Chapter 6

Here's Photo Finish!

It was about a month after Photo Finish spread word of her plans among her friends and family that she moved from Manehattan to Ponyville. However before she could open up her business she needed a few extra ponies to help her out, according to Hoity Toity she needed ponies to help her with her mane, her dress and any and all make up. He also stated that if she ever found a fashion model she'd need some staff members to help with the model's mane, dress and make up. Photo Finish was escorted by her assistants Stella, Soigne Folio and Pretty Vision when she got word that Hoity Toity arrived in Manehattan and brought several ponies who specialized in cosmetology, wardrobe styling, and maneressing.

Photo Finish knew that having to pick three more ponies who specialized in these three jobs to go with her to Ponyville to start her career would be the final step she'd have to take. Within hours Photo Finish and her assistants arrived and she said to Hoity Toity "I Photo Finish....have arrived!" she then heard him say hello Photo Finish.

"Good day to you to Hoity Toity, I Photo Finish trust that you've found some good ponies" she asked her friend.

"Why yes I have, now if we just interview them one at a time it should take the whole day or maybe week if I remember how many arrived" Hoity Toity said.

"I Photo Finish shall interview them all at once my way" she said to her friend.

"Your way?" Hoity Toity said in confusion.

"Yes my way" she said as she walked into the room where the cosmetologists were waiting to be interviewed. Among the many talented ponies she saw she hoof picked three to come with her so she could test their skills, one by one each of the ponies worked make up on Photo Finish. When she said there was to much blush make up she had it removed, when she saw this she then said not enough she got about the same amount on, she continued to do this until one of the cosmetologist ponies got angry and stomped out and another one wasn't sure she could keep up. Finally Photo Finish decided to have the pony named Powder Rouge as her cosmetologist, Powder Rouge was an earth-pony who had a coat of fur colored pale light grayish gold along with a dark blue mane her eyes looked like they were blackish but if was difficult to tell because she ware light blue eye shadow and squinted her eyes.

"Miss Photo Finish.....I don't know what to say" Powder Rouge said to her new boss.

"What about me?" the other pony said.

"You.......you go!" she said to the other pony.

And so the pony named Power Rouge became the cosmetologist of Photo Finish, she moved on to the wardrobe stylists in order to see which one would be the best. Like before she hoof picked the three she thought to be the most skilled, the greatest part of this testing was to see which pony could flawlessly put Photo Finish's iconic dress on and off and get her ready within a set amount of time. Among the three ponies the one who was flawless more or less was a pony by the name of Roxie who was an earth-pony with light purples in her mane, a coat of light blue fur, light blue eyes light purple eye shadow and she had a dress with everything she needed to work on a ponies dress. In the end Photo Finish picked Roxie and dismissed the others, Photo Finish had only a manedresser to choose now.

When Photo Finish met the manedressers she looked at them and smelled a lot of mane product in the mane of one of the earth-ponies among all of the other ponies. Photo Finish sniffed and sniffed until she found the pony and said "her! You come!" and with that Photo Finish got her manedresser.

Everypony was jaw dropped when they saw this, many of the manedressers knew all to well who the pony was that Photo Finish picked. Her name was Vidala Swoon and she happened to be friends with Pretty Vision and Roxie, one time they asked her how much product she put into her mane and when that happened she was dubbed Hairspray and that nickname stuck through out her life so far. Vidala Swoon had dark pink in her mane, a pink coat of fur and light bluish eyes and she kept her manedresser uniform handy.

With Powder Rouge, Roxie and Vidala Swoon at the side of Photo Finish. Photo Finish's group of workers was complete and she was ready to take off for Ponyville where she'd start her career as a fashion photographer. After Photo Finish said her final goodbyes to her family before her big move and got everything she owned packed and ready, she boarded the train to Ponyville and left her old home behind so she could start her career.

Within days after arriving in Ponyville the special giant tent that would be Photo Finish's place of business as well as her home was set up. With help from her friends and contacts she was able to get some models to model for her, and with the beautiful job she did as a fashion photographer she became popular within the year. Photo Finish was excited and could hardly believe her life long dreams had come true, after many long years she finally became a real fashion photographer.

Photo Finish's fame and popularity spread quickly mostly thanks to all the help she had, but whenever it comes to starting a business one needs a lot of help so it was natural but for her to become as popular as she did was amazing beyond words. Years later Photo Finish became the most popular of all fashion photographers in Equestria, she was always able to visit her family whenever she wanted and she was sure to write to them at least once a week and she usually sent out post cards. Some of which had her best photos in them of her latest projects, Photo Finish's assistants were surprised in the beginning of Photo Finish's career that she kept her word to bring them with her. Behind the great Photo Finish was her family, her friends and her assistants who worked day and night with Photo Finish and Photo finish considered them her friends but in public they all acted and behaved professional.

No one had ever expected Photo Finish to be where she is except for her best friends and her family, Mobius Lenses and Photo Lenses were so proud of their daughter, she wasn't merely the little filly they had so much hopes for when they arrived in Equestria along with Video Feed. Photo Finish was far more then that! She was able to do what few ponies have the courage to do, when she could've given up the mare picked herself up and now she is Photo Finish the most popular of all fashion photographers.

By the time she was about 18 to 19 years old Photo Finish became one of the biggest of all celebrities in Equestria and is loved, liked and respected by many of pony in spite of her sometimes odd behavior or what most call odd.

THE END

Author's Note

Final Note: thanks everyone for reading Photo Finish's Beginnings, I came a long way to finish her story. See you all on the Flip Side and take care