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Keeping up with the boudoir photography trends

Keeping up with the boudoir photography trends

Having a boudoir business that is staying ahead of the trends takes a constant creative approach. It also requires a deep passion for appreciating art and always looking at new ways of seeing things. Trends make us think, trends inspire and motivate our creativity,...

Tasteful boudoir photography: The magic is in the details

Tasteful boudoir photography: The magic is in the details

Some photographers say that your facial expression is the most important part of the boudoir photo. And while we agree that your face can make or break the picture, there is so much more at play. Your body language, lighting, outfits...to name a few. And in some...

Behind The Scenes | Boudoir Posing

Behind The Scenes | Boudoir Posing

Don't know anything about boudoir posing? No problem! By the time we are done with your shoot, you'll be movin, grovin and proving to yourself that you too can take sexy, risqué and drop dead beautiful photos.  Maybe it's the confidence I've built with the 20 plus...

How do you treat yo’self?

How do you treat yo’self?

How do you treat yo’self? Do you love flowers in your office? A fine bottle of Scotch? I am partial to  fancy candles in vintage jars, red wine, and some bomb ass take out!  I'd almost always say a bath, but sadly I don't have one at this moment. That said, I miss the...

What Gets You Feeling Creative?

What Gets You Feeling Creative?

We're all like Stella right now, just trying to get our groove back. Everyday seems different as far how creative I feel and unless I maintain my morning routine of writing, working out, and meditation, I find it much harder to get into my creative groove.   What...

Self Love Is The Sword

Self Love Is The Sword

Self love is the sword that will always win the war Over the last few month I've ben very quite trying to get a hold on the kaleidoscope of emotions running through my head during the day.  I've been feeling all my feelings, spending a lot of time solitude.  I've just...

Boudoir State of Mind – Why It’s Ok to Ask for Help

Boudoir State of Mind – Why It’s Ok to Ask for Help

Today A Boudoir State of Mind is Daily releasing the grip of shame the past has on us and embracing that we all need a little help. Lovely ladies of the world, play along with me for one second.  Pinch yourself.  Go ahead, it’s ok, just do it.  Whether you actually...

Release your attachment to form

Release your attachment to form

All structures are unstable. I find myself always coming back to this statement.  Letting go of the attachment to form is the beginning of creating the unlimited reality you wish for. I think now more than ever there is so much fear of the unknown. So many of us have...

How to Take a Great Selfie: 5 Tips for Capturing Your Sexy Body

How to Take a Great Selfie: 5 Tips for Capturing Your Sexy Body

Forget the Duck lips, and while we’re at it, forget everything you’ve heard before concerning how to take a great selfie! Here are some tips to really help you take the best selfie, and show off just how damn good you look. 1. Self-Timer What? You mean I don’t have to...

Become More Confident, Because Confidence is Sexy

Become More Confident, Because Confidence is Sexy

You watch him walk into the room. Shoulders back, head held high, large smile on his face as he greets the people he passes by. He’s not the most handsome person you’ve ever seen, but there’s something about him that makes you want to know him. That something is the...

5 Ways to Love Your Body

5 Ways to Love Your Body

Our bodies go through many phases. From childhood to adulthood to old age, we often don’t learn to appreciate its beauty and power until it’s too late. Below are five ways for you to take care of and to learn to love your body sooner rather than later. 1. ExerciseTake...

Is self love necessary? How self love and acceptance change lives

Is self love necessary? How self love and acceptance change lives

Dear You, make peace with the woman in the mirror and watch the reflection change!  It’s easy to say “love yourself”.  But in all my years as a boudoir photographer and an aspiring dancer, I have never really found someone who said the path to self love and acceptance...

Law of Attraction: The Importance of a Vision Board

Law of Attraction: The Importance of a Vision Board

The Law of Attraction simply stated is that your thoughts determine your reality. Everything in this life is energy, including your thoughts, especially your thoughts. If you spend time focusing on negative things, then you’ll find yourself surrounded by negativity....

Human beings are visually stimulated creatures. Seeing is believing

Human beings are visually stimulated creatures. Seeing is believing

You know how in movies you’ll sometimes see someone babbling, because they’re flustered and nervous by the presence of another person, and the other person, without saying a word, will simply step forward and silence the babbling person with a kiss. And something...

Keeping it Sexy: Give him a taste of your naughty side

Keeping it Sexy: Give him a taste of your naughty side

Have you ever spent a long amount of time away from your special someone? I’m not talking about a girl’s night or a weekend out of town on business. I’m talking about weeks that drag into months. For some people, these months even turn into years. You might wonder how...

How to make the most of your boudoir photography session

How to make the most of your boudoir photography session

Normally I post Tuesdays about Boudoir photography tips for photographers, but today I’m going to do something a bit different. I’m going to focus on you, the person in front of the camera! Many people who book a boudoir session have never done it before. Perhaps they...

Ignite Your Fantasies

Ignite Your Fantasies

“Abandon the search for truth; settle for a good fantasy.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  We all have daydreams. They take us to faraway places and drop us into delicious circumstances. They allow us to escape for a little while from the often boring or under stimulating...

How to start feeling sexy, right now

How to start feeling sexy, right now

As women, we spend a lot of time in our heads analyzing everything, especially our bodies. We look in the mirror and wonder when that began to droop or think maybe we should have done crunches instead of eating that éclair. But all of this analyzing and self-criticism...

Inspirational Story: Love the Skin You’re In

Inspirational Story: Love the Skin You’re In

As women, each of us are guilty of being self-deprecating. We wake up in the morning, go to the mirror, inspect our bodies critically, and scowl. We notice all the flaws, all the imperfections, and give no credit to ourselves. Stop it. Before we go any further, I want...

