The colour analyst
Meet Shann.
Australian sunshine, a career in front of the camera, and an eye trained by both.
My story
From the Sunshine Coast to your season.
I grew up on Australia’s Sunshine Coast, near Brisbane, and spent years working as a professional model before I trained as a colour analyst. I now see clients in person in London and in Brisbane.
Modelling is an unusual apprenticeship in colour. I worked at the centre of an industry that takes it completely seriously: stylists weighing the undertone of a fabric, photographers adjusting light against skin, whole shoots built around a single shade. I saw, on camera and on my own face, what the right colour does and what the wrong one costs. That is where my eye was trained, and it is the foundation of everything I do now.
I practise the 16-season method of personal colour analysis, a system that reads the nuance of your natural colouring rather than flattening it into four broad categories.
The trained eye
Colour, learnt from the other side of the camera.
Modelling teaches a particular kind of seeing. On set, colour is never an afterthought: the wrong shade flattens a face under the lights, and the right one seems to switch it on. I bring that same eye to your analysis, and it is entirely in your service.
I also know exactly what it is like to be on the other side of that attention, and it shapes how I work. I am in no hurry, I explain what I am seeing as I see it, and there is no such thing as a silly question.
In the room
Kind, patient, unhurried.
My appointments are unhurried by design. I am patient with questions, gentle with nerves, and clear about what I am seeing and why. If you would like a sense of how the time unfolds, from the first drape to your final palette, The Experience walks through it.
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