About Camille G. — Founder of Loch Ness
I genuinely love the moment a trip starts to feel real — that first glimpse out the plane window, the passport stamp, grabbing my bag off the belt and walking out into somewhere completely new. Getting lost in a new culture — the food, the language, the small daily rituals nobody warns you about — is what I live for. Every trip teaches me something I didn’t know I needed to learn.
That same curiosity for symbols and traditions from around the world runs straight through my work.
From handcrafted jewelry to interactive web experiences
Since 2013, I’ve been designing and hand-making symbolic jewelry — evil eye pendants, lucky charms, protection bracelets — sourcing and testing every material myself before it goes into a collection. I care about the meaning behind an object as much as its craftsmanship, which is why so much of what I write here digs into the history and psychology behind symbols, rituals and beauty standards across cultures.
I’m also a full-stack developer by training. A few years into making jewelry by hand, I started wondering whether the experience of designing a piece — choosing stones, seeing them come together, understanding what each one means — could exist online, instantly, without needing a workshop or a store visit. That question became the healing crystal bracelet configurator, the first tool I built and coded myself, now used across this site and licensed into other jewelry stores running on Shopify, WordPress and PrestaShop.
Loch Ness Lab: one tool at a time
Building that first configurator taught me I liked this just as much as making jewelry: taking an idea, some research, and turning it into something people can try in their browser in under a minute. That’s how Loch Ness Lab grew into what it is today — 16+ free interactive experiences, including:
- A creativity test built on Guilford’s Alternative Uses Task, a well-established divergent-thinking paradigm from creativity research.
- Voice analysis tools covering voice age and prosody.
- A numerology life path calculator and a collection of beauty and face-analysis experiments.
- AI authenticity tools, including an image detector and a screenshot checker.
None of these started as a business plan. Each one started with me wanting to try something myself, not finding a version I liked, and building it — the same instinct that got me making jewelry in the first place.
How I build these tools
Every tool on this site goes through the same loop: research the underlying method properly (psychology literature, established tests, or technical references depending on the tool), build a working prototype, test it with real users, and rework whatever the data says isn’t working. The bracelet configurator’s conversion data and the four-dimension scoring behind the creativity test are both examples of that process — I’d rather publish something narrower and honest than something broad and vague.
For the tools built on a specific method or algorithm, I document the reasoning and the sources publicly rather than leaving it as a black box — see the GitHub and ORCID links above for the code and the research behind them.
Get in touch
If you spot something wrong in a test’s methodology, want to integrate the bracelet configurator into your own store, or just want to talk about symbols, creativity research or code — reach me at contact@lochness-paris.com.