Clare Maxfield

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Personality of Cool and Bright Colouring

Cool & Bright Colouring

As discussed last week, there are many personality styles attributed to your personal colouring. Should you be bright, then these are some traits that you may possess.

One thing I have noticed is that the personality you have had for most of your formative years will remain into your later years. So if you were bright in your teens and twenties, then, even if you are 80, and your personal colouring has softened, you will still have elements of the bright person within you.

Read on and let me know if this resonates with you. The Brights that I have met in my life have gravitated to careers in modelling and the airlines.

Characteristics of Bright

The personality of men and women who are cool and BRIGHT cool are:

~ Outgoing
~ Gregarious but needs alone time to regroup
~ Friendly
~ Spontaneous
~ Big Visioned/Farsighted
~ Leaders
~ Likes things orderly
~ Loyal
~ Good Listener
~ Perfectionist

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It’s truly amazing how a person’s personal colouring can be a reflection of their personality, past and present.

A personal colour analysis brings with it so many benefits, from discovering which colours suit you best for clothing, hair colour and makeup to insights into personality and even how to dress to make the best of your shape – yes all via colour.

In fact, knowing your style without being aware of your personal colours is like watching a silent movie without subtitles – you can miss the message completely.

Let’s find your best colours – Comment “Yes Please’ below and I’ll message you to find a time we can chat.

Cool and Muted Colour Personality

Cool & Muted Personality

Hippocrates discovered that people fall into the 4 humours or personalities. They were Phlegmatic, Sanguine, Choleric and Melancholic. They typically were represented by 4 colour groups. Fast forward to 2018 and those colour groups and personalities have expanded out to 12. You can take it with a grain of salt if you wish but it still amazes me how we do tend to live up to the personalities our natural colouring displays.

Let’s start with Cool and Muted.

Personality Traits

The personality of men and women who are COOL muted are:

~ Detail orientated
~ Outgoing but most comfortable in the company of friends
~ Organised
~ Dependable
~ Gentle
~ Sensitive
~ Patient
~ Diplomatic
~ Courteous
~ Great Listener
~ Forgiving
~ Diplomatic
~ Peacemaker
~ Gracious
~ Likes perfection
~ Can be critical

~ Procrastinator

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It’s truly amazing how a person’s colouring can be a reflection of their personality.

A colour analysis brings will it so many benefits, from discovering which colours suit you best for clothing, hair colour and makeup to insights into personality and even how to dress to make the best of your shape – yes all via colour.

In fact, knowing your style without your colours is like watching a silent movie without subtitles – you can miss the message completely.

The Colour Teal

The colour Teal - showing a boat on a teal oceanTeal is a blend of blue and green.

Together blue’s tranquil stability melds with green’s optimism and healing properties. In deep shades, teal has a natural dignity that is not contrived or “in your face.” Its understated elegance encourages a calm, reflective mood. Brighter shades are unique and smart.

The lover of teal often has an even temper and a thoughtful disposition while also having a talent for mediation and finding a compromise. With the trusting combination of blue and the natural tones of green teal is easily liked and trusted by most.

Individuals who wear teal are naturally creative and think for themselves and are perceived seen as reliable and independent.

Teal is a natural skin intensifier and as such will suit most women and men. It can be used in large or small amounts to make anyone look fresh and alive.

A colour analysis will discover all the colours that suit you best.

Book your colour discovery session today.

