This week I was challenged by the lovely lady over at Eclectic odds n sods to take part in one of her photography challenges. I am sad to say that it took me a bit to figure out what picture to use. I haven’t finished switching over to my newer camera phone-thing so any new pictures are horribly blurry, so I’ve been looking through my older ones.
This was a costume I created for a character several years ago. My hair is red using Kool-aid to temporarily dye it. I tasted strawberries for weeks even after washing it out of my hair.
image: from martha0stout’s phone, Halloween costume
The prompt for this photo challenge was the following:
Decadence
“The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth – that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.”
― Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony
I’m afraid the other things I could think of I didn’t have pictures of nor was I able to take one with my scratched lens that looked to fit the prompt. Then I found this and remembered the leather jacket that I’d borrowed from my sister and the thick red hair that I had for a time. No one recognized me all day, it was fabulous!
Make sure to check other responses to this prompt!
Breathing In 
The taste lasted for weeks????? What the hell is in Kool-Aid?
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I have no idea, but it was marvelous!
My hair ran red forever though whenever I got it wet. Thank goodness it didn’t rain a lot that October!
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haha that made me laugh. Coolaid is a flavoured drink lmao, you put that in your hair? I am not sure if that is decadent or very out of the box, i mean way out of the box lolol. You look lovely though, nice to see you 😉 Of course i love red hair being a red head, not so red now I am older but nonethless it’s in the jeans hehe.. Thank you for participating…grins..now do we get a piece of decadent poetry because I know how good you are with your words? puts greedy head on xx
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(*cracks up*) I shall do my best for you!
I got the idea from a friend at work when I wanted a temporary hair dye just for the one month without it knocking me out like most hair dyes. My hair is back to its ash blonde and no longer that long.
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wow, quite a change then, but i think it suits you x
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