In the realm of personal branding, every detail matters – especially the story your skin tells. Skincare isn’t just a routine; it’s the bedrock of a confident, radiant personal brand.
Every facet of your lifestyle delicately contributes to the symphony of your skin’s appearance. From the skincare routine you embrace to the nutrition you intake, exercise to reduce stress, recreation, and adequate sleep – each choice plays a vital role in shaping your skin’s health.
Enter the enchanting world of the microbiome, a delicate ecosystem of microorganisms that calls your skin home. These tiny allies, from bacteria to fungi, form a protective shield, orchestrating a dance that safeguards your skin’s well-being. They’re the unsung heroes working tirelessly to maintain balance, regulate immunity, and ward off unwanted intruders.
To nurture this delicate dance and enhance your skin’s vitality:
Embrace Wellness: Manage stress through a wellness-based lifestyle. Your inner harmony reflects on your radiant exterior.
Botanical Skincare: Pamper your skin with a botanical skincare regimen – a gift of protection and nourishment it truly deserves.
A well-tended complexion speaks volumes about the care you invest in yourself. Beyond mere aesthetics, it’s a powerful statement, boosting self-esteem and reinforcing the narrative you wish to convey through your personal brand.
Dryness, loss of firmness, and lack of radiance are some of the common issues that become more noticeable over time. Seeing these issues stare back at you can diminish your confidence and joy.
Improving the health of your skin is a daily self-care habit. The skin is the body’s largest organ and reflects its mental, emotional, and physical health. Radiant skin is the result of a healthy lifestyle and a commitment to a daily regimen of products that work synergistically. Using products from various companies reduces the effectiveness and can irritate as they were not tested to work together. I learned this while working in California for several cosmetic manufacturers as a Cosmetic Account Executive.
My struggle with breakouts and irritation as a teen inspired my interest to enter the beauty industry as a career. Although I worked for prestigious beauty brands for over 35 years I still struggled with breakouts, irritation, and sometimes lackluster skin. I noticed many of my clients had the same struggle.
This led me to study neuroscience, psychology, and wellness practices to discover non-invasive solutions for a holistic approach to achieving naturally radiant skin.
With my botanical skincare and holistic approach, I can nurture my client’s skin while encouraging a healthier lifestyle. Beautiful skin is achievable, it takes patience and self-care.
At 63 years young, my skin has never looked better and I feel good.
Makeup style can have a significant impact on an individual’s personal brand, as it plays a role in shaping how they are perceived by others and how they present themselves to the world. Personal branding involves the intentional cultivation of an authentic and consistent image that reflects one’s values, personality, and goals. Here’s how makeup style can influence and contribute to your personal brand:
Expression of Identity: The makeup style you choose can be a powerful form of self-expression. It can communicate aspects of your personality, creativity, and individuality, which are all integral to your personal brand.
Professionalism and Authority: Your makeup style can convey a sense of professionalism and authority. A polished and well-executed makeup look can enhance your credibility and confidence in professional settings, reinforcing your personal brand as competent and capable.
Creativity and Innovation: A unique and creative makeup style can reflect your innovative thinking and willingness to step outside of the norm. This can be particularly valuable if your personal brand emphasizes creativity or entrepreneurship.
Consistency and Cohesiveness: Just like other elements of personal branding, your makeup style should be consistent with your overall image. A cohesive and well-aligned makeup style can strengthen the overall perception of your personal brand.
Cultural and Ethical Values: The makeup choices you make can align with your cultural or ethical values. For instance, opting for cruelty-free or eco-friendly makeup products can reflect a commitment to sustainability, which can be a key aspect of your personal brand.
Adaptability and Versatility: Depending on the context or audience, your makeup style can be adapted to convey different facets of your personal brand. You might opt for a more natural look for a casual setting and a more polished appearance for professional engagements.
Confidence and Self-Assuredness: A well-executed makeup style that makes you feel confident can contribute to your overall self-assuredness, which is a key component of personal branding.
