To consider getting a ‘work out your colours’ as a birthday gift

[ThatWhiteElephant]

A present for a female family member.
I don’t know anyone that has had it done, but the birthday recipient has mentioned this is the past.
Are they a load of old twadle and a waste of money, or would this be a nice gift?

*Your - I just did my own pet hate!!

If someone bought me this, I would just wait until the voucher had expired! Can't think of anything worse, apart from maybe a spa day!
If I were to buy it for someone, I would buy it as a joint outing so that I would go with the recipient, and make it a day out.

I had this bought for me as a present by my best friend and I loved it. (Colour me beautiful) We went together & had a great time, but it wasn't something I'd have felt I could treat myself to. Lifted me from boring navy into a whole realm of lovely bright pastels I'd never have dared try wearing before - & they look fab!

I was at a PTA event when the Colour Me Beautiful woman was there. She chose three women - a blonde with blue eyes, a woman with chestnut hair and hazel eyes and a woman with black hair and blue eyes.

It was really interesting - the woman with black hair looked amazing with certain colours, but when the woman put black against her then her skin looked awful. She (and virtually all of us) always wore black too.

The blonde looked amazing with pastel colours - really great.

The woman with auburn hair suffered, though. The only colour they could match her with was khaki and she looked very drab in comparison to the others. If she'd had to pay for that I think she would've thrown herself off a bridge!

I am really into the colours thing but you really don't need a course or lesson it's really easy to work it out yourself with a colour me beautiful book or similar (I used my mums one which is from about 1984 but it totally works !!)

I didn't know they still did that.

When I was a teenager I was desperate to have that done but I don't think I'd like it now (teenage years were late 80's/early 90's).

Now my clothes choices are more based on does the bottom of a top go lower than my belly button (some shops seem to go for wide but short tops and I like thinner but longer ones).

Other requirements include sleeves that aren't daft (frills or flared bits on sleeves, those capped sleeves that make your arms look fat, sleeves with bows).

And clothes that don't have Disney characters or logos on them. That includes pyjamas. I'm 42. I don't want to go to bed wearing Minnie Mouse pyjamas or anything that says Little Miss Naughty on it.

It's a bit 80s innit... I wouldn't like it, you can Google your colours for your colouring and I would find the whole consultation bit cringe, plus they upsell shot make up and scarfs etc at some consultations so it's an hour of being hard sold to be a desperate franchisee

I had it done YEARS ago (CMB) and there was quite a bit of upselling and I took home some really awful quality make up but dodged the awful scarfs.

I had mine done recently with House of Colour. I was really surprised by the difference the colours made!

To answer a pp’s question - it took about 3 hours. I wore a white cover and first she established if I had blue or red tones by trialling two different cream tones against my skin. Then she went through alternating different colours - one from the blue tones and one from the red. Once she’d established I was red/warm, she went through the alternating colours of the Autumn and Spring colours. Then she went through all the Autumn colours to see which looked great (‘Wow’ colours!) and which looked just good She then did some makeup (there is a makeup class - upsell. Also a Clothing styling class). I’m glad I went. I sorted through my wardrobe, I have less but I wear it more. All my clothes co-ordinate! Even when I was really ill and in loads of pain (I was waiting for surgery) I had people telling me I looked ‘well’ and asking if I’d lost weight!