{"id":86,"date":"2016-10-25T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-06-20T15:49:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:49:02","slug":"the-medieval-sorceress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/2016\/10\/25\/the-medieval-sorceress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Medieval Sorceress"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
I\u2019d totally like to say that this photoshoot is because of Halloween, but let\u2019s face it, I dress up any chance I can!<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>
<\/a>
<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
It also seems that every time I shoot something super special for The Gothic Shop, it rains. When we shot Dracula\u2019s Daugter, it was raining, and now that we did The Sorceress, it rained again. I had curls, somewhere between the moments I exited the house and arriving at the location, but no amount of hairspray could help. As we stood there, hiding from the rain, wondering how to pull it all off, I decided that we might as well shoot in the rain, because a dress this dramatic deserves a bit of drama from Mother Nature herself. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n


<\/span><\/div>\n
I don\u2019t think I ever had more trouble thinking of a \u201ccharacter\u201d for a shoot than I did with this dress. I have been deeply and madly in love with Sinister since I was a young babybat. This is their first dress I own, so I wanted to do it proper justice. I must have discarded half a dozen characters and sets and ideas, and the day of the shoot just had me shoving a book, an apple and a dagger in the prop basket, along with a few other things the rain prevented us from using.  Upon The Gothic Shop\u2019s recommendation, I went a size down, to XS, and as you can see, the beautiful velvet and taffeta dress is a perfect fit. It features a hidden zipper in the back, and the skirt part is full enough, without becoming too heavy and pulling the rest of the dress down, as velvet is not a light material. The entire dress feels incredibly rich, detailed and high-quality.The lace trim is also heavy and rich, and the dress itself is incredibly comfortable, and made me feel like a proper medieval sorceress. <\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
The jewellery is Poe-inspired, from Alchemy Gothic, with a statement necklace with Swarovski elements and matching earrings, and is called My soul from the shadow. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The Sorceress, thus, is born out of adversity, standing in the rain, reading incantations, breathing her spells into ripe, juicy apples no man could resist, and in the end, enchanting a magical dagger. I am sometimes overly self-conscious when it comes to acting out my characters and ideas, but sometimes I manage to forget that there is a camera and that there are other people around me and I can dive into my fantasy with the same passion and abandon I had when I was a child. <\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
Have a great Halloween everyone, and see you next time!<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Xoxo<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Dress: Sinister from The Gothic Shop<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Jewelery: Alchemy Gothic from The Gothic Shop<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Photos: Villy V<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d totally like to say that this photoshoot is because of Halloween, but let\u2019s face it, I dress up any chance I can! It also seems that every time I shoot something super special for The Gothic Shop, it rains. When we shot Dracula\u2019s Daugter, it was raining, and now that we did The Sorceress, it rained again. I had curls, somewhere between the moments I exited the house and arriving at the location, but no amount of hairspray could help. As we stood there, hiding from the rain, wondering how to pull it all off, I decided that we might as well shoot inRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[257,252],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.venusmantrap.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}