Our Fierce & Fearless Boudoir Feature this week is the lovely Miss B. Her boyfriend is a firefighter and her boudoir session images were smoking!!! Before you made that wonderful decision to book with Ashlee Russ Boudoir, did you have any hesitations? And if so, what were they? At first I was intimidated at the […]

Is your To Do list over-full? Have you been planning to put a boudoir shoot on the calendar, but found the year slipping away from you? The holidays are almost here, but there’s good news: it’s not too late to schedule your holiday boudoir shoot! A boudoir shoot is the perfect way to ring in […]

You’re just about ready for your boudoir session… now you just need to figure out exactly what you want to have adorn you during your shoot. But where to start? Picking your outfit can be especially tricky when it’s your first boudoir shoot and you have a million and one things on your mind. Well […]

I’ve seen all types of women during my career as a boudoir photographer and experienced the incredible transformation that occurs during a shoot. It is truly something unique to every woman, but is just as wonderful to witness every time. For this blog, I wanted to share a different perspective on the experience, one not […]

Female empowerment is embracing the things that make you unique, and the things that make other women different. It’s encouraging each other to look past stigmas associated with age, race, weight, and all those other factors we use to segment ourselves. It’s being brave enough to say I love myself with or without everyone else’s […]

When you’ve been in the game as long as I have, you’ve basically heard every excuse in the book. And here’s what I mean by excuses: we create things in our mind to convince ourselves that we shouldn’t or can’t do something. We fixate on little things that become a big deal to us because […]

So you’ve finally decided to book your boudoir appointment. You’ve picked the date, set your alarm, and you’re ready for your day of pampering and modeling… at least for the most part. Now you just have to decide what exactly it is you’re going to wear and bring. Narrowing down the items you might want […]

You’ve been putting in the hours, you’ve been saying no to the extra slices of cake, and now you’ve got the results you’ve been so patiently waiting for. But how are you going to celebrate? By getting a new outfit…or maybe a spa day? Well here’s an idea, why not do both? Explore your wild […]

Daily 3 hour video calls, plenty of texts, and long conversations sprinkled with “I miss you’s” is the standard recipe for a long distance romance. Luckily in these situations, there’s enough love and desire to keep the flame alive. But how do you keep the passion from going cold exactly? It’s an issue all long […]

The signs are all there, but you haven’t quite figured out if a boudoir shoot is something you’re ready to commit to. It looks like fun… and you know that this is your chance to look and feel your best, so what’s keeping you from taking that final leap? You’re going to walk away with […]