How a Boudoir Empowerment Session can make you fall in love with yourself!

Hey Gorgeous Ladies!

Women so often separate themselves from the notion of confidence, treating it as though it’s black and white - either they have it, or they don’t. Well, I’m here to tell you about my experience as a client in a boudoir shoot. It was an empowering journey, and I can’t say enough about it. Here’s what it was like!

I am a busy mom of 4 boys, and I work full time as a registered nurse in the maternal newborn department. My hectic lifestyle it’s always been so hard to take time for me. I’d decided to do something a little sexy for my husband as a birthday gift and figured this was a great way to snag a unique gift for him while doing a little something for myself along the way.

Look babes, I’ve struggled with self-image for as long as I can remember, so this was a big thing, and I was terrified. What if I didn’t like the pictures? I never look good in pictures. But look, I’m nothing if not determined, so I reached out to Christina Marie about things like outfits and how to prepare. She was BRILLIANT. She walked me through everything, and as I went shopping for some sexy lingerie, I felt at ease.

The Day Of

So, I get up that day, tell my husband to leave me alone for a few hours so I can get his Birthday gift, and head to the studio.

I got to the home studio and was greeted by Christina with a welcome hug and, an amazing glass of champagne! I’m not even ashamed to say I chugged it like a lost person in the desert for a week, and Christina talked me through how things would go. As I was changing, I started to realize that this woman is officially the ONLY PERSON OTHER THAN MY HUSBAND who has seen me this close to naked in a very long time!

The Session

I’m not going to lie, when I first met Christina, we hit it off right away! I knew I was exactly where I needed to be. We were already laughing and talking, and the tension just melted away. Christina is extremely talented! She didn’t just talk me through the poses, but she showed me as well. That way I really understood how I needed pose. The picture-taking-process lasted about 2 hours, and the first thing I learned is that modeling is HARD.

I knew it wasn’t easy or everyone would do it, but babes, holding a pose with your back arched, head tilted back, bum popped at JUST the right angle starts to click after a few minutes. Christina made it really easy! And the whole time, she was showering me with praise. I felt as if I was a queen and was being pampered for the day! Who DOESN’T want to feel like a goddess for a couple hours?!

The Aftermath

Within 2-weeks, I had the final images to choose from. When I saw them, I started to tear up! I had been so afraid, so terrified that I’d see the photos only to prove my own worst fears were true.

When I looked through my pictures, I was so incredibly amazed! Is that me? I yelled out with excitement! I looked AMAZING. I was beautiful, and looking at those pictures, for the first time in a long time, I really believed that. I bought an album set for my husband (who cried when he got them for his Birthday, because he knows my struggles with self-image, and knew what it meant for me to do this), but in the end, it turned out that they were really for me!

To this day, whenever I’m feeling somehow “not worthy”, I go through my album and look at those pictures. They remind me that I am not “less” at all! Now, when I go to lingerie stores, instead of feeling miserable that they may not have my size, or that I’m going to look bad in something meant to look sexy, I get excited because I know - I have PROOF in my POCKET - that I look like a badass in these outfits. And I have that, forever, to remind myself to hold my head high. And that, dearest babes, is the most precious gift I have ever received. And I gave it to myself.

You should, too. Ready for your shot at an empowering boudoir shoot? Click here to get in touch!