One is that you’re right. The colors are not yours. It’s all you can do to bring them close to you, let alone wear them.

The second is that you’re wrong. There’s just too much wrong advice, wrong habits, and wrong ruts for you to wade through with anything approaching objectivity. You have spent years looking at how your top matches your bottom, your hair looks with your top, your lipstick with your eyeshadow with your top …….. all but the one thing that clinches the whole deal : how the color looks with your skin. Mostly because we don’t know how, and second because we cannot look at ourselves easily.

Most women who are quite sensitive to color are about 1/3 through their PCA before they call it right each time and start to see their skin react.

Great comment. Also good testament to how important it is to neutralize all the variables because every single thing around affects the colour activity in your skin.

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The spectrum of reactions runs from tension to nausea. I’ve had MEN sweating and jittery, and confused as to why. It is a DEEP psychological imprint.
Jelena, you recall how you could decide within 2 seconds or LESS if a drape worked…you could never have had time to look at it analytically, I think your reaction was very physical, and you trusted that. It took me about 35 PCAs to trust that feeling.
Trisha, I get the most visceral reactions from makeup artists and photographers. I think many people are like I was, feeling something but suppressing it because our world demands analytical data.
Women above all, with our huge resource of intuition, can be guided by these sensations. The reactions are all very real.

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I take it you’re talking about more than a feeling of dislike, or being uncomfortable around a colour, more actually feeling ill?

I actually feel physically sick around certain colours and always have since a child – deep “overcast” purples like a stormy sky colour and deep, very cool red-blues have that effect, also some very bright pinks. Sometimes in a room with one of those colours, when I’m with people and can’t get away, I’ve developed a spltting headache or a migraine and actually thrown up shortly afterwards (always in private!). I wonder if certainly colours are programmed by Nature to make us unsettled, warning signs of impending storms, etc, or to suggest illness or something. At Art College I saw similar reactions in students, so are we artistic people more acutely attuned/ sensitized to feel these reactions? Or am I just averse to strong, violently cool pinks because not in my colouring as a deep Autumn, so seemingly against the familar and safe and perceived as something alien. My friend who is a doctor says there is a medical name for it (but shes forgotten and would have to look it up!) and is a known factor in some people, often migraine sufferers, not always and often in epileptics too and is to do with overload of sensory information as you suggest, a fascinating topic!

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