Adora BatBrat: Make up Artist

Some of my work as a make up artist/stylist/hairstylist and camera assistant. This is Miss Frost. The pictures are made by Morgan K Photography.

This is how she looked before. She is a very pretty model from Sweden Models, Malmö.

Today (Tuesday) I'm in Lund's Hospital for another check up on Fairlights disease, Juvenile Dermatomyositis. The whole family will travel with her, and after we will go to Malmö so I can check out the fashion and by me some new haircolor :)

This morning I did the make up on a first time 14 years old model. She looked like a doll when I was finished, and she was very good with the posing and facial expressions. It was very fun to watch. Perhaps she will be in Paris next year ;)

Adora's band: Asperger Synthdrome at Vince Festival

Our first performance. Sorry about the sound quality...and my horrific singing voice...but what you gonna do? I like singing rather than doing it well :)

A Goth girls best friend is the underbust satin corset. This should be item #1 in your wardrobe. Make sure it's a good quality. I loooove mine and use it a lot.

Here with shorts, top and one of my collars.

And remember - I don't wear gloves because it's cold, I do it because it's part of my fashion.

I'm guessing this is how the other tee will look like :)
The text reads "In the Darkness, Shadow People". Anyone recognice the lyric it's from?

I'm so stressed out because of a headache and a f-ing Photoshop that won't work with me today. I had to re-do a picture from the beginning and it takes forever. I'm 2 steps away from being done, but I really MUST go to sleep now otherwise my work tomorrow will suffer. I want to finish now, but the smart thing is to hit the pillow.

I'm doing one of the prints for the t-shirts that was the winners. I hope you will like it. Some small adjustments though: the eyes will be white and I'm thinking of removing the black bows and add smaller white to the sleeves instead?

I'm a member of an 18'th Century society via the museum, and our museum decided to use THIS picture of me on their tourist folder this year! I think they are mad!
It's from a picnic and I was fooling around and made cookie eyes.

Does anybody know how to make a stiff tutu like this:

I've made tutus before, but I want one that stands out by itselves without droop. Is it just to trust the material or is there some secret involved?
Any ballet dancers amongst us?

Okey, okey, here is a picture of me in my new bikini. An ordinary strap bikini á la 70's. Nothing special at all. Now I will just figure out how to goth pimp it with lace, ribbons, "diamonds", bows. Perhaps I'll add a spider or a bat somewhere...

I have to make some ruffle or lace in the upper front because I just noticed my caesarean section shows (I have a caesarean section because our first pregnancy was VERY complicated, with big risks for Synthia who was controlled twice a week to make sure she didn't get heart failure. She would never had survived a normal birth anyway, but we had an urgent c.s. 7 weeks too early, she only weight 1830 grams and we had to live at the hospital for 11 weeks and 3 days because she forgot to breath sometimes).

Bikini trouble

Where on earth can I find a goth bikini??? I've searched the web, e-bay and regular stores.

I have a boring black, and a sweet black and white striped and a white with lots of red hearts on it (it looked so cute when I had pink hair). But I want a more goth black on black.... lace, ruffle, bling, goth princess'ish, spiders, bats - anything!!

This is my favourite model, but it needs to be gothed up!

I have ugly black bikinis in my wardrobe - perhaps I can make them look better with some ribbons...

Not to brag or anything ^^ but this is my view from out flat this morning.

I made it, we ate it - and it was OHHH SO good!

Same skirt for sale

The same sweet skirt I'm wearing in this video is for sale now by someone at
http://www.tradera.com/Kort-mini-babydoll-lolita-goth-gothic-spetskjol-fran-H-M-auktion_340348_114397072
size 36, just as mine!

Last week Synthia (to the left) graduated class 0.

It was a lovely day and the kids were just too pretty when we all celebrated the day with her <3

Back home Synthia made us all a candy cake filled with strawberrys. It was super nice!

I just LOVE this bed! It would look so good in our flat <3

BatBrat's t-shirts

Once again I'm gonna ask you to help me out. Considering I still have the prettiest readers <3 I can put all my trust in you because of your style sence!

It seems like there will be some Adora BatBrat t-shirts in the webshop as well as some of the other objects seen in the video (yes - the heart blouse and collar and necklace is in for sure thank's to the viewers). I have absolutely NO idea what shirt will be attractive since I'm partial?
The model will be as this one: slightly puffed short sleeve, slightly bigger neckline (so we won't smudge our make up and destroy our hair!), bit slimmed and two organza bows. The picture designs is not finished, it will be things added or removed.

