If working in fashion or entertainment has always been a dream of yours, then you will want to join Crystal Wright, President of the Crystal Agency, and author of The Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide for an action-packed 1-Day “Build Your Portfolio and Marketing” workshop for freelance Makeup, Hair and Fashion Stylists.
Learn first hand how know the difference between good and bad photographers, which pictures should and should not make it into your portfolio, and what agents are looking for when they are considering a new artist to join their roster.
This 1-Day class focuses on self-promotion, presentation, negotiation, goal setting, and agency representation for the freelance Makeup Artist, Hair Stylist, Fashion Stylist or Manicurist.
Get step-by-step instructions on:
––how to build your portfolio,
––creating comp cards,
––getting an agent to represent you,
––finding the right photographers to test with to build your book,
––what art directors, editors, producers, and photographers want, and
––how much to charge for your services.
Get straight answers on what art directors, fashion editors, and photograhers need when they are ready to hire someone for CD covers, fashion editorials and print ads, New York runway shows and music videos.
GET STARTED TODAY. CALL US AT: (323) 913-0500 TO REGISTER, or visit our link. There’s a class going on right now in your area.
Freelancing is not a spectator sport. It takes cooperation, collaboration, commitment and relationship building. As an agent for freelance makeup hair and fashion stylists I understand, as all [creative] business people do, that in order to sustain and increase the phone calls by decision makers to see an artist’s book, resume, reel or website, there must be a relationship.
Too often artists think networking means schmoozing. But real networking means building relationships. People do business with people they know and like. That can be you, or your booker.
That’s why I make it my business to be visible and accessible to clients, and artists alike. The more I know about the business, the more I’m able to help my artists at CrystalAgency.com as well as those artists who trust me enough buy my book and take my workshops.
I listen, so that I can report, learn, teach and impart knowledge with the objective of bringing you something of value that you can use to be successful.
My mission is to transform the oft times cumbersome and confusing networks of the fashion, entertainment and editorial worlds into meaningful employment opportunities for you.
The goal is simple. Set The Pace, Change the Rules, Define the Game and WIN!
Sincerely,
Crystal Wright
I was expecting to get some information, but I did not think it would be anything in depth as it was from professional goals down to personal goals. I was able to take in the information that I received and actually begin to properly market myself (not just with the business card).
This seminar was an investment. It saved me hundreds of dollars that I was willing to put out to test with other people, because I wasn't educated enough about the industry and how it works. Most importantly, I learned that it is not as difficult to get into this business if you have the right resources.
Thank you so much Crystal!
Warm Regards,
- Sherlley
My name is Lenore Jennings-Shamburger, I have recently completed your book the Hair Makeup & Fashion Styling Career Guide and I just wanted to send you a little note of thanks to let you know that you have changed my life.
I have been in the beauty industry since 1993 and have always aspired to work behind-the-scenes in print and video but I never knew what steps to take to get there. I first heard of your workshops in 2001 but I hadn’t had the opportunity to take advantage of it until now.
I was sharing with your assistant earlier today about how much your book has impacted my life. She encouraged me to send you this email and tell you what we had spoken about.
This book is more than a guide it's God's gift to the beauty and fashion industry. The Hair Makeup & Fashion Styling Career Guide should be made mandatory for every beauty and fashion student enrolled in an accredited school! There are countless gifted artists out there without a clue on how to steer their careers in the right direction. Little do they know that this book houses all the answers.
I thank you so much for taking time to share with all of us and bless us with your wisdom and insight. I have new direction and my path has been set; now I can walk into my season!!!!!! Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.
Thank you Crystal for making this scripture come alive in my life. God bless you and all your endeavors.
Sincerely,
- Lenore
I would like to tell you how much I enjoyed the class on Sunday. I also want to thank you for your advice on how to make my book look as good as it can.
I was really impressed by how well organized and smoothly everything went and how much information you provide. My friends were equally pleased and thanked me so much for bringing the class to their attention.
