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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 […]

Tint Tone ShadeThanks for coming back for another post. Today we’re going to dive in a little deeper into color terminology. So, many of you may have looked at the color wheel from the last post and compared it to other colors you see around you— your closet, the sky, your hair. Many of these colors aren’t on the tertiary color wheel. That’s true! But I’ll show you how they are achieved. You can take any pure color, one from the tertiary color wheel or a different one and alter it to l […]

So we’re on this journey toward the perfect wardrobe. . .we all have to start somewhere.Let’s start from the very beginning, a very good place to start. When you sing you begin with Doe, Ray, Me. When you dress you begin with H…U…E… (How many of you are picturing Julia Andrews and 7 unruly children right now?)Primary Color WheelSo, let’s begin with hue. You might call it color. It’s the very first design element that you notice. Just think of how much more efficient your shopp […]