Why A Man Knows His Colours
A male strength: Taking appearance less personally than women. It just is.The video below is also here on YouTube. The Bright Spring Pinterest board link is here. Pinterest is an application where you...
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One Stop Colour Answers
Today’s client arrives for her colour consultation.Meet *Fiona. She is Caucasian with a medium skin tone, shoulder-length straight silver hair, and eyes that might be blue, green or gray. The eye...
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Light Seasons and Blonde Highlights
She might have soft gray blue eyes and sandy yellow ringlets. She’s 25, an organic farmer.Or bright turquoise eyes and light brown hair with cinnamon overtones. She’s 55, has a 6AM yoga class every...
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Colour and Conventional Wisdom
KateKate had her colours done in her 40’s to feel confident about her appearance and make sense of lipstick.Kate + Apparel = Presentation In the equation, her PCA (personal colour analysis)...
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Colour Analysis Questions From A Winter Reader
Many readers live too far from colour analysts to have access to the in-person experience and try to work through eliminations on their own. This post offers my answers to some of the questions I...
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Eyeliner Darkness for Soft Summer
Note: The Shop is back in operation with all features working. Please reach out by e-mail if you experience any difficulties, to christine@12blueprints.com. Thank you.--In the top row, the same...
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Light Summer Eyeglasses
Eyes are the connection with others. Voice, gestures, wardrobe, absolutely, but keep looking into the camera. Eyes can only tell their story within a harmonious whole. Eyes adrift without background...
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Bright Winter Makeup FAQs
Jorunn Hernes (Nordic Simplicity) and I recently posted a 3-minute video on LinkedIn (Take the Guesswork Out of Buying Colour), with colours relating to Soft Summer.The most recent short video is Look...
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Look Bright Winter, Not True Winter
In the last post, Bright Winter Makeup FAQs, we answered readers’ questions about finding their makeup look.Today’s post looks at clothing, inspired by another terrific question from a Bright Winter...
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Sample Sets
The video is also here on YouTube.Sample SetsSample sets are new in the Shop on this site. Find all 12 sets on this page. Sets for each Season include a sample of current makeup colours for the Season,...
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Look True to You
Every person thinks, feels, and decides based on what they see.Don’t leave it up to chance.In the video, we’ll imagine what might happen when a woman changes her colours.Tip for watching the video:...
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Autumn Progressions, Basics
(The images began as columns until I realized groups would fit the 16:9 movie screen ratio for images better. I forgot that when I was speaking but the same ideas apply.)The video is here at YouTube....
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Autumn Progressions, Florals
The script for the video is provided after the video player.The video is also here at YouTube. Harmony: How appearance communicates.The magical thing about prints is what colours can do together....
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Autumn Progressions, Corals and More Prints
This is post 3 of 4 in Autumn Progressions.Previously, we've looked at Part 1: Basics, and Part 2: Florals. The video is here at YouTube. We’re looking at more prints today. When I chose them, I...
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Autumn Progressions, Hair Colour, Accessories, and Transitions
Welcome to part 4 of 4 in the Autumn Progressions series.The video is also here at YouTube. Today, we’re looking at accessories to compare the 3 Autumn Seasons, Soft, True, and Dark. We’ll see...
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Soft Summer Cosmetics
I love it when readers send me questions as they apply their Season colours in their real lives. I get a better idea of how I can help, where I can explain better, and it keeps me focused on what you...
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A Practical Approach to Shopping
The video is also here on YouTube. Gray is a key colour in any wardrobe. It lights up other colours. It explains and intensifies them. Gray is the backbone of the wardrobe for all Seasons, including...
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Is It Icy or Pastel?
The video is also here at YouTube. Your Season colour palette is a menu of colours that will look great with your natural colours. Matching the colours when you buy clothes or cosmetics is how to get...
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Navy Blue for Your Colouring
The video is here at YouTube. (The text below is the same as the video except for Panel 4 at the end.) The right navy blue can be a Top 5 colour for many people. Because traditional navy (for...
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How to Choose Orange
The video is also here on YouTube. The blog post below is an excerpt from the video showing the infographics in better detail, with an abbreviated version of the script. The video also features...
View ArticleIntroducing Fabric Colours Sets
The best thing about Personal Colour Analysis for me was being introduced to myself. I quite literally met the real me for the first time. More than how she could look, I saw who she could be. Meeting...
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Your Best Yellow
As you might expect for a warm-associated colour, warm Seasons (groups of natural colouring) have many choices, as do 4 of the groups with some Spring in their colours (Light Summer, Light Spring, True...
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How to Wear Spring Colours
This video is also here on YouTube. Here is the Season Circle map shown at the beginning of the video: - Also on YouTube are videos for: How to Wear Winter Colours How to Wear Summer Colours -
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Nextdoor Seasons Colours
Today's topic is wearing colours from Seasons on either side of ours. This post is a collection of the clothing images from the video, if you prefer to have the still image as you follow along with the...
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Your Best Blue Jeans
Today, we’re looking at colours of blue jeans for people whose natural colouring, clothes, and cosmetics belong in the 12 groups, also known as Seasons. The video is also here on YouTube. For all...
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Your Best Silver
Today, we're looking at the most beautiful silvers to enhance your natural colours and wardrobe, as jewelry or any extension, such as eyeglass frames, belt buckles, or shoes. Metals reflect a lot of...
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Your Best Pink
Pink is our topic today, so the lighter side of the red choices. We all have choices that we look great in in every colour family, and which ones they are come from our own natural colours, or Season,...
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Your Best Purple
Purple today, how to choose yours. Colour has creative side and a technical side. Today’s post is on the technical side, where we’ll see colour charts come to life in all kinds of apparel and...
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How to Be a Dark Winter (not a True Winter)
Dark Winter describes the natural colours of people who are mostly Winter with some Autumn, a blend of warm and a cool parent Seasons, and therefore a Neutral Season. Today we're looking at the...
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Jewel Tones for Light Summer
Today’s topic was inspired by a wonderful question I received from a client. She had had her Personal Colour Analysis (PCA) around 10 years ago, a Light Summer. Her colouring was similar to Princess...
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