Colouring the kids
Here’s a great email from Sara who recently completed learning colour analysis from our self-study course Colour Analysis in a Box:
“I hope you don’t mind but I just had to e-mail you this morning to tell you about the colour analysis of my sister and nephews yesterday. I already knew that my sister was a Summer but she was delighted when I told her to wear the brighter shades in her wallet.
“The best part however was how receptive my nephews were – they are 11, 14 and 5 and were so interested that they even let me drape gold and silver chains and pearls all over them!!! 5 year-old Algernon* was the best though – I think he would have let me put drapes all over him for hours, and after I’d told him he was a Bright Winter he marched me off to his wardrobe to show me his favourite clothes ALL of which were perfect for him! (My sister was horrified that she’d been buying the kids the wrong colours and that the ones they’d chosen themselves were spot on!)
“I hadn’t really considered doing children, but after that response I definitely will!
“I’ve attached pictures of Algernon* and my sister so that you can see if I’m on the right track…… I’m getting very excited about doing the Ladies’ Style course in February, and also meeting you in the flesh.” Sara
*Algernon is clearly a pseudonym!
I have a similar story of my own from when my sister used to live next door when her children were tiny.
My sister is a definite dark-haired Summer and was trying to dress my then 5-year-old niece in her own soft dusty cool colours but Katie knew so much better than her Mum (as all children do).
Saturday morning was my time with Katie and I used to help dress her but what a shock I got! I would search the cupboards and pick items for her to wear and she would look at me as though I was a sad case beyond help, saying, “Don’t be silly, Aunty Kim. They don’t go together at all. Let me show you.” And she would pick out the right combination of muted warm colours to suit her Autumn colouring.
Naturally, she went through the pink stage – all little girls will if they’re encouraged to be little girls at the time – but she knew deep down exactly what she looked good in. We all do. We are all born with an innate understanding of our own colouring; it’s just that it gets sidetracked as the years go on.
First Mum dresses you in the colours she likes – after all, unless she’s a trained image consultant, what else has Mum got to go on? Then Great Aunt Ethel knits you a jumper in acid green with a purple tiger on it and everyone tells you how wonderful you look so you believe from that moment on that acid green and purple are your best colours.
This is utter nonsense, of course, because:
- Great Aunt Ethel only used those colours because she wanted to help out a local charity shop by buying a truck-load of knitting wool that happened to be acid green and purple
- friends and family telling you that YOU look wonderful often has nothing to do with the truth; it’s just family politics, telling a huge white lie which is designed to keep the peace by not offending Great Aunt Ethel!
Sara has clearly ‘got’ colour analysis and, more importantly, is enjoying her new vocation.
Do YOU notice ladies who clearly aren’t wearing their best colours?
Then maybe it’s time to study the subject in depth and set yourself up to help all those ladies find the colours that make them look gorgeous all the time.
Pour yourself a glass of something delicious and read all about Colour Analysis in a Box.
