meet the team

I didn't plan to be a boudoir photographer. I planned to survive.

In September 2022, I nearly died from diabetic ketoacidosis. Four days in a hospital bed with a list of everything I hadn't done yet. Pole dancing, chair dance, a boudoir shoot of my own. I'd been waiting for the weight, the nails, the toned arms, the perfect version of myself that never quite showed up. I almost ran out of time waiting.

When I got out, I stopped waiting. I booked the shoot. I got my LLC. I ordered my camera. And on January 3rd, 2026, I went full time.

I've invested over $40,000 in education across three years. Posing, lighting, emotional frameworks, client communication. I study obsessively. I also book my own sessions with other photographers at least once a year, because I never want to stop knowing what it feels like to be on the other side of the camera.

There's a quieter side of me most people don't see right away. I have tattoos, a witchy energy my closest people would recognize immediately, and a deep respect for women who live outside the lines. I don't lead with it. But it's there, and it's part of why the women who find me feel at home here.

I'm an INTJ. Direct. Occasionally a lot to take in before you know me. My sister warns people. Eventually, she says, you'll want to be my best friend. I'm okay with that timeline.

This work fills my bucket in a way nothing else ever has. Not because I make women look beautiful. Because I give them back something they didn't know they'd lost.

You're worth the decision to do it. Even if you're scared. Especially then.

Elishah is the reason the studio runs as smoothly as it does. As Studio Manager, she keeps everything behind the scenes exactly where it needs to be so every client walks into a space that feels ready, calm, and taken care of.

She is 23, studying psychology, and brings a quiet emotional intelligence to everything she does. When she is not here, she is working full time and doing it all without complaint. She is, in every sense, the backbone of this operation.

She also happens to be my daughter, which makes showing up together every shoot day something I do not take for granted.

Julie is a professional makeup artist and licensed esthetician with a lifelong career in the performing arts. She earned a BA in Musical Theatre from Butler University and an MFA in Acting from Minnesota State University Mankato, and worked as a professional entertainer for over a decade before making makeup her career.

She was the Key Makeup Artist for the Pigasus Picture films "So Cold the River," "The Good Catholic," "Ms White Light," and "The Miseducation of Bindu" and an additional artist for the 2017 release "Columbus" and the 2019 HBO film "OG." She has over 40 published fashion editorials both here and abroad, and extensive experience in boudoir photography.

When she is not on set, Julie trains new estheticians and makeup artists at Indiana Wellness College.

____ years in the industry, Debi Pettigrew is a self-taught Makeup Artist who began her journey working with high school classmates. Following her passion, Debi left her clerical position to attend Beauty School in Merrillville, IN, graduating in 2007.

Her expertise in lashes and eyebrows led to a salon career where a chance meeting with a talent scout catapulted her to work with notable networks including Fox News and NBC. She has an impressive list of film and commercial credits as well.

Debi's diverse client list includes celebrities like YoYo, MC Lyte, and Queen Latifah, as well as politicians including Vice President Pence. Enhancements are her forte, allowing her to accentuate each client's unique features.