If Corporate Image tips are what you’re after, make sure you read this!
Feel free to add your own Image Breakers to this list. Anything that doesn’t leave a positive first impression is allowed here:
- Poorly-fitting clothes
- Bad breath
- Dark undies under light clothes
- Ladders in stockings
- Pants too short
- Untidy hair and OTT styles or colours
- Dragon-lady length nails & nail-art (decals)
- Full-body tattoos and piercings – you know, all over the face, neck and everywhere in between!
- Ultra-revealing or clingy clothes
- Uggh boots with shorts
- Open toed shoes (sandals/thongs) in winter/cold weather
- Over accessorising outfits
- Pets as fashion accessories
- Wrinkled clothes
- Inappropriately short skirts/shorts
- Too much cleavage
- Socks and sandals
- No make up at all at work (job dependent of course) or at formal occasions
- Too many patterns in one outfit
- Clothes in inappropriate fabrics for the occasion/climate
- Dressing too young or too old
- Anything way too short
- Stiff, shapeless clothes
- Poor fitting and inadequate underwear
- Tired, overworn or loved-to-death garments
- Badly pilled clothes
- Big belts worn under the boob-line in an effort to make your waist look smaller
- Unfeminine walking or sitting styles – sitting with legs apart
- Jerky, nervous, repetitive gestures (restless legs; fiddling with hair)
- Bleeding lipstick
- Choosing quantity over quality
- Clothes tucked in at the waistline if you are high waisted or large-breasted
- VPL’s (Visible Panty Lines)
- Chipped nail polish or unkempt hands and nails
- Chain-smoking
- Lipstick on teeth
- Overpowering perfume
- Dirty hair or fingernails
- Camel toe
- Strange-coloured contact lenses
- Dirty or scuffed shoes
- See-through or gaping clothes
- Too much or out-dated makeup
- Toe-reinforced hosiery with peephole shoes
- Clothes that are too big or too small
- Bad body odour
- Ultra-large shoulder pads
- Talking with your mouth full
- Visible G-strings on ANY bottom!
- Dark lip-liner showing through or around lipstick
- Fingernails bitten to the quick
- Biting fingernails in public
- Picking your nose in public
- Wearing inappropriately sexy clothes (think clubbing style) to a funeral or formal occasions.
- Wearing tops with obvious stains
- Wearing tops with obvious yellowing under the arms
- Dirty shirt collars
- Hems coming undone/fraying
- Greasy hair
- Speaking loudly on mobile phones in quiet waiting rooms/public places
For those of you wondering what on earth a camel toe is…hopefully the image below will explain the term well, without too much description (or mental scarring) required 😉
My pet hate is when people wear sandals in summer with awful unkept feet…think no polish and cracked heels!