Improvability Blog

And not what suits the world and his mother!

Several hundred years ago, I attended a full day’s presentation by one of the top health celebrities in the UK. Marvellous day, excellent lunch, and some great talks – except for one.

For some inexplicable reason, the celebrity concerned decided to enlighten us all as to grooming (or some such title). 

Maybe one of the guest speakers didn’t turn up and she had to fill in for them? Who knows?

Can’t remember much of what she talked about but I do remember two items that she mentioned that made my blood boil.

Now, this lady might have been an expert in her own field but colour analysis was clearly not one of her skills.

She took the time to name the make and shade of tights she was wearing, saying that these should suit everyone. "A bit of an outrageous thing to suggest," I thought, but I concluded, "What the heck! I suppose you could get away with it – at a stretch."

But when she named the make and shade of her lipstick and said that it would suit virtually everyone, I was absolutely horrified and, for once, I was struck speechless.

Let me tell you, that particular lipstick would NOT have suited me one bit.

In fact, I would probably have looked extremely gangrenous wearing it and you would have been carting me off to hospital!

And, looking around the room full of women desperately scribbling down these pearls of idiotic wisdom, I could see that it most definitely would not have suited about half of them either.

What amazed me more than anything was the way the women in the room devoured everything this celebrity was saying, as though it was gospel.  Utterly frightening!

Please don’t listen to rubbish

So, why would that lipstick NOT have suited half of the women in the room?

• Because the celebrity had warm skin tones and around half of the room had cool skin
• People with warm skin need make-up and clothes with golden or honey undertones
• People with cool skin need make-up and clothes with undertones of blue or rose pink
• This warm lipstick would have made the cool-toned ladies (like me) look yellow and ill

Find out what suits YOU, not blindly follow some generalised recipe for the world and his mother!

Please, please, please! Find out what suits YOU. Not what some daft celebrity with an over-inflated ego or an out-of-date image consultant suggests.

These generalities only add to the current recipe of mediocrity that fashion magazines and the media propound on an almost daily basis.

• You are not general
• You are not average
• You are special and unique and you deserve the very best

And don’t you dare settle for anything less!

Over these last few weeks where I’ve had to take time out to rest and recuperate, this has given me a chance to do some deep thinking about what I’m going to be doing in my business in 2012.

• Should I run a live event?
• Maybe I should expand my mentoring opportunities?
• Perhaps I should run an Image Academy for 6 months, or even a year?

I could do so many different things – create new products, design new training courses, update the old faithfuls… The list could easily be as long as your arm but with only 5 weeks left of 2011, I really must start whittling down the options.

You probably realise that I’m a bit of a drama queen and, from time to time, I just have to get out there and drarm (just say it out loud and it will start to make sense):

• To drarm, or not to drarm?
• There is no question!

So I thought you might be able to help me with this.

What do YOU want?

This is your opportunity to have your say, to let me know exactly how I can help you and what you want.

Please help me to help you by answering 3 simple questions. Blether on for England if you want to, or just tick a box here and there if you prefer.

This online survey will take you a couple of minutes at the most. And thanks in advance most muchly!