Decided to grow out my fringe going to try and apply for some fashion agencies in a month or so after I've lost a little weight I wanna make sure my body is in the best shape so I have better chances of being accepted. I'm not really sure how well a tattooed female model would do in the fashion industry but I really want to give it a go, I don't have anything to lose at this point.

I've started wearing less make-up now also, which is kinda new for me as I am so used to wearing red lipstick and winged eye liner everyday. It's funny because I actually feel more 'pretty' natural than I did with more make-up on.



Night x

So I have a new hair colour and a new tattoo

One of my favourite shots by lavezzaro for an upcoming SG set!




Also here's what I've been working on over the past week or so. Only test make-ups and I still gotta add bits and change but it's going well. The theme is 1950's murder victims.

Hey guys

Feeling pretty tired today as been sat knotting a wig since 9am this morning and now my fingers, eyes and back aches nearly finished it though, thank god. Got less than 2 week left of uni so everything's a bit manic, if I'm quiet on here it's because I'm frantically trying to get all my prosthetic pieces finished ready for my assessments!

Anyway, sorry to bore you! Here's a cute photo I took today



Xx

Sneaky peeks from my shoot with Lavezzaro today, she's an absolute darling!

So I went to this amazing insanely expensive house for my SG shoot and met all the lovely UK suicide girls such as Mel, ally, Maisie and Chad. I shot with miro and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the set turns out, I'm gutted I didn't get to meet Lass as she is my favourite SG but hopefully our paths will cross soon



Back of camera shot from the shoot:



I'm also shooting again this week and I really wanna shoot in my corset. I just love the pin-up look so much!




Hope everyone is good

Gem
Xxxx

So a couple weeks ago I had lost my motivation/inspiration for modelling and I didn’t feel very confident that I was really any good at it in the first place. Since joining Suicide Girls I have never been more motivated. I have found the industry pretty hard to get into and to be honest, there are lot of rude and ignorant people that I met along the way, which made me kind of lose the drive to pursue it. I find it really hard to accept rudeness as I think it is totally unnecessary on all counts. I’d like to think I am an intuitive person and usually my gut feeling of a person is right. I like to surround myself with only genuine kind people and I’m unable to kiss ass which, perhaps has hindered me over the past year.

I feel like I’ve spent the past year waiting for something to happen, putting in all this effort for things and not getting 100% effort back. Wasted time, however a lesson learned.

So now I’m on the Suicide Girl site, and I can say with all the truth in my heart that I haven’t met a kinder bunch of people/members/models/photographers than these people. The staff are helpful, informative friendly and best of all, respectful. The members are lovely also and I’m making some wonderful friends. It’s a community.

I traveled to London today for a casting with SG and they have asked me to come back and shoot with them this coming Thursday with one of their staff photographers. I’m really looking forward to it! I am also shooting another set with SG photographer Lavezzaro, who is coming to England for a week or so. We are going to get a few shots for a couple of tattoo magazines she works for also hopefully, so I feel pretty excited!


I guess what I’m saying is when one door closes, another one opens, you know? Like maybe the path I was on before wasn’t really for me. I finally feel like I’m going somewhere with it all now, and I’m doing it on my own, which gives me a sense of empowerment also. I feel like I have a place in this industry and I’m not kidding myself anymore or trying to be someone that I’m not.


So yeh, life is pretty good.

http://suicidegirls.com/members/GemmaKate/albums/site/33330/

So it's thigh high Thursday right?

Sending kisses to everyone that has liked my set up in MR so far xxxx

Thank you for all of the positive feedback on my first SG set so far, it's been lovely reading all of the nice comments. If any of you want to get to know me a bit better, you can follow me on twitter,, tumblr and instagram.
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