The Image Consulting Course for Men Women Sept 2024 intake open for registration NOW.

Image Consulting is a 50-year-old industry globally, but it is still an infant-stage industry in Asia. Asia has the largest population in the world and our biggest strength is the young population. Today, in the business world, and with accelerating digital advancement, we are always trained technically and there is a huge gap in technical training versus managing their brand- the human capital, which is one of the most essential assets. 

Image Consultants work works with private clients and corporates assisting them and training them to create a personal brand for themselves. An image consultant is a coach who brings a meaningful, lasting, and authentic change in the life of their client by working with them on their appearances, behaviour, and communication (as well as building a personal brand and visibility) - based on their aspirations. 

Image Consulting as a career has a lot to offer, many consultants have found this field as their first or second calling for work- given that it offers entrepreneurship and flexibility, and here's why it has become a lucrative career today. It has flexibility in terms of the number of days/hours you wish to work. It is not location-specific on most days. On certain days, you may have to visit clients at their offices or homes take them personal shopping or conduct training in corporate offices or hotels. The rest of the days you can work from home. 

The Refinement Institute provides one of the most in-depth and thorough training in the Image Consulting complete program. It includes Image Concepts and Perception, Colour Psychology, Dress Sense, Wardrobe Planning, Self-Esteem and Confidence Building, Social Skill, Etiquette, Dining Etiquette, Presentation, Marketing, Business Plan, and more. 

Becoming an image consultant can be a highly flexible, creative, and rewarding career with impressive earning potential. We have trained many successful image consultants, entrepreneurs, professionals, e-commerce business owners, leaders, and aspiring men and women seeking change in lives - you could be joining the network.

You will learn what an image consultant does and how to do image consultations, how to develop your skills to succeed in an image consulting career, how to get hired for a job as an image consultant, and how to start your own image consulting business and get clients. 

The Refinement Institute

The School that Changes Lives and Society

Elite Accredited hybrid and e-training Certification Course for Image Consultants, Wardrobe Stylists, Personal Stylists, Colour Consultants, Etiquette and Protocol Consultants. 

Hybrid learning and e-Certification Programmes

This practical learning experience during training helps to maximize your confidence. When you train with The Refinement Institute as an Image Consultant, Colour Consultant, Wardrobe Stylist, Personal Stylist, or Etiquette Protocol Experts, you have the opportunity to run your own business, on a full-time or part-time basis, or as a second source of passive income, whilst enjoying the privileges and benefits of support from a leading expert brand. You will be trained on HOW to generate income, a simple business plan, with a marketing plan to target clients, and you have the opportunity to sell products and related image resources through our affiliate system.

Image Consulting, Colour Consulting, and Personal Styling (Wardrobe Stylist) are ideal if you want to build a ‘mobile business or if your circumstances mean you often, or may have to relocate to different cities or countries where you may be seeking change. Courses generally run online and hybrid basis from 10.00am to 3.00pm. 

What happens in the Image Consultant Certificate Course

The Image Consultant Certificate Course is an online learning program with suggested readings from our Course Manual in PDF format (and an additional resource Book - The Image Factor in ebook format). This course is 50% self-directed with personal guidance from our expert, which means you may study and complete assignments at the time scheduled most convenient for you from the comfort of your own home.

This online Image Consultant Certificate Course has a recommended completion date of 6 weeks from the start of the program, however, you may choose to complete the course as short as 4 weeks or as long as 12 weeks, depending on your lifestyle and schedule.

The Image Consultant Certification Course has been created to allow you to complete it with virtual assistance. If you have questions or need assistance, you can receive help from our Image Expert Tutor throughout the 6 weeks of the course (suggested duration). Your tutor is a valuable resource person who can provide you with personal learning assistance to help you succeed in the course and advice to help you succeed in your career.

Course Topics: 

(Modules are subjected to change to stay relevant)

1. Introduction to Image Consulting
2. Opportunities for Image Consultants as a Profession
3. The A (Appearance) B (Behaviour) C (Communication) of the Image
4. Personal vs Corporate Image
5. Knowing Your SWOT & Developing Your Skills
6. Starting Your Image Consulting Business
7. How to do Image Consultations
8. Getting Clients & Your Marketing Plan
9. Working with Strategic Partners
10. Resources

Course Fee: USD 977.00 (USD 497.00 Special for 2024 early bird intake ONLY. 

Registration is Open NOW.

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Celebrate LOVE with an outfit

Looking Good doesn't have to cost a pretty penny to be classy, and sophisticated, worldly experts at the Refinement Institute show you how with our picks of what you wouldn't mind adding to your wardrobe this Valentine, looking your best for your love.

February month has a lot to offer despite being the shortest month of the year. And no matter which way the season unfolds, there are plenty of dresses to wear that could satisfy both the lunar new year and valentine's day. One thing for sure, we see plentiful dresses that satisfy the modern romance trend this month. From online stores, retail boutiques to VINTAGE affordable collections, there are new collections of romantic frills and sweet vintage-inspired slips (above) to vintage chintzy floral prints, you can dress like a modern-day high society TV show. The date starts hours before; when you're getting into the mindset for a date. So, whether you think the date will go poorly, or you think the date will go well,, you're right. The way to get into the right mindset for dating is by wearing an outfit that you feel great in.

