For some of my clients, when they stop buying frivolously, they sometimes find themselves stuck when they DO need to buy something. They don't want to make the wrong choice or spend money where they don't need to spend money.

By now, you know that wine gets better with age, and so does your style. Your mentality is different when it comes to clothes. You've experienced some significant transitions in your life. You're more focused on clothes that fit your relationship, career, and family. When it comes to clothes, you're making some more significant decisions for more permanent pieces, not the one-hit wonders you may have focused on in the past. We're not as influenced by shiny objects or the hottest trends and celebrity style must-haves on Instagram. 

Reasons to hire a personal stylist, personal shopper, wardrobe consultant now

Most of us have boring assumptions of what we can wear to work. We’re used to certain rules about what we’re “allowed” to wear to work. For us women, it can be especially tough to find a balance between comfort and formality and stylishness and professionalism. It’s time to let go of these rules and to add some of your personal style into your work wardrobe. 

So now, Kellie is working with me. She's choosing to work with a stylist even though she knows she wants to lose more weight. She's choosing to work with a stylist even though she has a closet full of clothes. The choice to work with me is really about Kellie wanting to feel confident and comfortable in her clothes. By working with me, Kellie eliminates the stress of getting dressed every day.

If you recently birthed a baby, you may be coming to grips with how your entire world is different. If we're being honest, YOU are entirely different, emotionally, and physically. We spend a lot of our postpartum days wondering, who am I?

Using subscription boxes is l something like talking to a friend when something is bothering you instead of going to a therapist. A friend will support you, let you talk about it, and maybe give you some ideas but they’re not going to ask you the profound and important questions that a therapist would. Similarly, these subscription services are going to ask surface-level questions and give you surface-level suggestions. You will not learn how to do the work for yourself to make a real change.

Do you remember what it felt like when you went clothes shopping for back to school?

I LOVED it! I loved figuring out what I needed to buy, what was cool and the newest style. I remember trying to decide what to wear first. Of course, the first week of September was still hot, and all my clothes were meant for cooler weather. But I always wanted to wear all my new clothes even if that meant being hot all day. The world was our runway. We couldn't wait to show off our clothes every day. 

Did you know that when people meet you, they make an assessment of you in about 7 seconds? 

That’s why your style can be such a valuable tool, it can communicate a lot of what you want these people to know about you right off the bat. Together, you and I can create a strategy for your style that is based on your goals and what you want to portray to people. 

What’s your personal style?

I’ll wait. Really think about it for a minute…

It’s probably not easy to define. In fact, I’d say most women would not be able to tell you what their style is right off the bat. They may hem and haw and come up with a few unconvincing generic descriptors of what they think their style is.

I find shopping is a largely polarizing experience for women. You either LOVE it or you HATE it. Many of my clients truly hate shopping. Some don’t mind it but realize that they are not so great at it. Either way, I can promise you that shopping with me is a completely different experience than trying to go it alone.

I take away the stress of shopping. 

I know how you feel when you try on 1700 outfits and still feel like you have nothing to wear. I know you’ve done the subscription boxes and still don’t seem to have an actual complete outfit. I know what it’s like to see your whole closet dumped out in front of you and think you should probably just stay in your PJs.

I have a lot of moms come to me for various reasons… they have a closet full of suits and aren’t sure what to wear to a playgroup to meet new mom friends, they are going back to work after taking sometime off and have no clue where to start, or they could wear a variety of forever 21 and h&m prior kids… but thats not cutting it any more especially with their new bodies. Let’s face it having a kid does a number on your body! It is never the same even no matter how much you diet, exercise, and complain The area that I hear that is most concerning is the post baby stomach (aka mummy tummy, mom pooch, or jelly belly.)

Feminine details actually make you look powerful

I’ve had people tell me that style seems like the opposite of self-care to them…. in their eyes it involves judgment, rules, stress, comparison, and disappointment. Their thoughts are completely valid since the fashion industry is fueled by tapping into our insecurities and fear of missing out, but I challenge them to look at Style in a different way.

The holidays are like the prom for adults… An excuse to dress up, wear something you wouldn’t wear in March, and let your unique personality shine! My goal as a stylist is to make it easy for busy moms to feel confident and look polished every day! I love finding pieces that are not only fabulous, they also flattering to a client’s body type

When you put together an outfit and it doesn’t look quite right it is most likely that proportions of what your are wearing is off.

Most people only wear 1/3 of what's hanging in their closet.  They are still holding onto pieces from another life making them unable to see items they love.