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What is a plus size model? I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad, and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist, in addition to creating content on several platforms (this blog and social networks. Links in the sidebar). I have been working in the fashion industry since childhood. In this text I will talk specifically about plus size models. Plus size is NOT necessarily a fat person. For example, I've always been skinny and my hips measure 102 cm. If I were a model, with that hip measurement I would be a plus size model. Plus size is a person that we can more clearly identify the physical type, if we compare two people with the same hip measurement, for example. Just look at the person and we have a clear notion of the physical type, which is almost always confirmed when we take their measurements. Among traditional models it is more difficult to identify this. A lot of people see Gisele Bündchen as curvy, for example, but if you compare her waist-hi...

This is a text about friendships . I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad, and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. In recent years I have experienced an intense healing process from emotional traumas. I believe that personal style is intertwined with lifestyle and personal development, so in this blog I share personal reflections and a little about my lifestyle. Not everyone will like you the way you are. Friends value and respect us for exactly who we are and support our growth without hurting or forcing us. It's not about pretending we're perfect and don't need to improve, but about respecting our time and, when we decide to improve, they're there cheering for our victory and supporting as much as possible. And when we fall, we can count on our friends' shoulders to cry on, and their support to pick us up and move on. Whoever wants good friends must be a good friend. And knowing when to cut relationships if there is no recip...

How to protect dogs and cats from the cold ? I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad, and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. I believe that personal style is intertwined with lifestyle and personal development, so in this blog I share personal reflections and a little about my lifestyle. I recommend that you follow my profiles on social networks, especially Instagram, where I publish a lot of different content than what I publish on other social networks. My cat Thor has three tips to share on how to keep cats warm in the winter. His tips are: Sleep with your pet human. That way you always stay warm. If you're cold, pester your human until he gets the message. Think of something he would be able to understand, because most humans are not fluent in Meownese. I'm one lucky cat and my human picked up the basics of our language pretty quickly. If you have siblings (other cats or dogs), curl up with them when the humans aren't home or i...

This is a text about my relationship with my body. I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. As a stylist, I believe that personal style is linked to self-knowledge, personality and lifestyle, and therefore it is impossible to label a personal style. Also, if someone imitates someone else's appearance it goes against the grain of developing a strong personal style. I've always been skinny. To the point that, at a certain point, I took medicine to whet my appetite. At that time I ate little because the food at my maternal grandmother's house, where I lived, was ugly and bad. Fortunately, at the other grandmother's house, the food was always very tasty. Nowadays I try to eat well, without exaggerating, and I've learned to understand many of my body's needs. I am 1.75 m tall. And since I was a teenager I have wide hips, and small breasts. And my body type today is hourglass, because the mea...

This is a text with 8 reasons for you to get to know other religions besides the ones your family practices. I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. As a stylist, I believe that personal style is linked to self-knowledge, personality and lifestyle, and therefore it is impossible to label a personal style and if someone imitates the appearance of another person, this goes against the grain of developing a strong personal style. A still widespread way of educating children is through reward and punishment. For everything there is a right option and all others are wrong. Like a multiple-choice test. (If you suffer from anxiety, a clue to the cause is here.) But life is not a multiple-choice test. So, for you to make smart choices, you need to evaluate different possibilities and take a critical look at them. Thus, it is important to know different religions to discover which path best suits your quest for personal...

This is a text about some experiences from my adolescence and their impact on defining my personal style . I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad. I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist. I recommend that you follow my profiles on social networks because I often write texts that are better understood by those who follow my content. I will consider adolescence the period of my life from 13 to 22, in this text. At 11 and full of traumas, I started studying at the only school where I stayed for more than two years. I studied there until the end of high school. I have already told you in another text how the first year there was. The second was not much different. People started approaching me. In the third year studying there I was very comfortable and all my closest colleagues were in the same class. Except for the fact that I didn't answer roll call or present work to the class, no public exposure of my voice or being the center of attention, it was...

Psychologists say that those who had traumatic experiences in childhood do not usually have hobbies . This text is about my childhood and how I dealt with the limitations that were imposed on me. I'm Nycka Nunes, digital and cultural nomad, and I work as a visual artist, fine art photographer and stylist, in addition to creating content on this blog and on social media. I graduated in advertising. I started working at 5 years old. I lived with my maternal grandmother for most of my childhood and adolescence. When I was very young I studied ballet, piano and flute. I lived opposite the music conservatory in my hometown at the time. I've been passionate about piano ever since, but even though they enrolled me in the course, my family never encouraged me and I didn't have a piano to practice with. And I was frustrated with the lack of evolution between one class and another. The other courses I don't even remember wanting. I still reject the flute. I now know that narci...

