Image Consultant Training

franchise-free image consultant training with Kim Bolsover

Revolutionary Franchise-Free Image Consultant Training with award winning course author Kim Bolsover

Winner: Most Inspirational Consultant Running An Image-Related Business - International Federation of Image Consultants (IFIC) / Federation of Image Professionals International (FIPI) Spirit of Inspiration Awards

Mindset, money, power and you

By Kim Bolsover

What is the crucial difference between those who push through to success and those who faff around before giving up?

Your Mindset.

Using notes from my audiobook ‘Money, Power and You’, and mindset & motivation course, let’s get you thinking about how you can turn your life and business around from faff to success.

Money is the reward for your efforts.

Yes, it’s lovely to get applause from an audience, or a lovely card from a happy client but what you take to the bank is tangible proof of how well your business is performing. You should be rewarded for your skills, your enthusiasm, for the amount of time and money you’ve invested in training and learning how to do what you do over the years.

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Personal style consultation sorted me out (part 2)

By Kim Bolsover

Bill took us on a shopping trip to one of the big department stores and he told me, “Try this on. It’s perfect for your shape.” It was a short, black bolero-shaped cardigan in the softest lambswool I had ever felt. The minute I put it on, I felt like I had found the real me. I couldn’t stop staring at myself in the mirror and Bill had to shout at me to keep up as the rest of the group were moving on to another department.

By the way, I’ve still got that brilliant cardigan all these years later. Even if I never wear it again, I will always keep it to remind me of the day I found myself.

Did you notice?

Not once did Bill give me a style personality title. He told other people on the course that they were a Dramatic or a Classic or whatever, but not me. Why? I asked him this years later and he told me that my particular personality type couldn’t give a monkey’s uncle about titles so there was no point!

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Personal style consultation sorted me out (part 1)

By Kim Bolsover

How a ‘proper’ Personal Style consultation finally sorted me out!

32 years ago I finally discovered which colours to wear and which ones made me look ill. Colour analysis was still in its infancy in the UK and it had taken 3 whole years to work out that I really was an absolute Winter.

During that time I had been mis-diagnosed as a Spring (long story, I’ll tell you another time) and had then proceeded to terrorise the locals by wearing a light mink suit, light peach blouse, brown accessories, peach lipstick and – God help me – I’d even dyed my hair a delicious copper colour into the bargain.

In 1983, someone who’d actually been on one of the first organised training courses showed me that I was definitely a Winter and it’s been plain sailing with colour from then on. But I wanted more.

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6 Tips using mens drapes with female clients

By Kim Bolsover

Why should you use mens drapes even if you’re working primarily with women? Let’s set the scene here. If you have a starter drape set from us already, they are all block colours, all in the same mercerised cotton fabric which all feels exactly the same.

This was done deliberately, to cut down on the possibility of clients saying, ‘But it reflects against my face because it’s a glossy fabric’ and all those other wonderful insights that used to come up in consultations when we didn’t know any better.

So, why not add a few interesting variables in texture and colour combinations to your collection? Here are my 6 top tips.

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Putting clients into boxes

By Kim Bolsover

It seems there are restrictive colour analysis systems out there which are upsetting quite a few image consultants. All the more reason for those of us with the common sense to question all this, stuff the system, and put the client first. Putting clients into boxes should be a hanging offence!

It’s the overall look that matters. I absolutely agree that any hair, eye and skin combination can be found in all the seasons, all the tonal directions, all the expanded, extended, flow, or whatever system you use.

For instance, the ridiculous idea that dark-skinned clients can only ever be Autumns or Winters is completely ridiculous.

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