After my divorce twenty years ago I signed up for a dating app. Every day the app’s algorithm would cough up a series of profile photos it thought I’d like. (“Like you, he has a cat.” “Like you, he doesn’t smoke.” Wow. They found my soulmate!) I’d look at each one for no more than […]
As I told my color colleague in LA, Denise Lampron, I am color-greedy. I like having a lot of options in my color palette, even though I mostly use just a few of them in a season. When I saw her palette had about half as many color sticks as I do I was intrigued, […]
As you may well have experienced for yourself, within just a few seconds of meeting a new person our brains make a snap judgment about them. That judgment may change if you spend time with the person, but your initial impression must be overcome by the new evidence. When I ask my color clients what image […]
The Cherry Pie Paradox: The Surprising Path to Diet Freedom and Lasting Weight Loss is sequential process of awareness exercises that puts the reader in the role of curious scientist, seeking to discover and dismantle the counter-productive thoughts, beliefs, habits, and behaviors that have kept them stuck in the yo-yo syndrome. It’s based on Thin Within–the revolutionary anti-diet workshop program I created in 1975 to heal myself forever of a food and diet obsession. During the 1970s it became the leading weight loss program in the San Francisco Bay Area, and aspects of it have been adapted and adopted ever since.
What image do you want to convey to other people? To yourself?Most people want to look more approachable, credible, confident and competent. The right colors will do it
Cheer up by bringing in the joy of color and other sensory pleasures.
Do you have a closet full of clothes in three different sizes? You’re not alone. Seems like the harder you diet, the faster you fall off it, and the pounds come racing back. [For those of you who are wondering how I got off on this tangent, public health is my first love. Decades ago […]
The arrangement of fabric sticks in a personal color palette is very intentional, and guides the person in how best to use each color. This is a guide to that arrangement. The color analysis system originated with Suzanne Caygill in the 1940s.
Challenge: can I make 365 different outfits out of the clothes already in my closet, without buying any new ones in 2020? Could you? A custom color palette makes it easy.
Only 5.5% of the US population is naturally blonde, and yet… Even those who were naturally blonde as children get darker hair (like brown, or even dark brown) as they get older. Nevertheless, by the time American women are middle-aged, thanks to the miracle of bottled chemicals, 50% of us have become blondes (44.5% of […]