Getting your colours done? Is it worth it?

[MsIngaFewmarbles]

that's it really! Is it useful?

I think it is one of the best things I did for my wardrobe. It didnt have an instant impact but after about 18 months I have a wardrobe full of clothes, all of which I love and will wear, and all go together, rather than the wardrobe full of things I would put on in the morning and then take off and then complain to DH that I have nothing to wear and then cry! IMO it is totally worth it.

I haven't had my colours done "formally", but bought a book a few years ago called Colour Me Beautiful, which helps you to work it out yourself and has loads of useful advice. You can pick up a cheap copy of the book on eBay or Amazon.

yes, definitely! I echo what janmoomoo said. Had mine done about 20 years ago and it's really paid off. Shopping is much quicker, as you can scan for your colours, more things go together, you're happier with what you wear so buy less etc etc.

lovely thank you. I can never tell what looks good and what doesn't so I don't think a book will work for me.

DH thinks I look great in peacock blue and I always get complimented on a jacket I have which is a yellowish lime green. Other than that I am clueless. I would love to walk into a shop and know what colours to buy

I did it years ago and still adhere to it - brilliant

Totally worth it, brilliant for shopping and having a wardrobe where everything goes. Also recommend style and make up days if you do it with House of Colour.

no no no I would love to be styled and told how to make up but I wouldn't be able to buy any of the right clothes if I blow my budget in one go. Stages I think

Msing if you're thinking of doing the style day ever I would try to stick to buying a real capsule wardrobe till then. It was at least as revelatory as the colour analysis for me.

So I have looked around my area and a colour consultation is around £80. How much is a style consult? About the same cost?

With House of Colour the colour analysis is £99 and the style day is £130.

Do it with house of colour as they (I think, happy to be corrected) are the only ones who give you individual ratings of each colour in your palette so you not only know your colours, but your best ones, medium ones, not so great but still good ones, etc.

Peacock blue and lime green? Odds on you being some kind of Autumn.

I've done it, its been absolutely fab. Really really fab.

I actually think just the fact that you buy within a palette and that the colours blend well together is really really valuable in its own right - so even if people wore the "wrong" palette, if it was right within that palette, they might still look better than mismatched colours put together badly - but obviously getting the right colours for you and dressing within your palette has an amazing impact. Its a slowish process - I started from the top and worked my way down!

I'd say do it but I'm evangelical about it!

I think it's great. I can now totally eliminate whole racks of things in shops and feel confident spending a bit more on certain items which are totally right on me.

I have gradually let go things from my wardrobe that don't really fit with my colours, and bought new things in the right ones but I didn't have a major chuck-out.

I did it about 2 years ago.

I had mine done in January.

I didn't agree with what she said, The "colours" she said I am I just don't like (Pink, Gold, "Moss" green, Lemon, Bleurg)

I had the make up bit done as well, I looked bloody awful. Coral lipstick and goldy coloured eyeshadow and, again, moss green eyeliner.

Waste of money imo. Shame as I was sooooo looking forward to having them done after hearing it raved about on here. :(

Coz, didn't you participate in the process at all? When I was doing it, she was holding up the swatches, and obviously making her own decision but also asking me and my mum too, and asking us which we prefered of two shades. That's annoying. What colours are they? A season or a type? (ie I am deep and cool colours, my mum deep & warm)

Yes, she was holding up all the swatches but I just couldn't see what she was seeing. All I could think was that I really wasn't keen on the colours that she said suited me.

I have never worn the colours of make up she put on me and even my Dp asked if she was showing me what not to wear.

I tried to go with it for a while and see if it was just because I was stuck in a rut buying the same colour clothes but i got asked loads if I was tired/had a bad night/looked washed out when wearing my colours. i don't think it was just a coincidence.

I'm supposed to be warm and light.

Coz I would email/call her and tell her you're just not feeling confident in where she placed you and ask her why she did. At the very least she should be able to explain herself, and i'd hope she'd offer to go through it with you and talk you through each drape. My consultant went through every set of drapes at least twice and talked me through it the second time to show me what she was seeing, and at every step she asked if I agreed. Saying that, I have been done by House of Colour and Colour me Beautiful (I assume from your season that it was colour me beautiful as HoC use spring, summer, autumn and winter rather than warm, soft etc) and the CMB consultant got me wrong and didn't talk it through at all and I was never confident in it, and HoC talked me through it and I was totally confident in what she said.

See that's what I'm concerned about, going and then not liking/'getting' what they say.

what is 'autumn'? I have mid brown hair, eyes that can be green or brown and (I'm told) a more yellow than pink skin tone does that sound like autumn?

See that's what I'm concerned about, going and then not liking/'getting' what they say.

what is 'autumn'? I have mid brown hair, eyes that can be green or brown and (I'm told) a more yellow than pink skin tone does that sound like autumn?

I had a House of Colour colour analysis a few months ago and it was great. I'm hoping to have a style day when I've lost the post natal baby weight or in six months time if that never happens :) I agree with Hopefully that the process was one that I could see rather than being told if you see what I mean.

do it do it do it. and do it with HoC not CMB - every story i've ever heard of people being unhappy with outcome or being misdiagnosed have been done by the latter. HoC aren't perfect, some of the consultants are a tad old fashioned but they are v v well trained and do seem to be v accurate.

you sound like you may well be an autumn but honestly you could be almost anything as it's really about the skin. tatty upthread is a spring like me but our colouring is quite different. and as she said, it isn't just about having a palette of colours, it's also knowing which ones are your wow colours. its completely amazing how different they can make you look - i actually really dislike two of my best colours but i can't deny they work total magic so i wear them anyway.

i second having a style day too - when finances allow.

Can anyone recommend a HoC consultant in London? I'm in SE, but don't mind travelling further afield.

I'd say just go to the House of colour website - all the consultants seem to have had the same training. I looked (after I'd had mine done on a friends recommendation ) and found one whose description appealed to me more. Even so, HoC was brilliant, and I came out almost in shock but could see immediately how the cours she recommended were so much better on me.

Lemon I highly recommend Alex Turchyn in Brighton - really experienced, thorough an v energetic and enthusiastic! And not alarmingly dressed

Ladies with experience... am I wrong in thinking CMB does it in one-to-one sessions, but HoC does it in group sessions? The HoC stylist's website I looked at seemed to imply group lessons. Is it a group of your friends which you organise (which is tough as no one I know is interested) or is it strangers?

Abigail it's strangers unless you specifically arrange it with friends, and I believe it's normally a max of four per session.

I think CMB usually do group sessions too, but it depends on the consultant.