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02/27/08
What NOT to do with color
Filed under: Color -- Analysis, Color -- Celebrity
Posted by: Leslie @ 10:52 am

Johansson and Portman W cover March 2008

http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2008/03/scarlett_johansson_natalie_portman

 

You have to work pretty hard to make Scarlett Johansson (light

spring) look bad, but they’ve done it on the March cover of W

magazine.  Wrong color, maybe. . . 

6 comments
02/26/08
Chloe
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 10:34 am

Here you go, Chloe. . .

1 comment
02/24/08
Elizabeth M
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 10:14 am

Elizabeth, I have arranged 2 groups of colors for you.  On the top,

light spring.  The bottom four are warm spring.  What do you think?

I like the warm spring. 

3 comments
02/21/08
Jolene
Filed under: Color -- Analysis
Posted by: Leslie @ 7:11 pm

Jolene has been a friend to stylemakeovers for some time.  I’m happy

to finally see you and help with your coloring.

At left deep winter colors, at right deep autumn

 

You have coloring very similar to my sister-in-law.  You have lots of warmth

in your skin and you look good in both sets of palettes, but I believe your skin

tone is clarified better with the deep winter colors.  But the nice thing about the

deep winter palette is that it shares ‘crossover’ colors with the deep autumn

palette, so you still get plenty of the slightly-warmer colors (such as rust)

that you probably enjoy wearing.  I hope this helps you, Jolene!

2 comments
02/20/08
Rep Candidate gets color-typed
Filed under: Color -- Analysis, Color -- Celebrity
Posted by: Leslie @ 12:46 pm

It’s time to take a look at the Republicans. . .

John McCain has a ‘color’ situation that is different than Obama’s.

Don’t let the white hair fool you; he has lots of depth and contrast. 

He’s a deep winter.

 

He could go with more contrast.  Although the blue shirt

on the left is fine, I altered the photo on the right and tried

for a little more contrast, which would bring out eye and hair

color a little more. 

4 comments
02/19/08
Dem Candidate gets color typed
Filed under: Color -- Analysis, Color -- Celebrity
Posted by: Leslie @ 12:12 pm

Barack Obama’s senate photo. . .altered with soft autumn colors on right

 

Barack Obama’s coloring is a bit tricky.  He appears to have an

all-around ‘medium’ appearance.  His coloring is subtle, but he looks

to me to be a ’soft autumn’. 

Politicians don’t often wear their best colors because of the

social implications of color.  Brown, for example, says ‘team player’

from a psychological standpoint, and right now the candidates

would rather be viewed as leaders.  Just another interesting

component of color. . . 

15 comments
02/18/08
Girl With the Pearl Earring
Filed under: Color -- Analysis, Color -- Celebrity, Color -- Jewelry
Posted by: Leslie @ 5:49 pm

I saw ‘The Girl with the Pearl Earring’ yesterday and

enjoyed it.  Just for fun. . .Scarlett J color-typed as

a light spring along with light spring earring

colors.

 

4 comments
Light Spring
Filed under: Color -- General, Color -- Jewelry
Posted by: Leslie @ 11:36 am

A few earring colors are up on the site for the LIGHT SPRING:

light peach and warm pink

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