How Do You Become an Image Consultant?

How Do You Become an Image Consultant?

So, you want to know how to become an image consultant? When a person decides to become an image consultant, usually, they start a business. However, before they start a business, they take an image consulting training certification course. 

Is it hard or easy to start a business to become an image consultant?

We can understand your fears regarding starting an image consultant business. However, if you are part of the Generation Z or Millennial generation it seems ingrained in your DNA to start a business or take risks.  The average Millennial will switch jobs 20 times in their lifetime which is drastically different than Generation Xers.

So, if you’re an avid follower of TikTok and Instagram, you will find many fashion entrepreneurs and social media entrepreneurs. You will find all types of entrepreneurs on these social media networks coaching you on how to start a business.  Therefore, you can apply that coaching to an image consultant business. So, starting an image consultant business should not be an intimidating factor in your decision to become an image consultant. You should be most concerned about taking a quality image consultant training program that will teach you everything you need to know from A to Z about how you become an image consultant.

Here are some guidelines on how do to you become an image consultant and what does an image consultant do:

1. Have a passion for helping people and a natural inclination for coaching others
2. Image consultants are usually skilled in appearance, behavior, and communication.  These are known as the ABCs of image consulting. However not all people who call themselves image consultants are skilled in all these areas.  Some people focus on A or B and C. While other image consultants are capable of consulting A, B, and C, they do have a propensity to go more toward the appearance aspects, or the behavior and communication aspects.
   • What is image consulting and soft skills training? Image consultants who have a proclivity toward behavior and communication coaching are also known as soft skill trainers.  Soft skill training focuses on the behavior and communication aspects of image consulting and can include etiquette training.
3. Therefore, you need to ask yourself, are you more into the appearance aspect of becoming an image consultant, or do you want to focus more on behavior and communication, which is soft skill training?  Sometimes those who are more inclined toward the appearance aspect of image consulting also call themselves personal stylists and personal shoppers.

Once you are clear on your answers to the questions above, it’s time for you to decide which image consultant training program is right for you.

What is Image Consultant Training?

What is Image Consultant Training? It is a training course that specializes in setting you up to become an image consultant.  Depending on the image consultant training course you choose, you can learn how to be a fashion image consultant or more of a soft skills image consultant.

You will find image consultant training programs that teach you:

• color analysis
• figure and body analysis
• wardrobe analysis
• makeup, and
• personal shopping
• as well as business training

At the Sterling Style Academy, we take it one step further to ensure that you understand the scientific aspects of style to know what image a person is projecting.

The bullet points mentioned above are part of our 5-day personal styling and personal shopping certification program. However, if you want to become an image consultant, personal stylist, and personal shopper, you need to understand how to evaluate the image a person projects through understanding the yin and yang aspects of style. If you lack this training as an image consultant, you will be doing a disservice to your client who is seeking the advice of an image consultant to help them understand the image that they project and how to manipulate the message they want to project.

Your next question may be what differentiates an image consultant training program for US$150 or US$700 from the image consultant training programs that say they teach the same curriculum for US$2000 – US$3000, or some training programs that cost more than US$7000?

We get it. The millennial generation and the Generation Z demographic of prospective students don’t necessarily believe in investing a lot of money in a specialized training program. You may have gotten out of college or university and have all sorts of debt for an education that doesn’t serve you or doesn’t position you for where you need to go. 

However, just keep in mind the following things about image consultant training programs:

1. The image consultant training programs taught by colleges or universities for less than $1000 are not going to position you to have strong image consulting skills sets or strong business skill sets. Sure, you get that piece of paper called a certificate. However how many of those certificates have resulted in students building a successful image consultant business after paying US$150 for training? Some students have said that it was a waste of time to spend $150 or $700 to get certified as an image consultant from a college or university program because they needed further training once they received that type of image consultant certification to become a skilled image consultant and understand how to start a business.
2. Image consultant training programs that charge in the thousands, like more than US$5000 to US$10,000 are taught by image consultant subject matter experts.
   • What is an image consultant subject matter expert? An image consultant subject matter expert is an expert in the field of image consulting. They could have 15 to over 30 years of image consultant expertise, not to mention, they know how to run a successful image consultant business.
   • Therefore, who would you rather learn from? A subject matter expert in the field of image consulting who has a successful image consultant business or from a course that teaches you what you could have read in a book for US$150?   
3. However, for some of you spending more than US$5000 to US$10,000 for training would require you to take out a student loan or a business loan. Some people do that to get well trained as they are investing in themselves and their future. They truly have an innate passion and talent for fashion and style, which is why they invest in a quality image consultant training program.
   • Nevertheless, fortunately for you, the businesses that charge more than US$5000 for training probably take PayPal and there’s an option to take the course now and pay later through PayPal Later.  This option is offered to residents of the United States and Europe who have American or European PayPal accounts.  
4. Still, you don’t want to incur more debt.  We understand. Well fortunately for you, at the Sterling Style Academy we offer award-winning in-class courses to become an image consultant for US$7000. 
   • However, this same image consultant training program is available for you to take online for US$2497.
   • Or take our fast-track program to become an image consultant and personal stylist through our eCertification program for US$997.
   • Do these options sound more affordable to you?
5. One last thing to take into consideration when you are searching for image consultant training programs is how much will you earn as an image consultant. What if we told you that if you took a program for $7500, you could earn that back with 3 – 5 clients. That’s right! You can make US$7,500 by working with 3 – 5 clients. So, if you took the online image consultant course for US$2497, you could earn back your training investment with one to two clients.

