Exploring New Concepts with Floofie

 I've been shooting with Floofie for about 15 years. She has become my model of choice for exploring new concepts. For this shoot, I decided to work with bodysocks and low-melt wax. Floofie happily agreed to pose for these concepts, and we used her garage studio for the shoot. 

We started with the bodysocks. I brought four of the outfits in different colors: nude, pink, red, and purple. I set up a black background so the model and stockings would stand out clearly. Two strobes with large light modifiers were set at forty-five degrees to each side of the model. They were placed close to the model to wrap the light around the subject, and their power was set for an aperture of f/8.

For each bodysock, Floofie spent about ten minutes attempting various poses. The socks tightly conformed to her body, and it took real effort for her to push against the fabric's confines to extend her arms and legs. She got a good workout with each set of poses, sweating and short of breath by the time we finished all four socks. We started with the nude bodysock, then shot our way through the colors.

After she had had a chance to cool off and dry off, we started the second phase of our shoot–dripping wax on her body. This required the use of special low-melt candles made of a mixture of paraffin and soy. 

The candles were unscented and came in various colors. Through experimentation, we discovered that the best drip patterns started with the darkest colors and progressed to the lighter ones. The candles also had to be held at the right angle to get the best flow and reduce the heat of the falling wax. 

For most of the shoot, Floofie held the candle and directed the drips onto her body. I used the candle when she could no longer reach or see where the wax fell. We started with her left breast, then moved to her hip, and finally to her derrieré. 

After the shoot, the wax peeled off easily, leaving only a faint trace of color on the skin. This washed away quickly in a hot shower.