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Category Archives: Colour

Understanding how your personality influences your colour choices - the Feminine personality style

Colour Personality – 5. Soft – Feminine

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Personal Style, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportApril 12, 201012 Comments

Did you choose number 5 in my colour personality quiz as your overriding preference in colour choice? This is from the feminine style (some call it romantic). Feminine Personality Style Colours Colours are soft and pretty, not harsh or bold. Light blues, purples, pinks, greens, lemons. Champagne, mushroom and cream, fawn, light grey and beige…

Understanding how your personality influences your colour choices - the Creative personality style

Colour Personality – 4. Eclectic – Creative

Colour, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportApril 9, 201020 Comments

Did you identify with colour style number 4? These are the Creative Personality Style Colours Creative colours are varied and don’t come from a particular palette, but more of willingness by the wearer to try out all sorts of interesting mixes of colours, not just red, white and blue together. They are less likely to…

Understand why you choose certain colours to wear - it's based on your personality traits - here are the Dramatic personality colours

Colour Personality – 3. Bold – Dramatic

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Personal Style, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportApril 8, 201014 Comments

Was Number 3 your first choice in the Personality of Colour Quiz? Understanding the Dramatic Personality Dressing Style Colours Do you like brighter or bold colours? Bold patterns? Shiny fabrics? Then you may be choosing your colour and fabric choices from the Dramatic personality style. Do you love head to toe black, teamed with a…

Understanding how your personality influences your colour choices - the Relaxed or Natural personality style

Colour Personality – 2. Natural – Relaxed/Casual

Colour, Personal Style, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportApril 7, 201020 Comments

Following on from the post on finding your colour personality preferences, today we’re going to look the 2nd group – at the Relaxed or Natural (often very Casual) personality dressing style. Relaxed Personality Style Colours If you prefer colours that you find in nature you like the colours of the Relaxed personality style. These are…

Understand why you choose certain colours to wear - it's based on your personality traits - here are the Classic colours

Colour Personality – 1. Neutral – Classic

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Personal Style, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportApril 6, 201012 Comments

Following on from yesterday’s post on finding your colour personality preferences, today we’re going to look at the first category – the neutrals. What are the Classic Personality Style Colours? Those of you who tend to choose traditional neutral colours such as black and white, grey and navy, shying away from most colours of the…

What's your colour personality? Which colours do you prefer to wear and why? Discover how your personality influences your colour choices - take the colour personality quiz

How to Choose Colours – What’s Your Colour Personality?

Colour, Personal StyleBy Imogen LamportApril 5, 201031 Comments

I was reading a post over at Privilege and Lisa mentions how she prefers to wear neutral colours rather than most of the colours of the rainbow, some light blues excluded. It led me to think about how different personality types prefer different colours. So I thought I’d do a series of posts on choosing…

Tips on choosing flattering hairstyles and colours

Choosing Hairstyles and Hair Colour

Beauty, Colour, face styles, hairBy Imogen LamportMarch 24, 20109 Comments

How your hair is cut and colour completely changes your look.  But how to find a flattering cut and colour? I’ve been having a play with In Style’s online makeover tool.  This is a free tool, and a bit of fun to play with.  It can really help you realise what does and doesn’t work…

How the Colours You Wear Affect Your Mood

ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 23, 201015 Comments

Today I was talking on the phone to someone in Queensland (a hotter part of Australia) about a new and exciting product just on the market (I’ll share that with you soon), and she said she’d send me one, did I want white or black? Then she said, I assume black for you, not because…

What’s Your Colour Personality – Take the quiz

ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 17, 201021 Comments

For some mid-week fun. Like many people, I love a quiz (especially when it’s short), and I particularly love colour quizzes, and quizzes about personality, so how lucky was I to stumble over this great colour quiz. I discovered that I’m yellow: You are quite the powerful thinker. It’s this talent that allows you to…

Style rules to not break (and which ones you can break)

10 Style Rules – Follow or Break?

Colour, Personal Style, style rulesBy Imogen LamportFebruary 18, 201014 Comments

Following on from my post about the Style Rules I’d never break, with some great comments about your style rules, it led me into thinking about all those rules out there, should you or shouldn’t you? Style Rules You Should Break 1. Blue and green should never be seen – I break this one all…

What are the Rules This Image Consultant Would Never Break?

