Double or nothing
Since I had already lost one model, I decided to go double or nothing to try and make up for the bad start to the day I was having. I called a friend of mine and asked him to get me two girls ASAP. He said he found a chick that he thinks I’d like and was sending her over, but had to call around to see if he could find another girl. And to my surprise, the first girl (Riga) showed up rather quickly. She was down and ready to go, but I still only had one girl and I wasn’t about to do the shoot unless I had two. So I told Riga to just make herself at home for the time being. But as time went on it was looking more and more like I wasn’t going to get a second model that day. Right around that time my friend calls back and said he’d found another girl and he was sending her over. But I had no idea what this girl was going to look like or anything… so I just had to wait it out to see what was going to walk through the door.
With the shoot now a tentative go, Kristina (my make-up girl) started getting to work on Riga. By this time it was getting late into the afternoon, and I needed to get to the bank before they closed to pick up a wire transfer that was sent to me. I left my trusty make-up girl in charge of things until I returned, hoping that when I returned the second girl would have arrived; and be to my liking. Well, after a half an hour journey to the bank… I get there and they tell me they can’t give me the funds because the wire was for too much money. Can you believe that shit?!! This is coming from a bank! I swear… this kind of thing could only happen in Russia.
By the time I return it’s well after 7pm, and I arrive (a bit irritated from my wild goose chase at the bank) to find girl number 2 (Lilu) already in the make-up chair. I walk over to take a look at her, and THANK GOD she turned out to be to my liking. So it may have taken a while, but now I finally had my two girls and could start preparing to get this goddamn shoot underway.