Portraits by Lavish Boudoir - Jacksonville, Florida - Miss D

Here is the second gorgeous lady who volunteered to be given the full beauty treatment and allow me to shoot a "before" picture.  This lady is hot hot hot!  Thanks to Adeana for the fabulous makeup.

Favorite Things - Maybelline Lash Stiletto

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I love nothing more than a ridiculously high stiletto heel.  In fact, my favorites are too tall to fit under my bed while standing up.  When I first saw these advertised, I thought it was just average mascara with a cute name.  It's so not.  It's as fabulous for my lashes as my loubis are for my legs.  Just curl and add two coats that go all the way to the very tip.  If you have any issues with flaking, just use a good primer first.

If a picture is worth a thousand words...

Very rarely do I get to see the reaction from a boyfriend, fiance or husband when they get to see their album for the first time.  Miss A asked her maid of honor to deliver the album to the groom and brought the wedding photographer along.  Could he look any happier? Thank you to Tom Gooch for letting me share these fabulous photos.  And thank you A & R for letting me share them on here.

The only problem?  Getting him to put down the album and get on with the wedding.

Congrats on your wedding A & R!

Take a Long Hot Bath - without drying your skin

Start off your weekend with this little indulgence.  A hot bath can often leave skin super parched, so pour a little bit of apricot oil in your bath water. Your skin will be as silky smooth as with the expensive brands of bath oil, but a big bottle of this oil can usually be found for less than $10.  If you miss having a nice perfume to the oil, add a bit of scented bubble bath.  So go ahead and relax before you dive into the weekend. This is also a great idea the morning of your boudoir shoot! Cheers!

Leslie

Lavish Boudoir - Miss J

I get a lot of women commenting that all the girls in my portfolio are so beautiful and that they could never look like that.  So, I enlisted the help of a few ladies to show that these are real women who do things like clean their houses, go to work, and sometimes chase after kids.  Thanks Miss J for volunteering to show both sides of herself!  I think she's absolutely gorgeous.  Thanks to Adeana for the beautiful makeup.

Favorite Things - Girl Meets Pearl

The holidays were amazing.  CJ and I headed to Oregon to spend some quality time with his family.  I knew it would be ridiculously cold (I'm sort of a wimp), but I had no idea that it would be so dry that my skin would absolutely freak out.  If it were just time to catch up with relatives and eat goodies, it would be no big deal.  But those red spots and flaky patches were about to be permanently recorded in professional family portraits and destined to be hung in at least 4 homes for the foreseeable future. Ugghh.  I headed to the mall, desperate.  I bought a thick moisturizer and then stumbled across something wonderful.  Girl Meets Pearl at the Benefit counter.  It's a pearlized primer that completely rescued my haggard skin.  Post-moisturizer and pre-foundation and concealer, and it was genius.  Now that I'm back to the wonderful humidity of the South, I use it instead of foundation on my good skin days.  It's the first I've found that makes you glow but not look sparkly. P.S. It smells nice, too.