Je suis presque-tarienne.

A couple weeks ago, I helped a friend do hair and make-up for a shoot.  My first gig as hair and make-up girl, but the thought getting to be in a below 40 meat locker somehow intrigued me.  So wake up at the butt-crack of dawn in order to get three models pretty and ready to shoot by 7am.  FDA only allowed us to be at this said meat locker in the boonies of the Bronx until 11, so it was a wham bam thank you ma'am and back into the city before lunch.

We're shooting a guy nicknamed "the Femur" hence the slabs of dead cow on meat hooks.  Lovely scantily clad ladies to create a very macho result.  Butcher knives and chainsaws included.

Things I learned from this shoot:

1.  I can do make-up and hair for three girls in about an hour and a half.

2.  The cold doesn't do anything to make-up except make noses red and lips a little quivery.

3.  Meat in a fridge, no matter how large (the meat or the fridge), doesn't really smell.

4.  However, trails of meat outside in the baking sun smells like death threw up on a bonfire.

5.  Don't make a girl kneeling on the concrete floor of a giant refrigerator in a mini dress carry a 30 lb cow leg.

Bon appétit!

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