What is Personal Color Analysis?
Color Analysis is a a mode of selecting colors that harmonize with your natural coloring, personality and energy. Traditional color theories combined with color harmonies found in nature set the foundation for this uniquely personal window into yourself, one in which you will see yourself in a whole new way.
What is a Color Harmony?
Color harmonies refer to aesthetically pleasing color combinations that evoke visually, mentally, and emotionally pleasing responses. Wearing and surrounding yourself by colors that create harmonies with your innate nature puts you one step closer to success in any area of life!
A Shades by Sarah color session is rooted in the highly detailed and scientific color system created by Susan Caygill in the 1940’s. Susan Caygill was a designer and artist who discovered similarities between a person’s hair, skin, eyes, personality - and color harmonies found in nature. Through decades of study and thousands of palettes, her system refined itself into the most detailed and accurate tool set for consultants and stylists to this day.
Colors are perceived by rods in the eyes and immediately interpreted by the brain. Different hues and hues in combination with other hues fire off chemicals in the hypothalamus. Pleasing combinations invoke calming, joyful responses, while disharmonious combinations can have the opposite affect, or mask emotions entirely. The results of walking around ‘in harmony’ vs ‘not in harmony’ are seemingly subtle, yet lasting and profound.
“Color is a Power which Directly Influences the Soul”
— Wassily Kandinsky