To anyone that truly knows me knows that I love to experiment. To take it in the immortal words of Samantha, “I’m a try-sexual”. Well okay, maybe not the whole sexual thing, but I will most certainly try anything once*. (*Disclaimer. This does not include any sports that involve heights or insects)
Since I got my new phone, AND got a hair cut all in the same weekend, my never resting curiosity peeked up its head. Could I pull off the Asian Photo look? Keep in mind that I have never tried to be cute. Sexy yes, professional defiantly, mature and elegant always, but cute? This coupled with the fact that some exs (both friends and bfs) have commented on how much my personality resembles those of an anime char (something about running behind them trying to hit them with a paper fan), I guess it’s only fitting that my physical could match it right? Well this is where the fun (or the painful depending on how you look at it) started.
So taking a quick look through the self pic section of Snowpear, I started to take mental note of what the pictures involve.
Bright light. Check
Lots of eye make up. Check
Pouty lips with gloss or lipstick. Check
Deer caught in head light look. Check
With all these checks I went in confident that would be easy to pull off. This is also where I first ran into a problem. The whole hand gestures everyone uses in their photos is so alien to me that my first couple of pictures looks like someone else’s finger poking my face. It was awkward and forced and not even remotely close to what I was going for. So where did I go wrong? Back to the photo thread I went. That’s when a light bulb popped into my head… well kinda literal; I managed to hit my head on my lamp. I realised that I was using the light behind me, rather than in front of me. 5min of adjusting my only light source in my room later, I was in business.
The resulting photos did not look like me at all… not even close. I did however managed to get the cuteness thing down pat, not sure if it’s something I’d like to attempt on a regular basis. Because knowing myself for the past 26 years, cute is really not my thing. What bothered me most of all was the fact that I look 15. Thinking back I did not even look 15 when I was actually 15! And here I am a decade later, looking eerily young, with way too much make up, and gorgeous photos. I did however finding my ego (which mind you have never been small) smile that small knowing smile, and nod approvingly in my general direction.
And with my experiments done and dusted, I relaxed in my bed (of course this is when curiosity usually pops back up with even more painful ideas) and did a couple of normal me shots, in other words sexy and artsy. I actually really enjoyed the results and think they look better for me than the cute version.
Now on to posting the photos. In my typical blonde fashion, I have yet to work out which software does what. Then there’s the problem of actually getting the photo out of the camera and small enough to fit in normal pic hosting sites… *sigh* I will try to post them as soon as I can so stay tunned!
