There could also be plenty of perks to being a well-known influencer, however apparently working with stylists isn’t certainly one of them.
TikTok influencer Ken Eurich just lately opened up about her horrible expertise with hiring knowledgeable stylist to fashion her when she attended the Victoria’s Secret Style Present.
“I really feel like sufficient time has handed the place I can now joke about the truth that I used to be nearly compelled into carrying a slickback bun and a blazer for the Victoria’s Secret Style Present,” Eurich stated in a TikTok video.
She then went on to clarify that Victoria’s Secret had a particular bra they needed her to put on for the occasion, however they didn’t ship the moodboard for the total seems till a couple of week earlier than the occasion, so she determined to rent a stylist to attenuate the stress for herself.
Sadly, that’s removed from what ended up occurring.
“Stylists usually are not low cost, stylists are like $2,500 normally, minimal,” Eurich clarified in the video.
She then defined that the stylist herself didn’t present up, however fairly, despatched an assistant, who got here in with “a sh** ton of blazers” for her to strive on.
“I’m somewhat nervous as a result of I’m like ‘Respectfully if I’m paying $2,500 I wish to be put in an elevated, cool look that I wouldn’t fashion myself in,’” she continued. “And a blazer and a bra will not be my thought of revolutionary. It’s not tremendous cool.”
After attempting on just a few of the blazers, Eurich was sincere with the stylist’s assistant that she wasn’t actually into the concept of carrying a blazer.
“Guys, I child you not, the way in which you’d’ve thought that I murdered somebody, the way in which that everyone began appearing once I stated I didn’t wanna put on a blazer,” she stated.
Nonetheless, the assistant was not taking no for a solution, and continued to push extra blazers onto Eurich, saying it was what the stylist needed to see her in.
Then, after Eurich refused the blazers upwards of 15 instances, she overheard the assistant telling her supervisor that the stylist additionally needed her to place her hair in a slickback bun.
This introduced on a brand new degree of frustration for Eurich, who was totally conscious that individuals had been hating on Victoria’s Secret for giving their fashions slickback hairstyles fairly than their signature bouncy blowouts on the earlier yr’s present.
“That is now missing social consciousness to me. That is missing consciousness that I’d hope you’d have as a stylist to be like ‘No, they’re recognized for the blowouts, we gotta do a blowout,’” Eurich defined.
Finally, Eurich ended up fully styling herself for the occasion, feeling like she wasted her cash hiring a stylist.
Apparently, Eurich will not be the one influencer to have a foul expertise with skilled stylists, as a result of others quickly started to share their tales.
Fellow influencer Tana Mongeau chimed in saying that she has been working along with her stylist Justine Logue for a number of years now as a result of she refuses to work with anybody else after so many dangerous experiences.
“I’ve met so many Los Angeles stylists which might be diabolical!” Mongeau stated in a TikTok. “Stylists will name you fats, such as you’ll present as much as a factor and so they’ll be like ‘Nothing f***ing suits you’ and so they’ll get so upset. I’ve had that occur to me, I’ve additionally seen that occur to different individuals.”
Mongeau additionally clarified that the stylist’s perspective can also be an necessary a part of the equation.
“I additionally really feel like a stylist is a really fascinating factor if combined with, like, ego and narcissism,” Mongeau continued. “That’s one more reason why I like Justine, I really feel like she’s not very egotistical. She’s simply kinda like ‘These garments are dope, and in the event you wanna put on them, put on them.’”
One other influencer, Madeleine White, additionally weighed in on the incident.
Posting a TikTok to her second account, she praised Eurich for talking out and stated, “Superstar stylists don’t wish to work with influencers. They don’t wanna work with you, they wish to work with the singers and the actors and we’re how they receives a commission, and so they act prefer it.”
She went on to clarify that she had as soon as employed a stylist that she had seen to superb seems for different those who ended up being an enormous let down for her.
Ultimately, the one issues she took from them had been a hoop and a pair of footwear, coordinating her designer costume and hair and make-up seems all by herself.
Nonetheless, the stylist nonetheless charged her $3,000 for the service and took full credit score for her look.
“And I’ve by no means employed a stylist once more. So, that was my expertise with a stylist, and yeah, they simply don’t wanna work with us,” White concluded.
