“You’re never fully dressed without a smile”- Annie

Fun Fact- I spent a lot of time in musical theater growing up (and so did our Client Manager, Kelsey!), and I was in “Annie” twice! Once as Grace and once as Lilly. If you know anything about those two characters then you will understand when I say that they represent the variants of my personality so well. I’m a little classy and a little sassy. Basically, I’ll wear a nice slicked-back bun but I’ll let my thong hang out.

Of course, I didn’t know that back when I was playing those characters, but I can see it now! I guess that’s how most things in our lives work, we can’t fully see the big picture sometimes until we’re a bit removed from it. Originally I had wanted to be a foreign ambassador to the United Nations, but here I am now, a boudoir photographer in Atlanta. See? I’m multifaceted.

Anyway, take 3 seconds to smile, y’all. A REAL smile. Toothy and stuff 😁... and then have an amazing rest of your workday.

( 📸: Sarah, 💄: https://www.karirobertsmua.com)

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The 4th of July is my favorite holiday (right next to Halloween), and so I always have plans, no matter how big or how small! This year my boyfriend and I went up to upstate NY for a little R&R with a few friends. His favorite band, Phish, was also playing nearby and so it didn’t take me a lot of convincing to persuade him to travel a bit north.

We took in the Saratoga weather (which was heaven compared to the 100degree Atlanta weather that we left) and wandered around the streets while we consumed ice-cream and played arcade games. It was fabulous, and I’ll say that playing arcade games as an adult is WAY better than as a teenager because now I actually have some money to throw away at Mario Kart.

Coming off of a full week away I’d be lying if I didn’t say that my body is currently 78% Cheeze-It’s and Tito’s vodka. It was a fun week, but I’m feeling an urge to get back to normal.

In order to motivate me to not fully morph into a snack-food I am looking back at some selfies I took a couple of weeks ago! And you know what, it got me thinking... we use a lot of others as inspiration for ourselves, and there is nothing wrong with that, but there is something quite special about being your OWN motivation.

I look back at my boudoir photos from the few sessions I’ve had, and I LOVE myself. Hell, this isn’t even from a boudoir session and I still LOVE it.

In a world of “oh god, can you retake that” we should all have images of ourselves that we love. Boudoir can do that, a great portrait can do that, amazing selfie-light can do that... but the point is that everyone deserves to be able to look at themselves with love for their OWN self ❤️