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Virtual Color Analysis With Dress Your Colors

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Today is the second installment of what colors look the most flattering on Jennifer:)  Just kidding, but it’s beginning to feel that way. To catch you up… I began a quest to discover if a virtual color analysis is effective and worth your money. I have had four professional color analysis’ done virtually in the last several months.  Last week I shared my Online Personal Color Analysis With Your Color Style.colored pencils

This week I’m sharing my virtual color analysis with Gabby from Dress Your Colors. Gabby is a Certified Color Professional who uses the Munsell color system of hue, value, and chroma to discover the colors that are most harmonious with your own coloring. Her system believes that when you wear colors that have the same properties as your personal coloring you create harmony which is the most flattering.

Gabby offers three different virtual packages. I had the Color Your Way Online Luxe Package. I emailed Gabby some photo’s of myself, without makeup, in various lighting. She then analyzed my coloring by “draping” my image. After she decided on my colors, we had a zoom call to discuss.

Here is part of the presentation and report on me.

Gabby’s first step is to determine your personal contrast level She then proceeds to determine your hue (temperature), chroma (intensity clear or soft), and value (light or dark). She determined that the above test showed I’m able to wear both warm and cool tones, so I have a cool-neutral undertone.

Gabby decided that this draping shows my complexion has a high content of gray and cool colors blend more harmoniously. The warm colors do not appear to blend or harmonize with my coloring.

This draping shows how well I wear light or dark colors. Gabby determined that I can wear darker colors but I look brighter wearing lighter colors.
The above draping compares clear vs soft. She decided that soft, muted colors are more harmonizing with my coloring than the clear colors. She says the soft colors melt into my complexion and smooth it out.
Next, Gabby compared some soft summer vs soft autumn colors against my coloring.

Some soft summer colors

My consultation with Gabby included a pallet of makeup colors, a color wheel, and some ideas for combining colors.
makeup pallet for virtual color analysis
As you see, this is quite different from the color typing I shared last week.
What do you think?
I have two more color analyses to share with you which both shocked and pleased me. I’ll reserve my opinion and comments until then.
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  1. Your color journey is so interesting. I will be very interested to hear what you have to say about which you liked best. I have such a hard time with this and would love to have my colors analyzed.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  2. I like Carol Tuttle’s Dress your Truth, because it addresses personality style, which I think is equally important, along with coloring, and I have gotten so much inspiration from this that I no longer dread shopping, clearing my closet or knowing what is right for me. I combine colors now in different ways, can see my style across the store, don’t need to wear black anymore, and love my look and feel so right with it, including accessories and especially jewelry. It was like coming home to who I really am and how to express that, and taken the guesswork out of fashion choices for me. Now I am truly confidant, because what I wear expresses me!!

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  3. I would have guessed soft and cool would work best for you and it is mostly what you wear, but you have Red Leopard coming up, and it seems they will be the wild card. Maybe a blue autumn? They seem to type so many as autumns. I have been tempted by their offerings as I think they did well by “ Une Femme” Susan. I was hoping to visit them in person in London last Spring but of course, that didn’t come to pass. Thanks for sharing all the scoop on the different methods and findings, but I guess it will come down to personal preference at the end as there you are finding little agreement.

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