Suits You Sir

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.

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