Preparation

Decide on a look.
What do you want your picture to communicate? Coyness? Domination? Adventure? There are a million options that depend on your preference and what you think your recipient will enjoy. Take inspiration from other photos, from vintage pin-ups to classic Helmut Newton or edgy Araki. Our favorite narrative set – Sam Haskins’ Cowboy Kate. For a more home-spun feel, take a look at Me In My Place.

Set the scene.
Sprawled across an unmade bed or straddling a chair. Leaning over the kitchen counter, or diving into a pool. Chose locations and positions in which you feel comfortable.
Get yourself in the mood. Put on your favorite playlist, relax with a glass of wine and think about your audience and what you think gets them going. If you want to have a little fun with your favorite Jimmyjane vibrator before (or during) the photo shoot, that rosy-cheeked, satiated look can come across nicely in the pictures.

Costumes and props.
Are you going for full-on artsy nude or seductive lingerie? Would a bowler (the hat, not the guy with a heavy ball) help communicate your message? Use a few key objects, but keep it minimal so as not to clutter the scene. Remember, you’re the center of attention here.

Shooting
Lighting.
A few soft lamps, indirect light or a soft filter (like a white sheet– avoid fire-risks, though!) shielding a bright light are a safe place to start. Skip the flash and overhead lighting, unless you’re going for the Juergen Teller look – which is tough to master.

Taking the photo.
Most cameras have an auto-timer. Set up a tripod (the ones from our friends at Joby are super-handy) or find a nice view propping the camera on a stable surface. You can also try a webcam and a picture-taking program like Photobooth.

Angles.
Play with the position of the camera and your body. Try the camera high, then low (the view from above is usually more flattering). Maybe you want to take a shot from behind, or show a slim peek of your naked body through a crack in the door. Capture your reflection in a mirror, or your silhouette on the wall.

Posing.
Try a wide range of poses to find the one that is most comfortable for you. Don’t be afraid to take test shots first (the beauty of a digital camera). Warm yourself up by posing in non-sexual positions first – dancing, lounging, reading.

Tease.
Remember that a little bit of skin goes a long way. Spike your demure side with a bit of exhibitionism. Play with obscuring your body to leave something to the imagination, then maybe give in a bit over the sequence of the photos.

Review.
Before ending your photo session, check the photos full size on your monitor. This may inspire new shots, more shots or simply tell you you’re ready to wrap.

Curate.
Narrow down the shots to just a handful of favorites. You can always shoot more later once the first round is properly appreciated.
A note about sharing. It’s best to ensure that these private photos do not fall into the wrong hands (i.e. keep the files on your home computer in a special folder, rather than on your company’s server). Also, make sure you trust the person to whom you’re giving the photos; you don’t want to see an intimate shot given to a previous lover posted on your Facebook wall.

With all that in mind, enjoy. Taking sexy photos should be fun. Remember, if you don’t like the way they turn out, you can always take more. (Or take some with a partner, but we’ll get into that in another post).

Have you experimented with sexy photos? We’d love to hear your tips as well…

Follow the simple guides above and we guarantee, your partner will be bragging about how good his woman is in bed!

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You see, as far as i’m concerned the geeks of today are far more than just bang on trend. They’re dead sexy…geeks now bear no resembles to the acne covered, pigtail sporting introverts of my formative years – admittedly some of the camden fashionistas who have turned to the look could use a good scrub, but for the most part todays geek is like a sexual prize. You can tell quite a bit about a woman’s sexual tendencies by the clothes she wears; micro dresses and stripper heels are built for sex as are the women who wear them, but to see a geek in the buff will take patience and hard work!

The new geek hairstyle which is big, bold, messy and tousled screams “i’ve just been fucked…and i’m looking for more”. The specs send out an air of intelligence which catches your attention, while these new fashion tights seem to be designed, reagrdless of the pattern, to send the eye searching for a glimpse of what lies up from the hem line and beneath the boyish y-fronts. As little as 10 years age, a man who had bedded a geek would stoically deny it for a lifetime, now that same man will race down the pub to recount his tale of a fashion-forward lay to all his mates and the rest of the patrons.

