I've been honored to work with many talented people in my life. Stylists, models, makeup up artists and other creatives that stay behind the scenes absolute majority of the time. While we photographers and models get public credit for the work we do in one way or another these other guys are so passionate about what they do that in many cases they just simply reject publicity when offered. Anyways it is very important to give them credit when needed as they are the ones that build the shot.
In this particular shot it was a second year of our cooperation for the Halloween based theme shot. Sfx (special effects) artist made a mask our of silicone, painted it and did other magic i do not understand and put it on models face.
Now when i mentioned a dark alley, i think i still have raw files of this model shot on a dark background. I'll look it up, do the edit and share it for comparison wich one looks more scary :)