Wearing any old colour and choosing the absolute right colour for you is apparently the difference between looking fabulous and looking rather washed out!įiona showed me some of the coloured scarves on herself demonstrating how some colours lit up her face, while others drained it of both colour and energy.
It turns out the only people who can successfully wear true black and pure white are those who fall in the Winter section of the colour wheel. This applies to neutrals just as much as it does to colours. The warm colours are Autumn and Spring, the cool colours Winter and Summer. The names of these quarters are the seasons of the year. These are further broken down into four quarters of a colour wheel. Their work has been distilled into a system which groups colours into warm and cold. Think summer colours from Monet and autumn ones from Constable. The theory behind colour analysis was influenced by the work of the great masters and their individual pallets.
#House of colour true autumn skin#
And what determines that is our hair colour, our skin tone and the colour of our eyes. It’s about which tones of each colour work best for us. It turns out it’s not just about which colours each of us can or can’t wear. She proceeded to explain the science of analysing one’s colours and how it can inform the choices we make about clothes. A large rack of coloured scarves took centre stage. I went down some steps into her basement, a bright and airy colour lair. So after a quick google and some emailing, I arrived at a terraced house in North London and was met by the impeccably turned out Fiona Ingham, a consultant for House of Colour. I’m also conscious that as we age and our skin tone and hair colour change, perhaps we need to adapt our colour choices too and not stay wedded to what worked in our youth. Sometimes I see a photo of myself in a colour I particularly like and think, oh, I don’t look very good in that after all. I’d never heard of people getting their colours done but I’ve often wondered if my choice of colours and outfits necessarily works.
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