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FASHION, WARDROBE & PROP STYLISTS NEEDED IN SOUTHERN CALI

FASHION STYLISTS, WARDROBE STYLISTS & PROP STYLISTS or folks who know these artists.

A photographer that I work with in LOS ANGELES needs, wardrobe and prop stylists.

It looks like the rates will be somewhere between $350 and $450/day. If you are not interested in this rate, do not reply.

If you are interested you MUST be based in Southern or Northern California. And if in Northern California, you must be willing to work as a local. Please follow my instructions or your information will not be forwarded.

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Hi Crystal

I'm in the process of putting together an estimate for shooting both product and apparel - on and off model.

I need wardrobe stylists to handle the on model styling. Let's assume that the clients will provide all the garments, the stylist will only need to steam and dress the models, pinning and clamping the garments to make sure they fit. They will need to have their own basic kit… pins, tape, clamps, etc It's a high volume situation, so anywhere from 50-80 outfits a day. 8-10 day. In my studio.

This will mostly be for apparel lay down. A stylist with experience in folding and laying out garments for product shooting. Needs to work quickly and have the right talent to make lay down apparel look beautiful.

Obviously, this is not the most glamorous of gigs, but it could prove to be steady work.

Let me know your thoughts and suggestions on talent that might be able to work with us.

Thanks.

Xxxxxxx

The Book of Qualities by Ruth Gender

If you have never read it, do pick up an old book titled The book of Qualities by Ruth Gender. I lost mine and just ordered another one at Amazon.com for $3.00. It's a phenomenal read––short and sweet, but its impact leaves you pondering for hours, days, weeks and years. It's one of those books that you go back to often when you have it around, and reading a page may take you, oh all of 30 seconds to read.

I'm doing a talk on personal branding on Friday for the Regional Occupational Program at a local high school and the Book of Qualities popped into my head as a perfect piece of resource material.

Everyone has his or her take on branding. It's the buzzword of the day. Branding is the word we used to replace image with in business, just like we used the word styling to replace image with in fashion and beauty.

To me tooling, tweaking and retooling your brand is about managing, adopting, growing and improving upon the qualities you have and the qualities you want. You can DECIDE to add a new quality into your life. Haven't we all met someone and thought to ourselves, "I wish I was more like that?" If you're 5'4 you can't get physically taller, but if you have a weak handshake, you can change that, maintain it through practice, and before you know it, it's part of you. And with that change you have also begun the work of improving your brand, one quality at a time.

This one small change that may only take 30 days to incorporate into your brand will cause others to think of you differently. All at once you seem more confident and sure of yourself just by changing the firmness of your grip in a handshake. You have reached a new standard. Achieved 100% in this one area.

I have to go back to work now. This speech writing and giving thing is no joke and certainly it is my attempt at retooling my brand and becoming 100% as a speaker.....and writer.

Thanks for listening and below are a couple of pages from The Book of Qualities by Ruth Gender.

 

I'm Crystal Wright. I get people UNSTUCK and YOU are on my list of things to do.

Crystal Wright is a self-help author, educator, motivational speaker and coach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Forward Motion

I often hear people say every time I take one step forward I end up taking two steps back.

Well look at the glass half-full, imagine where you would be if you weren't taking any steps forward.

Those backward steps are not forever, sometimes they're just the only way we can learn our lessons.

#JustaThought

Now What

What steps can you take as an artist to begin to pursue your authentic artistic self?

1. Identify your artistic style.

2. Identify your beauty/fashion/style vision.

3. Make a wish list of what your ideal career would look like.

Changing Course

What should you do if the career path or actions you are taking right now don't feel right?

1. Cease the activity.

2. Analyze where you went wrong.

3. Make a correction.

Finding Your Niche

Regardless of your specific discipline or pursuit, there are 4 things you need to know about YOURself in order to find your niche.

1. Likes

2. Dislikes

3. Strengths

4. Weaknesses

Real Talk About Sex Never Made a 15 Year Old Girl Want To Have it.....

