To cringe when i see people wearing the 'wrong' colours..?

[Scarletohello]

Ok it all started a few years ago when I had my colours done, was told I was an Autumn, after hiding in black for years and although I was initially v unhappy with the diagnosis, I eventually accepted it and over time changed my clothes and ditched the black.

I now have a fantastic wardrobe of beautiful colours that really suit my colouring and all match. I often get compliments on what I'm wearing and I know it's just cos I'm wearing the right colours for me.

However, it's meant that I have become a bit of a colour fascist! I have 2 friends with similar colouring to me, pale, freckles, blue/ green eyes and reddish tints in their hair and for ages I have been trying to get them to ditch their black and wear warmer colours to the extent that they call me the fashion police and worry about what they are wearing when they are with me ( in a tongue in cheek way, obviously...)

Also when I see women wearing colours that really don't suit them, I have an overwhelming desire to go up to them and tell them ( obviously I don't, as I don't want a mouthful of abuse and its none of my business..)

But it bugs me! Yesterday I saw a woman with dark hair wearing a black and white jacket, a lime green jumper and cerise lipstick. It was just all wrong!! I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does....What to do??

You know I tried to be nice . But taking then piss out of someone for having a house rabbit shows you really really don't get out much. As for the woman saying people dress to their psyche ... I can only assume you went into her house wearing the sewn together skins of a pack of rabid weasels and left later wearing Debenhams by Caprice.

Hi Scarlet, this might get a more enthusiastic reception in the style & beauty section (or is there one for fashion and clothes?).

I have some friends who are into this and even told me I was "winter"... which apparently means I can wear black! Hurray!!! (except I very rarely do... but good to know I don't have to ditch my lbd)

Who's Katie Hopkins? And I didn't realise getting your colours done was such a weird thing to do. Has saved me loads of time and money actually and no more fashion mistakes!. I don't go round diagnosing people's colours, (can't be arsed), I just can't help noticing what people wear. It's a bit of an affliction really.

Glad this thread' s made people laugh anyhow...

Please DO NOT give in to the urge to make over people.
My MIL is an evangelist for this bloody system, and we have had to put a ban on it ever being discussed again, as she would not stop harassing me about it, including one memorable time in the car on the way back from the airport after flying from Paris to Australia. She actually came out and told me I wasn't acceptable as I was (I wear too much black, apparently, which is not OK, despite me being a 'winter').

Glad you are able to stay with the thread op.
I agree with most of Fellatio's post.
I so would advise you not to approach people in the street!
And your friends have probably heard enough too.

But you may find occasional people who you can have colour discussions with.
And if you look carefully on this thread, you will find 4 or 5 who are open to what you are saying.

"It takes years to learn to wear a hat" has done me in. I'm in actual pain from trying not to laugh out loud.

Think I can use that the next time my boss suggests 'team bonding' headgear?

Oh dear, people actually do this? Looking up the women that do 'colours' in my area, I'd say way too much slap on and yuk to the bright red lippy (why do they all wear this?).

Op I must say you really have started a very funny thread, thank you! Even though it was not probably your intention. The whole learning to wear a hat thing had me in stitches.

OP do you actually know what "objective" and "subjective" means?

Because someone telling you that a particular colour makes you look better/worse is pretty much totally subjective.

But I'm not a scientist, so what do I know.

So can anyone - in preferably less than 2 years and 200,000 words, explain how a 'colour consultant' might diagnose one as a particular season? The way I see it you have a one in four chance of saying something that pleases the patient and if you get it wrong well, they'll never know will they, because this is NOT a science. It can only ever be a matter of opinion. Someone else's opinion. Someone like the OP whose opinion I wouldn't trust if she was offering a bucket of piss to extinguish my burning hair.

Oh and she not only tells you what season you are but also your style or "archetype".

OP, I am wearing black cons with mint green on them. Jeans with frayed bottoms, a navy blue tshirt from the men's department and a blokes purple hoody. I am as blonde and pale skinned as you can get. I clash in all the wrong areas and don't give a flying fuck.

It's definitely not science.

OP I'm biased against this for two reasons 1. You're coming over as arrogant and superior and 2. I used to work with someone who's other job was 'colour fraud consultant' and she was the most arrogant and badly dressed woman I've ever met.

'In preferably less than 2 years and 200,000 words, explain how a 'colour consultant' might diagnose one as a particular season'

They make it up, but you already knew that. (Word count: 9) HtH [GRIN]

Bugger doesn't work if you shout it!

Arf at OP calling other posters rude given some of the crap she's said!

I look fabulous in all colours.
HTH

Well, either it is all hogwash and the OP is no worse or better than chatting bollocks than her consultant, or it does work and the OP hasn't really got a clue what she's doing. I suspect they don't make it up, actually. I suspect some consultants are very good indeed, and have training, experience, and a good eye for colour and style. I sincerely doubt the OP is qualified to "diagnose" her mates over a cuppa after spending a couple of hours in a colour consultant's company.

I'd like to have my colours done, one of those things I have always meant to do but never quite got around to doing.
I've self diagnosed as a light summer, I don't know how correct that is but (think) I still suit other colours too.

She was truly bonkers and said things like, ' you shouldn't wear skirts above your knee, they hurt your soul', ' it takes years to learn how to wear a hat''. She also described herself as a 'Shamen''

and yet, you follow in her bonkers footsteps?

Dramatic...Shirley Bassett or Cher
Gamine...Audrey Hepburn
Natural...Farrar Fawcett Majors (she described this one as "someone who looks good wet")
Classic...Princess Diana Diana or Margaret Thatcher
Ingenu...Helena Bonham Carter ( fairy tale like)
Romantic...Elizabeth Taylor ( bit curvy this one and down side is that " you can end up looking like a traffic warden", ie, frumpy

And you PAID for this???? What any girl/woman over 10 could have tod you for free?? Audrey Hepburn gamine....Helena BC fairy-tale....hooda thunk it???

Believe it or not, Colour me Beautiful charge 3k to do their colour analysis training to be a consultant...

She was bonkers....but, it was the moment after I had disagreed with her about green suiting me when she whipped off the coloured drapes she had around me whilst I was having to look at it in the mirror, and I literally saw the colour drain from my face in the black I was wearing. Then I 'got' it!

I have red hair, pale skin and freckles and I look fabulous in black, thanks.

You can always tell people who have 'had their colours done'. they are the ones who look dreadful. HTH.

Believe it or not, Colour me Beautiful charge 3k to do their colour analysis training to be a consultant

Someone should hook them up with the shop from the Harry and Paul series: 'We saw you Coming'