Attention to Detail: Meticulously applied makeup can demonstrate your attention to detail and commitment to presenting yourself in the best possible light. This can align with personal brands that emphasize quality and excellence.
Brand Consistency: If you are a public figure, or influencer, or have a strong online presence, your makeup style can become a recognizable part of your personal brand. Consistently wearing a particular makeup style can help your audience easily identify and connect with you.
Evolution and Growth: Just as personal branding evolves over time, your makeup style can also change to reflect personal growth and new phases of your life. Embracing change in your makeup style can showcase your willingness to evolve and adapt.
Remember that while makeup style can play a role in shaping your personal brand, it’s just one aspect of the larger picture. It should be considered alongside other elements such as your behavior, values, communication style, and overall appearance. Your makeup choices should align with your broader personal brand strategy and the image you want to project to the world.
The Rhoda Design Group Makeup Wardrobe Kits are specifically designed by Rhoda Johnson, Founder of Rhoda Design Group and Hollywood-Trained Image Brand Strategist and Makeup Artist with over 35 years immersed in the Beauty and Fashion industries. Research reveals women who wear appropriate makeup for business earn 20-30% more. Rhoda is passionate about elevating the leadership presence of professional women seeking career advancement.
Personal branding refers to the process of intentionally shaping and managing the public perception of an individual. It involves presenting oneself in a way that highlights their unique qualities, skills, values, and expertise. Similar to how companies cultivate their brand image to stand out in the market, personal branding focuses on creating a distinct identity for individuals in their personal and professional lives.
Why Does It Matter?
Differentiation: In a competitive world, personal branding sets you apart from others. It helps you showcase what makes you unique and why people should pay attention to you. By identifying and emphasizing your strengths, you create a memorable and distinguishable identity.
Career Advancement: Personal branding plays a crucial role in career development. It can lead to better job opportunities, promotions, and networking prospects. A strong personal brand can make you a sought-after expert in your field, attracting opportunities and recognition.
Credibility and Trust: A well-crafted personal brand instills trust and credibility among your audience, whether they are potential clients, employers, or colleagues. When people perceive you as authentic and reliable, they are more likely to engage with you and seek your expertise.
Networking and Relationships: Personal branding facilitates meaningful connections. When you establish a clear identity, it becomes easier to attract like-minded individuals and build professional relationships. Networking becomes more purposeful, leading to potential collaborations and support.
Increased Influence and Impact: A strong personal brand gives you a platform to share your ideas, insights, and expertise. As your influence grows, you can use it to effect positive change, inspire others, and contribute to your community or industry.
Adaptability and Resilience: In a fast-paced world, careers, and industries evolve rapidly. A solid personal brand helps you stay adaptable and resilient in the face of change. Your brand essence remains constant, even as you adapt your strategies and skills to new circumstances.
Personal Empowerment: Crafting a personal brand empowers you to define your identity on your terms. It allows you to focus on your passions, values, and aspirations, aligning your actions with your authentic self.
Leveraging Opportunities: Opportunities often come to those who are recognized and known for their expertise. A well-established personal brand opens doors to speaking engagements, collaborations, partnerships, and other valuable prospects.
In essence, personal branding is not about creating a false image but rather about embracing and showcasing your true self strategically. When done effectively, it can have a profound impact on your personal and professional life, leading to increased fulfillment, success, and meaningful relationships.
What could be possible for you if you elevated your personal brand?
Collagen is a vital protein that the body produces naturally that affects the brain, heart, muscles, bones, eyes, hair, nails, and skin. Aging and other factors reduce collagen levels causing various issues such as loss of the skin’s elasticity which shows up as lines and wrinkles.
According to 2020 research, collagen boosters in topical products that moisturize the skin combined with collagen supplements and food sources that boost collagen production may help to smooth the skin and reduce wrinkles.
Vitamin C is essential for the production of collagen and helps to prevent gum issues, problems with wound healing, and skin symptoms.
vitamin C food sources include:
citrus fruits
green or red peppers
strawberries
broccoli
Antioxidants may help to protect and rejuvenate the skin by promoting collagen production and are present in many plant-based foods.
antioxidants food sources include:
green tea
blueberries
yerba mate
pomegranate
coffee
cinnamon
ginseng
In addition, the carotenoids antioxidants of retinol and beta carotene help boost skin health by preventing UV rays from breaking down collagen. They are derivatives of vitamin A.
