Color consultation
Mother/Daughter Mini-Makeover
What a great birthday surprise: One cool Atlanta mom recently flew her adult daughter from New York City to St Louis for a girls’ getaway weekend and mystery birthday surprise – a color consult and mini-makeover. A couple of things that came up in that session might apply in your life too.
Read MoreColor Certainty on Craftsy.com
In my video on the Craftsy.com e-learning platform, 3 models helped me demonstrate the factors that determine any woman’s optimal wardrobe colors. After the rush of the taping was over, I had a chance to create full Color Fans for each of them … and thought that seeing the results could help YOU evaluate color…
Read MoreReader Example of Value Contrast
After last week’s post about value contrast levels, a reader named Valerie emailed me a photo of her outfit and asked for input. I though the ensuing discussion might interest the rest of our group, and Valerie agreed to share it. Valerie described herself as high-contrast, with a preference for black-and-white and bright colors. The…
Read MoreInvaluable Info on Value Contrast.
In any visual composition, attention goes first and foremost to the area of greatest light/dark or bright/dark contrast. Since the objective of an optimal outfit is putting the attention on your face, that means that you never want to wear a color combination with more light/dark contrast that you see in your personal color pattern.…
Read MoreFinding Color Value Balance
“Value” means how light or dark a color appears. Your personal color pattern has value too. When the two don’t connect, your head looks disconnected from your body – that’s kind of weird, no? And it makes you look shorter and heavier – not too many woman are looking for that effect! Here are…
Read MoreColor Certainty is the Key
Nothing – absolutely nothing – is more critical to looking your personal best than defining your unique group of most flattering colors. Color is the first thing people notice about what you are wearing. It’s more important that than the figure-flattery of the style. More important than the fit. More important than the price tag…
Read MoreFinding Your “Key Neutral”
Although the retail fashion world insists that every woman should choose black as her base neutral, they do that to make their inventory management more profitable, not because it makes us all look our best. In truth, the more enhancing neutral for a woman’s wardrobe nearly always relates closely to her hair color. We are…
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