Body Shapes, Body Variations, Colour, style rulesBy Imogen LamportFebruary 16, 201019 Comments

Blogger Metscan asks: One more suggestion for you Imogen. Could you do a post telling what rules you won´t break ever? It would be so much fun. Thanks ! It was interesting thinking about this topic – what rules would I never break? I know there are definitely rules that I wouldn’t break when dressing…

Colour My World

Colour, psychological mattersBy Imogen LamportDecember 21, 20098 Comments

Blogger Karen left this comment on What to Wear When Dating Do you think different cultures see colors representing different things than we normally find in the western world? Brides in China wear red for luck. In the US they might look like tarts or very aggressive women in red satin and lace. In China,white…

Does Pink Really Make You Powerless as a Woman?

Colour, Colour Psychology, Research, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 14, 200928 Comments

From The Daily Mail Parents have a duty to boycott shops that sell ‘sexist’ pink toys and clothes for girls, according to a pressure group backed by a Labor minister. The ‘Pinkstinks’ campaign, founded by twins Emma and Abi Moore, says young girls are being led up ‘pink alleys’ by companies that target them with…

What Colours to Wear When Dating

Colour, occasion dressingBy Imogen LamportDecember 10, 200911 Comments

Pink – the right pink flatters your complexion and makes you look healthy and glowing, it also is the colour of love and a nurturing colour.  It, will make a man feel more protective. Red – sensual and fiery, this colour conveys a very confident message, it may be interpreted that you are tiger in…

How to choose a flattering colour for your swimsuit

How to Choose the Colour For Your Swimwear

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportNovember 15, 200911 Comments

How do you choose a colour for your bathers? Swimwear can be tricky to purchase at the best of times for many of us! And wearing a swimsuit can feel very exposing, so finding a colour that will draw attention away from your body and to your face is a great way to feel more…

Discover Your Colours – Can I Be Neutral?

ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 11, 20098 Comments

Following on from my post the other day on figuring out whether you have warm or cool colouring, this comment was left by YSJ: I tried this, and although I can see the change in skin tone when I hold up different colors, I really can’t tell which ones look better on me! Is it…

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Discover Your Colours – Colour Intensifiers

ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 9, 200910 Comments

Reader Fins asked: To my question: I have grey streaks in what used to be very dark brown hair, and I have noticed that the hair looks more grey when I wear the greyer end of colours such as mauve or cocoa, whereas with mid-intensity blues or with aquas or dark charcoal my hair looks…

Discover Your Colours – Your Intensity – Clear or Soft

Colour, Beauty, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 7, 200921 Comments

Ok, so hopefully you now have some idea of whether you are warm or cool and your undertone vs overtone from these posts.  Now it’s time to figure out your intensity – what is intensity?  It’s the saturation or brightness or dullness of the colour.  Albert Munsell was the man who figured out that colour…

Discover Your Colours – Skin Undertone,Overtone & Makeup

Beauty, Colour, Discover Your ColoursBy Imogen LamportOctober 6, 200960 Comments

Yesterday in the comments of the first part of Discover Your Colours – Warm or Cool – this comment was left by rb: This is such a complicated thing. I have about the pinkest skin on earth so am a cool, but I have reddish brunette hair and blue eyes with gold flecks, so I’m…

Discover Your Colours – Warm or Cool?

ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 5, 200952 Comments

In honour of my new colour system (The Absolute Colour System of 18 colour directions) that I’ve been working on for the past few months, which has finally arrived from the printers, I thought that I’d do a week on colour concepts.  Why does colour matter so much?   It’s the difference between looking your…

Happiness is … Communicating and Colour

Colour, Happiness ProjectBy Imogen LamportOctober 1, 200913 Comments

This week I found happiness with friends – my best friend from university (I met her on the first day of uni 22 years ago), we were each others bridesmaids, and I’m a godmother of her oldest daughter (now 12) came down to visit from Canberra with her 3 daughters and husband.   It was…

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