After many year exploring bodies through the medium of dance Tessa decided it was time to take on another medium: photography. And Bees Knees Boudoir was born. With an innate understanding of the body, posing and how to create environments that support self exploration through sexuality and fun Bees Knees Boudoir is the perfect place to help you capture your beauty.
Bees Knees Boudoir is located in the Stunningly beautiful historic Cortland Corset Factory in Cortland NY.

To explore your body
To see yourself in a new light
Because you have the sexiest baby bump
#selfcare
To indulge in your wild side
To explore with your partner
As a gift to your soon to be
Fun times with your bestie
To celebrate
You're a performer
and so many more....

$375
Sweet, sultry, and dripping in self-love.
The Nectar Session is where your confidence begins to bloom. Whether you’re dipping your toes into boudoir for the first time or simply craving a taste of your own allure, this experience captures the essence of your natural magnetism, soft, playful, and irresistibly you.
You’ll step into our Bees Knees classic studio, choose from our client closet of hand-selected pieces, and flow through 2–3 looks guided by one of our signature photographers, either Tessa TrueHeart or Seraphina Supernova. Expect expert posing direction, empowering energy, and a space where your sensuality feels safe, celebrated, and deliciously authentic.
You’ll receive 20 stunning digital photos that honor your beauty in every form—whether clothed, nude, or somewhere in between.
✨ One hour of shoot time
📸 2–3 looks (nudes welcome)
💋 One photographer — Tessa or Seraphina
👗 Access to our client closet
🌸 Posing direction and creative flow
📷 20 digital photos
Come taste the sweetness. The Nectar Session is your perfect first buzz. 🐝

$495
Rich, radiant, and made to be shared.
The Royal Jelly Session is where indulgence meets connection. Designed for individuals, lovers, or friends who want to co-create something lush and expressive, this session celebrates both intimacy and expansion.
Guided by both Tessa TrueHeart and Seraphina Supernova, you’ll move through 2–3 looks as two creative perspectives capture your heat, tenderness, and chemistry. Whether solo or intertwined. With double the photographers comes double the artistry, attention, and magic.
You’ll leave with 40 digital photos that shimmer with emotion and confidence—every frame infused with the richness of Royal Jelly energy: bold, delicious, and alive.
✨ One hour of shoot time
📸 2–3 looks (nudes welcome)
💞 Option to shoot solo or with a partner
📸 Two photographers — Tessa & Seraphina
👗 Access to our client closet
🌹 Individual and duo posing direction
📷 40 digital photos
The Royal Jelly is for those ready to indulge their senses and feed their inner royalty. 👑🐝

$1500
Step into your spotlight and embody your hottest, most magnetic self. This is your main character moment in the form of a luxury photoshoot designed to capture the kind of confidence that lingers like perfume and power guided, posed and photographed by Tessa TrueHeart and Seraphina Supernova. ✨
The Queen Bee Experience is an all-inclusive, fully styled, luxury shoot that celebrates your essence, whether you’re a performer, bride, groom, creative, or simply someone ready to feel like the most embodied and expressed version of themselves.
Here’s what’s included:
👑 Professional Stylist: We’ll book your stylist for you so you can show up, exhale, and step straight into your fantasy.
📸 2-Hour Photoshoot with BOTH Tessa TrueHeart and Seraphina Supernova: Time to explore a multitude of looks, moods, and poses that channel your personal brand of heat with two professional, award-winining photographers offering you posing guidance, support and making photos of you.
🎥 Video Documentation: Behind-the-scenes and highlight clips filmed on your phone so you leave with instant, iconic content.
🍓 Snacks & Champagne Toast: Fuel your fantasy with a little indulgence, nourishment and bubbles included.
🔮 Single Card Pull: A tone-setting ritual to anchor your energy and intention before you take the throne.
🌙 Full Gallery Access: Every finished image, no limits, no gatekeeping. You get it all.
This isn’t just a photoshoot, it’s a full-body celebration, exhalation and honoring of you. A declaration of desire, confidence, and self-devotion. Come feel yourself, serve fantasy, and step into your Queen Bee era, magnetic, empowered, and absolutely unforgettable. 🐝🔥


