More Alive with Color: Personal Colors - Personal Style

by Leatrice Eiseman

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.

Genres: Fashion, Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Leatrice Eiseman is an American color specialist, who assists companies in their color choice in a range of areas, including packaging, logos, and interior design.

Eiseman holds a degree in psychology from Antioch University, and a counseling certificate from UCLA. She has studied and taught in the fields of fashion and interior design. She is an allied member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Fashion Group International, and has received a prestigious service award from the Color Marketing Group.[2] She also selects the 10 top fashion colors twice yearly for Pantone and Women’s Wear Daily.

Reviews

[MB (What she read) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically this is just the 'Seasons' color system stripped down to 3 types rather than 4. You have the choice of icy shades, warm tones, or an in-between range. It's a little easier to understand and more inclusive, so if the old 80's Seasons always confused you, this should be simpler to understand. The Pantone(tm) color charts were a nice touch! Lots of photographs illustrate the concepts.

It struck me as a Business Seminar expanded to a book, which is not necessarily a bad thing, (and you don't have to pay for the seminar).

[Lia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing exciting here. I felt the colour groups simplistic.