The Analysis Process

 

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If you say YES! Let's do it!... here's how it works:

Joy Overstreet, Portland's professional color analyst. ColorStylePDX.com

An analysis in process

We begin the 2-1/2 to 3-hour consultation with an assessment of your body and facial structure, your personality and style preferences. Simple draping analyses rarely take these important aspects of who you are into the equation! Next, I determine:

  • Your contrast levels
  • Whether you look best in saturated, tinted, muted, toasted or shaded hues.
  • Color temperatures and exact hues of your skin, eyes and hair. (Many people are a mix of  "warm" "neutral" and "cool,” which is why simple color tools often fall short. We find a middle ground to harmonize your color qualities.)

Based on this overview we begin to co-create your custom palette, color stick by color stick. You get to check every choice in a hand-held mirror, seeing for yourself how different colors enhance or sabotage your looks. In a virtual analysis this is impossible.

Because there's great variability within each Season, from cooler & lighter to darker & warmer, in the Caygill system we have SIX base palettes per season (24 total), but even then, no one gets a boiler-plate palette.

Finally we discuss how to use your palette:

  • Express your seasonal harmony in specific ways of combining colors and using line, shape, texture, prints.
  • Choose colors with intention to convey a particular message: power? approachability? drama? romance? credibility?
  • Makeup and hair color tips (since the pandemic I’m seeing far fewer blondes and more women rocking their gray!)
  • Direct the viewers eye to your best features   
  • Your detailed “user's manual” explains it all, and offers links to other resources.

ColorStyle Analysis Pricing

Individual consultation: What you get...

  • The one-on-one analysis, as detailed above
  • Your permanent shopping companion--a unique  palette of 21+ color sticks (over 100 different luscious fabric swatches), assembled in our California color lab and custom-labeled for you.
  • Shopping with less stress and fewer costly mistakes.
  • A more compact wardrobe: space in the closet and clothes that work well together
  • Understanding how to dress with intention, conveying authenticity and credibility.

For this life-changing tool,  $550. (Extra sticks beyond the first 21 are $12 each). What are you waiting for? Give me a call!

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Double the Fun Discount! Bring a friend, partner, daughter:

  • Mother & daughter with two very different custom Spring palettes. Personal color Joy Overstreet, Portland's personal color analyst

    Daughter-mother, both Springs, but very different

    Two ColorStyle Consultations, done individually in a 5 to 6-hour time slot, for an investment of $995. Save $50 per person, plus you get:

    • The learning and affirmation that comes from watching as the process unfold on someone else
    • Feedback from a friend you trust, and confirmation our color choices are on the right track.
  • Pre-Wedding add-on: For the Bride and her mother (or maid of honor) - help with dress styles, theme colors, etc. Add $95

Other offerings: Informative talks, workshops and classes. I am both flexible and creative.

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