Let's talk about colour!
I'm sheila I'm a personal stylist and I help women create wardrobes they love so they can dress well
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and you'll be notified every Tuesday when I upload a new video. Welcome back to part three
of the problem in your closet. Today we're going to talk about colour and how colour
makes a huge difference in how you look and how your Colours relate to your style archetype
and your body shape - yes there's a connection. So before we get started,
as I'm going through this information and you're learning more about your body shape your colours
and your personal style but you'd really like some personal help in putting it all together,
maybe just one of them or maybe all of them, I will put a link down in the description box below
where you can set up a style session with me and I can help you with one of those or all of those.
So why should you care about colours? Well, when you wear the right colours, your hair,
your eyes and your skin look more healthy and more vibrant. When you wear the wrong colours
your hair looks dull, your skin looks dull, your eyes don't sparkle as much as they could
and dark circles and lines show up. So overall, when you wear your best colours you look better,
you look more vibrant, you look healthier and you look younger.
I think those are enough reasons to wear your best colours. Colour analysis is not new and
you probably remember the 80s when it was very popular but just because it isn't popular right
now doesn't mean that it still isn't just as important and actually it's been important
for many many years. It goes back as far as the 1800s when Michel Eugene Chauvel wrote a book
about colour. He was particularly interested in the fact that when you put two colours together,
one of those colours changed and that's called simultaneous contrast. To demonstrate this,
here are four squares that are all the same colour but when they're surrounded by a different colour,
that square changes its colour. In one square it looks fuzzy, the next square is not so great
but in the other square is bright. This is important when you colour your hair - to have
the hair colour that matches your skin colour and when you do your skin looks brighter and clearer
and then when you wear colours that match that as well your whole look improves. In the 80's colour
analysis was very basic, it was divided into cool or warm and then into seasons and you probably
remember that but now with these different colour systems or the one I'm going to show
you today. This is a different system that takes into consideration your personality. So these are
water colours - remember I mentioned water and the loving Lana personality. This is a metal colour,
this is earth colour, this is wood and this one is fire. When I do colour analysis most often
the person's personality will come out in those same elements - very amazing. So here are the
elements again and they go along with the style personality and they go along with the colours
and they also go along with body shapes. Most times your best colours are the ones that are
in harmony with your eyes, your hair and your skin tone. I'm going to show you a clip right
now from another video I did where I talked about colour and so you don't have to go back and find
that video. The best way to do that is to create colour harmony between the clothes you're wearing
and your hair colour your skin tone and your eye colour. There are three ways to create colour
harmony and the first one is determining your colour temperature, now your colour temperature
is either warm cool or neutral. This is an example of warm colours, so if your skin eyes and hair
lean to the warm side these colours look best on you and if they your skin eyes and hair colour
lean to the cool side these colours look best on you - and maybe you're neutral where
you can wear any colour. One way to decide if your colour temperature is cool or warm
is to take jewelry, first silver jewelry, lay it against your skin and just make it take a note how
it blends with your skin tone and then take some gold jewelry and lay that against your skin and
see which one blends better with your skin tone. Silver is cool and gold tones are warm. The first
way to do this is take beige or cream material put it next to your skin and just notice how your skin
blends with this. Do you look more vibrant or does your skin look more pale? Then take some white
material put that next your skin and just see how that makes you look. If the white one looks
better you're cool if the cream one looks better you're warm. The third way to find your colour
temperature is to look at the veins in your arms. When you look at them do they look blue or do they
look greenish if they're blue your skin tone is cool and if they look greenish your skin tone
is warm. Generally people who have warm skin tones have also have the warmness in their hair colour,
they have the warmest in their eye colour and if your colouring is cool your hair usually has cool
undertones and so do your eyes. The good thing is that we can wear most any colour. Instead of
just being able to wear four or five colours. For example, there are many shades of purple and these
are are just a few of them. If you take purple and you add white you'll have a tinted purple, if you
take purple and add brown, you'll have a toasted purple - so it just makes the purple a little
different by the colours that are added to them, which means that no matter which category you're
in it's most likely that you'll be able to wear purple or maybe red or yellow. You don't you don't
have to stick to one colour, the other thing is when you know your colours and you get your colour
palette these colour palettes are made to help you get dressed better because it shows you your
neutrals and your colours and the colours that the colours that are in the palettes go together,
so this makes dressing so much easier. Just a few little techniques can make a big difference
so let's talk about one of the style personalities to just give you an idea of how this works.
Let's take Vivacious Vicki, she is fire, her element is fire which means she will like to
wear colours like these are fire colours - they're bright and they are wow they will show her up.
They are mostly all cool colours. These colours on their own won't be her best colours
but they are part of her fire element she might have other elements like wood or earth
and then her palette would take all that those different elements into consideration. As you know
most of us are not just one category we are little bits of everything when it comes to our body shape
our colouring - everything. So the colour palette takes all of those elements into consideration as
well. So Vivacious Vicky is going to like those vibrant saturated colours but depending on her
colouring her hair eyes and skin tone what colours she uses will be different. Also,
she is most likely to have a curvaceous body shape, she might have a triangle,
she might have an hourglass or she might want to have that body shape and she will
dress to create that look because as I said before it doesn't matter so
much about what your shape is you can use clothes to create the look of that shape.
The Vicky style type look will really thrive on all of this attention - nice colours, fashion
all of that kind of stuff but let's say she has friends and family who don't really want her to
be like that. They don't come out and say that but they kind of pooh-pooh anybody who they consider
not to be like them and I''m sure you know of situations like this so she doesn't feel like
she can be herself around those people which means she's not expressing her true personality which in
the long run is not going to be fun. She's taking away part of herself. So most likely when you went
through these style archetypes the one that popped out for you the one you felt was most like you,
you also embody and if that's true that's great but if for some reason when you went through them
you chose one of those archetypes and you thought, well that's how I would want to
look but I don't do that, then take some time to think about what needs to be changed and
maybe you're not being true to your real self. Generally the style archetype, the colouring
and the body shape all kind of fit together. There will be a few exceptions but as a general rule
of thumb it will fit together. If you have any thoughts on this please put them in the comment
box below and if you have any questions you can put them there too and I will leave a link for my
colour guide - Colour and You in the description box below. I hope you found this helpful thank you
very much for watching and if you've enjoyed this video give it a thumbs up and keep on styling.