Shooting for abARTig Part 1: Steampunk

Hello everyone,

actually I intended not to shoot during my mini-vacation, but you know.... When I read about a Steampunk Shooting with lovely acessoires by abARTig I changed my mind :-)

I LOVE the steampunk esthetics! About everything looks better in an antique-ized steam driven version! The future of the past just seems more apealling to me than our actual presence (Zeppelins = awesome. Steam driven maschines = awesome. Corsets = awesome. Living under water or on the moon = awesome. What we really have? Sorta blaaaah.... ok, we have cool stuff, too, but... you know....). And off course I LOVE the Steampunk Do it Yourself mentality! After all I do a lot myself as well.... But enough writing... you wanna see 1. how my home made Steampunkt outfit looks when it´s beeing worn 2. the beautiful acessoires and 3. the lovely photos! Click them to make the biiiig.

Acessoires: http://de.dawanda.com/shop/abARTig
Photo: Leandra Reyes
Retouching and Composing: Morticia Noir
Co-Models: Meike König,Stephi Heber, Leah Wooden

More from this shooting will follow soon! (I hope ;-)

Hello everyone,

I am sure you still remember the green dress I wore on "Guten Abend RTL"! Here´s another lovely piece from Anne-Marie!!! <3

available here: http://de.dawanda.com/shop/fraeuleinwunder (the dress, not me off course ;-)

Swatches & Review New P2 Eye Shadows & Nail polish

Hello everyone,

John went to the mall with me today to buy more X-Box Games. Meanwhile I stopped by the local DM and realized... They have the new P2 eye shadows and nailpolishes!!! I took along a few and here are some swatches!

P2 Brilliant Shine Eye Cream Cheeky Copper, P2 Brilliant Shine Eye Cream  Bombastic Blue, P2 Cosmic Dream Eye Shadow Dreamy Venus (picture below from left to right)

Brilliant Shine Eye Cream: Don´t let the name fool you. it is not that creamy at all (thank goodness! No smearing and getting to places it is not supposed to go.). It is very smudgeproof, intensive colors and water resistant. I already want MORE!

Cosmic Dream Eye Shadow: The colors are not as intense as the eye cream, but Iam confident in them.Will have to test them with an eyemake up. The colours are pretty, a glittery highlighter and a mauve and complimenting choclatish color. Can´t wait to play with it.

P2 Last Forever Nail Polish Secret Charm: Not too impressed. I needed to put maaaany layers on my nails to make it less stripe-y. Originally I considered it as nail-polish to use for shootings when Iam not doing something pin up-y because for pin up off course red polish is a must. With the 10.000.000 layers on it it looks far from natural though and I do not like this one.

DIY Project Steampunk

Hello everyone,

Technically this is my week off, but.... well.... you know.... I applied for a grrrrreat shooting this Sunday and as I got accepted I had to go and figure out how to make myself a own steampunk outfit for it within a few days... Considering Steampunk is a very do it yourself friendly genre this is what I started with...

I bought a vest for 5 Euro and some faux leather fabric that was in the sale for 5 Euro per meter. The ugly pearl and stud part had to go and I added some faux leather to the back cause I find that more interesting looking!

I bathed my bloomers and the lace top in some black tea to make it more vintage and dirty looking and I made a faux leather bustle myself  loosely based on the video you can find below. I slaughtered a belt that I bought for 1,99 € and added it to the bustle to add a comfy yet stylish way to open it.

I really look forward to shooting with it on Sunday!!!

New Schmitt und Schäfer Website & Campaign Summer/Spring 2012 with... old me :-)

http://www.schmittundschaefer.de/

Because every woman looks great in a Dirndl! For now you´ll find more pictures on their official Website and I will post some more high resolution pictures on 10th March cause Iam not supposed to do it before :-)

Valentines Day is surely improving!

1989: My grandmother died

1999-2003 and 2005 - 2006: the "oh no one will ever love me" depressions (most of us have been there I guess) 

2004: a fight in snowy streets including me beeing thrown down on the street and me giving a guy  the first and only slap I ever gave.

2007 - 2010: Yay at least I have a sweet boyfriend eventhough he doesn´t do anything on V-Day

2011: a paper heart from a gay friend

2012: a valentines day breakfast, a plant that will hopefully blossom soon, 3 cards (ok, two were from children:-), 3 roses and a little bag of candy from unknown sources and John wants to get some chinese food for us tonight!

Iam thrilled to actually have sort of a REAL Valentines Day for the first time in my life!!! (though the paper heart 2011 was very very sweet, too!)

If you have someone to love, LOVE! 

If you don´t: Things will evolve and get better little by little! 

Reality Check

Original

 Sari played with photoshop (but seriously. Everyone has a little tummy roll when they lay like that ;-)

The Ukulele arrived!!!

Hello everyone,

it took almost 2 weeks, but my Ukulele arrived! After some first difficulties ("I think you have to hold it in the other hand!") and so far fruitless atempts of playing "Frere Jaques" which is recommended as the first song to learn on many websites, I figured I make a quick photoshooting with my self timer because I got a lovely blue 50s laundry box the same day and it all goes nicely with my walls!

