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The True Summer Child
You don’t expect a whirling dervish to come out of someone who looks like Mrs. Claus. Anne of Green Gables … less of a reach. Cruella DeVil … still less. We instinctively expect a personality and a coloring to be associated because it so often works that way.
Makeup Palette Adjustment
Taji asked recently when we would see the photos of how PCA has changed my look. I haven’t had the time but I will soon.
In the meantime, you can see the difference in the makeup palettes I’m using these days. I’m amazed myself to see the two side-by-side. The right colours feel so natural that people tend to look at their old colours as someone they used to be. The change is as much internal as external.
Makeup Model : Clear Spring
This is the yellow undertone of Spring moving closer to the neutral line till it flips to its sister season of Clear Winter. Sometimes, the hair is so dark with very brown eyes that the person is mistakenly classifyied with the high contrast of Winters. Clear Spring is the only season outside of Winter that can pull off black clothing.
Clear and Soft Colours
I was asked a great question. Of course, the only question that is not great is the one left unasked.
The person said “What is a clear color?”
Excellent. As with most things about color, there is no understanding without seeing.
Personal Colour Analysis (PCA) Q&A
There have been a lot of questions about the PCA process. I’m very happy about it. I’ve tried to adress them in an FAQ page. You can reach it from the link in the lower horizontal navigation bar (lighter grey one) just below the header picture, at the PCA FAQs tab.
Anything I’ve missed?
Makeup Model : Clear Winter
I get a lot of emails from women who know they’re Winter but don’t know which one. Good on them to know that there are 3 versions of each season. The Clear Winter (Sci\ART’s Bright Winter) is the bridge to Spring. That means that it still respects the deep, clear, dark colors of all Winters, and is predominantly cool, but it is just slightly warmed by yellow.
Product Review : Clinique Repairwear SPF 15 Foundation
Your initial impression is “No way, this is too masky”. But once it’s all spread out, after about 10 seconds, dayam, it looks good. It feels a little bit heavy if you get too much on, but your skin seems rather perfect. Maybe a little too perfect, but I can get with the drama easily. This is not the formulation to begin with if you’re leery of the artificiality of foundation.
Color Clarification
I changed the content of the Makeup Model : Warm Spring article that was posted yesterday.
The article got written in that way as a crash between my perfectionist self, my very inexperienced self, and the requests I get to tell people their season or have “color parties”. When I say it can’t be done that way and nobody can look at someone and know their season, the look I get back is one of “well, you must not be any good then, because I was told I’m a Spring and I like yellow and you must be holding back so you can be paid”.
Makeup Model : Warm Spring
We can’t shop for clothes without wondering “Is this my color?” At the makeup counter, we’re at the mercy of the taste of the salesperson.
The truth is that nobody knows their innate colors. Nobody. Famous and rich people get it wrong all the time. Until they’ve been analyzed, nobody knows their colors.
And undertones?? Are you kidding?
Book Review : The Omnivore’s Dilemma
What was the last non-fiction book that I could call un-put-down-able? That’s easy. There has never been another one.
I was speechless and spellbound.
Among its numerous awards, Michael Pollan’s book was named by the NYT Book Review as One of the 10 Best of 2006. I would say One Of The 10 Best, period.
