Discover Your Personal Beauty Profile

CAROL TUTTLE
Best-selling author of Remembering Wholeness and Its Just My Nature!

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Copyright 2010 by Carol Tuttle All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, sound recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the author, except as allowed by law. Dressing Your Truth, Beauty Proling, Energy Proling, Body Proling, Energy Type, Energy Draping, and Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, and Type 4 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Carol Tuttle Enterprises, LLC.

ISBN-10: 0-9844021-0-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-9844021-0-6

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YOUR GREATEST BEAUTY , ANd LIVE IT TO THE FULLEST , INSIdE ANd OUT !

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W HAT WOMEN ARE SAYING ABOUT CAROL TUTTLEs BEAUTY PROFILING AND D RESSING Y OUR T RUtH
Thank you for letting me know that I can be me! Ive never felt my own sense of self: Ive been looking in the mirror for 45 years and not seeing me! Thank you so much for your Beauty Proling and the Dressing Your Truth systems. Now I am seeing the real me more and more each day! MYRA Dressing Your Truth has given me permission to be me! I like shopping now because I have a purpose and I know what I am looking for. AmANDA I now wear more muted colors. To my surprise, my skin looks more alive with those colors! ROSIE I want to share a wonderful experience I had with my four girls...we all went shopping. We spent the whole day, went to lunch and found lots of bargains. We laughed a lot and enjoyed our new insights about our strengths and challenges within our Types. What a fun and empowering experience it was...[to] support each other in such a positive way... You have made a difference for all of us. TERRY I have been following Dressing My Truth for almost a year. I get compliments daily! I love knowing what works in my wardrobe.
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What a relief to nally know my true self and to stop wasting my money, time and energy on all the wrong things. BEA

I feel so great and look so hotafter completing Dressing Your Truth, my closet is lled with clothes I love wearing. SHERRY This has been an amazing journey, one I plan on continuing on over my lifetime...my husband has commented daily on how nice I look. One of the most enjoyable things is that I know what I am wearing works and I no longer have to worry about that. KELLY I have been applying some of the rules for my Type and all I can say is Wowand so does my husband... What is amazing about this is that I really do feel pretty and feminine for the rst time in many years. ROCHELLE How does one give thanks for getting a life back? I feel like the re inside is beginning to glow. Thank you for the leading out, doing what you do and being your authentic self. Youve been so instrumental in the transformation of many. NANCY After 40 years I nally feel comfortable with myself and nally believe I am beautiful (which I never tought would be possible). I am so much more condent. Its so amazing! I nally know that it is okay to be me. CHRISTINE Last week I came upon Dressing your truth and I have to say I am so thankful and excited. I have read countless books and did other fashion systems. However, I nally am feeling secure in what I am learning. The last few years has been a ridiculous time of purchasing clothes, putting them in my closet and then giving them away. It just didnt seem to click. In fact it seemed like some kind of a stronghold always trying to get it right. I feel so condent now. Thank you for your hard work and many hours of helping women Dress Their Truth. The way you speak with such clarity and conviction has resonated within me. Thank you so much. I look forward to meeting you.bEV
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O THER BOOKs
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Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century Its Just My Nature! A Guide to Knowing and Living Your True Nature

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A cKNOwLEDGEMENTs

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MANY WOMEN who have shown up

in my life to teach me that every woman is innately beautiful. Thank you to my daughters Jennifer and Anne. You have learned your true natures and beauty at an early age, and this knowledge will serve you well your entire life. Thank you to my daughtersin-law Sarah and Jaleah who have embraced my teachings wholeheartedly and brought out their beauty to share with the world. Thank you to my sons Chris, Mark and Mario, and my sons-inlaw, Tony and Tanner. Your example to other men of how to support the beautiful women in your life is so admirable. Thank you to my great husband Jonyou continue to support and love my passions for dreaming and living big. Thank you to my team, the people who have come and gone in this journey and the team members that continue to support the worldwide vision we hold to help every woman know her truth and dress it! My husband Jon, my son Chris, my son-in-law Tanner, my daughter Anne, and daughter-in-law Sarah are the core members of my team, and they are each invaluable in the roles they play in building our business. Also thanks to: Our web designer, Jeremy Votaw, who continues to share his genius with us; our lm and production crew including Marcy Brown, Kent Findlay, Anna K Findlay, Samantha Butterworth, and Tanner Christensen who took what had previously only been taught at live events and created world-class online learning courses so women worldwide could learn how to dress their
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truth; and to Mike Fitzgerald who edited this book. I have a passion to revolutionize the beauty and fashion world, and to help women all over the world take back their beauty. I acknowledge you for nding and reading this book, and becoming the next woman to discover the secrets to her true beauty and learn how to use the tools to express your beauty almost effortlessly and with growing condence.

