Speaker 1: Episode three point fifty five, The Secret to curating a
Speaker 1: capsule wardrobe You'll love.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 2: save money, embrace simplicity and life. Here your hosts, Jen
Speaker 2: and Jill.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen,
Speaker 1: my name is Jill, and today we are talking about
Speaker 1: how you can create a closet full of clothes that
Speaker 1: you love that is complete. It's comprehensive, but it's not
Speaker 1: jam packing stuffed out of your drawers. It's enough. And
Speaker 1: that's what we're really looking at. That specific ways that
Speaker 1: you can do that. It's going to be different for everyone.
Speaker 1: And we're so excited to talk about this because Jill
Speaker 1: and I did a little something special, some special research
Speaker 1: for this episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some field work.
Speaker 1: We did some field work, yes, and we're excited to
Speaker 1: share it with you. But first, this episode is brought
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Speaker 1: There are a few other episodes in the same vein
Speaker 1: that will help you go above and beyond on this episode.
Speaker 1: So we've got episode two twenty eight, Tips for creating
Speaker 1: a capsule wardrobe that you will love for years. So
Speaker 1: this is this is overview of capsule wardrobe. Today we
Speaker 1: are focusing more on the love part than the capsule part,
Speaker 1: and episode two twenty eight focuses more on the capsule
Speaker 1: versus the love. So this is kind of part two
Speaker 1: to that episode two twenty eight. And then we also
Speaker 1: have episode two eleven, how to save money on clothes.
Speaker 1: So once you listen to these two episodes, go ahead
Speaker 1: and go on back to two eleven because it will
Speaker 1: help you in building out the framework that we're kind
Speaker 1: of laying down for you in today's episode and twenty.
Speaker 3: So we are kicking it off then with our first article.
Speaker 3: We don't need to spend long here, but I think
Speaker 3: that this highlights so really some helpful foundational principles. And
Speaker 3: this actually comes from LinkedIn, which is a fun place
Speaker 3: to get articles from professionals in the field. This is
Speaker 3: written by Morton Thorn on LinkedIn and it's titled The
Speaker 3: Three Criteria for Designing Your Perfect Capsule Wardrobe. Use this
Speaker 3: scientific method science. I knew Jen you would like that.
Speaker 1: I love a scientifig then I don't. I didn't know
Speaker 1: where they were going initially, but I liked where they went.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They're referencing Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg in the beginning
Speaker 3: about how they've created such an efficient capsule wardrobe, but
Speaker 3: not everybody wants grays entirely or an extremely minimalistic look.
Speaker 3: And so really laying this foundation for what are the
Speaker 3: key components that we can focus on before we even
Speaker 3: start identifying what our capsule wardrobe looks like. And so
Speaker 3: the first on here is just I'm saying that to
Speaker 3: find the clothes that make it easy and comfortable for
Speaker 3: you to look your best, they are going to need
Speaker 3: to fit these three basic criteria and the first is
Speaker 3: your body. So I think this is important to recognize.
Speaker 3: I even remember this is a bit of a side
Speaker 3: tangent but connected to the body. I used to watch
Speaker 3: that show. Now I'm blanking on what it was called
Speaker 3: from TLC where they would come in they'd like ambush
Speaker 3: people well not to wear thank you, Jase London and
Speaker 3: thank you. I could think of their names before I
Speaker 3: could think What Not to Wear Empire. I know I've
Speaker 3: not watched it in years, but I still love to
Speaker 3: think about it and one of the tips that they
Speaker 3: But as I look back though, when I have watched
Speaker 3: a show in the more recent years, they can be
Speaker 3: pretty pretty rude. I think they say some things that
Speaker 3: you definitely couldn't get away with nowadays. But one of
Speaker 3: the things that they did say that I think does
Speaker 3: stand up is that you need to dress your current body,
Speaker 3: not the body that you wish you had. And I
Speaker 3: think we can all get tripped up in that of
Speaker 3: I'm holding onto this thing because I hope I one
Speaker 3: day fit into it or fit back into it, or
Speaker 3: it's just kind of this fantasized idea of self rather
Speaker 3: than the reality of self, and where that can lead
Speaker 3: to is just really ill fitting clothes. So you just
Speaker 3: you right now, don't look your best, and you may
Speaker 3: not yet be to the goal that you have set
Speaker 3: for yourself, however realistic or unrealistic that goal might be.
