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Before your life-changing boudoir experience is the planning process! We have come up with the details that you want to take care of before your session, to provide you with the best experience possible!

This is a time to pamper yourself, and that doesn't need to stop at your session! Make sure you get your nails PROFESSIONALLY manicured! It's a small detail that is easily overlooked but we will be taking photographs that have your hands in it, and we want to make sure they are ready for their close up ;)
TIP: Stay away from neon or bright colors! We want you to be manicured, but make sure they don't steal the show! The focus is YOU.
Stay with neutral colors such as: white, cream, black, gray, nude, very light blush pink, french manicure is my personal favorite!

Do NOT spray tan before your session! Please!
You WILL turn out orange in your photographs no matter how good of a spray tan it is! The camera picks up the color that our eyes can't see, and it emphasizes it. Embrace your natural skin tone, it's BEAUTIFUL in photographs, I promise!

TIP: If you absolutely have to be tan for your session, natural tanning OK - but girl, if you are going to commit to tanning, then you must tan naked, and don't forget to spread the booty cheeks! Nothing is worse than a buttcrack tan line!

You MUST wash your hair the night before or preferably the morning of your session! We do not want grease to show in your photographs, and if there is a hint of grease at all, it WILL show!
Make sure your hair has enough time to air dry or you can blow dry it if preferred, before you come into the studio!
Make sure your face is nice and clean - you may wear moisturizer if you would like, but not make up at all on your face!

STRETCH STRETCH STRETCH!
You are not going to want to skip this step! I will be making you arch, bend, lengthen, body parts that you normally don't move especially in a way that we will be moving them! Every single client is sore after their session, so do yourself a favor, so you are mobile the next day, stretch the last 3 days before your session! It is a workout!

• Make sure you use this time to take yourself lingerie shopping! Grab some new amazing lingerie that makes you feel incredible and bring it to your session!
• Scrub your feet the morning of your session. I know how silly this sounds, but dirty bottoms of feet are not cute in any photo! I recommend washing your feet, put some lotion on, and then sock up! I would keep your socks on during hair and make up (as long as they are loose fuzzy socks, nothing tight!)
• Make sure you are wearing loose clothing on the ride to the studio! There is nothing worse that a tight bra or undies leaving marks on your skin for your photos! The best idea is a t-shirt or maxi dress that you don't have to wear anything under!
• NO ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION the night before or the day of your session! This is my biggest rule. If I suspect that you have been drinking I will call you a cab, and reschedule your session. Safety is of the utmost importance to me. Plus if you have been drinking, we don't want you to look red in the face, or blotchy for your photographs!

Make sure you prepare your outfits at least the NIGHT BEFORE your session! There is nothing worse than panicking the night before realizing you didn't pick the outfits you want to wear! Although your outfits are not the most important and sometimes your last minute grab out the door is the best - try to lay out everything you want to bring, and buy garment bags to place them in! You don't want them to wrinkle!

Make sure you shave in your normal places before your session! (Preferably everywhere from the neck down!)
If you are a waxer, then make sure you wax at least two days before your session!
TIP: This is NOT the time to try something new, DO NOT WAX if you don't routinely wax! You will be red for your shoot otherwise!

No botox or injections within one week of your session! You are beautiful just how you are, for starters - but if you HAVE to do injections or botox then PLEASE allow yourself enough time to heal and not be puffy! On week AT LEAST!