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 forc...

Have you ever heard that looks can be deceiving? Could they be deceiving? I'm Nycka, I work as a stylist, visual artist and fine art photographer. As a stylist, I was a world pioneer in working with personal image as a non-verbal communication tool. Once, during the cold period in Curitiba, I went to work looking very androgynous. I'm tall, thin, I have short hair and my appearance already contributes a lot to the androgynous aspect, which I eventually reinforce in clothing. After work I stopped by the supermarket before heading home. And, on the way, as I was on foot (I was working in a mall close to home), while waiting for the traffic light to turn green for pedestrians, a woman with a little girl of about 5 or 6 years old stopped beside me. The girl asked her mother, looking at me: “is it a boy or a girl?”. The mother got mad at the child, and as soon as the traffic light turned green she ran out and scolded the girl. I don't believe that clothes have a gender. I o...

Yesterday when I went out for dinner I met a couple with a black dog that reminded me of Hercules, my last dog, but it had a narrower body and a longer snout. Since I like dogs, I asked if it was a Lhasa Apso, knowing it wasn't, but I couldn't mentally identify the dog's breed, if it had one. She said it was a "big yorkshire" . I explained that I found him similar to mine, which was a Lhasa, and also to the skye terrier breed, which is from the same group as the Yorkshire (Terrier), but bigger, and is a breed that I always wanted to have and in Brazil I never found a breeder. When she said yorkshire luckily she couldn't see my face as I was playing with the dog, because there is no such thing as an all black yorkshire and it was too big to be that breed (my facial expression would give away what I thought). Maybe she bought it like a yorkshire, without researching the breed standard (there are breeders who only care about the money, not respecting the breed s...

How can having a stylist help you save money? I'm Nycka, I work as a stylist, visual artist and fine art photographer and I have over four decades of experience in the fashion industry. I have already published some texts talking about the durability of clothes, cost-benefit ratio, etc. In this text I will talk about how my knowledge about fashion and style can be useful for you to save money. In one of the texts on cost-effectiveness, I gave an example of my experience in buying, within a few weeks, two pairs of pants of the same price, from different brands, and telling how long each one lasted. One lasted two years, until I had to throw it away because it ripped in the back in a way that I could only fix it with a patch and probably wouldn't last long anyway. The other lasted more than twenty years and only damaged the zipper. I repeat this example because I currently have many more followers and readers than when I published the text where I detailed the experience. And...

This is a text about the importance of choosing the right underwear for anyone, and the negative impact that a bad choice has on your personal image. I'm Nycka, I work as a stylist, visual artist and fine art photographer. From the works I chose to do, you can see how much I care about beauty. Yes, I value content too. I believe that beauty and content must go together. The personal image is a non-verbal communication tool and therefore any choice related to it should be made strategically and with qualified professional guidance. Badly chosen lingerie draws more attention than clothes, in any situation and any environment. Lingerie that is too tight ends up destroying the natural shape of the body and creating ugly volumes in specific points. It can also cause pain and other negative health consequences. A bra that is too big will not stay in place and do its job. The wrong bra design can offer less support than necessary, cause shoulder pain, not stay in place, or show thr...

Are you that kind of person who likes everyone? Is it the one who hates anyone who is different from you or has different values? Or some type that is neither of those extremes? This is a text about 5 characteristics that I consider positive and 5 negative characteristics of people . I'm Nycka, I work as a stylist, visual artist and fine art photographer. As a stylist, I consider personal image as a non-verbal communication tool, and developing a strong personal style is part of a process of self-knowledge and exposure to new possibilities. I am an artist even when working as a stylist, as non-verbal communication is also part of visual arts and fine art photography. As a stylist, I see each client as a work of art, where the communication intentions are not mine, but theirs, as well as in my works of art and photographs made to order. I believe that we can only know ourselves by living different experiences, meeting different people and discovering what we like and what we don...

