The five women behind Self Love Socials have held their first event, bringing together professional hair styling, make-up and photography with the aim of encouraging women to celebrate themselves as they are.

The team behind Self Love Socials (Image: Supplied)

The team is made up of salon owner and hairdresser Megan Kilgour, 29, from Drayton; hairdresser Leah Bowen, 24, from Smallburgh; hairdresser Ellie Napier, 25, from Ingham; photographer Penny Barton-Byrd, 31, from Rackheath; and make-up artist Megan Mayhew, 26, from Poringland.

Ms Kilgour, a body-positive campaigner with more than 45,000 followers on Instagram, said the women had brought their different skills together with a shared aim.

She wants to normalise the bodies women rarely see online, where gym-honed physiques and carefully filtered images can leave people feeling they are not good enough.

Self Love Socials are about empowering women (Image: Supplied)

By celebrating a wider range of shapes and sizes, the team hopes to show women they do not need to change their bodies to deserve confidence, visibility or a photograph they love.

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