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Color Me Beautiful | 
 enlarge | Author: Carole Jackson
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 42863
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Rei
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0345345886
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7
EAN: 9780345345882
ASIN: 0345345886
Publication Date: April 12, 1987
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Condition: Paperback. Minimal wear to cover. Some pages show wear.
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Product Description
Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages you can cut out to carry when you shop!
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A good standard reference, helpful and meaningful advice November 11, 2008
paige daniels (Pittsburgh PA)
As a middle-aged transgendered woman, I know I do not fit the standard reader. But I found this book immensely helpful in discerning subtle color issues I had been guessing at. Ms. Jackson speaks to the reader in a quiet yet directive way, guiding the decisions to find colors best suited in clothing, hair and make-up. This book exceeded my expectations in providing nonjudgmental guidance toward understanding my own coloration and to developing a "feel" for my true color nature. I recommend this book to anyone who feels challenged by all the palettes and textures and cuts available in today's world. Though written years ago, her sensibility toward style seems timeless. I got lost a couple of times in her wording, but realized I was just needing to reread to get her meaning. I felt very empowered by this book and believe other inexperienced girls like myself will be as well.
Best wishes,
paige
 Eighties Flashback Good For Laughs May 3, 2008
G. Zanders (California)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is truly a weird book. Are you winter, spring, summer, or fall? Carole Jackson, with a Dorothy Hamill haircut in evidence, proceeds to group women into one four seasons, each with its own rigid color palette. Do you wear black? Forget it unless you're a "winter". Redheads(falls) can only wear olive green, orange, or yellow. Yikes! Try to figure out what season you are. It's not always clear, which seems a bit flawed. This seemed to have a fair amount of marketing involved. I think they had their own makeup line at one time. Anyway, it's good for a few laughs. I think most adults know what colors look good on them, and what you feel the best in.
This book takes me back January 24, 2008
Amy Geisen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book. My grandmother gave me this book when I was about 10 or so. She had it and thought I might be interested. I looked at this book so many times when I was a teenager that it eventually fell apart. I know I am a cool, but I have never been absolutely sure which season I am, but I love this book for many reasons. Even though it is way before my time (I am only 27), it still has a lot of cool tricks and ideas for boosting your skin tone. The color guides for each season are very helpful as well. It gives a very specific list of colors for each. This book is a great reference for determining a color palette that works for your coloring. In response to another comment, I agree color choices are largely based on instinct and emotional response. However, I have found that a lot of the colors I am naturally drawn to are suitable colors for a cool complexion. Try this book. It is really cheap and has a lot of good information. Trends, styles and looks change throughout the years, but it still is a great resource for putting together a cohesive and complimentary look. Hey, a lot of things from the eighties are coming back!!
Still relevant after all these years ... December 19, 2007
ImpatientReader.com (the West)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
[***** = breathtaking, **** = excellent, *** = good, ** = flawed, * = bad]
Well, you may laugh and think of this book as too-1980s! (I think it's first date of publication was 1981.) But unlike big hair and shoulder-pads, this method of determining one's personal colors stands the test of time. (The actual styles recommended in the wardrobe section are outdated, but the color information and photographs make up for this.)
Basically there's four color-groupings named after the four seasons. To find out which group you fall into, have a good look at the color of your hair and eyes. Also, try putting a white sheet of paper under your wrist for a neutral background while you determine whether or not you have a blue- or a gold-undertone to your skin.
This works for all ethnic groups, which are dispersed fairly evenly across the four groupings. What works for your sister or mother might not work for you. Once you're familiar with the color diagnosing you can always use it to help the men in your life shop.
Winters and Summers have a blue-undertone to their skin and look good in silver-toned jewelry. Winters look good in deep, clear colors like black, navy-blue, true red, and pure white. Summers get a lot of blue-gray and rose tones. Autumns and Springs have a gold-undertone to their skin and look good in gold-toned jewelry. Autumns look good in earth tones, and Springs get a lot of off-white, ivory, and pastel.
I'm simplifying greatly; it's best to have a look at the photographs in the book which are amazingly convincing. Especially the ones that have the models dressed in the "right" and "wrong" colors so you can see the difference. Don't bother to buy the hideously expensive color-swatches offered separately from the book as an aid to on-the-spot shopping: the excellent photographs are good enough.
 Great Advice! October 25, 2007
Silvia (Seattle, WA USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I learned a ton from this book, there are plenty of great advices and tips that really help. If you also want to look super sexy check out this book - How to be a Super Hot Woman: 339 Tips to Make Every Man Fall in Love with You and Every Woman Envy You Simple tools, straightforward advice, real women, a great read!
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