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ACkNOwLEDGEmENTS......................................................................vii INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................xi PART ONE It Started with Twiggy! My Personal Beauty Nightmare..................................................... 3 How The Fashion World Has Failed Women....................................... 9 Does This Make My Butt Look Big?.................................................. 16 Its Time to Take Back Your Beauty................................................... 18 What Dressing Your Truth Is Not....................................................... 21 PART TwO The First Step in Dressing Your Truth: Discover Your Personal Beauty Prole......................................... 25 Your Beauty Is More than Skin Deep................................................ 27 Your Beauty Sixth Sense.................................................................... 31 PART THREE There Is More than One Type of Woman What Type Are You?..................................................................... 35 Type 1: The Bright, Animated Woman.............................................. 49 Type 2: The Subtle, Soft Woman....................................................... 71 Type 3: The Rich, Dynamic Woman................................................... 95 Type 4: The Bold, Striking Woman.................................................. 119 PART FOUR Its Time to Know What Type of Woman You Are........................... 149 PART FIVE Take the Next Step: Learn How to Dress Your Truth...................... 161 Dont Wait until You Lose Weight!.................................................. 165 Youre Never Too Old to Dress Your Truth.............................168 ME! L IC K
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PART SIX The Biggest Fashion Myths............................................................. 171 Fashion Myth #1: Black, Black, BlackWhats with All the Black?......................... 171 Fashion Myth #2: Every Woman Looks Good in White!......................................... 176 Fashion Myth #3: Coco Chanel and the Little Black Dress..................................... 178 Fashion Myth #4: There is one Type of Beauty The Type 4 World of Beauty!...................................................... 180 Fashion Myth #5: You Lose Your Beauty When You Age!....................................... 182 Fashion Myth #6: My Hair Stylist Knows Best......................................................... 186 Fashion Myth #7: You Have To Spend Lots of Money to Be Beautiful................... 189 Fashion Myth #8: You Have be Skinny to Be Beautiful........................................... 192 PART SEVEN Loving Your New Look.................................................................... 197 Shopping Your Truth10 Great Rules............................................ 202 Pay It Forward................................................................................. 205 A Message to Teen Girls................................................................. 207 Top Celebs Dressing or Not Dressing Their Truth.......................... 210 My Parting Thoughts....................................................................... 213 PART EIGHT Resources........................................................................................ 219 About the Author............................................................................ 222

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I AM VERY EXCITED TO INTRODUCE YOU to a program that I am

incredibly passionate about, a program that has changed my life forever as well as the lives of thousands of other women. Its called Beauty Proling, and it is the very rst step to Dressing Your Truth. Beauty Proling is not focused on putting beauty on, but on your inner source of beautythe real you. What you will learn is that your outer beauty truly starts with your inner beauty, and when you know the truth about your inner beauty your Beauty Proleyou will be ready to adorn your body to show your true beauty through your outer appearance. For many women, dressing and adorning themselves has been one of the biggest challenges of their lives, a lifelong battle that started when they were in their young teens. Most women feel defeated by that battle because, based on the way the fashion world works, it seems to be a battle you can never win. We have blamed ourselves and our looks for not looking great in the clothes that we are lured to purchase by a fashion culture with an insatiable appetite for trends and change. Fortunately, you are going to discover in the pages of this book how misinformed we have been and how unnecessarily hard we have been on ourselves for something that quite frankly, until now, you have not had the tools to change. Beauty Proling will teach you a new way of looking at yourME! self, not just for today but for a lifetime. It will put you in C L IC K touch with your intuitive sense of what fashions are right xi

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for you, what looks best on you, and what you are naturally and instinctively drawn to. Knowing your personal Beauty Prole will not only set the stage for you to Dress Your Truth, it will give you a deeper and clearer understanding of who you areyour unique gifts and talents, your inherent qualities and traits, why you are the Type of woman that you are. This will support you in moving forward in your life in great condence and awareness. In this day and age, we as women are ready to know ourselves more fully and clearly and to live it with honesty and condence. My goal for you is that after reading this book you will be able to say, I know what my personal Beauty Prole is, and I know now that my life will be different forever! I love myself! The purpose of this book is to assist you in discovering your personal Beauty Prole. Once you know your Beauty Prole and what Type of woman you are, you will be ready to learn how to dress your truth. You will not learn what clothes, jewelry, accessories, makeup, skincare, and hairstyles are perfect for you by reading this book. In fact, I dont think anyone should learn a fashion and beauty system only through a book. I have studied dozens of fashion and beauty books, and to me, they are too often a maze of captions and pictures, difcult to put into the kind of practical application that creates any satisfying results. To help you experience your total personal makeover, I have created a websitewww.dressingyourtruth.com. Here you will nd online learning courses and support materials for each Beauty Prole or Type. The fashion world has avoided giving you the tools to understand and dress for your Type of beauty, but Dressing Your Truth specializes in giving you hands-on tools to teach you what clothes will look best on you, the best color, cut and style for your hair, how to apply makeup to look naturally beautiful, what ME! C L IC K jewelry to wear and how to accessorize an outt in a style that is perfect for you. Where the fashion world left you guessing, xii

