About this title: Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780345290151ISBN:0345290151
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear & aging to cover, light aging to pages, small bend on corners of cover, stk #2604d9. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780345290151ISBN:0345290151
Description: Poor. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to cover, crack in spine, one page loose from binding but present, stk #2211p6. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This book changed my life, though not in a dramatic way. I just notice colors a lot more when I'm buying clothes.
I picked this book up cheap at a sidewalk book sale on a whim and found the information in it to be very useful. The concept is based on the observation that different people look better in different colors. According to the author, every single human being belongs to one of four color pallets, each named after a season. Once you know your season, you'll easily be able to pick out the colors that look best on you.
Once I determined that I was a winter person, all I had to do was look at my color chart and read the overall description of what types of colors I could wear. This information has served me well over the years and has also made me more aware of how color choice affects other people's appearances.
I did have a couple of problems with the book. First, the author states that race is a limiting factor. White people can belong to any of the four season, whereas black people always correspond to one of two. And all Asians belong to just one! Really? More than a billion people in China, and they all should be wearing the same colors? My take on this is that the method was designed by white people studying other white people and just doesn't work as well when applied to other races. Being white, this wasn't much of a problem for me, but it would certainly be interesting to see the methodology enhanced to include everyone.
Second, the version I read was not well printed. The book is full of color photos and illustrations. In some of them, it was very clear that the colors were off, for example in the flesh tones of people in photos, so I assume that the page that had the grid of the main colors in my pallet was also off. Since that page served as a guide for my personal colors, I found it annoying that the tint was not quite right.
It should also be noted that there is no guarantee that after reading this book, you will be able to identify your pallet. It took me a few days and a bit of intuition. (One interesting observation by the author is that people have an innate preference for the colors that look good on them.) Since the book is probably considerably cheaper than a professional consultation, you'll probably save yourself quite a bit by buying yourself a copy."
"Would have been embarrassed to put this on my list of oh-so-scholarly reading, but it's been too much fun to read (dare I say cover to cover), discuss, and learn from! Sometimes it's fun to laugh at the 70s style/celeb references, but overall, it is definitely a classic beauty/style volume. (It has changed/will change my wardrobe and how I shop/dress.) I think even Stacey and Clint would approve of the basic, timeless tenets."
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