Top 3 perhaps? Or the one you wouldn't be caught dead wearing? Change of color? Bigger/smaller picture?

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Todays laugh

Adora BatBrat's vampire fangs

Todays secret modelling

A sneak-peak at todays secret photography made by
Morgan K Photography.

It will not be seen until September I guess...but I just had to show you! :)

How cool is this! It could be me - aww, how I wish someone made an Adora puppet <3  I think I'd make a perfect doll!

Tuesday: Photosession at 11:00. I have NO idea on how to look? PANIK!!!

Asperger Synthdrome

I'm cutting and slicing the live performance I did with my band Asperger Synthdrome at last weeks festival. I want to make it short, otherwise it will be boring to look at and unfortunally the sound from my camera wasn't the best (yeah, try to fool people THAT'S why it sounds awful - you sing like a dead carrot you stupid girl! No camera in the world could fix that! But still, Adora - you looked great "singing").

My day:

started with me re-coloring my hair pastel purple. As I got out of the shower I slipped on some water and sprained my left ankle. Wrapped it in real tight as fast as I could to keep it from swollen.

Then I jumped in my SAAB 9000 CSE to a mother who wanted help with her daughters wedding dress. After 2 hous I had to get back home.

At home I prettied myself up in front of the mirrow, and 16:00 my friend Magnus (from the swedish, but internationally known electro band Colony 5) came over to take some pictures of me. They turned out quite pretty i might add! :) Colony 5 played the Wave Gothic Treffen this year, and will also play at M'era Luna in August.

Then I filmed some, and now I'm so tired I feel like I'm about to fall asleep in the middle of this sentence...but I wo....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

This is how the coffee break turned out!

Fairlight baked chocolate cupcakes at daycare today :)

It would be nice if they ended up like this!

I'm making puff pastry horns for the kids and I'm getting crazy from searching after my nougat!!! I'm starting to think my husband had something to do with it....

Okey, I have to figure something out. Perhaps whipped vanilla cream with nutella instead? Yeah, they'd like that...or strawberry jam and whipped cream... No, nutella it is.

This is a real cheat-baking! Not my thing really, but I have to clean out my freezer and I haven't got the time either. But they deserve something special - it's FRIDAY!

My new fangs :) And yes - they are "real"...in the meaning they can't be removed without me going to the dentist. My dentist said, after he finished, "-They are brutal!" And I can only agree!

I love my new fangs <3

Shit! My new fangs are so long I can't even eat crackers and brie! I have to break the crackers to pieces. Holy macarony! I think you deserve a photo tomorrow :)

I've been away all day on a business-trip :) Got up at 03:00 - it's sick!
Tomorrow I have an early appointment at 07:10 with my dentist to get my fangs freshened up. Hope they will turn out fine and sharp. I always tend to bite my lip when I've re-done them. Dangerous!

Asperger Synthdrome

Just before our gig this Saturday :)
Our band is called Asperger Synthdrome.
I can't figure out who's me?
The concert was SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Tomorrow I'll be on a trip, but I will post some more from the festival asap. Live shots :)

Right now

Me and my cute sister on my balcony right now :) Ha ha, we look like tourists in Turkey or something!!

Ihhh - tomorrow is when we'll be on stage with our band Asperger Synthdrome playing for the first time. We'll be at the Vince Festival, Karlskrona, Sweden. But, of cause, I will put it up on youtube later :)

Vince Festival

I have absoulutely NO idea how to do my make up on stage tomorrow!? Perhaps my sister have some great idea?
I feel like I wanna look kind of NOT so much things in the face, no swirls or spiderweb, just "ordinary" goth make up. But later, after our gig, I want to "Adora" me. That might sound strange cause most people will most certanly have an extended version of themselves on stage, but I want to do it reversed for some strange reason. Maybe my sister can whip it out of me.

Vince Festival

I'm so happy about a "secret" I'm gonna announce on stage on Saturday!

And then I'm totally stressed out about my own performance. We only sing 5 songs, but I have an extreme short memory (for real, it's a BIG problem for me since I never remember people or names. I'm always so scared I'll offend someone), so it's awful for me to remember the texts. I think I have to Scotch some notes on the floor.

Disgusting - be aware!

Yesterday our daughter Fairlight did a SUPER-PUKE! My husband was away so I had to take care of it! Ick!

She puked all evening, poor thing, but the rest ended up in a bowl. The first one landed on her, the sofa and the floor, about 50 centimeters in diameter. I almost died mopping it up!

