Stylistic analysis of appearance from January 28, 2021

Greetings, dear fellow travelers!

No matter the goal of your style search—whether you want to create your own vibrant character that reflects all facets of your soul or project an image that will foster career advancement—you'll need a solid foundation of facts about the potential of your appearance. Otherwise, you won't achieve a harmonious image, and that's precisely why we're all gathered here today.

In building this foundation, we are aided by a stylistic technical analysis—a derivation of those appearance characteristics that are difficult to ignore: color type, linearity, and image type. With this analysis of a bold and beautiful female volunteer, I would like to once again illustrate the importance and accessibility of defining these characteristics.

Let's start, traditionally, with the color type

Color type is determined by key characteristics (warmth/coolness, lightness/darkness, brightness/softness) and further verified using collages. If you lack visual experience, you can test all color types using collages, but we'll stick with a few borderline ones.

First, we create a palette of primary colors and their harmonies using the website color.adobe and evaluate it alongside the photo. What are the colors of the exterior? There's no doubt that they aren't rich and dark, like gouache, but light, watercolor-like, so we immediately rule out Winter, as well as Dark and Warm Autumn. The colors are rather cool and soft, but the lips and eyes are quite saturated, which raises some doubts, so perhaps we'll consider Light, Soft, and, to identify the temperature characteristics, Cool Summer and Warm Spring.

Let's take a look:

Bright summer - Bright spring - Mild summer - Mild autumn - Cold summer - Warm spring

So, first of all, it's noticeable that the very bright colors of Light color types accentuate the lips and eyes, but overall, they take center stage and slightly paler the skin. The temperature characteristic leans toward cool, as Cool Summer looks much healthier than Warm Spring. Our heroine looks most harmonious in a Soft Summer environment, but it's worth considering that, with makeup, she can play with both Cool Summer and Light, and even slightly lean into the "warmth" of Soft Autumn—it's up to the image types and archetypes she wants to express. This breadth of possibilities is provided by the neutrality of the characteristics and medium tonal contrast. Beautiful lip color and eye color, of course, should be emphasized whenever possible.

Linearity

A brief introduction. Everyone knows what a color type is and understands its purpose (or maybe they don't, but they accept its significance on faith). The topic of linearity is touched upon much less frequently, but it's no less (if not more) important. Once you become familiar with it, you stop dividing passersby into attractive and unattractive—they've either managed to adorn themselves with the appropriate frame, or "something went wrong." And almost always, the "wrong" lies in incorrect linearity, because beauty, as we know, is in harmony, and for this, the lines of the image must echo the lines of the appearance. Let's begin by looking for the lines that were intended to adorn our heroine.

We turn on our visual thinking and glance at the face. What do we see? Do we see volume (that is, shapes) or just lines? Should we sculpt the face or draw it?

The first thing I'd like to note is the so-called "landscape" quality of the facial features—their softness, a certain blurriness, and a lack of definition. Of course, we're talking about shapes as the basis. The very term "landscape" also suggests a certain tranquility in the features, eliminating the presence of tense lines. So, our choices are Hard and Soft shapes, as well as Flaccid and Smooth lines:

Solid - Soft - Flowing - Languid

The collages reveal that our romantic girl's face is a blend of various types of tenderness—the foundation is, of course, Soft, but not soft like an ethereal, insubstantial cloud, but like the paw of a rather large cat. This soft heft allows for more defined styles, shifting the recommendations toward the Hard Line, but with the utmost care to avoid hard angles. In terms of the content of this foundation, it's worth noting that the Smooth Line appears overly dynamic, while the Slack Eye Line complements the romantic impression and can be used, for example, in accessories or as an underlayer (bows/ruffles on blouses and dresses) under something more substantial (jackets and knitwear).

Total: dense rounded base (fusion of Softness and Solidness) + nuanced Languid line.

The tale is soon told, and we've reached the final part of the technical analysis:

Image types

A personality type, to put it simply, is your attractiveness, your sex appeal, that vibrant image you project to the world with particular ease and can fully express by following these guidelines. This is your role in our life-theater.

How do we determine the role of our beautiful woman? We can draw on the characteristics we've already identified, examining and correlating colors and lines with personality types, but the simplest and most effective method is collages with a corresponding aesthetic. In this case, however, we can already observe that the dominant component of our heroine's appearance is natural. This is clearly indicated by the linearity of her face—her features are dense, voluminous, "open," and "landscape-like." Therefore, we'll immediately move on to the search for complementary features, also eliminating the element of naive romanticism, as her features lack the compactness inherent to it. Before us are Wild, Sensual, and Local. Let's look:

Savage - Manor - Sensual

And let's also take a look at the photos "from life":

Savage - Manor - Sensual

In the Wild Surroundings, it becomes even more apparent that our volunteer is an exceptionally positive character. Drama, after all, presupposes a certain amount of danger in a person's face. The cool coloring, calm facial features, and a certain serious solidity suggest a classical component, so even in its purest form, the Local character appears harmonious. The Sensual character, in its purest form, seems too natural and light, but the deepening of the eyes can't help but impart a touch of complex romanticism to the image, so the Manor character played by this beautiful girl will be a little non-canonical—more tender and dreamy.

All the collected data and associations evoke thoughts of city parks, where you can relax on the lawn over lunch or sit with a book in the shade of the lush crowns of flowering trees—a cozy island of nature amid the hustle and bustle of the big city:

Possible figurative reference

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That's all for now, dear fellow travelers. I hope you found this analysis useful and inspiring. I'm also always happy to receive volunteers for a similar public analysis under special conditions.

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Peace between the outer and inner to each and everyone!

Thank you for your trust, and until next time!