198: Colour and Style Q&A: Adding details, warm and cool, and standing out.

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Details- Looking stylish current and funky at 60 (and feeling comfortable) – ideas on the details involved putting a look together
I heard a successful makeup artist say that some people have a mixture of warm and cool features. For example, some may have warm colored natural hair but cool eyes, or neutral skin and warm eyes. Do you believe that this can happen?
My style challenge is being boring because others might judge me if I were to wear something out of the norm, especially for the school run!

197: Colour and Style Q&A: Signature look, comfort with style, and style education.

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How do I find my classic signature look without falling for fads and trends?
I’ve always put comfort over style, I want to change that mentatlity but I’m finding it challenging to put together a beautiful outfit. Most of the times I’m not happy with the results.
How do I be critical enough to resist piece that end up not being versatile or interesting or not passing up pieces that have potential but I wasn’t sure about

196: Colour and Style Q&A: Menopause, look approachable, and scarves.

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How to dress when your body type changes – my body has change with menopause from hourglass to all my weight going onto my tummy. I feel frumpy and tented in everything.
I struggle with looking intimidating as I’m tall with high value contrast and a classic/dramatic personality style. How to dress to be more approachable but still feel like me?
How to make my scarves look like they are part of an outfit not as though they have been thrown on as an afterthought?

193: Colour and Style Q&A: Relaxed casual and age appropriate dressing.

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0.08 I am a relaxed/casual, am a full-time working potter with a studio on our property, and live deep in the country. Any suggestions to spark things up? Thanks.
2.44 My biggest challenge, now that I’m 65, is finding clothes that don’t make me look like my 88 year-old mother or my 20 year-old grandaughter. So many women just seemed to give up on fashion at a certain age. I’m also a Deep Autumn and it seems all the fashions out there today are better suited for cool complexions. When I wear color I often feel like it is wearing me!
5.21 Relaxed style here. I feel I should step it up and not be so relaxed.. Any tips?

192: Colour and Style Q&A: Changing body shape, adding colours to your outfit, and classic boring clothes.

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0.08 I have put on a lot of weight and my shape has changed dramatically. I could always highlight my waist before. Now I feel like a blob and need to wear loose tunics etc. It depresses me and I’m aimless just now while I am desperately trying to regain my healthy body.
2.19 I have very visible skin rash (a post COVID symptom) around the eyes and on the cheeks and am supposed not to cover it with make-up to let it “rest”. My colour palette is enigmatic and I am 1 colour plus neutral when my skin is normal.
4.09 My biggest challenge is: to feel better with my appearance, be less conventional, classical and boring and find joy in my clothes.

191: Colour and Style Q&A: Tips on wearing heels when you have medical condition, body shape changes when you put some covid kilos, and narrowing down your purchase when shopping.

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I can’t wear heels due to a medical condition and I’m petite and I feel completely unstylish – help!
I’ve put on the Covid kilos, and have gained weight in places like my tummy that I never used to have no longer suit me. Help!
Give me the confidence to wear what I want and how to narrow down my purchases. I love everything!

190: Colour and Style Q&A: Tips on petite dressing style, proportions, and style recipe.

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Being older and not very tall I struggle with knowing where and how to shop for my style
What is your opinion on the French/half tuck of tops? It works with my style recipe and it definitely improves proportions sometimes. But I always feel a little bit like I am trying too hard to look cool. Especially with button down shirts. Is this tuck a fad or a trend? Is getting the proportions right more important than anything else?
One of my big style struggles is having to decide each day what to wear. I don’t always have time to be creative, but wish the decisions were easier. Maybe that I had some more style options that I like or were easier to “go to” that I don’t have to fret through every morning.

189: Colour and Style Q&A: Matching skirts and shoes, dressing while losing weight, and shopping clothes

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Do I wear back sandals with the skirt to make it relate to me or would that only accentuate the unideal color?
Do you have some tips on how to dress while trying to lose weight? I want to buy clothes that make me feel good at this weight but am nervous that I’m wasting money.
I think one of my biggest challenges right now when it comes to my style is, not knowing if I should buy pricier clothing items for style or not.

187: Colour and Style Q&A: How to wear light colour clothes for dark value colouring? Style tip guidelines for creative-dramatic dressing style and stay at home.

