RSSDemo : Online Color Analysis
February 20, 2009
No personal appearance tool can compete with getting your colors right every time.
You can have any amount of style and the best genetics in existence. If you don’t get your colors right, you will NEVER EVER be your best you. Not in appearance and not psychologically. When a woman has the right colors on, she carries herself completely differently, whether she knows it or not. Her demeanor snaps into place. It takes a whole lot more to rock her and the message comes through loud and clear.
It is in entirely within your power and budget to NEVER make a wrong clothing, makeup, or hair color choice again. To ALWAYS wear the most gorgeous colors on you when shopping for evening clothes.
The color systems are no less true for men. Power dressing will never be possible till you get your colors right. Men spend serious money on their suits and expect to wear them for years. A Winter man in a pea green shirt or a dusty grey suit – that mistake cost him in impression and in cash. None of this is lost on the other men in the workplace though they may not be able to articulate the hesitation. You either look sharp or you look dull. And if this is a good gift for a woman, it is such a good gift for a man, it hurts. They would NEVER take the time to figure this out and following it has to be easy, but they’re the ones who want to make the power impressions foremost.
You met Lora Alexander back in Sites To Know : Pretty Your World.
This is the age of the internet, the most accessible teaching tool there has ever been.
Watch Lora do an analysis of me. I filled out the questionnaire on her site . I sent her the pictures you see below, and a few others so she could choose the most useful.
First some general notes from Lora that apply to all Color Analyses:
1. All photos will help me get a general idea of your coloring…depth, intensity, etc. The more photos the better. Even if some are not in the greatest light, or you are wearing a hair color that you later changed, all pictures will help me analyze your coloring. The critical ones are the plain-faced photos (no makeup) in sunlight, and the close-up of your eyes. It is also helpful to send in some photos of you in a color you think suits you, or in several colors.
2. The plain-faced pictures will help me see any obvious undertones in your skin as well as any freckles. The sun reveals the “true” coloring of the skin. Any other light could alter colors dramatically.
3. The very first thing I look for is an obvious sign of one of the six dominant characteristics: Deep, Light, Warm, Cool, Soft or Clear. “Deeps” usually are the easiest to spot. “Soft” is the most difficult, because they can also be a “Light” and it gets more difficult to analyze.
An example of an obvious “Warm” celebrity is Clay Aiken. The first thing you notice (if he hadn’t died his hair a brown color) is his red hair and freckles. Danny Bonaduce ( remember Danny on The Partridge Family?) is another obvious Warm. So the first step for me is looking for that OBVIOUS dominant characteristic. If I don’t see one, and that happens more times than not, then I will automatically eliminate the seasons that they OBVIOUSLY are NOT.
Using Jennifer Aniston for an example, I can eliminate Deep, Light (she’s ‘light’, but not Gwyneth Paltrow “light”). Neither Warm or Cool are blatant characteristics on her. I don’t see a Cameron Diaz-like “Clear”-ness to her either so that leaves “Soft”.
I will then look for photos of her in the traditional “Soft Autumn” or “Soft Summer” colors and see which flatter her most. Along the way if I see her in a color that just makes her come alive…and that color is almost entirely exclusive to a certain season like Black is for Winters, and I’ve already eliminated Winter as a possible season for her initially, it’s back to the drawing board.
4. Regarding freckles : unless someone has been protected from the sun their whole life, they will probably have some sort of freckle or age spot on them. If you are a Warm Spring or Autumn, they will be more pronounced than others since they have less melanin to protect them; and they will be the traditional brown freckles, as Lindsay Lohan had in “The Parent Trap”. So looking for freckles tells me about how the skin reacts to sun. The color of the freckles gives me more information but generally speaking, the freckles are lower down the list of things I look at.
5. Last, the eyes will be the determining factor in most cases. This can be very important.
6. If I’m really undecided about a person, I will ask if they have a photo of them when they were little. Right around 4-7 years old is a time when your coloring is as perfect as any in showing the world your true colors.
Christine
In Christine’s case, eye color was the telling factor in whether she was a “Warm” or a “Deep” Autumn.
She definitely has warmth in her skin, so Warm is her predominant color characteristic. She could be an Autumn (Soft, Warm, or Deep Autumn) or a Spring (Warm type).
If her eyes were a deep dark brown, that could signify a “Deep Autumn”. However, the intensity level was much lighter.
If they were a very light color, that could signify a “Warm Spring” or “Soft Autumn”. But hers are more of a medium intensity, moving Warm Spring and Soft Autumn lower on the list. Yellow flecks in the eye almost always signifies an Autumn.
For a moment, I thought she could be a Soft Autumn, but one photo showing her wearing a pinkish-coral top seemed too “weak” of a color for her, which again signifies that her warm coloring needed stronger (but not too strong) coloring.
So I made my determination that she was indeed a “Warm Autumn”.
Christine’s picture at age 11 helped me determine her intensity level as well. Her hair was not a light blonde, which would have been an indicator that she might be a light or soft season. The picture helps determine the intensity level of the coloring.
To read 2 other great examples of how Lora does her Color Analyses, follow this link to her Q&A page http://www.prettyyourworld.com/Questions-and-answers.html . These are far more challenging analyses, on Hillary Clinton and Britney Spears.
Wanting a sense of your own colors starts like any change : by WANTING. There is nothing else you need to do. Eventually, you create a strategy that works for YOU. So, what can you do today? Can you send a few pics of you in an e-mail ?
Climb up to the next level of you.
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Wow; great article. Thanks for allowing us to see your analysis pictures. I’ve always wondered about the way people appear so changed by hair and makeup colors and you can’t even guess their ‘real’ coloring.
I also appreciate the clarification about the seasons. I started reading about them many years ago ~ ;ate 80s, eary 90s ~ and am still not sure exactly what season I fit as I get a different one depending on which trait I’m using! 12 seasons makes much more sense. I’ve put the analysis on my “really want” list…. hopefully I can afford it in the near future!
Thanks again for all the help!
Glenda
Hi, Glenda,
Thanks for the comment. Part of color analysis is quite scientific, really a process of elimination in some ways. The other part is completely an art form.
Sometimes, I’m not sure the 12 seasons is enough – especially in the Soft category. It seems to take in very many types of coloring that I find quite distinct. But there has to be a limit or it becomes unmanageable.
Once you get where you fit in the 12, you can play a little and decide where along the spectrum you fit in best. Maybe it’s a little like the signs of the Zodiac in that all 12 are quite distinct but depending on where you fit in the calendar, you may share some traits with one of your neighbors.
I have a lot of color in my skin (but very little in my cheeks which is an Autumn thing; Spring has a lot of cheek color usually; Summer often has no color anywhere) and can wear many colors of the Deep Autumn very well. Too soft and I wash out.
I hope you are able to get your colors and swatches done soon! It transforms your shopping experience when you have your colors in your hand.
I think Lora Alexander is great with color analysis. It’s fun to look at Pretty Your World. You are a really difficult person to analyze. Your skin looks warm toned, but the close-up of your eye reveals definite cool tones. I’m not surprised that you ended up being a Dark/Deep Winter.