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Dressing Your Truth makes you your own beauty expert. Our site is the rst website of its kind. There are no other online learning courses about beauty that go into as much detail, that have as many informative how-tos and have as many exceptional videos and images, that teach you all you need to know to look your very best. Thousands of women have already beneted from this easy-to-use online learning portal. By offering this material, we also have created a community of beauty conscious women who love and support each other through our community forums and live monthly Dressing Your Truth Club Night broadcasts where we continue to teach and support you. In the Dressing Your Truth community, I marvel at how incredibly supportive and loving women are when they know their inner truth and feel condent and secure in their appearance. All the earlier feelings of being less than adequate and beautifulwhich set us up to feel threatened and even jealous of attractive women start to disappear when we dress our truth, and the camaraderie of the true feminine nature emerges to show love and support for one another in being our most beautiful selves. I will be referring to this website frequently in this book as this book and the courses and resources are meant to be experienced together. In todays world of advanced technology, it only makes sense to combine the written word with online, interactive, visual learning tools to give the optimal learning experience. After taking the Dressing Your Truth course, you will have the tools and insights you need to know what to buy, how to accessorize your clothes, how to get the best look for you with makeup and be the expert for your own hair. I am excited for you to start this journey. No matter your age, size, or color, every woman deserves to be beautiful. That is my hope and wish for each of youto help you discover and ME! C L IC K bring out your greatest beauty. Thank you for letting me help you do just that! xiii

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Part 1
IT STARTEd WITH TWIGGY! MY PERSONAL BEAUTY NIGHTMARE

HOW THE FASHION WORLd HAS FAILEd WOMEN

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IT STARTED wITH TwIGGY M Y PERsONAL BEAUTY NIGHTMARE

MY STORY IS LIKE MOST WOMENS STORIES when it comes to

fashion and beauty. It is not a very fun story. For most of my life, I hated my body and struggled with how I looked. Even so, at age 45 I nally discovered the tools that allowed me to love and appreciate my body and my looks. Im about to tell you how. But rst, let me tell you about my beginnings. Around age 12, I started to notice that what I wore and how I looked became very important. I was an attractive girl that was pretty much left to myself to gure out how to put clothes together, wear makeup, and so on. But I lay no fault at the feet of my mom. I believe she did the best she knew how, and I cant imagine that I made it easy for her to convey her beauty secrets to mewhich I now know would not have been right for my Type of beauty. I had no sisters to seek advice from and my brothers, well, they thought girlie stuff was pretty much a waste of time. By age 13, I had very thick, bushy, boyish eyebrows. And I hated them. True to my Type 3, determined nature, I took swift action and removed most of my eyebrows in one evening with a pair of tweezers and a bathroom mirror. I had no help and no instruction which was readily apparent by the looks of my eyebrows once I was done. Not knowing any better, I assumed this new look was an improvement, that is until I hit my seventh period band class
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where a boy next to me looked at me in horror and exclaimed, What happened to your eyebrows? That moment was an initiation to many years of believing that I was not attractive enough, not thin enough, and not pretty enough. About this same time my three brothers and their friends added their two cents by shamelessly teasing me with the nickname Carol Barrel, and comments like Hey, peg legs! and Crater face! Needless to say, that did not help in my opinion of my looks and body image. By high school, I had made little progress and was doing what most girls were doingbuying and trying to wear what was in fashion (except miniskirtsI just could not pour my larger size frame into the Twiggy fashions that were the rage). My battle with weight and hatred for my body really kicked in at age 15, which went on to last 30 more years. I had little condence inwardly and disgust with myself because I believed I
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was overweight on the outside. I never liked how I looked, and I felt increasingly uncomfortable in my clothes. I pretended pretty much like every other girl pretended, hiding my