Happy Friday the 13th – Fashion Phobias

Hi Clare Maxfield here and happy Friday the 13th bet we weren’t expecting to hear from me today. Well as only yesterday when I was thinking of tomorrow’s Friday 13th and I’m traveling. I wondered what other superstitions are out there? That got me thinking about the fears and phobias and superstitions that not so much surround Friday the 13th but maybe that without me even realizing, a lot of my clients deal with and through helping them with their image I managed to help them through them but let me just give you a little bit of a background very quickly on Friday the 13th because this astounded me.
It began in Middle Ages. It started brewing when they talking about the Last Supper and Christ and he had 13 at the table it was held on a 13th but it’s actually a Thursday but it was the day before Good Friday which wasn’t so good in the end and that started rolling this Friday’s thirteen’s into a story and then it was early last century – Thomas Lawson wrote a book called Friday the 13th and in it there was a whole wall street market crash on the 13th based on the superstition and it made me think what came first? It’s like the chicken and the egg the superstition or the crash was it? You know what ended up happening and then there’s also the thought that due to Phillip IV of France rounding up a lot of the Knights Templar and arresting them might have had something to do with that.
All I know is today we all live with a lot of fears of phobias so I thought I’d share with you some of the stranger fears and phobias that I have to help my clients through and I do help them through. As an image consultant for a start there’s the Decidophobia yes it’s a phobia it’s like should I buy this or this? What looks right and from that do you know that there’s an interesting phobia the Catotrophophobia and that is to do with a fear of mirrors.
Now Pamela Anderson has this and it’s not so much they look at a mirror a go Oh, it’s a mirror it’s their reflection they see themselves distorted in the mirror which isn’t good another one it’s the Glossophobia. Glossophobia is a fear of public speaking it actually comes number 13 in the top 100 of speaking fears and from that a lot of my clients if they have a fear like of Agoraphobia going out I can help them with looking better that when they go through these fears they actually supported in the right way but when I started looking at there’s Vestiophobia out there people are afraid of clothes. Now life must be really tough for them because clothes are kind of part of our everyday life. there are Chromophobia Billy Bob Thornton’s one they’re afraid of bright colors. I’m guessing his life is fairly deep and muted. Koumpounophobia – that was a fun one to learn that’s a fear of buttons so people who have come upon a phobia they will wear things that slide over their head or do up with zips or do up with ties now I mentioned before the chromophobia there’s also a lot of people that have phobias too specific colors. Xanthophobia is one it’s the fear of yellow but another phobia that I often deal with with my clients and it’s often not given this name that’s Gerascophobia and that’s a fear of getting old.
It’s that elusive elixir of youth that people are always looking for. But as with all things there’s always the funny little ones you weren’t expecting when you go through an Omphalophobia that’s a fear of bellybuttons. I don’t know if they’re afraid of their own or other people’s so I don’t know where they get out of shower and have to look at and hide their belly button or their like this is on the beach , don’t show me your belly button and then lyrngoziphobia
Coz I thought for sure there’s a phobia for zips or there is but is’t a phobia of getting your lips caught in zips. didn’t even want to think too much about that. So happy Friday at 13th and I hope you are not a Paraskevidekatriaphobe because that means you are afraid of Friday the 13th Clare Maxfield from Clare Maxfield Image. Bye

How the Rebellious Woman will Accessorise

It never ceases to surprise me how many women have a subversive streak that will reveal itself in their accessories. Accessories are a way of playing with other personalities without becoming fully immersed in that style. With this in mind many women will have their main personality that they dress in and then they will experiment with other looks and moods through their accessories. To understand your own personality, if you don’t know it already. Do the quiz here.

General description

Rebellious Accessories

Your accessories will be subversive, dark and have a distinctly antagonist air to them.

Black, silver and red will be your feature colours, with red more of an accent.

Leather will feature heavily as will black resin and silver pendants, chains and metal work.

Glasses will be black acetate with no ornamentation to them.

Your jewellery will feature lengths of black leather with pendants featuring skulls, spiritual symbols of both a dark and light nature.

Your belts will be very heavy leather and possible studded with flat or posted studs. they will be at least 3 cm (1.5inches) wide or wider. Nothing skinny and delicate for you unless it is layered.

How you will express the other personalities.

Rebellious accessory variations

Classic – Your look will be dark but missing the subversive symbology and stud work.

Creative – You could push the envelope on your image towards the dark or be quite playful and incorporate cartoon character designs into your overall dark image.

Dramatic – Whilst you will still favour black, your accessories will be limited to a couple of large statement pieces and your look will be more streamlined.

Elegant Chic – When this urge captures you, you will exchange your black for dark charcoal and limit your accessories to only one or two pieces.

Feminine – Black roses, leather and lace, long earrings, knee – thighs high boots with high heels. You will bring a softness to your look or play out the temptress role.

Natural – Your clothes will say all that you have to. If you wear a leather thong around your wrist or neck, you won’t remove it. It is part of you. All that you wear, necklaces, bracelets, rings will stay in place, always.

I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the posts on how each personality will wear her accessories. What she will choose and how she will reflect other personality styles. If you wold like to read more about how to wear and select accessories download my ebook on Playing with Accessories here.