Updates on Life and Modeling

So alot has changed in my life since October. I am a year older, and much wiser. I am deeply in love with my boyfriend Rob, and I am graduating from college in just 2 days. Big, big changes are just around the corner so I have recently bee preparing myself for those.

I will be moving to Tiffin at the end of next month to start the next chapter in my life. I am very excited about that. I am also about to start a new job in a Pediatrics office on MUO's main campus. I love children so it makes me happy to be able to take care of them.

My mua stuff has really taken off this year. I am the official make-up artist for both Pin-up Apocalypse, and also the upcoming film Prey to God. I am excited about being part of both of these awesome projects. I have also been accepted to be a MUA at fetish weekend in Montreal in late August. It was a blast there last year, and I am sure this year will be the same. I would highly reccomend to anyone that can make it up there to go. It is definetly worth the trip.

In my modeling life it has been a little slow as of lately. Actually up untill x-mas time I hadn't shot at all since July. But that was by choice. Just didn't feel very creative at the time. I did attend a group shoot at the beginning of Feb., although I am stilll waiting on almost all of my pictures. Photographers are definetly not being quick this time around. I certainly hope they are good pictures. I only say this because I did get a set back from a photographer that I am normally very happy with and I am unimpressed this time around. The normal energy that is there just wasn't and it really made a big difference in the end product. I thought that by going to the studio it would make a difference, but it didn't.

The couple of pictures that I haver seen from my group shoot from the always wonderfull Gary M are breathtaking as always. He is awesome. I am hoping to get more from that shoot this weekend.

I think that is all for now. I will post more pictures as they are given to me.

My life

So i know that I havent written in my blog for a long time. I am a real slacker when it comes to this however some wonderfull things have happened to me during the time that I have not been writting.

First I am completely in love. I have finally found dthe one person who seems to complete me. He is wonderfull. I want to spend the rest of my life with him, and with any luck this will be so. I am hoping to be able to buy a house together within the next year or so.


I am almost done with school. I only have a little over 3 months to go including my externship. That makes me very excited also.

I havent been doing a whole lot of shooting I sorry to say. Between finishing my degree, and spending time with the boy as well as normal life things I just havent had the time. I do have a shoot or two lined up soon however. I know one of them will include my boy I want some good pictures of us together.

Currently I am sick and I am hoping that I am well enough tomarrow evening to go to the bar. It is halloween and it is IGUN so it is extra special.

My birthday was last week, and it was awsome. I had a lot to drink and lots of friends to celebrate with. Rob got me the Necrnomicon book by Giger for my birthday it is amazing just like him.

Ok well I am just rambling now so I will update again once I get pictures.

-Crystal

Sometimes the crazy in you just wants to play!

So this past weekend was a blast! Went down to Columbus for the House of Nightmares shoot. Yay for full days, of shooting am makeup goodness. I got to shoot with a a couple of new people as well as some old time favorites. All in all it was a very productive day.

Here are the first pics that I got back from Miss Sherry Parker.

That is all for now I will post more as I get them!

Damn the man for his stupid rules and red tape

So I finally went and watched Michael Moore's new movie Sicko. It was a very good movie. A very eye opening movie to many things I already new, beings that I am a medical major, but they are just things that I dont like to think about all the time. One of these such things is the network business. I know from studying this crap that insurance companys change who is in their network quite often and often times leaves the patients who need those doctors that were outed high and dry.

I know this all too well, because it happened to me today when I went to go to my surgeons office to schedule my next surgery and was told he is no longer in my network of covered doctors. Now what does this mean for me. Well it means that I have two options either A. go to another surgeon who has never worked on my face before and hope he/she does it right, or B. pay $65,00o or more out of pocket to go to my surgeon who has done the first 5 surgeries on my face. It is a rather sucky situation to say the least, and I am going with option A because well I am poor and because my surgeon will be present when the new guy does the surgery, because he is one of his partners.

