"Oops.."

love the clarity of this shot, greta colour work, & a great picture

Well done

whilst it was hard work it was well worth it, this is a fantastic image well done

Very striking image and love your expression! Brilliant work.

well i thought it was great before the explanation but now i know pain was involved i have up graded to wooooooohoooo awesome art work girl.

wow but its my all time favourite of yours

great work!

Thanks you all. :)
Cheri-I just noticed that we both spell favourite with an OU.
(well, you’re British so it’s to be expected..but I’m 100% American!)
Eh..I blame my friends across the pond for rubbing off on me..heh.
Glad to see your zoo is doing so well!
;)

love it and it was definately worth your effort
xkc

Worth the pain!! And congrats for getting to the featured page!

love it well done

I remember this one from back in the day….very nice!!

Ans so worth it Birgitta, the result is superb :))

this is great!!! haha another soa’er on here, im babyfreakm on soa. how have you been?

Way cool. Love it all.

Wow sounds like a lot of work! It was worth it, it turned out great!

I love this shot!

Well done…nice job on this!

one of my all time favs! great use of denied crop and oh so colorful and whimsical! it should be featured in no time!

“oops” went to mybubble first… now i realize it DID make to the FEATURED page! It is a so well deserved!

I always loved this shot. It is so full of fun, and very well done.

Very nicely done.

Hey, I know that shot! I believe I voted on it once! ; ) It’s still an amazing shot. Hi there Brigitta!

It was worth it, very good

Amazing job on this!

such a great idea. i love it!

absolutely amazing and beautiful

And worth every brush stroke LOL!!!! This has got to be one of the best self-portraits i have seen -fabulous strong contrasts and a great expression.

Thanks so much everyone. !
For you fellow SOAers-you found me. Heheh…
I appreciate your feedback. ;-)

So funny ,super work.

This has always been one of my favorites… I think I first saw this on Soa… great work.

The hard work really did pay off. This is quite a striking image.
Excellent work!

Very nice.

This is fantastic, amazing work! Wonderful vibrant colours!!

great result – expression is the best – and the tones!

totally worth all the effort – looks fantastic!

oh my god!! you did that!!! all those brush strokes!!! you have more paitence than me!!!!! it is a great result!! its you yeah?

Thanks everyone!
Yep Deborah. It’s me.
I had a bout of horrible insomnia, so grabbed the camera
and headed for the bathroom. (A perfectly “normal” thing to do at 4
in the morning!) ;-)

wow. a lot of work but worth it!

This is a fantastic shot – I love the vivid red and your surprised expression…

The softness of the face is great with the sharpness of the eyes. I love the slight pink tint that goes along with the bright red. Well done.

I absolutely love this! Fabulous editing!

Great expression

Very cool! Love the colour and expression!

Your hard work has paid off. Great image

very cool image

Beautiful closeup – not to worry – you look beautiful anyway =)

risky

You KNOW how I feel about this one! OMG! I am SO happy to see your work here! This is SIGNATURE BIRG!

I always thought this was great when I saw it as your profile shot, so great that you posted it! It’s a wonderful self portrait and well worth all those brush strokes.. the colour is so vibrant!

I LOVE this!!!!! Such expression!!!!! Great work!

Wonderful job – so bright and full of energy (must be all those strokes :-) LOL

Hey you.
I recognize you from somewhere. Hmmm….
(scratching head…)
Could it be….SOA?! ;)
Good to see ya.
:)

Very striking image. I love the lipstick shot…great post work and it paid off.

argh..
well can happen
fresh, funny, and very strong image

excellent Birg,great to see ya here

excellent pic Birg, great to see ya here!!

love this pic Birg, great to see ya here!!

Nice colour treatment.

It looks fantastic…........well worth all the hard work

oh wow I just saw that this pic was on the featured wall….......... COOL!!!

Still one of your best Birg….. :-)

Worth the time you spent on it :) Cool shot.

Alot of work done here but its a bright popping picture.

Very nicely done.

Gorgeous work!
Al

Wonderful image , very clever

Beautifully done! lighting, composition, color tones and the contrast…. every thing is amazing!
really well done to you!

Great shot Birgitta. I love the concept and very well done.

Fabulous creativity and expressive softness!

