"Pretty Little Liars" star Lucy Hale showed off her provocative side in a steamy new photo shoot for V magazine. The 26-year-old revealed to the magazine that she was ready to do something more grown up and talked about life after her hit ABC Family show ends.

The more mature look was shot by photographer James Lee Wall and showed the lingerie-clad actress posing in a variety of sultry pictures, The Huffington Post reported. "I was really excited to do something a lot more grown up and show a different side of me," she told V. "The photographer is actually my trainer's husband. We came up with this idea to do something really raw and a lot more grown up and edgier than I was used to doing. It was something for fun and something just to experiment a little bit."

When the actress/country music singer first saw the sexually charged photos, she said she loved them. "I look at these photos more as art than a photo shoot, because I've always felt really uncomfortable doing photo shoots. I've never felt like a model or anything. James just let me do my thing and caught me at the right moments. I wanted it to have a shock factor," Hale said, according to The New York Daily News.

Hale discussed the end of "Pretty Little Liars" with the magazine and said she is excited for the future. "I'll be done next October forever, which is exciting, but also scary at the same time because it's the next chapter of my life. I'm really looking forward to exploring different and darker roles," she concluded.