Went for this talk on colour analysis today. It’s about learning whether your skin tone is warm or cool, and which colours suit you. Some people would think that learning about this sort of thing is pointless, but it’s pretty interesting and useful actually! When you compare the effect of different colours being worn on the same person, you can actually tell the difference when the more suitable colours are worn as compared to the less suitable ones.

I’ve always had the impression that Asians would be considered as having warm skin tones and Caucasians cool ones, but apparently most people have cool skin tones. You learn something new everyday!

There are various ways to test whether you have a warm or cool skin tone, or if you’re one of those few who are neutral toned and can wear most colours and look good in it. We were taught to rub our hands together for a few times, and then look at our palms. If it appears yellowish, then our skin tone is warm, and if it’s pink, we have a cool skin tone.

The more common test, however, is the silver/gold test. What you do is to hold a piece of gold or silver fabric next to your face, and then swop it with the other one. One of those colours should make your face brighter, and that gives an indication of your skin tone. The difference can be very obvious. Those that look better with gold are warm, while those that suit silver better are cool.

If your skin tone is warm you’ll suit warm colours, and if your skin tone is cool you’ll look better in cool colours. It doesn’t mean that colours on the other half of the colour wheel cannot be worn, but care should be taken when doing so.

I guess after going for this talk, I’ll be paying more attention to what colours suit me more. There’s a lot that can be learnt! I’m pretty glad I went for the talk, since you don’t really get to hear about things like this often, and going to a consultant for such advice is really expensive.

People may tend not to care too much about colours, but whether you’re conscious of it or not, the colours you wear have an impact on how you look and how others perceive you!

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I really love the lyrics of the song.

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School officially starts again for me tomorrow. I certainly wouldn’t mind having another week of holidays! Once school starts I’m going to be busy again. The good thing is that after 5 semesters, I finally have a free day! And I have 2 days where I start school a bit later, so it means I get to sleep in! Even if it’s just an extra hour, it really makes a lot of difference.

Anyway look what I saw on the school’s front page!

Which reminds me that I haven’t seen anyone from the lab in a really long time. I hardly see them since they don’t really come downstairs, and I can’t go into the lab now anyway. They’re busy upstairs anyway.

I still need to wash my labcoat before lab sessions starts again… It has been sitting at home for the whole holidays, and I only remembered a few days ago.