And then I got panic! What if I get sick!!! I'm having a festival on Saturday, I can't be sick now! Well, if I get sick today that will probably be okay, and then I will also look extra thin on stage ;) You see, I always think positive..

Men

Yesterday I think I got a dab on the head!!!

You know how sometimes you're in a situation where you really can't figure out what's going on, but later it's something about it that disturbes you about the situation? That happened to me yesterday.

The thing with these things it that the signals are so subtle you can't even tell that person he/she is far out...because then you're a fucking whine who took it the wrong way...
And I must say I was so surprised this person felt so intimidated by me, that I could not defend myself!
But if I feel I got a dab on the head, I got it! It's in the eye of the receiver.

And, no, it was NOT my husband..

The Swedish electro scene

One thing: I really dislike people who think you can live on old qualifications! "-I used to be cool too, and had black nails and make up." Ok, so??? Do it now then and I'll respect it. I can understand people who doesn't do it everyday because of work, but what about clubnights?
The electro scene in Sweden is dying - and I can understand why.
Who want's to be a part of something where most active are older (like me), fat and stuck up to believe they are better then someone new to the electro scene just because they happened to be teens in the 80's?

I became part of the electro subculture because of its fashion, its amazing haircuts and the make up as well as the music. If Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode had looked like this sailorboy I would never had payed any attention. Kids needs people to look up to, to romanticise about, to be their rolemodels. I for sure, can't feel resembles to "ordinary" looking people. Dave sat my heart on fire, and by 1981 he had sweet make up and a nosepiercing.

To stop the Swedish electro scene from going straight to the grave we need to show the younger public we still are a part of this subculture. For GOD's sake - use the kohl kajal, not just talk about how cool you used to be when you used it. Being old is NOT about being stuck up and yawn. Where did the happiness and the creativity go? THAT my friends is why the Swedish electro scene is dying.... (Adora in a mood)

EUROVISION 2010 WINNER - GERMANY - Lena "Satellite"

Tonight I'm really happy for Germany's Lena who won Eurovision Song Contest. She was one of my fav's! Congratulation GERMANYYYY!!! My other fav's was Turkey and Ukraine.

I'm making pattern and cutting silk fabric :)

Stumbled over this picture - and, ahhhh, how I miss my blue hair. It looked so gorgeous in the cityscape.

And todays best make up tip is: if you wake up with a red eye - use red make up to make it less obvious. Everyone will just look at that red make up and be horrified. You can also make it look like you cry blood.

My band: Asperger Synthdrome

New youtube video

This is not the eyebrow video - it will be out in a few days though :)

I got accapted to the textile school i wanted to go to :)
It will be so much fun. I just can't wait doing my favorite things all day long.

What's my style (if any)?

I have a dilemma!
Sometimes I get asked what's my style. In my head I think "Easy, I'm a "synthare" (swedish for electro-oriented subculture)."
But outside of Sweden there is no such word as "Synthare". So I'm guessing electro-goth for the music.
But how to describe my looks?
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Based on my videos for example - what would one call my style.
Me, myself, think the style is swedish gothic lolita with some elements from military and new romantic style...with a tad of visual kei???? But that takes VERY long time saying...
How would you describe my style? I'm lost!?

Vince Festival

Today I got the posters for the Vince Festival, so now they are out where people can see them :)

I'm very proud of myself making them so pretty!

The tickets are out as well - finally! At http://www.nortic.se/

Tonight I'll have a wet dream about this dotted puff sleeve by Freyagushi.

First song by Asperger Synthdrome

Yesterday while the kids watched children's programme I went into the bedroom and sung one of the songs we'll perform (Asperger Synthdrome = me and sister) at the Vince Festival. I sing like crap! But the music my friend did is really catchy and makes my feet wanna dance. It could be a bit harder though. Let's see how next song ends up! Here it is!!!

Vernissage

The vernissage was a total hit! We got on the news, 2 newspapers, and additionally one today! And all gave us fantastic reviews!
See the clip here.

Exhibit

Mercy me! The exhibit is SO much work.
I do it together with my best friend. She is educated in stuff like this; setting an exhibit to make it have a nice flow. I feel so incapable in this area...

I do most of the print-outs and computer-related things, and she do the more hands on things. It feels like I do nothing, since all I do is just sit there in front of the stupid computer.
Of cause that is ecual work, but it feels so small in comparison..

Friday is opened to the media, and Saturday at 13:00 is vernissage. All of you in my neighbourhood are most welcome - it's an open vernissage!

Lump

I noticed a lump on my throat, behind my left ear a week ago.

