we to me divorce decor warehouse becomes your home i am your host and i am here today with a wonderful guest of my cell a stina photographer extraordinary our i'm going to juice introduce her shortly but i want to start off by saying that pay attention to the show this time because most of you out there don't think or feel like you deserve to pimp yourself in a photo session in just a few moments we're going to find out why it's important to give yourself permission to do something nice for yourself especially after a transition like divorce loss of the spouse and the nesson droom relocation retirement anything that is major in your life or just having a new baby perhaps just like it's important to take and pay attention to your space it's important to pick take it a penitentiary do your face what was that tag line up in your fac right we'll get to that having said that i'm going to introduce you to celestin us thank you for being on my show all thank you for having me and really excited to be here and you're welcome i'm glad that you're here and i'm glad you could make it and  i'm excited to share all of your secrets and all of your reasoning behind why doing a professional photo session is so uplifting especially for a woman after any major  transition in her life whether it's a happy one or sad one tell everybody out there to start do you find that people feel like i said in the beginning they don't feel like they deserve a photo session tell everybody why they think that initially your talked about modeling sessions versus personal rights i think even before i started shooting the style of photography like me personally i didn't think why would i have a professional portrait taken of myself i'm not a professional model yeah you know i didn't really know what it was all about and what it involves and how fun it could be so that's why i'm here today you know to share that with you that's the keyword that's so it's meant to be fun it's meant to be empowering and it's meant for clients to leave the studio feeling fabulous and confident and strong zome so one of the things you were sharing with me while we were eating lunch i keep bringing up food because at this point i'm hungry we're shooting the show and it's lunchtime just so you know we're getting hungry you know you have talked about some of the things that you do when someone comes in and they take the plunge and they say you know what i am not a fashion model which most of us are not ninety eight percent of us but i deserve to pamper myself what do you what are the things that you actually do i know you had i know of course people play music and things like that but what else do you do in that in that three hour time slot right so first of all these portraits sessions are meant to be enjoyed by every woman and and for any reason and you know whether it's a life time or events or whether it's just you know to and to have a fun experience you know every photographer has different services and different things that they do but for the most part you know there is that first part of the portrait session where you're getting that pampering make over and so yes there's music but yes you know it's really and it really just starts with that initial consultation you know you really need to like connect with your photographer really start building that relationship at that time and be excited you know all my clients they are still nervous yeah they come to my studio very nervous second guessing themselves i've had clients tell me that they looked at my website like literally one hundred times before they you know reached out to me but you know i'm very happy to share a very fortunate you know these clients they have a great time yeah and especially when they come back and they see the portrait that's that's going to be the really best moment of the whole thing it's almost like when i'm doing somebody's space and we're in that transition o purchasing the stuff and moving things around and getting rid of things that may or may not be good for that space it might be not make them feel very good once they see the transformation of the space they're so happy you're in th you have the same process really because it's the transformation it's i keep quoting it to what i do and you do you know you're moving things around you're you're gay them set up you're making them feel comfortable they're starting to unwind a bit they're starting to feel like well this is fun and i do deserve this then it's like when the room is done when the face is done you unveil the portrait that is going to be really i would say emotional right it's i think my favorite part of the process to seeing it all come together and when the clients come back and they see their photos and it's it can be very emotional and i get emotional too and you know they get that they see themselves in this new light and a very different way their response is always wow you know i look so beautiful and i guess you know we always have our loved ones telling us how beautiful we are but we don't necessarily think that way about ourselves and so i really enjoy that part that has got to be really phenomenal to experience to see somebody and it's not has nothing to do it being you know pretentious or conceded for someone for a woman especially to be able to look at a photograph that you've provided this piece of art and for them to actually utter those words i feel beautiful i look beautiful healthier putin is that  i've received some really beautiful testimonials of women who say you know it's not about how i look like but how i feel you know she felt in that photo and that's what she carries with her and you know and these portraits sessions it can be enjoyed on your you can be enjoyed with your loved ones you know i have a lot of clients whose grandmothers or mothers are visiting from out of town and they all come and yeah you know especially with the generation show yeah they come and they get to enjoy this together and i've had women dancing in my studio and it's just it's just really about having fun and sharing that experience together and then being well to hold on to those portrait you know how valuable will that portrait be in twenty thirty years time  gosh that is that's one of