Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I got together recently and made a series of videos about colour which I will be sharing with you over the next few weeks.
The first video is an introduction to colour systems – from the 4 Seasons through to the 18 directional Absolute Colour System.
One of the aspects we discuss is Albert Munsell’s colour properties and how that is used in personal colour analysis.
Munsell figured out that colours have different properties:
- Value – Light to Dark
- Chroma – Intensity or Saturation (brighness to mutedness)
- Undertone – Warmth to Coolness (blue based or yellow based colours)
So personal colour analysis looks for those properties in you, and then the most harmonious colours are those that match your personal colour properties.
I’ve wanted to get my colours done for a long time. How do I find a good place/person to do it? I’m living in Singapore but Caucasian .
Danielle – there are lots of fabulous people in Singapore who do colour – your ethnicity is not important as far as colour analysis goes – we find that colour groups can go across many different races. You can try: Aileen Lane of NutriStyle who is also Caucasian!
Great video on colours. I live in Calgary, Canada – do you know anyone that does colours there? Otherwise, is there anything you can do over the internet if I send a picture to you? Thanks.
Hi Sharon,
I’ll see if I can find someone for you over there. Photos are never as accurate as in person!