As a model, you tend to build up a stunning set of pictures from tearsheets( sheets literally torn out of a magazine that you have appeared in) and general shots that are taken. However to me, i don't think that i have photographed better for any other shoot, than i did for Fanfair Magazine!
I write this post in hindsight more than a year on, when my pictures have been published, printed, downloaded and circulated all over the fashion world. I remember fighting long and hard for those pictures that i wanted so very badly because i knew how fabulous they would have turned out like, once they were passed onto me.
The interesting thing is they are the only set of pictures that haven't been airbrushed. Most of my other pictures, i am required to have airbrushed to be viewed in a professional light. Sad but true. When i opened the folder that the company sent me via dropbox, i had to download Photoshop itself to open them. What i saw next blew my mind...quite literally...
I saw two outfits that i had modelled for. One a brown dress and another a blue skirt suit. The brown dress was tight, itchy and confusing to wear. Made of polyester and to be worn with tights in 30 degree heat was not my idea of fun, at all. The other skirt suit, beautiful ravishing colour, so tight that i couldn't wear a bra and could hardly breathe-let alone sit or stand in it with again nylon tights-was sheer torture.
Sitting still and having your makeup done for 2 hours when you haven't eaten is so frustrating. They have to perfect your eye makeup, get the highlighter perfect, the lipstick perfect. Even counting sheep is more interesting at that time. I finally shot for both the outfits and left the gallery to face the outside world in 32 degree heat where my makeup was melting, i had to tie my hair up and drink 3 bottles of water to take the tube home.
What happened that night will never escape me. I came home and wasn't feeling great. Slowly i crawled into bed and started to shake. I felt like i had malaria-i was shaking uncontrollably. I was struck by some sort of strange virus that made me within 3 days-physically incapable of moving. I stopped eating and drinking until a full week in which i missed two fashion shows and a shoot.
However when i look back at those pictures. I don't regret the illness, the heat and the frustration. Those pictures have booked me numerous jobs and got me millions of compliments!
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