shame for my body and looks and pretending I felt good about myself. By age 17, my shopping and dressing room experiences were a nightmare. I had gained an excess of 30 pounds at this point and created an eating disorder of binging andoh, but I forgot the purging part, so I just kept gaining weight. Now put this picture together: a teenage girl, 30 pounds overweight, who had been introduced to the fashion world ve years earlier when the rst supermodel and British fashion icon was a 91-pound teenage girl. Her name was Twiggy. Remember her?
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self. I hated trying on clothes and had many an argument with my Type 2, gentle-natured mother who was more than confused on how to help me. I started a pattern of being late for school, since I tried outt after outt on in the morning trying to nd something I felt halfway decent in. My mom nally insisted I pick out my clothes the night before, which only gave me more time to try it on, hate it, and berate myself even more. I told myself that my body and outward appearance was inferior. After years of this inner struggle, off to college I went, and for the rst time in my life, at age 18, I found a makeup class at a local salon in the college town I lived in. I signed up for a personal consultation, and went to learn about how to put on makeup from someone who I gured knew better than me what was right on me. In spite of what help I got (or did not get) from the makeup class, my battle with food, body image and low self-esteem continued. Fortunately, I met a man that loved me for who I was at the time. I married Jon Tuttle when I was 22 years old, just 4 days after my university graduation. On to marriage and motherhood and the next 23 years of doing my best to look my best, still being inuenced by fashion trends and styles, but never feeling I looked great in them. I had the perm in the 80s, the black in the 90s and started to discover my true beauty in the 2000s! For 33 years of my life, I fell prey to the belief that, like most every woman out there, my inability to look great in what was in fashion was all my fault, and there was little I could do about it.

THE SUPERMODEL STANDARD

Unfortunately, for most of my life, all of my efforts in beautifying myself were an effort to improve what I thought was originally awed. My natural type of beauty is not found in

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the modern day world of fashion and beauty. In fact, my type of physical features would be deemed as aged and masculine. If it werent for Dressing Your Truth, I may have never discovered my own unique beauty. At this phase in my life, I am incredibly grateful that I can look past the current trend of anti-aging techniques and products as necessities for being beautiful. Actually, it wasnt until I started to develop Dressing Your Truth that I became interested in the fashion and beauty world. But not for the common reasons most women would: my reasons were to nd the faults and failures in the current system that had played a huge role in affecting my degrading opinion of myself as a woman. As I mentioned earlier, at age 12 I began to look to the outside world, and the fashion and beauty world, as the reference to my developing womanhood. Because the beauty icon of the time was a 91-pound blonde Type 4 female with the name Twiggy, I would bet it is safe to say not many girls had a chance at feeling beautiful. Twiggy was the rst of a long line of women who set the standard of beauty that we call supermodels. Ladies, it has been 40 years that we have been judging ourselves as women against a supermodel standard that we can never measure up to. The standard of a very tall, thin sleek woman that appears much younger than she isthats what we have come to consider beautiful. And to make matters worse, with all the photo enhancing and airbrushing that now takes place in the media, the supercial beauty we pit ourselves against can only perpetuate a deep inner sense of failure in the effort to feel beautiful as a woman. The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (see www.dove.us) was started after Dove did a worldwide study on beauty called The Real Truth About Beauty: A World Report. The Dove report conrmed their premise that the common denition for beauty had become
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impossible for most women to attain. The study pointed out only 2 percentyes, 2 PERCENTof women considered themselves beautiful, and only 12 percent of women said they

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were very satised with their physical attractiveness. On the other end of the scale, 75 percent of the women who responded wished that the media did a more responsible job of portraying the diversity of womens physical attractiveness, including size and shape, across all ages. Im sure you probably agree with the 75 percent of women who wished the media would take a different approach. Its time we all took a different approach to beauty.

WHERE I AM NOW ON MY JOURNEY

At the time of this writing, I am in my early fties and I honestly feel and believe that I look hot! In fact, I know I have never looked better! I love how I look, and I feel condent that what I am wearing is perfect for me. I love to shop and nd the pieces that are just right for me. The best part, now that I know how to dress my truth, is that shopping is a breeze. I nd what I want fast and what I nd is always affordable. My biggest challenge is no longer wondering what to wear but asking myself, What great outt should I wear today! I know the best color, cut, and style for my hair. I know how to do it every day so I never have a bad hair day. I no longer worry that my body is too big, or whether my butt looks big. I no longer look in a dressing room mirror with disgust thinking I cant look good until I lose 20 pounds. I look in the mirror and love what I see. I dont have to ask my husband or my friends Does this look good on me? because I know what looks good and I buy it with condence. Seven years ago, I started to take back my beauty. I have taken it back and love owning it and sharing it. True to my Type 3, ambitious nature, I have built a business out of what I have discovered to help women all over the world take back their beauty. I have spent years in healing my wounded feminine self. As you will discover when you read further in this book, I am
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a Type 3 woman. I have learned that because I repressed my rich, dynamic Type 3 expression for most of my life, it was the cause of my lack of self-esteem. Discovering my Type and allowing myself to live it and dress it has brought me a whole new life, even in my middle years. I am grateful for my journey. It is due to my own experience that I have come to understand yours. As my daughter Anne recently shared with me, Mom, if you had not gone through what you have, you would have never created all the great resources you have that are helping people all over the world! This is truethanks for the reminder, Anne! Because I know how my journey has turned out, I know how yours can turn out, too. Lets get started in taking back your true nature and true beauty so you too can look in the mirror and love what you see, and most importantly, feel the love you have for yourself.

