Podcast Update

Newest podcast up: Winter Stories. Guest starring David Quast and Andrew Harron!

(Don't forget that for more updates you can look for Voodoo Pixie on Facebook, or follow Mama Fortuna on her overly esoteric blog.)

Stripped, Scared and Sacred: Ep.11 - Risky Business!

Updated the podcast once again, and noticed that I haven't been numbering them. Ooooops.

So! We're on episode 11 people and this time we are joined by the beautiful, talented and fellow spooky gal, Little Miss Risk! 
We discuss such things as growing up as the spooky girls in the neighbourhood, cat videos, horror movies, david bowie's penis puppet and much much more!

If you'd like to know more about Miss Risk please visit her blog which can be found here.

The Valiant

So I have a friend who is a fantastic photographer but is also a little strange, a few weeks ago he sent me a text message that just said "leave the 30th open for me".
Why?
"photoshoot."
Nothing else was said, not the idea or the costumes or the location. This is one of the strange but fun things about doing photoshoots with this man, it certainly keeps you on your toes and forces you to adopt a somewhat carefree attitude because you have no idea where or what you will be doing or what you're going to look like.

In this case I wound up being naked and body painted in a sort of Ziggy Stardust style in a vintage Valiant car.

......have I mentioned lately that I love my life and friends?
:)

Warning, some photos NSFW

Love that Lovecraft Part 2

Part 2 of our discussion on Lovecraft!

This time we are joined by Andrew Harron (aka co-writer/producer and star of 'An Evening with Professor Byron Price') as well as Spectral Theatre alumni and all round Lovecraft know it all, David Quast.

Warning: Lots of foul language and spikes of loud laughter

A tale told through photos [Warning some photos NSFW]

There is a place where the membrane is thin, where worlds collide and reality begins to shift and over lap.
It was in such a place that I found myself a while back.
Was it years ago? Months? Days?
I can no longer tell.

Love that Lovecraft!

The podcast is back and updated with part one of our Lovecraft episode. In this first instalment we discuss the history of Lovecraft and some of our random thoughts on him, plus we have a  new microphone and bad ukulele music!

Lovecraft Part 1

Mad Men Style

So I've recently gone back to work which means I've been watching a lot of Mad Men which might seem a little strange but I watch it for both style ideas and as a way to get myself back into 'work' mode. I don't work in the advertising business but I do work in a male dominated industry which is obviously not as bad since it's 2012 and not the 60s, but I can still emphasize with the female characters in that show as well as see some similarities when it comes to office dynamics.

It's also fairly obvious which character I connect with:

It's the guy on the far right. Can't you see the similarities between us?!!

I'm kidding of course, it's Joan. Duh.
She's strong, independent, professional, and not afraid to be harsh when she needs to be. She also always looks fucking gorgeous, I mean....wowza.

So who better to take inspiration from when I found myself going out for an evening of cocktails and live music? I based the hairstyle on some of her more recent looks in season 4/5 ala this kind of look:

First step of course was to wash my disgustingly greasy hair, blow dry it and then slap some hot rollers in it. As a general rule I don't use hot rollers since the curl falls out far too quickly for it look good for long but since this was going to be a semi-up do I thought it would work.

If you're curious as to the pattern it's basically everything rolled towards the back, using small rollers for the sides and medium ones for the crown.
Step two was to let the rollers sit for about 2 hours, long enough to be totally cool and then I hairsprayed the shit out of it before taking them out.

That's the initial result, look at all those soft curls!

This is after running my hands through it a few times, see what I mean about my hair not holding a curl unless it has been wet set? Damn you hair, DAMN YOU. Ah well.....
Next up I teased the crown, rolled up the back in a series of soft pin curls, and then teased and swept over my bangs.

The back view

All that was needed next was a Joan-esque dress which was exactly what my sister gave me for Christmas, talk about your bizarre coincidences!!

I was pretty happy with the end result, it lasted pretty much all night and didn't need a lot of fussing with. So I'm considering it a win in my books.

I will now leave you with one of my favourite Joan clips.