🇬🇧 The person behind the stylist

This is a text with a little bit about the person behind the stylist.

I'm Nycka, a digital and cultural nomad, an advertising professional by training, and I currently work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist.

I've been working with fashion since I was a child and I'm the most experienced stylist from Brazil. A few years ago I had a horrible personal experience. You know when you trust a person your whole life and in the end he dies and leaves evidence that he was never trustworthy? My world collapsed there. I was able to realise all the “red flags” that I ignored my whole life for being a family member. Of course, it made me more aware of other people's behaviour. I had to rebuild myself, rediscover who I was amidst the wreckage, rediscover how to trust people again. This journey is pretty confusing. I have already stopped working as a stylist several times because if I started working with fashion as a child it was because that person who died forced me to. And sometimes the anger at the person and the job get mixed up, and I stop serving new style clients. Let it be clear: I always respect my contracts. I received the news of the death of my paternal grandmother, who always supported and respected me, on the eve of attending a client in another state and I prioritised the client, who would also travel to be assisted. Some people called me “heartless” for that, but I think those with hearts show love when we're alive, and I showed my affection for her while she was alive.

Although I studied advertising and marketing, professionally I prefer to follow my intuition. I've already drafted dozens of business plans for my work, but I never follow 100%, because this process of self-knowledge is still causing me several internal transformations that have an impact on professional choices. I'm still rediscovering what brings me professional satisfaction. At the moment, art and stylist work for clients who want to have a unique, different look attracts me the most.

The pattern of posting style tips or pointing out style errors doesn't satisfy me. I think that those who want to improve know that they need to and those who value my work as a stylist are those who value experience and developing a unique personal style, without labels. I try to avoid publishing content that I, as a potential customer, would not read. With the small detail that I work in the fashion industry since I was 5 years old, so I have no personal experience of not having a sense of personal style. Because my family didn't allow me to choose what to wear until I was 18, I learned a lot about what I don't like in childhood and adolescence and since I started buying my own clothes, I've never regretted the style choices I made, I never left an outfit in the wardrobe because I didn't know how to match it, I never bought something to leave in the wardrobe unused, nor did I buy something just because it was in fashion.

As a stylist, I do an interview of up to two hours with each client to have a minimum of relevant information about him to support my work and I hope the client to say whether or not he is satisfied with my suggestions so that I can look for ways for the personal image of each one to fulfill the purpose of showing the best of his personality. Seeing myself as someone who decides what you wear as an overbearing mother isn't going to work, because I don't work that way.

I'm still a person under reconstruction. Sensitivity is on the surface and respect is mandatory because I am intolerant of many attitudes that I have tolerated for too long. If you invest in personal development and self-knowledge you certainly understand this.

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