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HOw THE FAsHION WORLD HAs FAILED WOMEN

AFTER READING THIS SECTION you might just say to yourself, Why

didnt I think of that? It makes total sense! The fashion world has failed us because the system of everchanging fashion trends and styles does not give us the tools we need to bring out our greatest beauty as women. However, the ever-changing fashion trends do work to create demanddemand to purchase the latest fashionsin women who do not know what works best for them, or what they really want, which is likely the majority of women in the Western world. Think about it for a moment. From the beginning of recorded history, fashion has separated those that have money from those that have little or no money, and thereby created social classes separation and lack and envy and turned-up noses. The fashion world is built on a system of ever changing fashions and trends. Who in the world thought that the latest fashion trend could look great on every woman? But many women are willing to pay for the illusion that they will look good in those fashions. Styles and trends dont make a woman beautiful. If anything, they are interfering with and taking away your beauty. Since we all have different bodies, face shapes, and personalities, we cant all look great in the same clothes. Fashion trends and styles are designed to honor the clothes, not the woman. If you look better in more stylized, structured design lines
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and fabrication but the latest trend is soft, owy fabrications with soft design lines, you are not going to look beautiful: you are going to look frumpy and feel frumpy. Fashion magazines have become a form of entertainment, and in some cases bizarre art, showing women in outts that the everyday woman would never wear. They depict women that are not real, invented by air brushing and photo editing. The fashion system has not and will never even attempt to teach us the skills and tools to honor our true nature and our unique physical traits so we can become our own beauty expert. Rather, it has left us guessing, shaming ourselves into being the problem, and keeping us on the treadmill of chasing the latest trends, only to buy more clothes with more and more uncertainty. The current fashion system teaches us how to put on beauty, not how to bring out our true beauty. Ive learned that when you are feeling insecure about how you
YOU CANT PUT ON BEAUTY UNLESS IT REFLECTS THE BEAUTY YOU RECOGNIZE INSIDE YOURSELF.

look, and trying to put on your look or trying to put on your beauty, you can be very intimidated by other women, especially by one who is looking naturally amazing and beau-

tiful. These insecurities get stirred up when youre still trying to put beauty on. You cant put on beauty unless it reects the beauty you recognize inside yourself. When you see a woman who looks fashionable, you are usually seeing a woman who is putting beauty on. You see the clothes rst, then the woman! When you see a woman dressing her truth, you see the woman rst, then the inspiring ensemble of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and hair supporting her real nature. What she has on her body looks like a natural extension of her true self, her true beauty.
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Even television shows that feature makeovers and fashion help are not helping. One of the most popular in the United States is called What Not to Wear. The basis of the show is making over a woman who is fashion-challenged and who needs help improving her overall style and appearance. It is common that the clients they work with on this show look like they really need helpthey are either out-of-date with their look or just dont put much time or effort into their appearance. They go to the womans house and tear apart her closet, ruthlessly shaming her choices in the process of removing most of the clothes she owns. It is not apparent to me that they give her much in the way of practical guidance or tools to go shopping with, but they do provide her with a $5,000 budget to rebuild her wardrobe. First off, how many of us can set aside $5,000 to overhaul our closet? I dont know any woman who watches What Not to Wear who is raving about how many great shopping tips she has gotten out of it, nor do I know any in whom the show has instilled great condence that what she is wearing is perfect for her. Shows like this are really another form of fashion entertainment, with little practical value for the everyday woman. Personally, I cant watch it. I get too frustrated seeing what they are doing in their effort to put beauty on the woman. To tell you the truth, I would love to do a Dressing Your Truth makeover after their makeover!

