Happy Tuesday, ladies. Welcome to a guest appearance many of you know...Another Experience with Color Analysis.
Linda M is a regular participant and member of this amazing blog community.
So, many of you know that she was gifted color analysis recently and is wiling to share her experience with color analysis today.
I am so thankful to have her join us…and that is where we will begin.
ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH COLOR ANALYSIS: LINDA’S STORY
“Thank you, Pam, for so graciously inviting me into your “space” so I can share my color analysis experience with our community.
I’m excited to tell everyone that it was one of the most informative, positive, valuable and fun experiences I’ve ever had. Yep, it was that good!
I would highly recommend an in-person analysis. Anything that will help me get the best value out of my clothes budget, and make shopping the sea of clothes in the marketplace easier and time-saving gets my vote.
But first, if you have a significant woman in your life, try to get her to do it with you. My daughter-in-law, Megan, gave me a wonderful gift, and it was an experience I’ll never forget … we laughed ourselves silly (often cracking up the consultant too); lifted each other up when vulnerable; and offered lots of constructive feedback after it was over, and we were trying to apply the information to our closets.
I expected to get information, and instead I got an experience similar to what I get when I travel: an intro to a new culture and another perspective.
I did my analysis through House of Colour, and it was obvious the consultant had training (not to mention being a walking advertisement of how striking you look when you get your colors right … she was a brilliant, dramatic Winter).
Because I color my hair, I was draped with my hair covered. Lots of cool vs warm color scarves are draped around your neck in succession, using natural light. I’ve been following Pam’s journey, looking things up and trying to figure out my best colors for a long time, so my result wasn’t a total surprise. Even saying that, some of my best colors were a surprise, and some I thought were fine were not (spoiler alert: burgundy and navy blue were not as good as I’d convinced myself they were). It’s super helpful to have all the colors in the same saturation and same fabric to do the draping. What was apparent to me almost immediately was how rich my color palette needed to be.
Pure white gave me blue shadows under my eyes and especially around my mouth, greyed out my skin, and turned my lips a funny color. It wasn’t just “off,” it truly robbed me of vibrancy. While it was quickly obvious that I needed warm, rich tones and likely was an Autumn, I was especially excited to get a more unique-to-me subseason. This was something I couldn’t ever have figured out on my own. I was typed as … Blue Leaf Autumn (I think Deep Autumn combined with True Autumn in other systems). While in the palette book there are many autumnal colors, the subseason gives you your “wow” colors, your very best. This was where the consultation had the best value to me. My list included kingfisher and peacock blues, dark olives, marine navy, and some golds. But the absolute best on me were the rich browns.
The system has a “three-point red” concept that was super helpful and I’d never heard of. You get three reds that suit you, and are encouraged to match a lipstick to each of them, after which they go with everything in your palette (wait … you only need three lipsticks in your life? Who knew?). One of my reds was a geranium that almost glowed in the dark. When the consultant pulled out that matching lipstick, I almost refused to try it on (thank you, Meg, for backing up the consultant and making me try it! You guys were so right). It was maybe the highlight of the consultation, to realize not only that I could wear that color, but that my face came alive in much more bright and richly-colored lipsticks than I’d been wearing. I’m sure some people know instinctively what colors to wear, and I would say that I was more self-trained to know some of what suited me. But there was no way I could have learned this much without the in person analysis and immediate feedback from a live person. And it’s a real confidence boost, as you can see in my pics. Let’s just end with the info that the “after” pictures were in failing daylight and I still look more glowing. Oh, and that I’m a person who hates, hates, hates to have her picture taken, yet I just had enough confidence to share it on a blog!”
ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH COLOR ANALYSIS: EYE OPENING
Linda and I, both, had an eye opening experience with color analysis…and I am so thankful to Linda for sharing with us.
Get more pictures taken, Linda…you look fabulous!
Her experience was really good for me today, because during fall and winter, I have been slipping back into my autumn garments…warm, but not so bright.
So, this is perfect timing to remind me of my own experience and how I felt when I saw the SPRING PALETTE on me.
Once my eyes are done with the cataract surgery, I will be so excited to see the colors clearly again.
I am more committed now to keep working on a SPRING PALETTE wardrobe…which means it may be time to move out more of the autumn for me….which has tempted me recently.
If you have questions for Linda or for me, please let us know.
Until tomorrow…..(when I have some fun in J.Jill new arrivals)…
EMBRACE TODAY & KEEP SMILING!!
By Pamela Lutrell
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AND WEST TEXAS LADIES…FOR COLOR ANALYSIS CONTACT:
The talented Kimberly Clay, with House of Colour in Abilene