🇬🇧 12 style choices that make a negative impression about you

In this post I'm going to talk about 12 style choices that make a negative impression about you (like making you look ugly, dowdy, vulgar, immature, insecure, etc).

I'm Nycka, an expert in colours, shapes and textures as non-verbal communication tools and I work as a stylist, photographer and visual artist.

1. Inappropriately sized clothes. Examples: Too tight somewhere; pants with legs that are too short or too long; shirts, jackets and suit jackets with sleeves that are too short; tight lingerie; suits that are too big; etc.
2. Clothes with inappropriate design for your body type. Examples: Blouses or dresses with shine, volume or light colours at breast height for women with full breasts. Strapless or spaghetti strap tops for busty women. Clothes with volume on the shoulders for men with broad shoulders and narrow hips. Clothes with volume in the hips for women with a triangular body type. T-shirts for people with a prominent belly.
3. Short skirts or shorts for those with very thick legs.
4. Shirts and jackets with very tight sleeves. Something very common among pumped up, strong men.
5. Jeans with running shoes.
6. Transparent clothes in the work environment.
7. Women with long, straight cut hair, looking like a teenager, in leadership positions (including businesswomen).
8. Colours (of clothes, accessories, hair and makeup) that do not enhance your appearance. It is common for people to think of colours only considering the colours of clothes and accessories, forgetting that there are other colours to be considered. I recently saw some images of blonde Ariana Grande which was certainly a huge styling mistake, unless her character is a ghost, which didn't seem to be the case. Maybe it's a result of the American culture of wanting to whiten brunette/Latino celebrities.
9. Wear only or mostly neutral colours and jeans.
10. Blindly following trends in fashion, makeup or hair without assessing whether they are suitable for your profile. A radical example: a few weeks ago I saw a video on tiktok of a (pretty) girl whose makeup followed this contouring trend, and her nose had a lot of excess highlighter on the tip. It was so wrong that I couldn't pay attention to what she was saying. I could only see the tip of the shiny nose moving.
11. Foundation in a different tone than their skin.
12. For those over 20, any attempt to look similar to people in their circles.

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Nycka