Front Bokeh effect plus MagMod Magbeam kit

I have until now predominantly shot landscape and automotive work most of my 6 years shooting. However, if I'm ever to try and make a go of this income thing from it, I've realised here in Sydney I need to add more than that to my bag of tricks. Reading the Front Bokeh article here on F-Stoppers by Alex Cooke - https://fstoppers.com/diy/using-front-bokeh-create-unique-portraits-168158 - I decided I wanted to give this a go. No model handy, so it became a selfie session...

I picked up a $10 set of battery operated Christmas Lights from the local hardware and setup in my kitchen. It's tight, but this has become the scene for a lot of tests. The back wall is a really drab cream colour, but I'll do something about that later. I used a single phottix speedlight with a MagMod 1/4 CTO, grid, and MagBeam creative kit. I did a few selfie shots first, then with the camera on the tripod and still in manual focus, used the christmas lights to shoot a few shots with them in different spots. Took the shots into lightroom, layered a few select christmas shot lights in photoshop over the top of my self-portrait shots, then finished off in Lightroom again. First shot is the raw portraits, then the christmas light shots, then the final combined shot. Then one edited shot of just the original portrait shot to show the Magbeam kit working with itself.

I realise the final product is debatable as to whether this effect is good or not, but for me, I want to know I can apply it should the situation ask for it.

I should also add - Camera settings - A99 with 24-70 Zeiss at 50mm F4, ISO 100, 1/60th. No ambient at this exposure. The flash was on top of my fridge about 2-3 feet away, power for correct exposure was 1/128th with the grid and cto gel. Adding the Magbeam kit, I had to up the power to 1/8th to get correct exposure, so it seams to suck some power with this filter I had in it.