 And while I was at it I figured I take some "naughty" ones. Well, naughty for me anyway. Those nudies are so implied, you can barely call them nudies!

As it got dark outside the second picture didn´t turn out, but because of the unsharpness due to slight movement it looks like Iam rocking hard, so let´s just pretend I intended it to be this way and it is art...

Trivia... Last week I reposted an oooold photo from one of my self timer shootings and ended up having like 130 Likes on my own site and one that shared it. If you don´t follow me on Facebook and now wonder what marvelos photo this must be.... It´s actually just my butt :-D Go figure!

Must go practice my ukulele now....

Random things I bought for shootings....

Surprisingly cheap feather fans! We´ll see how the quality is once I get them. As long as they don´t fall apart during the shooting I will be happy. Plus there is a lovely pink petticoat I can match them with... still need matching heels and a fascinator and Iam ready to go!

 What´s more to add than that LOVE them!

I actually plan to use that Ukulele in "real life", too. I want to learn how to play "Happy Birthday" based on the fact that I had  my birthday last week and that there are 16 other January babies were I work! I´m zero musical, but I heard it´s the easiest to learn instrument. We´ll see...

 Corset Boulevard had a sale on ebay. Not comparable with a custom made corset, but hey, it´ll be nice for a shooting! I have the green version and I ordered a different blue one as well.

Extensions! If your hair colour is goddamnf*ckingred and you only find hair pieces as Karneval approaches go for it!!! I can extend my hair to almost Waist lenght now!

Only thing missing.... the photographer! All but my dirndl shooting got postphoned so far which is extremely boring and frustrating!

Herr Mann the puppy strikes again

Hello everyone,

yesterday I had a lovely evening at the Nomi Burlesque"London Import" Show. It is very unlikely for me and John to stay up long, but we stayed until after 2 in the morning and completely over slept the day. I have no idea how we shall fall asleep again in an hour to get up tomorrow morning...

Anyway I got a lovely new photo from my shooting with R. Scneider Digital pictureworld featuring my little puppy today...

I´m wearing a vintage suit that I got off ebay reeeeeally cheap two years ago or so! More pictures will follow soon!

I am about to plan more shootings, so if you´re interested in taking my picture - just let me know :-)

Ready for some Burlesque!

Hello everyone,

as we did nothing for our birthdays earlier this week we figured we go watch a Burlesque Show at Nomi Düsseldorf instead. Is there a better reason to totally get dolled up? If there is I don´t know it, yet...

A close up because I find the dress colour and pattern just so damn cute!!! I got the chance to test a new eye shadow (Groovy Pink) of mine as a blush which is from the recent P2 Cirque de Beaute Limited edition. Looks lovely on, so if the colour is too vibrant for you - just try it a s a blush :-) It gives a nice glow and is way stronger than you can see on the photos. Decidedly a new fave!

Shoes and exes... Swedish Hasbeens :-D

Hello everyone,

yesterday I stumbled over Swedish Hasbeens and you know what? I found out that´s not a phrase to refer to in regard of my exes, it is a actual shoe brand :-D And a cute one. Unfortunately the shoes fit my style, but not my wallet, but their campaign is just too pretty not to show it! http://www.swedishhasbeens.com

Particulare faves...

Needless to say I´d rather have the shoes than the exes ;-) Lovely, totally my style with their cute retro look and color range but really nothing I can afford.  Maybe they have a huuuuuuuuuge super-hyper-sale some day???

Or: Hello Swedish Hasbeens. Please hire this

retro model for the next campagn. Yes, you can pay me in shoes!

And tomorrow I will be one year older....

Hello everyone,

tomorrow will be my birthday and I already got my gifts from my Mom and my Aunt. I was asked to unpack it cause they also put food into the parcel, so I know what Iam getting....

One of this things is this lovely repro phone that looks even lovelier in person!!!! The ring doesn´t sound very authentic but Iam happy anyway!!!!!!

On the not so happy side my birthday has the best outlook to turn out horrible.... It´s appointment scheduling time. And this means that I will be tied to the phone all day. In addition our nurse is sick so guess who will have to take care of dozens of sick children at the same time, plus still have my every day receptionist duties? All of this would be stressfull, yet I could survive the day... but on top of it I will be home alone all evening because John has his late shift :-(

So everyone: Think hard of me tomorrow so I will make it through this day of doom somehow. Getting older is not the problem. The problem is that my stress level will be horrendous :-(

What Katie Did SS12

Hello everyone,

oh my god! I haven´t bought anything of their last new line yet (the Fonda!!! wowza!) and again there are beautifull new WKD things! Sheer yet modest about every piece has my name tag on it. Yes, I´ll happily take it all in every  variation!!!! (well, given that I could afford that... buhuuuu :-( )

I love how it is sheer, but sort of modest, how it is sexy, but not cheap! In other words.... It´ll take forever but I hope to save up for it (some day!!!)