Repunzel, let down thy hair!

Nov. 17, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Ok, not quite. But for those who’ve known me and my work for a while- I have had pixie hairs forever.
When I shot Tipper Gore I had cutehairs.

Don’t get me wrong- I loooove my short hair. Well, at least I did. As with anything in this life, its novelty wore off. I found that I only had short hair because I was lazy. So October of 2009 I went REALLY short- I was tired of maintaining my short hair. Can you believe that?
Super Pixie Hairs

(Damn, that’s a sharp haircut! I do kinda miss the short hair… LOL I’m nostalgic- leave me alone!)

So, why would I grow out my hairs when I’m one of 20% of the population who can ‘get away’ with short hair (I love that- Get Away with it, as though it’s 1920…)? I wanted to look like a girl, a woman, and not a boy.

Look- I get it. I’m tall, skinny, and have small boobs. Short hair is an automatic lesbian statement in today’s society (and the ladies LOVE me!), and while it’s fun to pretend, it strips away a bit of your sense of femininity… which is precisely what I was going for post-breakup-2005.

But now? Now I want to be curvy, sassy, girly and look like a good-for-nothin’-woman. I’ve gained weight and muscle back to my ‘dancer’ weight of 1997, which is 25 pounds over ‘model weight’ believe it or not… (let’s discuss that later), have a few more curves and hair I can not only play with, but gets stuck in my mouth, under the straps of my bags, my eyeballs, etc.
Kevin Foong, photographer, 45 stories up mid-town.
PhotoBooth Fun at Fotoweek DC2010

So, It’s growing. And let me say- It’s 1998 everytime I look in the mirror. What a trip! LOL It really does feel like forever since I had long hair, it’s always somewhat fluctuated… it’s amazing the transformative properties and possibilities we have as humans… I suppose this is the higher meaning, the moral of this story. Just call me Aesop.

Let’s take a fun trip down memory lane!

The OG hair: This is taken circa 2000. I was a wee lassy.
Nineteen-year-old model-Carly Hippie Hair

I love bangs. Almost all my hairstyles have had them. I like hiding behind my hair. It’s true. This was pre-uber-short-chop. I had tricked myself into believing I was going to grow it out again, but for some reason didn’t like it… so off with her head, essentially.
I <3 Bangs

Who can forget the “who hair” phase… which progressed into the David Bowie phase (as were most of my “shit I need a haircut” days…)
Who Hair (4 a.m. wake-ups suck)

David Bowie Hair (If I had a dollar everytime...)

Dear SiVad, you were loved and are missed. RIP 2010. I wore this hairstyle to Soup or Salad (my peoples in the south can I get a heyyyyyyyyy). . . and elicited a LOT of response…
R.I.P.-photographer Sivad, God's messenger and creator of FishHair.

well. that was fun, but now I’m bored. I’m off kids. Stay Tuned.
CeO
(and always remember: I’m a Magical Unicorn. It’s true.)
I'm a Magical Unicorn. Last of my kind.

Portrait of a Fine-Art-shooting-Jiu-Jitsu-fighting-photographer

May 21, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Tiano took some amazing shots of me:

by TianoMy photographers often have wanted to experience life as a model, and now that I’m a photographer I’m flattered that many of them trust me to capture them. It is a great responsibility to tell their story, and here is Tiano, the Jiu-Jitsu-fighting-fine-art-photographer. :)

Lost Souls

May 21, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Here’s a snapshot of the less-touristy areas of Galveston, often afflicted, and then abandoned or ignored. I love how the colors play against the sky, still almost the definitive beach-bunny-color scheme.  These were all shot from the car, out the window. I love how it almost stretches the images, twists up the ends like an old photo.

Gulf Coast Delights

May 20, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Here’s a few pics from my recent travels over Galveston Island on the Texas Gulf coast and Houston. Travel piece to follow at Blast.com. Galveston is a wonderfully nostalgic place that is literally disappearing into time, while Houston is a thriving metroplex.

Another Mad Hatter…

April 2, 2010   Leave a Comment  

Clean cup! Clean cup! Move down! Move down!

I am Alice, and this is MY Wonderland. I have a whole series  based on the move to NYC- an allusion to Alice in Wonderland, and yes, audience, I shot them before Johnny Depp made Lewis Carroll popular again. You can see some of the images on my site, but for the sake of your viewing pleasure, here is one:

Rabbithole

(c) CarlyErin O'Neil

Meanwhile, another one of my hats is as Makeup Artist and I have a new story published! The Cry for Neverland, where I was set to do makeup, but then the other model didn’t show! So I jumped in, sick as all get-out, and pulled double duty. I also did the wicked edit you see here.

Photography: Joao Carlos

Hair: Eve Whittington

Styling: Jessica Vanniel

Models: Me, Danielle

Makeup: Me

Edit/Retouch: Me