Need advice on lighting!

I need advice on how to light a woman w/ black top, skirt and boots against a black background, I obviously need to keep background seperation so im wondering if any of you have advice. I have 3 lights w/ either umbrellas or softboxes at my disposal as well as any flags or reflectors i may need. Thanks in advance, im searching around but have yet to find anything useful!

In the stickys at the top of this forum is "** IMPORTANT LINKS: Studio Lighting ** (READ FIRST)" "Studio lighting suggestions" and "Question about using Barn Doors on strobes" are both worth reading as they cover background separation and different lighting.

Sorta like this?

this effect was over done to create this effect. If you want good seperation, I suggest splashing the black BG with a little bit of color gel, just to give it a tint. I was going for this effect in the shot, so I left it underexposed.

we are gonna fade the edges, and use it in a birth announcement... Not my baby or anything just a customer of mine.

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Use lighter background, and get rid of the black....YUK....or use a hairlight on the back of the subject. The black put shine on the face whick you don't want...my God she's HUGE! A soft white or pastel would, in my opinion be more appropriate...