Fairy Cave

This blog is brought to you by the in-room wifi at an old-style luxurious Victorian manor I'm staying at in Surrey. I had a great shoot with one of my favourite photographers today, followed by an interview in my hotel room for KFS TV, followed by a three-course solo dinner- as I was absolutely starved by 5pm!

Here are a couple of photos by Rlux from a recent shoot in a cave in Somerset! I came back the following day with a torch to explore it further :D

I love the way the seams in the rock behind me have given me fairy wings.

Two shoots in London tomorrow: the first, me showing a photographer round some of my old London locations, and the second in the studio, which is also being filmed for TV. Then a girls-only dinner with my friends Roswell Ivory and Luci Alice ♥

Right now I'm relaxing with a Bareskin Beauty clay face mask while drawing a candlelit bath in my hotel room. If you haven't already seen it, I explain how I keep my skin clear and healthy while travelling in this video :)

Facebook and Instagram are also great places to keep up with me- they're quicker to update than my blog if I get a quick patch of phone signal between shoots! If you have any questions about modelling, either as an experienced model or as someone just thinking about giving modelling a try, please read this first (available worldwide through various websites)- it's £12.99 well invested as it will save you sooo much time, money and misdirected effort!

Lots of love,

♥ Anita ♥

New photos from my last Asian Tour

New photos shot by lovely photographer Geoffrey Pereira in Singapore during my 2014 Asian Tour :)

First up, me modelling nothing but the $1 sunglasses I bought in the market after I managed to break the £90 pair I brought with me. Skincare by Bareskin Beauty.

Lingerie by Playful Promises, shoes by Fabulously Fetish. Apologies if you already saw this one on Facebook!

Leather jacket my own, ended up in the bin after being eaten by extreme high humidity in the Malaysian jungle later in the trip. Oh well!

Back from a last-minute weekend in London modelling for four Olympus workshops and a beauty magazine editorial. I left the house at 4.30 on Saturday morning and arrived home precisely 48 hours later at 4.30 this morning, having stopped at three sets of services on the way back for an hour of sleep here, an hour of sleep there, and finally, when that didn't work, a 3am stop-off for caramel soy cappuccino, brushing and flossing of teeth and a DIY Bareskin Beauty exfoliating facial in the toilets at the last motorway services. I'm very tired today, but at least my skin is glowing!

Here's a clearer shot of those $1 sunglasses, 'cos I know you're dying to see them.

Broke my £90 #sunglasses so bought these replacements from the local market for $1. Just taking a break between two photo shoots here in Singapore today. I don't know why my arms came out looking blue. #redhead #modeldiary #travellingmodel

A photo posted by Anita De Bauch (@anitadebauch) on Oct 22, 2014 at 11:38pm PDT

Dentist appointment first thing tomorrow, followed by seventeen full days of shooting in a row in Somerset, Kent, the Isle of Wight, London, Milton Keynes and Norfolk. Woooooo!!! So close to having the deposit for my dream house now ^_^


5.45pm EDIT: I forgot to say, if you are a freelance model like me, or interested in becoming one, and would like my book on how I do it, the posh hardback version is on special offer on Amazon UK atm, reduced from £26.99 to £16.89 + free P&P :)

Free "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling video: Maintaining perfect "model" skin on tour (or on holiday)

Welcome to my first #MondayModelBiz video!!! :D

Scroll down and click the play button to watch it!

If you've read The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling, you'll know that my nutritionist, Juliette Scarfe and I talk extensively about how to achieve and most importantly, maintain (isn't that the hardest part?!) what I call in the book perfect "model" skin.

Hopefully you've enjoyed some of The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling easy and beautifying vegan recipes, tested some of the advice and are already experiencing great results every day! Even if this is new to you, though, you should be interested in this video I made for you about how to maintain great skin on the road, whether you're a model on tour or getting ready to have the best holiday photos ever when you go away this summer!

Planning your Summer holidays? Our favourite model Anita de Bauch gives us her beauty tips when travelling, including several products from our range, thanks Anita!
Posted by Bareskin Beauty on Saturday, 6 June 2015

Now I'm off to yoga, followed by lunch with my inspirational grandmother (88 year-old vegetarian with decades of yoga under her belt, and still a size 8!), and my cats, Dexter and Lilith! Have a great Monday, beauties!

