Comments on: Best Makeup Colours : Bright Winter http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/ Know your perfect colours. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:34:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kathleen Bryson http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-1461 Kathleen Bryson Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:55:42 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-1461 This is a follow-up to my Feb. 23, 2011 posting. Peach blush? What was I thinking? There is no color that looks WORSE on me than peach! I was finally able to arrange a Sci\ART color analysis in Columbus, OH about 3 1/2 hrs from here. Would not have been bad but it poured BUCKETS most of the way there. I was proclaimed a True Winter which would have been my 2d personal choice; I thought I could be Bright or True. Robin, my analysist, kept going back and forth between Bright and True color swatches and said I was really hard to pin down, but in the end decided I was True. So I wasn't too far off but now have to "blue" my makeup a little more but I love my colors and will have fun trying to find them! Several are really spectacular on me but I have doubts I will ever find them in clothing. I love all the pinks and purples too which may be easier since there are so many. Many thanks to you, Christine, for this wonderful site and to the many other women who have posted color suggestions on the various "winter" pages. This is a follow-up to my Feb. 23, 2011 posting.
Peach blush? What was I thinking? There is no color that looks WORSE on me than peach! I was finally able to arrange a Sci\ART color analysis in Columbus, OH about 3 1/2 hrs from here. Would not have been bad but it poured BUCKETS most of the way there. I was proclaimed a True Winter which would have been my 2d personal choice; I thought I could be Bright or True. Robin, my analysist, kept going back and forth between Bright and True color swatches and said I was really hard to pin down, but in the end decided I was True. So I wasn’t too far off but now have to “blue” my makeup a little more but I love my colors and will have fun trying to find them! Several are really spectacular on me but I have doubts I will ever find them in clothing. I love all the pinks and purples too which may be easier since there are so many. Many thanks to you, Christine, for this wonderful site and to the many other women who have posted color suggestions on the various “winter” pages.

]]> By: VE http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-1379 VE Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:37:01 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-1379 --just found a good pale yellow eyeshadow highlight colour: Laura Mercier Luster Eye Colour in Starfruit –just found a good pale yellow eyeshadow highlight colour:
Laura Mercier Luster Eye Colour in Starfruit

