In Bernice Kentner’s book, “Color Me a Season…”, she introduces the idea that someone’s personality reflects their dominant season or their blend. I don’t have any statistical or scientific evidence that this is accurate, but I thought it’d be fun to explore nonetheless. My personality more closely represented by my blend rather than my dominant season. So here’s the rundown:Spring- SanguineSummer-PhlegmaticAutumn- CholericWinter- MelancholicDon […]
Think about seasonal color as a circle and that circle is divided into 4 quadrants. Each quadrant represents one of the seasons— Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Each person will fall somewhere in that circle. Some might fall somewhere right in the middle of the arch of their season. This would be what we call an absolute. Others might fall closer to the border of seasons. This season that they are closer to would be considered their blend. Other’s dot […]
In a nutshell, the colors that look best on you are determined by the natural coloring of your body— your, skin, your hair and your eyes. We’re going to go a little deeper and peel back the layers of the shell. We’ll start with your skin.Your skin, in itself, is comprised of different elements. Everyone’s skin has an undertone to it. We refer to this as being either warm or cool. The cool undertone has a blue base and the warm undertone has a red or yellow undertone. Scientificall […]
I have read a lot in the past few years about color palettes for your wardrobe and seasonal color analysis. In fact, I read everything I could get my hands on. There are many different takes on seasonal color theory and creating a wardrobe color palette from your body’s natural colors, but the theory that makes the most sense to me and has the most science behind it is Color Me A Season: A Complete Guide to Finding Your Best Colors and How to Use Them by Bernice Kentner. If you want more infor […]
Hey there, I hope you’re having a great day! You don’t have to raise your hand, but . . .how many of you were told that red, orange and yellow were warm colors and blue, green and purple were cool colors?While those statements are true, they’re really just a very small snippet of color as a whole. Just one hue can vary across the spectrum. You can have a very cool red, that has had blue added to it, or a very warm red that has had yellow added.Now let’s talk about undertone. In the two re […]
Intensity Another aspect of color that we will discuss frequently when talking about the colors in your wardrobe and cosmetics is saturation.Saturation or intensity is the pureness of a color.These terms may be used interchangeably. If we add a color to its complement, it lowers the saturation. If you add equal parts of complements together, you get a neutral brown or gray color. It’s amazing the differences you can find in just the color we call brown. Each p […]
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