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Actor Headshots, Professional hair styling, Professional Makeup artistry, Sarah Elizabeth Artistry, St. Paul Studio
March 31, 2026
She Didn’t Want to Be Put in a Box. So We Didn’t.
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Some people come into my St. Paul studio knowing exactly what they need. Melissa was one of them. Melissa needed some epic editorial headshots Minneapolis to round out her multiple talents.
If you’re ready to stop choosing between the professional you are and the creative you are, I’d love to photograph you.
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She’s a singer, an actor, and a cybersecurity professional based in Jordan, Minnesota. She drove across the metro because she needed images that could hold all of that without flattening any of it. Standard corporate headshots would erase the performer. Generic actor headshots wouldn’t open the right professional doors. She wanted editorial headshots that could do both, and she wasn’t willing to settle for less.
That’s exactly the kind of session I live for.
Willing to Experiment. Willing to Be Vulnerable. Willing to Be Powerful.
What made this session work wasn’t the backdrops or the lighting. It was Melissa.
She came in open, excited, and completely willing to take risks. She leaned into looks that felt unfamiliar. She let herself be soft when the image called for it and commanding when it didn’t. She trusted the process even when we were in territory that felt new.
That willingness is rare. And it’s exactly why her images look the way they do.
We worked through three completely different looks in my St. Paul studio each one a different facet of who she is. The first, a deep burgundy velvet blazer against a clean white backdrop, is pure professional authority. Precise, confident, direct.
The second is where things opened up. A flowing editorial gown, a gold laurel crown, a textured backdrop that image is less headshot and more fine art portrait. It belongs in a theatre program, on a casting website, or framed on a wall. The third, a black blazer on a warm caramel backdrop, hands on hips and that smile, that’s the creative professional who has been in enough rooms to know she belongs in all of them.
None of these feel like a costume because none of them are. They’re all just Melissa, in different rooms she already owns.
When Your Work Doesn’t Fit One Category
If you’ve ever felt like your professional headshots didn’t reflect the creative side of you or your artistic portraits didn’t take your career seriously you’re not alone.
A lot of people I photograph are navigating that exact tension.
Creative professionals, performers, entrepreneurs, and multi-hyphenate humans often need more than a standard headshot session. They need editorial headshots with range. Images that can walk into a boardroom and step onto a stage without apologizing for either.
My Minneapolis St. Paul headshot sessions are built for exactly this. We plan your looks intentionally, move through them efficiently, and you leave with a full library of images that work across every corner of your professional life. No boxes. No compromises.
And for clients like Melissa whose work calls for something beyond a headshot, something closer to fine art portraiture, that’s a conversation I love having too.
MELISSA’S HEADSHOT REVIEW
“Oh Megan — they are perfect! I don’t know what you did to the hair, but it’s amazing. You’re a miracle worker! I appreciate you so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you. We shall collaborate again!”
We absolutely will.
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If you’re a creative, performer, or professional in the Twin Cities who needs images that reflect the full range of who you are, I’d love to work with you.
Serving Minneapolis, St. Paul, Jordan, Shakopee, Eden Prairie, Chaska, and the surrounding Twin Cities metro.