A glossy can airbrush a cover star into somebody else. We cannot, and we would not want to: the woman who knocks on your door has to be the woman you chose. This page explains how the pictures in The Women are made, how they are checked, what retouching is allowed and what happens if anything ever falls short.
Policy last updated September 2026.
Glamour and lifestyle photography, shot in evening dresses, hotel interiors and the streets around W1. Faces are softened or gently blurred so each woman keeps her privacy in the rest of her life, and there is no nudity and no explicit pose anywhere. The unsoftened version is the one that says hello at your door.
The order never changes. First comes a face-to-face meeting, where we see her ID and take the details her profile will carry, down to her height. Then the shoot. Then a second look that compares every frame with the woman herself, face, hair, colouring and figure, before a single picture goes live. That is why the facts and the photographs agree.
Retouching is kept to a light hand: brightness, colour, framing, the odd flyaway, plus the softening at the face. Nothing that changes her shape, her height, her skin or the colour of her hair, and nothing that turns her into someone else. A frame that would need more than that is reshot, not rescued.
A new shade, a shorter cut, a different look for the season: any change sends her set back for review, and no set goes longer than half a year without a second look whatever happens. Pictures that stop matching are replaced, however flattering they were.
Should the woman who arrives not be recognisably the woman on her cover, you may decline the evening on the spot and owe nothing for it, whatever its length on the price list. Tell Bella straight away: her profile is taken offline at once and stays offline until a fresh, checked set replaces it.
Stock libraries, borrowed shots, a friend standing in, a face built or reshaped by AI: none of it appears here. Nothing is published without her agreement, and any woman can have a single frame, or her entire profile, taken down on request.
3 answers below. Tap a question to open it, and send anything we missed to Bella on WhatsApp.
Yes, and that promise is the reason this page exists. If she is not, you may decline at the door without paying, and Bella takes the profile offline while it is checked.
No. There are no generated faces, no swapped bodies and no filters that alter her features. Retouching stops at light, colour and cropping, plus the softening that protects her privacy.
Whenever she likes, with no reason needed. The pictures belong to her, and Bella removes a single frame or the whole set promptly once she asks. Readers who would like to know how recent a set is can simply ask while arranging a booking.
Choose from the line-up or ask Bella for a recommendation. The woman at your door is the woman in the pictures.