Superb work, great expression :))

Thank you much everyone!!

Birgitta: The price we pay for art. Well done. your efforts paid off immensely. I really like this piece. Continued success in all that you do.

fantastic work! Well done!

Very creative, funny and well executed. An immediate fave for me..

Oh my!! I recognize you! This is an awesome shot. Your birgitta from SOA. This is Lisa (Van907)
:)

Great Shot!

Haaa. Hiya Lisa. ;) (It’s inevitable that we’d see each other again..heheh.)
Good to see ya! And thanks for stopping in you all….. :)

This is a fantastic image Brigitta, well worth all the work you put into it. A favourite for sure.

This is fantastic! Great image and colours, well worth the hard work you put in! Well done :-)

What I like about it: contrast. sharp colours. brightness. Magnificent motion, and your Uniqe style of story telling. Absolutely fantastic.

great work birgitta!

haha- this is a great one!

awesome shot

Excellent!

Lol! Love this!! Brilliant work!

Great image! Well done.

I absolutely love this one! Its superb!!!!!! But then again, they are always excellent!!!!!!!

VERY cool titel/composition! =)

Incidentally came across your portfolio, Birgitta. Wow, you have some great work. Love your style and imagination. This concept is wonderful.

Love This! don`t believe the description…i just reckon you aint no good at puttin` lippy on! ;)

Wow, so much work went into this! But it was definitely worth it. :D It’s a striking image and your skin has such a wonderful softness to it. Love that shade of red too. You’re a whiz! :D

your port folio is excellent, love your photos.

Thanks you all!!
I appreciate you taking the time. :)

This was so worth the effort. It is fantastic. Love the detail in the eyes

well dear brigitta maybe it was lot of work for you to do, but you got yourself pretty damn good picture! hehe, all kidding on the side, dear this is brilliant. i admire your mind!

This totally works. It’s funny, sexy and cool. Nicely done.

Wonderful picture!!! You could have done it much faster (in fact in seconds) if you took a picture of me putting my lipstick on:)

I always have the same problem putting on my lippy

Impressive work, excellent!

Great work! lovely colors!!!

Thank you everyone!!

brilliant

i hate when that happens! :) haha.. seriously though. very cute. so much expression, and love the color.

Birgitta, the time you spent on this sure paid off. The transluscent, smooth skin tones and overall contrast are just brilliant, I’d love to know how you achieved this. Very inspirational work from you.

Marion, after I wake up and have some coffee..(it’s 6:30 am here..UGH)
I’ll drop you a line. ;) If you want I can give you step by step instructions on what I did.
Good morning , by the way! :) And Jennifer & Shang, thank you. :)

That would be great Birg. Good morning to you, I am off to bed myself shortly so no hurry, but I’d really be stoked to take up your offer.

Will do. ;)
Josh needs the phone in a bit..but afterwards he’s off to work & I’ll be back on.
I’ll email you then. :)

Wow you really suffered for your art – great result though :o)

looks awesome! Love the bold red against the B&W. Hard work paid off her. Love it. Love the expression too.

Great image, love the expression and the result. Looking very sharp for a 4am bout of insomnia!

Love the concept, and it is so not MySpace ;)

absolutely amazingly wonder-filled!

you go girl, with 200 brush strokes!

This is just amazing work, I love your portfolio Birgitta!

fantastic shot!

Thanks so much everyone!!

haha this is great! gorgeous eyes :)

Nicely done and worth the effort.
Tim

this is awsome! i really like this. wonderful job

I know I’ve made a comment on this one before, but this is reeeally sweet!

An ingenious creative concept, brilliantly executed – love the whimsical quality of this self-portrait, awesome work!

Very nicely done. The lipstick’s great, but the eyes, framing and hair make it work.

i love the expression. great shot =)

Look at all these comments! I’d say this one is a hit! And such a lovely model you have ;)

very clever work.

Hahaha very cool

striking image

What a wonderful image, really stunning!
(I added your picture with a link on my blog www.thismakesmehappy.blog.com. I hope you don’t mind. If you do, I will remove it.)

Thanks you guys. :) And I hope you all have a great Christmas…....!
Carlala, I don’t mind. Next time, ask me first. ;)
Thanks again everyone!

beautiful shot

great colours! i luv it!

that looks cool!

