Cindy Rossiter of ‘Color me
beautiful’ was the guest speaker at the latest meeting of Hucknall Rotary Club
held at the Horse & Groom, Linby.
Cindy has been working as an image consultant for the last 21 years, as
well as various additional charitable roles, and brought an enjoyable and humourous
presentation to the meeting.
Cindy explained how we all,
whether we realise it or not, form immediate impressions about people the
moment we meet them and the image we present contributes significantly towards
that imprint.
In the 1980’s a milestone
book by Carole Jackson entitled ‘Color Me Beatiful’ encourage people not just
to think about the impact their clothing made on others, but also how to style
colouring and clothing to your best advantage by also taking into account your
natural colouring (consisting of hair, eyes, skin tone). Since then, prominent people including
politicians and business leaders, have used image consultants.
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| President Ian has his image consulted |
Cindy explained how each
person has a dominant “characteristic” in their colouring: Deep, Light, Soft, Clear,
Warm & Cool and then by using Club President Ian Young as her model demonstrated
how different colours looked better when matched with the individual colouring characteristic. My characteristic was ‘Deep’, defined as dark
and rich. One Rotarian not know to
bestow praise lightly was heard to comment, “ I hate to admit it, but she’s
right. It makes perfect sense.”
To conclude, Cindy carried
out a quiz to see if we could guess (or knew) what traits were suggested by the
wearing of certain colours: Conservative (Blue), Sophisticated (Black), Confident
(Red), Happy (Yellow), Sensitive
(Purple), Nurture (Green) Out-going (Orange) & Pure (White) .
If anyone is interested in
an image consultation or seeks further information, Cindy can be contacted by
email cindy.rossiter@talk21.com or via
her website www.total-image.co.uk
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