Thanks. I use mostly cheap chinese strobes ,and also a rather cheap Polish one called Micro. The two first images is just a umbrella with the Micro, camera left.

Third has a added backlight on camera right.

Fourth has a butterfly lighting and a added backlight, camera left.

5th has one soft front flash facing a wall for ambient, and two strobes with shoot thru umbrellas on either side of Helena. The background on that one was made in 3d.The fire in her hands is from an image of a fire, where I selected a few flames and pasted into Helenas document and used Screen as blending mode as that will make all black magically disappear. The edges of the pignose wre softened and the strap cloned away.
Skin was dodged and burned on all images, mostly on the stick thru nose image ( at pore level at times and for slight sculpting).