Discover and wear beautifully the colors that are you.
Why have a personal color analysis?
Get to Know Yourself Better
Find out what colors make you you, so you can complement them best and feel right in what you are wearing. If you earlier identified yourself in one of the four seasons of old, it’s time to learn which of the 12 distinct color families is yours. You will clearly see surprisingly large difference between each of the three categories within your old season, as I did in my journey.
Gain Confidence
Wearing the colors that feel right on you will make you feel vibrant, fresh, and energized. Your confidence will be reinforced by the positive responses from others. Knowing your colors means you will no longer be overwhelmed or doubtful when you shop.
Save Money
You’ll start buying clothes that you feel great in, and that bring you compliments. Your wardrobe will be honed down to new go-to favorites and no more not-quite-right-feeling pieces you never wear. You’ll stop wasting money experimenting to find just the right makeup, hair color, or eyeglasses.
End the Confusion and Costly Mistakes of DIY
No more guessing. Many of my clients come to me after spending countless hours trying to figure out for themselves what their colors are. They end up confused by conflicting results from various advice sources, and tired of buying things they don’t wear because they really don’t feel good in them. I ease the burden and introduce them to their beautiful, full palette by applying my training, skills, experience, and specially calibrated tools. My clients leave with the confidence and tools to make good purchase decisions and loving how they look and feel in their just-right colors.
“I jumped in with both feet. I stopped at a secondhand store on my way home to try my palette. I bought a nice blue sweater that has earned me tons of compliments every time I wear it!”
- Jen, a client in Oregon, USA
Which version of this woman do you want to get to know?
The brassy color of this woman’s bleached hair doesn’t fit with her skin tone. Something feels not right when we look at her, so we take a step back. Add her sand-colored wrap, and her face disappears in a cloud of beige.
With the same woman in the right face-framing hair color we feel more comfortable and drawn in by her. She looks younger and softer without the blonde—but strong.
“[My friend] wants to have her colors done! …She was so impressed with my results. She said ‘You have always looked good, Mary, but now you really stand out!’”
- Mary, a client in Kentucky, USA
The Summer In All Of Us
The warm and relaxing feel of summer appeals to most of us. Our favorite associations with this season come in a wide variety, including the sandy beach, a beckoning shaded hammock, that refreshing swimming pool splash, the coconut sunscreen fragrance, juicy watermelon slices and sweet corn on the cob, the cool shady waterfall, a dripping sherbet cone, and a billowing white sail. Lucky for us, the clothing available to us during this season is full of variety, too. We don’t have to be a Summer to feel ourselves as we step out in sporty shorts, breezy little skirts, colorful flip flops, or vibrant swimsuits. They come in each of the 12 seasons’ colors. Pull out the color fan you’ve been using since your personal color analysis, and dive in to your wardrobe for fresh combinations.
This summer, we’re encouraged to wear yellow. Use this as that push you might need to give this hue a try. Near your face or in your shorts, you’ll find your season’s lemon, butter, gold, or mustard yellow. Try it with your favorite blue, violet, green, white, or grey.
Another way to make your season feel more summery is to wear your favorite colors in patterns with lighter backgrounds. Each season also has hues that we associate with the water, flower gardens, and shade-producing tree canopies of summer: look in your color fan for your greens, blue-greens, reds, pinks, oranges, and purples. Try them together--or pair them with your version of navy blue, grey, brown, or white, if that’s more your style.
If you were born a Summer, you are right at home this season, whether you are a Soft Summer reveling in the muted wet sand and grey-navy hues of the Northwest beach; or a True Summer showing off pure pink toenails; or a Light Sumer wrapping yourself in a soft aqua, periwinkle, and coral beach towel. Soft Summers, this is your time for a flutter-sleeved sage green top with deep gray-blue shorts, and a flowy skirt of small flowers on taupe, with a muted lavender peasant top. True Summers, you rock raspberry Ts and light grey shorts, or the elegance of cool taupe linen pants below your summer white silk tank. Light Summers stroll out in crisp bright navy with coral red, and periwinkle with butter yellow.
If you are a Spring, you’ll find lots of options for swimsuits in Florida colors of bright aqua and the clearest cornflower blue, and neon greens or vibrant light oranges. But there are so many other luscious options out there, too. You Bright Springs may look stunning in your green-ecru or warm grey with lively peach. You can delight in wearing greens the color of limes, Granny Smith apples, or watered grass. Shout summer with bright aqua or hot pink. If you’re a True Spring, turn heads in an orange-red halter dress for the evening, or go elegant in your peach silk top paired with milk-chocolate linen. By day you draw us in to your playful spirit with clear teal tops with dark straw shorts. Light Springs, you can wear bright sunny yellow better than any of us, and delicious sherbets the flavor of melon, bright pistachio, and watermelon. Your toned down neutrals of peach-ivory and warm deep gray can take you in another direction.
Winter, your ability to wear pastels puts you right on trend this summer. You also wear high contrast the best of all of us. Sharp black and white graphic print tops with black linen shorts or skirts are perfect, but hit us with your bold hues, too. The cold, crisp blue-white of Winter looks so fresh against any of your intense bold hues, such as your version of cobalt blue, clear teal, berry, scarlet, bumblebee yellow, and amethyst. Pale grey and inky navy linen bottoms work equally well with your intense hues. Bright Winters, step out in a bright grassy sun dress, a deep blue blouse with white jeans, or a siren red slinky halter. True Winter, you have dozens of peony pinks, raspberries, and grapes to evoke summer. Contrast hot yellow with cold cobalt. Dark Winters, you can make a splash in large floral prints of deep sky-blue on white, but this is also a great time to bring out your own apple green or turquoise to summer-ize your dark violets and blues.
Autumn, your deep, muted, wooly textured, fabrics may be several months away, but you can confidently make summer your own, too. It’s all about how you combine your rich hues. Now is the time to pair your chestnut with warm white, and your pea green with navy. Your teals with brown were showing up in paisley woolens last November, but now, with dark blue, teal takes on a marine feel evoking the depths of the ocean. Pull out the lighter patches in the animal prints you wear by mixing them with light tops and ivory canvas sneakers—or move into bold orange-brown-on-ivory giraffe instead of black-heavy leopard. Dark Autumn, find the that sumptuous melon and pair it with navy. You rock all the deep cognac leather available in summer; wear it with everything, including a teal sundress. True Autumn, your deep olive green is summer-right in a tank over an ivory skirt, and mustard blouses with dark jeans shorts are perfect for you. Soft Autumn, your muted mint green is so refreshing with navy. You also are the color of freshly harvested light olives delivered in a sun-bleached worn, wooden bowl, and soft, muted melon T-shirts with warm grey shorts.
Whatever your season, enjoy experimenting by mixing your favorite colors in new ways that say “summer”. Have fun beating the heat with lighter fabrics and splashes of your own ocean-surf blues and whites. Reflect the in-season fruits in your wardrobe, and take cues from gardens. You can’t go wrong as long as you stay true to you and your own color palette.