These elegant picks will have you looking your best this Valentine

1. A Simple elegant Olive Slip Dress 

A Vintage affordable easy Slip Dress

Celebrate the power of LOVE with an outfit to make Cupid blush. Forget wearing red today or a heart-shaped pin on your lapel. None of these ideas are modern. Try something fresh and unpredictable.

2. Sweet-vintage dreamy aesthetic inspired Top

3. A midi length polyester fiber dress 

4. Alexa Chung Inspired Sexy Minidress

5. A Satin Slipdress (choose your best colour)

What exactly you should look like for a valentine date may vary from person to person. If you feel best in your pair of jeans, then jeans are the answer. If you're someone who keeps their outfits pretty low-key from day to day, show up as your authentic self in more casual yet polished wardrobe essentials like a white button-up blouse and flats. Just remember the outfit shouldn't be wearing you.

"As an image consultant and personal development coach, I talk to people after they've gone on dates, and what I often hear is ... "he was so great, I really enjoyed the date... but he did not call me for a second date again."  

My recommendation is to be well prepared and get into the task of finding a good date-night outfit that helps exude confidence. I can tell you from my years of dating experience, no one is 100 percent well prepared and ready for dating. Have a few fantastic date outfits ready and on hand. "Not having any clothes that are flattering, or that fit well, or that you're comfortable in could be yet another excuse for why you think you shouldn't go on a date. 

Not having any clothes that are flattering, or that fit well, or that you're comfortable in could be yet another excuse for why you think you shouldn't go on date.

Our recommendation is to have "three or four outfits that you feel comfortable in, that make you feel desirable, confident,- an outfit that helps you look and feel your best. Then, you are going to bring that confident, sexy, flirty, energy to the date. In order to ensure you feel comfortable and honour your personal style, is by testing it out in advance. 

Caution: Make sure you have a bra that is comfortable, not one where the straps are constantly falling off, and you're adjusting it, or your pants are so tight that make you feel uncomfortable. 

A date is all about bringing your best, most confident self, ... part of that is having an outfit that really makes you feel your best.

Why don't you?

While dressing in expensive clothes might give you a fleeting sense of satisfaction, real confidence is not just about the brands you wear or the look you give off.  To celebrate a love date is all about making basic preparations by knowing your look, and playing to your personal strength. Why don't you satisfy yourself with the modern romance trend during this valentine?

Refinement Institute is a School of Refinement where .....

Refinement Institute, is primarily, the first of its kind famed elite Refinement University School that aims to teach the rules of classy etiquette, dress code, deportment, finesse, cultural refinement, royal protocol, and civility. 

Wish to enhance your personal image and brand refinement, contact us directly at 'teresadianchew5@gmail.com' or Whatsapp us at +6012 391 6108

Look great and Stay Safe.

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What do Image Consultants do?

Bonjour!

Image Consulting is a branch of the Marketing, Branding, and Communication industry that focuses on the areas of Appearance (including Attitude and Mindset), Behaviour (including Etiquette, Ethics, Protocol, and Personality), and Communication (Verbal and Nonverbal aspects as like Body Language). Image Consulting is about providing professional advice to enhance the overall look and feel of an individual, business, and Brand.

Image Consulting is a service industry that involves a consultant helping clients improve their APPEARANCE, advising on BEHAVIOUR, improving on COMMUNICATION skills, and boosting CONFIDENCE for personal or professional reasons.

If you want to be successful in life and business, you must ACT like one- in the way you THIN, LOOK, BEHAVE and how you PRESENT yourself to others

- The Image Factor  

As an image consultant, you'll give clients makeovers, coach them on the right wardrobe style for the image they want to project, and even clean out/organize their closets or go shopping trips. You'll likely give hair and makeup advice, instructions on impactful body language, and tips on building self-confidence. You can teach tactics for better sales and customer relations, or you can work with clients facing media interviews to help them act and look their best. These days, you can include services on how to look your best online. You can work at home, or you work part-time and it's a creative and satisfying business, as you can help someone advance in their career or feel good about themselves in their personal life. As an image consultant, you need to have an innate sense of style and up-to-date knowledge of fashion, hair, and makeup trends in both personal and professional settings. Last, but not least, this is a practise-what-you-preach business- you'll have to look polished, professional, and dressed for success on all public occasions. 

What skills do you need to be a good image consultant?

People skills are the most important experience someone would need to enter the industry, as you need to have the ability to deal with people on a personal level. 

A woman needs drive, ambition, intelligence, and education to move up the executive ladder. Without those qualities, the best clothing in the world won't do anything for her. But even with them, if she doesn't have the right clothing, she won't get ahead.

