Exams are nearly over which is good.
Yesterday Sazzy and I went to Manchester to do a photoshoot, Saz had won the opportunity and invited me along for the ride. First let me say THANK-YOU SAZZY! Right, anyway, I also want to mention, I'm not very photogenic, I rarely look good in photo's and we all know I rate my appearance as meh bordering on ugly depending on how I feel.
Anyway, we got in and they talked us through the day and then gave us a form to fill out for what we wanted, I decided I wanted my hair curly and up, Sazzy had straight and up. They led us to the make-up and hair section and the lady talked me through make-up deciding on browns for my eyes and more neutral lips. Then she gave me a facial and a hand and face massage and curled my hair which wasn't entirely pleasant because the grips holding the curlers in place stabbed my head. While my hair was being done she started slapping on the make-up, I really mean slapping on as well, it wasn't careful as far as I could tell and it felt like she was putting loads on, I had images of myself looking like coco the clown when she finished. I heard Sazzy sit up and exclaim how great she looked but at that point I was still being attacked by beauty products, I notice it took way longer to do me up than it did Sazzy ¬_¬. Finally I was allowed to sit up and I was stunned, my skin was blemish free (not that I have many to begin with but I dont have an even complexion, my eyes appeared larger and way more blue (I had my contacts in, glasses are so annoying sometimes) and the make-up was obvious yet subtle and looked gorgeous. The stylist worked my hair so it was curled around my face, pinned at the back with a bit left down which despite being curled looked really long, its a neat trick. It looked so good curled I hope I can recreate it sometime. Anyway then I was led to my clothes and met my photographer Nadine, she was really sweet and made me feel relaxed and comfortable. I wore my first outfit, An Cafe t-shirt, jeans and jewellery, and did some casual poses, leaning against the wall, sat on a box thing, sat on steps, the usual casual poses. Then I got changed into my summer outfit, brown skirt, peach top with brown belt and flip flops, I did my poses slightly more sexy then, all eyes and legs and attempting to look in one direction with my head turned the other way and all those poses models do that make them look fabulous.
Then came the glam stuff, the beautiful skirt and top and sexy killer heels, which looked great with the hair and make-up. Sazzy joined me for a group picture, some didn't look so good, the height difference was really obvious and either made Sazzy look like a hunchback or me look stumpy. There was a wonderful picture of me and Sazzy sat back to back on a couch thing looking towards the camera and another of a closeup of our faces (we decided to buy those because they were really pretty). I did some sexy poses, my legs looked huge because of the way I was posing and I decided from the side my legs don't look so bad lol.

Anyway after the shoot we got dressed and filled out some contact sheets, we reused each others names so we could both get the better goody bag...we admit, we wanted the chocolate and make-up sets XD Then we were taken in to see our pictures. I was not confident, but sat and looked at Sazzys first, she looked amazing and so natural so I felt worse because there was no way I could look good in mine. Anyway I finally got to look at my own shoot and was stunned, I actually looked gorgeous in some of them, my eyes were so bright blue it was amazing and I looked as if I'd been modelling all my life (clearly Nadine is a genius or some deity performed a miracle). At this point I was torn about the cost of buying images (NOT CHEAP) but because we bought two images we got the contact sheets for half price so i only paid fifty for mine, it means I have rather small images I can look at and in the next year can always buy any of the pictures if I want them. I'm tempted to let me tell you, I really am, its nice to feel beautiful for a change. But then that makes me feel vain...is it vain to want pictures of myself looking good? Or would it just be a confidence boost? Not sure on that.

We got out around 8 and headed to mum's so she could admire us and we could see the kittens. Sebastian had Sazzy in hysterics laughing as he played with a bottle top from a wine bottle. The kittens have grown so much, they're really beautiful cats. Mum looked at the contacts and was stunned and said that in the ones where we're together me and Saz looked like sisters. I had to agree, which is odd because we don't really look alike, however, done up we do...weird huh?

We got the train home and arrived in Liverpool around 11, Cal and James met us and both looked stunned, James hadn't realised Saz was getting all done up and looked like he'd been hit by lightning, that amazed awestruck stunned, it was really sweet. Cal was really complimentary which he is anyway but its still nice.

This morning it was back to normal life and back to normal Pam, but it was nice for a while to be pretty and be a model...there should be more petite models who are actually small and not just small for models, why should tall people have all the fun?

Later days!