Speaker 3: So I think this aspect of what is the body
Speaker 3: that I have currently and what are the ways that
Speaker 3: I can dress it really well in ways that I
Speaker 3: feel comp and not just what I want to be
Speaker 3: or what I see other people wearing, but they don't
Speaker 3: work as well on me. Because news alert, we all
Speaker 3: come in different shapes and sizes, and so different things
Speaker 3: are gonna look better on some people than on others,
Speaker 3: and better on us than on others. So really having
Speaker 3: an understanding of your body and embracing that is gonna
Speaker 3: be a really foundational piece.
Speaker 1: Mama, mamas, sit down with me right now. Just take
Speaker 1: a seat with me. If whatever you're doing, sit with
Speaker 1: me and let's talk about this, because this is what
Speaker 1: we all go through postpartum after babies, our bodies change
Speaker 1: and it is an unwelcomed fact. I hate it. I'm
Speaker 1: not here for it. It's the worst. I have clothes
Speaker 1: that I gained ten pounds after every baby, and that's
Speaker 1: why I can't have any more babies, because I cannot
Speaker 1: do this anymore. It doesn't matter how much I work
Speaker 1: out or how vigorous I stick to my macros. This
Speaker 1: is my body and it doesn't mean I'm gonna quit.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I'm gonna give up and stop being fit.
Speaker 1: It does. That does not what it means. It means
Speaker 1: that I have to stop looking at every skinny mom
Speaker 1: on Instagram, every mom fit influencer and being like I
Speaker 1: can get there, I can get there, I can be there. Well,
Speaker 1: I wasn't there before babies. That was not That was
Speaker 1: never me. Okay, So what's helped me in coming to
Speaker 1: terms with this? What is helping me? I am not
Speaker 1: there yet? Best believe I'm not there yet. I'm on
Speaker 1: a journey. I got my mental My diet, exercise and
Speaker 1: food mindset is of the early two thousands. So if
Speaker 1: you grew up with me in the early two thousands,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. So following other moms
Speaker 1: with bodies that are not the same as they were
Speaker 1: and those influencers being very open about it. I like
Speaker 1: Jamie Otis Hainer. She is from Married to First Sight,
Speaker 1: very first season, and if you watch the show when
Speaker 1: it came out like I did, she was like skinny,
Speaker 1: skinny and she loved it. And now like she's not.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's fit, but she's not like you know
Speaker 1: what any of us would describe as skinny.
Speaker 3: She became a woman, she becomes first.
Speaker 1: She and she's had two kids, right, So I love
Speaker 1: how opus and open and honest she is about that
Speaker 1: fact and how she feels about it and how she's
Speaker 1: coming into her own. There is also something called mid
Speaker 1: size fashion, so it is not regular fashion on you know,
Speaker 1: skinny minis, it's not plus size fashion, but it is
Speaker 1: mid size so T twelve, which is where I fall.
Speaker 1: I have found I've started to find those people on
Speaker 1: Instagram and you can really search mid sized fashion bodies
Speaker 1: that look like mine. Uh So, following more fashion accounts
Speaker 1: with bodies that look like mine and knowing how to
Speaker 1: dress this new body. It is a new body. This
Speaker 1: is a new body for me, and it brought me
Speaker 1: shame for a while, and now I'm learning to embrace it,
Speaker 1: knowing that this is the way bodies form, and having
Speaker 1: the freedom to let go of the clothes that fit
Speaker 1: me two babies ago, and being able to look at
Speaker 1: clothes on other people who look like me and searching
Speaker 1: more for those styles versus the things that look better
Speaker 1: on very thin people. So that I think is a
Speaker 1: huge key in what we wanted to start the episode
Speaker 1: off with and how to create wardrobe that you love.