John T. Malloy

The Woman's Dress for Success Book 1977

How image consulting started

1n 1975, Malloy's best-selling book on men's clothes, Dress for Success, was published, followed in 1977 by The Women's Dress for Success Book. In both books, Malloy emphasized that his advice was based not on personal opinion, but on years of research. While aspects of image management for women had been around for a long time - e.g., wardrobe planning, modeling, and finishing school courses - Malloy went a step further by addressing clothing requirements specifically for professional women who must compete with men for executive-level positions. He advocated a "business uniform" for women, consisting of a dark-coloured, skirted suit- preferably medium grey or medium blue -worn with a contrasting colour blouse, plain dark pumps, fleshed coloured hose, and understated make-up.

Time has changed the dress code in the business world today and Malloy's business uniform is considered outdated. However, his basic premise that certain industries require certain dress remains valid, as does his statement that if you want to succeed, you have to look like you want to succeed. "My advice to women is based on the same principle as my advice to men," Malloy wrote. "Your clothes should move you up socially and in business, not hold you back."

In 1970 Emily Cho was contemplating leaving the corporate fashion world and striking out on her own, and she founded her own consulting firm, New Image, in New York City.

"Somewhere along the way, we women have acquired the idea that we should have an instinctive sense of style, that it ought to be born in us as an integral part of our femininity, and that, if it is lacking, we are somehow unwomanly."

Emily Cho, wrote in her book, Looking Terrific, 1978

"It was not going to be just a shopping service, but also a way of helping a woman with her inner as well as her outer qualities. Often clients come to me when they want to find or strengthen their own identities, beginning with their clothing image and working inward from there."

Clothing is a terrific way to enjoy yourself and improve the quality of your life

Like Emily Cho, when I began my image consulting business, more than a decade ago, it was primarily to help individual clients develop workable wardrobes based on a capsule colour scheme of five or six colours. I evaluated the person's wardrobe and suggested how to create new looks with existing pieces and accessories, while gradually building a new wardrobe. I advised on hairstyle and makeup and did personal shopping as well. 

Over the years, I began doing more and more corporate seminars, workshops and I was hired by hotels, retail brands, insurance companies, banks, academia, financial institutions, multinationals, Government-linked companies, government ministries, to architectural and designers' groups to help align their image with their corporate values and identities.  Companies used this training to reward and motivate their employees and executives or as a tactful way to tell them to shape up. It was good for employee morale, good for business, and financially lucrative for image consultants.

Today, the market for corporate and individual image consultant services had grown to the point where I turned my expertise to provide certification training for other Image Consultants. I started my School of Image Consultants which is now rebranded as 'Refinement Institute' to train prospective image consultants and to provide continuing education for experienced consultants as well as providing finishing school programs from young ladies and men, society ladies and gentlemen. 

Is Image Everything?

Image Consultants' business was booming as companies and individuals seek out image experts on how to look and dress, and were willing to buy expensive wardrobes. More and more corporations hired image consultants to conduct seminars on ways to project an image of success. By 1990 image consulting had become a USD 130 million a year industry, and more than tripled today. 

At Refinement Institute, we offered image consulting services and learning beyond wardrobe and grooming advice. Services are divided into five (5) categories:

(1) Dress and Colour

(2) Speech/Public Appearance

(3) Personal/Public Image

(4) Personal Motivation, Coaching and Mentoring 

(5) Personality Enhancement 

The only constant is 'change'.

To be a successful image consultant requires staying abreast of trends, constantly ascertaining what needs in the business and society world are not being met, and adapting services to meet those needs. I make it part of my job as the school of refinement to facilitate the process of exploring ways in which image consultants can provide services that attract and benefit new clients.

Some Key INDIVIDUAL services: Women and Men

• Personal Image Assessment
• Personal and Professional Goals
• Vision Boards
• Personality Profiling on your UNIQUENESS 
• Behaviour Analysis
• Communication Skills (includes Presentation and Conversation skills)
• Body Language
• Dress and Appearance
• Wardrobe Management based on Lifestyle
• Body Type
• Colours Analysis
• Knowing Your STYLE Personality
• Beauty Care Regimen
• Personal Grooming 
• Social Graces and Etiquette
• Deportment and Elegance
• Life & Lifestyle Coaching
• Personal Development
• Mental Health Coaching
• Healthy Living (Nutrition & Healthy regimen)
• Pageantry Confidence

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine

-Roy T. Bennett

The world will keep getting smaller, making cross-cultural communications and proper etiquette more important than ever in business and in the social environment. More and more people will understand that image matters. It's just pure wisdom for a person or a company to make the effort to create a favourable impression.

Image Consultant's reward is not only about financial remuneration but it is also in the personal satisfaction derived from helping people improve their appearance, presentation skills and on how to gain confidence in themselves.

In the first 7 seconds, your image influences the people you meet.

What we do.

Refinement Institute is the first of its kind famed elite Image Consulting University School that aims to teach the rules of classy etiquette, dress code, deportment, finesse, cultural refinement, royal protocol, and civility. 

Are you seeking change?

Wish to make Image Consulting your future career, doing what you love and helping men women develop their unique personal styles, and support professionals, entrepreneurs, and others to build confidence and have more success?  Consulting that's based on gut feeling only is not professional, which is why you need a certification education in image consulting to make your dreams come true. 

Let's have a 30 minutes conversation with us and chat about your ambition and goals. 

Stay Safe and let us help you explore your beautiful dream.