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You have posts and info on light values wanting to wear darker colors to appear more authoritative/ professional, but what about a dark value gal who wants to lighten up to look more in tune with summer, be more femme, more approachable? If inner column is dark, then jacket/vest/ scarf near face would be light, but then darker looks better near face?
I’ve had a few colour analysis’ done with differing results. I am more creative/dramatic in my style, but still like having a few guidelines – any tips?
Could you talk about casual wear for various body types and footwear that’s flattering as we are all living in leggings and how to style up for living at home?

186: Colour and Style Q&A: Right fabrics for X shape body, most versatile shape for a scarf, mix and match clothes in my wardrobe

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My problem is I find it hard to find tops to suit my X shape that are in natural fibres – tips on finding the right fabrics and clothes?
If I’m purchasing a scarf for the average shape – what is the most versatile shape – square, rectangle or infinity?
How do I have things in my wardrobe that I can swap and change and mix together?

185: Colour and Style Q&A: Tips on handbag size. Feminine dressing when you have orthopaedic shoes and have heavy bone structure. Going grey.

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How do I choose a handbag size to not overwhelm my body or to look miniature? As for handbag colour, does a person match their shoes, or blend or contrast with their clothing?
How do I dress in a feminine way when I have to wear orthopaedic shoes and have heavy bone structure, with wide shoulders and don’t feel small and dainty suits me, plus I’m an intellectual person and I want people to know this about me?
I’ve loved my autumn colours but am now going grey and finding it hard to figure out what colours suit me anymore. I cannot see anymore what suits me now

183: Colour and Style Q&A: Tips on accessorizing, wardrobe transition, and disguising your tummy.

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I’m interested in fancy barrettes/hair clips for my hair as I’m allergic to jewellery. Should I?
How to edit my wardrobe so it’s only full of clothes that I love and represent my style and work for me and I wish I could be OK with having fewer clothes.
How to hide excess weight when living in a humid environment and a jacket or cardigan is an impossibility?

181: Colour and Style Q&A: How to redirect focus away from the areas I want to camouflage? How do you put colours together and create contrast? How to combine part time working in business to mum in the playground?

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How to redirect focus away from the areas I want to camouflage? I use a statement necklace frequently, but what are some other options?
How do you put colours together – I’m high contrast spring (Zesty) but hear colours should be the same value so how do I create contrast?
How to combine part time working in business with switching to being a mum in the playground without changing clothes?

180: Colour and Style Q&A: Dressing tips for petite, signs that you need to let that garment go, and lipstick colours.

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Very Petite Dilemmas – it’s so impossible to find clothes and shoes to fit and when you are a size 14 or have a large bust what are you to do?
I have a very hard time getting rid of things I have had and loved for decades that are still in good shape. Any tips on what to keep and how to know it’s truly classic and what to let go of?
I’m cool, dark and smoky (Sophisticated) and am looking for blush and lipstick colours – are there any that are truly universal?

179: Colour and Style Q&A: Tips when you feel nothing fit or flatter your body, wearing trousers and tops when you’re overweight, and style shift with different workplaces.

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I feel like I’m never stylish – it that my lack of shape means clothes don’t fit or flatter? I’m short too which doesn’t help – any suggestions?
I’d love to wear dresses and skirts but tend to always wear trousers and tops because I’m overweight. I find it hard to dress up! I also recently bought a bowler hat but haven’t had the courage to wear it yet.
My style shifts with different workplaces, cultures and activities and I”m quite non-conformist, whilst also being comfort orientated. I could like to add a piece or two from current trends to wear with my existing wardrobe. How to do this?

178: Colour and Style Q&A: How to find things that are comfortable both in how I feel about them and how they actually feel? How do you style a curved hem top with a blazer or jacket? How to find clothes for old woman who lives in the tropics?

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How to find things that are comfortable both in how I feel about them and how they actually feel on me, but also dressy. I like to look classy and stylish but often find it difficult to get things that are.
how do you style a curved hem top with a blazer or jacket? Does the jacket hem need to be curved as well?
I’m an older woman who lives in the tropics and has an apple shape and I’m finding it hard to find clothes.