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

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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!

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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)