"You're so vain", but who cares (especially when it comes to boudoir)

Sometimes vanity pushes us in the most positive of directions and that direction can lead us down an instagram wormhole that puts out out at my studio's doorstep. I don't really know how many times that actually happens to people, but I can count a few. This gorgeous human walked into my boudoir studio as a result of her husband's encouragement and on her OWN damn volition. We had such a fantastic time cracking up while trying to make the "sexy face". Spoiler: we succeeded in the sexy face but the bloopers are hilarious. 

I am so proud of her for being so open with us during her shoot, with you that are reading this, and with the future readers. She has an amazing joy and air about her... plus she is pretty F***ing hot. 

Read on ( preferably while blasting Metallica),

Sarah

1) How old are you... or if you prefer, who were you listening to at age 14 :)?

33 and Metallica!!

 

2) What do you do for a living?

Nurse

 

3) What/who made you decide to book a boudoir session?

 I did it for myself.. vanity baby!!

4) Did you have any obstacles or fears about boudoir? 

I used to strip/do burlesque but that was before my body changed so I did feel insecure about my new body.

 

5) Why did you choose OWN? 

My husband found some images on Instagram and I loved the pictures!!

 

6) How was the actual session different from what you expected (if at all)? 

It was way more fun and free. [I] didn't feel awkward at all!!

 

7) What was your favorite part of the entire experience? (priming, the shoot, seeing images, giving the images..etc) . 

The shoot!!!!!

 

8) How has the response been to your images? 

Amazing. More than I was expecting even from my mom.

9) What is your advice for women interested in such a session? 

Just do it !!! Don't wait til you loose 5 pounds or w.e. you are concerned about. It'll be amazing regardless. We all have issues with something about out bodies and we are all beautiful!! Just do it!!!! You won't regret it. 

10) Did anything change about the way you see your own beauty as a result of this session? 

Nothing I worry about on my body matters! F*** the haters!

 

Interested in booking your OWN boudoir session (for your own self?)... Get in touch with Sarah here:

Well, hello there

Whether or not we care to admit, we’ve all got mothers in common. Scientific advancements haven’t come so far (at least not yet) as to create humans sans mother-host and if they have then no one has let us in on that secret. We’re born and our lives with some sort of older human immediately begin. If you can read this then someone chose to keep you alive for a while, and that’s something to send a ‘thank you’ card for (even if the card ends up being a little passive aggressive at the end).

We may absolutely adore our mothers, we may not even know them. 

We may despise our mother’s so much that we wish there were two of her so that we could continue our hate. 

We may miss our mothers, and we may be incredibly sad for them. 

We may be expecting to be a mother, and we may have encountered the unexpected. 

We may wish with our entire soul that we could just once hear a heartbeat, and we may decide that we’d like to give that gift to someone else. 

Motherhood comes in forms. Some of our mothers and some of you that are mothers are not necessarily related by DNA, but rather by your souls and the circumstances of this life. 

I am incredibly blessed to have known so many mothers in my life, my own mom included. On this mother’s day we are not only celebrating the fact that she someone raised 3 (mostly) independent adults over the course of the last 30ish years, but that in this last year she also kicked breast-cancer’s ass! She of course did this while being a stubborn little lady and continuing to work/cook/clean/flip houses/feed dogs/go on vacation/etc. 

My wish is that no matter your relationship with your blood-and-DNA mother I hope you have at least one woman in your life that you can look up to and love.