]]> By: Kathleen http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-1343 Kathleen Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:24:27 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-1343 Hello friends! I feel I should share this. But first of all I should tell you that I have NEVER posted on a web site before (although I've lurked on a few for a long time) and that I stumbled upon this site through stumbling on A Greener Tea less than a week ago. I'm not sure how I found A Greener Tea, but it may have been through searching for recommendations for a peach blush. Last week I came across Robert Jones' book, Looking Younger, Makeovers that let you look as young as you feel at the public library and decided to check it out. I think he has many good suggestions for applying makeup and so forth but he is very big on bronzer and uses warm colors, especially peach for lips and blush and brown tones on the eyes. After reading this I got excited to try peach tones, something I've probably not used in almost 30 years! I should now add that back in the mid-1980's in the heart of the Color Me Beautiful frenzy, my mother gave me a color consultation for my birthday. I was analyzed as a Winter and for quite a while was strict to those suggestions for clothing and makeup colors. Forward about 10 years and the Spillane/ Sherlock book comes out, Color Me Beautiful's Looking your Best. I bought that, and decided I was most likely a Clear Winter but really made no major changes in my approach to color. Somewhere along the way in the late 1990's I got off track with worrying about makeup colors. I kind of "got into" the Bobbi Brown approach of more toned-down (brown) colors. I appreciated her "natural" approach to makeup-up and the idea of just being yourself. I had a couple of Bobbi Brown makeovers at their counter where more subdued colors were used, and so forth. Anyway, after coming upon this site my whole interest in color theory was renewed. I would like to be analyzed to see if I am correct about "Bright Winter" but there are no Sci\Art consultants anywhere nearby. In fact I can't raise their web site at all. But, I dropped my plans for peach blush and lipstick !!! and took to heart the suggestions I found for Bright Winter makeup...... Today I went out an bought a few things. First of all I went to a MAC counter and bought Dollymix blush, Lustering lipstick, and Copperplate eye shadow. Then I went to the Clinique counter and bought Raspberry Rush. Finally I steeled myself and went into a Merle Norman (that's like a time warp!) and bought Freesia for highlighter. Oogled Dior's Mystic Smokies at Sephora, but decided to try what I have first! Well, I got back to my car, and haven also eaten a frozen yogurt I needed lipstick so I whipped out my new Raspberry Rush. Put it on in the parking lot, car mirror, looked at myself and thought it has been years since I've looked so good!!! Ladies, that color turned my face around! Everything but my lips was the same: Bobbi brown foundation, her Sand Pink blush, a wash of a taupey eyeshadow and warm brown-black eyeliner. The effect was instantaneous with just that small change. Later, at home I added a pop of the Dollymix blush over what I had on, and also tried the Lustering lipstick, all with equally positive results. Tomorrow I will try the Copperplate shadow and the Freesia highlighter and also, following Christine's review of MAC Studio Sculpt foundation, I scored a trial sample of that which I will apply. I am amazed once again how well this works! Obviously as I said above, I would still like to reananalyzed because I do know it is impossible to be objective about yourself. One thing that is interesting about my personal analysis as a Bright Winter, is that all those years ago when I first had it done, and was told Winter, in conversation I told my mother I was a Winter, and she responded that she would have guessed Spring! So maybe I really do have that Spring bit in there. I live in Lexington, Kentucky so if anyone knows of a Sci\art consultant, please let me know. And sorry if this is posted at the wrong place. Hello friends!
I feel I should share this. But first of all I should tell you that I have NEVER posted on a web site before (although I’ve lurked on a few for a long time) and that I stumbled upon this site through stumbling on A Greener Tea less than a week ago.
I’m not sure how I found A Greener Tea, but it may have been through searching for recommendations for a peach blush. Last week I came across Robert Jones’ book, Looking Younger, Makeovers that let you look as young as you feel at the public library and decided to check it out. I think he has many good suggestions for applying makeup and so forth but he is very big on bronzer and uses warm colors, especially peach for lips and blush and brown tones on the eyes. After reading this I got excited to try peach tones, something I’ve probably not used in almost 30 years!
I should now add that back in the mid-1980′s in the heart of the Color Me Beautiful frenzy, my mother gave me a color consultation for my birthday. I was analyzed as a Winter and for quite a while was strict to those suggestions for clothing and makeup colors. Forward about 10 years and the Spillane/ Sherlock book comes out, Color Me Beautiful’s Looking your Best. I bought that, and decided I was most likely a Clear Winter but really made no major changes in my approach to color. Somewhere along the way in the late 1990′s I got off track with worrying about makeup colors. I kind of “got into” the Bobbi Brown approach of more toned-down (brown) colors. I appreciated her “natural” approach to makeup-up and the idea of just being yourself. I had a couple of Bobbi Brown makeovers at their counter where more subdued colors were used, and so forth.
Anyway, after coming upon this site my whole interest in color theory was renewed. I would like to be analyzed to see if I am correct about “Bright Winter” but there are no Sci\Art consultants anywhere nearby. In fact I can’t raise their web site at all. But, I dropped my plans for peach blush and lipstick !!! and took to heart the suggestions I found for Bright Winter makeup…… Today I went out an bought a few things.
First of all I went to a MAC counter and bought Dollymix blush, Lustering lipstick, and Copperplate eye shadow. Then I went to the Clinique counter and bought Raspberry Rush. Finally I steeled myself and went into a Merle Norman (that’s like a time warp!) and bought Freesia for highlighter. Oogled Dior’s Mystic Smokies at Sephora, but decided to try what I have first!
Well, I got back to my car, and haven also eaten a frozen yogurt I needed lipstick so I whipped out my new Raspberry Rush. Put it on in the parking lot, car mirror, looked at myself and thought it has been years since I’ve looked so good!!! Ladies, that color turned my face around! Everything but my lips was the same: Bobbi brown foundation, her Sand Pink blush, a wash of a taupey eyeshadow and warm brown-black eyeliner.
The effect was instantaneous with just that small change. Later, at home I added a pop of the Dollymix blush over what I had on, and also tried the Lustering lipstick, all with equally positive results. Tomorrow I will try the Copperplate shadow and the Freesia highlighter and also, following Christine’s review of MAC Studio Sculpt foundation, I scored a trial sample of that which I will apply. I am amazed once again how well this works!
Obviously as I said above, I would still like to reananalyzed because I do know it is impossible to be objective about yourself. One thing that is interesting about my personal analysis as a Bright Winter, is that all those years ago when I first had it done, and was told Winter, in conversation I told my mother I was a Winter, and she responded that she would have guessed Spring! So maybe I really do have that Spring bit in there.
I live in Lexington, Kentucky so if anyone knows of a Sci\art consultant, please let me know. And sorry if this is posted at the wrong place.

]]> By: VE http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 VE Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:52:38 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-1322 Christine, Here are a few more recommendations. When I get bored of charcoal eyes (liner/crease), I do black brown. Please post if you find clear champagne/snowdrop eyeshadows (matte and/or perle). Thank you. lipsticks: Revlon Fuchsia Fusion NARS Jungle Red eyeshadows (black brown/dark taupe--alone or mixed with greys/blacks): MAC Brun NARS Coconut Grove eyeliner (black brown): Lancome Black Coffee nude lip for BW: clear gloss w/spf (mid-high shine finish) Christine,
Here are a few more recommendations. When I get bored of charcoal eyes (liner/crease), I do black brown. Please post if you find clear champagne/snowdrop eyeshadows (matte and/or perle). Thank you.

lipsticks:
Revlon Fuchsia Fusion
NARS Jungle Red
eyeshadows (black brown/dark taupe–alone or mixed with greys/blacks):
MAC Brun
NARS Coconut Grove
eyeliner (black brown):
Lancome Black Coffee
nude lip for BW: clear gloss w/spf (mid-high shine finish)

]]> By: Christine Scaman http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-1244 Christine Scaman Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:05:56 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-1244 Rachel, I'm not sure how a Virginian would describe it. When I saw it, it was a turquoise green, quite light for a Winter, even amounts of blue and green, and as clear as glass. Absolutely no cloudiness, it was like an utterly transparent bottle. Rachel,
I’m not sure how a Virginian would describe it. When I saw it, it was a turquoise green, quite light for a Winter, even amounts of blue and green, and as clear as glass. Absolutely no cloudiness, it was like an utterly transparent bottle.