I am motivated more than ever to work on putting together a really great book that showcase's my range and talent, and thanks to you I believe I really understand how this time.
Stay well and I will keep in touch as new things develop, and next time I am in LA I will give you a call maybe I could buy you lunch.
Sincerely,
- Charles Douglas
This is Brittney Keller from the workshop at Empire yesterday. (I was the one moving to England, with the short blonde hair.)
Anyway, I wanted to send you a quick note to again say thanks a lot for all of the information you shared with us.
After the workshop last night I had to go to Barnes and Noble, and when I was there I noticed a girl that had the perfect look for a test shoot...you know when you just have a feeling that someone would be great for what you're working on? Well, like that.
Anyway, I ran down the sidewalk after her to get her information, and I'll be starting test shoots in the near future. I couldn't help but think that there was no way I would have even talked to her had I not just come from your class.
Well, thanks again and I'll talk to you in the near future.
Sincerely,
- Brittney Keller
I originally brought the hair makeup and styling guide in 1996, with the thought that I would read it and return. I was a poor college student.
I learned many things about being a fashion stylist but i learned about being a photographer and makeup artist and hairstylist and how important it was for all of us to be on the same page.
I was so excited after reading the book, that I hustled up the money for the class which allowed me to hear 1st hand encounters with actual artists and to meet the author of the book––Crystal Wright.
After class, I got one on one time with Crystal, who took a look at my portfolio and helped me to make sure I was heading in the right direction.
I networked and made contacts in that class that I still have today.
I recommend this class to everyone that is interested in getting in the business. This class was the doorway to success for me as a Fashion Stylist and I'm celebrating 10 years and counting.
Sincerely,
-Ca-Trece Mas-Sey
Your packaging your portfolio seminar is what launched my career as a makeup and hair stylist. The class far exceeded it's title - which would make one believe it was just to teach photo layout for portfolio.
In addition to learning layout, we were taught where to get a decent portfolio (the actual book) and, most importantly, we were given valuable information on how to get the ball rolling and get your name/book out there.
Her panelists were also extremely helpful. In leaving your workshop I had the confidence (and a mission statement/one year goal) to really start making some calls.
Thanks!
- Jillyin
Attending your workshop was the best investment I could have ever made for my career. As a hair stylist new to the fashion industry, I didn’t really know what steps to take to enter the fashion and entertainment industries. I had a long term goal…..but didn’t know how to go about attaining it.
You were so specific about which steps to take in order to be successful. Some of the things that she went into detail about where so surprising to me. Among larger issues, she took time out to cover little things such as the proper way to introduce yourself, and the proper way to handle a phone call. I carry with me all the advice that she has given…and IT WORKS.
No one can say that they weren’t able to get results with your advice. Your workshop is the blueprint to success. If you haven’t made any strides in your career after attending this workshop it’s because you haven’t put in the work. You can’t just expect to make it to the top by getting lucky or being talented. As the saying goes, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”.
If you’re looking to enter the Makeup Hair or Styling industries the Crystal Wright Packaging your portfolio workshop is part of the preparation.
Crystal, I give you a lot of credit for where I am today. It’s been 6 months since I attended the class. 6 months ago I was doing hair out of my kitchen and to date I have done a few ads, some catalog work and I was even the Key Hair Stylist during one of the official NYC bridal fashion week shows.
THANK YOU Crystal!!
- Naeemah Carre
Crystal Wright’s Packaging Your Portfolio Workshop is an up close and personal 1-Day interactive class that focuses on self-promotion (comp cards, business cards and websites), presentation (portfolio), negotiation (getting what you’re worth), goal setting (finding direction in your professional freelance career), and agency representation (securing an agent to do all the dirty work) for makeup artists, hair stylists, fashion stylists and manicurists.