Food Sources of vitamin A include:
beef liver
sweet potatoes
spinach
pumpkin
carrots
Hyaluronic acid is a substance that occurs naturally in the skin, eyes, and joints to trap water inside tissue cells, keeping the eyes moist and the joints lubricated. It also helps to promote collagen production.
The Rhoda Design Group Peptide Complex Serum contains hyaluronic acid and complex peptides which increases the hydration in the skin and enhances the production of collagen to increase the skin’s elasticity for diminished signs of aging.
The Rhoda Design Group Retinol Renewal Serum promotes cell turnover to diminish dark spots and reduce inflammation while stimulating collagen production to improve the skin’s elasticity and firmness.
The Rhoda Design Group’s approach to achieving healthy skin is based on scientific evidence that nutrition, exercise, and stress management make up 80%, with nutrition being the biggest contributor. Combining these wellness practices with our botanical skincare is a complete way to nurture your skin to its radiant health.
Rhoda Design Group skincare is a blend of botanicals and science that gently nourishes, balances, and protects the skin for a radiant glow. Our skincare’s effectiveness is achieved when our products are used as a daily regimen as they work synergistically along with a wellness-based lifestyle.
We address dryness, excess oil, hyperpigmentation from sun damage and age spots, fine lines and wrinkles, and irritation with our skincare.
It is important to note it takes at least 30 days of consistent wellness practices and a daily skincare routine to experience great results. Also, skincare products are made to work together, if you are combining products from various sources they can cause irritation and reduce the overall effectiveness of the product.
We invite you to experience the benefits of our ageless skincare kit. Each skincare kit includes the daily am and pm regimen with product information and order of the daily steps. We are offering a 15% discount off our skincare until May 15th to treat yourself and gift your Mother for Mother’s Day. https://rhodadesigngroup.com/collections/skin-care
Stress, fatigue, lack of exercise, poor nutrition, and hydration cause a myriad of mental and physical health challenges. Externally these poor habits are reflected in our skin, hair, and nails, and this results in a lack of confidence.
Optimal nutrition and hydration, exercise, and rest a just a few of the daily wellness practices that contribute greatly to our wellbeing and the sustainability of healthy and beautiful skin.
Scientists have discovered that sugar has a damaging effect on our skin because it results in glycation. Glycation interrupts the natural skin renewal process by reducing the body’s ability to create collagen and damages the capillaries which prevent new nutrients from being delivered for skin cell production. This results in wrinkles, loss of firmness, inflammatory skin conditions, and bags under the eyes, and contributes to hyperpigmentation.
To reverse and prevent the damage of glycation, eat a healthy diet low in refined sugar and high in beans, greens, fruits, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and optimal hydration. Blueberries diminish inflammation markers which reduce skin aging and block damage from the sun. Pomegranates counteract age-related skin thinning. Beta-carotenoids found in carrots, sweet potatoes, and kale can protect from UV radiation. All these food sources are powerful antioxidants that protect cells against free radicals damage.
The Rhoda Design Group’s approach to achieving healthy skin is based on scientific evidence that nutrition, exercise, and stress management make up 80%, with nutrition being the biggest contributor. Combining these wellness practices with our botanical skincare is a complete way to nurture your skin to its radiant health. Rhoda Design Group skincare is a blend of botanicals and science that gently nourishes, balances, and protects the skin for a radiant glow. Our skincare’s effectiveness is achieved when our products are used as a daily regimen as they work synergistically along with a wellness-based lifestyle.
We address dryness, excess oil, hyperpigmentation from sun damage and age spots, fine lines and wrinkles, and irritation with our skincare.
It is important to note it takes at least 30 days of consistent wellness practices and a daily skincare routine to experience great results. Also, skincare products are made to work together, if you are combining products from various sources they can cause irritation and reduce the overall effectiveness of the product.
