From SilkSoles.com: Celebrate Hallowe’en with our Silk Soles scream queen Scarlett Foxett! Scarlett gets busy in the shower with a vat of strawberry syrup (literally – it’s marketed for the stage but actually the manufacturer makes ice cream syrup as their main product). This was the first Horror set Scarlett and I shot together, an experiment in how the concept might work. We loved it so much it’s spun off into a whole separate endeavour (Bride of Darkness, where we film stills of lost horror films that never were).
It also fulfils one of my longest-standing ambitions. At the very first shoot I ever did with a model, back in the year 2000 when I was a newbie amateur, I shot three sets – a high-key barefoot bondage set, a low-key barefoot bondage set, and a set where we dripped stage red stuff down the model’s legs and over the soles of her bare feet. That turned into a bit of a debacle because the supposedly-skin-safe red stuff was nothing of the sort, and the model had an allergy to most soaps and detergents, so she ended up with red streaks down her legs for several days! I *had* tested the stuff on myself (I wasn’t a total idiot) but I’d only left it on my hand for a minute or so before washing it off – turned out it stains a lot more if left on for long enough to shoot a photoset.
Fortunately, the strawberry syrup was much more amenable to washing off, it also came out of a white wedding dress we shot with later in the week that got absolutely drenched in the stuff. And my skills as a photographer HAVE improved over the last quarter of a century, so I’m very pleased with these results – the results from the 2000 shoot were lacklustre to say the least. In all honesty though the main reason this set is so striking is because Scarlett is a massive horror fan and really brings the idea to life; no disrespect to my original model but it wasn’t her thing so although she did the best she could with it, it’s not the same as having a bloodthirsty Foxett in front of the camera!
