Studio81 Photography

Celebrating YOU!

Amy's passion in helping others inspires her to not only chase her dreams, but to reconnect with herself. <3 #LoveYourself _____ "After an insane year of broken relationships, passing of friends, ending of jobs and general craziness, I decided to take a stand and follow my heart and get out of my comfort zone even further. Sometimes you realize you just have to stand up and make a change and do something to make an impact not just on yourself, but on the world around you. So I launched a new site /business focused on women to encourage them to learn to love their life (www.amyjoy.co). I'm planning to develop this into an international online community to encourage and empower, coach and just help us get past ourselves to be able to follow our dreams. It is gradually growing in following and connections and will move to stage 2 hopefully soon where it connects more people together. While launching all of this I came across the #LoveYourself campaign by STUDIO81, and it just resonated with everything I was trying to do. I'm just as guilty at not spending time to love myself, especially trying to launch all this for others so I entered to live what I preach. I have to say the experience was both incredible and frightening all at the same time. While I needed profile pictures for the new site, I also had to really face who I am and was completely blown away at how beautiful I felt when I saw the pictures. This person I had forgotten was somehow there inside, and seeing her on a screen while reviewing the shots really left me overwhelmed. After having my wedding called off earlier in the year, I had not realised how much I had looked forward to having that special moment where I felt beautiful and special just as I am. This in a way made up for that, and gave me a reminder that I am that inside no matter what happens in my life. I can't thank the staff at STUDIO81 enough for this experience. It really helped heal a lot of things I didn't even realise were still hanging around, and also provided a beginning for something more. I look forward to more people finding that beautiful person inside and the freedom to be who they were always meant to be. And maybe to just go and have some fun in the process." _____ Why not give yourself the chance to respark your confidence? Celebrate your new goals/aspirations! There are 30 spots still available for our #IAMFEARLESS campaign: http://bit.ly/studio81fearless

After making her way through one of the toughest moments of her life, reflection and self-care help Elizabeth remind herself that things will be okay. <3 #LoveYourself _____ "Wow! A personalised photo shoot would bring me back to my best self in ways I could only imagine. Life has thrown at me many storms in my lifetime, after tragically losing my 14 yr Son in 2014. I lost all self-respect for myself as a mother. Shunned myself away from the ones I loved, just wanting to be alone. They not knowing the deep sharp pain that had almost hit me rock bottom, falling into a state of mind that only a grieving mother will ever understand. I used to feel good about myself dressing up, how I looked, what to wear, but over time I didn't care how I looked, I've felt I just didn't have the time for my self anymore. I was always a busy bee mama of now 5, I hope to gain from this my self-confidence, and just to really feel good about myself again. I'm sure it's every other mama's dreams too feel beautiful" once in a while, and as a mother I will forever remain strong for my Son and my family. As I entered into the #LoveYourself campaign, it was such a blessing to be picked by the team at STUDIO81; shocking really as I had no idea of what I was getting myself into. But it was good to feel pampered, to feel beautiful again even though I've never put on make-up before. I was always the typical go all natural just add lip gloss, chuck on mascara happy-go-lucky kinda chick! Never mind all this make-up that was for model material lol! Straight up. I thank the crew for my Awesome makeover. Miss Annalise for making me feel like a queen for a day, Jeff the photographer for the shoot: Wowee! Making me feel comfortable as a model for the day just to get those poses on point! And Dorin for the viewing of the Photos. They were exceptionally beautiful! Thanks so much again for making me feel welcomed and comfortable. This was an Awesome opportunity & an amazing experience." - Elizabeth _____ Why not give yourself the chance to respark your confidence? Celebrate your new goals/aspirations! There are 30 spots still available for our #IAMFEARLESS campaign: http://bit.ly/studio81fearless

Taking a knock to her confidence, Natalie takes the chance to reignite that spark <3 #LoveYourself _____ "My name is Natalie, I'm 32 and have been married for almost 3 years now. In the past, I have been relatively confident in myself looks-wise, however more recently I started feeling like I don't seem to blow my husband away like I did when we first met and this knocked my confidence a bit. Perhaps it's just because we're well past the "honeymoon phase" now, but in any case, I found myself feeling in serious need of a confidence booster. Deep down, I simply want to prove to myself that I am beautiful, not because other people say so or compliment me, but because I think so and God says so. I had heard about STUDIO81's #LoveYourself campaign previously, but always chickened out of actually signing up! When the campaign came around again last year, I thought to myself, "I'm just going to throw my name in the ring and see what happens. If I get picked, it must be God's plan for me." I was excited to be contacted by Annalise and invited to have a makeover & photo shoot - here was a chance to remind myself that I AM beautiful, instead of looking in the mirror and seeing the things I lack compared to other girls. The day of the photo shoot arrived and I was greeted by the lovely Annalise who immediately put me at ease as we chatted about all sorts while she put my makeup on & did my hair. I thoroughly enjoyed the pampering and Annalise is super talented at bringing the beauty out of you! I don't usually wear makeup and she listened to my request to keep things more natural whilst also putting on enough to be captured by the camera. Then it was time to have my photos taken. Jeff was amazing - very directive and calm and he instantly made me relax as I followed his guidance (I'm no supermodel, so his instructions were extremely helpful). When it came time to view my photos, my husband joined me so we could select our favourites together. He was definitely impressed and we had so many favourites it took us a very long time to narrow down the shortlist! Naturally, I still have moments when I feel a little down about myself, but now, thanks to the awesome team at Studio81, I have some beautiful photos to remind me to #LoveMyself!" _____ Why not give yourself the chance to respark your confidence? Celebrate your new goals/aspirations! There are 30 spots still available for our #IAMFEARLESS campaign: http://bit.ly/studio81fearless