maria Stroika

Image maker-coach, stylist

STYLE STARTS FROM THE HEAD
maria Stroika
Image maker-coach, stylist
STYLE STARTS FROM THE HEAD
ABOUT ME
I’ve been in styling for 16 years now. Started in MaxMara stores in Rimini, continued with the pop stars of the label Blackstar inc, created and styled the costumes of the Eurovision, L’oréal Russia, worked as a fashion editor of glam magazines but switched to creating image, which helps to understand and accept your identity and reveal it through personal style.
ABOUT ME
I’ve been in styling for 16 years now. Started in MaxMara stores in Rimini, continued with the pop stars of the label Blackstar inc, created and styled the costumes of the Eurovision, L’oréal Russia, worked as a fashion editor of glam magazines but switched to creating image, which helps to understand and accept your identity and reveal it through personal style.
I want as many people as possible to become happier, more confident, find and accept the best version of themselves without the miracle of slimming down or “goji berries", but simply through the right image, which supports and reflects the true identity of a person.
MY 15 YEARS AS A STYLIST IN NUMBERS
  • 20 Celebrity and bloggers
  • 50 singers
  • 150 models in magazines and advertisements
  • 600 models for L'Oréal and Schwartzkopf
  • 2,000 real women, 150 men, 19 teenagers
  • 22 master classes, 100 articles in glossy magazines
  • Since 2019, the style expert at ORT «Let’s talk», «City Standard» Moscow 24, RtR
  • Authoring online course
HELP YOU TO GAIN PERSONAL IMAGE AND CONFIDENCE
since 2009
50 €
No style, but you want a quick change?
The magic pill is there - your right palette to the face.
The simplest option and first step to the image - learn your color type and get a personal palette, color type you have one and for life.

Good news, color works with the face absolutely always, regardless of weather/ mood/ just by physics.
Your color type finds a relative on the face and improves.
The bad news is that if the color does not fit the face, it will highlight all the shortcomings.

It is the definition of the color type and the selection of clothes according to your palette the fastest and easiest, often first step and to a new image and to a wow-effect with a lot of attention and compliments! Tested on 2000 of my clients and over 100 years of existence of the theory on stars and celebi.

You get:
  • colortype
  • online Webinar on Color
  • + guide on the colors
  • your personal palette of the right colors, dyes and make-up
  • my audio comments on the video.
150 €
This consultation helps to learn your natural appearance parameters that do not change during life, they are innate and on their basis you should build your style concept.

All the Hollywood stylists build their image of the concept of stars based on these parameters, and this consultation allows you to learn them. Also get my clear recommendations and presentation with your style concept so you can easily implement it into life and find your personal image.

You get a definition of all the key parameters of your appearance: type, psychotype, color type, shape type. Plus you get a mini-presentation with the formulas of your wardrobe and my consultation in audio-format by WhatsApp. Deadline of 14 working days.

The consultation includes:

  • my audio message with your parameters, or 40 minutes online consultation
  • mini presentation with your palette, color-matching rules,
  • recommendations on haircuts and hair color,
  • your personal recommendations for basic wardrobe, accessories, shoes, tops and bags

The mini-presentation includes:

Personal palette, color scheme, makeup palette, hair coloring and hairstyling forms, description of your psychotype, list of your base, recommendations for jewelry, accessories, headgear, tops, bags and shoes. 2 slide with examples of your image. You get 30 pictures with examples of how to wear these things.

In my experience, many people have enough of this introductory recommendation of a specialist and short instruction to understand where to go next.

This consultation is a great start, your first and main step towards shaping your personal image!
700 €
In the life of each of us there comes a moment when with full wardrobe you have nothing to wear, half things as if from another life, there is a desire to move forward, but it is not clear what to wear, what to leave in the wardrobe and what to throw away forever... If you have stopped liking what you wear now, it is time to drip deeper and build a personal image that reflects your personality, so for years to come always was that you wear and self-confidence was with you in any situation!

After my work on your image you will have order not only in the closet, but also in the head!

You get:

Full diagnosis of current image problems and their solution
knowledge about your natural characteristics and appearance, on which the image is built (psychotype in the image, color type, type, proportions)
4 online meetings (setup session with your parameters, online wardrobe review, online shopping, consultation with your personal lookbook )
The brochure with your personal palette, recommendations based on your external data and a query for the current life period that your image will help you to solve.

The lookbook is personal and includes about 1000 variations of images that you can make regardless of fashion trends and the time of year. It includes: palette, top clothes, all your basic wardrobe with examples, jewelry, shoes, bags. This album can be printed and it, like a magazine, will always be at your fingertips. You will also always know what to wear, inspired by your trick book.

After a month working with me, you will have a clear plan of purchases as well as shops where to buy these things. Some of them we will buy in the process. Also not only remove all the unnecessary things from your wardrobe, but you will understand why these things are better to «go».

More than 1,500 clients have already worked with me for a month. And everyone is celebrating not only the transformation of their image and the sense of confidence, reduction of time, power, money and nerves in choosing things, but also positive changes in their lives, and achieving the goals set with ease.
50 €
Often the wardrobe is full, but always nothing to wear and a ton of effort, time, nerves to choose the image or you just wear the same. Over the years I have disassembled more than 2000 customers' wardrobes. And, believe me, in the cloaked wardrobe is a large number of bows that you will wear with pleasure, just have to sort them together with me!

