Buggirl's Increasingly Strange Tokyo Tales...

Blarg…goood morning.

 

It is Monday and I’m at city hall. It is yucky outside. I’m chugging the roobios. Not sure if I have a cold or hay fever or the onset of asthma fun, I just know that if I’m like this when I hit my school tomorrow, my voice won’t last the week. The good news is that the thyphoon has lost power and should blow over soon.

 

Show weekend!

( Bellydance show talk. )

 

The Harajuku photographers contacted me about doing a shoot on the 26th.

Now I need to figure out what to wear. I think the Peacock is a must. I'd wear my orange one but I might not have a skirt for it by then.

Henna, if you're free I figure I usualy average 3 costumes per shoot so it would make sense to do some potential duet shots in the coin costumes like this:

Ozma costume and makeup for her first look.
Henna gets make-up done while Ozma gets shot in first look.
Henna does some solo shots while Ozma gets into coin costume.
Duet shots.
More solo shots for Henna while Ozma gets changed and retouched (because it's not like I need more solo shots in my coin costume, thanks to Nam I've got that COVERED)
Ozma's last look.

Any requests?

I finished Henna’s ME coin set yesterday and gave it to her when she, Leah, Anaan and I kicked back at Anaan’s for lunch and wine on Sunday. Now Henna and I have matching (same coins, different base colors) coin sets and can be unstoppably hot together or apart. I figure if we get off our ass and plan an event together some future day that we’ll need to call on my Harajuku photographers and get some shots together in the coins…because who really could resist all that on a flyer?

http://www.hennadancer.com

But first we need to get off our butts and do a duet and road test it…which I am writing here so we do it.

Henna…the more I think about it the more I think George Abdo. Well, actually I think “Get a George choreo under our belts and if that works then in the future do a drumsolo together with unison moments and one-at-a-time while the other accents with zills moments to top it off.”

( costume blather )

This weekend a surprise costume arrived at my door, but since I can’t post pictures from work it will have to wait. I’ve already written pages about it…it’s the second coming of the Red Menace…but wait.

 

The highlight of this weekend was seeing Henna and her 6-month-old baby boy, Nev.

 

Henna came back to Japan less than two weeks ago and it was the first time I’d seen her since September of 2008 when I visited Portland. She’d been all preggers .We’d hung out, saw many good dancers, ate too much food, and chilled.

 

( Henna and music and baby drool! )

Torso time!

( Torso behind cut )

I thought I was about finished with Henna's costume...and then I had to admit that the long gold fringe on the belt is overpowering the whole and leaving it looking drab. My attempts to bring the gold color up into the costume thus far were too subtle.


( Costume update. )