HATING HOW YOU LOOK

As I was going through some old pictures to nd the images I wanted to share in this book, I was startled by something I discovered. As I mentioned earlier, I hated how boyish my thick, bold, bushy eyebrows made me look when I was in seventh grade. Much to my surprise, since I had forgotten what I was about to see, when I came across my picture in my seventh grade yearbook, I was shocked at what I saw. I had taken a pen and completely
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scratched out my image! The picture of me was taken before I had my private eyebrow-plucking session. The disdain and embarrassment I felt for trying to make my boyish looks more feminine was very powerfully witnessed to me by this act of scratching out my picture when I was 13. I really did hate how I looked. Looking back and reecting on this now almost 40 years laterbrought me to tears and got me even more red up to change what we do to ourselves as women and to expose where the fault lies. Let me say this really clearly: the fault does not lie with us as women. It is in the system of fashion and beauty that we have blindly accepted and have been convinced is acceptable since our pre-teen days. We have not paused to question it. It is like a slow, torturous drip of false programming that starts in a females life somewhere between the ages of 10 and 13. It sets us up to believe that if we dont look and feel good in the current trends and styles, the fault is in our body and physical appearance, not in the system itself. When I came across pictures of myself at 15, when I weighed 150 pounds, I was also surprised and shocked. I saw myself in a whole new light. I was not overweight by reasonable, healthy standards. Yes, I had a more athletic build and was more muscular (denitely not the skinny girl) but what I saw was a perfectly healthy teenage girl! I am convinced that my imbalanced belief and perception at that stage was the catalyst to develop an eating disorder in the next couple of years, which ultimately caused me to gain more weight. If I had had a healthy view of myself then, sustained by sound beliefs, I never would have developed those patterns and likely would have avoided 30 years of body image despair.
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Like most girls, I accepted these false beliefs about my body image and appearance that were based on the mediabased fashion and beauty standards. I compared myself to

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them, like most other girls, and fully accepted the lie that I was not thin enough or pretty enough and that it was my fault. I now know the standard I measured myself against was seriously awed.

MARYS STORY

Mary is a client of mine. Her story is a great example of how the current system of fashion has failed us. Marys struggle is all too familiar to many women. Read her story and see how big the transformation has been in her life once she learned her Beauty Prole and how to dress her truth. I was asked how my life was different after I participated in Dressing Your Truth, after I changed how I wear my hair, makeup and clothes. One thing I noticed right away is that shopping is no longer my nightmare. I used to dread shopping. It took hours of trying on things to nd even one item I could tolerate. Now, I dont try on anything that isnt in my ve elements from Dressing Your Truth! It takes me only a few minutes to sort through a rack and see if theres even anything worth trying on. And when I do try something on, its almost always a keeper. No more frustrating two-hour dressing room sessions where everything I put on looks terrible and makes me feel terrible about myself. Now shopping is easy and fast. And I love my new clothes. That benet alone would have made the Dressing Your Truth training totally worth it. But theres so much more. I had a very positive reaction from my family and coworkers about my new look, but the important part of this transformation has been internal, not external. I wish I could articulate this betterbut the difference is in how I feel and how I approach people and situations. I am more condent, more able to function in my workplace and home environment because I feel better, lighter and more energetic. It is as if a weight has been lifted.
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I never realized how all the black and the harsh, stark lines I wore made me feel. It doesnt seem rational that this material or that material or this color or that color could make a difference about how I feel and present myself, but it does. When I am in clothes that are dynamic and rich in color and texture, I feel happier. When I feel happier, I make better presentations, I interact with clients and students more positively, and others who dont know me more quickly accept me. I work in the education sector where, among other things, I work with teachers to produce materials, negotiate contracts, and work out difculties with students and parents. I used to have to take ve or ten minutes talking to a new faculty member or student or parent to convince them that I both knew what I was talking about and was truly concerned for their well-being and able to do the job at hand. Now I have noticed that the acceptance happens much more quickly. It is as if the fact that how I look and the energy I carry harmonize and set others at ease even before I attempt to help them feel at ease with my words. And that has made all the difference in the world. The results have been incredible. Thank you for this training.

Where the fashion world has failed you, Dressing Your Truth will honor you. After you discover what Type of woman you are with my Beauty Proling system, adapted from my groundbreaking Energy Proling system, you will be ready to learn how to Dress Your Truth. Dressing Your Truth is a simple system that teaches you the ve elements that match your personal Beauty Prole. I could tell you many stories just like Marys, from women all over the world. Every woman deserves to look beautiful every day
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of their lives, and now they can have the tools to accomplish that goal effortlessly, affordably and joyfully.

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The world of fashion has failed us and shamed us long enough. You no longer need to believe that you are the problem because you are not. I am condent in saying that once you learn how to dress your truth, you will own your beauty and personal fashion and dress with condence and success. Where the fashion system left you guessing on what to buy, you will know each and every time you go shopping what is perfect for you. I fully expect that you will have your own success story just like Marys!

