Color me yellow9/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The models in the book are freckled of face and chestnut of hair, like human Irish setters. ![]() ![]() AutumnĪutumns are redheads or ash blondes, with clear, white skin like fine card stock. So, armed with some lipstick and my wardrobe, I take a trip around the color wheel, and let Carole be my guide. I’m pretty sure I’m a winter, as per my childhood readings of Color Me Beautiful, but my judgement back then most likely wasn’t the best. I want to look my absolute best, every single day. What you decide to put on your body and present to the world every time you leave your house is one of your most powerful messages. Getting dressed in the morning, putting on some lipstick and leaving the house sometimes feels like the biggest challenge and greatest victory of the day. Carole Jackson wants you to dress and look and feel your best, which is what we all want, at the end of the day. As a stout and short child and a taller and still stout adult, I pause every time I cuff my pants, knowing that with each fold of the fabric, I’m shaving inches off my legs.Ĭolor Me Beautiful asks you to take long, hard look at yourself in the mirror and be honest about what you see. Her instructions on testing foundation by putting a "thick blob" on the back of your hand is the reason I still do this with any foundation or BB cream before I apply it to my face. This is the book that taught me that my eyes were deep-set. "If your face is round or square," Jackson writes, "you should minimize the sides." This is the reason I dedicated myself to the preservation of "face-framing" layers with every haircut, as if the wisps of hair angled towards my cheeks would erase the boundaries of my moon face. Paging through the book made me realize just how much I’d internalized its rules. I have a vague memory of pulling it off the shelf of the shared library at my grandma’s apartment complex and taking it home, excited and eager to jumpstart my life as a career woman at the age of 12. I’m not sure how the book ended up in my hands as a child. The book gave women across America the confidence they needed to look in the mirror and whisper to themselves, "I’m a spring." Once you follow Jackson’s rules, everything you own will eventually bring you joy. There are checklists and charts to pin to the inside of your closet as you clean out everything that doesn’t work, like an early KonMari for the shoulder-pads-and-running-shoe set. Your season informs everything about you, from the style of clothes you wear to the kind of flowers you choose to decorate your house with. It’s simple color theory, packaged neatly for the masses and presented as a holistic solution on how to live your best life. The book itself is part self-help - think Kathy Bates wrapping herself in Saran wrap and greeting her husband at the door in Fried Green Tomatoes - tempered with a heavy dose of actual usable information. Arm yourself with this knowledge, carry your swatches close to your heart, and shop with the newfound freedom of knowing what you should wear to make you look and feel your best. If you’ve spent your entire life strongly attached to emerald green, stockpiling sweaters and scarves and sundresses that you wear to death, you’re already halfway there. Once you match these colors to a "season", your entire life will fall into place. Look in the mirror and figure out what colors look best on you. ![]()
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