What is a Colour Analysis?
Colour analysis for your Personal style
Have you ever had your colours done?
Are you aware of the benefits to your look by wearing your colours?
If you're a young woman or a mature woman, wearing the right colours is really a style game changer.
(Young woman before and after wearing her colours)
If you're a mature woman, wearing the right colours is more important, than when you were younger because the aging process accentuates all your flaws.
If you notice yourself, often looking a little dull and drab, you may just be wearing the wrong colours.
Even celebrities can improve on their colours
An example of her wearing the right colours is on the right.
To maintain a youthful look, she should continue to wear the colours in the image on the right.
Women in the right Colours
A professional colour analysis, will help you find ALL the right Colours in your Seasonal Colour Palette.
It's all about the underskin tone
Colours really change the way you look.
To show the client the right colours that suit them, the stylist will have a serious of cool, warm, dominant and muted coloured drapes.
The draping kit will have a variety of shades to demonstrate just how much the skin colour is affected by placing swatches against the skin.
It's up to the colour consultant to reveal to the client just how each colour affects the way they look
At first glance this coral swatch may appear suitable but the clarity of the skin, eyes, hair and lips is muddied on the left.
As mentioned the wrong colours are less noticeable on younger women.
The pink swatch shows how flattering the cooler shades are on this model.
(Note how the Coral colour adds an orangey warm tone?)
The next steps are to drape the client with one of each season in red, blue, green, yellow blue and white drapes.
The client will see how the different tones change the way she looks.
She will notice the wrong colours make her look older, duller, and less attractive.
The wrong colours highlight dark shadows, wrinkles, lines, pigmentation and redness. The right colours give clarity, brightness, freshness and youthfulness.
(It's obvious just how much younger, slimmer and more attractive this mature woman appears when she wears the right colours, on the right)
The process of a colour analysis
Since the 60's Colours has gone through major changes.
Originally Colour me Beautiful and other Colour Companies and Franchaise had just 4 seasonal palettes. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
From there many Colour systems emerged, making way for many different interpretations as well as mass confusion.
The 4 Colours system is and was accurate, but many untrained and unskilled analysts misdiagnosed clients, hence many more confusing systems appeared, deeming the original system, not enough.
The analysis is only as good as their interpretation of the process.
Why are the 4 seasonal palettes so accurate?
There are an infinite number of colours. At least 2.5million
When you think of it, every colour on the planet can fit into one of 4 categories.
The categories are Cool Dominant, Cool Muted, Warm Brights or Warm Deep Colours.
So when the colour consultant does your analysis, they need to find the right palette that "blends" with your underskin tone.
They also need to have a good knowledge about how to slot the 2.5 million plus colours into the right category.
There are so many different seasonal colour swatches on the market, and many have combinations of all the colour categories in the one seasonal palette.
So women are confused and go back to wearing any old colour or lots of black
I have seen so many women like this, which is a real shame as they never experience the beauty of colour
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Five ways to know if you're wearing your Colours.
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How to wear your neutrals
How to wear your neutrals
What is a neutral colour?
I would describe a neutral colour as one that is quite benign. One that's not screaming for attention, and one that's a base for all of your other amazing colours.
Not everyone feels good in a pink and green outfit for example but they may enjoy wearing perhaps a green top with a neutral like grey.
It's good to start your wardrobe with your neutrals then add your colour in next.
But are all neutrals created equal? Definitely not. Many stylists are firm about having a base of dark cool neutrals like black, pure white, greys and navy’s with a splash of brown thrown in. But those neutrals are only found in the Winter Palette. Black doesn't go with everything, as we've been led to believe. And Winter neutrals don't go with Summer, Spring or Autumn neutrals.
As a colour consultant of 20 years, I have found these ideas to be quiet damaging as a whole to the fashion industry. Using black as a style staple is not useful to your Image picture.
Here's an example of working with a warm Autumn neutral and Black a cool dominant neutral to create a mismatched look.
YOU NEED TO FIND YOUR COLOURS AND THEN WORK WITH THE NEUTRALS IN YOUR PALETTE ONLY
For a stylish, complete, co-ordinated wardrobe that suits you down to the ground, you need to work with YOUR neutrals only.
The reason being, neutrals from another palette will not look good on you, and also will not go with the other shades or neutrals in your palette.
THE NEUTRAL COLOUR PALETTES.
Some stylists categorize people as neutrals. But I like to call only colours neutral not people.
Every colour is either a Cool Deep or dominant colour,(Winter) a cool muted colour,(Summer) a deep warm colour (Autumn) or a warm bright colour (Spring)
That's it. Every colour on the planet will slot into one of four palettes only. And you will be one of the four palettes as well. No sub colours or flow people in my opinion. Some colours "flow"but not people.
THE COLOUR SWATCH BOOKS FOR THE FOUR SEASONS
Get your colours right. There is Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter. What season are you and there is no need for any sub seasons.
You will have thousands of colours to choose from that will all look amazing on you.
So what are the four types of neutrals I’m speaking of?
Warm Deep or Autumn neutrals are lovely deep olive greens, rich creams, clays, golden browns, deep apricots, muddied burgundies and pumpkins to name a few as well as rich warm khakis and golds.
The bright Spring neutrals on the other hand are still warm but much lighter than their deep counterparts, so colours like light soft caramels, light creams, warm light browns, tans, peaches and apricots are part of the Spring neutrals.
Moving into the cooler palettes we have the boldness and clarity of the deep Winter colours, black, pure white, all greys, silvers, dark navys and deep deep browns.
Forget burgundy as some may include in the Winter palette. I reserve that for the muted cool neutrals of Summer. The denim which is a winter denim is dark navy blue.
Summer neutrals are cool and soft and muted. Ones like off whites, soft grey, cool taupes, cool beiges, light cool khakis, burgundy and maroons create a nice base and don’t forget your dusty navy’s. Please don’t forget light denim teams best with these colours.
With all this in mind you can see there is a plethora of colours, considered to be neutral.
So once you know your colours, you can stick to the neutrals within your season for best results. Ask your consultant how to incorporate these into your wardrobe.
It’s always best to get professional advice about your colours and be sure the colours actually “fit”with you.
If your not happy with your results after a colour analysis, my advice would be to get a 2nd and sometimes even a 3rd opinion until you get your colours right.
I have had so many clients over the years who have had their colours done incorrectly.
There is a mindfield of systems now so I hope you find a solution that’s right for you.
HOW TO TELL IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT COLOURS?
Here are a few checkpoints.
You'll look younger and more attractive in your colours
Your hair colour will compliment your colours
3. Your make up will blend into your skin and not sit on top
4. You will have 100’s and 100’s of colours to choose from
5. You will feel at peace in your colours
6. All the clothes in your wardrobe will coordinate
7. You will have heaps of outfits even if you have a small wardrobe (capsule)
8. You’ll always get compliments about what your wearing
9. You'll find it easier to accessorize and mix and match
You’ll look very stylish all the time.
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