As you know, I’m a big fan of experimentation in the bedroom, and last night I decided to entertain my gent in a totally geeky way! I decided to make a spunky geek outfit which left no doubt in the mind about my wanting sex…a lot! If you enjoy playing about with bedroom outfits then i thoroughly recommend giving the geek look a bedroom airing, it’s just so much fun!

To help you get an idea of how to style yourself up in a geeky way which is also perfect for bedroom athletics, I’m going to give you a run down on my outfit and how i rocked it!

If you have ever tried wearing tights when things are getting hot and heavy, then you surely know just how difficult it is. Yes you can ask your man to rip your tights to get to your lady flower, but ruining decent tights seems a little pointless to me! To get round the issue i settled for long hold-ups which ended way up my thighs, patterned to look like suspenders, I wore a pair of wooly knee high sock is a wonderfully geeky pattern to complete the leg look!

To jazz up my top half I really went big…I took an old christmas jumper which was alwasys quite form fitting but long enough to cover my backside, and i modified it…a lot! First I added two buttons in the centre of the jumpers bottom seam, meaning that it could be happily fastened between my legs, in essence i made a homemade, uber geeky playsuit! Because i was worried about it maybe not being hugely sexy, I decided to cut two openings to allow my breasts to escape comfortably, but so as not to expose too much I made an arts-and-crafts style pair of pac-man nipple pasties to fit the theme! The effect was wickedly geeky and truly sexy.

I also took a pair of ludicrously fanboy-esque superman y-fronts and create a pair of crothcless undies that any fanboy would die to get into! If you really want to go the whole hog then i would thoroughly suggest growing out a wonderfully long, thick and curly bush for super geek appeal, unfortunately I am waxed, down there, so couldn’t not manage that touch (i fear i wouldn’t have anyway – as far as i’m concerned, a giant vagina beard has no redeeming features. Kitsch, retro furniture is cool. Kitsch, retro pubic hair isn’t!!).

As for hair, I went really big, back-combed and bushy…it looked hot, especially paired with girly make-up and newsprint fingernails! Whatever you decide to do, make sure the statement you make is bold and you’ll have a whale of a time.

La Belle

www.labelleuk.co.uk

xxx

Why? I hated sports and more than that i really loathed physical education lessons in which you spent an hour being casually insulted and ruthlessly humiliated by a slightly balding middle aged man with a pot belly, a violent streak and a penchant for girls much younger than he had any right to punish by making them strip to their underwear (boys always got a lap of the gymnasium?? Inequality was my biggest worry back then…I now understand that was the least of the problems). I now realise that instead of looking at the man like a veritable schwarzenegger clone, i should have seen the humour in being tutored by a pervert with incredibly tight shorts and no leg to stand on when fitness was the issue of the day.

I was always more interested in boys, drinking a little too much on the weekend and eating a little too much fine food three times a day. Fortunately for me, my body seems to have an aversion to being fat…it’s never happened, I’m a curvaceous yet trim perfect 10. Admittedly there is not a single ounce of muscle, so I firmly believe my body has been incredibly inventive and has naturally secreted heaps of fat in such a way that it LOOKS like I have a very nice figure. The reason I now exercise is more to do with health reasons than visual reasons…i now eat a balanced diet and partake in light exercise so i don’t leave earth prematurely, and to tell you the truth I have started enhjoying it…not the gym, but tennis and more social things i find quite therapeutic, and I hope i am no longer a heartattack strapped to a ticking clock.

The only problem with the attitude i used to have was that it left me about as flexible as a railway sleeper, that is not too handy for sex, although i worked around the problem by honing my techniques to perfection. Unfortunately though, one of my ultimate fantasies, and the one I had mentioned to NO ONE until recently relies totally upon being bendy! I have tried many, many wonderful sexual acts and experiences, but I still cannot shake my burning desire to be able to wrap my legs around the back of my head and present my lady plum to my lover in a way which is as beautiful as it would be pleasureable. I understand that such deep penetration would be uncomfortable but I simply don’t care, where some women feel discomfort, extremely deep peneration just seems to make me cum instantly.

