This document provides cost effective tips for corporate grooming. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining good hygiene, dressing appropriately, and developing good communication skills to project confidence and professionalism. Specific grooming tips are provided for both men and women, including maintaining clean hair, nails, hands and teeth. Recommendations are made for modest clothing, accessories, makeup and footwear that are suitable for the office. Adopting these basic grooming habits is suggested to boost self-image without significant cost.

1. Corporate Grooming With Cost Effective Tips
Introduction:
Every company wants that their employee should be the best, thus corporate gives best platform to
reiterate the importance of first impression. Everyone among us is not blessed with best height, body,
figure and looks but that doesn’t means we are incapable. Many of us belongs to this category, and
sometimes don’t we feel unhappy, demotivated, depressed and also sometimes sense rejection?
Stop envying your friends colleagues and now just look forward very carefully, do we really have answer to
this question, and to your no surprise but yes…
Yes we do have answer to it, but you have to work on yourself and you need a change.
How do you plan this change?
The key objective of this article is to address basic grooming for corporate professionals and also to help
them in their endeavor to look smarter and feel more confident with no or least cost.
Personal Grooming is important for a positive self-image and every effort should be made to encourage and
assist the resident to maintain a pleasing and attractive appearance. Some of the perceptions can be forms
solely from your appearance are:
Your professionalism
Your credibility
Your intelligence
Your level of sophistication
How Corporate Grooming helps?
1. It gives you confidence by creating feel good factor essential for personal effectiveness.
2. Projecting a high-quality company image
What are your elements need to be groomed?
Positive personal outlook
Communication Skills (Verbal & Nonverbal )
Etiquette & Behavior
Personal grooming and attire
Basic Grooming: This is a must for each and every corporate professional.
1. Hygiene should be maintained like when you enter office there should no bad odor from you, always
care deodorant with you (Mild Fragrance)

2. 2. Nails should be trimmed and clean.
3. Hands should be always clean; in case you are perspiring keep handkerchief handy, wipe your hand and
then go ahead for handshake.
4. Clean and ironed clothes
5. Hair should be neatly combed and well maintained. Only one or two shade light or dark hair color
should be used.
6. Teeth should be clean and smell free. Brush twice daily, rinse after every meal.
7. Shoes should be neat, well conditioned and clean. Keep it polished, you may keep a pair of shoes in
office during rainy season.
Grooming for men
1. Trends &Latest fashion: Short spike hair cut is in. Pants with plates are obsolete; these days straight
fighting pants with narrow bottom have become choice of crowd. Shirts with different variations are
available in market.
2. Hair style:
Short length hair is preferred, currently you come across many trendy hair style and cuts chose the
one which suits you best. Don’t hesitate to experiment on hair cut but keep length of your hair
above collar.
If your hair is too dry, use hair oil and water in same proportion and apply.
3. Clothes:
Pants should be an inch longer than your length which will cover your shoe heels.
If you chose suit to wear dark suit will be the best at any place may it be presentation, meeting,
conference or gathering.
Shirt you select should be of right fitting, no dropping shoulders.
People with tummy should avoid horizontal line shirts. Vertical line shirts make then look slimmer
and tall.
Avoid wearing too shiny, too tight or too big clothes.
4. Footwear’s:
Well polished and good condition leather shoes (Black or dark brown)
Shocks should be dark color matching to trouser, avoid wearing short length shocks
5. Accessories:
They can maintain a decent pen in their pocket.
Watch, Belt and handkerchief will end their list.
Grooming for women
1. Trends & Latest fashion:: For women options remains endless, bright color top, narrow bottom
trousers and lose shirts are very have become trendy are stylish. Kurtis and leggings are in latest
fashion, long shirts with trousers are in fashion as well suits to maximum crowd let it be slim of baggy
people.
2. Hair style:
Neatly combed, if straight you can leave it open or else tie neat pony or plates which ever suites
you.

3. Hair style should be such that hair should not fall on your face, eyes.
3. Clothes:
Indian Style:
In salwar suits, you just have to take care of its color and design. Cotton material is best as it never
goes out of fashion. Generally chudidar salwar is preferred in formal dress.
Neatly plated and pinned saris with decent high neckline blouse should be appropriate.
Western Style:
Suits can be good option for female too, shirt blazer and trousers or a-line skirt.
Normal shirt and trousers are also well-matched for slim female.
Now days there is trend of long shirts with trousers or leggings, (leggings are in fact not a formal
wear) easy to maintain and look very stylish also.
Avoid wearing too tight, low cut neck, too reveling or too short.
4. Make up:
Light colors are preferred and trendy too.
There are lipsticks, lip gloss, nail paint and other make-up product available with are suitable for
office use too.
5. Shoes:
Leather Sandals, shoes are preferred, neat and clean. (slippers and fancy shoes should be avoided)
Avoid very high heels, flashy shoes.
6. Accessories:
5 accessories are good in number, among which Watch is at 1 st then ring and ear rings you can add
2 more.
Bead necklace are evergreen, heavy pendants with bead necklace are also in and trendy.
There is always different recipe for different dish, thus choice accessories suiting your position and
job profile.
Research shows people in profession of mass media, training and development, should wear
something which attract attention of crowd, may be bead necklace with big pendant. This will help
to draw attention of crowd and keep their eyes fix on you.
All this doesn’t cost you much, just go along with changing trend and you will be always in.
These small things will help you enhance your personality but hard work (nowadays smart work), attitude
can never be replaced with anything.
Enjoy change and share your experience and new trends that you find useful