Love Yourself series, Jenny post #6

Accalia Carter January 5, 2022

In this series within my blog, I will share individual client stories, that they have allowed me to share with you, in hopes of encouraging you to love yourself more right now not when. These are real women, with real stories.

Meet Jenny, a local teacher of Culinary arts at NIC. She found out she had Crohn’s disease, and that led her to a healthier lifestyle and back to school. She has been on her own since she was 12, raised 2 grown daughters. She is celebrating 40 years of being here with us. She had a major tummy tuck to get rid of excess skin and tissue she had from years of medication weigh gain.

She said that learning to love her body now, thinner, yet different has been super hard for her. Her tummy was even more of sensitive spot because of her tuck, and the changes. She did the shoot as a way to showcase her to herself, and treat as well.

During her style session we went over outfits, and we talked about make-up too, I noticed she had 2 different colored eyes, one blue, and one green. In some of the photos you can see a difference in eye color, though the way I did her eye shadow has one eye looking more hazel than green, just an example of how you can bring out different colors using other colors. We had so much fun with this session. I will let you hear her side of things:

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Love Yourself series, DeAnn post #2

Accalia Carter October 4, 2021

Meet DeAnn, always a mom, even with Chiari, having had one brain surgery for that and the other 2 on her lower back and soon to have hip surgery. She has also been on a weight loss journey as well. She is an incredible woman on a hard road. The last few years have been kind of rough for her. She has been discovering who is she is again after some trauma, she is learning to set new boundaries for herself, and to spoil herself finally.

When we met up for her style session, she mentioned her divorce and the death of her beloved dad. We chatted about all the things she has overcome, about how she always wanted to do a shoot, just never had the courage or the right support till recently, and that’s why now was her time. I felt honored that she chose Boushie Babes to help her explore a few different sides of herself.

She pulled up in her Dad’s car and I knew to make this special we had to grab a few shots with her and the car, you know I just had to. So we started there and ended there, after hair and makeup. She even brought her new man’s shirt to get a few shots in too, so yes we did, I just love when clients bring different outfits to showcase their different sides.

She just wanted to see what others see when they say she is beautiful, to actually feel confident in her skin now, something I find most of us really need at least once in our lifetimes, if not more often.