Top 5 types of women who should get a boudoir shoot this Valentine's Day

1) The woman who has done the self-work and loves herself.

This is the woman who works on being consciously kind to herself every day. She understands that she is a complex human being, and that like anyone, she has her flaws. But she has also realized that beauty lives in those imperfections and she has embraced all of who she is. She’s done the self-work to (at first) mitigate (and eventually) resist feelings of unworthiness. She shows herself the same amount of kindness that she shows to others. She laughs loudly, exercises to be strong, and doesn’t beat herself up when she’s had a bad day. She wants to do a boudoir session to celebrate all of who she is and she understands that she is worthy of celebrating herself through beautiful portraits that she will cherish forever.

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.” - Coco Chanel. Photo © Laura Shortt Photography

2) The woman who doesn’t love herself yet, but wants to.

I don’t think loving oneself comes naturally to anyone these days. We’re hit with so much noise on a daily basis that just seems to insinuate that whatever we are doing with our lives at the moment, it’s just somehow not enough. Is it any wonder that there are so many women in the world who are hard on themselves? In my experience, love for yourself requires daily work, and it’s certainly a journey. But you know what, you don’t have to love yourself right now- all you have to do today is stop the self-hate. That’s it. That’s the first step to getting yourself out of the shadows and moving towards the light of self-love. And if you don’t believe you’re beautiful, let me prove you wrong. I promise you will see and meet yourself in a truly beautiful portrait that will show you the beauty that you are in possession of.

All women are beautiful and they are simply shown this for themselves when they come in for a photo session at Laura Shortt Photography. Photo © Laura Shortt Photography.

3) The woman who has lost weight and wants to celebrate it.

It’s possible that the woman in this category could also be placed under category 1) or 2) depending on how she feels about herself, and either way, she deserves beautiful portraits.

What’s YOUR beautiful? Photo © Laura Shortt Photography

4) The woman who has put on weight and knows she’s still beautiful and worthy of celebrating and loving herself.

Beauty has absolutely nothing to do with weight. Just look at Adele, Lizzo or Tess Holiday for proof. However, self-love certainly does and one of the great challenges in life that nobody talks about is maintaining love for yourself when you’ve put weight on. If you’ve put weight on and you know you are still worthy of celebrating and loving yourself, then amen sister! And just in case you need a loving reminder of how beautiful you are, then girl, I’ve got you. All body types are beautiful and it would be my honor to show you just how stunning you are.

5) The woman who has shed the skin of ‘not good enough’:

I’ve definitely got some feelings when it comes to this topic and have written a whole blog post about it. The woman who has shed the skin of not good enough is well on her way to freeing and loving herself. She no longer compares herself to others and competes only with herself. She understands that she is very much deserving of portraits because she is good enough exactly as she is in this moment of her life.

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