Color Me Confident: Change Your Look - Change Your Life!
by Pat Henshaw, Veronique Henderson
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Author: Pat Henshaw, Veronique HendersonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-01
ISBN: 0600614999
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Hamlyn
Book Reviews of Color Me Confident: Change Your Look - Change Your Life!
Book Review: Superficial color typing; one-note palettes
Summary: 2 Stars
I looked through this book at a local bookstore and decided not to buy it mainly because the color categories it presents are superficial and inapplicable to a great many people. We are categorized according to our "dominant characteristics," i.e., by our hair colors and eye colors--not according to our "season," a more subtle and sophisticated categorization that includes skin tone. Seasonal color analysis requires a good deal more training and artistry than you would need to recognize, say, a Deep type (dark hair and dark eyes).
Spillane and Sherlock's Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best categorizes people by both their dominant characteristics and their seasons. The problem with that book's approach is that each dominant characteristic is linked to only two seasons. For example, if you are Deep, you're either an Autumn or a Winter, but not a Spring or a Summer. This seems to be why the new CMB book, Color Me Confident, categorizes people by only two of the three color characteristics defined by Munsell. If you're Deep and Cool, it's assumed that you must be Clear as well, since Winter coloring is clear, not soft. Cool and Soft is Summer.
In the seasonal system, you could be a dark-haired, dark-eyed Spring or Summer, or a light-haired, light-eyed Autumn or Winter. So much variation is possible within each season, in fact, that the dominant-characteristic system can help in customizing your personal palette. A black Summer palette will have stronger colors than a blond Summer palette. Yet both will have the cool, soft look characteristic of Summer.
CMB's Looking Your Best defines the dominant characteristic types generally enough that you may be able to determine yours even if none of them obviously suit you. But Color Me Confident defines each type so narrowly that one type is presented as the "catch-all" for people who don't fit the other types: the so-called "Soft" type, which contains a good deal of earthy Autumn colors. I look terminally ill in earthy Autumn colors. Each of the palettes in this book is a hodgepodge of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter colors (as defined by Carole Jackson in the original Color Me Beautiful) that may be suitable to one dominant characteristic, but are not, as a group, suited to me--nor, I daresay, to many other people, either.
I'll stick with the seasonal theory for color advice, and I recommend Jackson's and Spillane-Sherlock's books over CMB's latest.
Summary of Color Me Confident: Change Your Look - Change Your Life!
The first book from the Color Me Beautiful team-created more than 25 years ago-still continues to sell well, and the world's leading image consultancy is back with an updated look at fashion and cosmetics.
Millions of people have used this internationally recognized system to look and feel better. Think of it as feng shui for the body, a way of using color to make yourself sparkle from head to toe and glow from within. And now the Color Me Beautiful organization presents brand-new, totally contemporary strategies in an easy-to-follow and lushly illustrated volume. Guided by questionnaires, photos and palettes, and boxed pointers, anyone can do a color analysis and figure out what shades work best with her skin, hair, and eye tones. Confidence-building plans feature ideal outfits for any shape; tricks for adapting your wardrobe to different lifestyles; and ideas for developing a stylish, original approach to dress. Plus, there's makeup and accessory advice for that perfect finishing touch.
Millions of people have used this internationally recognized system to look and feel better. Think of it as feng shui for the body, a way of using color to make yourself sparkle from head to toe and glow from within. And now the Color Me Beautiful organization presents brand-new, totally contemporary strategies in an easy-to-follow and lushly illustrated volume. Guided by questionnaires, photos and palettes, and boxed pointers, anyone can do a color analysis and figure out what shades work best with her skin, hair, and eye tones. Confidence-building plans feature ideal outfits for any shape; tricks for adapting your wardrobe to different lifestyles; and ideas for developing a stylish, original approach to dress. Plus, there's makeup and accessory advice for that perfect finishing touch.
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