Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is a difference between a Personal Style Coach, a personal shopper and a personal fashion stylist?
A Personal Style Coach (PSC) is all of the above plus much more. A PSC is a true partner who will get to know you and will guide you to bring out the inner stylist in you. A Personal Style coach will help you create a style that you can claim as your own. A Personal Style Coach will help you uncover your own style.
2. What is the key benefit of using a Personal Style Coach?
A Personal Style Coach’s supportive professional advice will go a long way in making you more confident. When you look better you feel better. It boosts your confidence and confidence is your key to success.
A PSC will teach you how to find your style and then draw inspiration from what you’ve learned, so once you are comfortable with your style, it will continue to inspire you. In a way, you will become your own muse and won’t need your PSC anymore. A Personal Style Coach will help you trust your newly uncovered style.
3. What is the difference between a Personal Style Coach and an Interior decorator?
Have you noticed recently how most kitchens remodeled in the last 3 years look virtually the same? You can walk from one remodeled house to the next and tell who has used an interior designer. A personal Style coach act as a decorator but not as a designer as a PSC is not licensed to do drawings. There is a great benefit to having a Personal Style Coach work with your architect or designer as your PSC will be your advocate. Ensuring your own style is best incorporated in the designs. When working with me, you can be assured that your house will have some unique elements representing your own style. Your home décor will be stylish but it will have a personality which will give it the “Wow!!” factor. A Personal Style Coach recognizes that your style is as unique as you are and works with you to uncover and incorporate it! More on Interior Decoration & Styling
4. Why shop with a Personal Style Coach when I can get an in-store personal shopper?
Some department stores offer the services of personal shoppers and in store stylists. These resources are helpful but can offer biased advice to encourage you to buy more expensive items to increase their commission. A Personal Style Coach is not on commission and has only YOUR best style interest in mind. More on Personal Styling
5. What about shopping with my best friend or relatives? They have my interest in mind?
Shopping with a friend is an option but it can pose a new kind of problem as friends often won’t give you an honest opinion for fear of hurting your feelings.
They also might give you feedback based on their personal sense of style which might not work for you.
Friends might give you feedback in a hurry as they are busy looking for clothes for themselves or are tired and want to go home. A Personal Style Coach is a professional with no bias who has only your interest in mind.
6. I read fashion magazines and they give great advice. Why is that not enough?
A lot of so called fashion experts who write columns for fashion magazine need to be able to address the needs of very large groups of women. To do so, they fit bodies into one of three categories: top-heavy, bottom heavy and hourglass shape – Or Melon, Pear and Apple shape.
The reality is that we are much more complex than that. With my customized advice you will learn how to accentuate certain parts of your body while camouflaging others. And the "what not to wear" advice I will give you will be customized to you and only you. What is a "what not to wear" for you might be Ok to wear for someone else and vice versa. A Personal Style Coach will assess all of your features to give you customized advice for YOUR unique physique.
7. Why is hiring a Personal Style Coach a good investment?
Working with a Personal Style Coach is an investment which will save you time and money. What you’ll learn from you PSC will stay with you forever. It is an investment that will keep on reaping benefits for years to come.
Once you have established your style and are fully confident in it, you will find that you no longer waste money on clothes that don’t fit or that you don’t enjoy wearing. A Personal Style Coach will help you save time and money by teaching you how to shop better, faster and more efficiently.
8. I already have a team of people helping me look good, so why add one more?
If you already have an entourage you are a lucky one and it is true that personal trainers and nutritionists can help you look better, but if your style is not optimized, exercise and nutrition alone won’t make you look your best….unless, of course, you live naked… but unfortunately ”Naked people have little or no influence on society” “Clothes make the man” (Mark Twain). A Personal Style Coach will help you find clothes that suit your body-type, personality and lifestyle to enhance your best assets.
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