My Experience

This has always made me wonder...

Being in the beauty industry for 40 years and doing hundreds of trade shows, meeting literally thousands of outstanding people, I marveled at the same conversation I had over and over. Just seconds after introducing ourselves, I would be asked:

"Oh, tell me, what lipstick color should I wear?" or "You're in cosmetics... What colors look good on me?"

I mean, I just met you, and you would trust my opinion over yours. You know yourself better than me, a virtual stranger, yet we doubt ourselves.

Why is that?

The truth is, we really do know what looks good on us, we just lack the confidence to believe in our decisions. Start with listening to that inner voice. We really know what's best; we just have never been encouraged to trust our instincts. No one knows you better than you!

You just need to ask yourself the right questions and believe.

That's the secret sauce.

Go with your gut.

The colors that you live in that make you feel good, the room you walk into and feel at home and comfortable with—these are your colors.

Most big business and life decisions come down to trusting your instinct. Listening to others' opinions is fine, but the last call is yours.

The sooner we get comfortable with trusting ourselves first, the stronger the voice becomes.

So if I tell you to go invest in fuchsia lipstick because it's a hot new trend, and you cannot stand pink, trust me, you will not feel good wearing it or selling it. The best way to feel good about something is if you believe in it from head to toe.

Follow your compass, my friend—you will never get lost.