The problem is that i could never have even begun to attempt such a physically rigorous position. To be perfectly honest, i think if i’d tried it a few months ago my hamstrings would have shredded, my backside would have been ripped clean in two and my spine would have snapped. So what has happened to me during those few months?

Firstly, i decided that if i wanted to die complete i would have to be able to enjoy this experience, to achieve this I turned to Yoga. I’m not interested in the spirituality of this fitness model, I’m purely interested in the bodily benefits. When i first went along, I could barely touch my knees, even the position i had to assume in order to say “Namaste” was uncomfortable if not painful! Fortunately, my body has reatced to this sudden attention and after all these years of threating to splinter, it has limbered up in record time.

I’m not suggesting I’ll certainly be able to do it comfortably and for any amount of time that is reasonable during intercourse just yet, but i’m planning to showcase my new skill to my lover in the next couple of weeks, hopefully without breaking my pelvis or causing irrepairable damage to my vagina, and i absolutely cannot wait for that moment as my legs curl behind my head spreading my lady flower and offering me up for some seriously anticipated penetration!

In the meantime however, i am seriously enjoying the benefits of my new found fitness regime! Yoga has truly helped me both in and out of the bedroom. I am now more comfortable in sex positions which used to be a strain, they no longer are and it no longer subtracts from the pleasure! I enjoy using my new found flexibility to seduce my partner, it’s amazing just how much a man will respond to a girl who bends at the waist to secure the strap of her high heel while wearing a teeny tiny skirt and no knickers, the fact I can watch his reaction and approach from between my own legs at the same time is a serious bonus for me as well!

I feel healthier, i have lost the tiniest touch of weight and i have toned up considerably! Ladies, if you want a fun and enjoyable way to get healthier while making sex more fulfilling then i beg you to book into your ocal yoga classes…if you want to benefit even more, then drag him along with you…if your man is equaly flexible is doubly rewarding – believe me, I know!

Many European nations have their blue blooded families who can trace their roots all the way back to the beginning of civillization, but none are more famous, or infamous depending on your point of view, than the aristocracy of Britain and France. These people are conoisseurs of everything of wine, of culture, of food, of travel, their wealth of finances and time afford them the luxury of being able to indulge in whatever takes their fancy, and believe me when I tell you that they are forever searching to extract more pleasure from the things they enjoy.

They do everything in excess, because otherwise it becomes mundane. They live their lives with reckless abandon, endlessly hunting for a greater thrill; some of the world’s most famous estates have been staked on the strength of a hand of cards. This i cannot condone, but I am full of praise when it comes to their way in the bedroom.

When it comes to sex, the aristocracy are peerless. This reckless abandon which might be so damaging in real life becomes a potent advantage when they slip between the sheets, their excessive, indulgent and decadent ways have ensured that for centuries they have been the pioneers in the bedroom – how do you think the riding crop first made it’s way from the flanks of a horse to the derriere of a woman? Their invention, open-mindedness and extreme lack of inhibitions when perfecting the acts of love and lust have been a guiding light to the sexually inclined. Their efforts have turned the perversions and kinks of yesteryear into today’s bedroom bread and butter.

If only we could all take the same approach to our most intimate moments; a spirit which shuns propriety and shame, a exploring instinct which refuses to turn it’s back on any possibilities, a desire which allows lust to flow unrestrained by taboo and timidness. We are human being, we have been given the ultimate gift seeing sex as a beautiful and pleasurable act rather than simply an evolutionary necessity. To take that gift lightly is wrong, we should embrace it, run with our instincts and see where we end up. I certainly do, and it’s time you stopped laying back and thinking of England. Just because sex is great it doesn’t mean it can’t be taken to another level and if your sex life isn’t great the chances are you only have yourself to blame.

