Are you looking for a specialist to help you find your color palette or just reassurance about what you believe your colors are?
Many people have firm beliefs like “grey does not work for me” or “light colors don’t work for me.” They seem to be looking not for answers but for reassurance. Below, I will explain why this is the wrong attitude.
Strong statements usually indicate that we are not open to learning, and this applies not just to color but to life in general. However, let’s focus on color. When someone has a strong belief, like the ones mentioned above, it can show a lack of understanding of how color works. No dimension of color stands alone—meaning a color is not just light or just bright. Colors can be light and bright simultaneously. The separation of these characteristics is done through color analysis, and they are all put together later to name and assign your color palette.
Recently, I had a client who strongly believed she was a Soft Summer. It turned out she was a Warm Autumn. Was she completely wrong? No, because Summer and Autumn share the softness, but she was very much warm. This meant greys were great for her, but with a lot of yellow in them. I was able to show her this, and she could see it because she approached the analysis with an open mind and eagerness to learn from a specialist.
This is the right approach to a color analysis. Don’t expect the color analyst to give you what you want; she will give you what she sees, and that is how it should be.
It doesn’t mean you are limited to wearing only the colors from your color palette if you don’t resonate with them. A great color analysis will teach you some techniques to wear whatever colors you want, as long as you are open to learn it.
