Wrestler and Diva Dirt contributor, Mia Yim is currently in Japan where she is set to debut for the REINA promotion. Mia will be sending us exclusive blogs and pictures from her trip. Check back for regular updates!
Ahyong all!
If you have a problem with how I spell Ahnyong, get over it ^.^ Anyways, it is now Sunday. The day after my big tag match with Aki Kambayashi against Hailey Hatred and Manami Toyota. I will be coming home Weds with two losses in Japan, but with the greatest experience of my career thus far. This match was TOUGH! Much respect to all three of those ladies, they can really give their all. I took some stiff kicks from Hailey, got my butt handed to me on a silver platter by Toyota. I don’t mind the losses, I am just happy to have walked away from two incredible matches in Japan. Looking at Toyota across the ring before the bell rang felt like a dream. The lights only on us. Streamers getting cleaned up by our feet (Yes, I got streamers for the first time!!! Love the Japanese fans!) It was simply unbelievable and indescribable. Two years ago, I would only imagine and day dream about wrestling in Japan, asking myself “I wonder what it would be like over here..” and now I can say, “Oh, wrestling in Japan is TOUGH! But I enjoy every minute”. The blood, sweat, and tears of two hard working years and this is the pay off. Forget getting glammed up for TV. Forget winning a belt from a box. This trip to Japan was the payoff. I thank god, my family, my friends, and all of you supporters for spreading my name, cheering (or booing) me, getting behind me. THANK YOU!
A lot of women try to emulate that classic pin-up look, to decidedly mixed results. The usual pitfalls are that the look is too cheap, trashy or overdone. The key, in my opinion, to pulling off the look is to keep that vintage aesthetic so that you look like you could have really been one of those girls, not just a girl in the 21st century wearing polka dots, putting on red lipstick and rolling her hair. Beth has decided to give it a go here, dressing in a polka dot halter top, a gray high-waisted pencil skirt and nude pumps. Her hair is done-up too in a period appropriate wave. All together, it’s great look that manages to be both modern and pin-up–the color choice is modern, and the silhouette is pin-up. Her sculpted frame may not exactly fit with the “softer” look of the mid-century models, but I think it’s the way she positions her body–i.e., the poses–that make me overlook that slight inconsistency. Most of her poses, with her carefully bent knees and cheery disposition, fit the theme and make me feel that, if this were many decades ago, Beth could have been one of those models. My usual gut reaction to shoots like these is to notice how deliberate and cheesy the Diva or Knockout in question looks in a “vintage” look, as if she’s playing dress-up rather than crafting a look for a photoshoot. Beth, though she doesn’t fit the “classic” look of a pin-up, pulls off the look rather well, and sells it further with her poses. It’s moments like these when she puts the “glamor” in “Glamazon”.
This is a rather standard Bella Twins photoshoot, including a few tandem shots and a few solo ones. Brie and Nikki are posing in matching camouflage ring gear, doing the usual mix of haughty smirks and smiles. There isn’t too much of this photoshoot that stands out, but I really like their positioning in some of these photos, where they slightly overlap each other, one in the foreground and one in the background. It’s a simple touch, but creates much more dynamic photos that ones where they’re simply standing hip-to-hip. I’m sure shooting numerous photoshoots together gives them ideas like that, and I’m glad to see that they’re coming up with different ways of posing together, since it seems like 9 times out of 10 they’ll be having shoots together rather than separately. Other than that touch, this photoshoot is the usual Bella fare, which isn’t a bad thing, but just isn’t all that exciting. I have to say, though, that I prefer this kind of photoshoot to the highly-themed, prop-laden ones they do every so often. Subtlety, a lot of the time, creates better photos.
