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Warrior Princess
I am Nyki, Warrior Princess!
I was looking forward to this shoot so, so, so much! I have been wanting to do a photo shoot like this since I got my chain-mail bra. I jumped out of my seat when I got the request to do this photo shoot. The photographer had medieval weapons he wanted to showcase and I had the right look to be his ‘Vanna White’ as it were with my muscular arms and mean face. I asked him to postpone the shoot for a week in order to get my hair done in the term I coined, ‘braidlocks’. Its my clean dreadlocks look, an alternative to not bathing and destroying my hair lol.
By the way, it took two nights to do my hair! The first night took about 4 hours and did just the top of my head. The next night took about another 4 hours and got the rest of my hair braided. Can you imagine how soar the forearms were of the person braiding my 3-4 feet of hair!
We went out to an abandoned road with railroad tracks nearby and did lots of desert shots. Let me saw it was freakin’ HOT, specially in those black thigh high boots! I felt like my legs were cooking under the sun. I did put sunscreen on to prevent some weird sunburn lines - getting awkward tan-lines just as we enter summertime is not exactly fun. Could you imagine a meshed sunburn (through the chain-mail)?!
My friend came with me as a chaperon for safety and she got the luxury of sitting in the air conditioned car as the photographer and I sweat and sweltered in the unrelenting sun.
After we couldn’t take the sun & heat anymore, we finished the photo shoot in the studio. It was really nice to be in the cool air and not have my drink boil before I even finish it lol. In the studio the photographer had a fog machine set up with a black backdrop - just wait until you see these pictures! I look like Im wandering through some dark swamp, its very cool. I will be posting these images soon, I was just going over them with the photographer to pick some for my portfolio. I will be adding a new gallery for these images so come check back soon!
May 20th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Great article, hey I stumbled on to this post while surfing for lyrics. Thanks for sharing I’ll email my friends about this too.
May 30th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Wow that is so cool, even chain mail. Sounds pretty fun, I wonder how much the chain mail cost. Yes you look awesome good job, and good luck.