How to be a Color Consultant Stylist: what is it, what do they do and how much do they earn?

If you start to like the topic of Color Analysis. In this article I want to explain what a Color consultant does. Although in this aspect there are many types of color consultants such as hair color or home decoration, here I will focus on color consultants who are dedicated to the way a person dresses.

What is a Color Consultant

A Fashion Color Consultant is a person who determines the colors that best suit a person through their skin, hair and eye characteristics, and which they will then use in their clothing, accessories or makeup. The Color Consultant applies different techniques to perform color analysis. Although the most popular technique is the Seasonal Color Analysis.

A Color Consultant Stylist can either do your custom color analysis physically or digitally. The digital aspect is the one I teach the most, as it adapts in an enriching and much more objective way to the traditional physical Color Analysis technique called Color Draping.

Color consultant salary

Although normally Color consultant salary are not hired by companies, although this may occasionally be the case, color consultants are always independent professionals who do their work by themselves without bosses and are a variant within style consulting, they also have high salaries, even higher than in other professions.

This is due to the increasing popularity of Color Analysis, so a personalized color analysis, whether digital or physical, can be priced from 50 to 300 euros per session, it can even be more expensive, but it all depends on how thorough this analysis is and how much value is delivered to the client so that they understand the service you have provided.

Is a certificate necessary to become a Color Consultant?

It is not necessary to have a certification to be a Color consultant, really having a certification does not ensure that you develop the necessary talent to correctly detect the perfect colors for a person. However, customers trust more when buying from a certified person, even if they do not know what technique will be used to carry out their Color Analysis.

Equally, even if you are not certified you can learn color analysis as I explain in my ebook to carry out personalized online color consultancies, or even physically. or use my pre-made template to carry out the personalized Color analysis of your clients.

How to become a personal Color Consultant?

To become a personal Color Consultant, the first thing you have to do is learn the basic knowledge of Color Analysis and know how to implement the step-by-step technique to perform a color analysis on a person.

After this task, you only have to look for clients through social networks, to carry out these sessions digitally or also do them physically. You can do color analysis without having to do live consulting with a person digitally analyzing their photographs, but it is up to you whether to do a live class or not.

Is it worth being a Color Consultant?

I fell in love with Color Analysis from the day I met it. Finding clothes that really look good on you thanks to color is a great way to save money and look more beautiful. Currently, many people are related to color analysis because it is popularized, and it is a long-term career that is linked to styling consulting, personal shopping or image consulting.

Being a style consultant is worth a lot if you really like fashion or styling, even if you think you don't have this ability you can learn it progressively. Your fame as a consultant will depend on your ability to detect the correct colors in the person and correctly apply the color analysis technique.

What do I need for being a Color Consultant?

To be being a Color Consultant you can study personal stylist which includes color analysis studies. But in my opinion, many studies are a bit outdated and can be quite expensive as well as too cumbersome.

In my opinion, I recommend you to train independently, and when you have achieved this and have practiced as a stylist, then you may be interested in taking a master's degree.

But studying independently will provide you with fresh knowledge about styling, and much more innovative, practical, quick to learn and directed towards real practice.

I explain this to you, because when I started creating my content on Color Analysis I realized that all the existing content was very retro, however, I saw a more modern vision. Therefore, create a lot of practical and useful content.

Like for example my Color Analysis Kit, thanks to which you can begin to find out your season and that of other people and practice with photos. And besides, the Color Analysis template for stylists, which is prepared so that you can carry out the color analysis of anyone, because it includes a step-by-step guide, but you can also find many other useful tools that support you such as the color season calculator.

The most important thing is that you practice as soon as possible, analyzing your own season and people you know and photographs in general so that you have practice as soon as possible.