Selecting 15 Women
Applications Close March 9 (or sooner if filled)

In a world that constantly tells women who they should be, how they should look, and how they should measure up — choosing to love yourself is radical.

Self-love isn’t soft.
It’s revolutionary.

The Unapologetically You Model Experience was created for the woman who is ready to stop shrinking.

Ready to stop waiting.
Ready to stop editing herself down.

Boudoir photography isn’t about fitting into someone else’s definition of beauty.

It’s about reclaiming your own.

Inside this experience, comparison fades.
Judgment disappears.
Self-expression takes center stage.

This is not about becoming someone new.

It’s about remembering who you’ve always been.

Strong.
Sensual.
Resilient.
Enough.

Through this lens, we don’t just capture images.

We capture reclamation.
Ownership.
Confidence.

The courage to say:

“I am enough. Just as I am.”

This is your invitation to rewrite the narrative.

Not someday.

Now.

What Is a Model Call?

The Unapologetically You Model Experience is an exclusive opportunity for a limited number of women to receive a luxury boudoir session at a special rate — in exchange for a signed model release allowing images to be used for marketing and promotional purposes.

This is not about being a “professional model.”
It’s about being a real woman, in a real season of life, ready to step into her confidence.

🌟 No modeling experience is required
🌟 Applicants must be 21+
🌟 Sessions take place in our private Vancleave, MS studio
🌟 A signed full model release is required

If you are not comfortable with your images being shared, we absolutely respect that. Click HERE to explore our private, non-model boudoir experience.

💖 Availability is extremely limited. Applications are carefully reviewed and selected.

Where Your Self-Love Journey Unfolds

This is more than a photoshoot — it’s a curated experience designed with intention, artistry, and care.

Every session includes professional guidance, a private and safe studio environment, expert posing direction, and heirloom-quality artwork created to preserve this chapter of your life.

Your investment reflects:

The time we spend together.
The artistry behind the lens.
The detailed retouching.
The custom products you’ll treasure long after.

Inside our private Vancleave studio, you’ll feel safe to explore boldness or softness — power or vulnerability — whatever your vision calls for.

What You’ll Receive as a Selected Model

✨ A Fully Guided Luxury Boudoir Experience
A 1.5-hour session with hands-on posing and expression coaching. You do not need to know how to pose — I guide you through everything.

👗 Three Outfits / Three Distinct Looks
Explore different sides of yourself — soft, bold, playful, powerful.

🔥 Your Choice of One Signature Set
Tub Set. Angel Wings. Luxury Robe. Wet Set.
Your mood. Your energy. Your statement.

💄 Professional Glam Experience
Full makeup, individual lashes, and dry hair styling.

🖤 Wardrobe Styling & Client Closet Access
Sizes S–4X, plus exclusive studio wardrobe pieces.

🎭 Expression Coaching
Not just where to put your hands — but how to breathe, soften, smolder, and own your presence.

💎 $149 Booking Retainer Applied Toward Products
Your retainer secures your date and is credited toward your artwork investment.

💎 Private Reveal & Ordering Appointment
View your images in a guided reveal and select your favorite artwork pieces.

✨ Professional Retouching
Refined, polished, and authentically you.

And most importantly —

🔥 The Confidence Shift.

Because this isn’t just photography.

It’s reclamation.
It’s confidence.
It’s ownership.

If you’re ready, apply below.

Choose Your Unapologetically You Signature Set

Add creativity, spice, or luxury to your session.

Your experience isn’t one-size-fits-all — and neither are you.

Each Unapologetically You Signature Set is intentionally designed to awaken a different side of you — soft and romantic, bold and untamed, playful and powerful, luxurious and indulgent.

Whether you’re craving golden glow, sultry shadows, dripping sweetness, angelic drama, or unapologetic edge… this is where your vision comes to life.

This isn’t just a backdrop.
It’s a mood.
An energy.
A statement.