In this 1-Day intensive marketing and portfolio building workshop Crystal coaches you through the 13 most important aspects of marketing yourself and accelerating your professional and financial independence as a freelance makeup, hairk, fashion stylist or manicurist for print, video, film, and TV.
Videos
1. Crystal Wright’s Packaging Your Portfolio
2. Frank Moore of Celestine for Crystal Wright
3. Crystal Wright on Goals for Makeup Hair
4. Real Talk on Portfolios by Crystal Wright
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For as long as I can remember, I have always loved people. As a child, I was always friendly and outgoing. My Grandmother, the love of my life, had me involved in every conceivable activity to keep me engaged and out of trouble. I was in the choir at church and in school, on the drill team, on the usher board, the volleyball, track, and basketball teams even though I couldn’t shoot worth a darn. And then, when I was old enough I became a debutante in the Red Rose Cotillion. Another of my Grandmother’s creations.
Before I knew it, I was off to college at Seattle University. The choice of a college showed the first chink in my [friendly and outgoing] armor, as I refused to go more than 32 miles away from home in Tacoma, Washington even though my Grandmother wanted to send me to Spellman in Atlanta, GA. I came up with all kinds of reasons why I should go to Seattle instead of Atlanta. And for the first time ever, she bought it, and let me stay close to home.
The truth; I was scared to death. Scared to be away from everything and everyone I knew. Afraid to [need] to make new friends.
You see, in the small pond of Tacoma, Washington where my Grandmother seemed to run everything, all I had to do was show up, and people that I had never met would recognize me and say “You’re Frances Wilkinson’s grandchild aren’t you?”. With that, I would stand up as straight and as tall as I could and say “Yes I am”. And that was that. I would be introduced to all sorts of people, ushered into special rooms, and treated like the daughter of the Queen.
But just 32 miles away at Seattle University, and unbeknownst to anyone else, I found myself breaking into a sweat at the thought of extending my hand and saying 3 simple words; “Hello, I’m Crystal”. By the time I got to Xerox, where I became a sales rep, the thought of introducing myself in a meeting or making a presentation was paralyzing, though I was fine one-on-one in a situation where I had all the answers.
When I moved to Los Angeles, California in 1982 through a transfer I requested with Xerox, I remember my Mom, who must have had some inclination that I was struggling with the prospect of anonymity, said to me “don’t come back here to Tacoma with your tail between your legs because you get out there to California and no one knows you or your Grandmother.”
There it was. Right in my face. No one would know me. I would actually have to put myself out there to meet people. I was terrified. And I stayed that way for a very long time. Years in fact until’ 1995.
I left Xerox in 1985 to represent a celebrity photographer. Six months later, in March of 1986 he fired me. But in a weird twist of fate, his favorite makeup artist asked me to be her agent .. . The reluctant decision to take on that challenge led me to write a book “The Hair Makeup & Fashion Styling Career Guide .. ”. It was going to be a 16-page manual that gave aspiring artists the information they needed about portfolios, agencies and photographers to launch and sustain a freelance career in makeup, hair or fashion styling. It took me a year. When I finished writing it in 1995 it was 180 pages.
I self-published the book, because everyone I approached about publishing it thought I was crazy. “Hair makeup and what are you talking about” they would say. Funny to think that anyone doesn’t know what a fashion stylist is or does these days with people like Rachel Zoe; think Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan, and Patricia Field of Sex and the City. However, in the 90’s the term was still unknown to many people.
I hadn’t really thought about what 2000 books was going to look like, or how much space they would take up in the garage, until’ they were delivered to my home in LA. Those 2 pallets took up the space of one of our cars––my husband’s of course.
I was mortified. Here I had 2000 books, a few advanced mail orders for the books and no one to buy them. That was when I got over being shy. When the reality of those 2 pallets of books sitting in the garage with no buyers sunk in, out of necessity I reinvented myself into someone who could talk to anyone about anything. It was the reverse of being knocked in the head and waking up with amnesia. When I came to, I was not only a self-published author, but a promoter, publicist, and soon to be speaker.