What does all of this have to do with my modeling, well as most of my photographers need to have my face in a shot it is important that I keep up on it when it is needed. And unfortunately that means coming up probably in September I will have surgery and probably wont shoot for like 6-8 weeks to allow for healing time.

One good thing happened though today! I got some beautiful pictures back from Gary of myself and my best friend Ayden. The pictures just took my breath away. I love them so i would like to share them with you.

Goddess in hiding

So this past weekend I went down to Dayton to work with Dave L. He is wonderful! And i must say for my first outdoor nudes I am very happy with the results. We went to two different locations to shoot. Both were just breathtaking. Definetly nothing like that up here is Northern Ohio.

Well Not much time to write but I did want to share a couple of my favorites from that shoot!

The monster that lives insiide me

So on Saturday as I said my last post I had a blast, hung out to many people that I hold near and dear to me, as well as got the chance to work with many very talented models and photographers.
I really did have a great time. Then on Sunday came home, and did the Sunday thing. (Layed around, ate some food, cleaned the house, etc.) So this week's project was the basement. We did get it all finished as far as going through the crap that was no longer needed. However during that process I found pictures from my first surgery that made me sick instantly. There are just somethings that have happened to me that I just havent been able to deal with yet. And that is one of them.

It is kind of like haveing a monster that likes in your mind, always waiting to step foward out of the shadows and pounce on you when you are weak. I hate the way I feel when I think about those weeks leading up to and directly after that surgery. Talk about a mindf*ck in a handbasket.

The pictures that I took with dark angel kind of made me think about that monster that lives inside of me so here are a couple from that set.

Submissive Adventures

This weekend was a lot of fun! I got to work with alot of photographers that I have worked with in the past, as well as a few that I have not. All in all I think that this group shoot may have been the best one for me yet!

I would first like to start by saying thank you to all the photographers that I did get a chance to work with. I am sure that we made some great images this weekend. I have started to get some of the images back, and I must say the pictures that were taken with Ayden ( my best friend are my favorite so far). There are two sets. One by submissive tales, where we role played dom/sub, and for once I got to be me and play the sub.










The second with the wonderfull Gary M, where she did her first nude set. Turns out she is awesome at it. I hope she keeps it up. The photos that we have gotten back from gary are simply breathtaking. I am actually going to put all my favorite pictures by gary in a book soon. He has taken so many wonderful pictures of me that I would like to showcase them a little more.



So there you have it here are a few of my favorites that I have received from this weekend.
I will have many more coming in soon, as well as having 2 more shootings later this week, and possibly one this evening.

Adventures to the dark side of my personality

So this weekend was another weekend of shooting fun at the CAC. I shot with many photographers, many of them new, and had a blast with all of them. I am already recieving a few of my photo sets. From what I have seen it was a productive weekend indeed.

These photos are by Clint from Springheel, I am calling them " The bad peice that reaides in everyone". Basically it was supposed to show the difference in one persons personality the good ( played by Kristin) and the evil (played by yours truly). The first photo shows what the good enjoys doing, and the bad being annoyed and bored. The second shows the bad sneaking up behind the good and scaring her. The third is showing the bad doing what she does best. The final picture shows the good side finally fighting back against the bad side.

I really enjoyed this set. It was a lot of fun. I can't wait to hear what you all have to say about them.

Exotcia

This weekend was a blast. The Exotica convention was in Detroit over this past weekend. People from all walks of life getting together to celebrate their love, weather it be new or old, of fetish's and alternative lifestyles. It was amazing. I went to a BSDM 101 class with a black dom... she was awesome. Learned alot from her, and got a few great laughs by her stories. Watch many performances, a flesh pull, and went to a masquerade ball. I had an outfit that was to die for.

The cincher was made by my amazing Andi. I love her... she is so freaking awesome, and I have been telling her that. I will try and get pictures up from the ball itself up soon. I had an absolute blast.

Went up there with Rob and Troy, and once I got up there met up with JJ plush, Eric Cain, Fuzzytek, Big Lew, Ralf, Sam, Chris, and the whole Chaos crew.

