So today I spent pretty much all day sorting out and organizing many of my outfits. Quite a few of these used to live in hat boxes deep in a closet, out if sight and out of mind, and since bits of outfits were getting separated from other bits, it was turning into a nightmare if I needed to find an outfit for some reason. I actually spent about an hour trying to find one crucial piece to a costume (i needed it for the strip club), which inexplicably was nowhere near the rest of the bits.
As you can see, drawers with dividers, making narrow cubbies the perfect size for corsets.
Now, you ask, what does this have to do with anything? In fact, a few of you are all peeved that I haven’t had a new shoot in a while, and oh, it’s just Tara wasting her time sorting shit out. Actually, this is very important because it’s been a while since I’ve been this organized, and organization leads to results!
In the process of organizing, I did find a few outfits I had nearly forgotten about that are begging for new shoots with them. Like, for example, my old “Birthday girl” pink on pin satin corset, with cuffs and tails. But it takes some experimenting so I spent some time playing dress up and came with a few possibilities..
And as you can see I was if course, enjoying myself too. And the reason I’m all done up is that I was also testing out some new makeup techniques. (I doubled up some already doubled up lashes, tried something different with my lips…). Sometimes you need to do a dry run just to see how all the bits are going to fall into place.
I haven’t quite decided on which color hair I’ll use but I’m probably going to do something with the baby pink and the hat, even though I used the hat recently in an outdoor shoot. But it works well with this outfit too..
If you’re wondering what that mark is, I got a hot glue gun burn on my breast. Ouch.
But the real surprise tonight was that I solved my problem about what to wear for my “Steampunk Fucking Machine” shoot. If you recall I was less than enthusiastic about what I had shot already in a purple PVC catsuit on what is a decidely Jules Verne-ish prop. Well, I stumbled across an old outfit used in a shoot called “Brocade Burlesque”. I think with the proper gothy Victorian tweaks, its going to work quite nicely.
Black hair usually doesn’t work on me, but its working so far on the experiments I’m doing..
Add glasses and some more dark Victorian overtones and I think this will nail it. Maybe the bigger Victorian hat too, for some of the shoot.
And I’m thinking the shoot will start out with this very elaborate Victorian dress and hat which works with the color scheme (I made this for a performance but had yet to shoot in it). I’m going to spend tomorrow making the necessary tweaks to bring the outfits in line with each other.
And I might as well take the fucking machine prop and have the background be more like what we saw in “National Pornographic” than the simple black background. (Though it can’t be super-busy). Again, I will have to see what works, but with any luck the result will be pretty good.
So, what I guess I’m saying is that these things take time, and hopefully they are worth the weight. If I get everything done and I’m not too tired by the end of the day, I’ll do both shoots tomorrow night.
Tara