5 Empowering Reasons to Book a Boudoir Bride Photoshoot…

So you’re newly engaged or you have your wedding day coming up?  There’s so much to be done but don’t forget to take some time for yourself amidst the whirlwind of all the planning!

Boudoir Bride photography is a perfect way to celebrate you. It’s an experience that can help you feel empowered, confident, beautiful, and ready to embrace your wedding day with like the absolute badass you are! 

If you need some help making your decision, here are six compelling reasons to book YOUR Boudoir Bride Photoshoot.

Bridal Confidence Booster: Boudoir Bride photography is your secret weapon for enhancing confidence before the big day. If you can do a Boudoir photoshoot, your wedding photos will be an absolute doddle!

An Intimate Keepsake: Your Bridal Boudoir photos will be something you can look back on and say “I did that, and just look at me, I’m awesome!”. They also make a great wedding gift which can be shared with your partner as an intimate gift on the morning of your wedding, should you choose. Some Brides like to leave a little note saying “Meet me at the Altar”

Self-Love and Self-Care: Prioritising self-love and self-care is essential during the wedding preparations. A Boudoir photoshoot is the ultimate self-care gift and is the perfect way to celebrate your uniqueness and feel empowered on the lead up to the day. 

Confidence in Vulnerability: Taking the leap into Boudoir photography is a chance to embrace your body in a supportive and safe environment. It’s a powerful reminder that vulnerability is beautiful and that it’s a strength, not a weakness.

Pre-Wedding Calm and Empowerment: In the days leading up to your wedding, a Bridal Boudoir photoshoot can provide you with a sense of calm and empowerment. It’s a moment to step away from the wedding stress and take a moment for yourself, leaving you feeling radiant and ready for the big day.

Boudoir photography is the ultimate gift of self-love, a celebration of vulnerability, and a chance to embrace YOU! This journey will leave you feeling confident, beautiful, and ready to SHOW UP at your wedding day with the confidence you deserve. 

So, invest in this empowering experience and embrace the radiant, empowered Boudoir Bride within you. Download our Boudoir Brochure , or Find Out More or Contact us to book!

Body positivity champion and photographer, Victoria Baptiste, has unveiled the first ever #BeautifulYou campaign which sees five female bodybuilders celebrating their own unique beauty. 

Baptiste founded The Beautiful You Movement in 2018 to fight back against body shaming and online abuse. The movement works in partnership with Flux Photographic to offer unique photo shoots, story sharing and body positivity workshops.

This year’s #BeautifulYou campaign sets out to send the message that trolling and body shaming is not acceptable. It wants to encourage individuals to think about how they choose to speak to others and understand the impact of the opinions they share online and the profound effect they may have on the person in question. Having read some hurtful comments posted on a bodybuilder friend’s Instagram profile, Baptiste called upon a squad of incredible female bodybuilders, powerlifters and strong women to help spread the message and share their own beautiful selves. 

Each of the women involved had the most inspiring stories to tell about their journey to becoming the amazing athletes they are today. The hashtags on the images below were chosen by each of the ladies to communicate their empowering messages, so far these images have inspired many people to embrace themselves and celebrate who they are. Most importantly these images have paved the way for important conversation that need to happen in order to begin moving towards ongoing positive change. 

The Beautiful You Movement embraces beauty in all its various forms and called on the invited body builders to showcase their own body confidence with body-positive portraiture. 

Research conducted by the Mental Health Foundation in 2019 revealed that 22% of adults and 40% of youngsters worried about their body image due to pictures seen on social media. A further one in five adults have also felt shame due to their body image over the previous 12 months, with one in eight experiencing suicidal thoughts. Body shaming incidents are also on the increase, with bullyingstatistics.org reporting a huge 94% of women and 84% of men affected by body-shaming both on and offline. 

Victoria wants to change the game by calling out body shaming trolls and getting them to think about how their behaviour towards others impacts their confidence and mental wellbeing. She says, “There are so many factors which can affect our self-image, often these factors are outside of our control and tend to be driven by others and what we think others think of us.”

“The Beautiful You Movement is about self-acceptance, embracing who we are, allowing ourselves to exist unapologetically and standing together to support and empower each other. The #BeautifulYou campaign is an important reminder that this issue can impact everyone, no matter their age, profession or level of physical fitness. I invited five incredible women to showcase their own strength and beauty in a way that felt right to them. The images are powerful and empowering and I hope that’s just the start of things to come.”

To find out more and to join the Beautiful You Movement, visit https://www.fluxphotographic.co.uk/about-beautiful-you

As a photographer i’ve always known that I wanted my work not just to exist but to make an impact. When I started my company, the idea was to take powerful images that would challenge perceptions, I did the successfully for 4 years taking boudoir and makeover images until something hit me. I needed to do more. 

I began thinking, what if it’s about more than just challenging perceptions. There’s strength in numbers right…and so The Beautiful You Movement was born!

What is Beautiful You all about?

The Beautiful You Movement is all about embracing who we are, unapologetically without fear of judgement. I believe that being unique is the most incredible thing a person can be, imagine being so rare that you are the only one of you to ever exist. Surely that’s something worth celebrating?

Beautiful You aims to encourage anyone struggling with body image, confidence or self-esteem, along with those who already embrace and celebrate themselves, to stand together, start a ripple effect and promote change. It also aims to tackle the ever growing societal attitude that it’s okay to leave negative, and often very personal comments, on the social media platforms of complete strangers. This is where the campaigns come in #saynototrolling

How can we all harness the power of Beautiful You?

Basically, it all comes down to giving less hoots about what other people think or more importantly, what we think other people think! Instead of allowing outside influences to make us feel any less than awesome, what if instead we decided that are actually enough just the way we are! 

It’s time to change the game. Click here to find out more