She Bee Style
Questions
The things people ask before they book, answered properly rather than briefly.
If yours is not here, email me and I will answer it. I would rather you asked than talked yourself out of it.
The Colour Session
How long does it take?
For an individual session allow 2 hours. For group sessions allow 3 to 4 hours, depending on how many are attending.
What is included?
Draping with the Absolute Colour System, so we work it out on you rather than from a questionnaire.
- A physical swatch of your 50 best colours, yours to keep and take shopping
- A printed booklet with your neutrals, your value and colour contrasts, and guidance on accessories, outfits, makeup and hair colour
- Colour education built on principles rather than rules, so you can work things out on your own afterwards
- A makeup trial in your colours
The point is not that you leave with a palette. It is that you leave knowing what works for you and why, which is the part that lasts.
How do I prepare?
Avoid fake tan on your face for at least a week beforehand and arrive without makeup on. Bring your makeup along if you’d like to assess the undertone of what you have.
That is genuinely all. Nothing else.
Will you tell me what season I am?
Not in the four seasons sense, no. I use the Absolute Colour System, which is 18 palettes of 50 colours each.
It was developed in Australia, which matters more than it sounds. Southern hemisphere light is different, and a system built for it handles our seasons and the full range of skin tones far better than one built somewhere else and imported.
What if I am restricted to just a few colours?
You will not be. The 50 colour swatch is a starting point, not a boundary. Those 50 harmonise with thousands of others, and a good part of the session is teaching you how to see that for yourself.
People arrive expecting to be given a shorter list. They leave with a longer one.
What if I do not like the colours?
I use a modern non-seasonal colour system, with 18 distinctive palettes, each with 50 colour and neutral options. Your palette is just a guide to the thousands of colours that harmonise with your natural tones. You're not restricted to the colours in the palette. If there's colours you're not fond of, then there's probably colours you've never considered and will love.
A palette is there to guide you, not to hand you a rule you have to obey.
What if you tell me I cannot wear black?
I will never tell you that you cannot wear a colour.
What we will talk about is how to make the colours you love work alongside your own colouring. That is a completely different conversation, and it ends with more options rather than fewer.
The Style Session
What actually happens in the three hours?
I come to you. We start with an outfit you already love and work out exactly why it works, because that is usually the fastest route to everything else.
From there we build the picture: what your life actually asks your clothes to do, what shapes and proportions do what you want, and what you own already that has been doing the job all along.
You do not need to prepare anything beyond the two things I send you after you book, and one of those takes ten minutes.
Do I need to tidy my wardrobe first?
No. Please do not.
I have seen every kind of wardrobe there is and I am not coming to judge yours. A tidied wardrobe is also a slightly false one, and I would rather see the real thing.
Will you make me get rid of things?
No. A Style Session is not a declutter and it is not a wardrobe audit. Nothing leaves the house unless you decide it should.
Wardrobe audits and personal shopping are separate services. I will talk you through both on the day if you want, and you can decide afterwards with nobody standing in the room.
Do I need a Colour Session first?
No. They work well together and in either order, and plenty of people do only one of them.
If you have already had your colours done, bring your swatch. If you have not, we simply work with what you own and what suits you, and colour is one conversation among several rather than the spine of the session.
What do I take away?
Your marked up style page, a visual of where you are heading, your three to five non-negotiables, your style file and a shopping priorities list.
All of it on paper, in your hands, before I leave. None of it is a document I email you later and you never open.
What if my size is changing, or my body is?
Then this is a good time, not a bad one.
None of the work depends on staying the size you are today. We are working out what you want to look like and how clothes behave on you, and both of those travel with you through a size change, a pregnancy, menopause or anything else.
Booking, travel and prices
Will you travel to me?
Yes, and it is a good part of what I do. I regularly travel across Central and Northern Victoria.
Travel is built into the price rather than added as a fee, so the price you see is the price you pay. Nothing is added after you book.
For a Colour Session:
| Bendigo and within about 20km | $330 |
| Castlemaine, Heathcote, Kyneton, Elmore | $390 |
| Echuca, Maryborough, Kerang and the towns along the way | $450 |
Group sessions of two or three are $280 per person, wherever I come to you.
For a Style Session:
| Bendigo and within about 20km | $395 |
| Castlemaine, Heathcote, Kyneton, Elmore | $455 |
| Echuca, Maryborough and out that way | $515 |
Somewhere not on those lists? Tell me where you are and I will send you a price and some times.
Where are sessions held?
A Style Session is always at your place, because your wardrobe and your mirror are the material.
For a Colour Session most people come to my studio, in Strathfieldsaye. If you’re outside Bendigo and would like me to come to you please send me a message.
Are there any extra costs?
For a colour session, no. Your personalised colour swatch, tailored booklet, signature colours and makeup trial are all included.
The only optional thing is the makeup itself. You can buy it if you want to. It’s totally up to you.
For a style session, no. Your style file and style card are included.
If you’d like further help, you have the option to book either The Wardrobe Session or The Shopping Session, either on the day or whenever you’re ready.
When are appointments available?
Colour Sessions run Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, roughly 9am to 3pm. That window shifts a little through the year, because draping needs natural light and winter gives me less of it.
Style Sessions are not tied to daylight, so there is more room in the week. What is open is what you will see on the booking calendar.
Weekends are occasionally possible for both colour and style sessions. Ask me and I will tell you honestly what I have.
How do I cancel or reschedule?
Please give me at least 48 hours notice. Inside 48 hours a fee of 50% of the session price may apply.
If something urgent has happened, ring me on 0417 572 201 and we will work it out. Life happens and I am not unreasonable about it.
Can I buy a gift certificate?
Yes, email me and I’ll sort it out for you.
To redeem one, book online and enter the booking code or send me your preferred dates and the booking code found on the certificate.
What are the gift certificate terms?
Gift certificates are valid for three years from the date of purchase, and the booking must be made before the expiry date.
They are non-transferable, non-refundable, and redeemable only for the service specified. Cancelling a booking made with a gift certificate does not attract a refund.
The big what ifs
The questions people usually do not ask out loud. They are the reason a lot of women never book anything, so they get proper answers here.
What if I feel uncomfortable talking about my body?
Then we do not talk about it. You set the line and you never have to explain where you put it.
Nothing I do requires a conversation about your body. We work with how colour behaves next to your own colouring, and how clothes behave on a frame. No measuring your bust, waist and hips, no commentary you did not ask for.
What if I am not stylish, or I just wear trackies and tees?
None of this is about judging anyone. You deserve to feel good in your clothes. That’s the most important thing to me, not what is currently in your wardrobe.
There is no preparation, no dress code and no wardrobe you need to have first. The whole point is finding what works for you, starting from wherever you actually are.
What if I am going through menopause, or my weight has changed?
Honestly, this is one of the better times to do it.
When your colouring shifts or your shape changes, the old rules you were carrying around stop working and it is easy to read that as something going wrong with you. It is not. It just means the information you’re working with is out of date.
Plenty of my clients come at exactly this point, and they leave with something that fits the person they are now rather than the one they were ten years ago.
Still wondering?
Book a Style Chat. Fifteen minutes, free, no preparation and nothing to buy. You ask whatever you want and I tell you straight whether any of this is right for you.
Already know? Book a Style Session.
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I pay my deep respects to Elders past and present, and I honour the continuing stories, knowledge systems, and creative practices that have shaped these lands for tens of thousands of years.
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