Face painting.

At first I wasn't a big fan of face painting.
The chinese opera, and others like it, just wasn't my style; however recently it became interesting.
Perhaps because I started to push myself to do it, or that we moved on to other things like children face painting.
I would love to volunteer my services to children's hospital around christmas time.
Something about face painting, and sparkles, make kids going apeshit.
I taught at an Elementry school a couple years back. I worked with a well known artist around Montreal, and did a huge collage with the children. I would teach them about colors, technic, and make sure they weren't eating glue.

Many people have been skipping class for lack of interest. So we are always uneven numbers.
After I have made coffee for the class (I have became coffee bitch, since I'm class president, it is my machine, and I'm probably drinking it the most) people have partnerd up, so I'll work on myself.
Blending cream colors are hard enough, imagine doing it backwards in a mirror? Yeah.

We use pancake and cream makeup.
Pancake seems to work better, it dries, and washes off really easy.
Cream colors tend to stay wet, can come off easy if the model moves...so to me they are useless, and you can't layer them.
Each color is pretty expensive.
I rather get into airbrushing them use either of these methods, but thats more for the body.

Tromp d'oeil is another way of face or body painting, that the artist paints on the face like a canvas. It is an illusion.
We tried andy warhol since its a great example. Others can get very intense the detailing and such. If you've never painted before, then It might not be as easy for one to accomplish.


My Face painting exam.
The magical mirror from Snow White.

Random mask, that I added leopard print to the side, so decided to finish it by adding it to my neck.

Another type of mask. Done on myself. Blended pancake colors, with sparkles.


Children face painting. Lizard creature!


Example of Tromp d'oeil

Drag Queen and Wigs

Drag queen day was probably the second best day in school.
Reason why? I got to turn Danny into a girl.
I was giddy the whole time. Danny knew what he was getting into before we started.
After layer upon layer of foundation (it hurts me to do this, I cringe inside with to much foundation)
The eyes were the best part, I didn't have any fake lashes, really didn't think about it, but it still came out great.
Took about 2 hours to do because we were laughing and talking the whole time.
I made him turn to the mirror everytime I did something new, he would look and shake his head, with a "GAHHH" noise.
It brought us so much closer as friends. A whole new homies-for-life friendship level.
He is so pretty as a girl, he even admitted it.

Drag queen is all about bright colors, shading and highlighting, and sparkles!
I would like to try it again soon.
We celebrated that night at Mado a drag queen bar in the gay village. (the day I got my diploma)
My first time there. Since it was a Tuesday night, it was Mardi Gras.
Show started late as always, around 11:30pm, but the hour we waited we did shots, and weird fruity drinks.
Show was about an hour, and the whole thing was insane, if you don't speak alot of french, or know montreal culture, you won't enjoy it to its fullest.

I putting wigs in this blog, because it goes together.
We have a bunch of wigs in class to wear with some of the makeup, but most are really nasty, for the price we pay for school we should get some new ones. Anyways the other day I tried them all on, with some funky makeup, and dance to the radio in class.
I love those days. I only have a month left of school. As much as I stress out, complain about getting up early, etc.
I'm going to miss every minute of it, especially my friends.


DanDan and I. Tiger Style.


My Cougar mom look. This is so my future.


Blonde. Something I will never do.


Coyote Ugly.

Life.

I feel I need to write this, and dunno where else to do it.
This is a blog about my life, and at this point in it, something has come up.
I don't want to go in to grand detail about it, personal, but I feel I just to write something, anything.

Life has a funny way of working out.
I wrote the other day, how I was happy for the first time in awhile.
Yes for the past months i've had great moments, but to wake up in the morning with purpose and not be sad about anything, seemed great.

Yet in my gut I knew something was going on.
Then i realized always go with your gut.
My emontions and feelings are running wild. I don't even know how I feel at the moment.
There is sadness, no anger.
First time I've cried in a while, honestly.

How come you can't be happy in all aspects in life?
Work is good, but then your love life is shot?
or vice versa. Seems like it has to balance out...and I'm always getting an epic fail.
I feel like I don't have balance, or maybe thats my own mistakes. I thought everything was under control.

Funny how you live with someone, share a life with them.
It doesn't work out for some reason, and sometimes go months without ever saying hello.
This person knows everything about you, every little secret or detail, that only a few others know.
Yet we can't even say hello...I guess it's all in time.
It breaks my heart a little to live like that.
I'm still unsure how I feel, even after writing this, but I feel better just knowing I tried to work it out.

To my friends, family, past loves.
You're always with me. Every moment has been kept in my mind. I truely think everything happends for a reason, and you were all supposed to be in my life to help guild me through it.
You'll never know how much I care about you all, or can every thank you enough for being there for me.
Sometimes I think I love too much, I hope you guys can see it.
I never want to go through life without love, it can be the best feeling in the world, but also at sometimes the worst.
No one deserves to get hurt in that way, and everyone should feel love.
One day I'll find it again, with someone I care about.
With no distractions, I'm going to treat them right.

For now I'll just watch videos of Jorma dancing, and smile to myself, and know good things are still out in this world, I just have to find them, or let them find me.

<3
Tess Von Vixen

Fight Club

I recently signed up to modelmayhem.
Best decision i've made. I haven't updated recently, I have a bunch of new photos of my makeup to put up.
I usually only take photos of my special fx at school with my iphone camera, which is to crappy quality to put up there.
It been great, meeting so many new people. photographers, models, etc.

Its got me back to doing what I use to do, modeling.
I should scan my old pictures. Jeeze. I use to model halloween costumes as well. You could go to the bay, zellers, other places like that and there I was. Kid star. haha. I had the long brown hair, crazy blue eyes..i would always be a princess, until I took a stand, and they made me the girl power rangers!

So i met Joseph through this website, he contacted me first.
Girl fight club scene.
Gore, blood cuts, girls. Nothing is hotter.
So I agreed, and it was my first real shoot on my own.
I love it. It was glorious.
I'll never forget it. Hung out with some great people, did about 7 hours of shooting.
After getting spit on hardcore by another model, it couldn't get any better then that.

I feel like I don't have much to say anymore, because I've talked about this to so many people, just feel like i'm repeating myself now.
I was just contacted by Joseph again, and we will be shooting a Zombies vs. Ninja shoot within the next few weeks.
Feel like I'm getting somewhere with this, I worked hard, and its paying off. I'll have to start charging soon, if I ever want my loft! For now I'm just enjoying every moment of it.