I'm getting my colours done tomorrow morning! Whoppage!

[TattyDevine]

And because I heard about it on here I reserve the right to bore you senseless with every minute detail once I find out.

Please lots of people come along and tell me how much their life has changed for the better since having it done and how they now turn heads wherever they go even if it is a sack, as long as the sack is the right colour

Can't wait. Having it done with House of Colour, anything I need to know?

Oh you've made my day. You're the same as me. I'll have to update my spreadsheet bear that in mind :)

I get the idea of it but sometimes am still not sure if some colours are for me i.e. I know to run away from black, deep colours etc but then get confused what colour suits I'm supposed to wear. I can't seem to find any in any of the "allowed" colours

So I'll have to hang on your coat-tails and see what you come up with.

Tatty that sounds fab! Where can you book a consultation and what happens during it? Also, please can I ask how much it cost, if that's not too rude?

According to your link I'm a deep winter but I'd love to know for sure. I'm always attracted to certain colours when shopping and it'd be good to know if they're the right ones.

I was told your colours never change, it's to do with the tones under the skin, cos I did wonder if going without make-up or getting a tan might make a difference - it doesn't. DH's mum wanted to get DD done (she's four months old). A step too far, I think....
One of the lures has to be you get to find out whether you've been getting it right all these years - never mind all the clothing disasters, as soon as you get an exact colour match with one or two of your existing items of clothing it's like 'ooh, I always KNEW I had an innate sense of style!'

I'll try to answer all the questions.

Firstly, I had it done at House of Colour, which is this website , I paid £99 and I was in there from half 9 in the morning until half 3!!! She had one other lady in with me, who was a Deep Winter, its amazing because you get to see them get draped, and you get to see the difference it makes on them, and really believe in the process.

The lady who did me looked really well put together and perfectly in harmony colour wise. She definitely lives by it and looks good for it.

If you know what you are and are having trouble finding the colours, you could have a browse on Kettlewell Colours , I know it looks a bit daggy and not terribly edgy as clothing websites go but if you see the basics they have you can at least buy a couple of long sleeved t-shirts to bog around in and get it right half the time...the prices vary a bit but actually there are some pretty affordable basics and the quality is good (I felt some in the shop today)

I'm going to go back and look at the thread that started all this for me and see who it was that guessed me as a Bright Spring and credit them in a sec. Bear with me!

MittenKitten it was you who suggested Bright Spring! Partly because of my weirdy blue eye-whites...

Hi Tatty -on other colour analysis threads I have suggested to others that they may be a Clear/Bright Spring when they are finding their colour type tricky. I know after much faffing that this is the one for me but was thrown for years by the fact that Springs are supposed to be fair, yet winter didn't quite work. So what other colours did you get? Isn't it great that black is still on the list?

Tatty where did you get this done? Was it in Colchester? I want to go.

I think I'm a winter but I'm not sure which one. Is there a warm winter? I might be that.

I think I'm a cool winter from that website. I've just ordered this book which I thought was worth a fiver.

So if I am a cool winter, what do I do now? How doIfind out which colours I can wear... without paying any money

Oh ok, I think I meant bright!

I can wear black and white, (I think so, anyway) not cream or pale grey, definitely not beige, (but can do charcoal) look pants in rust orange, gold, peach etc. Can wear some pastels as long as not too insipid, look hideous in very pale powder blue.

I look best in deep, rich, strong jewel colours I reckon.

You might be a deep autumn or some kind of autumn if you are too warm for a winter...

To be fair house of colour have 4 seasons but various "types" within the seasons, she didn't quite all me clear spring, at one point she said I might be a "blue spring" which I think means the blues work particularly well but she keept saying I was clear and bright and then my colour palette is textbook "clear spring" or "bright spring" of the 12 blueprints type categories. This is where I went wrong when I did the quiz. I thought my most dominant characteristic was deep because its not light. But its not deep or light, its clear/bright. You just can't necessarily know that about yourself. Ok if you have peircing blue eyes or green eyes that are like pools of emeralds you might have a hunch but when the eyes are brown, you don't think of them as glittering jewels but when she put the right colours up to me they actually did look like deep immaculately clear pools of liquid amber!

