The fashion world can actually keep you from finding your true style.
With a system built on ever-changing trends, it’s challenging for a woman to get in touch with her own beauty sixth sense and create a style that honors her Type of beauty.
So, do not feel bad if you’re still trying to create your own style. With Dressing Your Truth, it may be the first time in your life you have the information you need to do that.
Here are 5 easy steps that have helped me create my personal style over the years:
1. Start with Dressing Your Dominant Type – Then Add Your Secondary!
You may still be in the process of learning your dominant and secondary Energy Types—that’s okay.
What feels correct on you can be a big clue to what your dominant and secondary Energy Types are. That’s one reason I decided to give you access to all 4 DYT courses! Once you know your dominant, take time to learn how to Dress Your Truth following what you learn in the course.
After several weeks or months, start incorporating your secondary energy into your look. It took me several years to learn how to do this as I did not have a guide. It will take you much less time. As a result, you’ll save money and have a lot more fun!
You got this.
If you are feeling a little lost, go back to the basics of Dressing Your Truth for your Type. Then start studying the many videos here in Lifestyle that teach you how to add your secondary.
2. Follow Your Beauty Sixth Sense
Every woman has a beauty sixth sense, an intuitive guide to what feels and looks right on her. When a woman starts paying attention to how she feels in different clothes, jewelry, makeup, and hairstyles, her beauty sixth sense will start to speak to her.
A woman knows she’s paying attention to this sixth sense when she can honestly say, “I love it” about her outfit. Whenever you wear an outfit you truly love, take a picture on your phone. Create a catalog of “I Love It Outfits.” After your catalog has about 10 outfits, review them. What do you notice? What is similar? What stands out for you?
3. Follow the 5X5 Formula
In your Dressing Your Truth courses, you learn how the 5 Elements create the correct movement for your Energy Type.
Here in Lifestyle, we teach you how to create a whole look by incorporating the 5 Components of Style.
QUIZ TIME! Be the first to list the 5 Elements and the 5 Components of Style in a comment, and I’ll gift you with a $10 DYT Online Store gift card.
4. Notice the Compliment Meter
Even though you’re not wearing outfits to fish for compliments, there are items in your wardrobe that just work better for you, and as a result, you’ll receive more compliments!
When you receive a compliment, take a moment and look at your overall style that day: what are you wearing, how did you style your hair and makeup, and why it is working for you.
There is a reason you’re getting compliments.
5. Give it time!
Developing your own style does not happen overnight and is not discovered by listening to others who can misguide you.
Pay more attention to what you like, what feels right on you, and what you receive compliments in. When you’ve developed your own style, you appear “fashionable” —even when you’re not trying to!
This is a process of self-discovery. With Dressing Your Truth, personal development and fashion are intertwined. You continue to learn about yourself while having fun with fashion.
So often when you see a woman wearing trendy clothes, we see her outfit first. With Dressing Your Truth, you see the woman first, with the outfit and clothing supporting her true beauty. Now that’s style!
Think of a woman in your life who is ready to be seen for who she truly is. Thank you for sharing Dressing Your Truth with her and helping me with my mission to reach more women.
Discover your own style with these additional resources:
Congrats, Jeanine! You are the winner for $10 DYT Store Credit! Please email support@dressingyourtruth.com to claim your prize!
Well, I don’t know what “Type” the photo illustration above represents, but it could be a photo of my very own closet in real time — colors, patterns/solids, spaciousness and less-is-more minimalism…it’s my authentic closet in every respect, right down to the hangers. Does that make me the quintessential DYT “hybrid”?
That closet in the title photo is my dream closet. I love the streamlined look, 3 handbags, giraffe scarf, and the first 4 women’s clothing items from the left. Thank you for posting this. I am on a mission to find them all.
5 elements: design line, fabrication, pattern, texture and color. 5 components: clothing, accessories, hairstyle, makeup, personal growth self care…Voilà.
Do you find that sometimes people are intimidated at all when a woman dresses their truth in a stunning, T4 manner? For some reason when I wear my T4/clothing and I feel amazing, people tend to not give compliments, even though I am being myself and expressing my nature in my style and colors.
I’m a 4/1 and have noticed this happening sometimes. I think people sometimes feel intimidated by us 4’s simply because they don’t understand us. They may think complimentary things about us, but are afraid to approach us.
Yes, I agree. I believe this may be why I tried to portray a different type for so long, because I wasn’t met with positive feedback as a child. When I am in social settings now I have to be very cognizant of not letting my higher movement lead, because midway through the event, I get exhausted and almost go the opposite of silence and distance, which yes, I am a 4, but I am not lifeless. Balance. Is the key, but it “is”difficult to not get as much feedback from this who want to compliment but feel intimidated. Sometimes I even have gone into T2 mode to soften things and save my precious energy, and I ” do” get feedback and compliments, which is bizarre, but I have to live MY truth.
Try setting this intention before you are in a gathering with people – “I am now receiving positive feedback from others as I live my truth.”
Great idea. Hadn’t thought of that before. Will definitely try. I do believe that will work. Thank you.
It’s funny, I just don’t think we do compliments in Britain. Apart from my mother and daughter, who compliment me anyway, I’ve never received a single compliment when wearing my type 4/3 style. People might say ‘that’s a nice coat’ but no more.
I think most Brits are brought up with the instruction ‘don’t make personal remarks.’ As a result, we don’t make any comment on other people’s appearance in case it’s rude.