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October 2006 ETC Corner
That Color Looks Great on You!
By: Shari Braendel
With a new season in full swing, many of us are in tune to finding a new look or improving our old one. Shari Braendel, a fashion and beauty consultant, addresses the important of color as women examine their sense of style.
A great look is rarely accidental. It is usually the result of a careful blend of your wardrobe style with your color palette. Perfect color is something everyone can see and enjoy instantly. The perfect color palette creates harmony without monotony and contrast without conflict.
Wearing the right colors can make your skin glow, give your hair more depth and add sparkle to your eyes. Choosing the wrong colors can overpower you, dull your complexion or even make you look older!
Creating a "head-to-toe" look begins with your natural assets: eye color, skin tone and natural hair color. The right colors are essential for your wardrobe, makeup and hair. And you will look your most dynamic wearing the colors that bring out your best features.
Color Analysis
Determining your color palette for all lighting conditions is key. Even the well-trained eye of a professional image consultant using a "true light" must deal with many factors that may skew the outcome of your color analysis. These factors or conditions may include the reflection of surrounding colors, additional artificial or tinted natural lighting, your skin condition, the effects of tanning, and the determination of your natural hair coloring.
There are several schools of thought in classifying a person's color palette. Although my training was classification by season (winter, spring, summer, and autumn), I prefer determining a person's dominant color characteristics. This method uses common features to identify your dominant color. I believe this removes opinion from the method and provides a greater freedom of choice, allowing for personal style while maintaining color boundaries.
Deep & Rich
Dark Hair, Dark Eyes, Medium to Deep Skin Tone
If you are a woman with deep, rich coloring, you most likely have dark hair and dark eyes. Or you may have medium/dark skin with dark eyes and medium hair. Two out of the three (hair, eyes, and skin) will be deep and rich.
Light & Fair
Light Hair, Light Eyes, Fair Skin Tone.
Women who have a light dominant color characteristic have a natural elegance to their appearance. You will have fair skin or an ivory skin tone, light eyes and hair.
Warm & Golden
Light to Medium Golden Blonde/Brown or Red Hair, Green or Hazel Eyes, Warm Skin Tone, Freckles.
If you are a woman with warm as your dominant color characteristic, then you are a natural red head, have auburn hair, or are a brunette with red or golden highlights. If you are a brunette, then your hair color ranges from lightest brown to darkest brown. Golden blondes fit into this category as well. You have a very warm undertone to your skin and may have freckles. Your eyes range from blue to brown, with hazel and green eyes being most prevalent.
Cool & Rosy
Ash Toned, Salt and Pepper, or Gray Hair, No Red in Hair, Gray or Blue Eyes, Beige/Pink Skin Tone.
If you are a woman with cool coloring, you most likely have beautiful white, silver, salt and pepper or blonde hair. You may also have hair that is dark, but will have a blue cast to it. Your eyes are any shade of blue, and may also be a blue-green, or gray. There is also the occasional woman with brown eyes, but you are very rare.
Soft & Muted
Medium Coloring in Eyes, Skin and Hair, No Contrast between Hair and Skin, Light to Medium/Light Hair.
If you are a woman with soft coloring, you most likely have medium brown hair, sometimes described as dishwater blonde or mousy brown. Your eye color is hazel, soft blue, green or medium brown. You may also have gray eyes. Whatever your eye and hair color, you definitely would describe it as medium in color and the contrast between your eyes, skin and hair is of low contrast.
Clear & Bright
High Level of Contrast, Medium Dark Hair against Light Skin with Bright Eyes
The woman with bright, clear coloring has outstanding features that are rather exotic! You have dark hair coloring with bright eyes and light to medium skin tone. You are considered to have high contrast in your coloring.
For more information on choosing flattering colors and other wardrobe tips, visit Shari's web site at www.WhatNotToWearWorkshops.com
Refresh My Soul
By:Lysa TerKeurst
Are you feeling under-appreciated and over-worked? Consider these tips from Lysa on getting your life back into balance.
Think about the activities and pursuits your family is involved in.
How important are these achievements to you? Where does God fit in the time spent ferrying your children around? Be honest with yourself in assessing your involvement with your kids. Do you need for them to succeed so you can feel like a better mom? Is your identity associated with their success? God is aware of the secrets of our hearts- even the ones we can't admit to ourselves. As our Creator, He knows us intimately. He can help us to search our hearts and determine any changes we should make in our lives. He can shine a light into our hearts in the darkest places, and open our eyes to His desires for us. Spend some time in prayer about your priorities, and ask God to reveal to you any idols in your life you may not be aware of.
Do you place your trust in the things of this world or in the God of this world?
Busyness, chasing after achievements and filling our days with man-made idols will leave us feeling empty and breathless. We must fill out days with a rich relationship with God in order to feel fulfilled.
There is such comfort in turning to the Lord.
As the verses you read tell us, place your trust in Him and you will be blessed (Psalm 40:4). "O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man (or mom) who trusts in you" (Psalm 84:12). Do you want to receive God's blessings? Do you want your children to receive God's blessings? Then place your trust in Him. Ecclesiastes 1:14 says that man's pursuit of the things of this world "are meaningless, a chasing after the wind."
How can you place your trust in Him?
By committing the things of your life to prayer. By seeking His will for your life and your children's lives. By doing away with anything that stands in the way of drawing closer to Him. By living a life of radical obedience and having a "yes heart" for God. As you begin to implement these elements in your life, you will find that "the things of earth will draw strangely dim," as the old hymn says. When that happens, nothing will be more important to you than pursuing Him.
Adapted from "The Bathtub is Overflowing but I Feel Drained" by Lysa TerKeurst Copyright © 2006 by Lysa TerKeurst. Published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR. Used by permission.
To purchase Lysa's book, click here http://proverbs31.gospelcom.net/newresources_bathtub.htm
What Will Your Family Do on Halloween?
Halloween is a difficult day for many Christians. It's a dilemma over how to celebrate the sacred on a day committed to the scary. Read the following tips for turning Halloween into a day to positively point your friends and neighbors to Jesus.
What Will Your Family Do on Halloween?
This year, consider how you and your family can use Halloween to reach out to neighbors with the love of Christ. After all, how many other opportunities are there where your neighbors come right to your door? It's a great time to introduce yourself and "break the ice" by commenting on cute costumes, candy preferences etc.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
Pray ahead of time and ask God to bring you opportunities to minister to others.
Be prepared by providing a place to sit and talk.
Show hospitality by offering drinks to the adults and kids- perhaps cider or water bottles.
If appropriate, offer information on your church, service times and children/youth activities.
Follow-up afterwards by taking cookies to neighbors or hosting a cookie exchange later in the year.
Use a pumpkin as an object lesson. Carve a cross or the fish symbol in your pumpkin and put a candle inside. That's sure to draw some comments. Then, if you feel led, you can share how we are like the pumpkin. God takes the icky stuff out of us and put His light inside to shine, and make us new and beautiful.
If one-on-one evangelism sounds a little overwhelming, consider volunteering at a local Harvest Party or Halloween alternative festival.
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