I highly reccommend that anyone who didn't go this time definetly check it ut next time around.

Beauty

So growing up I learned that beauty is more than just skin deep, but I also learned that you must like what you look like in order to feel truly beautiful. Beauty is a funny thing, each person views beauty just a little bit, or in some cases alot different than the next person. To me my beauty was seen on the outside, but no one really got to know the person inside and just clumped me in with all the other pretty faces in the crowd. Much like the song lyrics Marilyn Manson wrote, " How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?"

I do like that people think I am beautiful, although sometimes I think I am not. Then this weekend my whole view of myself changed. I took a look at myself in my photos from the past few years and saw how much I have grown and evolved, how much i had accomplished, the kinds of obstacles that I had overcome, and the people who have come and gone, and I really started to see my inner beauty.

The picture above is one such picture that I took a look at. This photo was done by the awesomely spectacular Andi. I love this picture. I feel so beautiful, as well as sexy in it. (Which is something I don't feel that often about myself) I really fell attractive in it.

Although I am a strong individual I do still have crap for self esteem. It is getting better though. I am becoming more comfortable in my own skin. It is pictures like these that I look at and wonder to myself who is that girl in those pictures, and then I remember it is me.

Thank you to everyone who has had some effect on who I have become. You all have made more of a difference in my life than you may realize.

so...

Recently I have been shooting alot. No time really to add anything right now, but i would like to take a second and say i finally bought one of the book i am published in and I think that it is crap. Not the content, but the print quality is atrocious. I am usually not overly critical but this was just bad.

I am hoping that the next time I am put in a book i might actually be given one also rather than spending the money i am helping a photographer make. I know that everyone must make money, and I am cool with that but i feel a bit cheated in this instance because the quality was just not what it should have been.

Oh well I will post pictures as soon as I get 3 more seconds to myself.

The Plauge

So yesterday I woke up, and I felt a whole lot like dieing. My lungs hurt, I can't breathe cause my nose is so stuffy, and I have a cough that just won't quit. It is really annoying. I promised myself I would start blogging at least once a week here, and I shall. It looks like this week there will be no new photos. But at least everyone knows why. If anyone in my area wants to bring me cheddar baked potatoe soup from bob evans just feel free to drop on by. lol

-Crystal

yay

So I know that I haven't posted in like a gazillion years but things have been crazy. To start out with I forgot my username and password so I couldn't post if I wanted to. So obviously today I finally figured it out. Yay me. I have shot with many people since last post.



We had a fetish ball here about a week ago. It was a good time. I felt at home there. But then again I think most people who were there feel the same.

I leave you now with a few of my favorite pictures from the last two months. The first is of RezTeZ and I by Flutterby studios. That shoot was a lot of fun. The next is by Nihilus also at Flutterby studios.




















Finally but definetly not least fav. By my wonderfull andi a picture of the spectacular kitty corset also modeling with me is the lovely Thorny Rose . Love you Andi :)

Blah

So yeah this morning blew goats. I took the test that I have been studying for 6 plus months and didn't pass it by just a couple of points. Which means that I was thrown out of my program. Which also sucks. I am now $14,000 in the hole and have nothing to show for it.

On the bright side I do have an appointment with an advisor at another school to take some classes there for a medical assistants degree. Not my first choice, but it is a good feild with plenty of jobs, and good pay. Not to mention that I will get to do more of the patient care and less of the paperwork. Which is a big plus.

Well here is a photo that the darling Sin City Photos (aka Rocky) took of me back in October. See ya later.

My very own blog....

Well I figured since I have been shooting alot lately and everyone else seems to have one of these than I would make one too.

Been pretty busy lately. I shot with Gary M a couple of weeks back, and I shoot with VIP all the time (go figure he lives here). I got a alot of really nice work from the shoot with gary. I am always pleased with the quality I get out of him.

Well that is all for now one last exam tomarrow so I have to go and study some more.

-crystal