Your weekly roundup of style and colour Q&A videos – please do email me your pressing colour and style questions to answer in upcoming videos! Your Questions Answered in this video 0.10 How can I create a capsule wardrobe when I have low colour contrast and don’t want to include neutrals? 4.15 As a low…
In this Video 0.16 What are some options if you have short legs and dark colouring but need a strap to keep your shoes on? 4.10 Will changing my hair colour change my palette or just my contrasts? 8.06 How do I know if I should wear patterns or solid colours? Faking a Low Vamp…
How do you make a choice about the very best neutrals for you? You can choose black because that is freely available in every clothing store around the world. That’s the easy way …. but it’s definitely not necessarily the best way for you, nor will it potentially be your most flattering choice. In fact,…
In This Video 0.10am Can you explain how you determine clear vs muted colouring? 7.23 Can a colour or neutral be neither warm nor cool? 9.30 I have 20 signature colours – how do I determine the best ones? Personal Colour Analysis Understanding Colour Systems and Personal Colour Analysis https://insideoutstyleblog.com/2010/12/personal-colour-analysis-finding-the-harmony.html Personal Colour Analysis Training Universal…
In this video After breast reduction surgery – how does my body shape and proportions change and how will this affect clothing selection? How does someone with a darker value assemble a warm-weather wardrobe? What type of short sleeves do you recommend for big arms? Breast Reduction and Clothing Fit Breast Reduction Update – 5…
The great wordsmith Oscar Wilde once wrote: One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art Why does art matter? Every culture from ancient times onwards has created art. From the unknown artists of cave paintings and all the other artists who have come afterwards, every culture enjoys art in…
Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I have been asked about how often should you be re-evaluating and updating your style recipe and your colour palette? So we sat down and had a chat about these topics in this video. Reassessing Your Style Recipe The options are up to you – but here are…
Colour is a passion of mine, and helping people find the colours that truly make them shine is something I’ve been doing for the past 14 years (or so) and I know just how much wearing colours that harmonise with your natural colouring really makes a massive difference to how you look and feel. The…
Hi, Imogen, I think you introduced for me a fundamental change in thinking when you talked about being primarily light medium or dark value. That was rather an aha moment. I always knew that I was summer and then cool muted and light but I was for example than trying to make that palette fit…
What’s ideal value and how to figure out your ideal value? This is a concept is one that I’ve come to realise as really valuable the longer I’ve been doing personal colour analysis (right now that’s over 14 years, so just a little experienced!). Whatever palette you have (from whatever system it comes from), there…
So you’ve had a personal colour analysis and you just don’t like some of the colours in your palette – what to do? How to adjust to them? Can you learn to love them? Find out more on the accompanying podcast episode blog post here: What to Do When You Don’t Like Some of the…
How to transition your wardrobe from one colour palette to another – something that happens when you age, or have a radical hair colours change. Find out more on the accompanying blog post: https://insideoutstyleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-colour-palettes.html
Have you thought about the colours you prefer to wear? Whether or not you’ve had a personal colour analysis and have a palette of colours or not, you are likely to find that you are drawn more to some colours than others, even within your palette if you know which is the one that flatters…
Violet (technical name for purple) is a colour like teal that can be worn by both warm and cool undertone colouring. The difference is that cool undertones can wear all violets, and warm undertones can only successfully wear the warmer end of the violet spectrum. So which is which? Consider the Colour Wheel As violet…
Browns can have a warmer or cooler undertone as with most colours. So how to choose the warm from the cool? Warm Undertone Browns These have a yellow base (and as you know, yellow warms up the temperature of a colour). Cool Undertone Browns There are a couple of ways to cool down a…
All colours (apart from the orange spectrum) have a warm and cool undertone version so a colour that we may call “red”, “burgundy” or “maroon” could be either warm or cool. Red is a colour that has many permutations, from baby pink to coral, magenta and burgundy. Unlike blue or green, that when we add…
One question that comes up with my clients and also on my 7 Steps to Style program forums is that of hair colouring and what works best. Skin Undertone and Hair Colour First consideration is always your skin. You want to find a hair colour that flatters your complexion. In fact, hair, as it’s so…
Contrast is a hot topic amongst my 7 Steps to Style and Evolve Your Style program members, because once you see its impact, you can’t go back to ignoring it. It’s an important part of any personal colour analysis – discovering how to wear your ideal colours (not just what they are). Colour contrast =…
Recently I’ve been having fun playing with my scarf collection. Tying them in different ways (check out these 32 ways to tie your scarves), and using them as outfit colour scheme inspiration. Creating Colour Schemes Here I’m using a scarf (that was my grandmother’s) and have used the colours in it to create my outfit…
Prints and patterns can add variety and interest to your outfit and wardrobe. Ideally choose a print that relates to your own value contrast. But should you wish to wear a print that is outside of your natural value contrast then here is the easy way of choosing one to flatter. I think of value…
Colour has such a profound impact on our appearance. It really does. Because of this impact, I’m passionate about colour and you will see me wearing colour more of the time than less. It can make you look: younger or older brighter or duller more vibrant or more tired I don’t know about you but…
