An active image consultant introduces the benefits of receiving a consultation from a client's perspective (Part 2)
I am Nana Hazuki, a Best Color Com certified consultant.
This is the second article in the series, "An active consultant introduces the benefits of receiving a consultation."
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The benefits of receiving an image consultation that I felt are as follows:
① Was the part I hated actually a charm? Turning complexes into strengths
② I can now understand "something feels off" through theory, and shopping failures have become non-existent
③ The reactions of people around me and how I am treated have clearly changed
In this article, I will explain point ②.
② I can now understand "something feels off" through theory, and shopping failures have become non-existent
The first time I stumbled in fashion was when I was a university student.
In elementary school, I wore clothes my parents bought without thinking, and in junior high and high school, I had a uniform, so I only wore my own clothes on weekends or during long breaks. That said, I had been interested in fashion since I was a teenager and liked clothes, so I enjoyed fashion to a certain extent.
However, I was young at the time. I could pull off almost anything I thought was cute just by being young. Of course, I naturally avoided items that I intuitively felt "didn't suit me," but even if I copied the trendy clothes in magazines, it didn't lead to a major disaster.
However, once I became a university student, it didn't go that easily. Even though I was young, compared to when I was in junior high and high school, it became much clearer what suited me and what didn't.
When I was a university student, casual cute fashion like sweatshirts, jeans, backpacks, sneakers, and caps was popular.
I wanted to try copying it too, but first of all, I didn't know how to wear sneakers stylishly. I bought a backpack, but I looked like someone going mountain climbing and gave up.
Since everyone else was wearing them cutely, I thought the clothes weren't weird, but that I didn't suit them because I wasn't cute... I felt disappointed. In the end, I spent four years wandering around not knowing what to wear.
After I started working, I encountered image consulting. I had already received a personal color diagnosis and a design diagnosis (a method different from Best Color Com; different from the personal design of our salon), but looking back now, I was told designs that were slightly off from what suited me, and although the colors were correct, my understanding of how to utilize, incorporate, and choose them was shallow, so I couldn't put them into practice.
As for me at that time, I firmly believed that I was linear, and that only things that weren't too sweet and were cool & flashy suited me! I might have been influenced by being told that in diagnoses and being raised by my mother saying so.
"I want to be a strong woman" was my catchphrase. It is a taste far removed from the Personal Design Romance.
And although I had the keyword "linear and strong" in mind, I didn't know as a theory what kind of materials, patterns, and silhouettes suited me.
Therefore, at that time, I didn't choose clothes by design, but could only buy them at fixed brands = only this brand has clothes that suit me, so I could only shop at the same store every time.
And since I couldn't get clothes that suited me satisfactorily, I fell into a negative loop of buying them, putting them away, and buying new ones. I was truly a shopping refugee who repeated failures in choosing clothes.
I was like that, but now I can understand the colors and designs that suit me through theory, and I have no trouble choosing clothes at all.
I can find countless clothes that suit me even at thrift stores, Shimamura, and Mercari, which I had nothing to do with before. Shopping failures have disappeared, and since I can mix and match infinitely, wasteful spending has decreased. I am surprised every day at how many clothes that suit me are overflowing in this world.
I also understood why casual cute fashion didn't suit me when I was a university student, and why I felt uncomfortable with fashion that was completely strong and cool.
Conversely, now I also know how to devise ways to wear casual fashion and cool fashion that suit me.
Personal design is not about "this clothing only suits Personal Design XX," but rather you can learn the art of making it suit you, such as "when a person with Personal Design XX wears this clothing, they should wear it like this."
Thus, now I can easily choose clothes that make me look wonderful in both casual and formal scenes based on theory.
As I mentioned earlier, I didn't have a sense for it from the beginning and have come this far while continuing to wander, so it means that if you can understand the theory, anyone can easily choose clothes that suit them, even if they don't have a sense for it.
That is all for this article.
Thank you for reading this far.