It's been some what of a miserable evening, I've been in bed with a terrible migraine but thankfully after some paracetmol and a bit of sleep I'm now feeling a little better! So I'm keeping this blog post short and sweet!
Earlier today I spent some more time on this china doll concept, I'm a little happier with what I came up with today, I swapped some of the pink for baby blue, I felt their was to much pink in the last look. Here's some pictures of the finished product.
Now for the 'song of the day'! I'm constantly hearing right now that I look like this woman. My mum once saw a picture of her and asked if that was me! My friend sent me a video of this woman performing on jools holland saying 'This is totally you'. I feel very flattered that so many people think I'm so similar to her. She's hot totty right now!
My body is not working today! This morning I had to wake up early to go to the doctors to get injections done for the Philippines, my arm feels like it's been punched by Manny Pacquiao!
Anyway so I've not done much, though I did try to come up with some ideas for a shoot I have on the 21st with the wonderful Twitch Photos, the concept is china dolls, all frills, bonnets, lace and general cuteness. So what colour do you think of when it comes to china dolls? PINK OF COURSE! It took me a little longer then hoped to apply make up on myself due to punched arm but I eventually came up with something.
This isn't the finished product, I still need to play around with it a little, I'm not completely satisfied! But that's a good thing right? I may just have to post up my progress as the week goes a long, I would like to see what you guys think!
The 'Song of the Day' has arrived!!! (applause now)
I'm always singing this bloody song and I need to get it out of my system. If any of you knew me personally or ever came to watch my old band The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra live you will know this song is close to my heart. Many an evening was spent dancing to this track.
So here is The Cherry Poppin' Daddies with ZOOT SUIT RIOT!!
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend today, is it just me or has there become a certain 'look' that appears on the pages of bizzare magazine, front, latex companies and alternative clothing companies. Pale, skinny, unusual colour hair (mainly red or blue) and a mass of girly tattoos (bows, cupcakes and hello kitty). Long gone are the days when the curves ruled the alt model scene. When plus size didn't exist in this world, size 14 was not a problem and size 8 was left to the pages of vogue and marie claire. Sample sizes are getting smaller and people's perceptions of beauty is no longer the overall package just how good your body looks in a tiny latex bra.
I remember years ago being sent a link to a casting call on model mayhem that made me cheer, it was for alternative fashion week requesting for SIZE 14 MODELS for a latex catwalk, the reasons being that curves would fill the outfits out a lot more. I didn't apply. I was still in my nervous phase, I was 21 pounds heavier then I am today and my whole general body image was at an all time low. I then started to drop some weight only to find that my confidence was being knocked about some more with the new emergence of the scene queens, these girls are rail thin and obviously didn't have much luck with mainstream fashion modelling so took a different route.
When did alternative modelling become as rigid as mainstream fashion modelling? Some clothing companies and photographers are now obsessing about being a certain height! What does this mean for the average alternative girl trying to break into this now elitist industry? Well it just seems it's never going to happen right?! Id like to think I could break through and become one of those girls that could break the mold, but it certainly will be an up hill struggle, even at a size 14 with all my proportions in the right place I still need to slim and tone down to a size 12. I don't just want to do this to prove a point, there is no point to prove I just want to take back what was rightfully ours, a place where girls of a bigger size could feel beautiful and be appreciated.
Anyway enough of my ranting, time for the 'Song of the day'. I decided to choose this song because it's just a beautiful song. Simple!
This woman certainly had a colourful lifestyle to say the least and every song she sang was performed with such feeling and emotion it is hard not to fall in love with her voice.
Today I am thinking about my holiday to the Philippines, in fact I've thought about it nearly every single day since the weather started to turn nasty! Saying I'm a little bit excited would be a total understatement, I'm totally ready to jet off out of this country tomorrow if I had the chance, but alas I must wait! So it's 24 days to go and I still havn't thought about what I am going to bring, whether I should check at the doctors to see if I need more injections, I've done nothing in preparation towards this holiday apart from talk about what I would like to do when I get there!
I remember the last time we were over there, we stayed on a wonderful little island hotel called Canipa Island, the only thing that was on this tiny island was the hotel with it's little beach houses and restaurant. IT WAS BLISS! Getting to the island we hitched a ride with a couple of people who run a service called Tao Expeditions (http://www.taophilippines.com/), these guys take tourists across palawan, island hopping all the way to El Nido. It was a 3 hour boat journey to our little island but it was worth it enjoying the view and chatting away to new people. Again.....IT WAS BLISS!
Here are some pictures of the boat and our little island houses.
I'm feeling rather tropical and beachy (is that even a word?) so for the 'Song of the day' I've chosen something a little different but it always reminds me of being on that boat this song playing on my ipod, looking over the crystal blue waters and watching the flying fish jumping around.
Today I am feeling a little melancholy, I don't know whether it is the grey british winter weather or that my boyfriend has had to work every day this week, resulting in us not spending any proper quality time together, it could be a mix of both but neverless I am in some what of a party pooper mood...
Yesterday evening I had a lot of fun making over Sununu, who was an awesome sport in his dia de los muertos make up, he posed well even in the freezing cold and even left my house with the make up still on! brave guy! but I thought I would add a few pictures, have a ganders and let me know what you think.
Song of day is going to be one that will always lift me out of a bad mood, it's just one of those songs that makes me want to dance around.
Americano - Brian Setzer.
This video was filmed live in japan and the atmosphere is electric! Wish I was down in the crowd dancing around and being generally merry.
GOOD MORNING! Today I've got a shoot, another dia de los muertos skull will be coming your way possibly by tomorrow if you're lucky.
Keeping to the subject of halloween/horror etc. last night I ended up down one of my favourite spots, The Gaff on holloway road, if you have never been then you should! For those of a nervous disposition who have a tendency of crossing the other side of the road when someone is wearing black comes remotely near you, then you should avoid this place at all cost because you simply will get thrown out and beaten up! (just joking....or am I?)
So back to what I was saying...THE GAFF! I saw an awesome band there called Zombina and the Skeletones, very psychobilly with a hint of 60's surfadelic all wrapped up in a B movie zombie vibe. I loved every second of it and kind of wished my old band were still playing.
So I'm linking the band's myspace to this blog so you can all check them out, they are really good fun and obviously don't take themselves to seriously which sometimes I think is lacking in the music scene these days!
Now for my 'SONG OF THE DAY', keeping to the pyschobilly vibe (cause I'm just in that kind of mood) I'm choosing a band that I simply adore, their music is up beat, their lyrics are catchy and they have a gorgeous lead singer!
I present to you.....DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN............
THE CREEPSHOW WITH ZOMBIES ATE HER BRAINS! (APPLAUSE NOW)
enjoy!
Zombina and the Skeletones: http://www.myspace.com/zombinaandtheskeletones
So I've decided to include a 'song of the day' section in my blog, just because music is such an important part of my life. On that note I've decided to post up one of my favourite songs.
This is Burnt Toast and Black Coffee - Shorty Long version. This in no doubt will always get me bopping around my room and it has been played several times on nights out. I can't really say where my love of rock n roll and rhythm and blues comes from but I have a feeling that most of the songs I post up on here will fall into those categories.
Shorty Long's first release was 'Devil with the blue dress on', many more hits followed most famously 'function at the junction' and 'It's a crying shame'.
Listen to the track and I promise you will be hooked!
