Being a colour consultant - What's it like?

[WishIWasACavewoman]

Browsing colour blogs on my phone out of camera range in my endless online meetings, I've suddenly realised that I'm way more interested in this than my actual job. I allocate people to colour seasons in my head all the time in cafes, public transport, meetings.

It would be wonderful to do something I actually love... but, can you make any money at it? Is it some horrible MLM set-up? Do you spend all your time trying to market yourself?

I'd love to hear the experiences, pros and cons from anyone who's done this please!

No colour consultants on Mumsnet then?

What on earth is that?

I knew an Australian lady who used to work as a colour consultant in Asia but I lost contact with her so I can't ask for you unfortunately.

I am very colour aware too and my biggest fun time during boring meetings is making spreadsheets appealing!

I was watching myself on a meeting the other day and my favourite scarf looks awful next to my face;(

I can be your guinea pig if you need one

9thFloorNightmare you're on if I go for it!

Sunshinen it's someone who works out which colour palette suits a person, think House of Colour, Colour Me Beautiful etc.

I suspect I can't replace my salary with it, but would dearly love to...

I thought you were talking about interior colour consultant.

I know an architect who did renovations of a well known place in London. He told me about a time they famously flew out a colour consultant from Italy. He stood in the room and a glamorous assistant held a blank mixing palette, another held a small palette of paints. He took a few dabs, mixed it all together and went voila. Presented the palette and walked away many a hundred k richer.

The architect turned to the client and said, but they only make said item in 2 colours. Whole thing was pointless 🤣

That's sounds an amazing job. Surely if you can get some high profile clients you'll do well. Could you do it in your spare time to build up some proper experience?

LemonSwan that's hilarious! (I wonder how he got to the point where people pay that amount for doing what my 6 year old does every Saturday 🤔)

Sunshinen I guess that's what I'd do. I'm the breadwinner so can't create much unless this is a viable earner, which I'm concluding it might not be apart from Lemon's lucky Italian one...

Look up 12blueprints.com OP. 12blueprints.com/pages/training-course That's a more novel system in the UK. House of Colour is good in the UK, and both 12 blueprints and HoC look at setting up a working business, but the HoC consultants I've known so far have done it more for enjoyment than as a means of making a bread winning type income.

Haha I think half of it is in the allure and prestige. The aloofness and the two glamorous assistants. You would have to turn up with two buff men 🤣🤣🤣