Selecting the right value contrast in prints for you

From Overwhelmed to Outstanding: Navigating the Maze of Choosing Prints in Your Best Value Contrast

A Guide to Mastering Value Contrast Have you ever been drawn to a stunning pattern, only to find that it somehow overwhelms your look, rather than enhancing it? What I’ve learned over the past 20 years working with clients doing personal colour analysis and finding the best ways of putting each individual client’s colours together,…

How to Adapt Your Wardrobe to Fashion’s Changing Silhouettes

Fashion trends are constantly changing, and new silhouettes are key to staying current. However, it’s important to stay true to your own personal style without feeling left behind. For example, if you’ve been wearing skinny jeans or pants for years, and now wide leg pants are coming back in, you may wonder how to adapt…

How to Elevate Your Look with the Right Value Contrast in Patterns

When it comes to choosing patterns for your clothes, it’s not just about the style or design of the fabric. Another important factor to consider is the value contrast. This refers to the difference in lightness or darkness between the different colors or and neutrals within a pattern. Choosing patterns with the right value contrast…

181: Colour and Style Q&A: How to redirect focus away from the areas I want to camouflage? How do you put colours together and create contrast? How to combine part time working in business to mum in the playground?

How to redirect focus away from the areas I want to camouflage? I use a statement necklace frequently, but what are some other options?
How do you put colours together – I’m high contrast spring (Zesty) but hear colours should be the same value so how do I create contrast?
How to combine part time working in business with switching to being a mum in the playground without changing clothes?

46: Colour and Style Q&A: A shape Can I wear dark top, Adding the right contrast with an accessory and can you be a mix of warm and cool?

If you have an ideal value of medium light and medium-low value contrast but are an A shape – can you wear dark tops? 
My young son has warm skin and cool eyes – can he be a mix of colouring?
If I’m neutrals plus 2 colours can I just wear a different coloured necklace to the colour in my top, or do I need to add that colour to more areas of my outfit – such as a bracelet too? 

41: Colour and Style Q&A: Using Skin to Create Colour and Value Contrast, Colour Schemes for a Wardrobe Capsule, Dramatic Personality with Soft Colouring

Can a person’s skin colour be used to create colour or value contrast?
What tips can you share when planning a colour scheme for a wardrobe capsule?
I have a dramatic personality but my colouring calls for softer colours – how do I create the drama I love in outfits whilst still flattering my colouring?