Do you hate shopping for new glasses? You’re not alone. Choosing glasses frames is a high-stakes endeavor: they’re expensive and omnipresent. You can easily spend $400+ for a pair with prescription lenses, and they live on your face for at least a couple of years. You have to take so much into consideration: Intention – […]
How we feel about how we look and what we’re wearing can shape our behavior in surprising ways. You will probably recognize yourself in the first two scenarios but be surprised by the third one. Scenario #1. You wake up and look in the mirror. It’s not pretty. You not only have bed-head, you also […]
The other day I ran out of coffee and decided to try Nossa Familia, the espresso shop around the corner from my condo. I was the only customer at that moment, and since I was a newcomer to the shop the friendly barista asked me a few get-acquainted questions while assembling my coffee, including “what […]
Gray hair happens Gray hair is a natural aspect of being 50+. We should celebrate because we’re at least twice as wise and twice as interesting as we were at 25. Is this not something to be proud of? Did you also know that 20% of American women of caucasian background were blonde as children? And yet […]
This is a great question! If you already know that you look good in cool blues and greens, or in browns and rusts, who cares if you’re a Summer or an Autumn, Winter or Spring? The not-so-short answer to a complex matter: A palette of the most flattering hues for an individual, not only makes […]
Yesterday, fellow Portland image consultant, Margo Passadore, came over to help me attack my closet. I am already very good at clearing other people’s closets – helping my clients understand why certain garments are flattering, which are not, and why and how to put them together. Just last week I helped a client create this mountain of […]
Do you relate to any of these? 10. Your closet is stuffed, but you have “nothing to wear” that you love. 9. You’re in a style rut from a prior era in your life, and you don’t know how to get out. 8. You’ve got enough black clothes to start your own funeral parlor, even though they make […]