Kat Williams Styling

I was going to write a blog about exercise and how that helps me feel better about myself and have some lovely outfit ideas/pics etc etc, but that’s not where I’m at or what I’ve been doing this week and I wanted this blog to be about my journey to becoming/being a personal stylist. To be honest I’ve found this week pretty difficult, I’ve had a lot of self-doubt about myself and my abilities as a stylist. That coupled with the most awful cold I’ve had in ages means I’ve done very little, hence why this blog is a day late. It’s difficult when you start doubting yourself, you wonder if you’ve made the right choice, if maybe you should back out of your decision as that’s the easy thing to do. I feel confident in my style and what I like, but will I be able to help other people do the same? I’ve never really done any of this, so it’s all very new and a little scary! When that seed of doubt is in there, I personally become less productive and procrastinate a hell of a lot (I do that a l...

I’ve always found immense joy in finding things that people love, shopping for the perfect gift for someone’s birthday or Christmas and the excitement of watching them open it and (hopefully) liking what I have bought them. This love of finding things for people was perfect for when I worked in retail. I worked in a beautiful jewellery shop (Tyler Jenkins in Swansea) which was such a great place to work, as they let me use my creative side by allowing me to design some of the displays and I ended up knowing what was in the whole store! If people came in looking for ideas of what to get someone, I would ask them a few questions about who the gift was for and go around the shop pulling different things out for them to look at, mostly it was items they hadn’t even noticed. I also worked in a clothes shop (selling the Bench, Hooch etc) in Cardiff, where the womenswear section was in the basement, so mostly you were on your own down there. When customers came downstairs, I couldn’t help c...

I’ve never been very confident. I was a super shy kid and blushed if anyone talked to me directly, but I gradually got to a point where I could fake confidence to a certain level (although on the inside I was still that shy girl, overthinking everything I said!). Clothes definitely helped me feel more confident and the more I got to know what suited me, or what made me happy, the more confident I felt. When I had my first child I lost a lot of that confidence and a LOT of style. I couldn’t really afford a lot of maternity clothes at the time, so had to stick with the basics and some very questionable hand-me-downs! But it was the post baby, officially new mum stage that was the hardest.   My only decent maternity wear was for work, but that was now not practical or comfortable for dealing with baby puke and nappies. To be honest in the beginning it was a miracle if I made it out of pjs! I remember going for a coffee up with a fellow new mum I’d just met for the first time, it fel...