Do your daughter, friend, niece, sister, cousin, or neighbor a favor today and arm them with the ammunition they need to bear up under the pressure of a 15 year old boy who is trying to get under their skirts with the SAME lines that you heard when YOU were 15.

Moms, don't be afraid to talk to your daughters. A candid talk about sex never made anybody want to have sex. It's the boy kissing you on your neck and putting his hand up your dress with the Isley Brothers, Tupac, Eric Benet or Kem in the background that makes you want to have sex. But it's the REAL talk from your Mom that stops you dead in your tracks and gives you the strength to tell that boy NO and mean it!

17 year old girls and younger are getting infected with aids and other diseases at alarming rates, and some adults [who were having sex at 17] are often too timid to talk candidly with their daughters about the realities of having sex. What happens then? Daughters are left to discuss important subjects with their peers, who CLEARLY know less than they do about boys, contraception, infections and more.

When I was 16 years old, my Grandmother sat me down and told me everything that a boy would say to me to try and get me in bed with him. AND I mean everything! Imagine how surprised George Johnson was at the drive-in movie when in response to one of his requests for sexual favors, I very CONFIDENTLY said, "Oh, that's what EXACTLY what my Grandmother said you were going to say."

It was all the ammunition I needed, and all at once I knew she TOO had been 16 and I was stronger for it.

Give some power to your daughters ladies. Teach them how to start exercising that muscle right now. Teach them to EMBRACE their inner no.

I welcome your thoughts.

By Crystal Wright
Author | Coach | Motivational Speaker

Crystal Wright is a self-help author, educator, motivational speaker and advisor. She is an internationally recognized expert on the subject of career building and marketing and regularly appears as a guest speaker and educator at trade shows and career building events.

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I CHALLENGE YOU to SAY NO Once a Week for the Next 30 Days

Seven Years Without Sex: Author Kenny Pugh Tells Why He Says 'No' to Sex

I CHALLENGE YOU to SAY NO Once a Week for the Next 30 Days

Okay, now I'm convinced. You gotta' get this NO thing under control. It is the KEY to your new found happiness.

I took my 30 days article and turned it into a 5-7 minute speach titled, "Embrace Your Inner No," which I delivered at my Toastmasters meeting on Tuesday evening. Some of you have read and commented on that article, and the feedback I received after Tuesday night's speech was no less impactful. Saying no makes most people feel guilty. Sad when it's such a great word, and when, used properly actually empowers others to accomplish ALL of the things you have been doing for them. I don't have to tell you what you already know––you're the one who has been enabeling them.

So I said to myself––"Self," I said, how about a challenge to my followers & friends.  A prescription for taking your power back. Hey, you can blame it on me if that helps you over the YES hurdle in the beginning. Just say, "I would but I'm doing something for Crystal at that time." It's true!

If you think of Yes as the disease, then NO is the prescription given to you by Dr. Crystal.

You have to start small I know, because the people you've been saying yes to might faint the first time you don't drop everything you're doing to run them across town in 5PM traffic to pick up a pair of shoes to wear with a dress to a party that you're not even invited to. But you gotta' start somewhere and 5 minutes from now is just as good a time as any.

So take a look at some of the potential No's below and just choose one of them. Start right now and work it from April 4 - May 3, 2013. If you have success, I want to hear about it and you can post something at facebook.com/30daysat100percent. And if you start to feel empowered, tweet it to me @Crystal_Wright and I promise to tweet back.

 Choose just one of these No's and dedicate the next 30 days to exercising that new muscle!

Perhaps you can decide to
STOP rearranging your schedule to accommodate the last minute whack plans of others.
Bad planning on their part, should not constitute an emergency on yours.

Saying No will empower them to become better event planners
in their own lives.

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Perhaps you can decide to
STOP explaining why you said no, when it applies to your
TIME, your MONEY, your PROPERTY or your BODY.

The explanation only leads to a conversation you don’t want to have,
and guilt that isn’t deserved.

Let your “No” be NO!