We invite you to experience the benefits of our ageless skincare kit. Each skincare kit includes the daily am and pm regimen with product information and order of the daily steps. We are offering a 15% discount off our skincare until May 15th to treat yourself and gift your Mother for Mother’s Day.
Our new packaging is a reflection of the improvements we have made to the formula as reflected in these disclaimers.
“Rhoda Design Group has a really fantastic skincare line that has done wonders for my skin and my confidence.” Karen Liz Albert, Founder, and Social Media Expert, Behind Your Curtain.
Jazz is an art form that creates an atmosphere of joy, love and peace in its collaborative expression of various instruments and musicians. It’s melodies soothe the soul and rewards us with delight in being present to its surprises.
Makeup is a personal art form that outwardly expresses the personality, refinement or playfulness of the individual in the colors and techniques that are used. Some view it as something to hide behind and label it as not showing up authentic. I have certainly seen this expression of makeup in my career as a Hollywood trained makeup artist working with prestigious brands for over 35 years!
After I studied makeup artistry with the Stein Hollywood makeup artist family of the Cinema Secrets brand, I was offered a full ride scholarship to study horror makeup with Joe Blasco, a Hollywood film brand on the Paramount Studios lot. I knew right away this was not how I wanted to grow my talent that I discovered at 12 at the Indiana Art Institute.
My approach to makeup is to enhance the skin tone with subtle nuances of color to make the face look energized and refined with grooming details of the brows while eliminating the distractions of skin imperfections and shadows in a way similar to the softness of water colors. This approach is designed to give professional women a more polished expression to feel empowered.
I created The Rhoda Design Group Makeup kits with this in mind, but also to inspire the “art of beauty” as a form of self care and self awareness; to be playful and create various refined looks from these unique makeup kits.
Like the subtle and energetic bursts of sound that jazz delivers to the soul, choosing the art of beauty daily to show up for virtual and in person meetings also inspires joy in the soul. It does this by its nature of light, the definition of how color is perceived. Light illuminates the dark places within us so we can enjoy a more positive experience.
On your most challenging days I hope you will enjoy jazz and the art of beauty to experience the rhythm of joy.
Let’s connect to discover how makeup can elevate your business presence. Please schedule your free 20-minute makeup discovery session here.
“The color palette for fall/winter 2020 highlights our desire for versatile, timeless color,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.
“Radiant orange hues were seen paired with everything from blue denim to brown leather, exuding a sense of confidence, creativity, and happiness.”
Color is a source of joy for me as a creative! I love playing with it as a makeup artist, jewelry designer and Image Consultant when providing the Color Analysis service. In all three of these mediums I use color to enhance the complexion of my client so she or he feels and looks more radiant and friendly.
I especially like how it projects confidence and credibility for my clients and myself. For introverts, wearing color pulls them out from hiding and into expressing their joy. It also attracts others to them to create connection.
Color connects us to light, because it is light vibrating at various speeds. Just like the sun, it makes us feel happy and more alive. I believe especially now we all need to experience this everyday. It may seem odd to put on a pop of color in makeup, jewelry and clothing for virtual meetings, but it elevates our mood as well as the connection.
“Studies show women who wear appropriate business makeup earn 20-30% more.” I designed the Rhoda Design Group Makeup kits to offer color coordinated palettes that are TSA approved for busy professional women so they show up in understated makeup that enhances them. Let us help you discover your best colors to elevate your business presence.
Check out the Rhoda Design Group Trademarked Makeup Kits and discover the art of beauty as part of your lifestyle. These are a limited edition, Shop Now
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To Your Success,
Rhoda Johnson
Creative Visionary/Image Brand Strategist, Rhoda Design Group
Your favorite celebrity has been styled to represent their unique talent. Celebrities are a brand in and of themselves as are sports figures.
They are consistent in their ‘wow’ presence. Why? They show up in alignment with their respective talents and the audience they want to attract. Some have a broad range of fans while others have a certain type of fans.
