The Confidence to wear Color.
In-Person Personal Color Analysis Services
Greater Philadelphia Area
Personal Color Analysis
Does the simple act of getting dressed seem daunting?
It doesn’t have to.
So many clients come to me feeling like they’re in a rut because their wardrobe is full of almost exclusively black and grey, leaving them feeling drab, dull, and boring. They WANT to branch out, but when they try out other colors, everything looks wrong and they end up not wearing what they bought. Nailing down the right lipstick and hair color feels like a never-ending battle.
Discover Your Color Palette Today.
By learning the colors that are your very best, you will be able to quickly and easily go into a clothing store or walk up to a makeup counter and not only choose colors that work effortlessly on YOU, but also avoid buying your worst colors. You will able to build a wardrobe full of clothes that all mix and match and fit together and look great, making getting dressed for the day quick, easy, and uncomplicated.
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Use the button below to get started. Interested to learn more? Keep scrolling to learn more about the different types of color seasons. Looking for info about rates or how it works? Check out our FAQ page.
What’s Included in a Personal Color Analysis
Detailed Draping & Analysis
This process of draping will help us determine what your personal color season is, identifying your true colors.
Hair & Makeup
Learn what hair color and makeup shades will work best for you, including product recommendations.
Shopping Tutorial
A lesson on how to correctly identify your colors at home and while shopping.
Wardrobe Review
Your Personal Color Palette
A high-quality canvas color palette for your season, as well as travel size, to use when shopping ($100 value!)
What My Clients Have To Say
The Color Seasons Explained
More On How It Works
Personal Color Analysis operates on the same principles as color theory in general, that have been known and understood for hundreds of years. Color harmony happens when colors have similar properties, and dissonance or distortion in color happens when colors have opposing qualities. Noticing harmony and dissonance in color is natural and automatic in human beings with no special training needed – just as you don’t need to be a classical pianist to notice a wrong note struck on the piano.
According to the Munsell Scientific Order of Color, color has three properties – hue (how warm or cool a color is), value (how light or dark a color is), and chroma (how bright or soft a color is). Every color we can see has a “setting” on each of these three dials, including the colors that make up your skin, eyes, and hair. Practically speaking, this means that if we know the hue, value, and chroma range of a particular person’s color, we can accurately predict which colors will have similar qualities, and will therefore allow their healthiest, youngest and most radiant appearance to come forth.
A color season is simply a group of colors that all fall within a range of hue, value, and chroma parameters, so named for the poetic relationship between nature at that time of the year and the colors in each group.
A Twelve season system is the most commonly used in modern color analysis, as it seems to produce the best balance of specificity to allow clients to wear all the colors of their palette well and to easily find complimentary makeup and hair colors, while being broad enough to make wardrobe building practical and the analysis process definitive.
This Season system is divided into four primary seasonal color palettes: Winter, Spring, Summer & Autumn
Winter
Winter is one of the four primary seasonal color palettes in personal color analysis. The Winter palettes are characterized by their cool hue, dark value, and bright chroma. Within the Winter season, the three sub-season groups used in the 12-tone system are Dark Winter, True Winter, and Bright Winter.
The colors in these palettes include striking jewel tones such as sapphire blue, emerald green, ruby red, and violet, as well as icy pastels and cool neutrals, such as black, white, navy, and grey.
Spring
The Spring palettes are characterized by their warm hue, light value, and bright chroma. Within the Spring season, the three sub-season groups used in the 12-tone system are Light Spring, True Spring, and Bright Spring. The colors in these palettes include warm, fresh colors such as sunny yellows, coral pinks, warm greens, and aqua blues, as well as warm neutrals, such as brown, cream, golden sand, and warm grey.
The colors in these palettes include striking jewel tones such as sapphire blue, emerald green, ruby red, and violet, as well as icy pastels and cool neutrals, such as black, white, navy, and grey.
Summer
The Summer palettes are characterized by their cool hue, light value, and soft chroma. Within the Summer season, the three sub-season groups used in the 12-tone system are Light Summer, True Summer, and Soft Summer.
The colors in these palettes include cool, delicate colors such as dusty pinks, powder blues, lavender, and cool greens, as well as cool neutrals, such as navy, pearl white, cool beige, and soft grey.
