Femme Fatale

Another shoot with the wonderful Jeff Cantrell! I made this particular dress with some assistance from my mother (we made three, in red, white, and blue respectively, for a 4th of July parade!). As always, hair and makeup and edits by me, photographed by Jeff.

Some of my favorite photos from this shoot are NSFW, depending on where you work (lingerie, some implied topless, no total nudity), so they're not on the main blog but you can see them here.

Dia de los Muertos 2013

Another shoot with Jeff Cantrell, done on Dia de los Muertos, which is also when we did the Japanese Yukata photoshoot.

I made the skirt and the shirt, but not the corset that's over the shirt. I made almost all of the hairpieces that are in my hair, which is to say I glued the birds and flowers to barrettes. Makeup by me. Photos by Jeff. Edits by me.

I Went Down In The River To Pray

Another favorite photoshoot I've ever done. Photographed by Jeff Cantrell. Edited by me.
I made the hair wreath, I don't know where I got the green dress, and the fabric is just fabric.

I'm leaving out a lot of my favorites because they're nude and this blog is supposed to be PG-13 I think. To be fair, while they are nude, they are artistic nude and not really sexual at all, at least no more sexual than Ancient Greek statuary, and it kind of upsets me that we live in a world where I would choose not to post them here.

Maybe I'll link to them.

Maybe I will post them. We'll see what I feel like in ten minutes.

I'm linking to them. If you work in a place where artistic nudity is not appreciated, these are NSFW.

Yukata Second to Look at This?

You have to really try to come up with a pun that bad.

This is one of my favorite photoshoots I've ever done. The yukata and obi I picked up on Miyajima during my summer studies in Japan, I made the headband (you seen it around here before), and the geta and parasol were purchased in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, fondly known by some as Japangeles. Hair and makeup by me (as always), photographed by Jeff Cantrell.

As you can see, I've grown my eyebrow back. It was kind of an accident. I kind of want to shave it again, but I have an important photoshoot I'm waiting on first, and then I'm doing it. Probably.

That amazing lipgloss is Lime Crime's Carousel Gloss in Candy Apple Red or whatever their bright red is called. It might have been over something, not sure. Don't think so, though. Maybe a liner.

Comics!

The outfit for this photoshoot was an exact recreation of an outfit I wore a few days before and didn't get a chance to take pictures of, so I brought it to this shoot. These two photos are by Mike Zapata.

Oh, hey, so I don't actually read comic books and I'm afraid these were the photographer's, and only for the photo, but I do read quite a lot of webcomics! See, they're cheaper is the thing. :\

In case you were wondering, or you were looking for something else to read in your spare time, here are my favorites:

• Questionable Content
• Happle Tea
• Oglaf (NSFW)
• Girls With Slingshots
• Chester 5000XYV (NSFW)

Love,

Lovely Wednesday

I'M LATE!!

Sorry, we're on an Alice binge. I'm getting it out of my system.

This is the fourth and final set from the Alice shoot I did with Liam of Blackrose Photography a couple months back that I never showed you. You've seen Alice, the Hatter, and the Queen, but now you get to see the White Rabbit.

I promise, my next blog post will be the last Alice-related one in a while. It's just going to be a couple photos I took of a friend Saturday morning with some mushrooms. I couldn't help myself. 

Anyhow, I'm late for a very important date, so I'ma begone.

<3 Lovely

How Do You Get To Wonderland?

I said I'd do a compilation post of outfits I have pictures of that were clearly in some way inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Without further ado, here it is.

This one is the most recent. It's from my last post, from August 29th, 2012.

These two are from the summer of 2009. Alice was a conscious goal here. I wish the photos were better, but they're not. They were taken at Broughton Castle in England, on a field trip from my time studying at Oxford. I still own and wear the light pink satin bow headband and the corduroy miniskirt. The coat was my favorite, but has now faded beyond recognition, and I have no idea what happened to the shirt. That's STILL my favorite purse, although it's almost dead now. I wore enamel clock earrings and blue and gold eyeshadow with my white tights and mary-janes, because I wanted to get as close to Alice as I could without wearing a costume.

Man, I even still had braces. This photo was also pre-jaw surgery, in case you're wondering what looks so different. The jaw surgery actually took place about a month after this photo was taken.

Here comes the blue again! I was mostly just feeling very little girlish, but I think the Aliceness is evident here.

This is Alice all the way for me. Taken my senior year of high school (I'd guess about February of 2010?), and I was wearing a Victorianesque corset underneath to help me feel in character. You can probably tell. The dress and bolero are vintage, and belong to my mother. Love my off-white tights and Victorianesque boots.

It's mostly the line here that is Alice, but again the blue and the headband seem relevant. You can't see here, but I was also wearing blue tights as well as mary-janes.

Mushroom nails! Need I say more? This is one of the first nail art designs I ever did, certainly in the first five sets.

The next four photos are from a photoshoot I did with Liam Roisendubh of Blackrose Photography: Alice, the Hatter, the Queen, and the Rabbit.

 

 

These two are from senior year of high school. 

Look, I'm even falling down the rabbit hole! That was the idea, anyway.

Also senior year of high school:

This is what I wore to the midnight showing of Tim Burton's Alice, and I believe I also wore most of this ensemble to an Alice-themed Rocky Horror. My mother made this for her sister for a set of Alice Halloween costumes.

This was taken at my 16th birthday party, all Alice-themed. 

AND That's all she wrote.

<3LW