Navy B Rae is a collaborative group of professional artists with over 15 years of experience specializing in photography, makeup and wardrobe styling.
Where can one go to get photographed, their hair done right, makeup styled and wardrobe spruced up?
The ladies at Navy B Rae have your answer with their female-led photo experience company that is complete with a personal photographer, hair stylist, makeup artist, and wardrobe consultant.
The entire “Luxeperience” team, a collaborative group of professional artists, with over 15 years of experience are all about taking pride in their creative work that results in photography sessions tailored with their clients in mind.
“It’s a transformational experience — whether glam headshots or lifestyle,” Young said. “A lot of time we have clients starting a business and need marketing materials.”
Located at 13555 15 Mile Road in Sterling Heights, the Luxeperience Collective offers service providers to “elevate your business.”
“I’ve done photography as a hobby since I was a child but made it an official business at the end of 2019 and in creating the business I wanted to make sure it stood out and was something different and unique,” Brandi Young, who leads the Luxexperience Collective told the Michigan Chronicle during a recent interview. “In doing so I thought about my own experience when having photo shoots done and pictures were taken and it can be very stressful. I wanted to eliminate that stress for my clients. … makeup and wardrobe come with every shoot. Providing this holistic experience with every client.”
The other founders include Apryl Payne, hair stylist and makeup artist; Shelby Wilder, wardrobe stylist; ; Dana Buford, stylist, and Shay Bailey, makeup artist.
The Luxeperience Collective’s resident glamour team has decades’ worth of combined experience in their professional work.
“Our group has brought the knowledge and skillset we’ve acquired in our respective trades under one conglomerate and added a niche of exclusivity and luxe to what we do,” they said on their website.
Wilder agrees.
“It is truly rewarding work that I do with this team,” Wilder said. “My ultimate goal as your photographer is to capture legacy, timeless images that will be loved and enjoyed for a lifetime. … That is what really feels good. We recently had a client … that was just blown away by the experience. … Seeing people happy in the end makes it all worth it.”
In addition to being a successful luxe brand, they have had such an overwhelming response with their business experience model that they decided to provide training to other service-based businesses that have an interest in elevating their customer experience.
They are launching their online course teaching other businesses how they too can elevate their business and provide a phenomenal experience like they have found success in doing.
Their online course offers business-to-business instruction on how to build a client-centered model for one’s business.
They also identify the client journey within that particular business model and convert one-time customers to lifelong clients.
Through systems and tools used to scale a business, they hope to grow others businesses in a similar fashion that theirs has grown.
“We’re gearing toward being able to expand our services to help other business owners being able to do the same thing,” Payne said. “We’ve been able to deliver time and time again on the customer experience.”
Bailey added that customer service has always been at the forefront of their business.
“I like to provide customer-centric, customer-first,” Bailey said of the experience. “Just being able to work with a group of creatives who come from the same perspective when it comes to servicing clients is really rewarding itself. The fact that we not only collaborate that has us bring together our individual skill sets, but we are open to insight, and feedback. We support each other on set. … so the experience benefits the client first. … I look forward to all that is to come from that.”
Payne said that doing something she loves is great, and making an impact is better.
“A lot of times we get that feedback from clients,” she said of the experience. “It’s great feedback.”
For more information visit wnavybrae.com.