Know your color profile

During a shopping session with Elora, the makeover unfolds in several steps.

It all starts with analyzing your body shape, to wisely choose the essentials for your wardrobe and enhance your style according to your silhouette and personality.

Then comes a crucial step: studying your color profile, to determine which shades suit you best and will brighten up your look.

How do you find out your color profile?

A woman's color profile is established by analyzing her natural features: her skin type and complexion (in other words: her skin tone), her eye color, and her hair shade.

These three elements help determine if your profile is mainly:

• warm or cool
• light or dark
• soft or contrasted.

What are the basics of color analysis?

Color analysis is so much more than just a collection of colors arranged on a wheel... It's your personal guide to a unique and harmonious style! Think of it as a treasure or a magical map.

Color analysis aims to determine a chosen, organized set of colors to create a flattering, personalized, and balanced visual effect.

1. The Color Wheel: The Theoretical Foundation

   • This is the reference color wheel (red, yellow, blue, and all their blends). It reveals the secrets of how warm and cool tones interact:

     • It highlights which colors are naturally warm (those that evoke the sun: yellow, orange) and which are cool (those that remind you of the ocean and sky: blue, green).

     • It shows you the complementary colors (those that contrast and enhance each other, like red, green, or purple, for a vibrant look!).

2. Your Personal Color Palette: The Ultimate Guide

   • This is the most exciting part! Image consulting (color analysis) acts like a personalized color selector, revealing your natural beauty type.

   • This range, unique to you, brings together all the shades that make you say every time: "Wow, this color lights me up!"

In short, it's the essential tool to master the power of color, whether you're creating a striking design or dressing with dazzling confidence. It's the art of making colors sing together! 

Why do we talk about "seasons"?

After analyzing your skin, eyes, and hair, we determine your ideal color range, often called your "season". There are four profiles inspired by the seasons: Spring woman, Summer woman, Autumn woman, and Winter woman.

Making the right choice will help you look radiant, refreshed, and full of energy.

The most common method is the four seasons approach, often further refined into twelve seasons for greater precision. What does that mean?

How does color analysis apply to clothing? Is it true that ELORA's Fashion Consultants are color analysis experts?

Have you ever done a color analysis test to discover your own ideal palette?

Color analysis is an essential tool, mastered by Elora's Fashion Consultants, so they can guide you personally and expertly towards the clothes that will make you shine. They're encouraged to use this expertise to turn a simple sale into a true image coaching session. It's a fantastic added value!

• An Image Consulting Approach: Elora's Fashion Consultants (who often work in home or digital sessions) are trained to offer a complete image consulting service, including color analysis.

• A Tool to Enhance: The brand's goal is to support clients in their fashion choices by highlighting their figure and colors to boost their confidence. Color analysis is therefore an integral part of their consulting mission.

• Ongoing Training: Elora provides personalized support and regular training to its Fashion Consultants, helping them develop their skills—including these styling techniques.

Let's dive into the wonderful world of color analysis for clothing!

Color Analysis for Clothing: Your Secret to a Healthy Glow

Applying color analysis to clothing is very practical and brings spectacular benefits: it gives you an instant glow!

 

Once you've found your season, your ideal color palette gives you golden rules for choosing your outfits:

 This is the key step. Several tests can help:

• The vein test: Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist in natural light.

  • If they look more blue-violet, you probably have a cool undertone (Winter or Summer).

  • If they appear more greenish, you have a warm undertone (Spring or Autumn).

• The jewelry test: Hold both silver and gold jewelry close to your face, one after the other.

  • If silver brightens your complexion, you’re probably a cool season.

  • If gold suits you best, you have a warm season.

• Observing your complexion:

  • Cool complexion: Tends to blush easily, undertones of blue, olive-grey, or pink.

  • Warm complexion: Golden, peach, honey, or copper undertones; tans easily.

The art of Draping

A very reliable tip, often used by image consultants, is draping (or the fabric test). This involves placing different pure-colored fabrics (warm, cool, light, dark, vibrant, soft) under your face, without makeup and in natural light, to observe concretely:

• Colors that brighten the complexion, soften dark circles, and minimize skin imperfections.

• Colors that dull the skin, accentuate shadows, and harden features.

Once your season is determined, you have a palette of ideal colors for your outfits, makeup, and accessories (silver/gold jewelry).

And for those who can't live without black?

Black, although universally seen as an elegant and versatile color, doesn't suit everyone in color analysis. Here's what you need to know:

Black: a bold and contrasting color

• It belongs to the neutral shades, but it's also a very intense color that creates strong contrast.

• It is therefore ideal for "Winter" profiles, who are enhanced by cool, contrasting colors.

• For others (Spring, Summer, Autumn), it can harden features, dull the complexion, or create visual imbalance, especially when worn close to the face.

Alternatives according to your season

• Spring: opt for warm brown, navy blue, or golden beige.

• Summer: choose pearl gray, pastel blue, or powder pink.

• Autumn: go for chocolate, khaki, ochre, or rust.

• Winter: alternate with midnight blue or charcoal gray to vary the contrasts.

  Tip: If you love black but it doesn't flatter you, wear it preferably on your lower half (pants, skirt, shoes, or boots) and balance the overall effect with accessories or makeup in your ideal colors.

And that's the magic of color analysis!

Once your Season is revealed, you know your profile and have a truly personalized tool in your hands to enhance your appearance.

By choosing colors that suit you, based on their warm or cool tones, you enhance your complexion, eyes, and hair with harmony and radiance. No more random purchases: every ready-to-wear piece becomes an ally, every accessory the perfect finishing touch. 

This isn't just another color theory—it's a simple, playful, and powerful approach to reveal your natural style and shine every day!