Autumn
The Autumn palettes are characterized by their warm hue, dark value, and soft chroma. Within the Autumn season, the three sub-season groups used in the 12-tone system are Dark Autumn, True Autumn, and Soft Autumn.
The colors in these palettes include earthy, rich colors such as deep oranges, olive greens, rusty reds, and golden yellows as well as warm neutrals, such as brown, ecru, camel, and khaki.
Hi @barbie fans! 💖💖💖 I made you a little catalog of perfect Barbie pink shades for every season 🌸😘 Check out the link in my bio and hit “shop”.
P.S. Hover over my picks to see which season they are for 😊
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In case you haven’t had your fill of Prime day goodies yet, I spotted Urban Decay Vice Lipstick in Gridlock, an excellent fuchsia for True Winter (and 714, a great red for Bright Winter) on sale! 😍 💄 Check out the link in my bio for more of my Amazon picks. #coloranalysis #truewinter #primeday #amazonprime #lipstick #lipstickjunkie #personalcolor #personalcoloranalysis #CommissionsEarned #primedaydeals
Imagine that you are tasked with decorating a log cabin. What kinds of furnishings would you look for? 🤔
I’m guessing that you would probably choose something rustic and organic looking with a casual and cozy vibe, regardless of your preferences in interior décor. 🏠 🌲
On the other hand, I doubt you will have chosen hyper-modern furnishings made of metal and molded plastic fit for a black tie affair. Possibly there’s an interior decorator somewhere who could make that look fabulous, but the easiest and most logical choice would be to furnish a log cabin like…a log cabin. 👍
Not only does this create an incredibly harmonious and attractive end result with
minimal training and effort required, it also allows us to capitalize off of the best elements of the log cabin that are already there without having to create some new appeal from scratch.
If you haven’t guessed, the log cabin in need of the right decor is a metaphor for a person
in need of the right clothing. 👗 👠 👜
Want to know what kind of “decor” is perfect for you? Watch this space… 👀
#kibbe #kibbebodytypes #bodylineanalysis
So what is an Image Archetype? 🤔
A lot of people have heard of Image Archetypes or Kibbe body types, but don’t really understand what they are. 🤷🏻♀️
Essentially, it’s a combination of shape, line, scale, and proportion that creates a conceptual style in reference to your body.
The quickest, easiest, most effective way to dress a person is to dress them to look like themselves.
So just as we have styles such as Mid-Century Modern or Colonial in architecture, in fashion we have Image Archetypes.💃🏻
There are 10 Image Archetypes divided into 5 categories: Dramatics, Naturals, Classics, Gamines, Romantics.
Want to know more? Stay tuned…📻
#kibbe #kibbebodytypes #bodytypes #imagearchetype #bodylineanalysis #imageanalysis #personalstylist #knowyourstyle #stylefashion #rachelnachmias
🎤Echemm.. Is this thing on? I know I haven`t been around much lately, so allow me to reintroduce myself.
Hi, I’m Rachel Nachmias.
I’m a two-time bestselling style author and personal stylist for over a decade. I’ve helped hundreds of women develop their own unique signature style so that they can step out into the world as their best selves.
I`ll be posting tips and tricks to use your color season🌸☀🍁❄ and body type to curate a wardrobe you feel 100% confident in. So if that sounds good to you, watch this space👀!
#personalstylist #personalstyle #personalcoloranalysis #coloranalysis #kibbe #kibbebodytypes
You guys I can`t with these shots... and there`s more to come! Could not create this level of magic magic without the incredible @carolinewphoto behind the lens 📷, so grateful to have another chance to work together ❤️
What if, humor me here, that thing about your body- you know the thing. The thing you`re up googling how to get rid of at 3 AM.
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The double dip hip or the cellulite on your butt or your limp hair or your left eyelid that`s slightly lower than the right... ___
What if instead of being a curse uniquely visited upon you by the gods, what if it was just totally ordinary? Just an absolutely regular feature of human beings that doesn`t mean anything at all. Nothing to write home about, no action required.
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I`m probably wrong but... what if I`m not?
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