Anita x

Gothesque magazine editorial

I have an arty four-page editorial in this month's issue of Gothesque magazine, styled and shot by Phine Ka in my hotel room :) It's funny how some of my favourite images have been shot in my hotel rooms, my apartment, other people's living rooms and places like that, rather than always being on expensive rented sets or locations!

Click the images to see larger versions!

I just got home from 24 hours of helping my nan settle into her new place, followed by a green smoothie, a two-hour workout, and lots of housework! I'm not the greatest chef in the world, but I'm a real homebody when it comes to cleaning. I like everything to look, feel and smell wonderful, both for me and my man :) The cats are happy because they got to sunbathe in the garden for a couple of hours while I enjoyed lunch al fresco (with my Bareskin Beauty sun cream) and hung out the washing.

The day before yesterday happened to be Marilyn Monroe's 89th birthday and my 9th modelling anniversary, not that I had time to celebrate!

Next up, Wokingham on Saturday! If you are a photographer interested in a studio shoot with me at a discounted rate, I currently have the morning available at Fine & DanDee Studio on Saturday 6 June for £50ph all-inclusive. They have a dungeon room and a boudoir room too! Email contact@anitadebauch.com if you're interested :)

Oh, and did I mention? I'm on Instagram- follow me if you're on there :D

Let the weekend begin!! 💋👙🔗🔒📹😍 #Lingerie: @playfulpromises Photographer: @adamrobertsonphotography #boudoirphotography #redhead #me #stockings #blackstockings #fullyfashioned #nylons #blacknylons #smile #sexy #boudoir #glamourgirl #glamourmodel #lingeriemodel #vintage #retro #kinky #kink #fetish #bondage #50shades #stockingsandsuspenders

A photo posted by Anita De Bauch (@anitadebauch) on May 29, 2015 at 10:19am PDT

When you're- with Anita- have a yabba-dabba-doo time!

I can't believe I didn't blog my cavegirl pictures yet :o

I've been wanting to do a retro cavegirl shoot inspired by Wilma Flintstone, Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC and Bettie Page's leopard pin-ups with Bunny Yeagar for literally years so it was great to finally get around to doing it with Leather Lovers, Fabulously Fetish, Bareskin Beauty and Luci Alice at my Lux Studio Day in Maidstone!

Here are my inspiration images!

My next studio day is a combined studio, dungeon AND boudoir day with all the appropriate sets at Fine & Dan Dee Studio in Wokingham on Saturday 6 June, if any photographers reading this are interested :) There is only one shoot left. contact@anitadebauch.com.

I hope everyone had a fun Bank Holiday weekend. Mine was mostly spent either drinking champagne or sleeping, although I did find time earlier in the week for a heavy rubber shoot and a skincare infomercial.

I also managed to enjoy some of the weather over the weekend, including visiting a local C14th church tower and climbing all the way to the top of the roof. It was on the same day I heard the good news about Ireland voting in marriage equality, so it seemed very fitting to be standing on a church in the glorious sunshine!

Sinical's Top 40 Alt Models

You can now anonymously vote for me in Sinical magazine's Top 40 Alt Models poll by clicking >>here<< (Right-hand column!)

You vote once every 24 hours for 30 days, so set a reminder on your phone ;)

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

I just drove 2 hours for a 6-hour heavy rubber shoot- now it's time to drive the 2 hours home! There may be a cappuccino stop along the way...

Anita xo

Photographer: Luci Alice ~ Wardrobe: Lady Allura's Latex

Leather Lovers leather & chainmail lingerie

Here are some new photos Luci Alice and I shot for Leather Lovers at Lux Studio, with Bareskin Beauty skincare. I love how big and juicy my butt looks in the back shot! I may be a size 8, but I still have curves!

