SERIES 03. COLOR RESPONSE & THE FACE Observing How Color Changes the Appearance of the Face The same skin can appear more or less red depending on the colors placed nearby. During a personal color analysis, something interesting can happen. The person remains the same, and their skin color has not changed. Yet simply changing […]
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Observing How Color Changes What We See in the Face COCORY JOURNAL 3-1 Color does not change the face itself. But it can influence how we perceive the colors within it. In personal color analysis, different colors are placed close to the face and compared. But what exactly are we observing? Are we looking for
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Seeing Color as Data, Not Just Perception COCORY JOURNAL 02-5 The fact that skin color can be measured numerically is fascinating. We can look at lightness through L*, examine the degree of redness and yellowness through a* and b*, and use b-a to observe the relationship between these two color components. But in an actual
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To Create a Reference Beyond What the Eye Sees In personal color analysis, we observe the relationship between a person and color. Different colors are placed near the face, and we compare how the skin appears beside each one. With one color, the face may appear lighter. With another, redness may become more noticeable or
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SERIES 2. THE SCIENCE OF COLOR One expression appears frequently when people talk about skin color: Olive skin. When a complexion appears slightly greenish, or seems somewhat different from what people commonly think of as reddish or yellowish skin, people often describe it as “olive.” If you look up olive skin online, it is not
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SERIES 02. THE SCIENCE OF COLOR We often describe skin in familiar terms. “It looks bright.”“There is some redness.”“It looks more yellow.” These descriptions seem simple until we try to explain how bright, how red, or how different one person’s skin color is from another’s. The same skin can appear slightly different depending on light
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SERIES 02 — THE SCIENCE OF COLORLooking at color not only through perception, but through data. When we look at someone’s skin, we naturally use words such as: “bright,”“reddish,”“yellow-toned,”or “deep.” These descriptions are not necessarily wrong. The human eye is remarkably capable of noticing differences in skin color. But seeing skin color and measuring skin
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SERIES 01 — RETHINKING PERSONAL COLOR After a personal color analysis, what people tend to remember most are a few particular colors. “This color looks best on you.” “This is your best color.” Finding colors that create strong harmony with the face is certainly an important part of personal color analysis. A color can make
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What One Color Alone Cannot Tell Us In personal color analysis, different colors are placed near the face one after another. This process is often understood as simply finding “colors that suit you.” But what we are actually observing is not the color itself. We are observing what changes in the face when the color
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Color often appears differently depending on what it is placed next to, rather than existing as an isolated visual element. The same color can look more vivid on one day and duller in another space. Even the same garment may appear different under store lighting and in natural daylight. This is not simply because the
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