To see her segment on fashion personality, click the link here: http://www.abc4.com/content/about_4/gtu/featured_on/story/Barbara-Jones-on-Different-Fashion-Personalities/5EWIYIsV_kK5htghY7_PCw.cspx

Coco Chanel, one of the greatest names in the fashion industry, once commented, “Fashion changes-style remains.” Each of us is born with distinctive personal style that is ours for life, despite the fickleness of changing hemlines or fashions that are here today and gone tomorrow. Whether we are aware of it or not, we each bear our own individual style, our own fashion personality.

Here are the 6 personal styles that describe one’s personality, makeup, hair and clothing. Individual suitability is what counts.

Dramatic: Sophisticated, innovative, confident, bold. You have a tendancy to stand out, to be unique and original, and you are admired for style and often emulated. You love dramatic makeup, and are willing to try new techniques. Your clothing is concerned with style and tends, but not with fads; you also love bold colors.

Sporty: Energetic, “All-American girl,” easy to be with, high-spirited. You have a spirited approach to life, natural and unpretentious. You have natural looking makeup, leaning toward earth tones. Your style is comfortable to keep up with your energetic life-style, and generally conservative.

Classic: Elegant, calm, posed, and classy. You are admired and often emulated by others. Your makeup is carefully crafted but never overdone or overstated. Your clothing is elegant, feminine, and fashion that remains in style.

Natural: Easy-going, casual, practical, natural. You are unpretentious and genuine, neat and a person whom others are drawn to. Your makeup preference is to be very understated, with little to minimal application. Your clothing is casual, comfortable, with a youthful touch.

Romantic: Soft, loving, feminine, affectionate. You are charming, graceful, and sophisticated. Your makeup is soft, with smoky grays and pastels, no harsh lines, that is natural but softly radiant. You love pastels and soft fabrics, skirts, pearls, ruffles, and nothing that is severe or starched. You also love soft solids, florals, lace and thin stripes.

Arty: Free-spirited, individualistic, unique and creative. You are a true individualist, generally private and unrushed in the way you live your life. Your makeup varies between none or lots, and you focus on the eyes. You love a dramatic look. You wear eye-catching and perhaps theatrical clothing, with unusual combinations that is individualized to fit you. You love many pattern choices, from dramatic dots to romantic flowers.

Remember that discovering your fashion personality will help you develop your personal style!

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season!

What a sweet reminder from Elder Scott about love. Click on the link above and take a few minutes to enjoy this video.

Dear Barbara -

Thank you so much for the wonderful experience my daughter enjoyed during her week with you.  It truly was a transforming time, from which she emerged with an even deeper, more fulfilling sense of her great worth and value, ready to love and serve those around her at an even higher level than before.  This worthwhile week is truly a magical experience that fills hearts, transforms lives and blesses the future of every girl who participates.  My daughter’s future has been immeasurably changed by the priceless principles instilled and the unique opportunities experienced while there.  I will be forever grateful for the irreplacable contribution that this marvelous program was in her life.

With deepest appreciation,

SL

Dear Barbara,

Back in 2005 was one of the lowest points of my entire life. I had been inactive from the church for a few years at that point. I was deep in debt and completely lost. My parents were worried about me and they prayed often to find a solution and way to help pull me from the sad place that I had gotten myself into.

That’s when they stumbled upon the site for “A New You”. They offered to pay for me to attend the program and though I was a little nervous about it, I accepted their gift. I attended “A New You” the summer of 2005 and it completely changed my life.

The day after returning home from “A New You” I decided that I needed to move back home in order to get my life back in order. I moved home the following day. I returned back to church and realized that I wanted to help people feel the way that I felt being closer to my Heavenly Father. That December I decided to serve a mission. I was called to serve my brothers and sisters in Italy.

I am home now, I got married to the man of my dreams in the Salt Lake Temple, we have a beautiful one year old son who is the light of our lives.

I just wanted to say Thank You. I am confident that if I hadn’t attended “A New You” that summer, I’d be in a very different place in my life now…Thank you so very much for being inspired. For sharing your story and for being an instrument in Heavenly Fathers hands. In doing so, you were an aide in changing my life. I’m so truly grateful.