If you like seeing pictures like this, please join me on my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. I always notice and appreciate new likes and follows :*

I'm having a super time on the computer today, sharing new photos, answering emails about the many exciting publications/ covers/ new experiences I have coming up, booking hotels (or at least I will be when hotels.com starts working again, grr), planning a trip to Scotland that I hope will include time to visit Loch Ness and the Findhorn Gardens, and possibly sampling a vegetarian haggis!

If you are a photographer based in Scotland, do get in touch if you would like to book me while I'm in your area- I'm going everywhere from Edinburgh to the Highlands in a big circuit, and I can offer you a special Scotland-only 10% off discount! Email contact@anitadebauch.com asap.

Retro pin-up with fully fashioned nylon stockings and corset

Too tired to write a long blog today after spending the last 24 hours helping my 89 year-old grandmother move house. Phew! Remind me to send myself flowers tomorrow as well as her ;)

Here are some new old pictures from a shoot I did in London two years ago with Chris Gurry, who has only now been able to find time to edit them due to personal reasons. I think they were worth the wait, and it was really fun to unexpectedly find them in my inbox after forgetting they existed for so long!

 Love the effect on this one!^

Very flattering to learn that I've been named one of the top 40 alt models in the world by Sinical magazine in their annual poll. I always feel weird posting about things like this as I get shy about asking people to vote for me >.< but I thought I should mention this one as Sinical is quite a big/ well-known name in the "alt"/ fetish fashion modelling world. If you want to, you can vote every day 20 May - 20 June.

Now to throw some clothes and my toothbrush into my suitcase and drive to the other side of the country for a lingerie, satin and catfight fetish shoot tomorrow! Then on Thursday, I'll be driving from there to London for a couple of days for a meeting with the editor of Skin Two, a full day's shoot on Friday, and then seeing the Prodigy play until 3am at Ally Pally Friday night :D

Dark Beauty

One of my favourite magazines, Dark Beauty, has published a photo set I shot with Luci Alice on their website, >here< :)

It was shot at my last Lux Studio Day in Kent (the next one is Saturday 23 May, if any photographer would like to book the remaining slot) and I was thrilled to hear Luci say that it was some of her best work! She is a lighting master!

The leather armour/ harnesses are from Louise McKay, the latex leggings were custom-made by Lady Lucie, the boots are from Fabulously Fetish and I believe Luci said the feathers were from Ann Summers! All my skincare was provided by Bareskin Beauty, and Luci was delighted at how little retouching there was to do (I take good care of my skin!).

I really like how my nipple looks in the last one, LOL. It almost looks like it's been painted on.

I think this is the first shoot I've done where more than one magazine wanted to publish it, but Dark Beauty got in there first! It was fun letting my inner teenage goth out to play, that's for sure. We were even listening to Marilyn Manson while we were shooting! (Sorry if you already saw this on Instagram/ Facebook!)

Being photographed for Louise McKay leather by @lucialicephotography today. #modelling #modeling #photoshoot #fashionshoot #posing #fashionphotography #studiophotography #me #video

A video posted by Anita De Bauch (@anitadebauch) on Mar 28, 2015 at 10:47am PDT

I think today will be spent dealing with the email mountain. I'm glad I spent all of yesterday reading in the garden with the cats, after my shoot was postponed last-minute, as the weather has gone back to grey and cooler today. I want to learn about how to identify common British/ Irish trees, and spring is supposed to be a good time to do it, but I'm going to wait for a sunnier day off to go walking ;)

Porta-model!

I love this fun new art nude piece by Tim Pile. We found this great old trunk on location that I just LOVED and had to climb around naked in :D I love glamorous luggage! Thanks to Bareskin Beauty, Tim didn't have to retouch my skin in Photoshop at all for this shot :)

^ Click the image to see a larger version.

I'm having a lovely time celebrating my first Beltane weekend. Glastonbury is certainly the place to be! I missed actual May Day as my love and I were both working, so I just read about some traditional Beltane celebrations in my Almanack. They're pretty steamy! There's one that involves all the men carving a huge phallus from a fallen tree. The women all kind of hump it and then it gets symbolically lowered into a special hole in the ground the women dug. Then they basically all have an orgy, from what I could tell. Gosh!

