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Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
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To look your most beautiful, you don't need to color your hair. You don't need to wear expensive makeup or expensive clothes.
You only need to identify the colors and lines that harmonize perfectly with the colors and lines that are already present in your body.
One woman's story...
"When I was about 21, I was wearing a light pink top that was a gift from a friend. In retrospect, probably a Soft Summer pink. I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror and was absolutely appalled at how awful I looked - corpse like and blotchy. I decided right then and there that I couldn’t wear pink, and I didn’t for over 30 years. I had similar reactions to light blue and light pastel green, so decided that blues and greens were suspect too. I read all the magazine articles about how black wasn’t flattering for most women, and it wasn’t wonderful on me, so that was ruled out.
"I read all the books, and later the websites, and based on the quizzes I kept coming down to some kind of Autumn. I did wonder why I couldn’t seem to find a brown or gold that really worked with my skin tone, but kept stubbornly holding on to that ideal.
"From time to time, my husband would say things like “I don’t see why you don’t like pink, I think you would look nice in pink” but I’d tell him he didn’t get it.
I used to do a lot of clothes shopping on Ebay, in order to be able to get nice work-appropriate clothing at an affordable cost. I used the filter option to filter out color options that were off the table. I suddenly had the realization that this was past the point of ridiculous: no black, white, blue, pink, red, gray, yellow, or purple— what was left? I was living in beige and mud greens, and still looked awful. At this point I realized I couldn’t figure this out on my own.
"I was shocked to be diagnosed a Bright Winter. All those years, I had been avoiding most of my best colors, based on some incorrect assumptions from decades ago. I’ve been making up for lost time, and wear hot pink on a regular basis. My husband loves to say he told me so!
"A couple of years after that, I decided to take the style piece up a bit, and didn’t want to waste any more time. By now, I was humble enough to realize that I didn’t have the objectivity to get any further by myself, and scheduled a virtual appointment with Rachel at Truth is Beauty. This was such a great complement to the color analysis I’d previously had, and gave me the complete set of tools to know what to look for, and what to leave alone. The ”What Not to Wear “ alone was almost worth the cost of analysis!
"I actually spend much less time than I used to on shopping and outfit planning. It’s so nice to have the tools to know what works and what doesn’t. I still go outside the rules/recommendations at times, but it’s deliberate now, not a surprise."
D.K., Ohio
"I read all the books, and later the websites, and based on the quizzes I kept coming down to some kind of Autumn. I did wonder why I couldn’t seem to find a brown or gold that really worked with my skin tone, but kept stubbornly holding on to that ideal.
"From time to time, my husband would say things like “I don’t see why you don’t like pink, I think you would look nice in pink” but I’d tell him he didn’t get it.
I used to do a lot of clothes shopping on Ebay, in order to be able to get nice work-appropriate clothing at an affordable cost. I used the filter option to filter out color options that were off the table. I suddenly had the realization that this was past the point of ridiculous: no black, white, blue, pink, red, gray, yellow, or purple— what was left? I was living in beige and mud greens, and still looked awful. At this point I realized I couldn’t figure this out on my own.
"I was shocked to be diagnosed a Bright Winter. All those years, I had been avoiding most of my best colors, based on some incorrect assumptions from decades ago. I’ve been making up for lost time, and wear hot pink on a regular basis. My husband loves to say he told me so!
"A couple of years after that, I decided to take the style piece up a bit, and didn’t want to waste any more time. By now, I was humble enough to realize that I didn’t have the objectivity to get any further by myself, and scheduled a virtual appointment with Rachel at Truth is Beauty. This was such a great complement to the color analysis I’d previously had, and gave me the complete set of tools to know what to look for, and what to leave alone. The ”What Not to Wear “ alone was almost worth the cost of analysis!
"I actually spend much less time than I used to on shopping and outfit planning. It’s so nice to have the tools to know what works and what doesn’t. I still go outside the rules/recommendations at times, but it’s deliberate now, not a surprise."
D.K., Ohio