I like everything about this photo, well done!

one of the few best female features I’ve ever viewed..and cherished. stunning!

I LOVE what you have done with this!!!!!!!! Very unique and creative! Kim

Worthy of a fashion or style magazine cover.

looks great…..!!!!!!

amazing work,hope i can do this trick too!

Bravo…! ! !

This could be on the cover of Vogue, nice!!

Gruelling it may have been, but the result is worth it. Fabulous piece of art

I was here

Fun and imaginative. Work your extra work.

I meant to say WORTH your extra work.

great composition, beautiful contrast between the paler face and more colorful lips. Nicely done :)

amazing is an understatement!

This red is so addicitve, and I love your avatar for this. :)

if it took so much work, why didn’t you just smudge your lipstick?

Great piece of ART

This is a fantastic image…so much work! I love the complexity of surprise emotion on your face…at what caused the slip, at the slip itself, the realisation…very good!

Very cool!

This is soooo neat! .. great work!

Thank you everyone for stopping in!

Love everything about this. Fantastic.

masterpiece !

The eye blows me away by itself..

I love your fingernails.

black and white, with a rush of red…. unbeatable combination.

Great work – love the energy and humor of this.

wow! great work.

wow i didnt think i was going to get to the bottom to leave you a comment
i was reading somewhere you used airbrush on this
nice pic

L. A,? duriing a earth quake?

O.k. Add my measly comment onto the end of the other 650 thousand or so…how could anyone not notice this pic? It’s so strikingly fabulous. Fantastish.

great composition and design – very clever!

I’m really diggin this!! Very cool imagery!!! ~S

I like this pic..your hard efforts have paid off…lol

he he.. great image!

good stuff.

I found this doing a Google search. I liked it so much I decided to buy a large mounted print for my daughters room.

Well all that work really paid off. Very good picture. Proffesional

A fun shot as well as very graphic

I remember you from Soaphoto ! How are you ? My name is Cori1964 on soaphoto.iam still there.. great shot girl !

amazing and new … well done

very catching eye.

cute..

Thank you all so very much for your kind comments. Much appreciated!
Patrick, I can’t thank you enough for buying a mounted print of this-
and I hope your daughter truly enjoys it. :) Thanks again so much..

Jeeze, I scanned this page 3 times to see when I commented and was totally blown away that I never did. Every time I spotted your avatar (alas less frequently these past couple of months), it grabbed my attention right away because a) I’m a total fool for anything in red, white and black; b) it’s so stylish; c) your framing and compositional balance of hair, eye and lips is stunning; and c) it’s just gorgeous. When I saw this come up on my bubble (thanks for the comments btw) I was instantly reminded why it had such a powerful initial impact on me. I could have SWORN I commented on this before… I guess I just spend too much time hanging upside down in dark caves. Love your stuff!

in a single word – awesome!

Not going to lie, I definitely love this.

absolutely gorgious!

i love this and shud have fav’d it a while ago!

this turned out great Birgitta, and well worth the trouble!

I have seen this for such a long time and loved it but see I never ever commented…so now I will….it really is stunning, so well worth all your work, it is a real signature piece and very well loved judging by what I see here!

amazing shot!
i really like the eyes in this one

Great pic! so simple yet so much went into it. a testament to your dedication to your craft.

lol cute !!

Well worth the effort Cool pictture!

Awesome shot, great idea and fab post processing. Love it!

Tim

not one brush stroke to many ;)

very well done

AHAH
..er she has a little something…

haha
this is so cool

Great work here. I love the detail in the eyes. And of course great airbrushing job on the lipstick smear.

Fantastic …always loved your avatar…but for some reason never seen the big pic…Christ knows why.
Wicked :)))

well it looks great and the effort was worth it… cool eye!

great shot

i salute you for your hard work – this is real art – i love it!!

Thanks so much everyone for taking the time
to check this out and leaving your thoughts.
Much appreciated. :)

Great shot…..love the hair flicking out on the side…cool.

Birgitta ,

You are an ineffably cute /delightfully exotic girl !

Birgitta, you are so talented! You are famous in my book!!! Excellent work!!!

i love this sort of thing, a beautiful shot to put a smile on every viewers face
lovely work

Really cool avatar, great image

Fantastic work!

