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Choosing Your Best Colors
If you had to guess what season you are, what would you say?
EXPLAINGET A BOOK !!
Color Sense
• Knowing your best colors• Personal coloring– Hair– Skin– Eyes
• Body Shape• Personality• Current Wardrobe
Colors for your Skin Tone
• Colors in clothes can enhance skin tone• Brown, yellow, blue and red pigments– Usually the lack of brown pigment
• Underside of your wrist– Blue undertone = cool colors– Yellow undertones = warm colors
Colors for your hair & eyes
• Can change the appearance of personal coloring
• Emphasize in 2 ways1. Tints or shades of your hair/eyes
– Beige/tan emphasize brown hair
2. Complementary Colors– Green Shirt with red hair
• Green makes hazel greener• Blue makes blue bluer
Your Seasonal Coloring
• Personal Coloring referred to as SEASON
• Winter/Summer– Blue undertones
• Spring/Autumn– Yellow undertones
Let’s Find Out
• Page 195– Read over and determine what you might be
Winter
• Most popular • Dark Eyes & Hair• Can wear TRUE black or white• Bright, Vivid, contrasting colors with blue
undertones• poor choice: Faded or muted colors, • Silver, white gold, platinum jewelry
WINTER• The Winter palette has the range of all dark, vivid, and bright colors.
• It also has all those very light icy colors.
• It holds all the primaries, being white, black, pure red, and navy.
• Winters do not wear most oranges well.
• Light-medium browns and some camel are not the best choice for Winters.
• No woman can wear a Pure White as beautifully
If you think you’re a winter
• Let’s pick your best colors!
Summer
• Hints of pink in skin• Sunburn easily• Very blue eyes– May be green or hazel
• Ash to light blond, highlights
• Silver, Platinum jewelry
Summer
• Some color is missing from some of the palettes – black is missing from the Summer palette, because it’s not a
flattering color for Summers close to the face. • avoid harsh contrasts by keeping the entire look calm
and in complete harmony
• Summer: has soft colors and all the pastels for you to choose from; its dark colors are more muted than those of Winter
• Pastels are lovely for Summers.
If you think you’re a summer
• Let’s pick your best colors!
Spring
• Most delicate coloring• Hair: light to strawberry blond, pale brown,
reddish brown• Blue, blue/green eyes• Clear, bright colors in medium light shades• No muted or faded colors• Gold jewelry
Spring
• were blonde as a child and your hair retains a golden cast
• your skin has a warm undertone and is creamy ivory, peachy-pink or beige
• you have rosy cheeks and flush easily; your eyes have gold flecks.
Think you’re a spring?
• Let’s pick your best colors!
Autumn• Ivory, peach colored skin, freckles
• Brown with auburn, red highlights
• Look for strong shades with warm undertones, like camel, dark tomato red, forest or olive green, all oranges, coffee or chocolate brown, teal blue.
• Great in black! NO PINK
• Gold Jewelry
Are you an Autumn?
• Let’s pick your best colors
Clothes and your Body Shape
• Read over the hand out– Keep this for future reference!
• Highlight information that most applies to you
• Use that info to create 2 outfits for your personal coloring and body shape!
• http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33091361/ns/today-style/t/dos-donts-dressing-your-body-type/
Evaluation• 1 complete outfit– Colors according to your season (front of sheet)– Placed on parts of the body according to your shape (back of
sheet)– DESCRIBE • why you chose the colors (front of sheet)• Why the type of garments (back of sheet)• Why the color is on a specific part (back of sheet, notes)
• DO NOT pick out one single picture!• Shoes, accessories, tops, pants (dress)
