An incredibly rubbish combination
Definition of ‘genetics’ – The branch of biology that deals with heredity, especially the mechanisms of hereditary transmission and the variation of inherited characteristics among similar or related organisms
What season your mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, or your great-aunt Ethelreda was – is not a foolproof guide as to what season you will be.
In fact it’s utter nonsense.
For instance:
- My father is a Winter, my Mum was a Winter->Spring, my sister is a Summer, my brother is an Autumn, and I am a Winter
- My father’s eyes are blue. My mother’s eyes were green. My sister’s eyes are blue/grey. My brother’s eyes are green/grey. And my eyes are green/blue
- The only physical attribute we have in common is that we all have naturally dark brown hair, but we have different shades and tones of dark brown hair
- My sister and I inherited my Mum’s turned-up nose while my brother inherited my father’s distinctive Bolsover nose. In fact, he’s a dead ringer for my Dad but is still a completely different season
- My sister and brother inherited my father’s sparrow legs while I have my Mum’s chubby little thighs
- I could go on and tell you about my flame-haired maternal grandmother but I think you’ve got the drift now…
Identical Twins
However, I will tell you about identical twins who once modelled for me, hundreds of years ago and before I understood any of the above.
I had known the twins for around 10 years (since they were about 5) when I was asked to run a charity colour fashion show at a local school.
They were utterly beautiful girls. Their father was Italian and they had inherited his Mediterranean dark eyes and curly darkest-brown hair. And for ten years no-one I knew, apart from their mother, had ever been able to tell them apart. They loved to wear the same clothes and I reckon they did that just to cause even more confusion.
For no other reason than wanting to present a tremendous colour impact down the final catwalk, I dressed them both in custard yellow and then got a real shock.
One of them (and to this day I have no idea which one) looked absolutely ghastly and, yet, she told me that she’d never felt better. Quite frankly, one of the teachers was on the point of asking if there was a doctor in the house; the poor girl looked so bad.
I was pretty amazed at the grey pallor of the poor darling because the other sister looked perfectly wonderful.
So, I did what all good colour consultants do when faced with confusion and chaos, I got out my drapes and discovered, to my total amazement, that the sister who looked fantastic in custard yellow was an Autumn and the sister who didn’t was a Winter.
Yes, I know, I had committed the cardinal sin of assuming that they would be exactly the same season…
But I was young, it was hundreds of years ago, and I didn’t know any better because I had blindly believed all those so-called experts who told me that genetics played a huge part in which season family members will be.
Big mistake! And one that I have never repeated since because if I have one good quality, it’s that I learn from my mistakes.
Gosh I could write a whole book about colour analysis techniques that have been tried and just don’t work – at all.
We covered more than 20 of them on the Advanced Colour Analysis Training Day so they’re all there, captured on video and in the course notes too, ready for your delectation.