My favorite celebrity that I have had the privilege of working with is Stevie Wonder. His iconic and legendary status is in his ability to serve humanity with his unique presence in his voice, music and style. Over the years, his image and music have evolved to resonate with the currents events. His signature gift and impact is in inviting us to grow into a better version of ourselves by opening our hearts to love.
I remember when I first met Stevie. He was at the piano taking a break filming a Kodak commercial. (Kodak used to be a leading camera). His down to earth vibe relaxed me right away and we talked as if we were friends.
His distinctive bohemian style of dress that emerged in the 70’s, aligns with his earthy and soulful music, which is the authentic presence I felt.
Style informs others of who we are and the unique gifts we offer. When we choose to be consistent in showing up aligned to our purpose we make a lasting impression and leave behind a legacy.
You are your brand ambassador. What does your image say about you and your brand? Will you show up in a professional image that aligns with your brand in your virtual meetings to make a lasting impression so you can sustain and grow your business?
I was a proud host of DSW BLITZ: BIG LESSONS, LIGHTNING FAST WOW EVERY ZOOM ROOM at @DenverStartupWeek – the largest FREE entrepreneurial event in the world. Every year, thousands of innovators from around the world gather for this week-long event to develop & celebrate our culture of innovation. Here’s the link to my session: https://youtu.be/cBDdjskA7pY
Now is a great time to re-invent your image to project your brilliance and your brand for optimal confidence and credibility which results in more revenue for 2021.
Schedule your free 30-minute Image Discovery Here.
To Your Success,
Rhoda Johnson Hollywood Trained Image Brand Strategist Rhoda Design Group www.rhodadesigngroup.com
As a child, I was fascinated by rocks because they drew me into noticing the beauty of nature. In collecting them I became delighted in their various shapes, colors, and sizes; but especially the way they seemed to come to life in the sun!
Fashion college in Southern California is where I discovered my first gemstone, Lapis Lazuli. The rich blue color with gold pyrite amazed me!
Gemstones connect to royalty, ancient civilizations, are mentioned in the Bible and are timeless in the beauty and meaning they give to our lives. Egyptians incorporated Lapis Lazuli as a consistent part of their elaborate tombstone decoration. The Egyptian women would even crush this exquisite gemstone and use it as eyeshadow!
Twenty years ago, gemstones “called to me” during one of the most difficult times in my life. They helped me to get present to the wonderful gifts in nature and discover the wellness modalities of nutrition, mindfulness, yoga, conscious breathing, chiropractic, acupuncture, and massage. It was then that I started designing gemstone jewelry and wearing it exclusively. I especially appreciate wearing my jewelry on days when the weather does not invite me to take a walk in nature; how I love my gratitude walks!
My design process starts with selecting the gemstones that “speak” to me in that particular moment as a warm vibration in my hand. From there the artistic talent as a child art prodigy, along with the extensive education and experience in the beauty and fashion industry (40 years) meet with what my heart longs to express. As I sit down at my design table with all materials nearby I must first forgive so the design will happen. It is an intimate place with my Creator, surrendering all that is not love.
Each of my gemstone jewelry designs is a journey of the heart and spirit. They are affectionately named to express what inspired me or what I experienced during the design process. My hope is that my artistic passion and gemstone healing vibration is felt by those who buy and wear my designs.
Featured here is my necklace design created with Carnelian and gold plate. I named it “Sunset” because it illustrates the intense, fiery, orange glow of many Colorado sunsets that take my breath away!
Gemstones represent my devotion to wellness which is the essence of the Rhoda Design Group brand. The core of my work as a Hollywood Trained Image Consultant is to inspire self-care as a lifestyle, which is an integral part of projecting a vibrant image.
The National Speakers and Ted Talk Speakers I have had the honor of styling tell me of the comments they receive when wearing my gemstone designs. Here is what one of the National Speakers shared:
To celebrate the joy of this Holiday season I am offering a 30% discount off my unique, statement gemstone jewelry designs. It is a gift that will last for generations and be versatile for casual to dressy outfits. www.rhodadesigngroup.com
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