Maybe you've had your own colours 'done' and just loved it so much that you've always wanted to do the same for your friends and family? Perhaps you'd like to have your own colour and image business? Or maybe:
- You'd like a change of career
- You're planning ahead for when you have a family
- You're planning ahead for when the family have all left home!
- You want something more flexible than your current job
- You want to combine colour, style, etc. with your existing business
- You just love colour and want to do something tangible with it
- You're mad about fashion
- You want to help other people look fabulous
- You just want to study colour and/or style for your own personal development
"I have been considering becoming a colour consultant ever since I had my colours done some 15 years ago, but somehow lacked the courage to move forward with the idea. In the meantime, as a hobby, I was constantly determining whether a person was a Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn, 'just for fun'."
This is one of the most flexible and rewarding businesses around. You can:
- work from home, or from premises (your choice)
- work when you want to
- run it alongside your current job or fit your hours around the family
- include colour, style, etc. with your current business: fashion, hair, beauty, flowers, life coaching, alternative therapies, etc.
- have a full-time business all of your own
- choose who you want to work with
- earn good money
- see the delight on your clients' faces when you help them to look and feel fabulous - your clients will thank you over and over again for your help
- build great relationships and friendships with your clients who will then help you build your business by telling all their friends about you
- run this business from anywhere in the world
- have fun - this isn't a job!
- and, for ladies especially, this is one of the few careers that you will never be too old for!
Have You Considered Other Alternatives?
If you enjoy working with people, have you considered becoming an aromatherapist, massage therapist, hairdresser, or beauty consultant?
Many of my trainees are already in these professions and complain that they are on their feet all day and spend all day in the salon, at the beck and call of their clients, many of whom fall asleep on them. Not for me, I'm afraid. I much prefer to work with wide-awake, eager-to-learn clients and trainees. And I've found that image work feeds ME as well as my client.
"What a fantastic business we are in. My client yesterday was a former colleague in London so I was in my former workplace at lunch time in the empty conference room (good daylight!) to see Sue. I bumped into a number of people I knew who all said how well I looked, and as I glimpsed people stuck round meeting tables looking bored/frustrated, I thanked my stars to be out of there and doing something which I enjoy so much and which gives such genuine delight to one's clients. You've known this for years of course but I do feel lucky!"
What about life coaching? From experience, I have found that:
- By the time people have made up their mind to go and see a life coach, they have ALREADY decided to make definite changes in their life
- Booking to see a colour consultant is often a fun, non-confrontational way for people to discover that they NEED to make those changes
Image consultants are often signposters, pointing people in the direction of a life coach, or even a personal trainer, hypnotherapist, counsellor, etc.
In many respects, we are coaches and mentors, as no-one is coming to you just for colour or style; they're coming for confidence.
