How Your Colouring Changes as You Age
Today Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I are talking in this short video about how your colouring changes as you age, and therefore how the colours that suit you may change over your lifetime.
More on How to Find Your Signature Colours
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 Ultimate Signature Colours
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 16 Style Types, 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 items…
How Does Your Colouring Change As You Age?
Last week, Jill and I discussed how personal colour analysis systems work and some of the changes that have been made to them over time. In this video, Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types and I discuss how our colouring changes as we age. How have you noticed that your colouring has changed? I’ve noticed…
Understanding Colour Systems and Personal Colour Analysis
Jill Chivers of 16 Style Types 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…
What We Wore Melbourne Cup Day 2012
I was lucky enough to score an invite from Gem Marketing to The Birdcage at the 2012 Melbourne Cup. I didn’t have a huge amount of time to prepare, but I managed to make a new fascinator to wear and turn a scarf into a wrap to cover my shoulders and upper arms. I also…
When Should You Wear White in Winter?
I’ve always been bemused by the “thou must not wear white before Memorial Day and after Labour Day” (and for those readers who don’t live in the USA, that means end of May and beginning of September) mantra that I read in books and ‘style rules’ lists from American authors and purveyors of style. I…
How to Accessorize with Hats, Scarves and Gloves
I received this question from a reader: What role should winter gloves/scarves/hats play in accessorizing? I’m still figuring out how to make scarf/jewelry/shoes/bags all work together in a not matchy-matchy way, and now that it’s getting cold, and winter adds another set of items to coordinate. (Also, I happen to work in a cold…
How to Wear the LBD When Black Isn’t Your Best Colour
What about ‘the little black dress’? I am a ‘summer’ (cool, soft and light colouring) and therefore black is not a good colour for me, yet I would love to wear a little black dress on special occasions. Would I be able to get away with that? Wear it at night When you turn out…
How to Wear Your Ideal Colours through the Seasons
This was an extraordinarily helpful post! What is your take on incorporating seasonal colors? For example, I am a light summer color, so pastels and the such look good on me. While there are plenty of them to be had in the summer, it’s harder to wear pastels in the fall/winter as clothes and moods…
12 Ways to Wear Unflattering Colours and Still Look Great
Do you have some input on occasionally wearing colors that maybe aren’t the very best, but that you still love and want to include in your wardrobe? And I mean, like a blouse or sweater, not just an accessory or something you wear far away from your face. I have reddish hair and my coloring…
What Metals Can I Wear?
Notice how in the photos above that Denise Richards looks washed out (so she’s gone and got a serious spray tan, then packed on the makeup with a trowel) in the silver dressed, and that if you do the blink test (shut your eyes, then open them and notice what you see first), that the…
Become an Expert Personal Stylist, Colour and Image Consultant
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…
How Good is Your Colour Vision?
I spend a lot of time looking at colour. I spent over a year of my life developing a personal analysis colour system based on the scientific work of Albert Munsell who discovered the properties of colour. I have always thought that I have good colour acuity and have noticed that I can pick up…
Time for the Red, White and Blue
Dressing in Red, White and Blue or Any Other Triadic Scheme Happy 4th of July to my gorgeous USA readers. To celebrate in style I thought I’d do it in red, white and blue. Why has this become such a classic colour scheme? It relates back to the colour wheel – it’s 2/3 of a…
D is for Denim
Denim is a staple in most wardrobes, and rightly so. It has many uses, is a hard-wearing fabric, and can be dressed up or down (to a certain extent). As far as cost per wear goes, most people get the maximum value from their favourite jeans. How to Choose Denim Garments (including Jeans) Fabric drape…
C is for Colour
We live in a coloured world, and studies have shown that we remember a ‘coloured experience’ vs a neutral or black and white one 70% more. So how can you bring a little more colour into your world (get out of all that black) and communicate more effectively? In fact, if you want more joy…
What Colour Do You Wear Most Frequently?
I see lots of wardrobes, and in them I sometimes see lots of different colours, but more often than not, I’ll see a few really dominant colours, and living in Melbourne, I see black, black and more black, whether or not it actually suits the wearer. We tend to have a base colour or neutral…
How to Look Taller – Monochromatic Dressing
Hi Imogen, Could you give some examples of monochromatic dressing. I’ve only ever done it in black and I’m changing colours. Also, I never want to wear stockings again in my life (Winter an exception perhaps but I usually wear pants). How does one dress monochromatically in a summer dress? Or jeans and top and…
How to Choose a Flattering Hair Colour
Apparently 70% of women colour their hair. Yet frequently as I walk down the street I see a lot of people with unflattering hair colours. The most common problems are: 1. Too dark for your skin – just because you once had very dark hair, as you age your skin changes and you need to…
What to Wear to a Job Interview
I’ve only recently found your blog, and I’ve learnt more about style in the past few weeks than I have in my previous 46 years !!! One thing that I’ve searched for but not found, is dressing for job interviews (I may be a bit biased as I’ve got one coming up soon). My situation…