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05/11/08
Renee — with colors
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 9:34 am

I read the comments on Renee, and most seem to think she

is 1) deep, 2) not clear, 3) probably warm, although there

were some that thought she might be on the cooler side.

One blog reader even changed her hair color & sent me

the photo. . .thanks Klara!  This color is probably closer

to her natural hair color, so good job.

 

I personally think she is a ‘deep’.  I think the

above photo demonstrates that she can

handle black very well.  Here she is draped in

representative colors of both ‘deep’ palettes:

 

And I liked Klara’s hair color change photo so well,

I used it and tried both greens again:

Left is deep autumn, right is deep winter. . .

And here is Renee with more deep autumn (left side)

deep winter colors (right half):

This is the final word (she has been color confused for some

time). . .let Renee know which you like best:  deep autumn or deep winter. . .

 

4 comments
05/08/08
Another photo for Renee
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 7:31 pm

Renee provided another photo which may help with

the analysis:

 

 

2 comments
05/07/08
Here’s another one to try. . .
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 9:33 am

The folks who responded to Thina’s analysis did very

well.  Now let’s take a look at Renee.  This time we

will go through the whole process.  I am not going to

put up any colors on her yet. . .you take a guess where

she is based on her photos:

Note:  think dominant characteristic. . .what is

it?  Light?  Deep?  Clear?  Soft?  Warm? 

Cool?  Also, you need to ignore her hair color to

help determine dominant characteristic.

 

Go ahead and leave your guesses.

7 comments
05/01/08
Thina
Filed under: Color -- General, Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 10:42 am

As you  may (or not) have noticed if you’ve looked at

some of the color types posted here, most people fall

on the warmer side of the scale.  In my experience,

cooler types are less common, which means the

pigment that generates warmth (yellow undertones)

in the skin, hair, and eye must be dominant.

Here we have Thina, who is an example of one

such cool type; I have placed her in both cool

winter and cool summer colors.  Which do you

like best?  Go ahead and post your opinion. . .I’d

like to see what you think.

 

7 comments
04/19/08
Klara
Filed under: Color -- General, Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 9:16 am

Klara is a warm spring, with peachy skintone & warm blue eye

color.  The warm spring colors are better for her than warm

autumn (which is what she thought she was) because of the

clarity of her coloring.  If we put you in warm autumn colors,

they would tend to look ‘heavy’ on her.

 

5 comments
04/08/08
great question from blog reader
Filed under: Color -- General
Posted by: Leslie @ 9:49 am

 I got an email yesterday that asks:

I don’t understand how pale caucasians and african and asian people can both
be in the same group as their skin tones differ dramatically?

The person also referenced an article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattering_colors

 

Firstly, I don’t agree with everything that’s stated in the

above article.  The 4-season theory doesn’t account

accurately the 3 components of color:  hue, depth, and intensity.

It covers only 2 thoroughly, depth and hue.  Intensity is

not clearly defined. 

 

Also, I don’t believe people have blue undertones.  Cool people

simply have a lack of yellow undertones, or the pigment that

creates them.  So they have more of an ‘absence’ of warmth

than anything else.

 

But back to the question:  how can people with different

skin, eye, and hair colors wear the same colors?  The answer

is that everyone, regardless of coloring, falls somewhere on the

warm –> cool, soft –> clear, deep –> light ranges.  Those ranges

are relative to the culture, to be sure.  But a ‘light’ caucasian

and a ‘light’ african may well find themselves flattered

by the same colors.  The reason would be that they are both characterized

by ‘light’ features, and therefore the colors that flatter them both reflect

that dominant characteristic of depth = ‘light’.

 

So my answer is that everyone falls out somewhere in the color equation on

three points (depth, hue, and intensity).  The colors that look best on them mirror

their coloring on those three points.  It is hard sometimes when we compare

cultures with respect to color analysis. . .and we shouldn’t.  It’s very helpful

to search out each individual’s dominant characteristic (light, deep, soft, clear,

warm, cool) and map back to the colors once we figure out where they fall on

those color ranges.   

 

2 comments
03/29/08
Katie
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 5:38 pm

 

Katie is a DEEP.  But which one:  deep winter or deep autumn?

I think the deep autumn, but as always Katie should have a look

at those colors to see if they work best for her.

2 comments
03/21/08
Darren
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 10:00 am

Before we look at Darren, let me say that those who order swatch books

can get an analysis BY EMAIL ONLY.  You don’t have to go up on

the blog if you don’t wish to.  There is a field on the order form that

asks how you’d like the results delivered. . .

 

Darren, you say folks tell you that they believe you’re a winter.

What I’ve done is altered the original photo you sent (at top) and inserted

some colors from various palettes:

The original photo at the top reminds me very much of the summer palette

colors.  Deep winter colors are to the right, soft autumn below, and finally

deep autumn are at the bottom.  Which do you like?

My favorites are the autumn palettes.  One of the differences between the

soft and deep is the level of contrast that they provide.  I like you in the

lower-contrast combination of soft autumn.  Plus you look softer to me

rather than deep overall.

You said you’ve been wondering about this since the ’80s. . .hope this

gives you a fresh new direction! 

1 comment