Lately, I’ve been enjoying being in total control of this blog. From doing the casting, the hair and the makeup, the styling, and photographing it all. This time around, three women put their creative talents to showcase our vision of beauty.

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CRISTAL VISION 
All of the images in this blog post came from Cristal’s vision of Bibi. I’ve been working with Cristal when I need more complicated hair, as I don’t have her experience. 

As we were talking about the details of this shoot over Ceviche, in a Mexican restaurant. She was showing me images of big, wild, curly hair with a rose in the mouth. 

As artists we do this Freudian mise-en-scène; we project ourselves onto other people to play out our fantasies. For me, it’s the greatest pleasures of photography. This realization, that the images I make are about myself more than my subjects, has been very present in my mind. And the more I shoot, the more I’m confronted with projections of my own beauty standards, my points of view on different faces, and understanding of ethnicity. You can only create things you project, and things that you allow to happen.

NEW KIND OF VOODOO
There is a chair I got as a present for working on a design project for friends. They were called Samare. You can see more of their work here www.design-milk.com/samare. Their beautiful chairs are inspired by Canadian and Aboriginal elements. She brought a lot of plastic flowers to decorate the chair, so we could use it as a prop.

Bibi has been modeling for a long time and she’s really good, it was wonderful working with her fast-paced posing.