Creating Beauty | Stylized Boudoir Session

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This girl lives beauty. Not only does she look the part, she has the heart to match. When she called me to inquire about a session I asked her to tell me a little bit about herself. She told me that she was a hair stylist and how special her job was to her, that like me, she loved making women feel beautiful. Another thing I loved was, yes, she wanted to gift this session to someone that stole her heart, but she also wanted to do it for herself, to embrace her younger years, to have something beautiful to look back on when she was (what she now thinks) is her prime.I loved working with this woman and I see her doing big things in her little cowboy boots ;) I dare say her prime is just beginning!

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The Senior with Style | AJBC Stylized Senior Session

Details. It's all about the details. And this guy NAILED the stylin' details, all the way from the cuff links to the shoes. I LOVE the direction he wanted to go with this session and how many looks he rocked. Plus it shows off our down town Port Huron area, giving it the unique and "big city" feel we look for in this small town.

And if you thought HE rocked.. wait till you see what his sisters fashionable senior photoshoot looked like! 

Being You | Stylized Boudoir Session

I can't believe I had forgotten to share this beautiful, amazing woman with you!!This is my AMAZING stylist, Jen. She's the talent behind many of my images. I love having someone I can 100% trust for my clients. It's always so exciting when a beautiful woman walks through my door and I know they are going to shine even brighter after they are done getting their hair and makeup done with Jen. I also have trusted her for the last 10 years with all of my own persona haircuts, from first seeing her and asking her to help me grow out a disaster, to 10 years later asking her what she thought about shaving half my head and her smiling saying- I think you can pull it off. She has a way of taking what you want- and making it better. It was so fun to see her on the other side of this experience!! We had a wonderful time, right in her own home, creating something soft and natural for her indoors, to then moving outside and doing something FUN and sassy- I love versatile girls with no fear ;)

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If you're still in biker babe mode you need to check out Roberta's biker inspired session- a fitness bad ass who you can find online at Fit Biker Chick!

If you want to see more Boudoir hop on over to Tricia's gallery!

AND if you want to see what Jen created with AJBC a few years later with her whole family check out her session with a "mystical" twist here!

Check out the full beauty gallery here!

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Dress Up for the Grown Ups

Boudoir. What a fancy word. It sounds classier than just saying bedroom. It almost gives it a sense of beauty, a sense of whimsical privacy.

To many women as of late it means- I want to wear lingerie and get photographed for my special someone. But to a photographer, it shouldn't mean that. For me, it meant- I want to put on next to nothing and have you photograph me for a long time. When I first started out I just didn't "get it." Not being an overly sexy person myself, I wasn't interested in it. I had some requests for it but never got overly excited about it, and there for, that's probably why I never shot any sessions. Then... I started to get in to pin up photography. It was a FUN version of boudoir for me! But as I photographed more and more pin ups I realized something. It wasn't about the hair, it wasn't about the clothes. It was about 1 thing.

Feeling beautiful.

It was also about being confident, and loving who you are and loving someone else enough to share that.

And slowly, I started to really, really fall in love with Boudoir photography.

First off, what girl doesn't like to get pampered?A morning where you don't have to stress about getting your foundation on right, you don't have to figure out how on earth those models get their hair to look so dang perfect. You just sit back and when you're done- you find yourself looking like you stepped out of a magazine. You feel like you have it going on, because you do! Then you get to go to a studio where you play with shoes, jewelry, lace, pearls, sparkles. I don't care how old you are- playing dress up is FUN! You get to transform. EVERY DAY you walk around in what you probably feel is something that doesn't scream- LOOK AT ME, I'm FABULOUS! (Hey- if you do- you go girl!) But THIS, this is totally a time to do that!! And when it's all said and done, you get that moment that you get to keep forever to look back on in your images! You get to carry that moment out.

THAT'S the part I love.

I get to to help you dig deep and be confident enough to do something daring- because why not- it's just us in the studio!

It's YOUR time. I LOVE THAT!

But the best, best, best part is when you get to see your images for the first time and you literally SCREAM in my studio bc you can't believe what you've been missing out on, inside you, this whole time!

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