Get the most out of
your colour fan
After your colour analysis, your fan becomes your guide for shopping, accessorising, and creating outfits that flatter your natural skin tone and hair colour.
The guide below is designed to:
- Remind you of how to practically use your fan
- Offer tips and tricks for maximising everything your fan can do for you
Engage with your
colour words
Inside your fan, you will find descriptive words that define your season.
- Rich
- Warm
- Earthy
- Vibrant
- Clear
- Bright
- Light
- Warm
- Soft
- Blue
- Smoky
- Rose
- Clear
- Bright
- Vivid
- Have high contrast value
These words are helpful when you begin shopping for clothing and accessories. Rather than trying to memorise every colour immediately, start by asking yourself:
Does this item feel like it
represents these words?
Over time, these words will help you quickly recognise whether a store, collection, or garment is likely to harmonise with your palette.
This can be tricky at first, but the more you practise, the easier it becomes. If you ever feel like you need personalised support shopping for items in your season, your personal stylist offers personal shopping appointments.
How to shop in person
Your fan is designed to accompany you on every shopping trip. It is designed to help you build a wardrobe where pieces naturally work together.
When evaluating a garment:
- Open your fan fully
- Hold it near the fabric
- Look for overall harmony rather than an exact match
Ask yourself:
“Does this colour feel like it goes with other colours in my palette?”
“Would I wear this with the colours in my fan?”
“Would it coordinate with the neutral colours in my fan?”
Use your neutrals
as a guide
Your fan is designed to accompany you on every shopping trip. It is designed to help you build a wardrobe where pieces naturally work together.
One of the easiest ways to evaluate a colour is by comparing it to the neutrals in your fan.
Ask yourself:
“Would this pair easily with my neutrals?”
“Does it feel cohesive with the rest of the colours in my fan?”
If the answer is yes, it is likely to be a harmonious choice, and therefore a good one.
- Dark brown, tan, coffee, camel, beige
- Dark olive, bronze, khaki
- Warm navy
- Lizard grey
- Oyster white
- Chocolate, tan, beige
- Dove greys
- Bright navies
- Oxford blues
- Creams
- Mushroom
- Rose brown
- French navy
- Dark blue grey
- Light blue grey
- Airforce blue
- Greys
- Charcoal
- Black
- Indigo
- Navy
- Mole
- Stone
- Optic white
Look for harmony,
not exact matches
One of the most important things to remember is that you are not looking for exact colour matches.
Your palette is a subsection of a quarter of all of the colours in the world, not 36 specific shades.
For example, you may find a wonderful piece that falls in between two colours in your fan — this would still be in your season.
Know when it's not
your season
At the back of your fan, you will find snapshots of the other seasonal palettes.
These are useful when:
- Comparing similar colours
- Determining whether a shade feels like it belongs to another season
- Shopping for friends or family members in different seasons
Your fan’s metal
has purpose
You will notice your fan is held together with metallic hardware that corresponds with your best metal.
This will remind you which metal is best for:
- Jewellery
- Eyewear
- Belt buckles
- Buttons
- Shoe hardware
we recommend occasionally tightening the screw holding your fan together to keep it secure
Be extra observant
when shopping online
Online shopping can be trickier because lighting, photography, filters and your screen can change how colours appear. In addition to using the product image, pay attention to colour names and the product descriptions.
whenever possible, keep return labels until you have seen the item in person.
It gets easier with time
The more you use your fan, the easier shopping becomes, the more cohesive your wardrobe feels, the more naturally you will recognise the harmony that your stylist spoke to you about.
When you are on the move, your fan is your no.1 tool for understanding which colours are best for you. As we say at House of Colour …
