You can find sticker booths EVERYWHERE! A stickerbooth shop usually has props and several different booths. These sticker booths are not like the little old timey photo booths though. Each booth is about the size of a very small room with enough space for...well, at least 4 people, cos that's how many we crowded in! The camera is in the middle of the wall. You insert your money, and then choose your backgrounds. Except it times you, so it's a mad frenzy to look through upteen number of backgrounds...first you choose a concept (cute, elegant, sexy, etc.) and under each concept is like 10 backgrounds to choose from. You get like 8 different poses, so you have a lot of backgrounds to choose very quickly. Sometimes the backgrounds are just like "sparkly," but sometimes they are more complicated, like a grand staircase, or a giant donut...then you have to pose within the background...
Then, it starts. And you have to (I mean, it's not a command, but if you're with friends, apparently, this is the way to go) do different poses for each one. Like, ok! let's do serious face this time. And let's be singers this time. And let's act like we're biting a donut this time (we had a donut background). And let's wear hats, and not wear hats, and switch hats. It's a fun frenzy.
After all the shots are complete, you rush over to a computer screen and start decorating. And it times you! First, you have to choose 4 poses from however many you did. SO, it times you for that. Then, of those four, you have to decorate them. And there are literally, hundreds of different ways to decorate, but it times you, so you have to move fast. Again, there are like 5 different concepts (borders, writing, glitter decorations, etc.) And under each concept is like 5 more pages of things. Each page has like 10 different decorations. SO, you are trying to find the best decoration really quickly. It is so crazy!
After that, you have to choose the print lay-out. Again, it times you, so if you don't make up your mind, then you might get 4 big ones instead of 8 small ones or whatever.
After you make it through this stressful time, you pick up your print out and take it to the assistant, who then laminates it for you. My favorite lamination is sparkly paper. Then you have to cut all the pics out, divvy them up, and go stick them somewhere!
It's a really good thing my friends are pros at this, b/c it takes me FOREVER to decide on one little corner decoration or what to write or whether to have a border or not. Our pics look so good only due to the fact that my friends know how to decorate.
Here is our latest sticker booth venture (the paper is kind of mottled b/c sparkly paper does not scan well):
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