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DOEs THIs MAKE MY BUTT LOOK BIG?

YOUVE HEARD YOURSELF SAY IT. Youve gone shopping with your

girlfriends and youve heard them ask it. Growing up, you probably heard your mom say it, too! Does this make my butt look big? My mom said it a lot when I was a kid. In fact, I can remember being somewhere in public with my mom pointing to another womans behind and whispering to me, Is my butt as big as hers? Being the loving, dutiful daughter that I am, of course I said no! Women have struggled with negative body images for decades. Our mothers taught us to be self-conscious about our bodies with their negative image of theirs. The media has taught us that unless we are super slim, we are not acceptable. A recent question on ChaCha (www.chacha.com) was, Whats the average dress size for women in America? The answer? The average size woman in America is a size 12, not a size 6! However, the average mannequin is a size 6. Is it any surprise that 44 percent of women who are of average weight think that they are overweight? I remember when I weighed in at 150 pounds when I was 15 years old, and I thought I was as fat as a pig! When compared to 91 pound Twiggy, any 150 pound teen girl would perceive herself as fat. I cant even remember weighing 91 pounds! Possibly in the third grade I weighed that much, but I wasnt concerned about my weight and body image when I was 10 years old, so I am sure I never even weighed myself! I
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carried the impression of being extremely overweight for the next three decades. Every time I weighed myself, I shamed myself.

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Negative body image is a chronic problem in most womens minds, no matter where they live in the world. Have you ever considered that the clothes you are wearing are adding to your negative body image by making your body appear bigger than it is? Isnt it a reasonable concern that we may be adding pounds and inches to our behinds just by wearing the wrong clothes? It is! But how do we know whats going to make our butts look bigger than they really are? If I could share with you a formula for dressing that not only made sure your butt never looked bigger than it is, and in fact it made it look smaller, and this formula gave you the skill set to look like a 10 every day of your life, would you want to know about it? I would think so! No woman wants her butt to look big! Most clothing systems out there emphasize one thing, color. What I have learned from creating Dressing Your Truth is there is a lot more to a garment than just color. In fact, I have made it easy for you. There are actually four other elements that create a garment that either adds to our natural beauty or conicts with it that every garment has. These elements are design line, texture, fabrication, pattern, and of course, chroma/color. If you are not wearing the right design line, texture, fabrication or pattern that honors the natural movement and beauty of you, I dont care what color your pants are, your butt is going to look bigger than it really is. It is really simple. Knowing the ve elements of dressing that are right for your Type of beauty makes shopping and wardrobing a no-brainer. I have taught this formula to thousands of women and I want to teach it to you, so you never have to ask the question again, Does this make my butt look big? And just so you know, since I have been dressing my truth in my ve elements, I cant remember the last time I asked that question, because I know my butt looks great in the clothes that are a 10 for me!
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I SAY THIS wHOLE-HEARTEDLY: most women do not know how truly

beautiful they are. Frankly, they have never had the tools to discover their innate beauty or to express it effortlessly. Most women hear compliments like, Thats a nice jacket or I like your purse! But after learning how to dress their truth, our clients consistently hear compliments like, You look amazing! Is this what you are experiencing now? You look in the mirror and say, Who is that? Is that me? I look terrible! And the older you get, the more you are feeling this! It drives you crazy to get dressed in the morning because you cant decide what looks good on you. You look in your closet at the beginning of the day and say, I havent the foggiest notion what to put on today! You have a closet full of clothes and only really love a few items. You despise clothes shopping because you cant nd the right color, or what ts or feels right to you, or what you can afford. You go into convulsions at the thought of stepping into a dressing room.
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no longer be a regular occurrence. Why? Because youll love the way you look, every day. Youll totally enjoy dressing in the morning, and will do so with great condence. Youll love to shop for clothes because you will always know exactly what you are looking for and what works for you. It will be fun to step into a dressing room again. And you will hear genuine complimentsin fact, they will become an everyday experience. Just a few days ago, Julie (Type 1) posted this on my Facebook wall. I went to my professions bi-annual conference yesterday. My friends havent seen me since the last conference and since I have started dressing my truth. Boy, did I get the attention like I have never received! One friend after another couldnt stop mentioning how great I looked. I had one friend say specically as she couldnt stop staring, Your make-up just pops! I had to silently laugh because what you say about the compliments we would hear is right on. Of course, I told them to go to your website to learn more. Once again Carol Tuttle is right. I receive emails like the one below every day from women who are falling in love with their appearance and their body, and they are not even at their ideal weight! Pamela shares: Today was the rst time my friends saw me dressing my truth and no less than six people at church today stopped me to say how amazing I looked. I love this stuff. I had to see it to believe it, and I sure do now. It also helped me to deal very effectively with a very challenging situation and I never lost my cool, my dignity or my focus. I think feeling so secure in my skin made a big difference for the better. Thank you. If you still dont believe me or Julie or Pam, now is a good time to take a moment and visit our Before and After Gallery
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YOU HAVE BEEN UNDERSTATING YOURSELF AND SETTLING FOR MEDIOCRITY IN YOUR APPEARANCE MOST OF YOUR LIFE.