Speaker 1: It may not look like the Pinterest boards or the
Speaker 1: Amazon boards that you're seeing online. To look for people
Speaker 1: who specialize in fashion who look most like you so
Speaker 1: that you can dress the body you have now. And
Speaker 1: let's say you get real fit and you become a
Speaker 1: fit mom influencer. Awesome, you can sell those clothes on Poshmark,
Speaker 1: then that's great, So don't worry about a sunk cost
Speaker 1: of buying clothes. But yeah, so that's where we want
Speaker 1: to start. That's the tone we want to start this off.
Speaker 3: On, and not to bury the lead too much. Within
Speaker 3: this article and their talk about body, one of the
Speaker 3: things that they mention is recognizing your coloring, your skin tone,
Speaker 3: and the types of colors that are going to look
Speaker 3: best on you. That's where we're going to spend the
Speaker 3: majority of our time in the next portion. That definitely
Speaker 3: ties into the field work that Jenna and I did.
Speaker 3: But that's an important piece to note about body because
Speaker 3: it is a foundational piece here that's going to help
Speaker 3: us know what clothes look best on us and where
Speaker 3: can we feel the most empowered in what we're wearing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like when we say coloring, not like your skin tone,
Speaker 1: like not how much melanin you have, but like undertones
Speaker 1: of like cool and warm and stuff like this. So
Speaker 1: it's across the board, useful for like all types of women.
Speaker 1: So I'm yes, that's the field work we did, and
Speaker 1: we're going to share that in the next article. But
Speaker 1: after your sat your body type, you want to look
Speaker 1: at your lifestyle. So I know, as a mom of two,
Speaker 1: my lifestyle really loves leggings, loves ath leisure, especially as
Speaker 1: a podcaster who works from home, who nobody sees except
Speaker 1: maybe when I come out of my I leave my
Speaker 1: house like once a week, and that's when people see me. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: like who cares what I look like? Right?
Speaker 3: Wrong?
Speaker 1: Stop thinking that just because I'm speaking of the moms here,
Speaker 1: but I can speak equally to all my non moms
Speaker 1: who work from home. Don't dress for other people, dress
Speaker 1: for yourself. And so if your lifestyle is more in
Speaker 1: the comfort of your own home, that doesn't necessarily mean
Speaker 1: you have to wear Obviously you shouldn't wear like business
Speaker 1: casual every day you're just at home, But it also
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that leggings and a T shirt are it. Right.
Speaker 1: You can find this middle ground where you are comfortable
Speaker 1: but also you feel good. You're you're waking up and
Speaker 1: you're putting on clothes that make you look in the
Speaker 1: mirror and say, oh, heck yeah, like this is why
Speaker 1: I have so many children. So you can find that
Speaker 1: middle ground, uh, and just base it on your your
Speaker 1: level of going outside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. I think it throws people off
Speaker 3: that even though I work from home and I hardly
Speaker 3: go anywhere, I still will put on sun dresses and
Speaker 3: skirts and right now I'm wearing jeans and what I
Speaker 3: would consider a blouse, not a T shirt and earrings
Speaker 3: just because I like it. It's like what if someone
Speaker 3: knocks on the door now, but I'm not doing it
Speaker 3: for that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We dress so that when we do that, although I
Speaker 1: do get in your mirror, we you know, we say yes,
Speaker 1: this is it, this is what they.
Speaker 3: It does break down somewhere because yeah, some people might
Speaker 3: take that and say, well then I'll just be naked.
Speaker 3: And so in that case, please put on clothes for
Speaker 3: other people.
Speaker 1: That's choice, right now, clothes you put on right in
Speaker 1: that case, yes, wear clothes for other people. If that's you,
Speaker 1: I take it back. I have been proven wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And so the third category on here is your taste,
Speaker 3: recognizing what your preferences are. That there's probably a style
Speaker 3: or maybe even colors, cuts, types of clothing that you
Speaker 3: just prefer over others. I am not a big sequence person.
