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Soft Mosaic is a color and style blog for those who are soft in coloring or admire soft colors.  The world is full of different color combinations that create different patterns and color schemes. Let nature and the world around us inspire our eye for fashion.

 

About Me:

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Color is my passion. Wearing the right colors will make you illuminated and vibrant! I have studied and learned a lot from many color consultants such as David Zyla, Kathy Palettes, Sci-art, and Lora Alexander (Pretty Your World).

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I was analyzed by Lora Alexander in the new Color Breeze System Color Analysis-Analyzed as Sunlit Soft Summer. It includes the extended Soft Seasons for Soft Summer and Soft Autumn. Lora explained to me that the Sunlit Soft Summer is a Summer flowing into a Spring and is a tad bit clearer and warmer then the Dusty Soft Summer (more muted) and warmer than the Cool Summer. A Sunlit Summer often has some Spring like looks to her like a starburst in the eye or something warmer or brighter about her but not enough to be a Spring and not light and bright enough to be a Light Summer. If you were to look at a Sunlit Soft Summer as a child, their hair might be highly variable in ash (cool) and golden (warm) color threaded through it-a dimensional look impossible to recreate with hair dye. This is why the Sunlit Soft Summer can play up warm and coolness and even add some clearer or muted colors to their palette in intricate combinations in makeup, hair (highlights), clothing. This also makes a lot of sense because when I was analyzed by Rachel from (Sci-art) she discovered that I was the lighter side of Soft Summer.

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    Heather, I love reading your color journey here even though you don’t seem to actively post here anymore. I just received my Sunlit Soft Summer palette and it is quite different from the Soft Summer 12-tone palette I got about ten years ago. I, too, find I like the 12-tone better in certain ways–the lighter parts of it. But at the same time, I also see some advantage in the Sunlit Soft Summer palette — it focuses on the part of the spectrum that applies to US.

    But here is how I see it overall. I was analyzed by a lady in Slovakia who has a “Light Soft Summer” between her “Light Summer” and “Soft Summer Light.” She told me I was a Soft Summer Light, but that I could also wear certain colors near the face from Light Soft Summer. So what we are talking here is pre-formatted gradients in coloring, meaning that these palettes are going for form the core of a type of coloring, with personal tweaking possible depending on personal (usually small) variations.

    Additionally, I have come to realize that personality and body type as well as face lines do affect how we prefer our colors delivered. You mentioned elsewhere that the Sunlit SS palette is more saturated than the 12-tone. I was a little surprised by that, too. However, I realized that if we wanted to come forward more in a public setting, we could go more saturated even if we’re otherwise not so inclined. In the Personal Style Counselors system, I am very strongly a Natural/Angelic essence type — which has more of a dusty/ethereal feel to it. When I thought about why the 12-tone lights felt more right, I realized it was the saturation issue firstly. (They are also slightly warmer.)

    It is possible to use your Sunlit SS palette and step back the intensity if need be, but the shades will still be better overall than the 12-Tone palette, which covers more kinds of Soft Summer types in one go. It contains in one go more darks and more toastiness than some of us need included. In fact, I could almost cut off the darkest parts of the fan legs altogether but for the fact that some good hues are included on some of those legs.

    I had a hard time deciding whether I leaned more Spring or more Autumn myself. In fact, I seem to rock gently between the two influences, able to cheat into the warmer peachy pinks of each and look fantastic. I put a scarf in a peachy pink/salmon color (prob. on the Autumn/Summer line, leaning slightly more Autumn) up against my Sunlit SS palette and they *do not* work together even though the scarf looks great against my face! Wow. But there are some warmer blush tones in the 12-Tone palette that look great and would work….(I tend to prefer the light-medium tones in that one.) So, yes, there is leeway that may not *quite* land us in another Colorbreeze subcategory.

    It’s been an education, huh?

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