My mother and I are attending the Retreat for Women again this year. I am so looking forward to the Spiritual feast that it will be.

Thank you, thank you, thank you,

J.C.

As mothers, of a graduating senior, I am sure that many of you are wondering if you have taught your daughter all that she needs to know as she moves out on her own.  The thoughts are sometimes overwhelming. “Does she know how to do her laundry or clean a toilet?” “Does she know how to bake a pie or even grocery shop for that matter?”  ”Will she know how to take care of herself when I am not there?”  Or more importantly, “Will she continue to strengthen her testimony and stay close to her Heavenly Father?”

This is when it is important to trust our parenting for the past 18 years and trust our Heavenly Father to wrap his arms around our daughters and take over where we have left off.  It’s a time for rejoicing and celebrating the amazing, independent women they have become.

This week, make a list of all of the life lessons you hope that you have taught your daughter and go through it with her.  It isn’t necessarily for her.  It’s really an exercise that will help you with your daughter’s transition from your beautiful child and daughter to your beautiful daughter and friend.

Then breath deep and enjoy the events surrounding such an exciting time of life … for both of you!

I’ve heard it said that if you could envision the person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Something to think about.  Our self-esteem is based on outside influences, our environment, those things outside of us that can fluctuate weekly, daily, even hourly and cause our self-esteem to rise and fall like the tides of an ocean.  On the other hand, our self-worth is the knowledge that we are children of God, that we have divine potential.  If we have a knowledge of this, our self-worth should be constant, unchanging and ever strong.  Analyze the two, self-esteem and self-worth, and make sure that you have high self-worth, then allow your self-esteem to vary only to the point that you are in control of it because you do recognize the worth of your self.

Have a great week!

Whenever we went out to eat in our hometown, she often complimented the waitresses.  One day she told our server, “You’re the best waitress in all of El Paso, Texas.”  Then she went home, opened her file, and took out a blank award certificate that you can purchase in a stationary store.  She filled it out, writing, “To Maria Gonzales, the best waitress in all of El Paso, Texas.”  She then signed it with her name, Hilda Harrell.

I said, “Mother, who are you?  You’re nobody, and you’re giving this lady an award?”

She didn’t care what I thought of her idea.  She then proceeded to cut out paper roses and decorate the certificate.  Everything she did had paper roses on it.  It was just her trademark, I guess.  She then mailed the certificate to the restaurant.

Then it was my turn to be surprised.  The next time I went to that restaurant, there hanging on the wall behind the cash register, in a frame, was Mother’s award certificate.

I said to the cashier, “Oh, it looks like one of your waitresses was named the best waitress.”

The cashier said, “Yes, she received this award.  She was named out of all the waitresses in El Paso.”

I had to smile.  That was my mother.

What can you do today to make someone feel that they are the best anything.  What awards can you give out?  Have fun with it but the important thing is to just do it!

When you receive a compliment, how do you react?  Suppose someone says, “Your hair looks great today.”  Do you respond, “Oh, my hair has never looked so bad — I can’t do a thing with it”?  If someone says, “Your such a wonderful pianist,” do you answer, “Oh, today it was okay, but I don’t really play that well”?

When you respond to compliments in a negative or self-deprecating way, your self-esteem apparently depends not on what is said to you, but on how you perceive it.  If you think that people have ulterior motives or if in your response to them you belittle yourself, then your self-esteem is low.  On the other hand, if someone says, “Your hair looks great” and you respond with a simple “Thank you,” your self-esteem is high.

Think about that for a week and pay attention to how you take compliments.  Even if you are tempted to contradict the “compliment giver”, even if you don’t believe what they are saying, just accept the compliment.  Eventually you will be so good at accepting compliments, you’ll actually start to believe them.  In other words, fake it till you make it.

However, there is no reason to wallow in misery during those trials.  Even in the midst of some of the most difficult trials, there is a way to take control of the rest of your life.  Start by writing down one-word descriptions of those areas of your life that you feel are out of control.  Then write the simple solution to dismiss this problem from your life.  Next, act on that solution.  It may take self-discipline to actually follow through on the action portion, however, the trial that you are experiencing will be a little lighter if you take control of the rest of your life that you do have power over.  Finally, thank your Heavenly Father for giving you the strength to take control.