We see how important it is to use your skintone to see what colours work best for you

Sussexworld Editor Katherine went to see Micheala at her Sussex House of Colour studio to see how this could help her colour choices

Transcript

00:00 Hiya, I'm Catherine from Sussex World. I'm here with Michaela Sargent. I'm having a colour analysis session today.

00:07 She's teaching me all about the colour wheel which you can see behind me.

00:11 First up will kind of be what to work out which seasonal colour I am, so the right colour palette for my skin tone,

00:18 whether I'm a warm or cool tone, whether I'm autumn, spring, summer or winter.

00:23 I'm really interested to see how that then impacts the decisions I make on what clothes I buy.

00:29 And how it's going to help me look my best, which is going to be great. I'm really excited.

00:33 Hi, my name is Michaela. I am a colour and image consultant based in Horsham, West Sussex.

00:40 Colour analysis is a process where we discover your best optimum seasonal palette.

00:46 It's spring, summer, autumn or winter and it's all to do with the way that our melanin

00:52 is formed and the way that this radiates through.

00:55 Ultimately meaning that you will either have a more blue undertone or more yellow undertone.

01:00 And what happens at colour analysis is we use some drapes, which you can see here on the stand.

01:06 We use a selection of drapes to identify firstly whether you are warm or cool.

01:13 So whether you are in the top half of the wheel either being an autumn or a spring or

01:17 in the bottom half being either a winter or a summer.

01:20 And then the second part of the draping is figuring out what season you are.

01:25 Each season has its different features and characteristics, which we talk about a lot during the session

01:31 so that you leave with a knowledge of how you then can apply your season, your season colours

01:37 to your shopping and your wardrobe and how you then go about applying that knowledge.