Jackson Carole - Color me beautiful : discover your natural beauty through the colors that make you look great & feel fabulous!

Please note: Every effort has been made to provide accurate color in the color section of this book. However, because portable devices and computers may have limitations in rendering colors accurately, certain discrepancies are inevitable. Therefore, the color samples in this book should be used only as a guideline. Also, some devices may not be able to render color images. Please check your portable device manual for further details.

For further information on clothing personality, see ART AND FASHION IN CLOTHING SELECTION by Harriet T. McJimsey, Second Edition 1973 by the Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa 50010.

All models appearing in Color Me Beautiful were photographed by David Neely, Photo Concepts.

A special thanks to
Dorothy Douse and Frances Roller for appearing in Color Me Beautiful.

All other models in Color Me Beautiful are from The Model Store, Washington, D.C.

Katie Brown
Trena Brown
Margaret Connelly
Barbara Evans
Betsy Farley
Colleen Gaschen
Mary Heron
Pam Harris
Jennifer Klouman
Terri Moller
Holly ODell
Lisa Sanders
Kim Shanahan
Maura Shea
Laurie Solow
Susan Volk

Make-up and Hair Styling by Susan Volk

A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright 1980 by Acropolis Books Ltd.
Revisions copyright 1984 by Carole Jackson
All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, Canada.

Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-28456
eISBN: 978-0-307-80451-8
This edition published by arrangement with Acropolis Books Ltd.

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First Ballantine Books Edition: April 1981
Revised Ballantine Books Edition: September 1985

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This book has been fun to write. Everyone became involved, because color is contagious. People all along the chain of creating and promoting Color Me Beautiful, my publishers staff, booksellers and book buyers from Maine to California, are now wearing their colors.

To those who gave their time and talent beyond the call of friendship or a paycheck, I give special thanks. First of all, to my associates in color, Mary Murphy and Sari Martin, who taught our classes in Scarsdale, New York. And then, for reasons they each know best, Winifred A. Adams, Cozy Baker, Bill B., Jeanne Brodsky, Andy Cella, Suzanne Greene, Kathleen Hughes, Margot Kline, Barbara Moore, Tom and Carla Nankervis, and Sandy Stewart. And especially, to John, for his thoughtful input, sensitivity, and friendship, and to Alec and Megan, for their enthusiasm and helpfulness from start to finish.

It is with equal gratitude that I acknowledge the women (and men) who have taken my classes and shared with me the joy of finding their colors.

WHEN I WAS A YOUNG GIRL, I WANTED SO MUCH TO BE PRETTY. Studying myself in the mirror, I saw a pale, colorless face and decided that I really wasnt pretty at all. While the powder blue uniform required at my school made some of the girls look great, it did nothing for me. It in fact made me look gray, dull, and lifeless. The color of that daily uniform robbed me of some potentially good feelings about myself well into adult life.

Discovering lipstick and blush as a teenager brought me instant life, but it was not until years later that I discovered the real magic of color. MY colors the missing link to finding my best self.

After having my coloring analyzed by a professional color consultant, I found that I do not look pale and lifeless after allas long as I wear a color (the right blue, for example) that brings out the glow of my natural coloring. As I began wearing only the colors that were right for me, I started receiving compliments all the time. My colors had such an impact on my life that I wanted to share this exciting concept with others. You have special colors, too.

Each of us has a unique skin tone. Finding the colors that best complement this tone brings out our special beauty. I have seen many women literally come to life with radiance and new-found self-confidence as they discover their colors.

Perhaps you have never thought much about color, but I promise you that color has more impact than you ever imagined! Artists have studied its secrets and use them to make their masterpieces come alive. The worlds most beautiful womenand menhave discovered its power to make the world regard them with awe.

Why do you picture Elizabeth Taylor in vivid, clear colorsroyal blue, emerald greenand Candice Bergen in pastels? Why did your friend look fabulous on Monday, yet why did you walk right past her on Tuesday without saying hello because you didnt notice her? Why do you always reach for that certain dress in your own closet?

The answer is color.

Six years ago, after formal study of color and its application to clothing, makeup, and hair, I set up classes to teach women of all ages how to put themselves together from head to toe using their colors as the foundation. Over the years these classes have been refined, and they are the basis for this book.

At these Color Me Beautiful classes, we analyze each clients coloring, give her a packet of fabric swatches in her color palette, and teach her how to use them as a guide for shopping and looking beautiful. We spend one session on individual makeup, another on hair, one on personality and style, and one on wardrobe planning.

In our classrooms we use the seasons to describe people. For just as nature has divided herself into four distinct seasons, Autumn, Spring, Winter, and Summer, each with its unique and harmonious colors, your genes have given you a type of coloring that is most complemented by one of these seasonal palettes.

The Autumn is the woman who radiates in the warm, rich colors of fall, with their golden undertones, as crisp and colorful as the October leaves. The Spring woman blossoms in clear, delicate colors with warm yellow undertones, like the first daffodil that blooms each spring. The Winter woman sparkles in the vivid, clear primary colors, and cool, icy colors, like a glittering snowflake. And Summer glows in the pastels of June, the soft colors of the sea and sky, with their cool, blue undertones.