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Imposter Syndrome is real
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Empowered Woman – Ms.P
How was it not should be the question! 2019 has been a deep year of introspection and tapping into my personal power. Participating in this shoot was an integral part of this work. It was a creative way to tap into the divine feminine–the inner goddess in a fully empowering and safe way. I needed something decadent and luxurious for my spirit and the Oh So Experience was it. I have always had an inner sex appeal that I want to cultivate as a part of my confident grown woman brand; I believe this experience will certainly help with this journey.
Olesha is super encouraging – I felt like Naomi Campbell in real life and not just in my head. She helps you push through into the bold and provocative while still helping me feel comfortable in my skin. I did a photo series in a sheer bathrobe that would have been outside my comfort zone normally but I really felt the beauty of my curves and feminity. I truly loved it.
I did. I was nervous about the photos being too risque or out of alignment with my brand as a professional marketer but the photos turned out to very beautiful, classy, and revealing about my true self—not the professional cover I put on to appear safe in the world.
Drop any reservations you have and just go for it – life as far as we know only happens once so it’s best to just enjoy it, have fun and live in your power one adventure at a time.
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Empowered Woman – Mrs. T
My boudoir experience empowered me to not only love my adult body but to be unapologetic about it, make no excuses for it and to just enjoy and love being ME!
My favorite part was the girl talk while prepping for the shoot. We talked about dating, self care, life, etc. and went LOVE so others could join in. It really felt like a good girlfriends getting together to have girl talk, get dressed up and take pictures. A very personable experience for what can be a very intimate and intimidating space for people.
I would tell others preparing for the shoot to be COMFORTABLE WITH THE UNCOMFORTABLE, your slay depends on it lol! Seriously, even with all of the direction Olesha gave I had a ball because I let go, and she captured who I am at this stage in my life; which is sexy and unapologetically me!
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Empowered Woman-Ms.R
The boudoir experience has empowered me by being able to feel even more comfortable showing a bit more skin. Feeling sexier, although I am not in my “goal” body at the moment! Lol It also helped my model skills enliven and made me comfortable and receptive to future gigs/shoots.
My favorite part of the experience/shoot was during scene & wardrobe changes. I enjoyed all of my looks that Olesha curated specifically for me as well as seeing the creative process of the scene changes. I am a very visual person so I appreciated that. But, I also enjoyed my makeup application (as well as meeting the talented make up artist), and the fact that the room was set up for me with my name on the door, goodies, and great wine!
One thing to mention to other Beauties about doing their own experience is that Olesha is very accommodating and comforting. The entire shoot process and the way it unfolds is totally up to you. So you lead the way. This was great because it was my first boudoir shoot and I was apprehensive about it initially because of feeling like I didn’t have the “photo shoot body”.
Overall the shoot was a great experience and I’m glad I opened myself up to experience this. I am now comfortable with working with Olesha for any future projects.
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Curl Fest 2019
This was my first time at Curl Fest and all I can say it WOW! I tried to attend last year, but those tickets sold out so damn fast! As soon as I saw the notification on Instagram I put it on my calendar with an alarm. Yes, it was that serious Beauties. I managed to get two tickets by the skin of my teeth! (Ok maybe that is a little dramatic, but you get what I mean.) Amtrak was having a 2 for 1 sale so I booked that too.
I was in love with this jump suit! I woke up before the sun did on Saturday morning to drive to Baltimore with my bestie. We got the 6:05 AM train at Penn Station and of course I could not sleep the entire way. I was to damned excited! We managed to make it to New York in one piece and luckily I have an amazing memory. We were trying to find a breakfast spot and I remembered a place I went to earlier in the year with my sisters.
I am not going to lie. I followed this sis trying to get a picture of her dog purse. Now when we finally made it to the festival I was in awe of all the black beauty I saw, if you follow me on IG you say this in my stories. So many hues, hair styles and the FASHIONS! Whew chilay the color yellow was made for brown skin girls. When I tell you the line to get in had to a mile long. That is no exaggeration! I was so glad that we got there when we did because I couldn’t even see the end of the line after 15 minutes.
I got a beautiful pin from these gorgeous queens. When we got to the front to get in I had my phone ready to get my e-tickets scanned. I didn’t even need to have it out, because they were not checked. I was a little perturbed about that because I had stalked that site to make sure I was able to purchase those same tickets before they sold out. When I got in I was so excited I did a little two step. Then I remembered it was hotter than hell and once we looked around we needed to find an area with hella shade.
Overall Curlfest 2019 was a very good experience. It was amazing to see so many black women owning their natural hair and the creativity with the outfits. I told my bestie that if I was a guy or a lesbian I would definitely find my queen among the multitude of gorgeous women. The things I didn’t care for were the lines which were close to, 2 hours for food, not scanning my ticket, and very lax enforcement for checking bags. We live in a crazy time and people are very trigger happy. I rather be safe than sorry. Oh I almost forgot after the festival we had to walk across a bridge from Randall’s Island to Manhattan. We went looking for a food and the place we choose charged $5 to eat your food there! Only in New York.
Enjoy the gallery!
I want her pick! 
This I wasn’t sure about, but I felt sorry for them because of the heat. 
It seemed like all the guys had a version of this shirt on! 
Her crown was glorious! 
He told me my smile was beautiful only because he said it. I want his pants though. 
Doing it for the culture.