the thing that's going to lead me to the next thing i'm going to ask you about which is your mom but yeah that's the idea of of capturing the essence of somebody from within but capturing them forever and then being able to share it with perhaps future generations or children don't have yet as we spoke about earlier i would love for you to show that a picture of you or your mom it's so beautiful  there were these beauty sessions and she had her hair and makeup done she's wearing your favorite camano here and she had no idea my grandmother had held on to those parts of this whole time and once my grandmother passed two years ago my aunt some this over along with a whole bunch of other crowd traveled across the pacific ocean to where my parents are right now in canada and i just happened to be it was shot week when it arrived and you know it was a really it was a really beautiful moment to be able to see my mother open those for her to share all these stories with me and and it's something that i'll never forget and now i get to hold on to it so touching and what's really interesting is there she is before you even here and that's what i think is so mind boggling to think that that photographer like you captured this interview your mom is beautiful outside but inside you can see she has to see you know just looks like she's kind and you can just see that and that is something i don't know how do you define something like that in a photograph but i do believe that with the right session the right to toggle for the you you had talked earlier about i don't know if it was here or at lunch but we talked about authenticity and making you said earlier making your clients feel comfortable but i don't think you can get that feeling that look just like what's on your portfolio unless you've you know the finitely for everyone out there who's considering something like those you know whether to enjoy on your own with your loved one with your family you know i have a lot of families and join in using the portress action as well you know you just want to take a look at their information  in fact that's how he that's how we met you came right right you came to a presentation that i was doing that's how we met that's right that was look at us from the presentation that i was giving and now you're on my show is again how cool is that you give a really beautiful presentation that i had to meet you oh yeah it was and there you go that's exactly what we're talking about you when i met and there was an instinct connection an instant liking of one another a nice chemistry and then from there we went to lunch and had homemade donuts and now you're on my show so and all of this but this is what's so beautiful about life and and moving forward and i want the audience to understand this is really important this isn't just about a photo session this isn't just about taking a picture of yourself this is about somebody else capturing who you are in the at the essence of who you are who you are on the inside and capturing it forever so that when you when you do look at that photograph it's uplifting it makes you feel good or when you're not feeling so good about things when you look at that photograph it's still uplifting so you can either be proud or motivated or feel very comforted by the art that you provide and i find that there's a big correlation to what you do and what i do with the space we did me is all about creating that comfortable space that nourishing space you just said it to i say the same thing it isn't about how your space looks it's about how it makes you feel and you're saying the same thing it's not about your face or your fingers like it's how about how do you feel about yourself and i think that really is the underlying foundation of how everybody either proceeds in life and moves forward in a positive way or not so how cool to treat yourself and i want to reiterate the fact that you said don't think of it as a modeling session think of it not that way you're not a professional model think of it as capturing the moment capturing maybe who you are so that you can have an heirloom piece like you like you have of your mom how if you had said stuff before about oh i want to just go over quickly obviously just not just weddings you have mentioned generational what does that mean to the people listening what is generational mean a generational photo pho school you know high school senior portraits are very common and you know it's a very big a lifetime event you know normally sure and so you know it could be a generation to a family issue a bride and her her maid of honor i mean come in sisters best friends whatever the case may be you know there is always a story everybody everybody has a story that is for sure have you been especially touched by women coming in after divorce and they're really not feeling great about themselves and maybe a friend has gotten them interested or gotten them a gift somehow in this scootch them in and they're coming in feeling what do you do how do you make them feel better  e clients whose friends i'd like gifted a session like this and you know everyone that i meet with you know i feel this way still as well you know i'm not photogenic and from the camera you know i'm not comfortable taking photos  in for the initial consultation and they're very nervous they're not happy with their way you know so and so on i just try and reassure them i show them some of my work and so on and and whenever they're ready you know whenever they're ready to enjoy this experience  that's when they come back that's a wonderful way of doing things and what i also like that you were we talked about earlier is that you have this really cool chart right which we can show because sometimes people come in you are saying that they say oh i want to look natural and then you were saying earlier that their version of natural not your version of natural and vice versa so they want to look glam or smoky died and their vision of that is not really what it is so right this is a really cool chart it gives you natural light medium dark and smoky right versus compliments of surprise is internationally renowned photographer educator and speaker and mentor it's in many of us photographers nationwide