen_tea and ruby_redxxx in less than 2 weeks. I won a competition for 4 free flights with Easyjet a little while ago. We're going to have a nice girly holiday :) I did cave in and book one shoot while I'm there (for Maya Hansen Corsets, impossible to say no!) but the rest of the time will be all touristy fun and no work. Though of course I'll still take some pics :)

Photo dump alert!!

( my easter weekend in pictures )

There were loads of people taking pics and video-ing the actual show, so should have some of those to post soon :)

Still hunting for a way to get Essen pics off my camera and onto the interweb! But since my last post I did the shoot for Fairygothmother/Lulu & Lush on wednesday afternoon. There were loads of beautiful dresses, corsets and bits of lingerie waiting for me to model. I thought it was going to take ages but we actually managed to get through everything in only 4 hours. As well as shooting, iberianblackart also did my hair and makeup, I had finger waves in my hair and the makeup was very bright blue (I kept it all on for the train back to London afterwards, it was so nice I couldn't bare to take it off even though I probably looked a bit silly in my comfy travelling clothes!).

I stayed in London in the evening so I could get my roots done yesterday. goth_amalthea came with me and we drank cappucino and did a little window shopping before I caught the train home in the evening. So today is my first day off, and my first day home in 9 days. I think I'm pretty much caught up on emails and stuff now. Had some really exciting proposals waiting for me when I got back. I'll be shooting a new collection for Angels Carrying Savage Weapons corsetry in a couple of months, will be going to LA for several cool shoots pretty soon and I've also been contacted by a new makeup brand and will be shooting some of thier products quite soon! They do nice crazy bright colours, the best kind :)

And, last but not least, a whole host of new pics shot for Lady Lucie Latex & Corsets. I had so much fun shooting these! The green ones in particular amuse me, for reasons known only to a few people :p You can kinda see my new blonde bits too.

Photography by rootofsilence
Hair 'n makeup by me



( lots more PORN face )

And there's still more to come!

I arrived back in London last night after getting the coach from Paris. The fashion show for hurtmeso went really well, the whole weekend was pretty cool! I have a lot of fun photos and backstage pics to post but I haven't got anything to get the images off my camera at the moment (won't be home until tomorrow). I guess I'll write a proper account of the weekend once I post those photos :)

Just sitting in the internet cafe opposite goth_amaltheas house catching up on various emails and stuff. I got a copy of the new issue of Bizarre Magazine last night, my interview thing looks pretty good! I'm heading up the feature on the "world's hottest alt models" (also featured are Scar13, Maureen Van Mortis, Koneko and KandyK). I was pleasantly surprised that they were very faithful to what I actually said instead of editing quotes and making me sound moronic like other interviews I've done *cough* Front Magazine *cough* lol.




Then I'm off to Colchester this afternoon to shoot some lovely corsets with iberianblackart for Fairy Goth Mother. Fairygothmother was the first ever clothing company that I modelled for (and the first time I ever wore latex!), I'm really excited to be shooting for them again after so long :)