Tub Set — soft, raw, intimate
Angel Wings — divine, powerful, iconic
Luxury Robe — elevated confidence, timeless elegance
Wet Set — bold, fearless, unforgettable

Select the setting that aligns with your mood, your story, and the version of yourself you’re ready to celebrate.

Is This Experience For You?

This experience was created for the woman who feels the pull.

The one who knows there’s more confidence inside her than she’s been allowing herself to show.

It’s for the woman who is ready to step slightly outside her comfort zone — not because she has to, but because she wants to grow.

You may feel nervous.
You may wonder if you’re “ready.”
You may think you need to change something first.

You don’t.

You don’t need to lose weight.
You don’t need to know how to pose.
You don’t need to feel confident yet.

You just need to be willing.

Willing to trust the process.
Willing to be seen.
Willing to invest in an experience that shifts how you see yourself.

This isn’t about being fearless.

It’s about saying yes — even with butterflies.

The Unapologetically You Model Experience is intentionally curated for women who are ready to stop waiting for the perfect time… and start choosing themselves instead.

Because confidence doesn’t come before you say yes.

It comes because you did.

Hi, I’m Candace —owner of Candace Gurley Photography and your personal hype woman behind the lens.

I didn’t start in boudoir.

I started in 2014 photographing families, seniors, and milestones — the big moments people wanted to remember.

But the sessions that changed women the most weren’t taken at golden hour.

They were the ones where a woman saw herself differently.

Not as someone’s mom.
Not as someone’s wife.
Not as someone’s employee.

But as herself.

Strong. Sensual. Radiant. Powerful.

So in 2016, I specialized exclusively in boudoir — not because it was trendy, but because it was transformative.

With 12 years of full-time photography experience and 9 years dedicated to boudoir, I’ve guided hundreds of women through this process — most of whom walked in nervous and left completely changed.

You don’t need to know how to pose.
You don’t need to feel confident first.

You just need to show up.

I’ll guide the rest.

And I would be honored to show you what I see.

Investment & Experience Details

To reserve your session date, a $149 booking retainer is required at the time of selection.

This retainer:
• Secures your session date
• Is applied directly toward your product purchase
• Is non-refundable and non-transferable

Please note: This is not a complimentary image session. Artwork and products are purchased separately during your private reveal appointment.

As part of the Model Experience, all selected participants must sign a full model release granting Candace Gurley Photography permission to use images for marketing and promotional purposes (website, social media, studio samples, and advertising).

This experience is designed for women who are ready to be seen.

This Is Your Invitation.

An invitation to stop waiting.
An invitation to see yourself differently.
An invitation to reclaim the parts of you that deserve to be celebrated.

You won’t just leave with stunning images.

You’ll leave with proof.

Proof that you are powerful.
Proof that you are radiant.
Proof that you never needed to change a single thing to be worthy of being celebrated.

At Candace Gurley Photography, we believe every woman is uniquely beautiful — not someday, not after a transformation, not when life slows down —

But right now.

Exactly as she is.

This is your time.

To take up space.
To step into bold self-love.
To honor every chapter of you.

The Unapologetically You Model Experience is limited to 15 women.

Applications are reviewed personally, and selections begin immediately.

If your heart is beating a little faster reading this…

Trust that.

Confidence comes after you say yes.

If you feel the pull, apply now and take the first step.

📸 Apply Here

Applications close March 9.

Flexible Payment Options

Your experience should feel exciting, not overwhelming. Flexible payment options are available.

Pay in Full
Pay in full at your image reveal.

Buy Now, Pay Later
Afterpay • Klarna • PayPal Credit
Quick approval. Receive artwork once it arrives.

Pre-Session Plans (In-House)
Automatic monthly or bi-weekly payments
Book up to 8 months in advance

Post-Session Plans (In-House)
$300 down at reveal
Payments from ~$150/month
Up to 9 months
$200 plan fee
Artwork delivered once paid in full

✨ You don’t have to decide everything today — just start.