The service includes:
  • offline - my arrival to you, you take out everything from the wardrobe and we form images and give out what to buy. I’m taking pictures of you in new images from old things. Then within a week I send you the photos with comments so that you have an album, what specifically and how to combine with.
  • online - you need a little more involvement, as it is necessary to photograph yourself in everything available and send me in Telegram.
Next, for a week, I send you comments in voice and write out your images, make an album.

As a rule, after this service harmony comes and in the closet, and in the head, because after the analysis you come out with a clear understanding of what and how to combine and what should be bothered by you.

Cost:
offline - 50 € per hour (from 2 hours)
online - 80 € session
The wardrobe and shopping escort (online and offline) is made for clients who were in my consulting.
CLIENT PERFORMANCE
Over the years, I have had more than 2,000 clients. I am very grateful to those who have allowed us to publish our work in the form of photographs. All photos "before/after" I publish only with the client’s consent.

If you are my client and want to publish the story, please let me know.
IMAGE AND STYLE MASTER CLASSES
Master classes on image tools and style I have been conducting around the world since 2017
Photo with master class in Turkey, where each participant received a definition of the color type and a personal palette as a gift. It was very emotional and educational.
Master class on creating paired images with your pets with the HUNTER International brand in Moscow.
Master class on fashion and style at L'oreal Russia Academy and at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia.
My comments on the presentation of a joint project by Karim Rashid and «Maria» kitchen.
MY PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY
2009 г.
University of Bologna, Italy graduated with a degree of stylist-image-maker and fashion producer. Decorated the MaxMara fashion Group stores in Rimini, Riccione - my first job in the profession, then became a manager of MaxMara for working with customers from Russia and CIS.

2010 г.
Returned to Russia and my clients were Sergiy Lazarev, Timati, Karina Cox, Gigan, Hik, DJ Meg,, Yulia Savitchev, Alexander Marshall, Later Egor Creed, Moth, Kristina Sea, group «Fruit» (Evening Urgant), television Mairy Smooth, it girl Veronica Fedova, Bloggers Pavel Bobrov and Maria Kolosova, director of the agency Live PR Agency Marjana Platonova, Brioni.

2012-2015 г.
Director of the fashion department in magazine «Rabbit Magazine» (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg), «Lifestyle» (Sochi). I have 10 covers of magazines. Also collaborated with TNT channel and program «Durnušek.Net», dressed commercials for SBERBANK, Samsung Galaxy and FLy, Puma.

2016 г.
Created costumes for Sergei Lazarev at the Eurovision in Stockholm.

2015-2018 г.
Costume Artist Loreal Russia Models for international shows L'oreal Matrix (2015, 2016), Nyx (Make up days launch of the brand, Atrium), Urban Decay (fashion night out 2015), Garnier in collaboration with Eugénie Grey, business forum L'oreal Professionnel (2017), Schwartzkopf Blond Me (2017).
2017 г.
Started to actively conduct workshops around the world, including acting as a fashion expert and conducting daily workshops
and lectures at the L'oreal Pro stand as part of Mercedes Fashion week fw 2017/18.

2018 г.
Started an instagram and opened private practice of consultations, my clients became: Elena Karkuklyli - founder of the Faceday school, FC Spartacus footballer Ilya Kutepov, members of business club entrepreneurs «Transformer» and «Business Youth».

2019 г.
Style expert «Let’s Talk» ORT, "GOST" Moscow 24, Friday TV, World TV.

2020 г.
Launched the author online course «Style starts from head» and continue to conduct social networks, help find myself through image.

2021 -2023 г.
Preparing for the release of the book «Style starts from head. 7 steps to personal image». I work as an image coach, helping to achieve the set of tasks faster, with the help of correctly chosen wardrobe.
CELEBRITIES
FASHION
Stylist and costume designer
As fashion editor in several fashion magazines, for a few years, from 2011 to 2015, I wrote monthly articles, reviews of trends and fashion shows, thought out the concepts of fashion shoots and fully implemented them up to the pages of the magazine.
L'OREAL
FASHION SHOW L'OREAL

Between 2015 and 2017 worked on creating the style concepts of international shows and advertising L'oreal Matrix Russia and L'oreal Pro Russia. As a costume designer, I created each model’s image for shows and exhibitions.
MASTER-CLASS L'OREAL IN MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK FW18

In spring 2018 I was an expert at the L'oreal Professionnel stand, as part of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week FW18 fashion week, with daily lectures on current and upcoming season trends. Gave expert comments to the exhibition of Vyacheslav Zaytsev.
GARNIER
Within the framework of cooperation with L'oreal Russia, I constantly held workshops at the L'oreal Academy.

For example, for this project with Garnier, we with stylist Evgeny Sedoy transformed 3 participants who won the online contest.
#theblondevent
SCHWARTZKOPF
One of my most ambitious projects was #theblondevent @schwarzkopfproru, where I was a costume designer .
Created a concept of 100 different images for 100 different blonde models, and then successfully implemented them together with my team 1322 Concept Moscow and hair stylists from Schwartzkopf!
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