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🔮 Find your style muses | members newsletter

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Workshop resources: zoom link, recording, worksheets | All of us need the equivalent of a style devil and angel on our shoulder: people to think of when dressing to center ourselves into our own style

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In today’s members newsletter…

  • How to find your style muses to guide you when dressing

  • Anything and Everything | Q&A | Zoom Link + worksheet

  • OOTW challenge | create an outfit based on your face type

  • Dress with your style muses | workshop | Zoom Link + worksheet


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How to find your style muses

I know I’m not the first person to find themselves lost in front of their wardrobe. When I find that an outfit isn’t quite hitting for me and I’m not sure why, my first move is to consult my style muses.

Your style muses will help you to characterise the different aspects of your style you would like to achieve by referring back to their style. Essentially, the idea is to ask yourself: “what would x do?”

👙 1. Your features muse

The features muse is very simple - this is someone who almost exactly shares your features. In other words, they have your Kibbe body type, a similar essence blend and a similar colour season. For a long time I looked to Kirsten Dunst as my features muse as is a Soft Classic with some ingenue essence and is a summer colour season - as I settle into True Summer I might need to search for a new Features muse. You can opt to have a muse for each system e.g. I might look to Kirsten Dunst for body type, Amanda Seyfried for essence blend and Emily Deschanel for True Summer; however, I find this a little complicated to do in a split second! Doing a bit of research for a celebrity who shares at least some of your categorisations and becoming familiar with their outfits will be an easy way to check your outfits

E.g.

  • Taylor Swift - Dramatic body type + Ingenue, Ethereal, Dramatic essences + Light Spring

  • Melissa McCarthy - Soft Gamine body type + Gamine, Ingenue, Natural essences + True Autumn

  • Mila Kunis - Theatrical Romantic body type + Gamine, Ingenue, Romantic essences + True Winter

🌱 2. Your style roots muse

This is someone whose style perfectly matches your roots. They may not even dress exactly how you want to dress, but you admire them and they have similar style values. My style roots muse is Sienna Miller; we both have earth, flower and mushroom in our style roots and I find her style to be so exciting. You might not be lucky enough to find a celebrity which obviously has your exact roots, in which case you can use a celebrity which is close, or, again, choose different celebrities to represent each root whose style you thoroughly enjoy.

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