Am I too young?

[Gapants]

Hello, right you will snort at my ridiculousness and vanity, but I am ready to take a bit of a pasting about this. I am also, very sorry if I offend...

Am I too young to get my colours done? I am 35.

I have 2 small children and am stuck in a rut with my clothing and feel like nothing works at the moment. I am one dress size bigger than I would like to be, and spend agaes thrashing about in my wardrobe trying to find something that I like. I never used to feel like this, but I all of a sudden am starting to feel ...muttony.

Would getting my colours done help?

I need Gok, but then I think his style is dreadful, so I need the anti Gok.

Ok, might send you info in stages as I think of things!

Firstly, you mention that you are currently one size bigger than you'd ideally like. Accept this and forgive yourself if you are mean to yourself about it.

I'd like to get my hands on the b*ard who originally thought up the idea that you should have an 'aspirational' dress you are going to fit into OR size 8 jeans on your wardrobe door to encourage you etc. etc.

If you ideally want to lose weight then it is much easier to do if you feel better about yourself. Most women i have worked with punish themselves subtly about this by not buying nice clothes or allowing themselves to look nice as they are, somehow thinking this will motivate them to lose weight. It just makes them feel bad about themselves.

So, to accept it as reality for the moment do two things:

1. Do not buy anything, ever, that doesn't fit you right now. Be very serious about this. (So not 'it will fit in two weeks', 'it fits as long as i don't sit down' etc but actually fits now.)

1. Go through your wardrobe and put all the things that fit now on one side, and all the things that don't on the other side further away/under the bed steal some of your husbands side to hide them in you might have to try everything on to do this, but you should be left with what clothes you actually have to wear at the moment, rather than chaos. Which is a good start

I like that, the fit don't fit stuff. I will get on with that tonight, that is goooood. I tried on a dress yesterday and it is still too small, I have NEVER worn it, but I love the print on it, and feel like it is the dress that would work with thick Brora tights, worn work boots and a thick cardi. Like something from Toast. If it fitted. Which it does not.

If i had a pound for every time i'd gone to the ladies and actually wept with frustration about this for a customer i could buy you all the Toast dresses you'd ever want....as is say, if i could get my hands on the original 'smaller size is motivating' instigator i would commit violence upon them :)

Well, this makes a change from all the Am I too old to wear X? threads!

No ideas about having colours done - it does sound a bit voodoo to me.

Whyalways
I hung a size 8 dress on my wardrobe and a photo of me in a bikini( thin) on my fridge.
Within a month i fitted the dress!! ( less food more excercise)

Works for some!

Thanks, curiosity satisfied :)

are you gonna have it done then OP?

i had mine done last year (i'm a spring) and now don't even know how people can live without knowing if they're 'warm' or 'cold' ffs!

I got my colours done when I was 7 at my Granny's wi meeting.

Navy and mustard I was told. They were right. They still look good on me.

I had mine done when I was 18. Load of shit. I was told to wear yellow and orange and all sorts of Granny crap. I think not.

i can sense you weren't keen chub

i dunno how long ago that was (obv) but i reckon things must have changed since, now you're given a whole range of colours. mind you, there are specific shades which are your wow colours and work a kind of voodoo magic - and weirdly they always seem to be the ones the person hates so maybe your wow colours are/were yellow and orange...

Those of you who have had your colours done, what season are you? I'm hoping i'm going to be an autumn but have a suspicion that I might be a spring.

you're an autumn in HoC parlance then i guess crescent

i'm a bright/paintbox spring bonnie - bright, light and warm, i've got pics on my profile if you want to compare yourself to a spring .

tbh tho it's pretty hard to guess most people's season without draping them.

I got this done at Brora, they run a good service there.

Here i found the link at the bottom of this page =

www.brora.co.uk/Brora/Info/Sales.aspx

I have never heard of this. I always thought it meant getting your hair dyed. Am quite sure I have used it in a sentence when I actually meant getting highlights

I can't ever see me getting it done though. I can look in a mirror and see that something is the wrong shape/colour...

Season of the Witch - Damn this iPhone, I can't see profiles!

What is your natural colouring like?

I did an online American test and it said I was a summer, I'm definitely not a summer!

i've got reddy brown hair, greeny-blue eyes and pale skin.

springs tend to look 'bright' (often bright eye colour) whereas autumns look 'warm', there's cross-over between them tho which makes it hard to guess or go by just looking. i've come out as an autumn on online test just on the basis that i have a warm hair colour

it's more than just right or wrong tho brie, it's about how you put colours together and which colours are amazing vs just fine.

i really thought i knew too (my job involves understanding colour) and whilst i was wearing some colours which were right, how i dress now is very different - i wear colours i'd never been near before (eg coral and terracotta) and i now always wear 3 colours and include some contrast.

I had mine done years ago & was told an autumn, which I was quite horrified by when I saw the colors. I always wore pale lilac, pale pink & white tops & actually did wonder why I looked terrible in photos !

It took me a long time to come to terms with having autumn colouring - I started with lots of beige & brown & then coral/orange became the replacements for pale pink.

I think it's a great thing to have done, even if it was a shock to my system. I especially like wearing bright colors (I recall someone describing someone like me as a 'quality street'), but find the darker colors on my chart, dare I say it, soothing, when worn with my brights.

I say go for it but be prepared !