Speaker 3: I'm just not going to have a lot of sequence
Speaker 3: in my wardrobe. I don't love yellow, yellow, bright yellow.
Speaker 3: It is not going to be a part of my wardrobe.
Speaker 3: So what you like is going to have to play
Speaker 3: a pretty big role into the things that you wear,
Speaker 3: often the things that you choose to keep. I think
Speaker 3: this is one of the reasons that our closets can
Speaker 3: get so cluttered, and then we feel like we don't
Speaker 3: have anything to wear because it's so chock full of
Speaker 3: clothing that doesn't fit our bodies, that doesn't fit our lifestyle,
Speaker 3: that doesn't fit our taste. We're holding onto shirts we
Speaker 3: bought in college when we used to go out all
Speaker 3: the time, and now we're not doing that, but it
Speaker 3: reminds us of an age gone by, and we can't
Speaker 3: get rid of it. But it's just not our taste anymore.
Speaker 3: We're not doing halter tops. So I think kind of
Speaker 3: having that inward introspective opportunity to really realize what do
Speaker 3: I like now, what's the season of life I'm in now,
Speaker 3: what are the things that I think look good, what's
Speaker 3: my overall style? And finding things that fit for our taste.
Speaker 3: And so I think when we hit all three of
Speaker 3: these categories our body type, our coloring, our lifestyle, our taste,
Speaker 3: we've really narrowed down the clothing that's going to remain
Speaker 3: and the clothing that we may choose to purchase in
Speaker 3: the future is where we can have that wardrobe that
Speaker 3: we love. But it's not massive. I mean, chances are
Speaker 3: we're all actually wearing a minimalist wardrobe. We're just keeping
Speaker 3: everything else we never wear in our closet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's clutter, and every time we try and buy
Speaker 1: something new, it goes against like one of these things,
Speaker 1: and then we wonder, like why do I even try
Speaker 1: at all? Uh, And so we just keep wearing the
Speaker 1: same things over and over. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: when you see these capsule wardrobe examples on Pinterest and Amazon,
Speaker 1: it's all black, white, gray, and beige, like that is
Speaker 1: the safe zone for most clothing. But what if I
Speaker 1: want to add a little color. But I'm adding a
Speaker 1: color that looked good on my friend, and then I
Speaker 1: put it on and it looks off on me for
Speaker 1: some reason. It's same with makeup. And this is something
Speaker 1: Jill and I were both noticing and really wanted to know, like,
Speaker 1: why can't we just be like everyone else is, you know,
Speaker 1: quote unquote like if every if it can work for
Speaker 1: everyone else, like why doesn't it work for us? And
Speaker 1: that's so I started getting really interested in the concept
Speaker 1: of a color palette. And as this just a backstory
Speaker 1: leading into our next article, but I am trying to
Speaker 1: dress this new body, and I'm trying to finally buy
Speaker 1: clothes that I can feel good in because the clothes
Speaker 1: I wore two babies ago don't make me feel good,
Speaker 1: and I keep holding onto them, you know. I kept
Speaker 1: holding onto them, you know, because one day I'm going
Speaker 1: to fit back into my old clothes that made me
Speaker 1: feel good. Uh, And it just wasn't working. And I'm
Speaker 1: looking at these new styles and I'm like, I'm so
Speaker 1: intimidated by everything out there right now, and I'm intimidating
Speaker 1: by styles all right, craptop styles, colors, all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And so that's what first led me to following a
Speaker 1: bunch of people that we're talking about colors, saying that
Speaker 1: there is a reason why your friend looks really good
Speaker 1: in purple lipstick, and then you buy it and put
Speaker 1: it on and you look like Wednesday Atoms. There's a
Speaker 1: reason that your friend looks really good in a bright
Speaker 1: pink top and it just like you look at her
Speaker 1: and she looks effervescent, and you put it on and
Speaker 1: all you see is the bright pink top. Like you
Speaker 1: fade to you fade to the background, and it is top,
Speaker 1: you know, pink forward. There's a reason for that, and
Speaker 1: that comes from your from a number of scientific things
Speaker 1: that I not science, but like words that will say
Speaker 1: but I don't fully understand. So it's okay, we're not
Speaker 1: going to explain them fully. But I wanted to get
Speaker 1: a professional's help on this, and we'll talk about my
Speaker 1: month's long journey of trying to do it on my own,
Speaker 1: and then when we finally did this. But I surprised
Speaker 1: Jill with do making Jill do this thing with me
Speaker 1: in the name of podcasting, And I don't know how.