Fellatio I went to Trudy Cooper in Thorpe Le Soken, she covers our general area.

i've got so much stuff to ebay now!!!

Sorry if I haven't responded to anyone's post specifically yet, will go back and read again, I've been sent to my bed with a weird bug thing I think anyway, I had the worst pain in my tummy all night and thankfully DH has taken the children to the zoo! (he sounded cross when loading the car, I suspect he might leave them there)...

Right if you can't wear any kind of rust/peach etc you will be "cool" and one of the winters, possibly clear/bright...

Hours of fun.

I've been thinking of having my colours done for ages though I think with me being dark haired dark eyed, and my skin medium light, I probably am a warm winter. The thing is I have always liked wearing cool coloured clothing and consider myself looking better in them - though how much of it is psychological I'm not sure. Maybe I do look better in warm stuff but I wouldn't know.. Just done the test online that you linked to, and looking at the deep and warm and deep and cool colours they've shown, I'd say I own clothes of all the colours in the cool category except for light pink. In the deep and warm category, I own only one top in the bright yellow which I know I look good in and no clothes in any of the other colours - I do own a few dark brown (not medium or light brown) clothing and think I look fine in them, but is dark brown a warm colour?? Probably will have to get my colours done by a consultant I think...

There is no warm winter, as such, only deep autumn or deep winter (along with other winters like cool or clear etc)

Thing is, even if you think you know what you are, its still worth going. Whether you are right or wrong is sort of irrelevant - you come away with a swatch wallet and a booklet full of details but the main thing is there are a handful if colours that you can wear top to toe (get your funeral casket lined in it!), 75% colours so coats, suits, dress, 50% colours like tops, sweaters, trousers etc and then 25% colours - in a pattern, corsage, shoes, bag etc. So each colour in your range is assigned a category and then a star or tick system for how good it is in that category. So your very best colours are 2 stars at 100% and it goes without saying they are also 2 stars at 75%, 50% etc, and then there are colours that start at 75% at 2 stars, etc etc. The swatch wallet reminds you what these colours are.

Its bladdy brilliant.

I know £99 seems a lot to spend if you are then going to want to go and buy more clothes but seriously I can think of a lot of stuff I am now going to eBay. It can be a gradual process of replacing bad with good...

I think I'm going to treat myself; it sounds amazing!

Right, my mum is here and I've asked her if she'd like this for her BD and she said yes. I'm going to get it done too. [excited]

oops, sorry... I meant "deep winter" or "deep autumn" then, LOL
I once bought a colour swatch off Donna Fujii years ago. Its not Colour Me Beautiful but a sort of similar thing in America. I found out my "colour" by doing her online analysis, which says I'm a "Warm-Light". This is not as good as doing it with a consultant though, but I think that contrary to the advice on the colour swatches I still went and bought loads of stuff that I liked the colour of rather than do they look best on me and yes, £99 for a consultation is not a lot of money compared to the money I've spent! Do the quality of consultants differ or would it be fine just to go to one near me though?

The colour category of the swatch, I'm looking at it now, says I'm a "Starlight". Some of the colours on the swatch are quite similar to what I've seen for Deep Winter though like the cool pinks and blues...

Well, speaking from my own experience, I think you do need to go get draped by someone who knows what they're doing. I think the Sci\Art colour people have the right idea: it should just be about how your skin "reacts" to the colours and not all the other ideas that have been brought in about hair or eye colour. Over the years lots of us have been misled into thinking that if you have dark hair you can't be a summer, or that blue eyed blondes can never be winters, or that all redheads are autumns, or what have you . . . . The one thing NOBODY suggested and I never dreamt was that I would be a spring -- and yet, when I was actually draped it was SO obvious.

I totally agree that the expense of the draping / consultation is nothing compared to what you otherwise spend on clothes that do nothing for you.

I'd like to know too. There is one nearer to me than the other ones in the area and I'm not sure if I should just pick her or what should I be looking out for in a consultant.

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