A client asks you why a color washes her out, and you answer, but it's a little wishy-washy. She holds up two purples and asks which one, and you pick the right one on instinct, but you can't fully explain why. Most stylists I know are good at color in practice. Fewer can talk about it the way they talk about fit or proportion.My guest this week, Carrie Harkin, spent years inside the Nike Color Lab before becoming a personal stylist, and she came into the industry with a technical foundation most stylists never get access to. Now four years into her own styling business in San Diego, she's built an in-person color training specifically for working stylists, and she's done it without taking on the "color analyst" identity that's kept a lot of stylists at arm's length from this work for years.In this episode of The Six Figure Personal Stylist Podcast, Carrie and I get into why color analysis and personal styling have been treated as two separate industries, how she folds color into her own services without leading with it, and why she's chosen to keep her training in person instead of taking it virtual. We also talk about what it took to build a second arm of her business while keeping her one-to-one work steady, and why that order matters.1:23 – How working at the Nike Color Lab informed Carrie’s work and thought process as a stylist4:30 – Two things responsible for the disconnect many personal stylists have with color analysis7:08 – What Carrie discovered as a personal stylist that she didn’t find in the fashion industry8:41 – Why so many stylists have rigid views about the color analysis industry12:01 – How Carrie integrates color analysis into her personal styling services15:00 – How Carrie wanted to up-level her business before joining the Accelerator program17:05 – What needed to be in place already for Carrie to leap into a new branch of her business22:58 – What makes Carrie’s training unique, and why many stylists have such resistance to color analysis30:30 – The shift that happened among skeptics during Carrie’s first training (and how it was faster than expected)33:20 – How AI is presenting an opportunity for stylists who are prepared and a problem for those who aren’t35:36 – Why Carrie refuses to take her training program virtual and insists on giving it in person39:39 – What excites Carrie most about the next four years of her businessMentioned In Why Color Knowledge Belongs in Every Personal Styling Business with Carrie HarkinCarrie Harkin | Color Clarity Training | InstagramBooked, Profitable, and Magnetic Private PodcastFollow Nicole on InstagramLeave a rating and review

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