The new me - colour analysis part two
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frualeydisI have gotten really into this colour analysis thing. My husband says that it could be worse, I could have found some more obscure religion. To which I reply that I already have a more obscure religion.
According to the analysis I'm a summer, maybe a cool summer and when I really start putting fabric next to my face and comparing between colours it really makes sense. I have a red jacket and a berry red beret and whenever I've worn them I've always felt that I looked so good. Well, now I have an explanation. The right colour really makes a difference. I put a cold green fabric (the new green wool) next to my face and my eyes which always have thought rather boring blue-green-grey turned a spectacular turquoise. I have also learned that even though I have dyed my hair red for most of the last 15 years I really shouldn't have warm colours next to my face. So I decided to dye my hair in some kind of ash brown, which is my natural colour. Since I had so much red dye in my hair I had to use a darker shade than my natural dark blond. So I went for light brown. Unfortunately the hair dye manufacturers and I don't have the same idea about what light brown is, my hair turned almost black. Since I believe that anything but "level 3" dyes is for wimps I guess I will have to live with it. It doesn't look bad at all, just too dark. The new look is reflected in my new icon and a bigger version can be seen here. Not bad at all I think. But odd, after having had red hair for so long time.
Since I have been living in the false belief that I should wear warm colours I have also got a lot of clothes that makes me look less good. Some of the orange/mustard mundanes will end up with my friend Inger and yesterday I gave away a yellow linen "cotehardie" and a warm light blue 9th century wool overdress to my sister, who is a "spring".
There is quite a lot of garb in the "wrong" colours that I'm going to keep anyway, because I like them so much, but I need to get rid of stuff anyway.
It's funny, finally I've gotten an explanation to why I never really felt comfortable in this tunic, the warm yellow/white just doesn't look good with my pink toned face.
You can see I'm really enthusiastic about this, can't you?
According to the analysis I'm a summer, maybe a cool summer and when I really start putting fabric next to my face and comparing between colours it really makes sense. I have a red jacket and a berry red beret and whenever I've worn them I've always felt that I looked so good. Well, now I have an explanation. The right colour really makes a difference. I put a cold green fabric (the new green wool) next to my face and my eyes which always have thought rather boring blue-green-grey turned a spectacular turquoise. I have also learned that even though I have dyed my hair red for most of the last 15 years I really shouldn't have warm colours next to my face. So I decided to dye my hair in some kind of ash brown, which is my natural colour. Since I had so much red dye in my hair I had to use a darker shade than my natural dark blond. So I went for light brown. Unfortunately the hair dye manufacturers and I don't have the same idea about what light brown is, my hair turned almost black. Since I believe that anything but "level 3" dyes is for wimps I guess I will have to live with it. It doesn't look bad at all, just too dark. The new look is reflected in my new icon and a bigger version can be seen here. Not bad at all I think. But odd, after having had red hair for so long time.
Since I have been living in the false belief that I should wear warm colours I have also got a lot of clothes that makes me look less good. Some of the orange/mustard mundanes will end up with my friend Inger and yesterday I gave away a yellow linen "cotehardie" and a warm light blue 9th century wool overdress to my sister, who is a "spring".
There is quite a lot of garb in the "wrong" colours that I'm going to keep anyway, because I like them so much, but I need to get rid of stuff anyway.
It's funny, finally I've gotten an explanation to why I never really felt comfortable in this tunic, the warm yellow/white just doesn't look good with my pink toned face.
You can see I'm really enthusiastic about this, can't you?
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Date: 2004-09-29 11:01 am (UTC)Eva