Laura's Boudoir Experience
I have asked three of my recent clients to write a review about their boudoir session with me. Here is what Laura wrote:
"I never thought that I would do a boudoir photoshoot. I don’t know exactly what brought me to say yes, but I was eager to wander outside of my comfort zone. I suppose in a moment of braveness I saw it as a challenge to do something that made me confront any conceptions I had about my appearance and truly embrace the skin I’m in. Somehow along the line, I’d forgotten how important it was for me to feel sexy for myself.
Doing the boudoir photoshoot with Marina helped imbue me with a sense of self-confidence that I had forgotten I had in me. Though it might seem strange to invite a stranger into your home to take intimate photos of you, once Marina arrived we had a conversation, got to know each other a bit, and my nerves started to settle. I sensed we were on the same page and that she was open to exploring how to make me feel my best. The experience of the shoot was exciting and challenging. Through Marina’s lens, I was confident and capable and that translated to how I started to feel about myself while having the photos taken. After a few nervous shots, I began to see myself how the camera was seeing me, and it was forgiving and beautiful. I never felt like I could model, and yet by the end of that day, I felt like Marina had exposed who I was in the best way possible.
Perhaps the greatest impact I felt from the photoshoot was being able to share the photos with my partner. When he saw the photos for the first time (and every time thereafter), his eyes lit up and it was like experiencing how he saw me for the first time again. As he picked out his favourite photos, he came across a shot where you could hardly see my body at all, and just my face was in clear view. He told me just how much he loved that shot in particular because it reminds him of the first time we met when all he noticed was how beautiful he thought I was. Seeing myself through his eyes was something I hadn’t really experienced before and I realized I had been selling myself short all along.
The boudoir session was a wonderful way to gain confidence and rediscover myself in a way. Though I’m self-conscious about my body and appearance like many women, the experience was actually freeing. So often as women we are made to feel as if we make an effort to feel sexy for others, but I found that when you do something to feel sexy and beautiful for yourself, therein lies the real value – a greater sense of self-worth."
