Style consultants aren’t scary! It’s a gentle journey to your improved self – here’s a bit of a taster of what you might experience working with one.

Ideally, you’ll start your journey by taking a trip backwards. Once you and your style consultant understand why your current style has landed the way it has, we are better placed to move forward. Consider this the foundational work that your new, true style will build on.

From here, you can narrow in on your own particular style resonance, including the value of mood boarding and how to pick and choose elements from various ‘looks’ to inform your own. You might set aside a day in your activewear to deconstruct and reconstruct your wardrobe with your consultant. It’s heavy work, both emotionally and physically.

Then we work out your silhouette (spoiler: you aren’t a fruit) and your inner dialogue, both of which are key to working out how to invest carefully. I teach easy-to-remember rules for keeping emotional and risky purchases in check.

You’ll be inspired to start balancing fundamental pieces with accents to make your wardrobe work for you again and again. And last, but definitely not least, you should have a look-in to the bare essentials: undies, knickers, smalls and jocks.

You deserve to feel noticed and, believe me, when you get honest about looking within and doing the work, great things will flow. Style consultants are just here to help you on that journey.

Lou Heller is a personal stylist and the creator of Your Style Journal – six downloadable modules combined with a personal journal for your own thoughts and access to videos, updates and a private Facebook group supporting you to make your own style decisions with confidence.

Fashion items Lou loves this season

• A power piece. One piece that is your foundation to build on that makes you feel 100% you.
• A dress, a cool tee, a skirt, pair of jeans, a top, or a kick-arse pair of shoes.
• Upgrade your sunglasses ready for the sun. These can help elevate any look ASAP.
• Statement jewellery. Wear to update your fave oldest clothing piece that you still love with a more modern feel.

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