Today I noticed another - on my neck.

And also I got some really strange stomach pain yesterday.

I sure hope it's just stress related because of the exhibit.

I don't have the time to see a doctor yet.

As seen we started setting the exhibit today and my friend thought I should be in one showcase....
(Sorry about my blue muffin socks - we had washday today)

Exhibit

This morning I thought I had it figured out - how to program the sheets for the exhibit.
But then I forgot how I did it - WTF?! Rest of the day was spent to try to remember. But, nah...

I felt so stupid!
After like 67 trial and errors I found a working way - but there's no way in hell this is the "fight" way - it's to complicated.

The papersheets are to be 90 x 150 centimeters, 200 dpi.
The area of the text is 50 x 142 centimeters
The text is Arial, size 47.
The text must be tabbed, so I made it in Words, even though I can't get the sheet as big as I need. That didn't work, so I pasted it in Power Point instead, and tried as good as I could to tab it.. Then saved it to a pdf, opened it in Photoshop and copied. That works. Takes some time, but can be done.
But this can't be the easiest way???
If there is any computer wiz out there - HELP ME!!!

My computer will not co-operate while doing the texts to the exhibit. My brain will surely melt if I don't figure this out. Sometimes I hate computers!

This weekend we'll start setting the exhibit - and not all the art-artists have pulled through so I'm starting to panic! And I'm falling behind as well... I'm gonna age 10 years this upcoming week. Send me some strength, please!

Today I applied to school! It's textile orientation. I need to get better at sewing I think. Wish me luck :)

I'm currently editing my new video. It's so fun to do :) Here's a sneak!

But all off a sudden some polish man came in and hit me in the head with a frying pan (not for real, but it feels like it when you ge dead tired in a second!). So now I have to stop editing and start sleeping to get a good start of next week. Crap! I think I'm coming down with a cold too...

Thank you all for the design help - it was very nice of you to help me out. Hopefully I can make a pretty top now :)
So far I have colored my hair. Later I'm gonna film a new video featuring how I make my eyebrows.

Design help

If I was about to design a little top, a bit similar to this:

Would you prefer it with Lace 1:

Lace 2

Lace 3

or Lace 4?

The garnment is supposed to be comfortable enough to be worn under a corset as well as by itself. Thank you for your help <3

Party

Me and singer Claus of Leæther Strip this last weekend :) The concert was SO great! I just loooove the song "Evil Speaks"! Thank's Claus <3
And btw - he had the WWF panda tattooed on his right lower arm. Cute!

Montignac Diet

As I'm sitting here eating brie, blue cheeze and finn crisp I came to think about the "safe" evening snacks at Phase 1.

What you always needs to have at home while in the first phase is >70% chocolate. Since you cut out all the sugar and sweetening you 'll need something if you get a craving - just a small piece though...

At evenings if I'm in the mood for something to eat, more luxurious, here's some tips:
* different cheese (brie, white/blue cheese) and finn crisp (or other fiber cracker with no sweetening)
* whipped cream, fresh berrys (straw-, rasp-, blue-berries) perhaps with some >70% chocolate splinter
* sliced apple with cinnamon in the micro until warm and mushy, served with lightly whipped cream and chopped almonds
* fruit salad (apple, pear, orange), whipped cream
* a handfull of nuts

This weeks party

Me and my sisters cute boyfriend Mattias have the same kind of handbag! Isn't that just too cute!

It was at the Leather Strip concert in Karlshamn.

Guess I'm awake now, after yesterdays fabulous concert with Leather Strip! It was so good!

The only bad thing was that the guests didn't try hard enough with their looks. Well, there was no butt ugliness, still some stylish boys wearing the classic black shirt with tie; some red, some white, some striped in And One colors, some black. That was nice indeed - BUT - I'd like some more impressing hairdo's and MORE make up on the boys. Only a handful had found their black eyepencil I'm sad to say.

The girls did much better; I saw lashes, dreads, corsets and cool footwear...but as you know I'm never fully happy until people go ALL the way and dares to try-to-hard! But there were some very cute girls there :*
I intended to tell them, but I didn't find the time as I was in some fashinating dialogues. But if you might read this - you were really pretty <3

I will post pictures later, but now I'm gonna shape up, put on a übercool make up (yeah, right - as if I can be THAT cool) and meet up with friend Jennifer to go over the exhibit I'm the project leader of. She is a glass artist who will have her work shown. She is one cool girl I tell you!

Here's me and Jennifer at Depeche Mode 2001.