Scarfia: My Take on the Ghost Photoshoot

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The Ghost Photoshoot social media trend with a scarf-infused twist!


The Ghost Photoshoot social media trend with a scarf-infused twist!

Picture this: you’re a teenager with access to social media in the fall of 2020, and there’s one trend you’re seeing ALL over the place. No matter what platform you’re on, you hear that Jack Stauber Song and see people donning sheets and having the time of their ever-so-aesthetically-pleasing lives doing “ghost photoshoots.” It’s INCREDIBLE! Or at least that’s what I thought. 

So naturally, the next year when the trend arose again, I texted my best friend, Emily, and began planning for the most epic ghost photoshoot TikTok had ever seen. Now I should probably note the plot twist, which is that there was in fact no ghost photoshoot that fateful fall day, because I could not find any white sheets. A simple problem with a major impact on our photoshoot. 

Emmy and I were undeterred. Well, maybe a little, but regardless we were determined to have a spooky season photoshoot, if it was the last thing we did… that day.

So when I began tying dozens of vintage scarves (inherited from my Grandma) all over Emily, she didn’t even bat an eye. Behold, Scarfia was born.

Ghost Photoshoot image of a blonde girl covered in multicolored scarves. She stands above in the midst of trees.
Ghost Photoshoot image. It’s a close up on a young woman’s face obscured by teal sunglasses and two multicolored scarves
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. The profile of a blond young woman with her arm across her head. Covered in scarves
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. A girl covered in scarves balances atop a table in the middle of a field
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. A girl covered in scarves stands on top of a table in a field, in front of a chain link fence
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. Girl covered in scarves and teal sunglasses squats on top of a picnic table in a field

The scarf ghost

The shoot started with a scarf tied over Emily’s face like a mask (an ode to the ghost photoshoot thing) and these were some of my favorite shots with the mask on. 

Later though, we decided to get some shots without the mask and it was a stroke of genius. Also can we talk about what a master poser Emily is?!?

Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. Close up on a blond girl with a pink scarf across the bottom half of her face, and teal sunglasses propped on her forehead
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. A girl covered in scarves from the neck down. Her hands splayed across her forehead.
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. We see a girls profile as she seems to be walking past the camera. She’s covered in colorful scarves from the neck down.
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. A blond girl covered in scarves. A pink scarf is tied across the bottom half of her face.
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. A blond girl covered in colorful scarves from the neck down. A pink scarf is tied around the lower half of her face like a bandanna. Her hair flying wild by the side of her head, because she just flipped her head.


It’s a bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a… Scarf?

And then scarves started flying…

Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. Scarves soar in the air above the aforementioned girl
Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. Scarves fly all around the aforementioned girl. You can see her big smile


And, of course, the detail shots:

Close up on a pair of legs with colorful scarves tied around them. Bright blue suede sandals sort of cover bright purple socks.
Close up on a face wrapped in a translucent green scarf. Underneath a pair of eyes peer at the camera above a tilted pair of teal sunglasses

The Money Shot

Finally, every photoshoot has that one gold photo. The image that makes the whole hullabaloo worth it. I present to you, the money shot. If this was the only photo we got I honestly would’ve been fine.

Ghost Photoshoot inspired image. A girl with blonde hair raises both arms above her hair. Blue sky is all around. She is covered in colorful, patterned scarves. She wears a pink scarf across the bottom half of her face like a bandanna and she wears teal sunglasses


Ghost inspired photoshoots

In the end, we were incredibly pleased with our results! I think the moral of the story is any photoshoot inspired by the ghost photoshoot trend is bound for success!

XOXO, Attalie


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