I was sleeping this morning and Jason woke me up saying "It's eleven thirty! You need to get up?!?!" then he put something really heavy on my tummy....it was a package with my magazine in it! It came in the mail! It's really neat to see yourslef in a magazine for the first time...and on the cover even! I got several pages throughout the entire magazine and I am just tickled pink about it. Makes me feel a little less stupid for deciding to try and be a model.Made me laugh to be looking at myself all pretty in a magazine while I am wearing sweat pants and a t-shirt...no makeup and a bun...it's a neat thing to realize what your capable of and to actually see it in print. The photographer, Doug Jacobson, made a package for the jewelry store with my images and is trying to get them to use me as their model and him as their photographer for adds and stuff....sooooo that could be super cool if they decide to go ahead and use me.
I am also shooting with Doug again this monday in san antonio for a new techila (not sure I spelled that right) brand...we are gonna shoot a bunch of things showing me drink at "home"....but don't worry I wont really drink it...that stuff is yuck! But he said it's a free shoot initially but when the adds go international and stuff then we will start making money....if it does go internaitional, so I don't really mind. The thing that still gets me is when I am all done up with hair and makeup and I see the images later...that I look like a woman...I know that sounds weird, but I see myself as a teen-ager still sometimes. I don't see myself as a grown-up and that one image from the shoot to the left really made me see myself as a woman. I don't look 17 in it and it's neat. Most photographers want to shoot me as a cute little girl, Jason, Duke and Doug are really the only photographers that have made me look and feel all grown- up in the images we shoot. It's exciting to see yourself "transform" into something or someone else infront of a camera...and the images last forever. I wonder how my mother and Eric see me...my daddy Ron too... when they look at me do they see a little girl or do they see me as a woman? Thats a good question...I am gonna ask them. This image to the right...I look about 14...hehehe and we shot it all in like 3 hours...Once again I would like to state that I do not like what the hair stylist did to my hair...he was sooooooo stuck in the 80's and everything he did looked like he was having flashbacks...I hated it. I wanted to snag the curling iron out of his hand and scream "LEMME DO IT!" but that wouldn't have been professional of me. lol so I restrained myself.Now this image to the left....I LOOK WAY TOO POSED! OMG! I hated that dress and hate that pose...but once again, the photographer and editor are the ones in charge of picking so I guess I shouldn't have given such a bad pose and they wouldn't have been able to pick it. Modeling jewelry is soooooooooooo hard!What can I say....you learn from experience and mistakes. I wont be doing any more crappy posing when I may get print work from the shoot. hehehe.