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How to find your color season

January 18, 2025 by Kate Lemon Leave a Comment

I have a new website: KateLemon.com.

Go there to get the colors cheatsheet. It’s a FREE guide to finding your color season—featuring the top three colors for each season, plus celebrity examples (men and women).

Cover page for the Colors Cheatsheet by Kate Lemon: A free guide to seasonal color analysis.

As a preview, here are the top three colors for dark autumn.

The dark autumn page from the Colors Cheatsheet by Kate Lemon, showing Leighton Meester in burgundy red, Halle Berry in bronzed orange, and Nicholas Gonzalez in rich coffee brown-black.

The guide includes all twelve seasons. This is your key to a DIY at-home seasonal color analysis.

Get the Kate Lemon colors cheatsheet now. Please 😊

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True summers in their worst colors

April 8, 2023 by Kate Lemon 1 Comment

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.

Dreamy in true summer’s clouded sky blue.

This is our reference image. Return to it whenever your eyes need a break from the horrors below.

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Who looks good in red lipstick?

March 19, 2023 by Kate Lemon Leave a Comment

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.

Audrey Tatou

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The Kibbe types as dogs

March 11, 2023 by Kate Lemon 1 Comment

Note: This post only makes sense if you’re familiar with the thirteen Kibbe style types.

Dramatic: Greyhound

Long and lean.

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Style file: Leona Lewis

February 24, 2023 by Kate Lemon Leave a Comment

Leona Lewis has a fresh, natural look.

What’s her style essence?

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How to find your style essence

November 5, 2022 by Kate Lemon 2 Comments

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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Who looks good in pink tulle? A study in style essences

October 9, 2022 by Kate Lemon Leave a Comment

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

For example, Lana Condor looks fabulous in pink tulle.

Glowing.

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Where to part your hair

September 3, 2022 by Kate Lemon 2 Comments

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

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The role of color in costume design

February 20, 2022 by Kate Lemon 1 Comment

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

Disney princesses: Lots of pink, blue, and yellow. (From left: Jasmine, Snow White, Mulan, Aurora, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Belle, Ariel.)

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True summer: Lady of the lake

December 26, 2021 by Kate Lemon Leave a Comment

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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