Our lovely guest Suzanne Suthers, a stylist and professional colour analyst joins us for this episode where we explore the role of style in how we dress and present ourselves to the world. Suzanne spent several years in fashion retail but realised that she wanted to help clients further, so she trained to be a stylist with a leading image consultancy. For the last 16 years, she has been enjoying helping clients to discover and fine tune their own style to enable them to look and feel fabulous and confident whilst remaining comfortable and authentic.

She explains her passion is helping women over 50 who are facing changes in their bodies to look and feel good about themselves again. So we were super lucky to receive some expert advice on how to brighten up our wardrobes to lift our mood, become more visible and feel confident.

We learn how we all have at least 30 colours that suit us best individually, our skin tone, eyes and even our hair. In our colour palettes, we can put together a capsule wardrobe and it even spreads to make up and glasses! Suzanne tells us at least 10 colours will give you the wow factor and these can really make you feel special.

Suzanne loves watching her clients leave a session feeling more confident and with greater clothing options and knowledge on how to work with what suits you best for that extra sparkle. She shares such an interesting insight, that in near death experiences, people often see themselves as beings made of light – so she says we are definitely not here to dampen ourselves down with dull colours - but to shine!

Suzanne loves to remind people that they can express their true selves whatever age they are. Her energy as a stylist is nurturing and comforting for clients who are having a bit of an identity crisis with regards to their image, so is able to work really well with clients that feel vulnerable about their bodies. And on that note - we talk about body shape and how we can learn to accept ourselves even in the face of our insecurities - which lets face it, we all have to differing degrees. And find out that Sibby has a heart-shaped face whilst Sally is oval. Well, there you go - we won’t get into the pears and apples!

If you would like some expert advice on how to express your authentic self through your image, you can connect with Suzanne at www.suzannesuthers.com, or find her on Instagram: @suzannesuthersstyling or on LinkedIn.

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