We have hundreds of women featured on our website. You’ll find the women we’ve photographed in the portfolio section and throughout the blog, in dozens of articles. Is it likely that we’ve paid money to hire models for every single picture? How on earth would we make money?

The truth is that we have used models, particularly early on in our career and recommend the use of models when high quality pictures are needed for education or marketing purposes because models should be better at relaxing in front of the camera in an efficient and timely manner. They’ll also agree to the use of their images for marketing because, well, that’s their job. However, it would be impossible to set up a business based on purely the work of models. The last model we hired was several years ago and these days we never use models unless they hire us to refresh their portfolio. The simple fact is that our business is based on experience and trust. We have worked with hundreds of women of all ages and all sizes and we work really hard to build trust with our clients so that they relax and feel comfortable in front of the camera and looking relaxed and comfortable is the secret to looking amazing in boudoir photos. With few exceptions, every woman you see on our website is an everyday Mum, Nurse, retail worker, admin assistant, manager, bar tender, lawyer, Doctor…. You name it, an everyday woman. Not a model. With few exceptions, almost every woman you see on our website has never been professionally photographed before and certainly not half dressed in such an intimate and personal way. Many of these women don’t generally wear make up or heels and rarely get the opportunity to ‘glam up’ for anything other than special occasions. Many are in relationships that have cooled off the the point that they come to us to reignite their spark. They want us to help them find their mojo once more.

Life is often seen as a series of highs and lows with the rush of excitement often giving way to the mundanity of the everyday. Our clients often come to us during the more mundane periods to regain that rush of excitement they feel they deserve. They come to us to learn how to love themselves again (or maybe even for the first time)

This is why a Boudoir Experience with Madison Bou is so powerful. It’s a way of increasing your own self worth and all the women below are normal women, just like you, yet, you’ll see they end up looking just like models. We don’t make these women look beautiful, we just allow their natural beauty to shine.

When potential clients look at our website, one of the first pages they look for in the gallery are the ‘BEFORE/AFTERS - We hear comments about how amazing these women look all the time. This is the result of great hair and makeup which every client receives at the start of every shoot. Then our secret is great lighting and posing and our communication with our clients. Believe it or not, when a relationship is built up on a shoot with communication, the client’s face lights up and everything looks more beautiful.

Every day of our lives we are bombarded with pictures of perfect people, living perfect lives and everything exists through a filter of photoshop or instagram or whatever. It’s all too easy to forget that these people don’t just party all night and then wake up with perfect hair and flawless skin. No, we’re not all as perfect as the fictitious people we see on social media everyday.