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Today's Outfit Advice: You VS Your Mom Pt 2
Yesterday we discussed how you and your parents may have conflicting ideas about your Senior Session. We are going to dive into that a bit more, but this time we will focus more on the outfits and less on the process.
Parents will prefer you wear clothes that are a little more formal. They will likely want you to remove your piercings, cover your tattoos, and cover your flesh. Excellent ideas, especially for yearbook photos and family photos. However, you may disagree on the subject. You paid a lot of money for your tattoos and piercings, you spent over $100 on your torn jeans, and you just bought the coolest pair of high heel boots and you NEED to show them off in your photos... Our advice is to compromise!
Seniors: Put yourself in your parents' shoes. They want to show all of their friends and relatives what a beautiful/handsome daughter/son they have. They don't want people to be looking at all the extra stuff you wore, they want them to look at your face. They want everyone to see that you got your dad's eyes and your mom's smile. Their friends could care less about your outfit. So bring ONE traditional outfit so that your mom and dad will be happy with your photos - those portraits will be hanging in their house forever.
Parents: Try to remember what it was like to be your son/daughter's age. You didn't care about impressing family! You wanted to look just as stylish and "in" as everyone around you. You flat-ironed your hair, wore bell bottoms, or maybe brightly colored leggings and funky skirts that your parents thought were ugly but you and your friends thought were totally, like, stellar!
Please allow your teenager to wear clothes they love. Afterall, the pictures are pictures of THEM. If the pictures don't express them then they won't like the pictures. Period. And Senior Pics are supposed to be a REALLY fun milestone for them! Allow them to bring the "in" clothes or the wild makeup. They want to give these pics to all their friends, post them on facebook, and show them off like their prom dresses or first cars! Allow them to be themselves so that they can have as much fun as they are supposed to have!
One last note: For an additional cost, tattoos and piercings can be removed from portraits.
Looking forward to speaking with you about your session
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