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Alexandra Burns, 35
Company: For Your Eyes Only Portraits
Web: www.fyeoportraits.com
Focus: Photographic studio

A photographic studio that offers makeover portraits might sound like the epitome of a lifestyle business, but Alexandra Burns’ For Your Eyes Only Portraits is growing quickly, and is on target to turn over £1.2m this year. Burns, a former freelance photographer, was inspired by a vision to give real women access to glamorous ‘boudoir style’ portraits, with celebrity style treatment, in the security of a female-based studio. Her marketing nous has helped attract coverage from BBC One, Reuters and Radio 4, while plans to franchise the self-funded business look set to take the concept nationwide.

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