Style

A reader asked:

I saw your recent blog post on style essences. I am having a really hard time figuring out how my facial essence comes across. Do you have any tips?

The best way is to try out the different style essences—to see your face in the context of each style essence—take photos, and compare the results.

So basically, step one is to do your hair, makeup, jewelry, and outfit according to each essence. But how do you do that?

In this post, I’ll describe a sample look for each style essence.

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The answer is: People with the ethereal and/or ingenue style essence.

For example, Lana Condor looks fabulous in pink tulle.

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If your face is symmetrical, part your hair in the center.

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“Good” characters typically wear red, blue, and yellow.

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Note: This post refers to the twelve seasons system of personal color analysis. (My season is true summer.) For an introduction, see Rachel of Truth is Beauty’s post on color analysis.

True summer is a garden of pink roses in full bloom.

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As a true summer, my best colors are pink, purple, blue, green, and pale lemon yellow, plus grey, taupe, and silver-white.

Note: The women below are not true summers, but they’re wearing colors that are (or close enough to illustrate the idea).

Sky blue

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As a true summer and ethereal soft classic, here are my rules.

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We’re often taught that cool colors are blue, green, and purple.

Whereas warm colors are red, orange, and yellow.

Seems simple.

But then why do we call some whites “cool” and others “warm”?

And how can a lipstick be “blue-red”?

It’s enough to make you feel like the hapless Cinderella, unable to choose between cream and ecru dinner napkins.

The answer is:

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As a true summer, here are my rules.

(This post is illustrated with looks I love—on other people. I think every celebrity below looks awesome, even if some of them aren’t wearing their best colors.)

No orange

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1. Exposed lightbulbs

People think they look trendy and industrial.

They look like you can’t afford lampshades.

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