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Why Mothers Owe It To Their Daughters…
Let’s explore why mothers owe it to their daughters to model a healthy self-image and how they can fulfil this essential responsibility.
The Three Key Steps To Become the “Go-To” Using Your Personal Brand
It’s widely accepted that the best way to create a resilient business is to build relationships with your audience. This ensures that even when they don’t need your service now, when they do, or when someone they know does, you are the first person to come to mind. A no brainer even.
Newborn Photoshoots and Why and When You Should Do One
They stay tiny for such a short period of time - I can remember being sad that my boys were growing so quickly - no longer the tiny, helpless and bendy lil things they were when they were born.
When we love ourselves EVERYTHING CHANGES...
Everything becomes possible.
Many of the women that I work with struggle with low self esteem, because of things that happened in the past and comments that people made to them and WOW don’t those insults STICK!
It's not about anti-aging, it's about wanting to feel better...
As time went on my hair became frizzy, uncontrollable and I looked washed out and wayyyyyy older than my years. But what does looking your age, or looking wayyyyy older than my years actually mean?
We're back to the 90's - anti-aging is back with a vengeance
We're back to the 90's apparently and not in a good way.
It's being reported that female models over the age of 40 are struggling for work since COVID as brands seem to have retreated from the drive to "age beautifully" and "embrace life" and reverted to
I would do anything for you...
But I won’t do that. Ok look I’ve cheated and changed the words of Meatloaf’s famous song a little..
What on earth is she on about now I hear you ask.
10 years ago I had recently split up with my husband and I was desperate for work. I’d take anything
Moving Forward With Confidence
Someone said to me recently - you can only move forward, you can’t go back and you can’t stand still, because if you do, you’ll only be swept up with events. So forward it is!
Your Perfect Client - why and how
“But I don’t want to exclude anyone” they insist. “I want to appeal to EVERYONE” they cry, when I ask my clients who their perfect client is.
The trouble is that you try to appeal to everyone and you end up appealing to noone. Why? Well read on and I’ll tell you…
The Age of Personal Branding - A Guide
Personal Branding - The means by which people remember you…
A broad definition - after all someone might remember you from a spot on your face 😉 - but perhaps a longer version might be: how you use words and imagery to communicate who you are; to help you be…
Fake model agencies - beware
A wolf in sheep's clothing...That's what they are. Photographic studios that pretend to be model agencies to ensnare young, raise their hopes, make money out of them and then achieve nothing else.
This is how it works….
Uses for headshots
You probably have a lot to say about a lot of things when you are working on your business. You have different audiences, different subjects, different media, different messages that you want to convey.
Here's a list of all the things that you may need business images for:
I fell in love...
I fell in love with photographing women because the impact of their experience & transformation on their self-worth BLEW ME AWAY.
It all started around 4 ½ years ago
Is your first impression giving you a headstart?
According to The Harvard Study of Communications it only takes seven seconds for you to make a first impression on another human being.
The colour RED!
Last time we looked at blue as a brand colour. Today it’s red!
Red is a vibrant colour often with associations with life (blood) and emotion (heart).
As UNIQUE as you are...
I was in a meeting recently and someone mentioned that there was a competitor who is doing “almost exactly the same” as me.
So actually I’d just like to clarify what makes me different from ANY OTHER PHOTOGRAPHER that I know.
My MISSION is to help women feel confident, relaxed
Are you blue?
You will have noticed that I have changed the theme of my cover photo to blue and I quite like the idea of having colour themes for every week, so watch out for what the next one is. As a makeover corporate headshot photographer, colour is a really important part of my job as I need to combine wardrobe, make-up and background to complement brand colours as well as the skin tone and hair colour of the women I photograph.
How women have changed (and the power of photographs in leaving memories)
The image on the left is of my beautiful Mum, and my Granny Florrie, who was 77 in this photo. She died a couple of years later.
The image on the right is of my Mum at my son’s wedding in December 2017 at the age of 78. What a difference!
A brother of the Bee Gees and me - a kiss and tell story
The older ones amongst you might recognise Andy Gibb, the brother of the Bee Gees, and if you don’t recognise him then surely the teeth give it away. The other person in the photo is me, an awkward, shy girl of 13 years old, not really understanding why I was in a TV studio, with cages, Phantom Flan Flingers...
Why wear make-up
Make up is your best friend – is that a strange statement in today’s environment of body acceptance and body positivity. Bear with me though and you’ll see what I mean.
When you go out with your make up on...