I know why it took me so long to find the end to comment! Your efforts paid off. Fantastic!

I wonder what frighten you to smear you lipstick:) just beautiful!

great result
amazing portrait!

LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!! SENSATIONAL

Rock

so love the composition here, those red lips, pasty white skin and ace addition of that black boarder.
your description was both entertaining and informative. ;-)

i really like this, it’s bright and fun looking. well worth the hard work =D

Look what you got for your effort…............. 100% stunning visual, worth evey brushstroke…......... well done.

Great shot Bergitta, well deserved featuring.

i love this
i do the same thing every morning
only with black liquid liner

Good stuff, lot’s of movement. It looks like you really caught it in action. =]

This image really catches the eye, love the content and the color. You should be in Advertising!!

You did a fantastic job…Wow!!!

well worth the effort Birgitta !
this is a super image and a great avatar !

very playful! love the softness mixed with the bright colors.
so well done!

Well, it was worth it!! Instant fave!!

Truly a classic!

fantastic work Birgitta….

I looked at this a few days ago and so luckily stumbled on it again, I LOVE THIS. Favourite favourite :]

great fresh image
Love it xXx

What a fantastic shot…..Well done!

That took a while to scroll down, so many comments! No wonder it’s amazing, added to my faves. Well done!

That came out very very good. 200 brushstrokes? You really counted them?

Thanks so much everyone!!

This is darling! Smiles from Jane:-)

I just love this!!

Very creative and funny. Your lipstick and my rollers what a team hahaha. ;)

you are quite creative…nice to me you 2 ;)

Playful, ironic, very provocative and unusual. I like the look in the subject’s eyes. Great concept and fantastic image treatment!

what a fabulous image !!

Cool profile pic!

God I MISSED that adorable face…hey we should create a group together called LIPS, LOL!!! MUAH!!!

I’ve never seen a picture get such admiration – including my own of course, I love it! Reminds me of an 80’s band called Matt Bianco.

This is so completely fun and worth every brush stroke.

clever work!!

love this
xx

This is brilliant! I love it!

Milan

Have you thought about joining Color Me a Rainbow and using this submitting this image to be considered for featuring for our red week? Get in there now because red submissions end on Feb 12!!

wow, thats funny. and great!
more then that, i cant believe how much effort you went to.
well it looks amazing for the time you spent on it!

Looks like something caught her full attention! What a great expression!!

Very fresh and original work.

This is still one of my all-time favorites!

Aww…thank you Al.

And thank you everybody for your feedback.
I appreciate it greatly!

well I love this Brigitta a lot of work sure paid off it is beautiful and to me, fantastic

Well it looks like it was worth it. It came out great! It gave me a big smile. :))

lol this is fantastic! the red stands out so much! you’re so talented! =)

Your avatar..pretty cool – excellent graphic power! (and it took me 15 minutes to get down here with all the comments – popularity pays, and I can see why in the case of this shot)

your hard work certainly paid off! its a brilliant image behind a great concept!!! Stunning colours and macro!

wow!!! Fantastic self portrait, I love it!!! Well worth your hard graft, what an amazing image!

classic!!

Still absolutely love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWESOME!!!

I give it a Thumbs Up!

What an absolutely Marvelous creation!!

This is fantastic, amazing work! Wonderful colours!!

So much drama and beauty!

Excellent framing, expression and visual impact ! Well worth the editing effort – this image has become like an icon on RB that I notice all over the place.

Great image dear Birgitta. Very good, sensual and wonderful.Very good idea….GP

Fabulous

Awesome!

Great image

Sensational self portrait. Worth all of the pain and effort. Well done.

Fantastic, clever and so effective treatment on this self-portrait!

_It looks well worth it girl ! Very Awesome Picture (: . _

Love it!!!!

OPS EARTHQUAKE soo ops and bang red blead

For along time I’ve adored this photo as your profile pic, but never came here and red how you did it. It’s amazing! As are you!

Strong shot Birgitta. The time you took for it had it’s effects!

Very professional! ;>

Was worth the effort, great image,well done…

wow! thanks for the explanation – great technique, cant believe how good it looks!

Haha.. Love this Photo so much! Great work :-)