Tessa TrueHeart and Seraphina Supernova are joining their photo-witch forces to conjure something brand new and utterly magical… introducing the Bees Knees Boudoir Membership.
This is the gift that keeps on giving, babe! Step into a year-long creative journey filled with seasonal, themed photoshoots designed to help you serve, slay, and stay inspired all year round. Each season brings new sets, fresh energy, and stunning photos that capture your ever-evolving shine.
Choose your membership tier:
✨ Single Shoot Seasonal Slay- one photoshoot per season (4 total)
✨ Dynamite Dynamic Duo- two photoshoots per season (8 total)
You’ll get to play in sets like “Cuhn-tea Cupid” for Valentine’s Day, Spring Fever, Clouds in the Pole Studio, Showpony Lifestyle, Summer Waterfall, Witchy Shoots, Winter Wonderland, Red Curtains, and more. You can even book a Royal Jelly Mini to create a custom theme that’s uniquely you.
Expect fresh props, inspired environments, and the magic of shooting with both Tessa and Seraphina multiple times per year, all at a generous bundled discount. You’ll always have gorgeous, seasonal photos ready for promos, performances, or pure self-expression.
But this membership isn’t just for performers, burlesque dancers, or showponies, it’s for anyone craving a year of self-celebration and embodiment through imagery. Each photoshoot is more than a creative session; it’s a healing, empowering experience, a guided journey into your most unapologetic, multidimensionally embodied self.
Come create, transform, and shine, season after season, held by two professional photographers, performers, and women who live to see you feel yourself.
After all, every photograph is made of light and shadow, and these images are spells to honor, celebrate, and hold space for your undiluted, radiant essence. ALL of you is welcome here and we cannot wait to capture you in your magic ALL YEAR LONG in your Bees Knees Boudoir Membership 🌙✨
At the top of every season we will release photo slots that are available ($300/per session), and folks who sign up for the membership will get first dibs on dates! We can’t WAIT to create with you in our most MAGNETIC YEAR YET!
2026 MEMBERSHIPS GO LIVE 11/24/2025
PRICING:
-4 seasonal shoots bundled $800 ($200 a session)
-4 seasonal shoots payment plan, 6 months ($133 per month)
-8 seasonal shoots bundled $1400 ($175 a session)
-8 seasonal shoots payment plan 6 or 12 month plans available ($233 per month, $166 per month)
If slots are avaliable individual sessions will open per season and cost $300 a session
Winter Quarter
January-March
Cunty Cupid Shoot - January
Red Curtains - March
Spring Quarter
April-June
Spring Fever Shoot - April
In the clouds - with Pole or not - June
Summer Quarter
July-August
Showpony Lifestyle - July
Sultry Summer Waterfall Shoot - August
Fall Quarter
September-November
Season of the Witch indoor - September
Season of the Witch outdoor
Winter Wonderland - November
anytime - Royal Jelly Mini Session
Please reach us at beeskneesbabes@gmail.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
The best gallery of my photos is on Instagram @bees.knees.boudoir
The studio is located on the 2nd Floor of the Historic Cortland Corset Factory. You'll fall in love with this building just like I did. 75 East Court St. Cortland NY Elevator access if needed. Just ask.
My editing style does include some light editing, but the most are meant to highlight you as you are. Wrinkles, cellulite, scars, and stretch marks are welcome here and will nbe visible in your final photos.
Depending on your package you will have 2 -4 outfit changes. I encourage you to bring extra and let me help you pick. You will also have access to my small but growing client closet.
Most important, wear what makes you feel sexy, and like yourself! Often I feel less is more, why not take a walk on the wild side?
Consider me your personal cheerleader for the duration of our shoot (and probably long after) I will direct you through posing so everything feels natural. As an experienced dance teacher I feel this is one of my specialties. I love understanding and making shapes with bodies!
Of course! Every photo you see I have gotten permission to use. You never have to feel any pressure to share them at all.
Please come to your shoot ready to rock and roll. You do not need a full face of makeup to be photo ready if fact you can come just as you are. I'm a big fan of some false lashes and a touch of color on your lips.
Occasionally I offer sessions with Danielle Saint Velvet that do include Hair and Makeup. Please reach out to me if you're interested in this.
Still feeling a little nervous about booking? I'm happy to answer any questions that you have! Ask away.
E-mail: Beeskneesbabes@gmail.com
DM over on IG
@bees.knees.boudoir
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