Boudoir Photographer Kansas City

What to wear for your boudoir session

bellav — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:35:14 +0000

Today’s client brought in so many beautiful choices I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite.

Boudoir session – What to wear?

bellav — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:03:02 +0000

From fun and sassy to seriously sexy, yesterday’s client chose a lovely variety for her boudoir session. The boy panty coupled with Jayhawks tee and thigh high tube socks were a stroke of genius and seriously sexy. No joke!

I thinking that this might be the first in a series of images captured of actual wardrobes brought in by Bella Boudoir clients. Permission obtained of course!

K – is for Danger! Kurves ahead!

bellav — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:21:56 +0000

Ms. K is stunning don’t you think?

Another sneaky Sunday afternoon quickie.

bellav — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:36:03 +0000

Nope. Not working… not on Sunday…I wouldn’t dare…

Or would I?

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D is for Dynamic! Darling! Delightful!

bellav — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:30:30 +0000

Mrs. D is someone I know through a common volunteer affiliation. So already she’s near and dear to my heart because of the gift she shares with others. She’s a very rare blend of compassionate and kind mixed with tough lil’ cookie.

Thanks Mrs. D for your generosity and for allowing me the honor of capturing you!

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A is for Astonishing

bellav — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:14:36 +0000

Miss A rocked the red in her boudoir session. I’m so pleased that I’m able to share!

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Sunday afternoon quickie

bellav — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:33:29 +0000

Ssshhh. Don’t tell the hubs – I’m not supposed to work on Sundays but I couldn’t help but share a few recent photos.

Accolades

bellav — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:30:13 +0000

Wow.

Somewhat speechless. Honored, for sure! Thrilled to bits. Pretty much near tears.

I’ve known for awhile now but reality didn’t set in until I read the feature article and saw the photos that my friendly competitor, Marco Simonelli of Bold As Love Boudoir took of me to include within the article. Reality. It’s here. Can’t wait to share the pics of the magazine and article.

Desert Mirage – Bella Boudoir Style

bellav — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:53:32 +0000

Just back from Vegas where I attended the WPPI expo (a trade show for the photography industry) and while there I met up with the most talented photographers to shoot in the Nevada desert. Here are a few to share for now :) More, many more to come!

An eye opener. Literally.

bellav — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:07:58 +0000

I’m 42 years old and have never, until last night, applied makeup to best suit my features. No. Really. I did a fairly decent job of putting on makeup, but I had no idea that I was doing it all wrong.

I grew up an only child, no big sisters to show me the ropes. You-tube or even the in-ter-net ((what?)) was not around during my teens or even halfway through my twenties.

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I learned from my mom. Sorry Mom, you can’t be good at everything, ya know.

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My sessions include the services of a professional hair and makeup artist. It’s part of the experience, the day of pampering, dress up and play. I get to watch my makeup artists work their magic and I find it fascinating to watch the transformations happen right before my very eyes. Through observation or osmosis my own makeup techniques have markedly improved, but I knew it was still lacking.

I didn’t realize just how *lacking* it was until I had my very own makeup lesson last night. It was an eye opener. Literally and figuratively. My studio-mate saw me this morning and did a double-take… asked “You look different. You look refreshed.”

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HALLELUJAH!!

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Trust me, I was NOT refreshed, 6 hours of sleep seems to be my limit these days otherwise I toss and turn. I looked refreshed because my makeup lesson taught me that for *MY* eye shape, eye size and how my eye is set in my face I should not wear eyeliner on the top – which is what I’ve done my entirely life, eyeliner on or in the lower lid has been avoided for the past 20 years because – well. I don’t know.. because that’s how everybody else was doing it? Someone told me I should? Even recently, I went to a higher end cosmetics store and was sold products that did not flatter my features, or rather it did nothing to bring my features out…. I didn’t know. They were pretty colors, they sparkled a little – I like sparkle :)

The lesson: I wore a full face of Petra’s best-applied makeup to the lesson and Terra, one of my very talented makeup artists, removed the makeup from only one eye and started her magic. I was taught that there is a lid, a crease: including an outer crease and inner crease, and the brow line. The first thing Terra applied was an eye cream, this both moisturized and gave the pigment shadow something to hang onto. After the cream she applied a very light matte shadow called ‘vanilla’ … yep…think vanilla ice cream..it’s THAT light… after the lid she worked her magic on the crease… crease shadowing was something I’d very recently mastered so I thought this would be same’ol, same’ol…. HA! because my eye is small, she stopped short of tracing the entire semi-circle shape.. immediately the eye she’d worked appeared larger than the other… more awake, brighter. Terra then applied a very neutral cool toned brown matte to my crease..this is pretty! She blended and now I had the perfect day look.

Woah.

Who knew that going light on the lid, only working the outer crease and putting liner on the outer bottom edge would make me look “refreshed”!??! To take day look into night Terra then applied BLACK, yes, BLACK to my outer crease and lid with a detail brush and blended that to perfection. I now looked vampy and ready for a night on the town!

To say the least, I’m impressed and I want to share this experience with all of clients, current and past. So stay tuned, soon I’ll be announcing this little soiree!