Image Consulting Business & Motherhood

Ever wondered how a woman juggles motherhood as well as running her own business? Colour Me Beautiful’s Samantha Birkwood sure does!

Samantha currently manages her own professional image consulting business ‘Image & Style’ in both Hong Kong and Macau, seeing clients from all walks of life, from bankers and lawyers to stay at home mums.

Her specialties include Fashion, Style, Color and Image Advice, Business Dressing, Wardrobe Weeding, Bridal and Weddings, Teens as well as Business and Corporate Training.

For personal consultations, Samantha conducts them at studios on both coasts, or in the comfort of her clients’ homes. For corporate consultations, she sees clients at their place of business.

And she does all of this while taking care of her 1 year old daughter with another one along the way!

Samantha understands the demands of a busy lifestyle, being a working mother herself. With her background in the corporate world, including positions in Project Management, Marketing and Public Relations, she fully understanding the ins and outs of running your own business.

She has also been busy with attending events, bazaars and functions to let more people know about the benefits of image consulting. Samantha loves helping her clients, and goes the extra mile to keep them updated on the latest styles and trends for the seasons.

Samantha has recently teamed up with Hong Kong’s ‘Love It’ boutique store, offering customers their very own personalized colour analysis, helping them identify colours which complement them, and colours which wash them out.

A one of a kind store which imports their favourite boutique labels from around the world to Hong Kong, Love It only carries one or two of each pieces of each size of clothing, so customers never have to worry about running into someone else wearing the same thing!

Samantha’s advice and tips on colours, paired with the philosophy behind Love It is assisting customers to be more confident in making their shopping choices.

Take a sneak peak at Samantha at some of her events.

Here she is showing a client what colour category she belongs to according to her skin tone and the colour of her eyes and hair. For example, does she have light coloured hair and eyes? In that case, she would belong to LIGHT category. Or if she has dark hair and dark eyes she would be a DEEP.

Here are all the tools Samantha used to conduct a style and colour analysis on Love It’s customers, including a full set of colour drapes, colour swatches, style mood boards, scarves and Colour Me Beautiful books. These tools are all provided by Colour Me Beautiful, one of Europe’s largest image consulting firms. 

In the images below, Samantha is assisting a client at a colour party to learn her best make up colours that suit her skin tone and how to apply them - a fun way to get a group of girls together and learn some new make up techniques!

This Thursday, November 1st from 2:30 to 7:30 pm, Samantha will once again be offering free 5 minute colour consultations at the Love It store. Come along with a friend and enjoy this service whilst shopping at this cute little boutique on Hollywood Road!

Are you a mother yourself too and would like to embark on your own supplementary business where you can pursue something you love, re-ignite your creativity and make a difference in the lives of other women? Then becoming an image consultant might be just the perfect opportunity for you! Click here to find out the list of our upcoming image consulting training courses and sign up today. Email us at info@colourmebeautiful.hk for more information.

The importance of Colour

If someone were to ask you "What's the underlying hue or tone to your skin?"...would you know the answer?

What about "What are the colours that complement your hair and eyes the best?"

For those of us without an artistic bone in our body, this may come as somewhat of a challenge.

And this is precisely where Colour Me Beautiful image consultants come in.

Our 58 consultants are all equipped with the most up to date knowledge of colour analysis, using the colour wheel system created by Alfred Munsell, helping you analyze the best colours to wear in both your makeup and your wardrobe. Do you belong to the category of Light, Deep, Warm, Cool, Clear or Soft? Which season would you be classified under - Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter? Well, this all depends on your colouring!

For example, ladies who fall under the category of Autumn, you're natural coloring is fiery, earthy, golden and natural. Just think of autumn leaves and the autumnal landscape. You can wear both muted and rich, warm colors like exotic spice colors. Moss, rust and terra cotta are all complementary to your colouring. 

Those of you who belong to the ''Clear" category-you possess dark hair, eyebrows and eye shadows, with either clear blue, green or hazel eyes. Your most prominent feature are your beautiful, sparkling eyes that pop. For your makeup, choose bright colours such as teals or rich purples for your eye shadows to draw attention to your best asset. 

Colour Me Beautiful consultants will carefully help identify your category step by step, then show you your best colours using a selection of colour drapes carefully placed next to your face for optimum visualization. Upon receiving your colour consultation you will also receive your very own colour swatch for you to take out every time you go shopping!

Shopping can be made so much easier and more efficient once you are equipped with the knowledge of colours to avoid as they wash you out, and colours that will make your eyes pop and your face glow.

Not only do our consultants offer this service, but they also organize special events and parties where they offer fashion advice, breaking down the top trends of the season and teaching you how to work them practically according to your lifestyle, body shape and budget.

Take a look at some of our Colour Me Beautiful consultants in action.

Here are Veena, Elise, Alex and Annette at Coach helping the women know their most flattering colours in order to buy that perfect handbag or pair of shoes.

Here is Eve at the Cambridge ribbon cutting ceremony event.

 

And here are consultants Elise and Samantha helping women in the audience identify their must have colours and colours to avoid.

Here are Eve, Elise and Veena with Cathay Pacific's management team at an event where Colour Me Beautiful consultants styled and did colour consultations for Cathay's beautiful flight attendants.

Interested in getting your colours accessed by one of our consultants? Click here to contact one of the them!

Considering joining our wonderfully diverse, international team of image consultants? We offer a variety of training programs on all areas of image consulting for both men and women! Click here to find out which one you're most interested in.