Speaker 3: How excited Jill was. Yeah, Oh I loved it.
Speaker 1: Ye. Yes, So we met our new friend Natalie Hansen,
Speaker 1: who is a color consultant in Saint Petersburg. Color consultants
Speaker 1: do exist. It is not consulting in colors for your
Speaker 1: house or your your artwork. It is for your clothes.
Speaker 1: And I was fascinated by how on it was. And
Speaker 1: so like we'll say, I'll say this with the caveat
Speaker 1: of the things that we said in the first article
Speaker 1: that if something you wear makes you feel good, fits
Speaker 1: your lifestyle and fits your style, your taste, and even
Speaker 1: if it's outside your color palette, like we go with
Speaker 1: that first, we go with the love feel. And then
Speaker 1: if while we're shopping, if we feel overwhelmed and confused,
Speaker 1: that's when we take into consideration the color palette. Because
Speaker 1: I was looking at stuff on Amazon and they come
Speaker 1: in twenty different colors and I'm like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do, or I'm in Goodwill and everything, like
Speaker 1: I'm taking everything in my size and all these different colors,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I am overwhelmed, you know, like
Speaker 1: there's just too much here. And so knowing the colors
Speaker 1: that look best on me have already helped me in
Speaker 1: like narrowing down what I try on at Goodwill and
Speaker 1: even like what I put in my cart to say
Speaker 1: for later on Amazon or any other store, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been really helpful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we are really discovering since meeting with Natalie through
Speaker 3: who's a color consultant through House of Color, how much
Speaker 3: of a game changer learning your colors are and how
Speaker 3: helpful it will be for our wardrobes, for the money
Speaker 3: that we spend, for feeling good in our clothing for
Speaker 3: the rest of our lives. Because once you find your color,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be your color. Even if you get can
Speaker 3: in the summer and pale in the winter, you are coloring.
Speaker 3: The undertones of your skin aren't going to shift. So
Speaker 3: this is really a you engage in this once you
Speaker 3: figure it out, and then you are well informed for
Speaker 3: purchasing and maintaining clothing really for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3: So we really do feel like there's such a key
Speaker 3: in here, which is what that second article is going
Speaker 3: to talk about. And so this article comes from color
Speaker 3: Curate and it's five ways personal color analysis is life changing,
Speaker 3: and I think we can commiserate. We are about what
Speaker 3: a month out from maybe two months out from our
Speaker 3: field work with Natalie where we got our coloring done,
Speaker 3: and it already does feel pretty life changing in knowing
Speaker 3: what to keep in my wardrobe, in leaning into the
Speaker 3: colors that work for me, and then it's informing what
Speaker 3: I'm going to purchase that I put on my body
Speaker 3: in the future. And so just to describe this a
Speaker 3: little bit more, there's a couple I think we'll say
Speaker 3: a little bit about this, But coloring is identifying what
Speaker 3: are the types of colors that look the best on
Speaker 3: you with your the undertones of your skin. And I
Speaker 3: one of the myths that existed for me when I
Speaker 3: thought about this. I had heard of people doing their
Speaker 3: coloring in the past, but I thought that it meant
Speaker 3: that then only certain people get to wear yellow, and
Speaker 3: then only certain people get to wear green. And it's
Speaker 3: kind of because usually they talk about colorings in the seasons.
