Top 15 Myths of Color Analysis Lora Alexander Presented by PrettyYourWorld.com Copyright © (2020) Lora Alexander All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Without limiting the rights under the copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher of the book. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or by any other means without the permission of the author is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only au- thorized printed or electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. www.prettyyourworld.com What exactly is Color Analysis? Color Analysis is simply the act of looking at one’s skin, eyes, and natural hair color to determine the best set of colors to wear to harmonize with that coloring. It was wildly popular in the 1980’s, but it has never ‘gone away.’ In fact, with so many websites and blogs talking about Color Analysis, it is experiencing an increase in popularity. I think this is a wonderful thing, as it is a powerful tool in helping both women and men look their absolute best. However, there is some conicting and confusing information on the internet, and Pretty Your World wants to break through some of the clutter of misinformation. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #1- Color Analysis is old and outdated. Color Analysis may be old, but it’s not outdated. The principles of harmonizing temperature, value and intensity have been used in many different elds (art, gardening, interior design, fashion, just to name a few) forever. Wearing colors that harmonize with a person’s coloring is just as vi- tal as ever. But it is not as widely popular to the average person as it was in the 1980’s. However, the ColorBreeze System at PrettyYourWorld.com hopes to make it widely popular again. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #2 - Color Analysis puts someone in a box. I’ve heard this argument more than a few times, mainly from the fashion world who is opposed to people who want to stick with a palette of attering colors. These professions thrive on ‘trends.’ Once a person knows their most attering palette of colors, the effect is the opposite of being ‘boxed in’. They usually feel like many new choices have opened up to them! While, of course, anyone has the right to wear any color they want, those who are interested in looking their absolute best want to know the colors they wear will enhance their natural coloring, allowing them to look younger, refreshed, and more condent. See the Deep Winter below wearing just 6 colors - black, deep purple, pure red, pine green, turquoise, royal blue. They look fabulous on her. There are 55 in a ColorBreeze color swatch, but there are conceivably thousands of different colors and shades anyone can wear successfully. Bottom line: There are more colors that someone can wear than there are ‘forbidden’ colors. Color Analysis opens up a new world of color for you! And it saves time and money, too. This is what Color Analysis is all about. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #3 - I don’t seem to fit into any season. Maybe color analysis isn’t for me. Analyzing yourself can be tough. We denitely can analyze others easier than we can ourselves. So sometimes it seems you don’t t into any category. But the bottom line is that there will be one season that will be the best t for each person. A good analyst will be able to determine your undertone (warm vs. cool), gure out your value (light vs. dark, or somewhere in between) and your chroma (clear vs. muted). Once these are determined, there will be a corresponding ‘season’ or category you will t into. I promise. *The “Color Tree” is a digram created by Pretty Your World, inspired by artist Albert Munsell’s Color Tree. It is the basis for the entire ColorBreeze system. Each ‘season’, and therefore each person, will reside somewhere on that tree. See the tree at the end of this eBook. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #4 - What if my favorite color is not in my palette? I won’t be able to wear the colors I love! Color Analysis is about wearing the best colors that enhance your personal coloring. If a favorite color of yours is not in the palette, there are ways of wearing it and still look great. Use it as an accent color; wear it away from the face, which is the vital area you want to showcase your best colors; wear it in small doses; make sure the rest of your colors you wear are in your palette. I’ve had some people tell me they want to wear what they want to and if they can’t wear [insert favorite color] they would just be devastated. My answer to them is: if something makes you deliriously happy and you would be devastated not to wear it, wear it. Life is too short! www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #5 - You find your undertone by looking at the veins in your wrist. This is a very pervasive myth. But it simply doesn’t work. It’s not the color of your veins you are looking for, but the skin on top of the veins! Myth #6 - If you have cool skin, your hair will be warm (and vice versa) since nature wants to 'balance things.' I read about this idea in a training course. There is no validity to it. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #7 - It’s all about the skin, nothing else matters. Skin is vitally important in determining your “season”. But it’s not the only thing, as some color systems believe. You must look at skin, hair and eyes before you can make a determination about your coloring. Look at celebrity Nicole Kidman. Her light skin and clear eyes suggest Spring. Her skin is quite pale, sometimes looking cool or white. Many pale-skinned red-heads have the same coloring. But her naturally reddish blonde hair tells us she has warm under- tones. I would label her a Warm Spring. If one tried to determine her season just on her skin alone, the results would be way off. And I did see a website analyzing her as a Light Spring, explaining her skin is all that matters. But 'light' is not her dominant trait; warmth is. She's a Warm Spring. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #8 - It's all about hair color, nothing else matters See Myth #6. And then add to it that even if you decide someone is warm based on their (natural) hair color, this is just one component. For example, you have to look at eyes to determine chroma. You can’t determine one’s chroma (clear and bright vs. soft and muted) from only hair color. The eyes above are of warm seasons. If we determined she was predominantly warm from her hair, we need to look at her eyes next. The one on the left is generally clear (warm+clear = Spring); the one on the right is generally muted (warm + muted = Autumn). Eye color is usually the most telling of one’s chroma, but again, it’s just one piece of the puzzle. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #9 - It's all about eye color; nothing else matters See Myth #6 and then add to it that eye color can often be the dening trait when determining someone’s chroma, and to a degree one’s undertones, but it can’t indicate a person’s season by itself. For example, there are blue eyes in every season, not just cool seasons. And you can nd green eyes in every season, not just warm seasons. Look at this woman below. She is a Warm Autumn. But you would never know it if you just looked at her eyes. They look quite cool, muted, and even ‘summery.’ Without taking into hair into consideration, we’d never come to the correct Warm Autumn conclusion. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #10 - My skin looks warm, does that mean I'm a warm season? (or vice versa) This is similar to Myth #6. Keep in mind that there are “undertones” and “overtones” involved in looking at the skin. Overtones refer to the surface color of one’s skin which may or may not be the same as one’s overall undertone. For example, you get a tan, the surface changes, and you may need to modify your makeup foundation for it to match, but your undertone is still the same. Many Winters, especially Deep and Soft Winters, often have what is considered “olive” skin. It looks warm on the surface like the woman below, right. But the undertone is cool. She's a Toasted Soft Winter in my system. Far left, we have another red-head whose skin can look cool but has predominantly warm undertones. So if you’ve ever been ‘typed’ at a makeup counter when having custom-blended foundations made for you, do not interpret the surface skin tone as your overall undertone. It might match your predominant undertones, but it might not. www.prettyyourworld.com Myth #11 - Your season will indicate your personality, or vice versa For example, summers are great listeners, winters are natural leaders, autumns are great decision makers, springs are animated and cheery.