Inclusive Boudoir Photography in Seattle, WA: Boudoir Is for Every Body
When I say boudoir is for every body, I mean exactly that.
Women. Men. Couples. LGBTQ+ clients. Straight clients. Trans and nonbinary clients. Thin bodies, fat bodies, muscular bodies, soft bodies, aging bodies, scarred bodies, changing bodies. People who feel confident already and people who are still figuring that part out.
At Chantel Allen Boudoir in Seattle, WA, there is no specific type of person you have to be before you belong in front of my camera.
Seattle has always made room for people to be themselves.
There is something about Seattle that feels especially right for the kind of boudoir experience I want to create. This city is full of people doing life their own way. There is art everywhere, incredible style, a huge queer community, people building unconventional lives, and absolutely no shortage of people who have decided they are done trying to fit themselves into somebody else’s definition of normal.
Seattle can be moody and romantic one minute, loud and colorful the next. You can spend the afternoon wandering Capitol Hill or Queen Anne, disappear into a tiny bar or coffee shop, dress completely outside the box and barely get a second glance. That mix of individuality, creativity and acceptance is a huge part of what I love about photographing people here. Your boudoir session should have that same freedom. And it will.
Please don’t show up how you think you are supposed to. Instead, bring your style, your sexuality, your relationship, your body, your gender expression and whatever version of yourself you feel like exploring that day. That’s who I want to photograph.
Boudoir does not have one look.
Here me when I say this. Boudoir does not have to mean lingerie, heels, feminine posing, or one very specific version of sexy. Your session can feel soft, edgy, masculine, feminine, androgynous, romantic, kinky, dark, erotic, playful, intimate, editorial, bold, or somewhere completely outside of those categories.
An inclusive, LGBTQ+ supportive boudoir studio in Seattle.
Chantel Allen Boudoir is a progressive, sex-positive, LGBTQ+ supportive Seattle boudoir studio.
That means I am not going to assume how you want to dress, how you want to be posed, who your partner is, what your relationship looks like, or what sexy is supposed to mean for you. We build the session around you.
Because inclusive boudoir should mean more than putting the right words on a website. It should feel like Seattle itself at its best: creative, open-minded, a little rebellious, and completely uninterested in making everyone look the same.
When you walk into my studio, you get to show up as yourself. So yes, when I say boudoir is for every body, I mean yours too.
And yes… that includes men.
Part of making boudoir genuinely inclusive means making sure men know there is space for them here too.
For a long time, boudoir marketing has been almost entirely directed at women, even though men can want the exact same things from being photographed: confidence, connection, curiosity, sexuality, a chance to see themselves differently, or simply some ridiculously good photos of themselves.
That is why I created The Men’s Edit.
It is a separate little corner of Chantel Allen Boudoir specifically for men, whether you are interested in stepping in front of the camera yourself or you are the partner of someone who loves boudoir and want a little more insight into sessions, gifting, planning, and what is happening around the studio.
Seattle is full of people who are comfortable doing things their own way, and I want the studio to reflect that same openness. Men belong in boudoir. Queer men belong in boudoir. Straight men belong in boudoir. Couples belong here. You do not have to fit a specific aesthetic, personality, relationship, or definition of sexy to be photographed.
If The Men’s Edit sounds like your corner of the internet, you can join it here:
