Once you’ve had a colour analysis consultation, you’ll make fewer mistakes by shopping for colours that you know flatter your physical features.
Using your swatches
Armed with your fabric swatches, you’ll be keen to find a colour ‘match’. One thing worth noting is your swatches are made from cotton, so the colour will look different on garments made from different fabrics. What this means in practice is that the colour isn’t ‘wrong’, but it’s unlikely to be an identical ‘match’.
By way of an example, this jacket is pretty much the same as the ‘claret’ in my ‘soft’ dominant swatches. But, it’s not an identical ‘match’ to the cotton swatch, because it’s not cotton – but it’s almost the same! A ‘warm’ client matching her swatches in cotton and cotton blended tops.
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- Barbour Jacket
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- Match to ‘claret’ in my ‘soft’ dominant swatches
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- “Warm’ client matching her swatches
The three elements of colour are explained during your colour analysis and you can apply this knowledge to your clothes. If you make your own, it applies to your fabric.
If you’re looking for inspiration on combining your colours together, revisit this video.
Introducing Kettlewell Colours
Kettlewell Colours are in the South West of England and offer a choice of over 300 coloured garments. They’re a great source if you’re shopping for a specific colour. As a registered Colour Stylist, you can shop using my links/discount codes, and I’ll receive a payment from them when you do.
Clothes are categorised by seasons; spring, summer, autumn and winter and tonal direction; light, deep, warm, cool, clear and soft.
With a tonal colour analysis, you’ll have a ‘dominant’ colouring type (one of six with 24 possible categories), rather than one of four seasons. Your refined palette of colours include your ‘sub-dominant’ colouring types which compliment your overall physical features (hair colour, eye colour, skin tone).
Whilst I’ve covered how to find your colours previously, they’ve revamped their website which changes how you find your colours.
How to shop for your colours on Kettlewell from August 2024 onwards
In this video, I’m sharing three ways to search for your colours. Watch it on YouTube here.