I hear it all the time at reveals: “I can’t beleive that’s ME!”
My personal boudoir philosophy involves rocking your beauty right NOW. Yes, we do hair and makeup and even lightly retouch photos a tiny bit, but I pride myself on bringing out the inner bombshell without completely changing someone’s authentic appearance. After all, if you LOVED the photos but they weren’t truly of yourself…rather a model caked with makeup and photoshopped to death — where would be the pride in that? I myself have had that very experience, when I had my first boudoir shoot many years ago. I didn’t do my research and went with someone I found on Groupon because it seemed like a good price. MISTAKE! I was made up like a Kardashian, which is not my style AT ALL, complete with the worst Muppet-like false eyelashed I’ve ever seen. I didn’t feel like myself and so I never look at the photos, because I don’t recognize the woman in them.
When I started Brooklyn Boudoir, it was of the utmost importance that at MY studio, you’ll always look like you, on your best, happiest, most well-rested day 😉 It doesn’t matter what you look really, or if you consider yourself the “kind of woman” who would have a boudoir shoot – I mean, what is that, anyway? We all have our version of what it means to be a woman, what it means to be the best versions of ourselves, what it means to feel free to be who you are, and THAT is what I am after when I capture someone.
