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This year I’ll be posting a make-up video each Monday to give you some tips and inspiration for the coming week.
Enjoy this weeks post.
Behind the scenes of image consultant training
I am often asked what do I do?
The answer is quite simple – your know Instore Stylists – well I train them. I also train Image Consultants. These are the individuals who will get to know your life inside and out to ensure that can create for you the exact wardrobe to meet your lifestyle, body shape, personality, and budget. Not forgetting colouring as well.
The other day I made this short introductory behind the scenes peek video for a potential student. I thought it might make things clearer for you and help you get a better idea of what it is I do.
Our Image Consultant training program has 64 lessons in the Style program, 35 Lesson in the Colour program and 9 lessons to our business development program. (update Dec 2020 – we now have 72 lessons)
Whether you want to do the full program of smaller bite-size courses, you can do so through our school which has something for everyone. The full program for the person wishing to have a career to bite size pieces for the person who just wants to learn a bit more about style, colour or running an image business.
Click on the image to watch the video.
All of our courses can be found at academy.imageinnovators.com
Frocktober with Clare
ONE WOMAN DIES EVERY 8 HOURS FROM OVARIAN CANCER. IT COULD BE YOUR MOTHER, WIFE, SISTER, FRIEND OR EVEN YOUR DAUGHTER. RESEARCH IS THE ANSWER.
You might remember earlier this year, to highlight the way we ignore so much of our wardrobe I went on a 100-day challenge to wear a different outfit without going out and buying anything new. now I am about to start a new challenge, 31 days I will be wearing frocks to hopefully make a small difference.
I know there will be those of you out there who may find this trivial, who want to see the big pharmaceuticals do, I don’t know what. All I know is this IS something that I can do. Hopefully, I can make a difference. Once I had heard about it, I wanted to get involved with Frocktober.
It is time to use my activities to highlight, support and hopefully make a small difference towards the research to combat ovarian cancer. A dear friend of mine passed away on Friday from Metatastic Brain cancer. Cancer seems to surround all of us in a frighteningly growing number of ways. Another friend is fighting bowel cancer. This article isn’t meant to be full of doom, so, if we can change the statistics and help to find a cure for one cancer, we might find that that opens the door to cure many, many more.
I would truly appreciate your support, by donating $1, $5 or you make your choice. Just something to make a difference.
I will be posting my outfits every day for the 31 days of October and your support on my social media would be appreciated.
You can find my outfits on Instagram or my facebook page
Please, don’t forget to support me this month. I would truly appreciate it as will someone whose life we may save down the road.
Happy Friday the 13th – Fashion Phobias
Hi Clare Maxfield here and happy Friday the 13th bet we weren’t expecting to hear from me today. Well as only yesterday when I was thinking of tomorrow’s Friday 13th and I’m traveling. I wondered what other superstitions are out there? That got me thinking about the fears and phobias and superstitions that not so much surround Friday the 13th but maybe that without me even realizing, a lot of my clients deal with and through helping them with their image I managed to help them through them but let me just give you a little bit of a background very quickly on Friday the 13th because this astounded me.
It began in Middle Ages. It started brewing when they talking about the Last Supper and Christ and he had 13 at the table it was held on a 13th but it’s actually a Thursday but it was the day before Good Friday which wasn’t so good in the end and that started rolling this Friday’s thirteen’s into a story and then it was early last century – Thomas Lawson wrote a book called Friday the 13th and in it there was a whole wall street market crash on the 13th based on the superstition and it made me think what came first? It’s like the chicken and the egg the superstition or the crash was it? You know what ended up happening and then there’s also the thought that due to Phillip IV of France rounding up a lot of the Knights Templar and arresting them might have had something to do with that.
All I know is today we all live with a lot of fears of phobias so I thought I’d share with you some of the stranger fears and phobias that I have to help my clients through and I do help them through. As an image consultant for a start there’s the Decidophobia yes it’s a phobia it’s like should I buy this or this? What looks right and from that do you know that there’s an interesting phobia the Catotrophophobia and that is to do with a fear of mirrors.
Now Pamela Anderson has this and it’s not so much they look at a mirror a go Oh, it’s a mirror it’s their reflection they see themselves distorted in the mirror which isn’t good another one it’s the Glossophobia. Glossophobia is a fear of public speaking it actually comes number 13 in the top 100 of speaking fears and from that a lot of my clients if they have a fear like of Agoraphobia going out I can help them with looking better that when they go through these fears they actually supported in the right way but when I started looking at there’s Vestiophobia out there people are afraid of clothes. Now life must be really tough for them because clothes are kind of part of our everyday life. there are Chromophobia Billy Bob Thornton’s one they’re afraid of bright colors. I’m guessing his life is fairly deep and muted. Koumpounophobia – that was a fun one to learn that’s a fear of buttons so people who have come upon a phobia they will wear things that slide over their head or do up with zips or do up with ties now I mentioned before the chromophobia there’s also a lot of people that have phobias too specific colors. Xanthophobia is one it’s the fear of yellow but another phobia that I often deal with with my clients and it’s often not given this name that’s Gerascophobia and that’s a fear of getting old.
It’s that elusive elixir of youth that people are always looking for. But as with all things there’s always the funny little ones you weren’t expecting when you go through an Omphalophobia that’s a fear of bellybuttons. I don’t know if they’re afraid of their own or other people’s so I don’t know where they get out of shower and have to look at and hide their belly button or their like this is on the beach , don’t show me your belly button and then lyrngoziphobia
Coz I thought for sure there’s a phobia for zips or there is but is’t a phobia of getting your lips caught in zips. didn’t even want to think too much about that. So happy Friday at 13th and I hope you are not a Paraskevidekatriaphobe because that means you are afraid of Friday the 13th Clare Maxfield from Clare Maxfield Image. Bye
The Colour Series – Black
The Colour Series – Black. Colour is intrinsic to all humans. The majority see, some feel and we all describe life in terms of it. This series will bring to life all aspects of colour. How we respond to it both internally and externally. The psychology of colour and what it means to us. How we use colour in our every day language and the evolution of the colour into our fashion and style today. Listen and watch to get a greater understanding of the message colour can give and how to use it in business and socially.
We all see, feel and enjoy colour differently.
Try out my colour quiz to discover which colour personality you are?
Watch the Colour Series – White – Here
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