Getting your colours done? Is it worth it?

[MsIngaFewmarbles]

that's it really! Is it useful?

tbh - the group sessions are better imo. Because you see it working on others. Firstly, you're not completely obsessed about yourself, as there are others present, and because you can have a dialogue about what's going on with people other than the woman who is doing the draping. For those who are sceptical or worried that they won't like what they are recommended, it is really useful to have other 'normal' people around to discuss it with. Not that colour analysts aren't normal - but they can be a bit dramatically dressed and made up, which, I admit, can be scary. You should dust be alb ego book in with HoC and she will make up a group. Strangers are better, imo, as they don't have any preconceptions about you, what you wear or what you look like.

just. be. able. to. book. Sorry.

Yep, its all about the skin like Cake says. In fact, just today I was observing my friend who I fancied might be a Spring like me because she has similar eyes to me, but I've always been baffled by her skin, it looks very different to mine. Then we went outside and it was raining, so she wrapped a pashmina around her hair sort of hijab-style and the pashmina was a pastel shell pink, which is a summer colour and to a lesser extent a winter colour. Suddenly her skin looked amazing and everything looked balanced and right with her. I had to stop staring at her and zip my lips not to babble excitedly about it because our husbands were there and they would have ripped the piss out of me!

Deffo worth it. I can wear summer colours well (which I often buy by mistake, I do like pretty soft things) but whenever I wear my winter ones (bol and bright) people actively throw compliments at me! It's the difference between looking ok and looking amazing - everyone should be able to look amazing.
I had CMB in a group setting, it was gift though so no idea how much it would have cost. I suppose you could just organise your own party where people bring different coloured plain items along and you all try them on, noting down scores - good, bad, ok for each colour. If you have a particularly stylish or artistic friend you could make them be chairperson.

This website is also useful for working out your own season. You could just get someone you trust to watch you try on everything in your wardrobe and score it, then do the same for them.

thanks for the link, really good starting point. I loooove the autumn colour palette :)

So interested in this - thinking of having it done as have been pregnant/breastfeeding for forever and want to buy an entirely new wardrobe when I stop! Can anyone recommend a HoC consultant in Manchester/the North West?

Marking place to read later.