My mother still shakes her head. Can’t figure it out. My sister the communicator who became an attorney was to be the writer speaker in the family. But while she is now on a path to becoming a judge, I discovered my voice. My God given gift to educate, uplift, inspire, and move.
They walk in at 9AM and walk out at 4PM with the same bad hair-do, from the same bad hairdresser who keeps them waiting for hours for the privilege of having the bad experience.
It just makes me nuts. I want all women to stop it! It's your money, and your hair. The stylist works for you. It's not the other way around. Today is the day you take your power back. Here's how.
10 TEN STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO SHOW YOUR HAIR DRESSER WHO’S IN CHARGE by Crystal Wright
1. Ask the hairdresser to order you a set of the same tools that she uses to do your hair. You can’t get the same bounce at home with a 1-inch barrel, if your hairdresser is using a 2-1/2-inch barrel in the salon. It won’t work
2. Ask the hairdresser what products she uses on your hair, and then note the order and amount of each product that she uses to give you the style you love so much.
3. Start showing up on time to ALL your hair appointments, and the next time your hairdresser keeps you waiting more than 20 minutes for an appointment, leave, or ask for a discount
4. Always have a plan B. If you wait til’ the last minute to get an appointment and your hairdresser is booked you should have at least 3 other numbers in your speed dial who can get you together at a moments notice––even if it costs a little more. Otherwise, do your own hair with those tools from the list that your stylist gave you. 5. Tell your hairdresser what you like about the way she cuts, or styles, or conditions, or maintains your hair, and then let her know that you are looking for someone else to do the other things.
6. Stop tipping your hairdresser when you’re unhappy. It sends the wrong message. You wouldn’t do it with your kids, don’t do it with your stylist.
7. Stop leaving the chair unhappy without letting your hairdresser know why. Your girlfriends cannot solve your hair issues unless they have a recommendation for another stylist.
8. Know when it’s time to get a new hairdresser. If it takes you 3 hours in the salon to get a shampoo, blow-dry, and curl, it’s time to look elsewhere. If the stylist still thinks that Royal Crown is the only product he/she can use to get your hair straight––it’s time to get a new stylist.
9. Build a rapport with your stylist’s assistant, so that if he/she gets backed up in the salon, you can ask the assistant to complete your do.
10. If you’re looking for a new stylist, call the manufacturer [who makes the products that the stylist is using on your hair] and ask for a list of stylists in your area that are considered experts with that hair care line. Set up an appointment to go and meet with them, and spend an hour watching what they do with someone else’s hair.
If working in fashion or entertainment has always been a dream of yours, then you will want to join Crystal Wright, President of the Crystal Agency, and author of The Hair, Makeup & Styling Career Guide for an action-packed One-Day "Build Your Portfolio and Marketing" workshop that focuses on self-promotion, presentation, goal setting, agency representation and branding for Makeup, Hair, Fashion Stylists and Manicurists. Crystal will teach you how to get work on CD’s, fashion editorials, ad campaigns, TV, music videos, and commercials.
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ADDITIONAL CLASS BENEFITS INCLUDE
Review and critique of working artists’ portfolios from other agencies.
A 60-minute Q&A with industry experts that typically include art directors, producers, production coordinators, agents, photographers & celebrity stylists (see panel photo below).
An hour long quarterly conference call with Crystal and classmates to discuss and find solutions for the challenges that arise [for a solid year] after class
Certificate of completion.
STOP! WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND CALL US AT: (323) 913-0500 And payment plans are available!
Class Fee of $459 Includes A day of Education with Crystal Wright, All Materials and Meals, Certificate of Completion, Industry Experts Panel, Quarterly Conference Calls, and much more. Discounts available for Students, MAC PPID Cardholders, and groups of 2 or more.
10% DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR: STUDENTS • MAC PPID CARDHOLDERS • 2 PEOPLE REGISTERING TOGETHER
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