Boudoir as a Gift
Being a boudoir photographer for a while now, I’ve come to realize that the greatest gift we can share is our self-acceptance. The more we can accept ourselves, the more we can give of ourselves to the ones we love. Ms. B was a great example of exactly that!
Ms. B came in in the midst of an upcoming wedding. She had been thinking about having a Boudoir Photography Session in Salt Lake City, but some hesitation was getting in the way. “Well, first it was, I've been trying to lose weight for the last year and a half because I knew we were going to get married.” She shared with me “I knew this was something that I wanted to do as a gift. But getting closer I hadn’t lost any weight or anything but along the way, I kind of felt like you have to just embrace who you are, even though you can still work on getting better each day”
This is what boudoir photography is all about! Embracing who you are, where you are! Ms. B said it best:
“Even though you're trying to get there, it doesn't mean you don't have to love yourself on the way there.”
Like for many of us, the daily routine seemed to be keeping Ms. B from seeing how beautiful and powerful she was, and the constant doubt was beginning to affect her. ”At home, I don't see myself in the mirror and go, "Oh, you look gorgeous." Or when I do buy lingerie or whatever, and I'm like, "Oh, I'm going to surprise him", and then I put it on and I'm like, "Mm, maybe you're not. You're not going to do that." So Boudoir was me trying to tell myself, "Yes, you're totally beautiful, and you can wear these!"
At the beginning of the session, she still felt a little bit of that feeling like she had to hide, but as the boudoir session went on she fully showed up and totally rocked it! “I felt a little bit freer and little more, ‘Okay, I'm totally fine with the whole warmup’ and I just think the experience was nice because, at the end of the day, I was like, ‘I'm totally fine walking around topless.’”
By the end of the session, I could see the change in her attitude and in her energy! "I feel super empowered and even going home, I was like, "Man, I felt freaking so awesome today!"
If you’re interested in finding out more about what Ms. B experienced through a boudoir session in Salt Lake City of your own, please feel free to Contact Me here with any questions you might have!
