Signature Style Systems ~ Certified Personal Stylist, Image & Color Consultant, True Colour Expert

31🔸Style DNA: Five Artistic Principles for Choosing Prints

It’s really spring, friends! Prints and colors are abundant, legs are out, and pollen is everywhere! Print dresses are perfect for showers and graduation parties and all kinds of other spring events. In this episode, I share artistic principles for choosing prints according to your Style DNA and then tie that into personality type.
 
What is your Style DNA? DNA is an acronym: D is for your body’s design, things like color, texture, and shape; N is for your lifestyle needs, your roles, your industry, where you are geography, and so on. A is for your essential aesthetic, the vision of beauty that’s unique to you. I take you on a self-discovery journey so you can show up confidently and contribute your gifts.
 
Let's connect!
Take the style personality quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
To suggest a podcast topic, send email to hello@signaturestylesystems.com.
 
 

30🔸How Kibbe Style Archetypes Use Separates in Signature Style Strategy

Thousands of women around the globe are obsessed with finding their “Kibbe” type. About ten years ago, I went down the rabbit hole too and bought David Kibbe's Metamorphosis: Discover Your Image Identity and Dazzle As Only You Can. In this episode I rip a takeaway out of his system and relate it to how you can use separates strategically in your wardrobe.
 
If you want to save yourself the HOURS women spend trying to decipher their Kibbe type, here’s an alternative: you can do as one of my very first clients did. After I gave her her body type information and my recommendations, she asked me if I had any idea what her Kibbe type was. I was able to reverse engineer from my recommendations to a Kibbe type, which she resonated with but would never have gotten to using his methods. If you want to save yourself all those DIY hours, check out the style discovery packages at my website: signaturestylesystems.com
 
Let's connect!
Take the style personality quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
To suggest a podcast topic, send email to hello@signaturestylesystems.com.
 
 

29🔸Secrets of Stylish Aging: Transcend Fashion and Embrace Signature Style

As women navigate different stages of life, growing in self-knowledge should mean getting dressed becomes easier. Your wardrobe should increasingly reflect your signature style. Welcome to Episode 29 of Signature Style Systems.
 
In this episode, I have tips on growing in style as we age, inspired by the life of Iris Apfel, whose style transcended fashion. 
 
On request of a podcast listener, and in consideration of the world losing the fabulous Iris Apfel recently, today I’m talking about aging without losing YOUR style. In my philosophy, this shouldn’t really be a thing because signature style is based on self-knowledge and the self-discovery journey is the journey of a lifetime. In other words, as you age, you should expect to grow increasingly stylish and in this episode I give you some practical how-tos!
 
If you would like to suggest a topic, send email to hello@signaturestylesystems.com.
 
Let's connect!
Take the style personality quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
 
 

28🔸Style Personality and Decision-Making: Feeling vs Thinking in Your Myers-Briggs Type

Today I’m talking about how the preference for thinking or feeling in your Myers-Briggs type can inform your wardrobe decisions.
 
At the dichotomy level, the F or T in your four letter code stands for feeling or thinking. In truth, everyone feels and everyone thinks. The question is which criteria do you prioritize when making decisions? Personal criteria, that is, pertaining to people, or impersonal, that is, pertaining to data and metrics?
 
If we go a level deeper to the cognitive functions, we find two different flavors of each preference, an extraverted version and an introverted version. That is what this episode goes into with regard to how you dress.
 
Discovering your unique self and your style DNA is a self-discovery journey. In my Personality Profiling & Palette package, The Overnighter on your journey, I’ll take you a level deeper in your type than dichotomy level, just Thinking vs Feeling, to the cognitive functions.
 
Learn more at my website Signature Style Systems. Use code episode28 to take $40 off, now until April 30, 2024.
 
Let's connect!
Take the style personality quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
 

27🔸DIYing The Triumph of Individual Style: What I Got Wrong and What I Learned

I often get asked how I got started in this line of work. 
 
Today I’m sharing the story of how I discovered there are actually principles of art and of science that you can use to guide your style decisions from a rational perspective. I’ll give you three things I got wrong in trying to DIY my style, and one surprising thing I got right.
 
This episode is for those days when you wonder why everybody else looks normal in the clothes that are available in stores and feel like you are the only one who doesn’t.
 
I was not born knowing what to wear. I learned, and you can too!
 
Let's connect!
Take the style personality quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.

26🔸What to Wear This Spring: 5 Steps to Your Perfect Outfit Formula!

You know that moment when you’re standing in your closet wondering if any of this is gonna work? Me too!!
Today I’m talking about how you can use outfit formulas to get past that. Because none of us have time to stand around trying to decide what to wear!
 
If you just want me to build your outfit formulas for you, an Outfit Formula Style Guide is included with the Style Discovery Journey called The Sabbatical. In this year-long deep dive into your Style DNA we co-create a signature style reflecting who you truly are so you can show up confidently and contribute your gifts to the world. Learn more at my website, linked below.
 
Let's connect!
Take the style personality quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.

25🔸Signature Style: Using Color Harmonies to Feel More Like Your Real Self

Have you ever noticed that you tend to revert to certain color combinations? It may not be laziness or habit! It could be an expression of your personality.
 
Today, I’m talking about color psychology, specifically color harmony psychology. I’ll teach you how wearing various colors in combination can create specific effects and, more importantly, how to use color harmony to express who you truly are.
 
The problem is too many women have forgotten how to feel comfortable in their own skin. I take you on a self-discovery journey, so you can show up confidently and contribute your gifts to the world.
 
Let's connect!
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.

24🔸Two Kinds of Boundaries: Defining Who You Really Are and Creating a Signature Style

In this episode, I’m talking about boundaries.
I define the two kinds of boundaries and explain how the concept relates to how to create a signature style.
To keep it tactical, I also teach you how to know your best skirt lengths.
My vision: Everyone has a unique self inside, but many women struggle to show theirs. I've created a process to reveal your unique self; when we've discovered who you really are, you can step into feeling excited, motivated, and confident to show up and contribute your gifts to the world!
 
Let's connect!
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.

23🔸Where Are You on the Style Timeline: Trends, Style Personalities, and Your Myers-Briggs Type

Where are you on the timeline of style?
In this episode I’m breaking down how my style personality quiz, the curve of trend adoption, and your Myers-Briggs type are all related.
Let's connect!
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.
Everyone has a unique self inside, but many women struggle to show theirs. I've created a process to reveal your unique self; when we've discovered who you really are, you can step into feeling excited, motivated, and confident to show up and contribute your gifts to the world! Learn more at signaturestylesystems.com.

22🔸Are You Making One of These Two Mistakes? How to Wear Your Skin Tone Without Looking Naked or Washed Out

Ever see someone from a distance and wonder whether they are naked because they are wearing something that could reasonably be a skintone for them? The worst is when they’re wearing leggings! While it is true that your skintone is a neutral for you, that’s not the way to do it!
 
In this episode I break it down for you: a common mistake I see women making with regard to wearing skintone clothing, why you may not like wearing it, and a major mistake I made when I should have used skintone but didn’t.
 
Everyone has a unique self inside, but many women struggle to show theirs. I've created a process to reveal your unique self; when we've discovered who you really are, you can step into feeling excited, motivated, and confident to show up and contribute your gifts to the world!
 
Let's connect!
I have a quiz: What's Your Style Personality? Take the quiz here!
Are you a DIYer? Grab the workbook: The Wardrobe Pyramid and discover what clothes you really need for your lifestyle.
Just want to take the first step in getting your wardrobe systematized? Get a bite-size closet project in your inbox every week.
Want to learn more about how to discover your Style DNA? Visit my website.