Au Natural in Autumn | Mariana

Sometimes all a woman needs is a little freedom, a good beach and her favorite coat. The fresh Pacific air on your bare skin on a secluded Malibu beach is as close to paradise and being one with nature as it gets.

Mariana & I definitely wanted to do some beach shooting before the winter chill set in so we planned ahead for a good weather day and I set out to shop for some quick styling. I picked this beautiful rust brown Topshop coat from Nordstrom when I saw that the color and texture would be perfect for her gorgeous hair and brown sugar & tumeric skin tone. I knew she needed a coat to stay warm as well as for modesty purposes so when I saw it I knew it was absolutely perfect! I loved the elegance that it brought to the shoot and it allowed us to create variety celebrating her form while simultaneously allowing for her to have modesty at a moments notice. Coats, sweaters and kimonos are truly some of my favorite beach styling items because they really give women a lot of creative freedom and modesty when needed.

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Summertime Sadness

It's that time of year again... when summer starts winding down and we all start resetting our lives for fall & winter.   Luckily in SoCal we get an extension on summer wether we like it or not.  This means the Lana albums can remain on repeat, for now.  This is a shoot I did for my good friend Haydee to get through the summer bummers and we truly had a blast!  Haydee is a long-time dancer and loves her curvy figure and wanted to do a new shoot that was playful & beach-appropriate but still sexy & romantic.  I paired her cool Cali crop-top find with a beautiful & comfortable pair of floral Hanky Panky panties and what would seem an unlikely match became a match made in heaven!  While this styling look isn't necessarily perfect for everyone or every body, I love playing with non-lingerie items like t-shirts & sweaters to accentuate different elements of women's figures.   

What's your ideal beach shoot?  Let us know in the comments, we'd love to hear your inspirations and favorite beach locations!   

Shot on location at Zuma Beach in Malibu, CA.

Rustic | Bennie

This beautiful set features the lovely and charismatic Bennie, whom is a makeup & hair stylist and photographer herself in Seattle, Washington. She came to me after seeing work I had done with other curvy women and referred by a curvy mutual friend, and we hit it off instantly and agreed to do a shoot when she traveled to Los Angeles. This is one the many looks we did, very much a “less is more” minimalistic affair as I wanted this set to allow her to just be her natural self in a cozy space. I picked the desert rose Free People thong panties to play off the rustic colors and match her skin tone and tattoos. Since the look was topless the panties were the main decor, I wanted to keep a playful feel to the simplicity of the photos by adding a book for a prop and using a unique rustic blanket as a background.

Winter Solstice | Lillias

Here's a gorgeous fall look I shot on the winter solstice last year that I absolutely love.  Shot near Topanga with a lovely lady named Lillias, it incorporates all of my favorite fall color & texture elements and showcases Lillias' gorgeous natural curves.  I found the elephant necklace at a vintage pop-up boutique and the unique sweater at Anthropologie.   Another gorgeous example of how boudoir doesn't have to be done in studio.  It's not every woman's comfort level to be nude or in lingerie outdoors, assuredly, but I hope to show women how gorgeous thinking outside the box can be!