[.ca] Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup ... (ISBN 1568330375)

So confused!:
I am one of the women who is suppose to find this book helpful because I do not neatly fall into one of the four seasons ....my mother thinks I am a summer, my hairdresser thinks I am a Spring, my husband says I am an autumn. So I buy this book and now I am more confused then ever! The authors use terms they do not define such as muted or topaz, terms which are critical to me being able to sort out my season confusion. Then they suggest I use "color draping" by grabbing clothes or even towels from around the house that match obscure and subtle color differences. Ah, I do not have a "mango" and "salmon" towels or at least I do not think I do. It is hard to tell since the color swatches in the book are as bad as everyone else complains they are. On the up side, I have reread the book four times and really want to like it but I still have NO idea what colors would suit me. Bottom line...do not buy this book.

Good, but Limited in Scope:
This book has some really great advice, and innovative use of color, but the season types are somewhat ambiguous. Too career-oriented for some. (What if you're not an office worker?) It's probably a fantastic book for the career woman who wants to make her wardrobe a tool in her work, and her life. It's got good *basic* advice on style. It's got great advice on helping you look your best, and apply it to your job to project a competent image. It's an image consultant - just one that won't give you one-on-one personal feedback. For women who are not career women, like me, it's not as useful. (Do stay at home moms need image consultants? Why the heck not!? We want to look good, too!) Even though the focus is on careers in this book, there's good advice, and I recommend it.

Color me with wax crayons!:
Ok if your short on cash buy the original Color me beautiful book. For many of my friends and I who felt that we were torn between two palettes, the expansions did not really clear things up for us... The color palettes really are an embarrassment! whos 3year old colored the squares for the coauthors? This IS a book on color so if you are real torn see the original book ok its dated in fashon but really does a much better job in the color department. As for the makeup section it stinks. I don't agree with their suggestions for eye makeup and eyeliner for alot of people... The best book on makeup is Carole Jackson's color me beautiful make up book... nothing comes close except a professional makeup artists manual I have. Bottom line, stick to Carole Jackson's books for the best information.

Color Me With Confusion!:
I have NEVER been able to figure out my "season" with either Carole Jackson's Book, or with this one by Mary Spillane. I do not fit into any of the categories they suggest ,even though the seasons are expanded in Spillane's book. (I have ashen blonde hair color like a Summer, olive green/golden brown eyes like an Autumn, and pale translucent ivory skin , like a Spring). The color palletes look like coloring book swatches that were done by a five year old (what are we supposed to gain from that !) Overall a huge disappointment, and only helpful purhaps to those who have well defined seasonal characteristics. For the rest of us, I would suggest basing your color choices on compliments you get from friends and family, and even strangers, and taking your clues from them.

Color Me Thrilled:
I've always had so much trouble picking out the right clothes, makeup, accessories, etc. I'd buy a blouse, and then I'd notice that people were always giving me the cold shoulder whenever I wore it. Or I'd get some new slacks that I though were totally killer, and then I'd notice people dissing me wherever I went. My self-esteem was plummeting and my closet was just stuffed to capacity as I kept making more and more purchases that ended up driving people to reject me. So when the gals at the office bought me this book for my birthday, at first I though they were just making fun of me. But then later that night I settled down to read this book, and I finished it a new woman! It's like Mary Spillane and Christine Sherlock reached directly into my soul and found the problem. You see... it doesn't matter if I've got on a green blouse or a coral one... \oit's\c just not the right color... But Mary & Christine showed me the way out of my dilemma in their chapter entitled "Color Me Successful." I went right out the next day and bought kojic acid, hydroquinone, hydrogen peroxide, and Revlon Skinlights foundation in Purest Ivory. A few weeks later, goodbye dark skin, hello success!!!!