| an an image consultant help us look younger? Well | | | | contrast levels and textures that flatter you best. |
| and image consultant has developed the skills to look | | | | The right colours will ease the appearance of lines |
| at both men and women and find what enhances | | | | and wrinkles, even your skin tone and bring out the |
| their features, whether it be teaching a person about | | | | colour of your eyes and the highlights in your hair. |
| colours or correct clothing style choices. | | | | These colours will imbue you with a healthy and |
| Looking young is a positive attribute in a world which | | | | youthful appearance. |
| is youth obsessed. However, ‘young’ | | | | 2.They are experts in line and design. They |
| is a relative adjective. When you’re 18, | | | | understand the power of vertical, horizontal and |
| someone who is 25 is old; when you’re 50, | | | | circular influence. They assess your figure’s |
| someone 25 is a child; and to an 80 year old, young | | | | natural proportions and know how to create a more |
| is anybody not drawing a pension. Generally speaking | | | | balanced silhouette for you. They will enable you to |
| however, being truly ‘young’ is a | | | | walk taller and slimmer. |
| fleeting experience. Our real youth passes very | | | | 3.An Image Consultant understands the power of |
| quickly. In regards to our physical appearance, | | | | stereotypes to create negative or positive |
| it’s the time when our skin is firm, our eyes | | | | impressions. Peter Pan collars, cardigans and pearls |
| and hair shine bright with natural colour and radiance, | | | | may look sweet on a 20 year old but when someone |
| our posture is strong and straight and our face is | | | | over 40 wears them, they ‘scream’ |
| unmarked by the lines and creases that will come | | | | establishment’, maturity and common sense. |
| with laughter, anxiety and tears. In terms of | | | | Not necessarily bad things but together they create |
| stereotypical thinking, youth is synonymous with | | | | an impression of ‘age’. An image |
| energy, aspiration, ideas, spontaneity and the future. | | | | consultant can show you how to avoid the |
| Age is associated with wisdom, experience, | | | | stereotypes that will unconsciously age you |
| scepticism, entrenched practices and the past. Is it | | | | prematurely in the minds of others. |
| any wonder that many if not most of us | | | | 4.Being current in our dress is an important element in |
| aren’t keen on being perceived as | | | | creating a youthful appearance. This does not mean |
| ‘old’? | | | | ‘mutton dressed up as lamb’; nothing |
| If you want to look youthful i.e. vital, positive, | | | | advertises your age more. However, embracing the |
| engaged and living in the present, an Image | | | | current trends (as opposed to fads) is a great way |
| Consultant is a very useful person to have around. | | | | to look youthful. Your Image Consultant can guide |
| Why? Well, for a number of reasons. | | | | you towards discerning the trends that work |
| 1.They are trained in Colour Analysis, a simple but | | | | positively for your appearance while eliminating those |
| enlightening process that determines the colours, | | | | that do not. |