]]> By: Rachel Ramey http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-1221 Rachel Ramey Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:18:49 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-1221 What is a "Virginia turtle" eye? What is a “Virginia turtle” eye?

]]> By: Ellen http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Ellen Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:44:01 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-542 "Everyone’s eyes are amazing. Once we notice them, we all find it hard to stop looking. That’s why it’s so important to get rid of the distracting clutter. Calm down the skin, the hair, the over-makeup, and let your eyes leave an echo." I love you, Christine. When I look at eye colour (say when someone says, "These are my eyes, what season am I?"), I immediately think, "How can I make this eye look captivating? What is the most inspiring that this eye can look?" I adore the way you worded this :) “Everyone’s eyes are amazing. Once we notice them, we all find it hard to stop looking. That’s why it’s so important to get rid of the distracting clutter. Calm down the skin, the hair, the over-makeup, and let your eyes leave an echo.”

I love you, Christine. When I look at eye colour (say when someone says, “These are my eyes, what season am I?”), I immediately think, “How can I make this eye look captivating? What is the most inspiring that this eye can look?”
I adore the way you worded this :)

]]> By: Christine Scaman http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-528 Christine Scaman Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:41:52 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-528 Denise, Color it 2 shades lighter than the natural color is usually my best advice. The hair you had when you were 25. Gray works very well on Winters, because it's inherently cool, stately, and dramatic, so consider whether you want to deal with roots and upkeep. If you do, as I do, then color it. Most colorists seem to say that hair color needs some warmth to cover gray, which is fine since you're Neutral and can carry some warmth. Ask for the least amount of heat to cover gray, minimum red, as close to natural as possible but a bit lighter (seems a little softer on the complexion). Denise,

Color it 2 shades lighter than the natural color is usually my best advice. The hair you had when you were 25. Gray works very well on Winters, because it’s inherently cool, stately, and dramatic, so consider whether you want to deal with roots and upkeep. If you do, as I do, then color it. Most colorists seem to say that hair color needs some warmth to cover gray, which is fine since you’re Neutral and can carry some warmth. Ask for the least amount of heat to cover gray, minimum red, as close to natural as possible but a bit lighter (seems a little softer on the complexion).

]]> By: Denise http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-521 Denise Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:48:25 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-521 Christine, What would you recommend a bright winter do about coloring her hair? Mine is a dark brown black. I've never colored my hair and it's graying now. The color isn't bad but it isn't good either (certainly not glamorous!). What should I tell my hairstylist? How to explain the concept of neutral? Thanks for any advice you have! Christine,

What would you recommend a bright winter do about coloring her hair? Mine is a dark brown black. I’ve never colored my hair and it’s graying now. The color isn’t bad but it isn’t good either (certainly not glamorous!). What should I tell my hairstylist? How to explain the concept of neutral?

Thanks for any advice you have!

]]> By: Denise http://12blueprints.com/best-makeup-colours-bright-winter/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Denise Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:11:13 +0000 http://12blueprints.com/?p=527#comment-507 Love the article and comments. I'm a bright winter and I like Revlon's Fire and Ice lipstick and Nars Cactus Flower blusher. I also find the Dolly mix blush suits me very well. I prefer creams to powder for eyeshadow. I use Clinique's creams in lavendar, cream and grey colors. If anyone knows of other cream eyeshadows in Bright Winter colors, I would appreciate the names! After reading this article, I tried a brown black eyeliner which I loved. It brings out my eyes and makes them dramatic looking and gives balance to the bright lipsticks. The other question I have is about purple eyeliner. I use an Almay purple amethyst eyeliner and I think it looks neutral on me rather than circus like. It may be because it's a greyed down color, but I wondered if on a bright winter a color like purple would look more neutral than on another season. Great fun reading the article and comments! Love the article and comments. I’m a bright winter and I like Revlon’s Fire and Ice lipstick and Nars Cactus Flower blusher. I also find the Dolly mix blush suits me very well.

I prefer creams to powder for eyeshadow. I use Clinique’s creams in lavendar, cream and grey colors. If anyone knows of other cream eyeshadows in Bright Winter colors, I would appreciate the names!

After reading this article, I tried a brown black eyeliner which I loved. It brings out my eyes and makes them dramatic looking and gives balance to the bright lipsticks. The other question I have is about purple eyeliner. I use an Almay purple amethyst eyeliner and I think it looks neutral on me rather than circus like. It may be because it’s a greyed down color, but I wondered if on a bright winter a color like purple would look more neutral than on another season.

Great fun reading the article and comments!

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