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Professional Speaking: Clare entertains and educates audiences. Whether it is a corporate event or how to look polished at work or more glamorous at play. Grooming guidelines, professional image or a fun session on looking your best. Clare can help you.

Image Consultant Training: Looking for a new career in 2012. Study to become an image consultant and make your dreams reality. Image consultant training courses available in class and online. Melbourne classroom course starts Feb 6th.

Image Consulting Services: Feeling lost, confused or frustrated with your wardrobe? Don't know what to wear - Clare provides personal one-to-one image coaching to help you look, feel and exude your best.


Articles

  • Who's going to fix these figure fixers?

    Teaser: 
    Figure fixers??Who is going to fix these mistakes.

    Last week I went to see Gok Wan at Southland. He was hilarious. The stylists though were another matter. They had women coming out who were wearing clothing which did not suit their colouring or their body shape. A couple looked better in their before looks. I know to complete an on the spot make-over can be tricky as they need to have the clothing in advance and i must say the outfits looked great. But not on the women they put them in.So I was OK with the 'show' until I read their magazine and realised, this is a national problem. It is no wonder no one knows what works when the ‘stylists’ cannot get it right.

    I have copied one spread in particular to share with you what you really should and should not be doing.  Before I go any further, much of what Gok has to say is correct it is just the images chosen which are not.

    So let’s rename this, Key looks for Key shapes and I will give you the Keys.Key looks for spring 2011
    Date: 
    October 2011
    Figure fixers??Who is going to fix these mistakes.
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  • Getting paid what you are worth

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    The 3 C's to "Getting paid what you are worth" by Hannah Samuel

    Whether you’re in business for yourself, or looking for a new job, determining what you’re worth is important in terms of our sense of self-worth.

    Whilst it's tempting to leap ahead and focus on price or a salary figure as the starting point, what's more important initially are the foundations upon which the dollar value you finally settle on are based. To be paid what you’re worth you need three ‘C’s:

    Date: 
    August 2011

    Whether you’re in business for yourself, or looking for a new job, determining what you’re worth is important in terms of our sense of self-worth.

    Whilst it's tempting to leap ahead and focus on price or a salary figure as the starting point, what's more important initially are the foundations upon which the dollar value you finally settle on are based. To be paid what you’re worth you need three ‘C’s:
     
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  • June 2011 Newsletter

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    Out with the Old and In with the New

    Have you ever noticed how a phrase or theme can form a message for you and often you do not notice it until afterwards?

    This past week has thrown numerous examples at me of the questionable validity of the opening line, ‘Out with he Old and In with the New’.

    As with all things it will fall into the one word Suitability. Is something still suitable. Before I completely lose you let me explain myself and see if you can follow along with me.

    Date: 
    June 2011
    Out with the Old and In with the New

    Have you ever noticed how a phrase or theme can form a message for you and often you do not notice it until afterwards?

    This past week has thrown numerous examples at me of the questionable validity of the opening line, ‘Out with he Old and In with the New’.
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  • The Carrot, the egg or the coffee bean

    Teaser: 
    Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? Author unknown

    A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
     
    Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.
    Date: 
    May 2011

    Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? Author unknown

    A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
     
    Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs and the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word.
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  • Bloom in 2011

    Teaser: 

    There is a card here on my desk which says 'BLOOM', is to
    • Unlock your potential,
    • Be playful,
    • Make every minute count,
    • Keep growing,
    • Open up,
    • Be positive,
    • Drink the sky
    • Spread Joy,
    • Blossom,
    • Partake of your life
    • Feel the Sun,
    • Think globally,
    • Lend a hand and Seek knowledge.

    Over the break I have been thinking about how we should all Bloom and how it is my message for 2011. I have written 2 beginnings to this article over the past two weeks but it never felt right. This morning this card brought it home for me and I hope for you too.

    The first heading is to Unlock your potential. Are you living a life that sensational or is just satisfactory? If you are going to Bloom you have to make the most of who you are, not who everyone else thinks that you are. Start by getting to know yourself. For readers of my newsletter I am offering you your own style personality assessment. The details can be found at the bottom of this newsletter.

    Your potential was born in you. You are the only person who knows you intimately and how sad is it when you fall for everyone else's version of who you are and what you can do
    Date: 
    February 2011
       

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  • Happy Holidays 2010

    Teaser: 
    Last month I recommended that you create SPACE in your lives and wardrobes to allow more life, energy or even things to come into your life.

    This month I am going to share with you my 5 R's for making space in your wardrobe.
    Take everything out of your wardrobe and designate it into one of the following 5 piles.

    Return - if you like the piece, it fits you well, it still looks fresh, it goes with many other pieces in your wardrobe and the colour suits you. So basically it is a perfect wonderful piece that has loads of value left simply RETURN it back into your wardrobe.
    Date: 
    December 2010
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  • The Value of Customer service

    Teaser: 
    Putting a price on customer service. What value is there in customer service? We hear time and time again that good customer service will create a sale and you know what? It is true. There is no denying the value of a smile to a sale; the importance of looking the part and the necessity to care about your product. What I think we forget is that bad service costs more in lost sales than good customer service can often make in sales.
    Date: 
    July 2010

    Putting a price on customer service. What value is there in customer service? We hear time and time again that good customer service will create a sale and you know what? (more)

  • Finding Your Authentic Self

    Teaser: 

    Every day we are bombarded by what the latest looks are. What this one and that one is doing in the spotlight. What we should do to create so and so’s look. This constant affirming that everyone has it right can only spell one thing for the rest of us. Well maybe that is two. Firstly that we are missing out and secondly that what we are is wrong. Nothing like a nagative affirmation of where and who you are.

    Think back to those moments when you felt amazing. Was it after your hair had just been cut? Was it after you had nailed a presentation or a sale at work? Was it after you had watched with pride as your children had started school and waved goodbye letting you know that you are the bestest ever Mummy out there? That is the feeling we wish we could bottle every day. Well you can.

    Date: 
    February 2010

    Every day we are bombarded by what the latest looks are. What this one and that one is doing in the spotlight. What we should do to create so and so’s look. This constant affirming that everyone has it right can only spell one thing for the rest of us. Well maybe that is two. Firstly that we are missing out and secondly that what we are is wrong. Nothing like a nagative affirmation of where and who you are.

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  • Ideal Beauty, A matter of millimeters

    Teaser: 

    For every woman who has ever obsessed that her chin was too long or that her eyes were set too close together, scientists appear to have a new message: You might be right.

    Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, claim they’ve discovered the ideal alignment of female facial features, a pair of measurements that explain why one woman is perceived as attractive and the other, well, isn’t.

    Date: 
    December 2009
    Ideal beauty a matter of millimeters, study says
    Distance between eyes and mouth is the key to attractiveness
    By JoNel Aleccia
    Health writer
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  • The Price of Beauty

    Teaser: 
    "I know what wages beauty gives," said the poet William Butler Yeats about a century ago. Modern economics professors know much more precisely. In their published research, Professors Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle estimate that if you're perceived as beautiful, you probably earn about 5 percent more than your ordinary-looking counterparts...
    Date: 
    June 2009

    "I know what wages beauty gives," said the poet William Butler Yeats about a century ago. Modern economics professors know much more precisely. In their published research, Professors Daniel Hamermesh and Jeff Biddle estimate that if you're perceived as beautiful, you probably earn about 5 percent more than your ordinary-looking counterparts.
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