Clearing Skin With Colour Analysis

February 9, 2010 by  

Clearing the skin is a very fundamental concept in Personal Colour Analysis. Very hard to describe though.

We watch for this effect across all the Seasons. Just like all the optical effects during the draping sequence, it is more obvious in some people. In many situations, we’re looking at a person of cool coloring, and watching for some kind of sallowness to clear away the instant the warm drapes are switched to cool.

The sallow effect may look orange, green-beige, yellow, blotchy and uneven, thick and opaque, muddy, or variations of those.

When the drape changes, it looks as though a yellow filter is suddenly made transparent. The evenly coloured milky calm returns to the skin tone.

Watch Jocelyn in this video.

If your browser won’t play it, watch it on YouTube  at 12 Blueprints Personal Colour Analysis Clearing The Skin.

Jocelyn is a Bright Winter. As the Analysis proceeded, we knew she would not be an Autumn because of the yellow overtone in the skin that drained away in the cooler yellow drape. Her ultimate skin perfection is nowhere in Autumn colours.

Take care with these interpretations. Clearing the skin is always a positive thing, but it may happen that when the yellow clears away, what replaces it appears clearer because the yellow is gone, but it’s not necessarily better. In Joce’s case, her skin becomes evenly grayed in the Summer drapes, making the skin look ashy. Because it’s a pale grey, about the colour of her hat and my coat, it can be deceiving. You think ‘the skin is evenly coloured, so that’s good, right?’.  In some people, that greyness makes them look truly corpse-like, it’s that strong.

It’s not good but it’s different. The photos below show Joce in the Autumn very yellow drape again, with the blotchy yellow skin, pronounced shadows under the eyes, and cheeks that are too pink.

One could say that the brown eyes come out in the yellow drape. Going down that road would lead you wrong. The skin comes first. The eyes and NATURAL hair colour will automatically be PERFECT.  On EVERYONE. The Light and Soft Seasons can do things to make the hair more interesting, but the base colour is automatically the right one for you and what YOU are supposed to look like.  The other Seasons usually have their right colour and nothing from a bottle can improve on it. Without Kate Hudson’s skin tone, you can’t believably pull off her hair.

The black drape creates an evenly coloured skin. It looks calm. It FEELS calm. The shadows are gone. Most of us are wearing too much concealer and foundation to fight the effects of bad clothes and hair colour. Yes, you’re right, Joce is 20-something and blessed with remarkable skin. Even what she wears makes a difference.

The black tones in her eyes snap. Here eyes no longer bloodshot and red-rimmed. You’ll see Joce again in an upcoming post. The eyes on this girl have to be seen to be believed.

Related posts:

  1. Harmony in Personal Colour Analysis
  2. The Draping Process in Colour Analysis
  3. Warm and Cool and Colour Analysis
  4. Skin Undertones
  5. Personal Colour Analysis

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4 Responses to “Clearing Skin With Colour Analysis”

  1. Creativity And The Meaning Of Mind-Body Exercise : A Greener Tea on February 10th, 2010 6:07 pm

    [...] Leaving your mind behind is fun sometimes. It clears the head wonderfully. Clearing the skin is much easier to do. It’s automatic when you wear the right colours. It’s harder to explain. At 12Blueprints, a video so you can watch it happen in Clearing Skin With Colour Analysis. [...]

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  2. Jocelyn Is A Bright Winter : 12 Blueprints on February 13th, 2010 10:00 am

    [...] important in interpreting ultimate skin perfection. You met Joce in  the previous article, Clearing Skin With Colour Analysis and can watch this process on video [...]

  3. Cynthia Masri on April 20th, 2010 3:09 pm

    Hi there,

    Do you know anyone in the Dallas Texas USA area certified to do a PCA color analysis?

    Thanks, Cynthia

  4. Christine Scaman on April 22nd, 2010 2:48 pm

    Hi, Cynthia,

    I know Lauren Battistini is at Macy’s in Houston. She is truly excellent. Her site is at http://www.colormycloset.com

    For others, the directory of Sci\ART analysts is at http://www.coloranalysis.com

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