What is Your Color Season?

                                                                                                                                     By Michele I.

    Everyone has a color season that matches their features. Spring, Winter, Summer or Autumn.  What do I mean by features?  Skin tone, hair color, eye color, etc.  Ever notice how certain colors flatter you more?  This is because of your personal color story. 

    

Below is a video explaining the differences between the seasons:

 

Summer:

People with "Summer" coloring are usually natural blondes, although extremely pale-skinned brunettes with pale blue eyes are also sometimes considered Summers.  Usually a Summer's skin tone is very fair; either porcelain white, or pale with pink cheeks. Let's start with your True Summer neutrals.  As a True Summer, you look great in dark grey, dark green, soft white (such as seashell), light blue grey and darker blue colors.  (For Summer makeup click here)

Spring:

Springs are warm-toned, meaning gold jewelry looks better on them than platinum or silver.  Their eyes are light to medium in darkness and are usually shades like clear blue, bright green, hazel, or light grey. Springs have a sort of golden aura to them.  True Spring's best colors are usually warm greens, yellows, orangey reds, very peachy pinks and every shade of light brown from tan to palest beige.  (For Spring makeup click here)

Winter: 

The winter color season skin tones are cool, like fair, light, medium, tan, dark, and deep. Winters will usually have a much higher level of contrast between their features than the other color seasons. Many people of color fall into the winter color season.  A True Winter color palette is full of cool based jewel-tones like ruby red, sapphire blue, and emerald green. Winter types also get such classic neutrals – they look beautiful in black, crisp white, and navy to name a few. A true Winter palette is full of colors that lean crisp, cool, and highly saturated.  (For winter makeup click here)

Fall/Autumn:

True Autumn's primary aspect is warm.  Thus, the color palette sits at the warmest end of the hue scale. This means the colors contain yellow undertones but no blue undertones at all.  Consequently, you will find very few shades of blue (which is the coolest color of all).  If you're an autumn type, you'll find your muted yet rich coloring means you look better in dark, earthy colors, like mustard, olive green and burgundy.  (For Autumn makeup click here)

    

What color season are you? Tell me in the comments!

Sweet Painted Lady (Remastered 2014)

Listen to the seagulls at the end of the song!

Hair Bow

Easter, weddings, and just the perfect hairstyle for Spring!  How lovely is this hair bow?  Stephanie Brinkerhoff of the fab website  HAIR & MAKEUP BY STEPH.COM shows us the step-by-step.  Stephanie works in Utah as a professional wedding hair stylist, makeup artist and beauty blogger.  She travels around the  country to destination weddings and in-salon workshops teaching other stylists about bridal work.  Visit Steph's website to contact her and see all her beautiful work!



Hair Bow

1.  Begin by taking one small section of hair from each side of your head.  The bigger the sections, the bigger the bow.

2.  Tie the two sections together with an elastic to create a half ponytail.  Don't pull the ends through the elastic the last time you wrap it to create a loop like the picture on the right.

3.  Split the loop in half to create two smaller loops and clip one loop aside for later.

4.  Use your fingers to spread out the loop and push it flat against your head into a bow shape.  Insert one bobby pin going from top to bottom and one going from bottom to top.  

5.  Repeat on the opposite side to finish the bow shape.

6.  Pick up the remaining ends of the ponytail and wrap them up and around the elastic to hide it.  Secure it with bobby pins underneath.

Ta-da!

Mascara update!

I know that I previously told you about the amazing mascara that I use.  Well I think that I actually found a better one!  Also by L'Oreal.  It is called Telescopic Explosion.  The color I use is Carbon Black which is really, really black.  But the brush is the key!  It is actually round.  So when you apply the mascara the brush reaches every lash.  It kind of fans your lashes out.  So they appear thicker and longer.  At CVS.  Try it!  Tell me what you think.

The Best Mascara

Let's talk about mascara.....

Over the years I have tried every brand of mascara that was ever invented.  I have tried thick brushes, curved brushes, short brushes and long.  I think I have finally found the best mascara!!!  You must try it!!!  CVS of course!

 

Fragrance and make-up

 The first perfume I loved was  "Ambush" by Dana.   I can almost smell it right now.   I  also liked Love's lemon cologne.  I loved the smell of the lemon fragrance.  Whenever I smell lemon scent today it reminds me of high school, The Beatles, hanging out in town and all things sixties and seventies.  My grandmother introduced me to Jean Nate.  I would pour it all over me!  So refreshing!  What was your favorite fragrance?
Thinking about fragrances started me thinking about make-up.  I only wanted my eyes to look like Twiggy.  So I bought every different style of false eyelashes that "Richmind Way", our local discount drug store sold.    And of course I drew on bottom lashes.  And I loved Yardley of London.  Remember the lipsticks in the striped tube?  Bonne Bell Ten-o-six lotion.   I loved the smell of that too!
 Ladies can you name some names of make-up and fragrances that we wore.  Do you remember the ones that I mentioned?