Beautiful Baby Girl Sadie Leigh

"Will you be my friend?" 

These are the words I said over 25 years ago, 

we skipped off to recess and have been friends ever sense.

And now she has two amazingly beautiful fun little girls!

xoxoxo

The Power of Makeup And Accessories

I am going to give you some basic tips on how you can feel more confident, and be very happy with the end result of your shoot. Hopefully after every shoot you will want to get large prints,  hang them on your wall, and enjoy your beautiful family.

Even if you are just getting your child photographed a little mascara and a bow can go a long way.

I have taken this girls photos three times and everytime she arives with her hair done and accessorized to the 9! I can tell it makes her feel so special and ready to be a little model for the day. She loves it!

It's all about the accessories!

Okay maybe it's not. But I have been saying this tag line sense I was in jr. high.  I have been collecting ever sense, and this is not even the half of it. Take a look at Taylor in that left photo, her eyes are popping off the screen! One part of this is her makeup and another part of this is her necklace leads your eyes right to her face and adds a lot of interest to the photo.

Makeup is tough! A lot of us ladies wear maybe some mascara or a little powder, or hey maybe we do it all! But for a shoot a little bit more than normal makes a huge difference in photographs.

Another before and after of Angela.
Makeup Artist - Sara Rosario

If you don't feel confident putting a little more makeup on than normal,
I have a makeup artist and a hair stylist. Both services are $25 each, and you can do one or both, or just do it yourself. Angela opted out of hair and got makeup service, she was so happy she did!

You obviously don't have to do anything you don't want to do! I just wanted to show you, that with a little sparkle it can make a huge difference.

XoXo

www.LorianaMarie.com

You're worth it!

Before + After

= Still Beautiful! 

This is Angela she is GORGEOUS! 

There is something about getting your hair and makeup done that makes you feel sexy and confident. And when you feel like that it explodes from the inside, and out to the world. 

I hear it all the time! "Can you take ten pounds off me" or, "I don't want to have photos of our family till I loose ten pounds." Or this one "Actually, I don't need a family session.... Just my kids is fine."

It's no joke when I say, that the media and society around us makes us think we need to look a certain way. Most of us women all have some rendition of an "I Wish" board on pintrest exubing: outfits, cuts, colors, shoes, makeup and hairstyles we wish we could pull off. And I'm sure a few "if only's" are tied to that as well. 

I'm here to tell you, you are beautiful! You can pull off whatever you dream of pulling off, sometimes we just need a nudge in the right direction. I'm here to say, Go get that family shoot you have been wishing you looked "perfect" for. 

To feel confident as ladies we need to put some things into action. We need to trade those yoga pants, for some jeans. Trade those flip flops for some sparkly shoes and spice up our lives with some makeup, I know this sounds like I'm contradicting everything I just said. But when we start doing these things we will feel better about ourselves and we will want to go out into the world and conquer not only our fears but our doubts.

Why? Because you're worth it!

>Stay tuned, for my next post on how to prep for a shoot<

Makeup Artist: Sarah Rosario

Personally, I've been on hiatus.

Sense the last time I wrote we were waiting to purchase a foreclosed "dream" home, and living in a motorhome in Phil's parents back yard. We were saving money, drinking smoothies, and viewing over 100 homes for sale. We left (what we thought was our dream home) behind, and headed off to the unknown land of Bremerton for our new life. Homes were cheaper, and EXACTLY what we wanted, minus the Port Orchard "city". They were old, charming, and huge! We put about ten offers on homes, and nearly lost the bidding war on this awesome 2,500 square foot 90 year old gem of a home.

We have many projects planned for this summer! And we can't wait! Oh, and we LOVE living in Bremerton! We were meant for the city!

We moved into our home on May 17th Aspyn's (Pictured above) 5th birthday. Three weeks after moving in I had my third and final eye surgery. This surgery was performed when I was a newborn, and when I was 14 to correct a lazy eye. I had more scar tissue then the doctor had expected and my recovery time ended up being about a month and a half long. I was seeing double and was nearly blind. As a creative, a mom, wife, control freak, and new home owner this was SO hard for me! Our family also learned that our eight year old Bella has a ton of food intolerance's, including the ever so popular gluten and fructose to name a couple. Although this has been difficult, our family is adjusting daily to our new eating plan. I can now see, maybe not 20/20 but hey, thats what fabulous glasses are for! 

Okay, Blah, blah, blah!

So sorry if I am talking your brain off! But with all this craziness, and learning how to cook all over again. I'm here to say.....

I'm back, and more excited than ever about "Loriana Marie Photography"! Please stay tuned, I will be blogging a lot, and telling you about all my fun shoots and clients!

If you have not done so already please stop by my Facebook Page and give me a "Like"

XoXo

Joe & Mailani

Wow! where do I start! Mailani has been in my life for a LONG time, she was my youth girl, and now an amazing lady! She has always been an example to the girls that surrounded her; she put God first, boy's second, and listened to the wise.

Joe has also been in our church for a long time, in fact Mai's best friend is his sister Taylor. Funny fact Joe was Mai's first boyfriend in elementary school. I guess they decided that they would wait 20 years later and make it really count. And boy did they!

~ Joe and Mailani were together for exactly one year before they were legally married~

~90% of their relationship, was long distant while Joe was in Afghanistan ~

~They bought A house before they were married, but didn't live in it together until they were one~

~ Their first kiss was on they're wedding day~

~And God still comes first~

I saved the best for "first"

 Can't have a day without sports, and words with friends!

Joey and Mailani opted for a "first look" with all of there friends standing by, 

it was perfection!

She loves her brother and sister!

The kiss they have waited for!
Please check out this video...

"Who could love you enough not to kiss you?"

A Arizona photographer?

Meet Rachel, she is one of my best friends, and she's PREGNANT! She has about two weeks left to be exact. When I found out that her and Brad (the awesome husband) were going to have a child there were a lot of "Shut the front door's" being thrown around. Lets just say I was MORE then excited! I made the journey to AZ to attend her baby shower, the best one I'v ever been to! Maybe I'll post on the shower in a later date. But while I was there we did her maternity photos, I couldn't be more pleased with them, I also love the location we used, and so did ten other photographers at that time. Kinda funny, I have never had to stand in line behind other photographers until this day. I guess I am very blessed to live in such a lush place with so many locations to choose and dream up.
Enjoy...

Rachel and I have been close friends sense 7th grade and I have always known her to LOVE mint chocolate chip ice cream, so we HAD to get this shot! I hope you see more photos from AZ because it is my home away from home, I'm so happy when I go there, and I CAN'T wait to meet baby "H"!
Xoxo