Planning for my cover models costume/props

I decided that I wanted to take close up shots of my model's face for my magazine cover. I wanted to do this to display the confidence she embodies with her face rather than her body. I wanted my audience to be able to see the glow in her eyes, and the acceptance and love she has for herself. This would mean that there wouldn't be a full costume, instead, we'd focus on her hair and makeup. We will be using a pastel tapestry as the backdrop and ensuring that her makeup look compliments the background. Furthermore, we will be using a tripod LED ring light to take these pictures. I wanted to use this to properly capture her essence with the best lighting.

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Aiden & Ashley uncover their path towards self-love and self-acceptance. Openly discussing their hardships, realizations, and overall journeys with self. Self-love and self-acceptance look completely and utterly different to each and every person you encounter. "We all struggle with accepting or loving some part of ourselves", Ashley says. For Ashley, it was always the inability of accepting and embracing the physical vessel she had been brought into this world with. "I always hated social media and the Ideas it enabled into my mind as a 10-year-old." The unrealistic ways in which media portrays women tremendously affected the way Ashley started perceiving herself. She thought that in order to fit society's definition of "pretty", she must have had to carry each trait she noticed the women on TV had, a tiny waist, hairless bodies, no stretch marks, or pimples, and so on. Because Ashley fed into this preconceived idea of how a "truly...

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