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A trained assessment of which colours sit in natural harmony with your skin, your eyes and your hair. Using a structured, comparative fabric draping method in controlled light, I identify your seasonal palette: the hues, depths and intensities that soften shadows, define your features and make you look rested and well.

Colour analysis is guidance, not a rulebook. I want you to understand the colours that harmonise with your features, so that getting dressed is easier and the next thing you buy is something you will actually wear. I am not here to police your wardrobe.

A refinement of classic seasonal analysis. Each of the four families, Spring, Autumn, Winter and Summer, holds four distinct sub-seasons, from True Spring to Muted Summer, sixteen palettes in all. The extra precision matters: two people can both be Summers yet suit noticeably different colours. Your result names your home season, your sub-season and your sister seasons, so you know exactly where your palette sits and where it can borrow from.

Yes. Every person has natural colouring, so every person has a palette, across all ages, genders and skin tones. I apply the 16-season system through individual observation, never assumption. If you have accessibility requirements, or anything at all that would help you feel comfortable, tell me before the appointment and I will make the adjustments I reasonably can.

Anyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian for the duration of the appointment.

Yes. Colour behaves in exactly the same way on everyone, and men are very welcome here.

Yes. I am professionally trained in personal colour analysis, and I practise the 16-season method: four seasonal families, each holding four distinct sub-seasons.

A colour analysis makes a lovely and rather memorable gift. Do enquire through the contact page, mention that it is for someone else, and I will arrange it with you. Do note that the person attending should be happy to come without makeup and fake tan on the day.

Come without makeup and without fake tan; both can mask your natural undertone, which is the foundation of the analysis. Wear something comfortable with a low neckline, avoiding high necks and polo necks, come with your hair as you normally wear it, and bring nothing else but curiosity. I send full preparation guidance with your booking confirmation.

If you would rather not spend the rest of the day without makeup, do bring it with you. There is time to put it back on before you leave.

There can be, if you would like there to be. Tulsi is my eighteen-month-old Australian Labradoodle. She is hypoallergenic and does not shed, and she loves people, children and other dogs in roughly equal measure. Many clients enjoy having her about; she is very good company and a shameless opportunist for a bit of fuss.

She is only in the room if you want her there. If you would prefer not, just say so on the consent form or when you arrive, and she will settle somewhere else quite happily. You never need to explain why, and it makes no difference at all to your appointment.

Not at all. Plenty of my clients colour their hair, and it does not get in the way of an accurate analysis.

Your natural hair colour gives me helpful information about your overall colouring and contrast. Where hair has been dyed, I cover it with a neutral scarf during the assessment, so that what I am reading is your natural colouring and the colours that harmonise with you, rather than with your current hair colour.

Often, yes. Do mention it when you enquire and I will let you know what works for the service and the space you are booking. Anyone under 18 attending an appointment must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout.

I hold appointments in person in my home studio in London and, when I am home in Australia, in Brisbane. I confirm the precise location and available dates with your booking, together with directions and everything you need for the day.

No, and deliberately so. An accurate analysis depends on controlled light and true fabric colour against your skin, and neither of those survives a camera and a screen. I hold every appointment in person, so that what you see in the mirror is real.

Your appointment moves through four stages. We start with a conversation about what you are hoping to get from the day. Then comes the draping, where I hold precision-dyed fabrics against you one after another so that you can see the differences for yourself. Then your home season and your precise sub-season emerge. And finally we turn all of it into practical guidance for real life, from coats and denim to metals and glasses.

The exact contents, duration and location of each service are confirmed when your booking is arranged.

That depends on the service you have booked.

For a Seasonal Discovery, please allow 45 to 60 minutes. That is enough for me to assess your undertone accurately and place you in your home season, which gives you a range of colours you can wear with confidence.

For a Signature Colour Analysis, please allow 90 minutes, and up to two hours in case we need a little longer.

For Colour Together, which covers two people, please allow between two and a half and three hours.

All three are set out in full on the services page.

No. I really do not think colour analysis should be about handing you a list of things you suddenly cannot wear.

Your palette simply shows where your natural harmony lies. If you love a colour that sits outside it, I will show you how to wear it beautifully: away from your face, paired with one of your best colours, or in another version of it that sits more comfortably in your season. There are so many versions of essentially the same colour. We are not saying you cannot wear red. We are finding your red.

And if black is not one of your most harmonious colours, you will leave knowing exactly which shades give you the same sophistication while bringing a little more life to your complexion. For a lot of my clients that turns out to be the most useful thing they take home.

Every service includes practical guidance you can act on immediately, and any take-home palette, guide or materials described in the service listing are yours to keep for personal use. I confirm the details when your appointment is arranged.

Keep loving it. Wear it away from your face, pair it with one of your palette colours to balance it, or find the version of it that leans towards your season, because most colours have one. We will cover exactly this in your appointment, since it is the question everyone asks.

Your season is based on your natural colouring, so it does not follow trends and it does not expire. Most people find their palette stays with them for life, softening gently as hair silvers and colouring changes over the years. That is also what makes an analysis such a sustainable thing to do: every future purchase can be made with a little confidence rather than a lot of guessing.

Palettes tend to raise their best questions a week later, in a changing room. Do email me at [email protected] afterwards and I will reply personally.

You can book online from the services page, choosing your service, date and time, and paying securely as you book. If you would rather talk it through first, enquire through the contact page or email [email protected], and I will reply personally with availability. Cancellation and rescheduling are covered plainly in the Booking Terms; in short, more than 48 hours’ notice gives you a refund or a transfer, and I am always human about genuine emergencies.