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of several of our Dressing Your Truth graduates. Just go to www. dressingyourtruth.com and click on Before and Afters. I want you to see for yourself the amazing results of Dressing Your Truth. (You can also see a collection of Before and Afters in the color section of this book.) Because many of you are not used to being noticed for your beauty, this may feel awkward and uncomfortable. It is common for women to share with me this sentiment, I am afraid that dressing my truth will be too much. I am going to stand out. I tell women to consider the possibility that Dressing Your Truth and bringing out your beauty is not over-stating yourself; consider, rather, that you have been understating yourself and settling for mediocrity in your appearance most of your life. It is time to take back your beauty and become your own beauty expert. You really dont know how naturally beautiful you are. I have personally witnessed hundreds of women who have shed tears of appreciation when they looked in the mirror and saw for the rst time how beautiful they truly are. I want you to be the next woman to fall in love with herself and to love your body just the way it is right now! Amazing things happen when you feel the true love you really do have for yourself. I am excited for you.

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world have come through or been exposed to other beauty and fashion makeover systems. I can honestly say that Dressing Your Truth is new and unique and cannot be compared to the other systems that have preceded it. Dressing Your Truth is not: A color only typing system A body shape or body type system, such as rectangular, pearshapes, hourglass and so forth A system where your skin tone and hair color determines what looks good on you A system that classies you in one of four seasons: spring, summer, fall and winter A system specic to an age group or that imposes any age limits A fashion system that suggests wearing certain clothing during only specic seasons of the year A system that only works for some women Dressing Your Truth is unlike any other fashion and beauty system out there. It is a system that honors the inner nature and personality of you, and the outer expression of your physical features. Once you know your Beauty Prole, what Type of woman you are, Dressing Your Truth is a simple to learn
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formula that honors your own personal instinct and intuition of what looks best and feels best on you. There are ve elements of Dressing Your Truth. These ve elements are expressed in clothing, jewelry, accessories, makeup color and application, and even your hair color, cut and style. Once you know your own Beauty Prole, you will be ready to learn how to Dress Your Truth using the ve elements as your guide. Dressing Your Truth will give you the tools you need to take back your beauty.

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THE FIRST STEp IN DRESSING YOUR TRUTH: DISCOVER YOUR PERSONAL BEAUTY PROFILE

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THE FIRsT STEp IN DREssING YOUR TRUTH: D IscOVER YOUR PERsONAL BEAUTY PROFILE

THIS IS WHERE THE FUN STARTSdiscovering your personal Beauty

Prole. To help you in this discovery, I have adapted my more extensive Energy Proling system to t the needs and purpose of this book. Energy Proling is a groundbreaking and revolutionary personality proling system that helps you discover your innate character and that of others. It is a study of movement, as it expresses itself through us in many facets of our lives. It is the natural expression of our human nature captured in: personality, behavior tendencies, thought and feeling processes, body language and physical features. With the help of Energy Proling, thousands of people have learned that their perceived weaknesses and aws are actually their greatest strengths and gifts. I have taken excerpts from my book Its Just My Nature! A Guide to Knowing and Living Your True Nature and adapted it to create my Beauty Proling system that is captured in this book. In Its Just My Nature! I offer a more thorough guide to using Energy Proling to help you more fully understand yourself and others. Beauty Proling is an adaptation of Energy Proling which has been refocused and reapplied here. If you are a student of Energy Proling, you will no doubt see some similarities in this book. You will be surprised and delighted by new content that I have developed that is specic
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to women and their experience with their bodies that will help you identify your personal Beauty Prole. I must stress it is imperative that you rst discover your own Beauty Prole before you take the next step, the Dressing Your Truth online course. Dressing Your Truth only works in helping you bring out your beauty if you know what Type of woman you are. I feel condent that with the resources we have in place to assist you, you will know who you are and be very eager to live your truth and dress it.

DIsCoVEr Your PErsonaL BEauty ProFILE wIth CaroLs BEauty ProFILIng BundLE! Includes:
 Instant access to Carols Interactive Dressing Your Truth online course  Dressing Your TruthDiscover Your Personal Beauty Prole  Intro to Dressing Your Truth DVD

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