Getting older should be a beautiful and enriching experience for everybody. Once you hit your 40s-50s, you’ve got plenty of life lessons under your belt, fun memories, and meaningful relationships to fuel your happiness. Unfortunately, society is not always kind to aging women. As always, women are scrutinized as they get older for their changing… Read more »
How Booking a Boudoir Photoshoot Is a Form of Self-Care
What comes to mind when you think of self-care? Probably bubble baths, exercise classes, healthy smoothies, journaling, and other stuff along those lines. These are all great examples of self-care, but sometimes the best things you can do for yourself are a little more outside of the box. Many women, for instance, wouldn’t think of… Read more »
Boudoir Tips for Plus-Sized Beauties
One of the most common misconceptions that we hear about boudoir is that you have to be thin or have the perfect hourglass shape to be able to enjoy your session or produce beautiful photos. This could not be further from the truth! Boudoir is meant for people of all body types and an amazing… Read more »
3 Words and Phrases Every Woman Should Drop from Her Vocabulary
When you begin your self-love journey, one of the first things you learn is how the way you talk to yourself influences your mindset and confidence. Self-talk isn’t the only way language affects your self-perception though; the way you speak to others is just as important. Women in particular have a tendency to diminish themselves… Read more »
How Embracing Vulnerability Will Make Your Life Better
Let’s face it; most of us don’t like to be vulnerable. Being real with other people about your weaknesses, struggles, challenges, and desires is not easy. Too often, we feel as though we need to put on a permanent front of strength and resilience. But nobody has it together all the time, and the more… Read more »
Occasions that Call for a Boudoir Photoshoot
For many women, boudoir is something they’ve always wanted to do but just never made the time for. We totally get it—it can be difficult to set aside the time, especially for women, to do something that only benefits you. You may feel like that’s time wasted or money spent irresponsibly. While it’s important to… Read more »
4 Excuses Not to Try Boudoir That It’s Time to Retire
Pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone can be scary. Nobody likes feeling self-conscious or unsure of themselves. But venturing outside of your comfort zone is important, because this is the only place where growth can truly happen. Doing a boudoir photoshoot is a fun and fulfilling way to step outside of what you know… Read more »
The Pouting Room’s Pledge for Inclusivity: Completing The Boudoir University’s 7 Pillar Program
Oppression; prejudice; racism; bodily autonomy; these are all hot button topics we constantly see being debated in the news. But, to all of us, they are and should be so much more than that. These are real issues plaguing our society and pervading every industry. They affect every one of us, whether we realize it… Read more »
How Boudoir Photography Is Actually Empowerment Photography
There’s a certain image that comes to mind when you hear the term “boudoir”. Usually, it’s one of women clad in lingerie or completely nude, dolled up in glamorous hair and makeup, and draped seductively across the floor, bed, couch, etc. While this image is not necessarily inaccurate, it just barely scratches the surface of… Read more »
3 Ideas (Besides Chocolate & Flowers) for Expressing Your Love This Valentine’s Day
When it comes to feelings about Valentine’s Day, everybody falls somewhere different on the spectrum. It seems like you either love to celebrate it, hate it and are convinced it’s a greeting card company scam, or you simply don’t care about it at all. For those who see Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to show… Read more »