When things in your life shift you sometimes wish you could press a re-do, a re-start, or maybe even a let’s just move forward button.
In the months leading up to Miss X’s session, some major changes started to take place. Changes in her relationship, moving back her home state, and trying to adjust to all the stresses and challenges being thrown her way.
But Miss X is a strong woman and she didn’t let any of that deter her from doing her session. Instead we focused on her. The things she loves, the things she wanted to capture, and most importantly how she wanted to feel.
Come session day, Miss X traveled her way back to TN, lingerie in tow, and an outlook that only a truly confident and strong women could have.
She walked into the studio with the biggest smile on her face. And immediately said, “I’m so excited. These last few months have been so stressful and challenging. I need this day to just have fun, dress up and be girly, and feel beautiful!” And that’s what we did. During her shoot we laughed, we joked, and ultimately became friends.
The session came to an end, but she didn’t leave immediately. Instead we just sat down and chatted. Miss X said, “I feel very empowered and almost recharged to go on about the task of rebuilding my life.” But that’s one of the things that made me so drawn to Miss X although she said, “almost recharged” she actually already started rebuilding her life and doing one hell of a kick ass job at it too.
After our little chat, we packed up. She went on her way to travel back home, but once again in a little bit of a different situation than before. See she took back a few extra things this time around. A little more confidence, a whole lot of excitement to see her images, and the feeling of I got this!
When it came time for Miss X to see her images I felt like a kid who just got told we’re going to Disney. I couldn’t even contain my excitement. I couldn’t wait for her to see that strong, confident, sexy woman that I saw.
After she saw her images she said, “I almost cried!! I had just left a relationship that had pretty much destroyed me. I hadn’t truly felt beautiful in years and I felt like he robbed me of that. So when I saw my images it was very healing. I saw that I was still beautiful like I used to think I was AND in new ways! Ways I hadn’t seen until I looked at the photos captured of me.”
I can’t even begin to express how thankful I am to have meet such a strong woman.
Makeup by Brie Beckman