Yesterday, we went shopping in Glastonbury. The atmosphere was electric! I got a full body wax and bought myself some treats, including my favourite, raw chocolate, which is an aphrodisiac, and treated myself to an almond milk latte at La Terre.

Today's #Glastonbury #Beltane weekend haul! 💖😻💏👰💕💞🍬🍒🍸💋 #love #lovers #sex #romance #tantra #beltain #magick

A photo posted by Anita De Bauch (@anitadebauch) on May 2, 2015 at 9:01am PDT

The lady who ran the shop where I bought the incense and the book wished me a happy Beltane and said, "We have until Monday to misbehave."

I like to misbehave all year :) It's hard for people to feel free enough to act the way they want to all the time, I guess, which is probably why we assign certain days for certain things. I wish it was more of a taboo to hide your true nature than express it.

I think I'm going to make some scented candles today. I'm all out, except for little soy tealights. I like good lighting EVERYWHERE, not just at photo shoots, and candlelight is the most flattering of an evening :)

Feel free to follow me on Twitter for more nude photos :)

Review of The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling on Indiebration.com

There is a great review of my book on how to model without an agency, The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling, on Indiebration.com, where it is currently one of the Editor's Picks!

>>Click here to read it!<<

I was really pleased that the reviewer, Rick Hudson, noticed the time and effort that was put into the book's presentation; I always wanted it to be a beautiful piece in itself that would look good on a shelf or strewn around a lounge coffee table or tossed on the silk duvet of a boudoir. Practical AND stylish, that's what I like!

I was also happy that Rick highlighted The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling's total frankness. I don't beat about the bush, make things up to make myself look good or give daft or obvious advice that anyone could find repeated dozens of times online already. I wanted the book to be an honest and well-informed voice, over everything else, and actually useful in giving girls who read it the edge- both people at the very very start, starting from nothing, like I did, and people who are much further along, making a full-time living from freelance modelling but kind of wanting to take it to the next level now. That's who my book is for :)

>>Order your copy of The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling here. It's only £12.99.<<

Tenebrous magazine, April 2015

I have not one, not two, but THREE DOUBLE-PAGE SPREADS in this month's issue of Tenebrous magazine, in a Libidex latex fashion editorial shot on location by Magpie Tommy :)

Not bad, considering we did the whole shoot in about ten minutes flat! It was February, at night, in Norfolk... so cold, I actually went jogging while the equipment was being set up! Luckily, my skin didn't dry out. Go go Bareskin Beauty moisturisers!

In unrelated news, I'm listing a few things on eBay, so feel free to look through them and add me to your watch list- there's more to follow.

I bring you...

I had my first lie-in in I don't know how long this morning, until the heady hour of 10.30am, when my fuzzy alarm clock (Lilith) woke me up, demanding breakfast. I feel so rejuvenated!

And I wake to find this in my inbox from photographer Tim Pile :) Apologies if you already saw it on Twitter this morning!

I can't really be bothered to give myself a hair and makeup credit for this as I didn't really do anything, but my skincare was provided by Bareskin Beauty.

I loved this spectacular hand-carved fireplace!

For any photographers reading this, I am doing an Art Nude Studio Day at Lux Studio in Kent on Saturday 23 May, at a special all-inclusive rate of £50ph (me + studio + equipment + parking). Please email me at contact@anitadebauch.com if you would like to discuss.

I'm off for a hike in the Somerset countryside! These Somerset Photographic Tours are really feeding my love and appreciation for this beautiful natural area.

Review of The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling in Gorgeous Freaks Magazine

There is a great review for my book, The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling, in the latest issue of Gorgeous Freaks Magazine :)

Book cover image by Jamila and all my skincare was provided by Bareskin Beauty, who also provided exclusive expert advice in the book on eating for beauty.

Just click the images to see the larger versions :)

Hang onto your e-receipt when you order... I want to reward you all with gifts when I have the opportunity!

You can order at:

• Amazon UK
• Amazon USA
• Waterstones
• WH Smith
• Barnes & Noble
• Fishpond

Let me know what you think of The "Ugly" Girl's Guide to Modelling in the comments or email contact@anitadebauch.com. I'd love to hear from you!