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…
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…
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…
How to wear leggings seems to be a highly googled question, and what sorts of shoes work with leggings is a hot topic, so here is my 2c on the subject. Here are some ideas: 1.Ankle length (left) – work best with high vamp shoes and sandals, either in a colour that…
The other day I posted on breaking the style rules, and I thought that I’d post some more ways to do it. Knowing your rules (or as I like to think of them – as Style Guidelines) is great as you will be more empowered when making choices shopping (hello? how much money have you…
I have provided post upon post of style ‘rules’ to follow, but one of the things I always teach my clients is how to break the style rules. Why Follow Style Rules? Why have rules at all? They help those who have no idea or no reference to figure out what works for their body…
Maria Killam from Colour Me Happy alerted me to this quiz from House Beautiful, and since I’m crazy about colour (and have limited time to write a post today) I thought I’d snaffle it: 1. What’s the first color you see in the morning? Cream – the walls of my bedroom are…
Have you ever heard of the term Visual Grouping (we group like with like to make it easier for our brains to work through all the millions of bits of data it has to contend with second by second)? This principle can help you when deciding on a shoe colour to wear with your skirts…
To celebrate my 200th post last week, I decided that I needed a makeover for my blog – so I engaged the services of the lovely Katie Lane from Lemon Cherry Blogs to make me over! So here is my stunning new look – I hope you like it as much as I do.…
Wear a nude shoe – yes I’ve gone on about this illusion trick before, but it’s worth repeating – a nude shoe, one that blends with the colour of your skin on your foot, will make your legs look longer by creating a seamless transition from skin to shoe. Wear a low vamp shoe…
One of the reasons I’m so happy to be home, is that I’ve just spent 3 weeks in the same few clothes, all in a palette of black, white and red (apart from a couple of items), and I’m now bored, so bored with these clothes! It’s great to be able to capsule your…
You may have already seen my post about Black not being the be all and end all of neutrals. So if you cut black out what are your options? When I went from brunette to blonde, my go to neutral of black changed to white (find out more about that here) because my natural…
So, I’ve made another little video after Maria from Colour Me Happy had a request about how to choose foundation colours. My tip is, as you will see is to try on every colour, don’t limit yourself to two or three colours. Put them along your jawline, then look for the colour that disappears into…
Jane from Work that Wardrobe (and boy does she work it hard) was given (don’t worry, she didn’t buy it) a pale peach jacket, it’s a Chanel style tweed, and similar colour to this jacket. She asked me what she should wear it with colourwise, so I’ve put together a layout of 5 outfits in…
I received a reader request to explain about concealer and foundation colour choices. You may have seen green concealers and wondered what they are for – well, if you think about going back to your colour wheel and looking a the complementary colour on the colour wheel, the opposite of green is red, thus green…
An easy way to mix colours is to mix 2 neutrals with 1 colour, this is pretty fail safe, especially if both your neutrals are either warm or cool in their undertone. Another option is to go for 2/3 of a triad. A triad is three colours equidistant on the colour wheel, if you choose…
One of the resources I like to look at to see what we can expect to see in shops for the next season is the Pantone Fashion/Colour Forecast. The Spring edition is currently available and you can read it here to see exactly what the colours look like. What I find interesting is…
The other day I was surfing around and stumbled upon this fantastic blog about colour written by an interior designer Maria Killam. It’s so full of incredibly useful information on how to choose colour for your interiors I had to share it with you all. Maria’s blog is called Colour Me Happy , and is…
Would you like a personal consultation but can’t afford it? Why not come along to one or both of our group workshops, find out all about you, and get your wardrobe under control. I’ll be running 2 workshops during March in Melbourne Australia and would love to help you. If you live in Los Angeles…
So we’ve covered colour contrast and value contrast, the final piece of the puzzle is how your personality affects your contrast levels. Your personality can be a ‘rule breaker’ or ‘rule stickler’ one – if you are dramatic, rebellious or high energy (life of the party), no matter what your outward appearance, you may enjoy…
So when we think about our value contrast – it is the contrast between our lightest and darkest values. So taking the scales pictured here what is the most similar lightness and/or darkness to your hair, eyes and skin colours? If they are 3 or less apart – you are low value contrast If they…
