Not long before Ricky Martin's hit She Bangs was released...I also lusted after Bangs.

It all started in 1998, when I met the most beautiful and popular girl in school, Brandy. Besides being captain of the Junior Varsity Cheer Squad, she had long blonde hair and barrel bangs. I wanted those bangs so bad! I even tried it, but because of my widows peak they kept flopping to the side. Like all 12 year olds with popularity obsessions, I was heartbroken and resolved to never have bangs.

Flash forward 16 years and I’m standing in the makeup room of the studio with scissors and a fist full of hair.

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Did I mention I had an audience? Shelby pleaded with me to stop the madness, and Ashley was content to watch the crazy unfold. I felt pretty confident after watching some YouTube tutorials. Afterward I quickly realized I needed help….professional help!

Drea to the rescue! This girl saved my hair and made me look amazing.

What’s the verdict on the bangs? I’m just not sure yet. I like them a lot. It’s fresh, fun, and cute. Which are adjectives that have never been used to describe me. My family isn’t as excited about them and the people pleaser in me wants to grow them out immediately. Oh well, guess they’ll just have to get used to it.

A dark smoky eye with fringe bangs can be crazy sexy. Wanna try it for your shoot? Step away from the scissors and try these clip-on bangs from Ulta for your boudoir shoot.

Our hair and makeup artists can style them for you!

She came to us thinking she might want a pin up look, and while pin up can certainly be beautiful, I saw her big blue eyes and gorgeous bone structure and I BEGGED her to let me do something a little different. You see, the week before my husband went back to school he was scrambling around to all of the honey do’s that I had given him at the beginning of the summer and one of those things was to fix my big brass bed. I still hadn’t gotten a chance to use it yet and I knew that I wanted to pose her all over it! She moved like she was born for boudoir and I must admit we all girl crushed pretty hard that day.

This is how hillbillies fix a vintage brass bed. It didn't have any support and I was short on time. This works perfectly!

We shot her with a lace crop top and a high waist panty, a combination that I wasn’t sure about until I saw it on her. It was light and airy, but still showed off her shape. It also kind of looked like the sort of mismatched outfit you could lay around the house in so it wasn’t too styled, which I really love.

 It was a great opportunity to see what this bed can do.  You can shoot on the brass bed with any of our packages so if you are as in love with it as I am give us a call! We can’t wait to shoot it again. 

Once upon a time, Ashley and Shelby had an idea. Let’s just think about that for a minute. Its sentence’s like that that keep me up worrying at night, but it turns out this time it was a GREAT idea. Ashley and Shelby wanted to paint all of the walls in my studio black. Now, I know what you’re thinking, BLACK!?!?!?! Were they high? No, no they were not. How we found the time, I will never know, but  we spent three full days covered in paint and now my studio is even more beautiful and just to show you, we put a client in our hallway and turned it into a set! Once our other clients had finished up and left she jumped in there like the little champion she is and we made some magic. Could she be more beautiful? I guess you really can shoot a killer session anywhere. If you would like to book a session on our new black wall let us know and we can schedule your session at a time when the studio is empty and private!

Stay tuned, their next insane idea was to paint a white couch black! If it doesn't turn out we’ll make sure you all get invited to the bonfire when we burn that sucker!