Inspirational Story:  A Girl in Wanderlust

Inspirational Story: A Girl in Wanderlust

“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.” - J. Maarten...

Inspirational Story:  Smile Like You Mean It

Inspirational Story: Smile Like You Mean It

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” - Thich Nhat Hanh Some days you just don’t want to smile. Some days the world seems to be a thundercloud following you around, waiting for the right moment to...

Inspirational Story: The Power of Positive Thinking

Inspirational Story: The Power of Positive Thinking

Never underestimate the power of positive thinking. Your behavior shapes your reality, but it’s your thoughts which shape your behavior. There is a strong link between body and mind, and learning to control your thoughts will give you more power over your body....

Inspirational story: The importance of Breathing

Inspirational story: The importance of Breathing

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar ___________________________________________ Breath is healing, but is so often taken for granted. Breathing in deeply calms the heart, relaxes tense...

Inspirational Story: Feed Your Wild Spirit

Inspirational Story: Feed Your Wild Spirit

“One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, ‘My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. ‘One is Evil – It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,...

Inspirational Story: Stay Centered

Inspirational Story: Stay Centered

“It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.” - K.T. Jong ______________________________________ Did you know that...

Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone

Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone

The Story of Grace  Growing up, Grace was admonished to dress modestly. To her parents, especially her mother, this meant not going sleeveless. Ever.  To Grace, it seemed that even though her friends’ parents might not have such strict standards, that those same rules...

How a Photoshoot changed my life

How a Photoshoot changed my life

  How a Photoshoot changed my life As a child, I was super reserved. I was very shy and even at home alone or even with just my mom I did not like to be naked. I was tall, slender, and my mother was always telling me beautiful I was but when I looked in the...

Be the Muse of Your Intimate Boudoir Shoot

Be the Muse of Your Intimate Boudoir Shoot

A muse! Who is she? An archetypal goddess beautiful and terrible…raining her inspiration on mere mortals and taking it away at the slightest misdemeanor? Or the gentle voice inside you that urges you to act when you behold vistas that affect your mind and soul? No...

Monday Muse -Ellen Von Unworth

Monday Muse -Ellen Von Unworth

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What it Means to Be a Modern Diva

What it Means to Be a Modern Diva

  What it Means to Be a Modern Diva I am perpetually amazed by the number of strong women that are in this world, and so many of them have no idea! They balance jobs, relationships, and responsibilities, and still find time to give back and create, and then still...

How Five Minutes of Yoga Puts You in a Positive Mood

How Five Minutes of Yoga Puts You in a Positive Mood

  “Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.” - Amit Ray Believe it or not, doing something for just five minutes a day over the course of two weeks will create a habit....

Staying Centered

Staying Centered

“It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.” - K.T. Jong ______________________________________ Here's a fun fact :...

The importance of Breathing

The importance of Breathing

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar ___________________________________________ Breath is healing but is so often taken for granted. Breathing in deeply calms the heart, relaxes tense muscles,...

Understood

Understood

'Unbutton, unzip, unclip, untie, undo, undress.' 'Understood', she replied. -Michael Faudet

Monday Muse – Joyce Tenneson

Monday Muse – Joyce Tenneson

“If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say ‘secrets.’” - Joyce Tenneson ________________________ Her work has been displayed in more than 150 exhibitions around the world, on magazine covers, in museums, in private...

Monday Muse Kathryn Bigelow

Monday Muse Kathryn Bigelow

  If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you...

Keeping it Sexy: Your Personality is the Best Accessory

Keeping it Sexy: Your Personality is the Best Accessory

 Our clothes and accessories are the ‘aces we keep up our sleeves’. We use fashion to express our style, likes, and even our dislikes. Yet it’s possible to forget every now and then that being ‘dressed to kill’ is still a lesser priority than the personality filling...

Vulnerability, A Catalyst for Change

Vulnerability, A Catalyst for Change

How can I be more honest, and vulnerable?
Being a boudoir photographer I have learned a lot about women and I have seen many transform right in front of my eyes. It can happen so fast. Once we let go of the fear, allow ourselves to be vulnerable, love our bodies and embrace our unique beauty, a new woman emerges, a new lightness of being emerges.

Boudoir Shoot Must Haves – The Often Forgotten Things That Matter

Boudoir Shoot Must Haves – The Often Forgotten Things That Matter

So...you have taken the plunge. You are going to bare all in front of the camera and you have already made up your mind that you will love it! And don’t get me wrong, you most certainly will. In fact your first shoot is going to transform you in ways you never thought...

How to express YOU in the boudoir photoshoot?

Multiple personalities carry with them a whisper of stigma. The very word calls up images of troubled souls – of Sybil and Eve. Of anguish and pain! Oh what it must be like to have your physical space constantly violated by alien beings and presences. No wonder the...

The Best First Year Anniversary Gift Ever!

The Best First Year Anniversary Gift Ever!

  Anniversary gifts are tricky. The occasion is so laden with meaning and expectations that many people get cold feet when it comes to picking something that stands for commitment, love and dedication. Traditionally speaking the first anniversary gift calls for...

This could be you…

Just absolutely awesome! Marisa is truly talented and such is a great person. She made my first experience doing a boudoir photoshoot super comfortable and fun. Before even meeting Marisa she was so helpful with contacting me via email with tips for the shoot, recommendations for lingerie, etc. We even spoke over the phone to get to know one another. All I can say is Marisa is wonderful and I hope to work with her again. I truly enjoyed my time spent with her. -Annie