Birthday Pinup Shoot

If you remember, almost two weeks ago, I mentioned briefly a birthday pinup shoot.

A little back story for you.

I have recently been speaking with Heather, who is the owner of Vavoom Pinups (website has music) about helping run some events for Vavoom.  Four of us "vets" were invited to participate as VP Contributors and help really beef up some of Vavoom's activities and presence in Chicago.

During this meeting Heather started talking about some future ideas she had which lead to me mentioning (not so subtly) that my birthday was the day after our meeting.  And thus, the impromptu Friday birthday shoot was born.

Since it was my birthday shoot, I decided to pick up a few birthday related props.  First were a bunch of balloons from Party City.  *Side note, I need to buy balloons more often.  They just make you feel happy!

Then, I stopped at Molly's Cupcakes on Clark to get a few fun looking cupcakes.  I also had some confetti and candles at my house to use.

As I mentioned last time I did a shoot, the first thing you get to do when you arrive is get your hair and makeup done.  Being the last person of the evening and know having chatted with Sara, the hair stylist a few times, it was nice to have a nice time just chatting with the girls. I snagged a couple of pictures of the getting ready process.

 They had some new water glasses at the studio - how adorable are they?!

 This is Sara perfecting my 'do.  I'm sure she would be thrilled by this picture.  Sorry Sara!

After my hair and makeup were done, I was just sitting and chatting waiting for the girl before me to finish and for Heather to put out a few fires for the next morning.

The shoot was a ton of fun.  By the time we got started, it was just Heather and I left in the studio.  We took a few shots with the balloons, a few shots with the cupcakes and then I put on my black high waisted bikini for a few final shots just to round out the shoot.  There was TONS of laughing and I had a really great time with the shoot.

It's amazing how much more comfortable I was with Heather the second time around.  Not that I wasn't comfortable the first time, but the second time was different.  Also, it's addictive.  So there's that. :)

After the shoot, Heather and I sat and looked at the pictures (and got another good laugh in).  She touched up a photo while we were sitting there talking, which was really interesting to see their process.  I ended up leaving the studio around 12:30am that night.

Here's the photo she touched up while I was there.

photo by Vavoom Pinups