Tao Okamoto

I thought we'd have a lighter post today! I recently found a photo shoot with model Tao Okamoto in it, and I thought it was just lovely.

She's 25, and Japanese, and she has a star tattoo on her neck that I love. This is from Vogue China.

You can kind of see her star tattoo there. This is the first photo of hers that I ever saw.

Here's a better look at her tattoo. I think it's really unique. My mother thinks it looks like she needs to see a dermatologist. I informed her that I am going to get the word "Chola" tattooed along the side of my neck. My mother was not amused.

I looked just like this. I was all, "Puh-lease, mother."

It's nice to see a beautiful Japanese girl in the media. I notice that a lot of the time, for example in movies, especially American ones, that the Chinese girls get a lot of Asian roles, even for Japanese parts. That really bothered me in Memoirs of a Geisha. It was set in Japan, so why not try to find talented Japanese girls? The ladies of that film did really well, but it's sad that there aren't many prominent Japanese role models for girls in America. As a Japanese American Italian etc. etc. I have always felt that void. But Tao is a promising role model! She seems very nice and she has been the face of Ralph Lauren, and has other jobs also.

Gaze upon the face of promise! Or something.

Gemma Ward

So, can we just talk about my love for Gemma Ward today? She's a model. And she looks like this:

Well, she looked like that when she was sixteen and first starting to get recognition, at least. She got a page in Elle Girl Magazine and from then on she was the only model besides the greats (Kate, Naomi, etc.) that I could recognize no matter what.

She's just so pretty! And the article she did was very nice, she seemed very personable. I guess it's because she looks so different compared to how I look that I find her really fascinating. I think the article said she looked like an alien baby doll. Her head is freakishly big.

You're blind if you can't tell her head is humongous. 

Obviously she's an ugly freak. Look at all the...ugliness...or something...As you can see she has also guest edited for Vogue Magazine, and she was in the movie The Strangers, and she was a mermaid in the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I just think she photographs really well. I do not photograph well at all, so I feel terribly jealous. Maybe it's her big head that makes her so photogenic? Is it filled with secrets on how to look nice in pictures?

I knew it. 

Yulia Gorbachenko Photography

Hello! I recently stumbled upon the photographer Yulia Gorbachenko's work, and I thought I'd share some of my favorite photographs of hers. She really focuses on what the model is doing and thinking, and what she is doing and thinking, and together they make photos that really affect her. I think that's a really interesting and different way of doing things. Here are some of her pictures:

She has multiple ones with this model with flowers on her face. They look so pretty and different.

She also has some interesting makeup pictures, focusing on the lips.

Here's another one.

And the eyes.

I love the color combination with that one. She also has some model/fashion photographs.

Her name's Yulia Gorbachenko, and her website is http://www.yuliagorbachenko.com/

She has so many more photographs, that are all really diverse and well thought out. I hope you enjoy her work!