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Perhaps you can decide to
STOP being talked into doing things and going places you have no interest in.
Read a book, go see a movie, check out an exhibit at the museum, or take golf lessons
A simple, “No, I have other plans,” will suffice. 

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Perhaps you can decide to
STOP dating someone who isn’t nice to you and therefore not right for you.

If they're being mean to you and you're staying, they don't respect you anymore anyway!

Just say, “No,” only a railroad track allows itself to get run over.

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Perhaps you can decide to
STOP spending more money than you have on things you can’t afford.

Put that money in a savings account and build yourself a future.

Just say, "NO," to keeping yourself in debt.

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Perhaps you can decide to
STOP sharing your dreams and goals with people who continue to discourage you from
thinking outside of the box, trying new things or taking the next step.

Not everyone who calls themselves friend has your best interest at heart.

Say NO and let them talk to the hand.

I don’t expect that taking your power back by exercising your option to say No will happen overnight. It took me three years to lose 55lbs by choosing to say No each month to one item of food that was killing me.

But believe this, Your liberation begins with a DECISION      and is followed by the repetitious action­­­­ of saying No to the things and people YOU have enabled.

Do not wait another second. Say no right now. Open the window of your car and scream it at the top of your lungs. Look at the stranger sitting next to you and say NO, when they ask, "What?" tell them you are just practicing.

Now, have a GREAT rest of the month.

Sincerely,

 

Crystal A. Wright
Empowerment Diva: I get people Unstuck and YOU are on my list of things to do!

You Did It To Yourself

I got a call a couple of weeks ago from a young lady who needed to interview someone for her high school project. I agreed to do it and gave her a day and time to call. She called me 5 days later and when I asked her why she didn't call at the appointed time, she said, "I was busy." I responded, "Well I'm busy now," and hung up the phone with a quickness!

Quite often, we complain that no one will give us a shot, but that's not true. We got the shot and blew it. So instead of being honest with ourselves and admitting that we screwed up. We tell the lie of how and what someone else did to us so long that we finally believe it ourselves. This is the path to being a bitter 55 year old woman (yes even if you're a man) who always and only discourages other people from living their dream because you didn't live yours.

STOP THE MADNESS!

Take responsibility for your choices, actions and decisions so that you can move on and do better.

Crystal Wright

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Crystal Wright IS the "Empowerment Diva," she gets people unstuck and YOU are on her list of things to do.

Crystal believes in personal responsibility and is not afraid to share her own life lessons of the times she buried her own head in the sand and came up on the bottom of a bad decision. Her job now––to empower, inspire and motivate others to take responsibility for their choices, leave their excuses at the door, get control of their lives and take their power back.

If you're stuck, your life is a mess, or without direction, energy or focus, then pick up 30 Days at 100 Percent: Changing Your Life 30 Days at a Time and get ready for a change.

In all things Crystal challenges you to strive for excellence and get hold of your life by tackling one thing every 30 days. You can order both books online in the CrystalWrightLive Store.

If you would like to experience growth in your freelance styling career, or you would just like to know more about Crystal's Packaging Your Portfolio Workshop, visit this LINK.

 

 

What I Believe and How I Teach

If I just tell them, they'll forget.
If I show them, they'll remember.
If I Involve them, they'll understand.
If I make them accountable to themselves, each other and me, It's ON!

At the PYP Workshops I provide my attendees with Clear, Precise, Accurate, Information, Actionable Items, Accountability and 3 months of follow-up.

What did you get at the last class you took?

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If you are looking for a way to get to the next level in your freelance career, register for one of my Portfolio Building & Marketing Workshops in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago or Atlanta. They are fondly known as PYP.

The #PYP Network spreads wide and far and YOU can be apart of it.

Visit www.crystalwrightliveevents.eventbrite.com

No Interest Payment plans ARE available. Call (323) 299-0500 for information or to register.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crystal Wright with Makeup Artist & PYP Grad Renata Rensky at the PYP LA Soiree hosted by NY PYP Grads Makeup Artist's Stephanie Flor, Mari Shten and Manicurist Julie Kandalec. Winter 2013.

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