Early Blooming Kawakuzakura Photo Shoot in Yoyogi Park

February 2020

I went with my lovely photographer friend Lisa (instagram: @hanamiphotography) to photo shoot and frolic with the early-blooming kawazuzakura! 

Here's my YouTube video from this day:

We met up at Harajuku station and walked to Yoyogi Park from there. 

We planned to shoot me, but then we both got distracted by the beauty and started shooting the flowers instead XD 

 Then we saw some mejiro! They're little green birds, and I'm always surprised to see green birds in the wild, because they aren't in WV as far as I know. When I see a green bird, I think of a parrot or something tropical that I'd only seen before in captivity. We had to try for a while to capture these little guys, as they were hopping and flitting all about!

 Then we talked a lot, about life, Japan, flowers, photography. She was so sweet and easy to talk to right after meeting! We clicked right away, and she even let me try out her camera!

After shooting, we decided to grab a quick bite at a healthy cafe like an oasis in Omotesando. We managed to leave with cameras full of beauty, bellies full of good healthy food, and hearts full of friendship. <3 

Here are the photos she took of me, and here is her instagram where you can find all her beautiful photography! Contact her if you want to have beautiful flower photos while you're in Tokyo! 

https://www.instagram.com/hanamiphotography/

It was great meeting someone as obsessed with flowers as I am! I didn't even know about there being kawazuzakura in Yoyogi, so I'm really glad I got the chance to see them. I have already seen plum blossoms, and kawazuzakura this year. I am so excited for the full-force cherry blossom bloom and then next adventure with Lisa! <3

Blog: Mt. Wood Overlook Group Photo Shoot Part 3

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This is the last post from this shoot! These are some of the photos taken of me by the other photographers there. I had to wait until I received more of their photos before posting this, so sorry for the super lateness!

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And here are some from my camera that Jenny and Ashley took of me!

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Blog: Grungy Photo Shoot with Cleo - Finished Photos!

Seriously, this might be the best shoot of me ever.  Follow me out of my usual element of cuteness and into this sexy world of grunginess!

Photographer: Cleo's Photography

Makeup/Wardrobe: Doll Face

My favorite shoes, Vivienne Westwood rocking horse winged sandals <3

Takeru's mom actually gave me this shirt, from Zara in Japan

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These are both from shoots done by Cleo, makeup, photography, and wardrobe in the second one.  Definitely one of my top favorite photographers to work with!  And of course we have great chemistry working together.  Seriously, I look like two different people!

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Blog: Grungy Photo Shoot with Cleo - Behind the Scenes and Sneak Peak

Omgggg, I had such an amazing shoot yesterday with Cleo's Photography! 

She asked me for ideas of what we could do for our shoot, and I for once, came up with a blank. We already knew what location we wanted. I have a closet full of awesome cute dresses, which is my usual go-to when I want to look really good for something, but I've already done a lot of that kind of style, though I do love it. But it's my main style, and as a model, I'll have to make many different styles look good! I think I nailed it ;D

First of all, my makeup and hair were transformed by Doll Face. The makeup was smokier and had more contouring than I ever do on my own. It's always fun to see what someone who doesn't do makeup on your face everyday, and has a different style and more experience can do! It's truly amazing, the magic of makeup. Here, I will dump a bunch of selfies I took XD

Halfway through straightening my hair...

Cleo did the styling, and the wardrobe was made up of a mixture of her's, mine, and my boyfriend's clothing (his everyday style is basically the boy version of what we were going for) XD It was fun to wear such a different style than what I usually wear, because I've always admired this style very much, but was never sure that I could pull it off. I totally could though! Not only was the clothing style super different, but I had to pose in a different way than I ever had to before. I had to do kind of an effortlessly, lazy kind of sexy look. But it wasn't actually effortless for me! Effortless and comfortable ends up with me laughing and doing something stupid or dorky, and I'm used to doing a more cutesy, innocent kind of look when modeling, so I had to do a little bit of acting. This was definitely a good experience booster and portfolio builder for me XD

The location is a place I had seen from afar and had been wanting to check out/shoot at for years. I got many bug bites and we had do do a small amount of hiking and climbing, but it was so worth it! It almost looked like this place was set up with multiple perfect shooting locations. I kind of wish I could have brought my camera to get some good shots of how cool this location was, but since my old camera was stolen during a shoot, I decided to play it safe and leave it behind.

And what you've all been waiting for, the sneak peak!

I will do another post with the other finished pictures once I receive them :D

Bye bye for now <3