Harmonizing Personality, Style and Make-up

For the world, a person is known by three aspects of his - personality, style and make-up. Personality means body and mind of a person, while his/her style means outlook and behavior with others, and make-up means his/her dress and other outfits on his body. Every one aspect of these creates an impression of the person on the outside world and harmony of all the aspects with each other makes the influences cumulative and hence more intense. Conversely, when the three aspects speak differently, their influences may get cancelled out by each other. 

It is not important what you want to look like but how others perceive your presence. So, social norms of the time play important role in creating influence of a person. Once, I was wandering looking for some wild plants on a water-stream bank, some students saw me and I heard one telling others, "Just see a scientist!" They knew me not and I am nor a scientist in its familiar meaning neither had intentionally tried to look like a scientist. But they perceived me like that due to their own mindset about the scientists. 

The personality is what people perceive out of what the body of the person expresses through its look, and what he/she thinks, and what he/she does. Undoubtedly, this being the originality of the person, plays the most important role in his/her influences on others. Face of the person is the face of the personality. Any artificial manipulations of personality features are easily recognized by others and so create a bad impression of the person. So, be original what you are - nothing more, nothing less, to be treated as a genuine person by the world. Your personality makes the core of  impression while your style and make-up are peripheral and so must be supportive to your personality.


Style includes facial expressions, body language, speaking accent, body postures while sitting, standing, walking etc. One day while walking down to my village from a near-by village, a familiar young-man on a motorbike moving in the same direction stopped close to me and said, "I could not recognize you from your walk which appeared to be of 35." and he offered me a ride to the village. 


The most dominating style feature is your speaking and the surest test of its being effective is that people must listen to you when you speak. In this both the voice and accent matter. But any artificiality in style is easily caught unless you are well experienced in it. The best style for anybody is to have his/her originality with some training and practice to perfect it. Don't copy or imitate anybody else be make your style stronger and exhibitive. 


The last thing comes the make-up including the dress which is looked first by a stranger. Dress may speak of a person's wholeness if he/she wears what he/she likes the most or be what he/she loves to be. While some professions need the most trendy clothes on the body, many others need a casual wear. Everyone of us a spectrum of traits in his/her personality and a spectrum of people and places he/she visits. So, be careful in dressing in accordance with the occasion, or in accordance to whom you are going to meet or impress. For the dashing and adventurous, colorful dress may suit but for the matured mental activists sober colors serve better. White fits all occasions and professions. Only thing one needs to take care is its tailoring and cleanliness. 



Some occasions and opportunities may need you to get easily mixed up with others while some other occasions may demand you to outshine. I call these two occasions as cooperative and competitive. This decides how you are going to dress and speak up on the occasion. Often, social gatherings are cooperative while professionals are often competitive.