Client Case Study: Deep Winter Monique
Meet Monique, our gorgeous Rise Styling Color Kit: Digital Edition client! At first glance, one might assume her skin has a warm undertone. She is a perfect example of this essential fact: undertones and overtones are two separate things! Monique has a cool undertone, and a warm overtone.
Without thorough comparison of photos taken in controlled conditions and standardized materials, an app or inexperienced analyst could easily put Monique into the wrong season. She’d be missing out on the fullest expression of her unique beauty that aligns with the Winter season.
She’d be wearing colors from a wrong palette, wondering why she doesn’t feel great in them.
She’s be blaming herself for looking tired, feeling dissatisfied with her wardrobe, and spending money on clothes she doesn’t want to wear.
Scroll on to see EXACTLY what we saw in her analysis. Remember, never draw conclusions based on a single color. Proper color analysis identifies complexion patterns and season correlations through repeated, systematic comparisons:
Throughout every image set, Spring looks off balance, Summer is too pale and weak, Autumn is mostly too drab - with one exception: Aubergine in the purple set. Not only does that reveal Winter through the process of elimination, but we can see that Winter is the most supportive and cohesive.
When I see a Winter who can handle a little bit of complexity (like Aubergine), the inkiest deep tones (like Bitter Chocolate in the brown set), and goes ruddy only when the colors are overtly warm (like Tangerine and Terracotta in the orange set), we can form a hypothesis that she is a Deep Winter.
We then take a look at the deepest colors in Winter and check for a WOW factor. Here is Monique in a few of the Deep Winter colors:
Enough said. Her inner spotlight is switched ALL THE WAY on, with no shadowing, texture emphasis, or division in the complexion.
Deep Winters are Winters through and through (not part-Autumns!), and shine in any combination of Winter colors they choose. The magic of the Deep Winter colors comes into play when Monique chooses them for a high-impact, solid-colored piece such as an evening gown, jumpsuit, winter coat, or matching workout set. These are her one-and-done colors that will serve her with undying devotion for life.
Here are a handful of resources Monique has to guide her Deep Winter color journey:
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