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Ever wonder why you get compliments when you wear a certain color? Why some outfits, no matter how much you like them, look and feel “blah” once you’re wearing them? This all has to do with how colors look against your skin tone. The right color will have you looking lively, fresh, healthy, and radiant. The wrong color will at best, look like it’s just sitting on you, and at worst, make you look sickly, washed-out, and pasty.

I created Glowing Color to help people find the colors that look best on them, fashion and cosmetic-wise. Choosing the colors that look best on you is based on your skin undertones–not how light or dark you are, but whether your skin has cool (or pinkish) or warm (or yellowish) undertones. Accordingly, colors with cool undertones look better on cool skin and colors with warm undertones look better on warm skin.

Skin undertones have led to the popularity of season-typing. People are either Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. Spring and Autumn are warm. Summer and Winter are cool. Lighter hair generally falls under Spring and Summer while darker hair generally falls under Autumn and Winter. While I work with people of all racial/ethnic backgrounds, there is a dearth of information on season-typing regarding women of African descent. Black women come in a myriad of skin tones but in fashion magazines we are often amalgamated into one monolith representation for what colors look best on us. I am hoping to change that. I will show you how even women with similar looking skin colors can be completely different seasons.

Once you know what your colors are, it makes shopping a lot easier by saving you money and time. The new “it” color of the season may be everywhere in stores, tempting you to buy it, but if you know in advance that it isn’t your color, you can bypass everything in that color. Just because you love a color does not mean it will have you looking your best. Knowing your colors can help you clean out your closet and get rid of the items that don’t flatter you, while helping you narrow down your choices in the sometimes overwhelming selection at stores.

Me in warm, me in cool. See the difference?

I am available for personal consultation at glowingcolor@gmail.com which includes:
*Blog Feature with short interview analyzing your Season based on photographs
*Your personal ‘Power Color’
*In-person consultation and shopping trips

E-mail me for rates!