How to choose a good shopping assistant and what to do if your budget is tight

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Even with a limited budget, you can get help from a stylist and bring your ideas to life.

For all the seeming simplicity of the process, shopping is a responsible business, because it is here that ideas and ideas that were previously abstractly beautiful in collections on Pinterest or on collages from magazines are brought to life. Shopping on a limited budget is also a compromise between quality and price, between an imaginary image and a real one, a compromise of colors, proportions, textures … It will not work perfectly and completely as intended, and it is better to put up with it right away. Therefore, I would recommend not to linger at the stage of polishing ideas, so as not to go crazy with inconsistencies.:)

The first question to ask yourself is - why do I need a stylist? What problem do I want to solve? Why am I starting to work on my image right now? What knowledge about my character and appearance do I lack? I will not dissemble: these are difficult questions. A professional stylist may take the first hour of consultation to formulate a goal.

In the event that your task is related to self-acceptance, finding a personal style, or working out conflicting desires in an image, you first need to work with a style psychologist. When the task concerns specific social achievements (professional image, personal brand, and so on), more painstaking work with the image maker is also carried out with these requests.

However, if you just want to see the benefits of your appearance, to see if you can look different - more romantic or more daring, then this is a direct task for a shopping assistant.

In this article, we will discuss how to choose the right one.

How to choose a shopping assistant

1. Take a closer look at those whose style of work and communication is close to you

Search on the Internet, recommendations of friends, pages of specialists in social networks will help you with this. It is very important to pay attention not only to the pictures, but also to the manner of communication of a specialist, what he or she writes about, what he or she places emphasis on. Each stylist has a portfolio in one form or another: some have this traditional "was" and "become", others have a collage of things to which the specialist shows his visual solution to the problem, the third - texts, articles, reflections on the topic …

If you see just a set of beautiful pictures and nowhere is it said what kind of client it was and with what request it came, this is not a portfolio. Try to make a request and understand how your candidate thinks.

2. Be specific in your wishes

If you need a guaranteed result, then it is better not to address the task of creating a business image to a specialist whose profile is covered with rhinestones and feathers.

The more clearly you define the budget, your field of activity, personal circumstances and expectations from the wardrobe, the easier it is for a stylist to work. Or refuse to work with you if the profile does not match and recommend a colleague

3. Be flexible and open-minded

Psychological flexibility will improve the quality of interaction. If you want to create a fundamentally new image for yourself, then your guide-stylist will be an "alien" for you. Sometimes it comes to the ridiculous: a girl wants to remove excessive control, dryness of emotions and pedantry with the help of an image, but at the same time makes claims to the stylist for a two-minute delay and unwillingness to send a list of things for shopping in an Excel table with prices.

What to do if you have a small budget for shopping and specialist services

1. Get help from people for whom style is a hobby

All kinds of groups, marathons, forums will help you. The more accurately you understand what you need from the image (we discussed this above), the more benefit you will get. At the same time, it is important to understand that opinions can be different, including those that are ruthless or that criticize is not at all constructive. However, people's feedback and advice will help you determine the general direction of development of the style. And if someone's idea seems sensible to you, you can invite this person to implement your plans in the store and offer you comfortable payment terms.

2. Ask the stylist to work for free or at a big discount, while offering something in return

This may be your willingness to post photos in the portfolio and social networks of a specialist. If you have an interesting case, this is especially valuable. If you write well, then an honest detailed review on your social networks about how the shopping with a specialist went is an attractive reason for a discount from many good professionals (stylists are worse prepared to work only for an unconditionally admired review).

It can also be an exchange of services - coaching sessions, an invitation to speak in front of a loyal audience, or a spa treatment. It is possible to agree, but at the same time it is necessary to respect the right of a specialist to refuse.

3. Consider alternative ways

For example, you can find a stylist to work remotely: take an online consultation, as a result of which you understand what you need to wear and what not. Agree on the time, go to the store, pick up the kits yourself, take a photo in the fitting room, send it to the stylist and get feedback. This service is much cheaper than standard shopping with a specialist and at the same time it perfectly shows how much you are ready to change and move towards a deep understanding of yourself.

Remember, the biggest shopping secret is your health. No top-notch specialist will give you great results if you decide to go shopping in a depressed, irritated, or sad mood.

To make the choice perfect and you want to wear things for a long time and with pleasure, choose days for shopping when you are happy with yourself. Then there will be no temptation to "plug" things into emotional hunger, there will be no critical views of the shortcomings of your figure in the fitting room, you will not be led by the salespeople's insincere compliments, which means that the result will be excellent.

Successful shopping checklist

• Decide on goals and wishes.
• Develop taste in communities of passion for style.
• Don't dwell on the collage and concept stages.
• Choose a stylist who is close in spirit and with suitable work experience.
• Prepare for dialogue.
• Ask for a discount, discuss the terms of cooperation.
• Think creatively, look for options.
• Go shopping in a good mood.