What is the best thing you can do when you don t have a thing to wear? What's the secret ingredient that can instantly improve the way you look and feel? It's simple--discover your personal colors! America's color guru Leatrice Eiseman will show you how in her fun and practical new book, More Alive with Color! Here Lee will introduce you to her original, easy-to-follow "Color Clock" system-- the quick way to find and use the colors that reflect your personal style and transform the way you look. Based on the colors of your eyes, hair and skin and your psyche--discover your personal range of beautiful colors in Leatrice's "colortimes": Sunrise with the sparkling jewel tones of dawn, Sunlight with the soft pastels and fruit shades of noon, or Sunset with the fiery hues that mellow into dusk. Then add those natural yet practical Crossover colors to expand your wardrobe without breaking your budget. She will show you how to pull your wardrobe together with your personal colors - which are sexy, which are powerful for interviews and such; which accessories will magnify your personal style; and which cosmetic and hair colors will make your skin glow and flatter your natural coloring.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Little detail:
This book simplifies the rules of personal color analysis by dividing between warm, cool, and combination (muted warm/cool), however, you still have to determine the best colors for you. Also, only general advice on which makeup colors go with complexion and eye color.
More alive with color and much smarter too:
This is the best book I have read on color so far. As an artist and a person interested in fashion it has helped me considerably. It is a leap beyond Color Me Beautiful.
Everyone Needs This Book:
More Alive With Color: Personal Colors-Personal Style By Leatrice Eiseman is the second book by the world-renowned color authority who helps people and businesses feel alive by choosing the right colors for their look and mood and for the image they want to create. In this book Ms. Eiseman has made it very simple and fascinating for every person, no matter what his or her skin color or nationality, to create their own very best looks. Instead of choosing colors by season, as was the classification in the... more info
Pretty Pictures, Ugly Colors:
As advertised, "More Alive With Color" makes it easy to find your, um, time of day. Of course it's easy: Eiseman's basic advice is, "If you're not a Sunrise or a Sunset, you're a Sunlight." This slap-dash, half-baked method makes sure you can categorize yourself, as long as you don't mind wearing colors that look hideous on you. Eiseman's method is just as limited as that of her primary target, Carole Jackson, the author of the original, "seasonal" color system, "Color Me Beautiful". While some of us... more info
