Make a Choice. Take a Chance. Create Change!

Michèle Benza, Confidential Image Consulting Featuring European Style and Elegance.

Think about it. How can we change old patterns that no longer work if we don’t make a choice to jumpstart the changes we want? Sometimes that choice requires we take a chance or, a leap of faith!

My New Year resolution is to focus on work. My challenge is to learn something new every day and to be better than yesterday.

To that end, I have made the choice to offer the best image consulting services available. This requires that I keep my skills updated and learn new ways to market myself over the Internet and via social media.

Have you made any New Year resolutions? If none came to mind, how about finding your own signature style? The first step is simple: examine your wardrobe and consider what clothing and accessories could be used to transform your style. While rethinking your wardrobe you may also consider how best to use my services so that I can tweak it in a way that can help you create a signature style that fits your body, lifestyle and personality.

That first step takes courage as it makes us step outside our comfort zone, which quite often leads us into our “fear” zone. But is there another alternative? Yes, the changeover period can be uncomfortable, but look at it more as a challenge. After all, don’t you want to feel and look the best you possibly can?

Choices. Chances. Changes. Three simple words that have the power to bring you where you want to be. Right here and now.

Michèle

BE UNIQUE: BE YOURSELF!

Be Unique: Be Yourself!

I notice that when I meet new people and when they find out my line of work...they panic. They become intimidated, I can see concern on their face. They check out their clothing and often apologize for what they're wearing. Why are people so insecure?  I do not work 24/7, I work when people hire me.Oscar Wilde said: “Be yourself, everyone else is taken." I would say: “Love yourself, everyone else is taken”.In order to be yourself, you have to take risks and accept that you are not perfect. First of all, to have an unique style and personality is important and attractive. Diversity is a lot more exhilarating than conformism, which is awfully boring.What if you were just yourself?

Create your own image:

• Find a level of consistency that suits YOU. Be consistent in you daily routine for better results i.e. skin care, makeup, grooming.

• Do not follow a trend simply because it’s in style.

• Learn what fits you. Know you body proportions, your best features and how to enhance them.

• Others are not interested in ‘déjà vu’, be creative.

• Do things differently, we all have a different personality and a different lifestyle, your clothes should reflect just that.

• Your image is your first form of communication.

Fashion designers who have created a unique look for themselves: Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren do not follow the fashion trends. Can we consider them as models of elegance? Yes indeed.To follow the crowd may be ok for most people, but if you want to be respected and listened to, follow your ideals, be yourself.

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” – Judy Garland.