Nothing needed rebuilding.She had simply never been shown the evidence.

Mika had never been at ease in her own body. Two pregnancies with complications changed that relationship further, and when a relationship ended she spent a long stretch just getting through the days.

She did not come to us looking for photographs. She came to find out whether the woman she used to be was still in there.

What she discovered was that nothing needed rebuilding. The strength was already there, carried quietly through everything, waiting to be seen. The woman who walked through the studio door and the woman on the screen at her design consultation were the same person. She had simply never been shown the evidence.

She chose the Brilliance Collection as a daily reminder of her radiance and beauty.

The person who stood beside her through all of it, her closest friend for twenty years, is now her partner. She says they both see her differently now, and so does she.