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How do you get your hair that color?
Every three weeks or so I use Special Effects dye in the color Blue Velvet, slap it on my blonde roots, and rinse it out in two hours. Voila! It's easy to upkeep because my hair is naturally light enough to not require any bleach beforehand.


Where do you get your clothes?
Usually it's either directly through the designers themselves, or Ebay. Try these links:
Retroscopefashions.com
Artificeclothing.com
electriqueboutique.com
sock-dreams.com


How'd you get into modeling? Can you help me be a model?
I'd flirted with the idea for a long time because I wanted to make something more permanent with my day-to-day geishary, but didn't actively seek it out until after a photographer approached me on the street for a shoot. After that, I joined ModelMayhem.com and worked my way from there.
I probably can't help you beyond reinforcing some basic sensible stuff: join a networking site and do your best to shoot often: it'll help you improve your skills and develop a portfolio. Network network network. Be professional- don't flake, don't mess up wardrobe you have to return, show up on time. Good luck!


I'm a fellow model- how do you get designers to work with you? Can you get them to send me clothes too?
1. I asked them, or they asked me, if there'd be an interest in working together. Seriously, that's it. If you consistently create great photos, then designers may be interested in working with you. But the point is, you have to go *ask them*. Not me. Them. It's called networking
2. WTF, why do people even ask this? NO. I don't know who you are, I don't know if you're reputable, and I'm not going to recommend a stranger to the designers I work with. See #1- go ask them yourself. If you're good, they'll probably work with you.


What do you look like in everyday life?
A lot of the clothing in my photos is what I wear in real life, just subtract any fancy hair (I tend to throw my long hair up into a bun or ponytails; it drives me nuts brushing in my face when left down) or high heels (sadly, I live in a sketchy area where I need to be able to run or fight at a moment's notice. Intimidating steel heeled NewRock boots, FTW!).
Though, if I wake up late or am working, I'll be lazy and throw on black slacks and a comfy-scrubby shirt


Are you a lolita/goth/(insert social lable here)?
Short answer: No, I do not self-identify with any one subcultural scene.
Long answer: If I am "a" anything, I'm a decadent aesthete. This means I enjoy tapping into beautiful/striking/unusual looks, and much of that is found in subcultural fashion. So I won't get offended if I'm mislabled as goth or whatever else, 'cause it's true that alternative fashion is where most of my influences come from, but I'm not a part of any one scene. I enjoy too many different aesthetics to neatly fit into a particular fringe group, and I enjoy hybridizing between genres (so don't throw a hissy-fit if I don't wear something "properly"- yes lolitas, I'm looking at you, lol- I'm aware when I do that and don't claim it to be within the bounds of a scene).


Why do you wear glasses in your pictures?
Because I like my frames and prefer how I look in them. It's really that simple- no deep reason behind my glasses fondness. Since I do this as a hobby and am not trying to make a living off modeling, I can call that shot and no one I've worked with or for has cared yet


What's the point behind your stuff? Where do you get inspiration?
Daydreams made flesh or pictorial diaries, most of them. Some are pictures shot for clothing designers with little in the way of concept, and some swing 180 from that and have layers of meaning to be interpreted, if you want to take the time.
Most of my inspiration is found through drooling over the works of alternative, fetish, high fashion, and lolita clothing designers. Sometimes random songs, movies, or literary snippets play a role as well.


What's up with all the diptychs?
I *HATE* the idea of cluttering my gallery with a bunch of shots from the same shoot. So, I'll take the best two or three and merge them into a composition to show the range of the set. That, and I like how diptychs imply a moment-to-moment interplay between photos; it gives the final image much more of a cinematic depth than can be achieved with a single photo.
Maybe when my website AestheticAlchemy.com is entirely up and running, I'll post more from each set, but until then, it's gonna be diptychs submitted here


ZOMG you look like *insert person here*
Um, yay genetics? There's a couple of people I get told I look like regularly. Trust me, I've probably heard your comparison


Can I use your pictures for...*insert whatever*
Depends. Can you butcher my works with MSN paint or the first photoshop filter you think looks kewl and then post it on your myspace/facebook/ect. as your profile image? NO. C'mon, common sense and courtesy people- don't steal mah stuff!
-Drawings/renderings of my photos are OK, just please link back here.
-Manipulations are not, unless you really think you can use a finalized tiny web version of the picture LMAO (ie, I'm not going to give you unpolished, fullsized images for stock)
-other uses: note me with your request. Sometimes I can say yes, sometimes it's a usage I can't agree to or because I'm not the copyright holder.