This is a text about grief . Grief doesn't exist just for someone's death. It is a process that can happen in many different situations. I'm Nycka, I'm a stylist, visual artist and photographer. In this blog and in my profiles on social networks, I talk about different subjects, many of them not related to my work. On social networks, I publish notices about posts here on the blog and also exclusive content. On Spotify I have a playlist only with songs to deal with grief, and I've been adding new songs to this playlist and the many others I have on that platform as I remember songs I've known for a long time and also as I discover new ones. In addition to death, in what situations can we experience grief? Some situations that I notice are: End of a friendship; end of a romantic relationship; quitting a job, especially when you are fired; moving to another city (you may feel emptied by the new experience, not knowing anyone in the new city, and not having yo...

Art is my preferred way of expressing my opinions and world views these days. No words, using unrealistic images to say what I want about the real world. By using words, anyone who understands the language thinks they understand what I say or write, and they don't always do. By using images, people can choose between just appreciating the art, or using it as a tool to initiate dialogues and reflections. In art, I have a certain contempt for realism, as I have a contempt for fast fashion in fashion. Those who have a deep vision of the world and of themselves appreciate conceptual art, just as those with healthy self-esteem, emotional maturity and self-awareness prefer clothes and accessories with original design. I recommend that you follow my social media profiles (links in the sidebar) as I am updating, particularly Tiktok, regularly with new works and other primarily artwork posts, while my interest in creating written content is on vacation. I'm currently prioritising non...

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. 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. 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. Short skirts or shorts for those with ver...

Maybe you think of personal style as just about fashion. This is a very superficial view of the topic. I'm Nycka, an expert in colours, shapes and textures as non-verbal communication tools, I work as a stylist, photographer and visual artist and in this text I'm going to talk about personal style with you. You may have already noticed that, in addition to styles related to fashion (personal style and fashion styles), we know musical styles, decorating styles, photography styles, lifestyles and many others. You may also be familiar with the expression “brand identity” and, more recently, “gender identity”. Identity and personal style are connected. There is no personal style if there is no sense of identity, if there is no self-knowledge. In the communication process, whoever communicates something has to know how to use words (or emojis, on the internet) to express what he wants to whoever receives the information. Words are not going to change their meaning because someon...

Do you know the differences between who is a fashion victim and who has style ? I am Nycka, an expert in colours, shapes and textures as non-verbal communication tools, I work as a stylist, photographer and visual artist and in this text I will talk about these differences. Those who are fashion victims emphasise the trends of the season and buy a lot and often (a lot of purchases each season). Because they buy a lot, they commonly buy fast fashion, low-quality pieces, but some may also buy high-end or luxury brands. The fashion victim does not have a defined style. (S)He doesn't know how to differentiate catwalk style from personal style (I've already talked about this in another text). (S)He usually coordinates the pieces exactly as seen on the show, or in a fashion editorial, on the internet or as a celebrity wore it (in a movie or series, for example). (S)He can also adapt these references according to what (s)he has available. The fashion victim is an insecure person, ...

Does wearing black make you look thinner? I'm Nycka, an expert in colours, shapes and textures as non verbal communication tools, I work as a stylist, photographer and visual artist and in this text I'm going to talk about this popular belief about the colour black. If you wear black from head to toe, you won't look any thinner for it. Maybe so, in some environments, compared to wearing head-to-toe white, but there are smarter choices. In an environment surrounded by light colours, wearing black from head to toe will only make you look fatter. Since you have little or no control over the colours in your environment and you have complete control over the colours you wear, it's smarter to choose colours, shapes, and textures that flatter you in any environment. How? Hiring my stylist service. There are ways to include black in the look that cause the illusion that you are thinner, and other colours can usually be used when black does not flatter the person. Another im...

The biggest lie in fashion retailing is the promise of "style" in clothing stores. I'm Nycka, specialist in colours, shapes and textures as non-verbal communication tools. I work as a stylist, photographer and visual artist and in this text I will talk about the demands of style . I wouldn't talk about it here if I didn't realise that there are people with high purchasing power who believe this lie. Lack of knowledge to judge and even ignorance about what kind of professional to look for to resolve these doubts are perhaps contributing factors to deceive so many people. You're in the right place, reading the contents of a stylist with over forty years of experience in the fashion industry. The flaw in the promise of style exists for several reasons, which is why the title of this text is "The demands of style". For personal style to exist, there must be some factors combined. Among them self-awareness and information to be intentional when using...