Colour Yourself Fabulous

What you are about to discover in ‘Colour Yourself Fabulous’ is exactly how I started my own career as a professional image consultant over 40 years ago.

In fact, this is how the whole delicious colour analysis industry started in the UK back in 1980. You see, I just happened to be in the right town at the right time.

I was bored to tears with my corporate job and looking desperately for something else that would make me feel good and would also make excellent use of my innate teaching skills.

So I answered an advert to sell ‘colour-coded’ cosmetics. It was the answer to my prayers. We were taught a simple way to diagnose whether our delectable customers had Cool or Warm colouring. As the make-up range was already split into cool or warm, it was easier and loads more fun for them to choose face, lip, and eye colours that suited their colour direction.

Our customers went bananas over this. They loved the whole concept. They couldn’t get enough and wanted to know more.

We realized that what we were teaching about make-up applied just as easily to buying clothes, jewellery, accessories, and even with choosing the right hair colour. So I set off on a personal quest to find out everything I could about colour.

You have to remember that there weren’t any professional image consultant training courses back then. So we all met up and tried to work things out together. Quite frankly we were pretty rubbish and made loads of mistakes.

Take me, for example. In a moment of confused madness, my daft colleagues decided I would look best in Warm colours and, for a while, I frightened the life out of the local population by waltzing around in pale peach and tan! It’s a wonder that nobody keeled over as I have the Coolest colouring on the planet and look like death warmed up in Warm tones.

Understanding that I have Cool colouring, and what to wear to make myself look and feel fabulous, literally saved my life.

Up to that point, I had been destined for a life of mediocrity, of being a reserved wallflower that no-one noticed and everyone talked over. I kid you not.

When I discovered that I look ruddy gorgeous in Cool colours, I immediately started to become more and more confident. And now, you see this diva before you! I can talk to anyone. I give talks and run training courses, both on and offline. No-one intimidates me. Men open doors for me (and God help them if they don’t). Women respect me. And, most importantly, I love, respect, and approve of myself.

Don’t ever underestimate the power of colour for it has the ability to change lives.

There weren’t any drapes or colour swatches back then either. We had to make our own. We bought half a yard of fabric here and half a yard of fabric there. Then we cut them into shape ourselves with a pair of pinking shears. I even made my own labels to stick on each ‘drape’ using an old Imperial typewriter. I broke more nails on that darned typewriter than I had hot dinners. Ah but… halcyon days!

The method of colour analysis we learned over 40 years ago was so simple and straight forward that I still use it to this day.

In fact, Cool and Warm forms the basis of everything I teach at a professional level, and always will.

This is your chance to learn too.

Course Author

Kim Bolsover