Speaker 3: There's winter, spring, summer, and fall. There's also sub seasons
Speaker 3: within that. But I kind of thought, oh, okay, so
Speaker 3: winters only get to really wear dark colors and falls
Speaker 3: only get to wear those earthy colors. And that is
Speaker 3: not true at all. There is every type of color.
Speaker 3: The rainbow of color exists for every color season. It's
Speaker 3: just the shadings of the reds that work for the
Speaker 3: best for the summer versus the shades of reds that
Speaker 3: work best for an autumn. So I wanted to spell
Speaker 3: that myth for any of us who are already like,
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm going to do this because I
Speaker 3: don't want to get boxed in. It doesn't take away
Speaker 3: any colors. It just helps to narrow down which type,
Speaker 3: which shades are going to look best on you. And
Speaker 3: I think it helped me understand and so much about
Speaker 3: why certain things that fit my body, like fit actual cut,
Speaker 3: fit my body, it fit my taste, it fit my lifestyle,
Speaker 3: but it still doesn't look that great on me for
Speaker 3: some reason. It's like that was the missing link. It
Speaker 3: wasn't the right color. So here we are. We're gonna
Speaker 3: we're gonna help bring you over to this side of
Speaker 3: things in why coloring can be so life changing and
Speaker 3: why we think it's the key to a capsule wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, So the first reason that personal color
Speaker 1: analysis changed this author's life and it has changed our
Speaker 1: lives is that people notice you before your clothes, and
Speaker 1: I think this is the it's It can sometimes be confusing.
Speaker 1: I think even now that we know our color plots,
Speaker 1: and I guess we should say what our color, what
Speaker 1: our palettes are before we move on. So I am
Speaker 1: an autumn in house of color. And there are several
Speaker 1: schools of thought in color paletting, so a house of
Speaker 1: color has four, and then there's also a school of
Speaker 1: thought that where there's twelve. So there's like three sub
Speaker 1: types in each season. That can sometimes feel a little overwhelming.
Speaker 1: So if you're prone to like feeling overwhelmed by clothes,
Speaker 1: just stick with the one season. So like, I'm an
Speaker 1: autumn autumns, these are my colors. But if you want
Speaker 1: to get a little more granual, because you like specifically
Speaker 1: labeling yourself, like I do. I looked at the different
Speaker 1: autumn types, which is like dark, true or warm and soft,
Speaker 1: and for a while I thought it was soft, and
Speaker 1: then I got the professional like drapings from Natalie and
Speaker 1: realize that I'm actually true autumn or it's also called
Speaker 1: a warm autumn. And the way I did that is
Speaker 1: that I just took her palette and we figured out
Speaker 1: all my best colors, and then I looked at what
Speaker 1: my colors which sub season they sat in, and they
Speaker 1: all sat in the warm autumn category, and those were
Speaker 1: the colors. The best colors were the ones where they
Speaker 1: made my light like my face, like where you saw
Speaker 1: my face first and my face looked good, and it
Speaker 1: was like we went in and you don't wear makeup.
Speaker 1: You sit in front of the window and she just
Speaker 1: drapes you with different shades of colors. Soci'll you know,
Speaker 1: two different book swatches, Yes, two different blues, two different greens,
Speaker 1: two different reds, to see like the ones that look
Speaker 1: the best. And so that's how we figured out I'm
Speaker 1: an autumn chill.
Speaker 3: I wanted to be an autumn so badly. This is
Speaker 3: a funny because truly my preferences of color. If you
Speaker 3: were to talk Taye in color, I love the more
Speaker 3: earthy tones. So while all the seasons have all of
Speaker 3: the colors, I would prefer it feels nicer on my
Speaker 3: eyes to look at the greens, the reds, the browns
Speaker 3: of autumn. Love those colors, They're great. Wanted them to
Speaker 3: look great on me. But through the process of elimination,
Speaker 3: we discovered that I was not an autumn. The things
Speaker 3: that I wore an autumn, I think some of the
Speaker 3: words that were used to describe me were jendice. That also,
Speaker 3: my jowls looked like they were drooping when I wore
Speaker 3: the colorings of autumn, And it took me some time
Speaker 3: to agree. I could see a difference between the different colors,
Speaker 3: but I couldn't necessarily immediately identify which color was better.
