Over 40 & Fabulous · A Fox & Vixen Portrait Project
You've been told you're beautiful for years. This is where you see it for yourself.
Over 40 & Fabulous is Fox & Vixen's twice-a-year portrait project for women 40 and over: a fully guided session, a printed magazine, and a one-night gallery exhibition, just south of Houston.
Applications are read personally. Apply when you're ready.
The project
Twice a year, Fox & Vixen opens a new round of Over 40 & Fabulous, a portrait project with one job: put real women over 40 in print and on a gallery wall, where everyone can see what this age actually looks like.
Each participant has a full portrait session with professional makeup. At her ordering appointment she chooses the one image that will represent her in the project's printed magazine and at the exhibition. Everything else from her session stays private unless she decides otherwise.
It starts with an application rather than a booking button, and every woman who joins makes it easier for the next one to believe this is for her too.
Most women arrive nervous and years late.
Here's what they say afterward.
“I was more insecure than I realized. Since doing the photo shoot I’ve been more comfortable and confident in my own skin.”
“When I saw the photos, I really was shocked. I was like ‘who is this woman?!’”
“It was like the me that was there all along, hiding behind the insecurities and self-doubt, was finally free to shine.”
A few of the women of Over 40 & Fabulous.
How it works
Apply
The short form below takes a minute, and the application follows right after.
We read it
Mike and Angi read every application personally. You'll usually hear back the same day.
We talk
A 15 to 20 minute call that walks through the whole process, including the costs, and answers anything you want to ask. If it sounds right, we book your date before we hang up, and the session fee is what reserves it.
Session day
About 3 hours at the studio: an hour in the makeup chair, then a fully directed shoot. You never have to know what to do.
The ordering appointment
Ten to fourteen days later you come back and see a slideshow of your 40 to 60 fully retouched images, then we walk you through a process to help you choose what you take home. This is also where you pick your one project image.
What it costs
To reserve your date: $149
It covers your session and your professional makeup artist. The same session outside the project is $399.
The artwork is a separate decision you make at your ordering appointment, after you've seen your finished images. Collections start at $1,600, and the average client spends around $2,500. Payment plans are available.
If you purchase a collection, your $149 session fee is added to your package's print credit, extra credit for wall art and add-ons, on top of what your collection already includes.
As a participant you also receive an 11×14 matted print of your chosen portrait, your copy of the participant magazine, and two tickets to the exhibition.
What the session is actually like
Every pose is directed. Hand placement, the angle of your chin, where to look. When a pose is easier seen than described, Angi shows you. Both of them are in the room the whole time, and there's no need to practice anything.
Nerves usually fade 15 or 20 minutes in.
“The whole experience was amazing from beginning to end. The funny part was it started off a little awkward, then by the end I was feeling overly confident.”
Partway through, Mike hands Angi the camera so you can see unretouched previews of what's already working. And retouching enhances, never distorts: we soften what's temporary and never change your body's shape or proportions. You will still look like you.
What stays public, what stays private
One image appears publicly, and you choose it. No other image ever has to be released, but many of our clients choose to release more, some all of their purchased images. Everything else stays private unless you decide otherwise: we don't tag clients or use full names online, and your release is where you set your own limits on what's ever eligible for use.
Apply when you're ready
Applications are open. The form takes a minute, and it brings you straight to the application.
If life pulls you away mid-application, we'll email you the link so you can finish when you're ready.
Please mark mike@mikefoxphotography.com as safe in your email, so you don't miss our response.
See more of the work
See more of the work in the full gallery. It's password protected, and the password is fabulous.
FOX AND VIXEN BOUDOIR
Pearland, Texas
