What does 'get my colours done' mean?

[PetiteBateau]

I know it is about establishing what colours suit you but how is this done? And who has the skills to do this? What on earth are the required skills?
Thanks

clearly a daft question then

There area few companies out there that offer this. House of colour, colour me beautiful, probably others. Have a Google of them.

Mine were done by a Colour Me Beautiful lady who had loads of experience including national news readers. It opened up a whole range of colours I'd never considered. You get a little folder of colour swatches to take with you when you go shopping which is really helpful. They also have a make-up range which isn't too expensive.

You wear a white t shirt in a well lit room, and they drape a series of coloured fabric on your shoulders. Some of them only have very subtle differences in tone but make a huge difference to your complexion.

I sat for hours at a group thing only to discover I'm 'blue spring', which basically means I suit all colours - biggest waste of time ever for me but some people swear by it!

Sounds a bit like a load of old bollocks

But thanks for your responses

I think there must be something in it but what are you supposed to do if you can't find your colours in the shops or you can but they're just the wrong tone? I suppose that maybe some years are better than others and in a bad year you have to accept you won't be able to buy much,if anything,flattering. This is the first year in a long time i've been able to buy bright green which i think suits me though i haven't been 'done'.

Eh, I thought it was poss going to be a load of old bolleaux, but actually must now admit it was pretty good. It finally has kicked me out of wearing lovely khakis and sludgy dusty pinks and black/charcoal and into navy/coral/orange/ivory rather than white/tomato red etc. Not all at the same time, OBVS. People do keep telling me how well I look, which is apparently the point - the vg stylish older lady who did mine did say that people shouldn't be commenting on your clothes per se but saying things like 'you look great' which has been borne out. Also what was helpful for me (diagnosed as bright spring - was in despair as initially loathed all the colours and about as far as what I would have normally have chosen as possible) was that I did it with two others, one a mid thirties something like me, bit miserable about our clothes and lacking confidence and a lovely twenty year old. The difference the right colours made to them was un.believe.able. The twenty year old went from looking like your average skinny sweet student in a greige jumper and leggings to looking like Natalya Vodianova… all winter blues and raspberry etc, sounds vile, but made her eyes all icy, and if you'd seen her you really wouldn't have gone 'what is that foul raspberry jumper she is sporting' but 'my God, her amazing EYES'. If you see what I mean.

I felt initially like it would be something to be sceptical about as I had my colours I loved (see above) but I knew that although I think I have nice clothes, something wasn't quite working, and lots of people I knew were just a bit better at putting themselves together. I really think this has helped me crack it a bit better. I now know for sure that if I was going to buy e.g. a winter coat it would be in navy, camel or warmish grey, as opposed to black or charcoal which I would have worn before and I ALWAYS looked tired. So worth £110 or whatever it was. In fact I wore a skanky old top but in a perfect colour to a naice dinner a while ago and people were telling me I looked great.