The KonMarie method

GreyQueen

You can try setting yourself up in front of a mirror in daylight and draping different colours around your neck and shoulders, and noting which make your skin and eyes look the best.

Some colours will make you look well and some will make you look drained and ill.

I look well in warm autumn shades and muted sludgy greens, plum, purple and gold. I look like death warmed over in beige or blue. Because my colouring is subtle, very bright shades tend to wear me, rather than the other way around.

Think of what you were wearing when you recieved compliments, particularly if the person said you looked well. Is there a common colour there? What colours are you drawn towards when picking home furnishings, these are also the colours which will suit you as clothes. HTH.

silvasava

A good way of finding out what range of colours suit you is to do as GQ suggests and sit somewhere with clear daylight on your face and use a large piece of tinfoil near your face. If silver goes with your skin tone you will look better in the blue toned colours. If it looks naff & you suit gold then all the yellow toned colours will look better. This is a very simplistic way to determine what suits your skin tone. Once you have decided which suits you best you can use colour paint charts to give you a guide.

bunbun2

GreyQueen wrote: »

You can try setting yourself up in front of a mirror in daylight and draping different colours around your neck and shoulders, and noting which make your skin and eyes look the best.

Some colours will make you look well and some will make you look drained and ill.

I look well in warm autumn shades and muted sludgy greens, plum, purple and gold. I look like death warmed over in beige or blue. Because my colouring is subtle, very bright shades tend to wear me, rather than the other way around.

Think of what you were wearing when you recieved compliments, particularly if the person said you looked well. Is there a common colour there? What colours are you drawn towards when picking home furnishings, these are also the colours which will suit you as clothes. HTH.

Thanks greyqueen I will have a look at the clothes I have...

bunbun2

silvasava wrote: »

A good way of finding out what range of colours suit you is to do as GQ suggests and sit somewhere with clear daylight on your face and use a large piece of tinfoil near your face. If silver goes with your skin tone you will look better in the blue toned colours. If it looks naff & you suit gold then all the yellow toned colours will look better. This is a very simplistic way to determine what suits your skin tone. Once you have decided which suits you best you can use colour paint charts to give you a guide.

Thank you!

maddiemay

Whilst trawling the net to see if I could find colour matching swatches for my colours (no), I found this, it might well help you in conjunction with the advise given so far.

bunbun2

maddiemay wrote: »

Whilst trawling the net to see if I could find colour matching swatches for my colours (no), I found this, it might well help you in conjunction with the advise given so far.

Thank you for that, it looks a good guide and easy to do

mavvymoo

The debate on colour rages on

I will do my best to pick the colour ladies brain in the morning and see if I can get any ideas from her for you all.
I have booked my bra fitting for Friday as well dont often venture in to the big bad city so might as well make the most of it

Everytime my DH see's me on-line he is saying what are you booking now ? A tour of the football ground ? :rotfl:Or maybe a helicopter tour around the City ? :rotfl:Mmm dont think I will bother with the first but the second sounds good:rotfl:

So excited for the morning I really hope it helps me to get to where I need to be. My head is getting clearer about the clothes issue but I still need a bl**dy great shove in the right direction

one more sleep :D Woo

Mav x

Igamogam

Have been on a bit of a roll today - mainly clothes but I opened a box of books and another that as full to brim with photos in shoe boxes and albums - had no intention of touching photos until the winter as its definitely a sit by the fire on a dark evening kinda job ( although my aim is to be KMd by September) had quick whizz through some and managed to weed out some that are of no use or interest and they were chucked on log burner tonight. Also got rid of some books to CS pile ( childrens) and others I will take to work in Sept. AN some empty photo albums and picture frames all to go to CS.

However, biggest achievements have been the clothes........the clothes I thought I had been ruthless with a while back:eek: Now have a bulging large N8xt carrier bag tagged and ready to go to CS : 7 pairs of trousers, 5 shirts/blouses, 3 jumpers/cardis, 4 tunic tops:) I have put all hanging clothes back now - not a capsule wardrobe and no where near 25 items but what is there I will wear either for work or in RL when I channel my inner hippy/boho/lagen - I dont like wide legged, flappy, baggy trousers but I do like the layered up look and as for ripped jeans:rotfl:I have just bought my first pair of ripped jeans having ribbed and amused my DDs for years with my mock horror statement " you paid how much for those jeans/trousers?? They are full of holes":rotfl::rotfl: The trousers I have bought have a tasteful small tear just below the knee:D

I like the colour range of the clothes that are left. I got rid of a cardigan that I hated wearing but couldn't understand why I was hanging on to it then I realised it was the colour.......so look out for the colour but in a different style. Why didn't I think of that before??!

Finished the day with cleaning the bathroom and sorting out last bits in there - guess what a box 'made itself known' and is now being used in bathroom cupboard to store a category of toiletries nice and neatly and all together so we can see what we have:D

iQueen

My goodness! I thought I'd catch up with the messages, before posting. Has everyone taken the day off from work, kondoing and looking after others? Or has The Revolution started? :eek:

I shall be catching up with all your today's posts, for half the day tomorrow!

So, best wishes with [STRIKE]house breaker[/STRIKE], er, sorry, the Image Consultant tomorrow, mav! Can't wait for you pass on what you will be learning! Have fun!

Perhaps, we should all have a whip-round and donate towards the fee? It's good to spread knowledge! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hope everyone is well
Have a lovely day mav.
Not a huge amount planned here. Dh may be having a tooth kondoed but it still appears to have an access near it even after full course of ABs. DS1 is going back to have 2nd treatment on his ingrown toenail. I've been promised to do mils wardrobe again and think today is going to be my only free day. DD3 popped in last night for post and kondoed the codes from some Disney DVDs she collects them for free DVDs. (If anyone else has Disney DVDs check in for codes as 3 are worth a new free DVD)
Watched another comedy DVD last night but I think that's a saver to watch again. I did get another small book read, as they are aimed at young adults I'm aiming to get a bag filled to take back to school with me after summer.