My advice for you is to start having sex like the blood in your veins runs blue. To help you get into the way of pushing sex as far as it possibly can go I’m going to give you my top tips for fucking like a noble!

1. Aristocratic sex is all about the theatre: I’m not saying go and watch Wicked for a rush of blood to the goolies, what I mean is that sex in a boring, ‘normal’, environment simply won’t cut the mustard. Think excess and create a magnificently over the top atmosphere; cover every available surface in the bedroom with tealights and turn off the lights, gather all the cushions in the house to create a wealth of soft spaces and use blankets as indulgent drapery and burn incense in copious quantities to fill the scene with heady scents.

2. Costumes are key, but if you’re thinking Postman Pat or Fred Flinstone you’re in very deep Barney (Barney Rubble – Trouble). For his lordship a simple shirt and cotton boxers will suffice but if you’re after a really wild experience then get him to start off in a shooting suit, if he doesn’t fancy it, promise him you’ll remove all his clothes with your mouth…that should get him on board! For her ladyship the hard and fast rule is full length ball gown and lingerie which could knock a man dead at three furlongs. I personally would go with lingerie which can accomodate intercourse while remaining in place, it encourages intercourse first with it still on and then again when it comes off. Make up should be excessive in the sense of very heavy and smoky, trowelling it on WAG style isn’t cool. Dark lipstick is essential and your hair should be in a Marie Antoinette-esque beehive – failing that, you can’t go wrong with classic loose curls.

3. You need to knock back those inhibitions until you have no hint of shame or fear. If you tend to play it a little safe then share a bottle or two of decent champagne to loosen you up – if inhibitions aren’t a problem for you, still share some decent champagne with your lover. The whole idea of this scenario is to get of out your comfort zone, so it’s stands to reason that, provided you are commited to the idea, you’re going to be trying out some new things! Likely new experiences are anal sex, spanking and bondage (these are the most common), you should also be having prolonged sex, all of which means a degree of discomfort is possible so take a couple of nurofen to take the edge of it, because you won’t be wanting to stop.

4. Adventure is the goal of this wonderful event, exploring fantasies and realising long held and possibly hidden desires. The chances are your new direction will require a little preparation; if you want to spank your lover then a paddle would be helpful and you try getting one at midnight on a saturday! So you need to decide, together, what you are going to be getting up to a little in advance of the big day!

5. Honesty and equality are essential when discussing fantasies. You need to be honest and discuss what you REALLY wnt; not what you think will be ok because that tempers the kinkiness and we all have a bit of kink in us….believe me! Fear seems to cripple us even when we’re discussing fantasies with someone who loves us. Break the ice by each writing down your top 5 five fantasies in secret and then discussing each others together and remember that sex like life is a two way street; if you want to get you need to give – demanding all your fantasies and refusing all your lover’s is not negotiation, even it out, you get two, they get two. When discussing fantasies don’t agree to it when you’re actually not at all keen; if you agree to being tied to the billiard table and pleasured with the end of a cue then great, but if you back out at crunch time it’ll hurt him much more than if you say no straight up because he’s already built it up in his mind!

6. Don’t confine yourself to the bed. Obviously the bed is the most common scene of nightime activities but you shouldn’t be blinkered into thinking that the only way to get more adventurous during sex is by trying out new and varied practises. Our homes are full of great places to have sex; sit on the washing machine while it’s on a fast spin cycle and let him take you there, use the kitchen table as your new best friend by bringing your lady flower to the level of his manhood and switch up tireless positions, use the bathtub to cocoon you for ultra-intimate intercourse, if you have a floor length mirror then get into a reverse cowgirl position on the floor and watch yourself getting your rocks off, use the door frame to support yourself as you writhe away with your legs wrapped around him, lean over the balcony as he takes you from behind to enjoy the fear of being seen.

What ever you decide to do, make sure it’s fun, fantastical, erotic, decadent and indulgent; wilting lillies might fuck their way to an orgasm, the unrestrained will fuck their way to a more fulfilling existence

La Belle

www.labelleuk.co.uk

xxx