Color Me Beautiful by Carole Jackson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Color Me Beautiful
Book Review: Time saver
Summary: 4 Stars
Many years ago I found the book Color Me Beautiful to be helpful with shopping for clothing for myself and others especially saving time during the holidays.
I use mostly the color charts as a guide to reduce time when determining
what item of clothes to purchase based on the season of that person's skin tone.
This used book was delivered in a timely manner as a gift and I was told it was in good plus, plus condition.
Book Review: Timeless Info
Summary: 4 Stars
I ordered this book after reading an article about clothing colors. It's as good as the first time.Book Review: Timeless advice on looking your best
Summary: 5 Stars
This book provides a systematic approach to determining which colors will look best an individual, based primarily on the skin tone. The sketches of clothing used to illustrate the book and the names of celebrities referenced in the text are indeed dated, but the content is timeless.
I bought this book in the '80s, and lent it to someone who never returned it. I just bought a second copy, and find it just as useful now as I did then. Every woman I know has many items of clothing that she likes very much, but which sit unworn in the closet or dresser drawer. Why? Often it's because the color is all wrong for her, making her look sallow or washed out. CMB will help you avoid these costly mistakes.
Book Review: Useful but Outdated
Summary: 3 Stars
Color Me Beautiful was written in the 80's, bearing that in mind, the book is decent. It offers the basic color pallettes for the Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn seasons and helps you determine with season is yours. It offers basic wardrobe information and ways to help you organize your closet and shop for clothes that fit your body type. However, while reading this book, one must keep in mind that the tips are from the 80's. If you want a more modern book, this isn't for you. If you know how to take this information and turn it into more modern advice, then this is a great deal. If you are going to purchase this book new, rather than used, I would say you can find better more up-to-date books for the prices. However, if you purchase it used, it is a very nifty books that you can get some basic color analysis information from and save you a bit of money.Book Review: WOW...This book is very true!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book by Carole Jackson. Yes, it "seems" outdated and a little zany but if you give it a shot, I PROMISE this book will work for you!
I'm 20 years old and I first encountered this book when I was in the eigth grade. I am a brown skinned black female and I used to think what looked amazing was golds, browns, generally warm-tones, like the Autumn of the seasons. And, you know what, I used to have issues with my cosmetics, eyeshadow in particular. There would be days when the golds or browns I wore looked TERRIBLE!
Long story short, I discovered I was a winter. She is usually the black woman anyway, except my mother who is a pale-skinned Autumn (she looks ghastly in cool tones). A winter wears jewel tones (think of precious stones such as emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, rubies), pure whites and jet blacks, beautiful pastels, "shocking" and icy pinks, magentas, plums, bright burgundies, mauves... Can you tell I'm excited? :)
Also, many makeup artists out there like to put golds, coppers, browns, etc. on black women like me when, according to Ms. Jackson, MOST black women are cool-toned winters. Note: we shine in purples, pinks, berries, etc., people! :)
If you don't trust the accuracy of this book, then think of "Designing Women": Julia and Suzanne were winters, Charlene was a Summer, and Mary-Jo was an Autumn. They all were dressed BEAUTIFULLY on the show because the colors they wore flattered their natural coloring!
Ms. Jackson's book is neatly put together, although you might want to use a little caution with the color swatches in the book; sometimes publishing can alter the pages. There are absolutely beautiful illustrations throughtout (maybe I'm just a geek :P) and pictures of real women in correct palettes and WRONG palettes--the difference is astounding!
Bottomline: IF you ever sat in the mirror and wondered why, like me, that gold eye shadow never seems to look "quite right", you should really grab this book and figure out your season! (You're probably a winter or summer!)