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| Reinvent Yourself with Color Me Beautiful: Four Seasons of Color, Makeup, and Style | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanne Richmond
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 84789
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1589792882
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.72
EAN: 9781589792883
ASIN: 1589792882
Publication Date: August 25, 2008
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Product Description
Building upon over twenty-five years of experience, Color Me Beautiful presents Reinvent Yourself with Color Me Beautiful. This new addition simplifies and demystifies which seasonal color palette is best for you by offering 40 updated colors, including the more recent concepts of warm and cool. This book was written with one goal in mind--to empower every woman with a wide range of knowledge and options to create a more confident, vibrant, and beautiful attitude.
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Updated summary of the CMB ideal August 30, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you're familiar with the Color Me Beautiful system, this will be nothing new for you. Previous books have covered most everything that this book offers. While there are good visuals for the colors in each season (this will save on buying the color swatches), and there are updated photos, this writing is really just a simplified version of information that can be found in other CMB books. I would have enjoyed seeing more before/after pictures, more ideas, more fashion tips for today's woman.
This being said, it was a good read (albeit quick), and a fun refresher of the colors that really look good on me. The author does do a good job helping the reader determine her "season." And, in spite of a bit of repetitiveness, she gives a simplified overview of this color method---something that today's busy woman would appreciate.
 So-So September 18, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Reinvent Yourself with Color Me Beautiful" by JoAnne Richmond is okay for the rank beginner, but I really can't recommend it for anyone else. It's simply-written and easy to understand, but incomplete.
For instance, Richmond doesn't mention the expanded, 12-category system that CMB has used in the last few years (detailed in "Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best" by Mary Spillane and Christine Sherlock). That's a real shame, because not all of us fit neatly into only four categories.
Nor does she mention clarity of coloring at all, just warm and cool, deep and light. The warm/cool- and deep/light-only descriptions are going to be especially confusing to Soft Summers and Soft Autumns who have medium coloring and both warm and cool characteristics.
In addition, Richmond implies that there are no brunette Springs. I'm afraid this means there are going to be some Clear Springs who think they must be Winters because they have Dark Hair, Bright Eyes, and Fair Skin, and look good in silver as well as gold.
On to the jewelry section: This seems like a really good idea, but, again, it's too simple and there are some iffy choices. When did malachite become a "warm" green? Every piece I've ever seen has been a combination of pine, emerald, and mint (just to be sure, I checked a piece I have against my swatches last night). All cool colors. Not all emeralds are warm, either; some of them are quite blue in tone. "Siamese" rubies are often warm enough for Autumns and too warm for Winters. Some sapphires are warm enough for Springs and some lapis is light enough for Summers.
Finally, while the colors in the author's photo may be off, I would have expected someone with all those years of experience in color analysis to know that your teeth are not supposed to be bleached whiter than the whites of your eyes. That is, if you want people to look at you and think, "What a great smile she has!" not "I wonder how long it took them to get her teeth that white?" A smile is supposed to light up your eyes, not blind the observer.
not anything new.... September 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you've read or know anything about color analysis then this book is not for you. I'm disappointed this book does not use the twelve seasons, becasue I don't fit very well into the four categories! Overall the information was the same as the last book and for a book that's emphasises color so much you would think there would be more pictures of examples!
 Color me satisfied October 4, 2008
Unlike the other reviewers, I was not familiar with the original Color Me Beautiful book. So as a "rank beginner" I wanted to learn all about using color to enhance my look. In Richmond's book, she guides you in choosing your season and then identifies the "right' colors for that season. She uses clearly labeled color patches that can be used when shopping. I also used the color patches to identify clothes I already had in my closet as good, bad or ugly. It turns out that many of the colors that were not listed in my season, were items I rarely wore anyway because they just didn't do anything for me. Richmond's book has helped me understand why. She also has a nice before and after section in the beginning that illustrates how color can totally change your look.
There are also sections on makeup, skin care and accessories. I found the makeup section to be helpful, but the section on jewelry was rather rudimentary and the book would not have suffered had this section been left out. One suggestion I would give is to use the book as a guide, but still use your own judgment in deciding what colors look good on you. For instance, it states that my season should "never wear pink." However, whenever I wear shocking pink, I see how it enhances my skin tone and I generally get positive comments.
One thing I found a little annoying was the very light and tiny subtext (captions) print. It is a very light gray, almost transparent, and was hard to read. All in all, it was an informative book and I have already implemented some of the suggestions given (and by the way, got a few compliments along the way!).
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