What is Personal Color Analysis?
 Personal Color Analysis is the scientific analysis of an individual's natural coloring in order to discover their personal color tone. The color analysis is offered in beauty salons, day spas, wellness centers, and fine department stores. There are many important benefits for the client who chooses to be analyzed. The book, "Understanding Your Color," client edition, is available for purchase by the client as well as a "Personal Color Palette" a 65-color collection of samples in harmony with their color tone.
How is Personal Color Analysis Done?
Personal color analysis is accomplished by observing and comparing the effects created on the skin by different adjacent colors. Test colors are typically in the form of colored fabric scarves, which are draped across the shoulders under the client's chin. The analyst is specifically looking to find a color tone that is in harmony with the client's skin tone. By understanding the optical effects of harmonious and opposing colors, the skin tone can be identified.
The Benefits of Color Analysis
The benefits of an accurate personal color analysis are more diversified than ever before and are proving important to our client's health and well-being as well as their natural beauty. Consider the benefits in these areas:
Breathtaking Beauty - The Result of Every Sci\ART 12-Tone Personal Color Analysis
Once a personal color tone is identified, the colors of your client's total adornment (wardrobe, cosmetics, hair color, accessories) can be brought into harmony with their natural coloring. When they are, your client will appear younger, healthier, more self-assured and will feel happier. The right colors will make wrinkles and expression lines less obvious, bring an evenness of color to the face, reduce dark circles around the eyes, smooth the texture of the skin, create a lift on the face, and cause blemishes to fade. Colors within a tone mix and match beautifully so that planning a wardrobe becomes easy without any costly mistakes.
“Beauty – A pleasing quality associated with harmony of form or color…” The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, 1982.
Color harmony plays such a fundamental role in how we visualize beauty that it forms of the very definition of beauty. As a result, anyone who sells beauty to clients must understand the fundamentals of color harmony in order to successfully make their clients beautiful. Color analysis is the mechanism for understanding an individual’s color tone and, consequently, the colors that harmonize with that person to create beauty as well as the colors that do not. Once an analyst determines a client’s color tone all other aspects of beauty related to color fall into place – clothing, hair color, nail color, make-up, etc. From one color analysis a client has the foundation upon which to create a picture of beauty for their lifetime, harmonizing completely their inner and outer being.
Image consultants, make-up artists, hair stylists, personal shoppers…the list of consultants selling beauty to others is diverse. These professionals who provide Sci\ART 12-Tone color analysis as the foundation of their service(s) stand apart from the competition by offering genuine beauty backed by integrity and objectivity. Additionally, providing the service of color analysis creates an additional source of revenue for their enterprises.
Perfect Harmony - A Benefit of Sci\ART 12-Tone Personal Color Analysis
Evidence indicates that we prefer our own colors and are more comfortable in an environment colored in tones harmonious with our own. Once a personal color tone has been determined, you can offer your client a "Personal Book of Color," a 65-color sample collection, for all of his or her color selections.
Balance- A Benefit of Sci\ART 12-Tone Personal Color Analysis
One of the greatest benefits of a full personal color analysis is the opportunity for your client to examine his or her innate personality traits. The correlation between personal color tone and personality type is remarkable. An intriguing and optional part of a full color analysis is the "Personal Traits Survey,"a client questionnaire that graphs personal characteristics into a personality type. Many clients realize a deeper acceptance of themselves and others after understanding this relationship. Many analysts use this survey to confirm their color analysis results.
In Depth: Personal Color Analysis and Personality Type
The personality of every human being is one of a kind. However, although unique, all personalities fall into certain innate personality types. Each type has its own collection of traits and tendencies toward certain behaviors. These traits are inherent within the particular individual. Some of them may have been evident at birth. These congenital temperments are well ingrained into a personality, are not easily changed, and tend to persist throughout life.
Research has shown that four distinct personality types tend to correspond with particular tones of personal coloration. We do not choose ou innate  personality type; just like our coloring, it comes with us at birth. By understanding the nature of these innate personal tendencies, we can exert the self-control necessary to develop our strengths and overcome our limitations—to accept ourselves as we are and to become the person we choose to be.
The "Personal Traits Survey" is an optional part of personal color analysis. This survey will help to identify an innate personality type. Many clients welcome this opportunity for self-discovery.
The "Personal Traits Survey" is included in the book, "Understanding Your Color - A Guide to Personal Color Analysis."
Wellness - A Benefit of Sci\ART 12-Tone Personal Color Analysis
Color is energy. We tend to use more of our own color's energy in our daily life. The human body needs and utilizes all of the spectral colors, and the lack of any one of them can cause health disorders. Chromotherapy is the science of healing the body and mind using light and color. It is a powerful way to maintain health and energy levels. Chromotherapy is the fastest growing natural health and beauty therapy of this new millennium. Now personal color analysis has new meaning! By identifying your client's "core" color, you can help him or her replenish and rejuvenate by treatment with that particular color's energy. Learn more about Chromotherapy here.
In Depth: Color Therapy and Personal Color Analysis
Color can be therapeutically administered in a number of ways. Before treatment is considered, however, an analysis of the individuals personal coloration is highly recommended. Just as your medical and health needs are different from that of someone else, so are your color therapy needs. Therefore, to best discover the ways in which color therapy can uniquely benefit you, your personal coloration should first be determined.
Practitioners of Ayurvedic – also referred to as just “Ay” – medicine perform a thorough examination and interview with the patient to determine his or her "prakriti," or constitution. In Ay, an individual ’ s "pakriti" is determined at conception and remains unchanged during his or her lifetime. A personal color analysis serves as an examination of the individual and identifies the predominant pigment within the body. This pigment determines that individuals "core" color, which is linked to a specific Chakra – the seven energy centers which compose our consciousness and our system of energy. In addition, a personal traits survey which can be given along with the color analysis, indicates an innate personality type. Personality type also corresponds to the individuals core color and dominant Chakra .
Pigmentation and innate personality are also constitutional, determined at conception, and remain with an individual throughout his or her lifetime. Much can be inferred from understanding the individual as a whole.
It is vital to know this coloring information to best cater to your own personal Chakra. The Chakra system plays an enormous role in each of our lives, though it is not as widely accommodated as it should be. Learn more about how the Chakra system influences your own life, and how the application of color therapy will improve your quality of life.
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