Hello blogging world. Before we get started, I just want to let everyone know that I do not have a degree in English and Journalism, my thoughts may be scattered and in no order, you won't see any big fancy words, but I can promise to bring you funny and crazy stories. So, let's get started!
Meet Camila.
She is 19 years old and going to college for radiology. This girl is one of the funniest, silliest, down to earth, and kindest girls I know! There is never a dull moment with her as you will find out :)
She text me I'd say maybe a month before Halloween, suggesting we do a scary Halloween shoot. We were torn between a vampire or Voodoo doll. The costume for the Voodoo doll was a little tougher to put together so, we decided to go with a vampire. So, off we started planning.
My first must was to find scary contacts. Eyes, make all the difference. Vampires have scary eyes. So, I went online in search and found them. From a place in Britain (which I had paid no attention to). About 3 nights later, I received a call from my card company, saying they noted suspicious activity on my account. I thought, "well, what could that be?" So, I called back and they told me "contact lens from Britain." I said, "haha, yes! That's me. I ordered those." Good to know they are looking out for me. Shout out to them.
The second must have was blood. I preferred edible so it could be in her mouth for realistic purposes. I found a recipe on pinterest that seemed pretty easy because if you know me, cooking would never be top on my list of skills. Anyway, I found this great recipe.
Instruction number 3, really cracked me up. Here's that direction and also how my blood was looking:
All in all, it went very well. However, I noticed my corn syrup expired in 2013. Which reminds me, I need to add that to my grocery list.
So, everything else came together and we were ready to go! I text Camila the night before to ask her what time she wanted to start. She said early, so I said 9. She asked if we could start earlier even, so I suggested 8:59. :) She looked great! She did her own hair and makeup. She even got her nails professionally done to look like a vampires! Which, we had some difficulty putting her contacts in with those claws! You'll see them in the finished product below.
However, upon finishing touch-ups, we had misplaced the glue for her fangs. So, I don't know how we came to this brilliant conclusion, but we decided to stop at the dollar store and get denture adhesive. Yes, you read that right. Denture adhesive to keep the fangs in place.
That didn't work. Boy, did it not work. Pink, gagging, everywhere.
So we decided to go to Wal-Mart to get the fang glue. Which didn't work either. Not to mention the looks she got going into Wal-Mart. Can you just a picture a vampire in the Wal-Mart bathroom trying to glue fangs to her teeth? So, when that didn't work, we tried bubble gum. Which was not quite as bad as the denture adhesive, but we had no other choice. She had to carefully hold the fangs in her mouth whenever we needed a photo with them showing.
About the time we finished all that, we were hungry. So we stopped and got lunch before we headed out to the park to start shooting. We ate in the car and on the way to the park Camila asks, "if a vampire bites someone with Ebola, would they get Ebola?" If anyone knows the answer to that question, feel free to answer below in the comments section.
The photoshoot went great! Then, we busted out the fake blood. I recommended not putting the blood in her mouth, because I still didn't have the best feeling giving my model corn syrup from 2013. So, I just had her dip her hands in it and let it run down her arms.
One word. Sticky. Okay two words. Sticky mess. Which I should have known it would be. But the severity of it, was miserable. Stuck to everything. Her car, her clothes, and worst, her hair. She has such long hair, so, we had to be very careful. We finished by an old building in her hometown with a cool darker colored door.
I felt so bad for her, as she was sticky and couldn't touch anything on the ride home. Luckily, the weather was great! 60 almost 70 degrees. But, as soon as she got home, she returned to a normal human being :)
For those of you who may be new to Coveyou Photography, I title all my albums with song lyrics and I use the dollar symbol ($) as reference to it being a themed shoot. So, if you ever see that, you'll know it's a themed shoot. I chose Rihanna's song, "Disturbia" for the title. "It can creep up inside you and consume you." I felt that described a vampire pretty well.
And that was the eventful day! And here are some of the finished product! Enjoy!
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Until next time,
adventure awaits. :)
