“A Beauty Session not only affects the clients self image, but it can do wonderful things for her marriage and relationships with her family and friends. With the help of psychologists, therapists, and counselors, the homework for Beauty Sessions was developed to help each client better rediscover her true beauty.”
I AM BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE...
I AM THE DAUGHTER OF A LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER
I HAVE FINALLY DISCOVERED WHO I AM
I AM THE MOTHER OF A 6 BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS AND 1 GRANDSON
I AM LOVED BY SO MANY PEOPLE
I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT MY TRUE FRIENDS LOVE ME NO MATTER WHAT
ALL IMAGES POSTED IN THIS POST WERE TAKEN BY MY DEAR FRIEND
MANDI NUTALL of NUTALL PHOTOGRAPHY.
A few months back I had the wonderful pleasure of doing a Beauty Session with my friend and creator of the "My Beauty Campaign," Mandi Nutall. I called it my "Dream Session." I talked to Mandi about creating images of a life that I dreamed of living some day. She was very excited about the ideas that I shared with her, and went to work right away on finding just the perfect location for my "Country Dream Session." Ever since I can remember I wanted to live on a farm with animals scattered about my 500 acre Ranch. But the most iconic thing I wanted was a huge red barn and a windmill. I expressed to her my love of horses and how if possible we could have some at our session.
She sent me some "self discovering" paperwork weeks before my session that helped to improve my self esteem and body image. This pre session homework helped me to get my insecurities out on the table so I could put them behind me. Becuase to Mandi, her Beauty Sessions are so much more than just a photo shoot...it is a self discovering journey. She believes that "Beauty Sessions can help a woman rediscover her true beauty!"
Weeks before my session I took some much needed time for myself and went shopping for "my perfect Dream Session wardrobe." I found that with each item that I purchased I got more and more excited. With each piece of homework that I completed I became more aware of the beauty that others see in me. It really was as Mandi likes to call it...."A Self Discovering Labor of Love!"
My Beauty Campaign Photographer helped to make me feel loved, beautiful and most of all safe, she made me feel as if I was the one client that "Rocked" her world! I just loved that quality about her...I learned so many things that day that I believe have helped to make me a better photographer.
A Beauty Campaign Session is so much more than a Photo Shoot it is an emotional journey! Every woman deserves to have a beautiful image of them-self!
You see…little did I know that on December 5th, 2010 just 4 months after these images were taken that my life would forever be changed. On this day I spent 10 hours in a hospital with a Plastic Surgeon trying to repair the left side of my face. I was bit by a dog that my daughter had bred to one of our male Samoyeds. It took over 100 stitches to repair my cheek, lip, gum line, chin and under my tongue. Her bite had severed my facial nerve, crushed my motor nerve and did a huge amount of damage to the muscles in my cheek area. There were two 1.5 inch tears that went all the way thru my face and gums. I can no longer feel the left side of my face, which also includes all of my teeth on the top row. I also felt as though I looked like a stroke victim, due to the crushed motor nerve I was not able to use the muscles in my cheek or lip. Getting used to wiping drool off the corner of my mouth was just not something that I envisioned for my self.
The last two weeks, 3 days a week from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM are spent at OSR in Physical Therapy. I am trying to learn how to swish water in my mouth without it running all down the front of my shirt. I am trying to learn how to blow up a balloon for my Grandson again. I am trying to learn how to smile with both sides of my mouth. Did I mention that these are all things I never imagined I would be re-learning how to do again? But never the less for the next 4 weeks, 3 days a week, Aaron and I will be making silly exercising faces at each other so I can feel beautiful again! But remember earlier when I told you how Mandi taught me that beauty is not just on the outside! Beauty is gift which comes from within, this gift of “Self Discovering,” is what has gotten me thru some of the worst days of my life this past month. I am truly grateful for the lessons I learned during “My Beauty Campaign” photo session, and I am even more grateful to have the images of a once perfect cheek.
Hopefully these images are not to graphic to share on my blog, but I wanted to share with you my emotional journey since December 5th! I am so glad I did not wait to do my photos, for you never know what the next day has in store for you!
Mandi now offers her “Beauty Campaign” to Photographers all over the world, she is teaching us how to help woman love who they are right now; Not in 10 years, or when they are 50lbs lighter…right now! Mandi stated during an interview today that she has never had such a sense of fulfillment as she does when she gets to help someone through her process and then ultimately show her photos to the client. She states that there is so much positive emotion involved throughout the journey, and it really is beautiful.
I am so glad that I have these beautiful portraits of myself, I have images that I am proud to show off. I have images that will help me to remember who I was and what makes me beautiful. I will forever Love “My Beauty Campaign Photographer, Mandi Nutall!” This was a journey that we took together and I will be forever grateful.
I am also now offering “Beauty Sessions,” I hope that I too, can be instrumental in helping women all over Arizona discover like I did, what makes them beautiful.
Please feel free to contact me today for information on how to begin your own
“Self Discovering Labor of Love!”
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