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Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season–pages you can cut out to carry when you shop!
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When this book was originally published,so many women benefitted from the simple concept of knowing what your best colors were and buying only those colors. Once I knew I was a summer, I saved hours of shopping time because now I knew what colors would look good. I also understood why I always felt great in ice pink: it was a one of my colors and subconsciously I felt more confident wearing it. Frequently overlooked is the money saved by NOT BUYING clothes that look good on the rack but don’t look good on you. 12 years later, the same colors still make me look good. It’s a simply ingenious system.
Rating: 5 / 5
I had my colors analyzed at summer camp, way back in the 1980′s, using this book. Almost twenty years later, I still have the color swatches, and still rely on them for choosing what shades to wear.
The book gives the information. Unfortunately, printing methods don’t show the dramatic differences that holding the fabric sheets under a person’s face does, as we did back in summer camp.
I’ve seen (and agree with) the complaints here from women of color that this book doesn’t meet their needs. I’d suggest “Women of Color” by Darlene Mathis as an alternate resource. It applies the seasonal system with darker skinned women in mind. Carol Jackson, who wrote this book, wrote an introduction to “Women of Color,” where she admitted the shortcomings in her book, and endorsed the new book as taking the next, needed step.
Refreshing, to see an author recognize and endorse another author’s correction for their own book’s shortcomings.
Rating: 4 / 5
I was quite skeptical that a book which has been in print so long would contain up-to-date information that I could use. Not only does it contain sensible advice on dressing and accessorizing, I learned that I’ve never worn the correct make-up colors. In a couple of days, with simple modifications in make-up and dressing, I feel I look much better. Not so simple was determining my correct “season”. With just the book that is a bit tricky, but I can tell that I did get it right. A surprising little gem.
Rating: 4 / 5
Please, if you are reading this, get this book. I’m not kidding. I still can’t believe how much this book has helped me in thoroughly enjoying my physical appearance. It is not as though I ever thought I was ugly, but this book has actually turned me from plain to pretty.
The way the book works is you learn to analyze your physical coloring, and based on this, you are put into one of four color “seasons”; Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring. It can be difficult to see yourself objectively, so friends are helpful, but once you figure it out, it is as though the fashion fairy godmother has visited you and you begin to build a truly amazing wardrobe that makes you look great every single day. It took me about a year to really settle in and accept my season because I was wearing colors from all of the seasons, but now I am spending far less money on clothes and I have so many more combinations that go together.
My only word of warning is that if you are not white, it will be a little more difficult for you to distinguish your season because there aren’t as many pictures for you. But, the author does give a lot of physical descriptions in writing, so you should be able to find your season too. If you think that you are between seasons, just pick the one that works the best overall. You should not expect all of the colors in your season to flatter you, just most of them.
This book should be required reading for every girl.
Rating: 5 / 5
I read this book 15 years ago and still love it. However, only 4 categories is not enough. Some of us are on the borders of the “seasons.” I was analyzed as an Autumn (“dirty” blonde hair like a summer, but green/brown hazel eyes like an Autumn, neutral skin like any season), but feel that I look great in (and have been complimented in) some of the summer colors. And some of the bolder autumn colors (orange, bright gold) are a bit much for me. Doris Pooser’s book expands the theory to include those between seasons, so I recommend it. According to her, I fit the Muted category between Summer and Autumn, which makes sense. But CMB is a great way to start discovering which colors are you and building a wardrobe. I don’t always stick to it, but I keep it in mind when shopping.
Rating: 4 / 5