Color Theory
Remember the 4 Season Color theory made famous in the book
Color Me Beautiful
by Carole Jackson and the color craze that ensued in the 80's?
Everyone got "analyzed" to find out whether they were a Summer, Winter, Autumn or Spring. As I stated in my “About” page, the book changed my life and it made me realize why a old brown sweater of my dad’s that I’d sometimes where looked better on me than a cute pink one with flowers. It also made me realize I had an eye for color analysis. The book was a huge success but by the 90’s the popularity faded. There are some who think the whole thing was just a fad, that people can where whatever color they want to and look great; that people shouldn’t be ‘confined’ to a limited number of colors in their ‘palette’. Pretty Your World couldn’t disagree more! Sure, you CAN wear whatever color you want to. But if you want to look YOUR BEST, you’ll want to wear colors that harmonize with your natural coloring. It’s really that simple. Color Analysis is NOT A FAD! In fact, it’s scientific, based on the 1898 color theory by artist and professor Albert Munsell. Click here for more information about his theory. Its effects are profound. And it can simplify your life by eliminating bad shopping choices in clothes, makeup, hair color and even jewelry and accessories. Think of the time and money that can be saved! However, there was only one drawback to the 80’s color craze and that was the 4 Season Color Theory (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn) was not complete. It only focused on two aspects: whether a person was Warm or Cool, and whether they were light or dark. A Dark Cool person would be a Winter. A Light Cool person would be a Summer. While this analysis worked perfectly for a quarter of the population, there were many more that it didn’t work as well for. For example, it was found that some people can wear both warm and cool colors and look great. (Discovering in high school that as a Warm Autumn I ‘owned’ brown as a color, it really perplexed me when my friend, who was clearly a winter, could also wear dark brown and look great. It wasn’t fair. But I found out later it was because she was a Deep Winter, who could wear the deeper colors of the Autumn palette). Eventually the 4 Season theory was later refined and developed into the more complete and more accurate 12 Season Color Theory. I’m a big believer in this system. I’ve seen other color systems that are based on the 12 seasons but they put a different name on it. And some systems I’ve seen make no sense to me at all. I hunted around to find a company which produced color swatches based on the 12 palette system (the search took me to Australia, actually). I think they are
the best swatches you can buy.
Each person will have 1 of 6 dominate “characteristics” in their coloring which is the primary determining factor in analyzing them: they are Deep...Dark and rich. Think Cher or Kim Kardashian Light...Light and delicate. Think Gwenyth Paltrow or Heather Locklear Soft...Soft & muted. Think Sarah Jessica Parker or Jennifer Aniston Clear...Clear & bright. Think Courteney Cox or a young Liz Taylor Warm...No cool undertones. Think Reba McIntyre or Sarah Ferguson Cool...No warm undertones. Think Christy Brinkley or Liz Hurley To illustrate: If you have deep coloring, then the second determining factor is whether you look better in warm colors or cool colors. If cool colors flatter you best, then you are determined to be a “Deep Winter.” However, the most important factor is that you are “Deep” so wearing what was considered a traditional “winter” color that is light in color won’t work for you. In fact, you can wear some of the deep colors of Autumn as well. Deep Chocolates or Deep Forest Green will look great on you, for example. You are either a Deep Winter or Autumn Light Spring or Summer Clear Winter or Spring Soft Summer or Autumn Warm Autumn or Spring Cool Winter or Summer So essentially, each of the original 4 seasons were split into 3 more defined and more accurate seasons.
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