Color Me Beautiful
by Carole Jackson
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Author: Carole JacksonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 1987-04-12
ISBN: 0345345886
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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- Color, Fashion, Clothes
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Book Review: An Unfortunate Book
Summary: 1 Stars
While the book contains a few accurate nuggets of value, too much of the information is erroneous, incomplete, or useless. It does an incredible disservice to its readers.
I have been a personal color consultant for nearly thirty years and have seen many clients who have read this book. They come to me with closets full of unfortunate purchases because not a single one had made a correct self analysis. In fact I've never met anyone who's figured herself "correctly" from reading Color Me Beautiful. This is not surprising; color analysis cannot be accomplished via a book.
It should be obvious that there are more than just four types of people in the world. In fact very many people have a second "influencing" season. You can have four women/men who are all summers, three of them have different influencing seasons, and all four wardrobes will be vastly different.
It is not enough to know which types of colors suit you best (including degrees, values, and intensities)--you must also know how to use them. Do you want more dark than light or more light than dark? How much contrast do you need?
And because a wardrobe is much more than just color, you should also learn how to select your best kinds of prints, fabric textures, and styles of clothing, not to mention jewelry and all other accessories. E.g., do you want cable knit or gabardine, contrasting buttons or not, delicate jewelry or bold? Many-stranded necklaces? Single stones or clusters or chunky wood? How wide can your stripes be, and what's your best sort of checks or dots? Do your shoes and purse need buckles or top stitching or no detail at all? Rounded colors or layers? What's your best color value for full dress? What are a man's best necktie prints? Which clothing features are determined by your season, which are determined by your figure, and which are sheer preference?
A good color consultant will greatly simplify the confusing world of fashion.
People have suggested I could make a lot of money analyzing clients from an e-mailed picture, but I will not do it. A comprehensive color analysis is a highly individualized procedure requiring hands on attention from someone who can read your unique features from your hair texture and personality down to the design in the iris of your eyes. When done correctly you will learn fascinating things about yourself, and be able to flip through any rack of clothing and scan any shoe dept. or jewelry counter and know instantly if there is anything there worth trying on. And you're just not gonna learn that from this book.
Summary of Color Me Beautiful
Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages you can cut out to carry when you shop!Graphic Design Books
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