kate + lemonade
I’m going to use Emily Blunt to illustrate this post, because she’s a true summer who often wears the wrong colors.
First, let’s observe how beautiful she can be.
This is our reference image. Return to it whenever your eyes need a break from the horrors below.
Orange is always horrendous on true summers.
Poor Emily. Her outfit looks like a slice of processed cheese.
The short answer is winters—people who belong to one of the three winter color seasons.
In fact, this is an easy way to test if you’re a winter:
Do you look more alive in red, white, and black?
Here’s what that looks like.
Note: This post only makes sense if you’re familiar with the thirteen Kibbe style types.
Dramatic: Greyhound
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.
The answer is: People with the ethereal and/or ingenue style essence.
For example, Lana Condor looks fabulous in pink tulle.
“Good” characters typically wear red, blue, and yellow.
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.
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).
