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Category Archives: Discover Your Colours

Personal Colour Analysis Training - Academy of Professional Image

Personal Colour Analysis Training

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Image ConsultingBy Imogen LamportOctober 12, 20157 Comments

I’ve spent the past week intensely immersed in our Academy of Professional Image Certified Personal Colour Analysis Training. It’s a full on full time course, and we teach our students just so much about colour and how to discover their client’s personal best colours, how to wear their colours plus so much more.   Students…

absolute colour system personal colour analysis

Why Colour Analysis has Evolved Beyond the Seasons

Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportJuly 24, 201525 Comments

  Back in 1981 Colour Me Beautiful was published and really brought the idea of personal colour analysis to the masses. It was a huge hit and I remember going through the book and figuring out that I was a winter and being fascinated all that time ago about the concept of personal colour analysis.…

value contrast, personal colouring

Value Contrast and Your Value

Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportMarch 12, 201521 Comments

One of the things I’ve discovered tends to confuse people is that they think that they can only wear colours that are the same value as them, so if they are overall lighter in value they can only wear light colours, and if they are deep/dark, they have to wear dark colours only. Ideally we…

looking in my eyes

Want to Look More Vibrant? Discover Your Eye Enhancers

Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportFebruary 3, 201518 Comments

Your eyes are one of the features that I think is important to highlight every time you get dressed.  They are at the centre of your communication centre (that’s a fancy term for your face).  If people are drawn to looking at your eyes, they don’t notice much else about your body and are certainly…

11 real life contrast examples

11 Real Life Examples of Dressing to Your Contrast

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportNovember 24, 2014134 Comments

12345678910111 1. High Value Contrast, Low Colour Contrast Brown eyes, brown hair, neutral but fair skin, you are most likely to fall into this category. So what should Michelle wear? You want to put together a high value contrast – so light and dark colours together, then a low colour contrast – so either all…

What’s Your Contrast?

Colour, Discover Your Colours, VideosBy Imogen LamportNovember 7, 201419 Comments

Contrast is one of those subjects that has been coming up lots in my Evolve Your Style and 7 Steps to Style programs in the past week or so. I thought I’d make this video to talk about understanding your contrast and how to figure it out. Here is a handy contrast tool for you…

Understanding colour terminology

Understanding Basic Colour Terminology

Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 27, 201417 Comments

  Colour is a subject that fascinates many of you. And I know I’ve written some posts on it before such as this one on understanding colour properties, but here is a picture I’ve put together to help try and explain the basics of tint, tone and shade.   Colour Terminology Basics The value of…

How to undertand undertones and pick undertones in colours - are they warm or cool?

How to Pick the Undertone of a Colour

Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 17, 201415 Comments

  Following on from my post on undertones, here are some more examples of the differences between warm and cool undertones of colours. When picking undertones, you want to look at what the colour is made of, as if you were painting it, and think about what colours you’d mix together to create it.  If…

Freckles - are they only warm or can they be cool?

Can Freckles Ever Be Cool?

Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 16, 201431 Comments

  I have often heard that freckles are only found on warm people, not cool, but I’m here to bust that myth. In fact there are many cool people who have freckling and today I’m going to share with you a photo of a recent client who has cool colouring who is definitely freckled. Now…

How to Pick Colour Undertones

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 8, 201425 Comments

One of the things I’ve noticed is that people get very confused with the overtone of a colour and the undertone. So to try and make it a little easier, I’ve created some pictures to help you see the differences between very similar colours, but one has a warm undertone, the other a cool undertone…

3 Simple Steps for Wearing Black When You Have Light Colouring

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Personal Style, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 4, 20149 Comments

Most people who have light colouring don’t suit black. It’s just too dark and harsh on their complexion and it wears you, rather that you wearing the colour. But so many people still want to wear it, so here is a quick tip to make it less draining on you. 3 Simple Steps Think about…

Asymmetrical dress by Alfia Galimova

Shades of Grey – How to Pick the Right Grey

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 28, 20134 Comments

How to Pick the Undertone of Grey Grey is either made from mixing pure black and white, or more commonly, from mixing all colours together. This muddled up mix of colours is the reason it can be so hard to mix shades of grey together, as depending on how it’s made, it may be a…

How to distinguish the undertone of pink

Think Pink – How to Pick the Undertone of Pink

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Personal Style, Style TipsBy Imogen LamportFebruary 2, 201314 Comments

There are so many ways to use colour in your outfit. Pink is a versatile colour, the right shade of pink will make you look fabulous as it’s a skin enhancer. How to Choose a Warm or Cool Pink Pink comes in many guises – there are both warm and cool versions so choose one…

More on How to Find Your Signature Colours

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 17, 201213 Comments

Following on from our video a couple of weeks back on finding your signature colours, I was asked to share some photos of other people and their signature colours. Finding Your Signature Colours Lip colours – what are the colours most closely related to your lips? Natural blush colours – which colours bring out your…

How to Find Your Signature Colours - your eye enhancers, skin enhancers, and hair enhancers - these are your ultimate or knockout colours

How to Find Your Ultimate Signature Colours

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 6, 201220 Comments

Have you ever wondered what your signature colours are?  How you can figure out what they might be?  In this short video with Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe , we discuss signature colours and how to wear them. Did you know that one of your signature colours is the best colour for those multipurpose…

Getting your colours done - personal colour analysis explained

Understanding Colour Systems and Personal Colour Analysis

Colour, Discover Your Colours, VideosBy Imogen LamportNovember 22, 20128 Comments

Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I got together recently and made a series of videos about colour. The first video is an introduction to colour systems – from the 4 Seasons through to the 18 directional Absolute Colour System. One of the aspects we discuss is Albert Munsell’s colour properties and how that…

Become a colour and image consultant, personal stylist, personal shopper with the Academy of Professional Image and trained by Imogen Lamport, world-leading image consultant - online and classroom training courses in Melbourne available

Become an Expert Personal Stylist, Colour and Image Consultant

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Image Consulting, WardrobeBy Imogen LamportJuly 28, 20123 Comments

Do you think that you’d love to do what I do for a career? Or maybe you’re already working as a personal stylist and are smart enough to realise that training could really take your skills to the next level. If so, why not check out our training courses. We have both classroom training in…

Warm or cool neutrals how to pick

How to Choose Neutrals

Colour, Discover Your Colours, VideosBy Imogen LamportOctober 6, 20116 Comments

Neutrals are not universal. There are warm and cool neutrals just as there are warm and cool colours. Watch this short video to help you choose the most flattering neutrals that will work with the colours that suit you.

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How to Look Taller Using a Column of Colour

Body Variations, Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportAugust 23, 201112 Comments

Imogen, Would you consider addressing the best way to create a column of color with some examples? I try to dress this way and wear mostly dark wash denim or black ponte knit pants. I would like to expand the my choices on the top. A bit more color and some shoe/ boot options. I…

Which is Your Best White

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Fabric, Fit and Alterations, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 17, 201116 Comments

All whites are not the same, and different whites suit different colouring. We can go from a very bright white which is cool and quite stark and only suits those with very cool colouring, via a soft white, through ivory to cream, which is very warm and suits those with warm colouring. Soft whites are…

Choosing Colours – Part 1

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMay 11, 201016 Comments

I’ve just spent a week teaching a personal colour analysis course, and part of what the course involves is general colour theory, this colour theory is used in all sorts of industries, not just image consulting, so I thought I’d show you using interior decorating and art how you can use the same principles when…

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