A beauty consultant is someone who provides advice about personal appearance, with a focus on making someone look more beautiful and professionally polished. Beauty consultants work for department stores and cosmetics companies, selling their products by showing people how they work and how they can be used to improve personal appearance, and they can also run private consulting agencies used by people who want to make radical changes to the way they look. Beauty consultants also staff makeover television shows and other services which are designed to provide image makeovers.