Personal Color Guide
Personal Color Guide
Virtual color consultation based on the 12 seasonal types ❄️🌿🌸🍁
🤳 You send me your pics, I’ll send you back a personalized 40-page guide that includes:
A full analysis of your coloring
A deep-dive into your unique defining qualities and how to use color to enhance, accentuate and celebrate them
Why we’ve been misunderstanding color analysis this whole time (hint: it has nothing to do with fitting into a beauty standard)
… and much more (see below).
💐 Want to gift someone a color guide? Check out the Color Guide Gift Edition.
“I would have never thought I’d suit those colors, but you are so right, I do! You have literally changed my life, I am not exaggerating.”
“I used to be so confused about this stuff and now it all makes so much sense! You are such a great teacher!”
Inside Your Personal Color Guide
1Color Theory Essentials You Need To Know
What’s an undertone, what’s a chroma and what makes this blue warmer than that one? Color analysis is applied color theory. That’s why we’ll start off with a quick color theory lesson to make sure we’re on the same page. 🎨
2Color Harmony: The Secret Sauce 🤫
So we can all agree that certain colors look better on some people than others, right? But WHY? Is it just random, did someone decide that? No, it's color harmony, a set of principles within color theory, and you'll learn all about it in your color guide.
3The 12 Seasonal Types In a Nutshell ❄️🌿🌸🍁
Summer, Winter, Soft Autumns: If you are not familiar with seasonal color analysis it can all sound a bit complicated. That's why before I tell you which one of the twelve types you are, we'll do a short dive into the system as a whole and what it has to do with color theory.
4Tadaa... Your Seasonal Color Type
Based on the photos you have submitted you will receive a full analysis of your coloring, including your undertone, value, chroma, contrast level... and of course your seasonal color type. I will let you know exactly WHY I landed on your type, and I'll also handpick a set of colors from your palette that I think harmonize especially well with your coloring.
5Your Personal Color Palette 🎨
Your color palette consists of 24 finely calibrated shades that optimally harmonise with your seasonal type, contrast level and base lightness.
6Your Colors In-Depth
To help you spot your exact colors in the wild, this section compares common fashion or beauty colors to those that are bang on your colors. All modelled on celebrities that are either your exact or sister type, so you can get an idea of how each shade works with your complexion.
7Hair and Make Up Colors💄
If there is only one thing you align to your color type make it your hair color! Your color guide includes a range of options that all harmonise with your color type and contrast level, plus recommendations for make up colors.
“I have read practically everything there is to read about color types and your guide is by far the best explanation I have come across.”
So how does this work?
STEP 1 🛒 Get Link Upon Purchase
Once you buy your virtual color consultation you will receive a link to the Color Questionaire by email. This happens automatically, right after you place your order. If you can’t find the email, please check your spam folder.
STEP 2 🤳 Take Your Photos
Pick a clear day to take the required photos of your face wearing a few different colors. See below for more tips on how to best take your own photos for the analysis.
STEP 3 📲 Complete the Color Questionaire
Complete the Color Questionaire and upload your photos.
STEP 4 ⏳ Wait About 14 Days
Once you have uploaded your photos I will get to work on your color guide. If your photos are not clear enough, I will contact you within a few days. If you don’t hear from me you can assume they are fine.
STEP 5 🤩 Receive Your Guide By Email
I will send you your Personal Color Guide by email within 14 days (although sometimes it takes me a few extra days). Sometimes our emails end up in people’s spam folders, so please check yours if your Color Guide is more than a few days overdue.
👉 There is NO TIME LIMIT FOR SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOS after you have purchased your color guide. The link to the Color Questionaire will stay valid, so don’t feel like you need to rush taking and submitting your photos.
“I love my color guide so much, I feel like you could charge a lot more for it tbh...”
How To Take Your Own Photos For Color Analysis
📲 You can absolutely take all of your pictures in one go on your phone, by yourself, just with your front-facing camera. Your lighting matters though! Your pics don’t need to be Insta-worthy, but they do need to capture your coloring as accurately as possible.
☀️ I recommend you take your photos OUTSIDE IN NATURAL DAYLIGHT under a clear-ish sky. It should not be during sunrise, sundown, golden hour, or under direct sunlight or a lot of clouds. If today is not a good day for photos, pick another day, there is no rush.
Photo List
In order to for me to properly analyse your coloring, I need these photos from you:
a photo of your face while wearing a pure white top
a photo of your side profile where I can also see your ear and neck
a photo of you wearing any red top
a photo of you wearing any blue top
a photo of you wearing any green top
OPTIONAL a photo of you in any pink/purple top
OPTIONAL a photo of you in any yellow/orange top
IF YOU HAVE COLOR-TREATED OR GREY HAIR please also submit any photo that approximates your natural/earlier hair color (think a younger you, a relative or celebrity)
Pre-Upload Checklist
Before you submit your photos, make sure that…
your face fills at least half of the screen. I only need to see a small piece of your top.
the image accurately captures your skin color, and has neither a blue-ish grey cast nor a yellow-golden one.
your face is well-lit but not in direct sunlight.
your eyes clearly visible. Someone that doesn’t know you should be able to tell your eye color from looking at each of your pics.
you are not wearing any make up and have taken off your glasses.
there are no traces of self-tanner on your face.
your hair is down but out of your face.
your phone's flash is turned off.
you have turned off any blurring filters.
👉 ALL OF THESE POINTS ARE CRUCIAL! I will let you know if I believe your photos aren’t suitable for color analysis, but I’m not able to spot if you are wearing subtle fake tan or the sun is giving you an even golden glow that looks natural.
Disclaimers
This is a COLOR consultation only. Your guide will not take into account your personal style or preference for certain colors. All mood boards and outfit examples in your guide will feature a variety of aesthetics.
To allow me to offer this service to as many people as possible, your color consultation will be delivered in the form of a digital guide only. It does not include a face-to-face consultation or any follow-up advice.
Color analysis is not a hard science, because it involves multiple variables that exist on a spectrum and that need to be interpreted in relation to each other. It’s absolutely possible that another color analyst would type you differently than I would, which does not necessarily mean that either of us are “wrong”.
I have not been professionally trained in color analysis. I am simply a person who is into fashion and colors and who enjoys distilling abstract topics into practical takeaways. I am also the author of The Curated Closet, a bestselling style book that has been translated into multiple languages, and my posts on color analysis have ranked in the top five search results for that term for over ten years now.
Please note that I am not able to offer refunds once you have submitted your photos.