High Life photo shoot.

©Mikko Löppönen 2013

Hello everyone, in August I was reunited with model MissLiddles and photographer Mikko to shoot fashion photos. MissLiddles came to my place for makeup and then we made our way to The National Museum of Finland. MissLiddles had prepared a cosplay outfit based on American McGee's Alice game. We spend around an hour shooting this ensemble. Got some fantastic pictures out of it! I recently joined Cosplay group on Facebook and my, my what gorgeous cosplay people do these days!! Some of the photos are outstanding and really outrageous! I personally would love to do something with anime/manga cosplay. I know what anime outfit I want to do, and since one of my models is going to model in Asia soon, I might just ask her to bring me the outfit I want. Then all I need to do is find a model to model the outfit.

©Mikko Löppönen 2013

Okay so after we shot Alice we began shooting fashion stuff. MissLiddles and I got changed at Storyville, a jazz club next to the museum whilst Mikko looked for a table for us on their terrace. I had wanted to do a photo shoot there for so long! It's big and tucked underneath tall trees, and they've got a small water fountain and pretty lamp like heaters and coloured lights. It's so pretty! We shot there for maybe 45min. Suprisingly nobody bothered us even though it was friday evening and the terrace was full. People did look at us, but not in a disapproving manner. Mikko shot us together and separately. Mikko was doing fashion photos for the first time and I think he did a very good job composing each photo. MissLiddles and I were left to do our own thing.

©Mikko Löppönen 2013

After that we moved to shoot in the nearby area. Mostly on Mannerheimintie (Mannerheim street). Whilst we did a walking bit, couple of foreigners stopped to watch us. And later the girl came to tell us that it looked perfect and we'll surely get good pictures. She asked if this was for a magazine and I had to tell her no xD Naahhh it was for our portfolios. But it was nice that people were interested in what we were doing. I think MissLiddles told me once that whilst she was doing a different shoot in Finland, people stopped to stare a lot (I think it was Liddles who told me this). But that's the thing, even Helsinki is a small place and you don't see people doing something like this in public. Especially not in the city centre!! Most of the photographers I have worked with, want to stay out of the city centre because it's "too busy" (what I've lived in London, and London is busy!) and people will most likely disturb the photo session. I was just really happy that we were able to do this, cuz we got so many gorgeous photos.

©Mikko Löppönen 2013 (Got your skirt Lid!)

We finished before 11pm and got more compliments from tourists (Italian they were). It was a bit chilly that evening, but it wasn't unbearable. I'm very happy with how the photos turned out! Mikko did a fantastic job editing them =) I had found similar editing in ID magazine so I asked Mikko if he could do something like that with our photos. I personally like this kind of flashy editing and retouching. I'm all in for the Italian/Russian Vogue look.

©Mikko Löppönen 2013

I'm so happy that I got to do this project and model as well! This is a fantastic memory. I was unable to make a video of this shoot though. I was posing so a bit difficult to pose and film at the same time xP But you can go see the makeup tutorials on my Youtube page, link below.

My Makeup look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewzQLwC7PRs

MissLiddles' makeup look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_N46ON8wp4

Thank you for reading and I'll post another story soon. I did a new shoot with Agony Von Grim, and I predict we'll be famous in China soon ;) I'll tell you more later.

Take care! Cheers, bye!