Before I share Miss M’s story. I have to say that I’m so glad I got the amazing opportunity to meet and photograph her. Miss M is one amazing, strong, beautiful woman.
When Miss M and I first started chatting she shared that she got sober almost 7 years ago. And alcohol is what she used to give herself confidence. But in the last 6 years she really put focus on building up herself spiritually and mentally.
But rediscovering her sexuality kind of got left out and put on the back burner. At the time Miss M didn’t feel sexy. All she could focus on were the all the things that she thought of as her imperfections.
See when you ask a women to name off something they don’t love about themselves . A list a mile long will come rattling out of our mouths. But ask what do we love. And well that stops us in our tracks. We have to think about it. We struggle to come up with something or we say “We’ll I guess, I sort of like my (fill in the blank.).”
But Miss M was a little fed up and ready to rediscover her sexuality. She said, one of her biggest motivations for doing the session was to “appreciate what I have and not think about the imperfections that I feel keep me from engaging in relationships. I want to believe I’m sexy.”
Come session day. She walked into the studio, nerves on overload and heart racing. We got the chance to chat a little before she got started with makeup. And like many women started talking about all the things that worried her. “Will my cellulite show?” “I’m I going to look flat chested?” “Will I look fat?” “Can I even be sexy?”
Once we started taking photos, the transformation within 5 minutes blew my mind. She went from super nervous to I think I got this to her words “prancing around in my g-string and heels!”
Then it finally came the day she saw her images. When I saw her pull up in the parking lot, my heart started racing. Not because I didn’t think the images turned out good. But because I wanted nothing more than for Miss M to see what I and everyone else saw in her. I wanted her to see that she is still sexy!
So, I meet her at the door. Sat down and started the slideshow, trying my best to keep my calm. Then it happened. The video came to an end and she said, “That’s me! I do have some sexy left! I didn’t think I could look sexy.”
She said that the entire process gave her the opportunity to “see for myself what people tell me they see. I’ve never thought I was beautiful. In these pictures I feel my outside matches my inside.”
And now not only does she know it, she feels it, sees it, and has images to PROVE it!
Makeup by Brie Beckman