and this was part of education materials and i know a lot of photographers use those and it's really a great tool for our makeup artist to use just kind of start with yeah and so when a client comes and if we ask her how do you normally wear your makeup when you go out she might be like oh you know i wear natural but really she's pointing to the media meaning like she feels out snatched all right and vice versa so this is just you know sue right but these photos down below just showing the style of makeup translate to so that they don't think oh this is you know too happy but meanwhile they like this look yeah it's really it's very very good to look at because you really do have to apply and do your makeup a little bit differently in a photo session that's why it's really great that you have that in your session you provide the makeup artist right that is then included in your three hour package absolutely so they don't even have to worry they can come in with no makeup and say just make me the  and they work with them and you know it's all about getting pampered having fine and feeling empowered so that's another thing you brought up during our lunch eating donuts did i mention  said which no one had ever said this to me before that you encourage your clients afterwards to make plans go out with your husband or go out with the girls or do you already write you're already glammed up you've got the lashes going clients you know during the photo session she was like i feel like a goddess you know oh and saying that it was you know it's one of those feel good moments and she left the studio feeling amazing her family actually joined in for the last part of the but you know they they went out for dinner afterwards and you know it's i always tell my clients a plan and i afterwards that's a really good idea that's something i absolutely know i don't think i would have thought of you know making it make it it's really like an all day event right there you're doing the hair the make up and the photo shoot and yeah of course you're feeling really good i would like to extend that feeling as long as possible so that's another really great way to get your you know bang for your buck in a way you know you're coming in you're doing that you're taking that time to pair for yourself and then you're extending it and enjoying it even more so those are all good tips i think for people who are maybe thinking oh i don't know like we have said in the very beginning of the show to wise deserve this well ladies you do deserve it because think of it as a spa treatment think of it right if you were going to a spa and it was all it would be all about relaxing feeling and feeling that inner beauty the outer beauty you're doing really the same thing but what you're doing is you're capturing it for ever as an heirloom where once you leave that spot once it goes away because the way i love the it's priceless yeah i know it sounds so corny to say that but that expression there's a reason why there is that expression it really is priceless it's a priceless gift to give to anybody in your family or future reach future people who aren't even born yet like in your mom's case that here you are cherishing this photograph of your mother and who would think that you started off one way in your career and you ended up doing something as it as a second career that you love so much with so much passion and it's kind of odd that you were so touched by that photo and then you ended up doing your the in the same position as that photographer was who shot your mom right on a cool and you know i started with writing photography and you know this was actually a john of photography that i kind of really knew least about and so when i started exploring it and just experiencing what other photographers were being able to share with their clients and you know how empowering it was not just for the client for us to you know it's i love it it's priceless it is it's the same thing i feel the same way about what i do and it's really nice to meet other professionals that have that enthusiasm and and can you know help their clients in a way that's life altering transfer it's transformative it's there are so many words empowering that people don't initially think of when they think of a space being comfortable in nursing or an art form being comfortable in nursing because quite frankly that photo is going to always provide you a lot of comfort and nourishment because it's your mom and what a beautiful thing  think it's great and i feel so honored that you are able to come on the show and share what you do and how you do it and and really the message train yourself to do it or get somebody that could use a photo session and the empowerment lets equiv you know make it equivalent to feeling empowered and when you feel empowered or empowered i think you naturally feel beautiful because it comes from within and comes out  a fantastic ok and you guys know how to find me way to me dot com w e the number two he dot com number nine seven three nine eight five four three eight six and remember what i how i always close my show your space needs to be comfortable reflecting your personal style and fitting you well like your favorite pair of kick ass having said that fellas tina in honor of you r guess next on my show i have personally picked out a special pair of shoes for you that i feel honored who you are and represent i'm inventing down again i want i want to show you these bigger well ok this is the reason why the shoes remind me of you and our i guess is our third time meeting each other is because you bring out the inner colors and inner beauty of your clients when you so anyway you're with us again here we go probably making all kinds of noise with my mike but that's the way it goes i want you guys to keep us both in mind if you want to feel better about yourself feel nursing comforted feel empowered contact seles stina contact myself do this for you deserve it i want to sound like the l'oreal commercial you're worth it but women ladies of you listening out there when you're going through a rough time or even a happy time indulge do something nice for yourself so thank you once again for coming on my show really have only been making all