The company has exclusive rights to cutting edge products, tools and training resources through one of the leading image training companies in the world. With a network of image consultants, The Institute for Image Excellence offers country-wide placement services to businesses and individuals needing image solutions. In addition, the company partners with the aesthetic medical community as a way to complement their procedures and complete the patient's personal image transformation.

Julie Bernier has a dream to build a health and beauty empire. Her journey began in 1985 as a professional makeup artist for Christian Dior in San Francisco, California. After several years, she transitioned into the corporate arena, where she served as an outside sales representative for a Fortune 500 company. She quickly rose to the top as the company's leading national sales executive.

After six years of raising her son Alex and daughter Hope, Julie decided to return to the professional world, this time as an entrepreneur. Leveraging her experience as a makeup artist, she began teaching other mothers how to improve their appearance through makeup application and personal shopping. These experiences served as the catalyst for her first company Lasting Impressions that aimed to help women realize their inner and outer beauty.

Since moving to North Carolina in 2001, Julie has worked as a makeup artist for television and commercial photo shoots and has provided personal shopping, styling, and makeup services to many individual and corporate clients.

Julie has spoken before numerous women's organizations, is the fashion editor for a regional magazine, has authored her own monthly health and beauty column in the Chapel Hill Newspaper and is dedicating to developing partnerships with prominent cosmetic dermatology practices throught the United States.

Julie loves spending time with her beautiful children, practicing yoga, hiking with her dog Cody and of course shopping!