How Much Do Image Consultants Earn?

How much can you earn as an image consultant is directly related to how skilled you are as an image consultant and how well you market yourself. During the Sterling Style Academy training programs, we tell our students to charge US$800 – US$1500 per day. That’s an image consultant’s salary per day.

If you’d like to make US$60,000 as an image consultant your first year, you will have to make US$5000 a month.  That is equal to having 3 to 5 clients a month. Is US$5000 a month enough for you to quit your day job? Or is it enough for you to start a side hustle? In which case you may be thinking you want to spend less on image consultant training just to make US$5000 a month as a side hustle. Then we recommend taking our online image consultant training program and personal stylist course for US$2497.

However, what if you could make US$120,000 as an image consultant? That’s US$10,000 a month, which is equivalent to having 6 to 10 clients a month. If you’re 26 years old and making US$120,000 a year, you’re making as much as a software engineer, doing work that you love!

Your next question is how do I get 6 – 10 clients a month? At the Sterling Style Academy, we teach you how to digitally market yourself to get clients. Plus, we mentioned there are a plethora of TikTok and Instagram business coaches who would be more than happy to teach you how to market your business.

The main thing you should consider when deciding to take an image consultant training program is:

1. How much do you want to earn? You will earn more with a quality education.
2. So how much are you willing to invest in an image consultant training program?
3. Does that image consultant training program have good reviews, a proven track record, and graduate success stories?
   • Keep in mind that it typically takes image consultants 2 – 3 years to get going in the industry if they have no prior experience in the industry.
4. How good is the trainer that you are learning from?
   • Rather than focus on a training program’s accreditation, look for how credible of a subject matter expert the trainer is.
   • Accreditation doesn’t guarantee that you’ll get stellar training that will make you successful.  Moreover, image consulting is a gilded profession.  There are no board standards to uphold accreditation other than a group of women starting an organization to say whether the program is accredited or not.
   • So, when you are looking for a good image consultant trainer, check to see if they have been:
     1. Featured in the press and well-known media outlets = credibility
     2. Have they won any awards for their training programs?
     3. And how successful are their graduates and do they have graduates that are still working in the industry even 10 years later.
5. At the Sterling Style Academy, we fulfill all the requirements to all the points above.
   • Our programs have been featured in InStyle, Forbes, and Vogue magazine.
   • We are 5-time consecutive award winners.
   • And we have alumni from six continents who are still working in the industry even 10 years later.  They may have diversified their businesses to incorporate other types of coaching, are media darlings or influencers. However, they are still coaching and consulting clients as image consultants, fashion consultants, celebrity stylists, and more.

Therefore, how do you become an image consultant?

Follow all our advice above and if you want to become a successful image consultant, you will enroll in the Sterling Style Academy.

Having trained renowned pioneers within the industry that span 6 continents, at the Sterling Style Academy you will truly gain a global perspective on how to start a business to how to generate income within your first month after training with our founder, who is one of the top image consultants in the world.  Click here to watch candid videos regarding what students say about our program.

If you are motivated with the ambition to succeed, we’ll help you formulate a unique business that incorporates your distinct skill sets with becoming an image consultant, personal stylist, and personal shopper. We will help you identify your passion and your purpose to brand you in the marketplace.  Being your own Personal Brand is essential to becoming an influential entrepreneur and coach.

Learn the importance of influence at the Sterling Style Academy.

When you’re a brand, people understand your value.

With courses offered around the world and as well as online, the Sterling Style Academy’s stellar alumni and diversified presence positions the academy as a globally trusted and accredited leader in providing comprehensive personal stylist and image consultant training. All training programs are designed to help our graduates develop and enhance the skills they need to build, maintain, and cultivate a thriving business.

Therefore our academy is committed to providing the most comprehensive image consultant training and personal shopper courses worldwide. We have developed the highest caliber of AICI universally accepted, contemporary quality curriculum – aligning modern technical and practical aspects of style with your unique creative abilities. With training programs held on-location in New York, Dubai, Miami, London, Paris, Milan, Beirut, Riyadh, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore as well as Online, you will be sure to find the image consultant training course that suits your needs. Join the elite group of Sterling Style Academy Certified Image Consultants, Personal Stylists, and Personal Shoppers from more than 65 different countries. If you are passionate about pursuing your dreams of becoming an image consultant, personal stylist or personal shopper, we encourage you to review our website, blog, informational videos, Facebook, Instagram and photo gallery, and take your next step toward achieving your goals.

Enroll into the Sterling Style Academy today.  Be on your way toward becoming the best image consultant and stylist in your country while you benefit from our mentorship.  Think and grow big.

So what are you waiting for?  Enroll in the best image consultant course online.