About Me

My color story started when I was a young girl.  Mom had a copy of the book Color Me Beautiful.  I remember looking at it over and over and admiring the blocks of colors for each season.  I would look through the descriptions of what color eyes and hair I should have for each season.  I looked at the pictures of the women in each season's colors and wondered where I fit.  I had a reddish tone to my hair and eyes that are ever changing depending on what I'm wearing.  Sometimes they're blue, sometimes green and other times they look gray.  Mom said I was an autumn so those were the colors that I adopted, sort of.

In college a friend of mine started selling a makeup line by Amway.  They had a draping process to help you decide what season you were in so that you could purchase their seasonally categorized makeup.  When she draped me, she told me that I was a Winter Two.  I wasn't really sure what that meant, but I got a color palette, bought some bright pink lipstick and started wearing the Winter colors.  But to be honest, I didn't feel great in them.

I was always a serial color my hair girl.  I colored it everything from cherry red to auburn to black.  I thought my own hair color was mousy.  Once, fairly recently a hair dresser said to me, "well you're obviously a spring" so your hair should be blah blah color.  Oh!  I'd never thought of myself as a spring.  Maybe I was.  And they just happened to be some of my favorite colors.  I knew I looked good in coral and turquoise so maybe she was right.  I found a store online called Kettlewell Colors that sells clothing that's been categorized by season so I bought a couple of things from the "spring" section.  When I got them I wasn't sure if I liked them.  "Now what?", I thought.  I'd "obviously" been and autumn, a winter, and now a spring but I still wasn't sure.  On the Kettlewell site they had a listing of color analysts so I found one near me so that I could be formally draped.  This was a 4 season color analysis system.  At the time I didn't know how different each system was and how important the 12 season system was for an accurate outcome.

I was pretty excited on the day of my draping.  Finally I would know for sure!  I told the analyst my story about being autumn, winter and spring and we joked that it would be funny if she found me to be a summer.  And wouldn't you know it, she said I was summer.  As we went thru cool and warm, cool and warm, cool and warm drapes, she said she thought I looked better in the cool drapes.  I actually couldn't tell.  I thought there were a lot that looked pretty but she was the expert, right?  I figured I would drape as an autumn so when she said I was a summer I was floored!  Cool and muted.  Then she showed me the palette for summer....and I hated it!.... with a passion.  I bought some lipstick and headed home.  Over the weekend I would look at the palette and throw it down in disgust.  I literally didn't like any of the colors in the palette.  I was SO disappointed.  After about a week, I thought I was being a baby and decided to give it a fair try.  So I wore the muted pinks and blues and lilac and light jade green.  I began to build a wardrobe with these colors.  The analyst said my hair should be ash brown.  I thought it was a strange recommendation since my hair is everything BUT ashy.  It's golden, it's reddish.  But hey, she was the expert, right?  So I colored it dark ash brown.  The more "summer" clothes I put in my closet, the more depressed I got.  Really!  Depressed.  One day I looked at a picture of me in lilac shorts, a pink top and my dark ashy brown hair and I thought, "who is that?'  It didn't even look like me.  I began to think that the expert had gotten it wrong.

I started doing research into color analysis system and fell upon the Sci/Art or 12 Season Color Analysis system.  I had struggled so much with my own color journey that I had become even more fascinated than I had been as a little girl.  I've always had a love affair with colors in general.  I have said many time in my life that I could stare at paint chips all day.    I found a 12 Season Analyst in my area and it turns out, she'd been doing it for 40 years!  And she trains people to become analysts!  I struck gold.  I knew that I wanted to help people find their seasonal home so that they could build a cohesive wardrobe and feel their best.  So I went and trained with her and during my training she draped me...  drumroll please...  

I'M A BRIGHT SPRING!!!!! (the opposite of cool and muted)

I immediately saw how the colors in the bright spring palette lit me up.  I connected with the colors.  They make me happy.

After a year of training, and practice, and oversight by my amazing trainer, I opened ColorRox Studio...  And the rest, they say, is history.

If you're ready to find the color season that makes you feel your best and look your most beautiful, 

call or text me at 734-301-1868 or send me an email to make an appointment.