How Pigmentation Plays a Part with Personal Color Analysis
How Pigmentation Plays a Part with Personal Color Analysis
Have you often wondered why one Dark Autumn,for example, visually looks different than another Dark Autumn individual? First let’s chat about how your color space is determined. 12 Tone Personal Color Analysis is observing and comparing the color effects created on the skin by different test colors placed next to it. Based on these color effects, a determination is made which accurately places the color tone into one of the twelve areas of color space.
How does Pigmentation factor into 12 Tone Personal Color Analysis? It is one of two factors that come into play during a PCA session, the other is Optical Effects and Illusions which I will address in another Invent Your Image blog post. Pigmentation is the coloring that determines a person’s color tone. Pigmentation cannot be altered, a person is born with it and it is uniquely theirs.
Pigments are color-forming chemical matter within the human body which combine to give us our unique color tone. The color of every human being is determined by a combination of three pigments: melanin, carotene, and hemoglobin. Color differences are caused only by variations in their concentrations.
Melanin is a dark brown pigment and is the major contributor to the black, brown, and blue tones of human coloring
Carotene is a pigment that imparts yellow, orange, or red coloring and converted by the liver into vitamin A.
Hemoglobin is an oxygen transporting respiratory pigment carried in the blood by your red blood cells. This pigment is responsible for the red coloring of blood.
Note- I was educated and trained by former CEO of Sci/Art, Kathryn Kalisz, in which I was certified in color theory, significance of human coloration, and 12-Tone Personal Color Analysis.
With each 12 Tone PCA session, as certified color analyst, I am not only gaining more experience but am continually learning how hue, value, and chroma reacts differently with different skin tones. That is one of the many intriguing and exciting reasons for practicing the art of personal color analysis. Because everyone’s pigmentation is unique to only them, that is why each person’s skin tone translate or reads differently with each test color. Pictured above, is an example of an individual that might be type casted into a color space based only on her hair and eye color; but because with 12-Tone Personal Color Analysis we access color comparisons based solely on skin tone, the simultaneous contrast lead us to place her into the rich and dramatic Dark Autumn color space.
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Deb thanks for your comment. I have to receive permission from the client to utilize their photo on social media platforms or for marketing materials. There are a few on http://www.pinterest.com/inventyourimage boards.
I will work on getting a photo release together and incorporate take photos during my PCA sessions. Great idea!
ZaftigWendy (Gwendolyn)
April 7, 2014 at 3:40 pm
Did you know that there are two types of melanin? Eumelanin is “cool” brown and becomes black in high concentration. It lines our eyes (except for albinos) and provides cool tones. It’s also the most easily destroyed by bleach. The other is pheomelanin, which is reddish and becomes warm brown in high concentration.
Thanks so much for posting this valuable information Gwendolyn. I greatly appreciate it.
Dorothy Ungerer
April 7, 2014 at 9:54 pm
This was one of the more exciting results I’ve seen in awhile in Sci/Art drapings. I always thought your client above was some form of summer but wasn’t 100 percent convinced. When she revealed as a Dark Autumn, it makes complete sense. She looks fabulous with her palette! More proof that you can’t go by eye and hair color and that an in person draping is a must for accuracy.
Thanks Dorthy for your feedback! See truly look the best in Dark Autumn but could try a few Brights too. The Summer zone was least favorable on this particular clients and because she could see the optical effects and illusions she now knows what looks best and what colors are not harmonious on her.
Josephine
May 3, 2014 at 8:04 pm
Hi I’m really happy I am reading your blog. I have had severe pigmentation since I started my menopause. I was analysed as a Spring going on to Summer in my teens. In those days it was just 4 seasons but the analyst couldn’t decide which season I was and gave me the two palettes. Now I find that people have started complimenting me on different colours to what I am used to. Pre pigmentation I used to get compliments when wearing light blue and pastels; now it’s earth colours. But when shopping I still go towards the pastel section. It’s not so easy tochange your mind set.
Josephine thanks for telling your story. Have you been analyzed under the 12 tone color analysis system? That is what I practice and blog about. Enjoy reading my other blog post too about image, color, and style. Would love you comments on others as well. Best of luck with your style and color journey.
Could you post pics of several Dark Autumn people to show how they might appear different?
Deb thanks for your comment. I have to receive permission from the client to utilize their photo on social media platforms or for marketing materials. There are a few on http://www.pinterest.com/inventyourimage boards.
I will work on getting a photo release together and incorporate take photos during my PCA sessions. Great idea!
Did you know that there are two types of melanin? Eumelanin is “cool” brown and becomes black in high concentration. It lines our eyes (except for albinos) and provides cool tones. It’s also the most easily destroyed by bleach. The other is pheomelanin, which is reddish and becomes warm brown in high concentration.
Thanks so much for posting this valuable information Gwendolyn. I greatly appreciate it.
This was one of the more exciting results I’ve seen in awhile in Sci/Art drapings. I always thought your client above was some form of summer but wasn’t 100 percent convinced. When she revealed as a Dark Autumn, it makes complete sense. She looks fabulous with her palette! More proof that you can’t go by eye and hair color and that an in person draping is a must for accuracy.
Thanks Dorthy for your feedback! See truly look the best in Dark Autumn but could try a few Brights too. The Summer zone was least favorable on this particular clients and because she could see the optical effects and illusions she now knows what looks best and what colors are not harmonious on her.
Hi I’m really happy I am reading your blog. I have had severe pigmentation since I started my menopause. I was analysed as a Spring going on to Summer in my teens. In those days it was just 4 seasons but the analyst couldn’t decide which season I was and gave me the two palettes. Now I find that people have started complimenting me on different colours to what I am used to. Pre pigmentation I used to get compliments when wearing light blue and pastels; now it’s earth colours. But when shopping I still go towards the pastel section. It’s not so easy tochange your mind set.
Josephine thanks for telling your story. Have you been analyzed under the 12 tone color analysis system? That is what I practice and blog about. Enjoy reading my other blog post too about image, color, and style. Would love you comments on others as well. Best of luck with your style and color journey.