"Getting colours done" - a bit Bridget Jones's mum?

[Trills]

I love the idea of knowing what suits me.

But think the experience itself sounds excruciating.

And what if they decide I have to wear browns and oranges and mustard? That'll be a complete waste of time and money, because I just won't.

[naturelover]

I'm glad I had mine done, and it wasn't excruciating at all - maybe because I know the lady who did it.

It turns out the colours I naturally gravitate towards are the ones that suit me after all. And in addition I got some ideas for brighter colours that do look good on me (but I'd never tried on).

All in all, money well spent for me, and now when I shop I can see at a glance what's worth trying on and what isn't.

[Trills]

Which group of people did you use?

[Trills]

DO I have to do anything?

Is it like at the optician where they ask you if the first one or the second one is better, and you can't see any difference?

[FunnysInLaJardin]

Trills ref the opticians. I always lie just to make them feel as though they are doing their job properly. BTW you can sort of self assess online. That is how I did mine and it confirmed what I always knew about what suited me

[jumpinghoops]

I really didn't find it Bridget Jones' mum-ish at all, like naturelover I had naturally gravitated to my season (Spring) through going for coral and turquoise quite a lot- but was introduced to some colours that I'd never tried before that looked great. I found it a really uplifting experience actually and practically skipped to the shops to check out some possibilities.

I used House of Colour, my neighbour used Colour Me Beautiful and actually seemed quite confused/overwhelmed as she was given a load of swatches with no real indication of her best colours.

You don't have to say which is best if you don't see it, you can be honest! A few times I found it hard to see on myself which colours suited me best, sometimes it was strikingly obvious though- these generally tended to be my best colours.

[janmoomoo]

One of the best things I have done. No more morning clothes crisis. Didn't have an immediate impact but over about six months gradually my clothes became more co-ordinated and now I don't have one thing in my wardrobe that I wouldnt wear.

I went with my sister and it was great, but you can do it as a group of friends if you can rustle up a few who are interested, round someones house, open a bottle of wine etc. Some of the colours she held up I couldnt see a different but some I definitely could.

You know those clothes you have in the wardrobe and you like, but you put them on and look in the mirror and just go "nah" and put something else on? Well it turns out all of those that I had were the wrong colours for me, so that was why I wasn't wearing them but I didnt know why IYSWIM!

[shopafrolic]

I'm with janmoomoo on this one. I was one of the people that suits mustards, greens, browns etc and that freaked me out a bit. But in amongst those colours are some great turquoise blues, purples, camel, tomato reds etc and whenever I wear my colours always get more compliments. YY to it not having an immediate impact though, but now that's am buying more clothes again it makes shopping easy and I am slowly EBaying the things that I always had a gut feeling didn't suit me, and now I know why!
And now, I can wear so many more things in my wardrobe together as they all match and blend.

[Hopefully]

I'm another Autumn (that'll be the rust/brown/mustard etc), but although I wear those, I actually tend more towards the teals/petrol navy/royal purple/scarlet/forest green/oyster white because I love those colours. There are so many colours in each palette that I think you'd be hard pushed to come up with one you hated every last colour in.

Trills there is no obligation to answer questions/'do' anything, but your consultant should make sure you can see exactly what is happening and that you understand where you are at each stage of the draping process and why. I often go through several more sets of drapes than I need for the analysis, just to make sure that the client can see what I'm seeing (am a consultant, obviously - with HoC).

[Hopefully]

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[ScaredySquirrel]

I went and enjoyed it, but I am still not sure if she got it right. I subsequently met someone with the same colouring as me who said she is a summer. I'm a winter (we're both dark haired/eyed). i also can't work out if there's any warmth in my colouring or not - my hair has been dyed so long I can't remember whether there's any auburny bits in it.

(I think there's something about looking at the colour of your veins).

i do want to know as it bothers me that I might be dying my hair the wrong colour!

on the other hand, I wore a cardigan in one of my colours (purple) and did get lots of compliments that day. I now daren't' wear brown which I had quite a lot of in my wardrobe.

[Hopefully]

Scaredy it's possible to have superficially quite similar colouring and still be completely different seasons. I know Travel IRL, and she and I have very similar colouring - dark eyes, dark hair, olive looking complexions (although I am paler than her). I am an Autumn and she is a Summer.

[Hopefully]

Oh, and if you were done by a HoC consultant and have any concerns, just give your consultant a call and ask to talk it through again. Did you agree with what the consultant was saying/seeing when you were analysed?