Speaker 3: I could just see that they were different. And through
Speaker 3: the course of two hours, it became apparent to me
Speaker 3: that I am a summer, which I am actually embracing
Speaker 3: now because I love summer. Summer's my favorite. I moved
Speaker 3: to Florida because perpetual summer, so we're all good there.
Speaker 3: And then to narrow it down even more, I would
Speaker 3: I'm a true slash cool summer. And what that means
Speaker 3: is that just even within all of I think it's
Speaker 3: like thirty two colors in each season, there's maybe eight
Speaker 3: colors that truly look the best of the best. Like
Speaker 3: I could wear all of the colors of the summer,
Speaker 3: but the ones that fall under the category of true
Speaker 3: summer look best on me. And I think that that
Speaker 3: does help even in narrowing down even more of a
Speaker 3: capsule wardrobe, like if I were to really want only
Speaker 3: a few pieces, then it would just be those those
Speaker 3: what fifteen colors within the sub season. And the nice
Speaker 3: thing about this too, is that there's harmony. That's a
Speaker 3: word we learned from Natalie with House of Color, is
Speaker 3: the harmony between the colors so a lot of these
Speaker 3: colors you can blend and pair with one another because
Speaker 3: they look really nice together, they harmonize well together, and
Speaker 3: then they harmonize well with your skin tone. So you
Speaker 3: don't have to go white, gray, black in order to
Speaker 3: have a versatile wardrobe. You can find the harmonious colors
Speaker 3: and blend them together and have a vibrant, versatile, but
Speaker 3: minimal wardrobe. And so that's what blends into number two,
Speaker 3: which is it can save you time and money. And
Speaker 3: that's what the shopping and how much money you spend
Speaker 3: on things that don't actually look good on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think why we see so many quote unquote
Speaker 1: capsule wardrobes being of one predominant color, and that color
Speaker 1: is usually black for so many people, Like it wasn't
Speaker 1: just me, like I'm actually still wearing a black top
Speaker 1: right now because I'm And we'll get into that, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll get into that safe time and money part,
Speaker 1: But like I didn't overhaul my wardrobe as soon as
Speaker 1: I found out black isn't in my color palette. So
Speaker 1: every season has like their version of black and their
Speaker 1: version of white. Winter is actually black and white, whereas
Speaker 1: autumn would be like a brown and cream, But I
Speaker 1: didn't take out everything outside of my color palette because
Speaker 1: a lot of it still fit my lifestyle and my
Speaker 1: body and my taste. So I am slowly kind of
Speaker 1: easing into my capsule wardrobe in this color. But I
Speaker 1: think one of the reasons why we see capsule wardrobe
Speaker 1: pictures that are all black, white and tope, black white
Speaker 1: and beige is because those those colors are harmonious together.
Speaker 1: But you can create a colorful wardrobe that still has harmony.
Speaker 1: And I think finding your color palette not only it
Speaker 1: helps you look your best, helps you feel your back,
Speaker 1: but it makes sure that you're not wasting money on
Speaker 1: pieces that are not harmonious with the rest of your closet.
Speaker 1: So that will just maximize the number of outfit choices
Speaker 1: that you have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love the example given here. The author said
Speaker 3: that previously, if there was a sale on you know,
Speaker 3: by two for one tank tops, she would get a
Speaker 3: black one and a white one and that's great, or
Speaker 3: you know, three for twenty and just pick a random
Speaker 3: color that she liked. And now she's realizing that when
Speaker 3: she comes across a sale or a shopping for clothing,
Speaker 3: she can bring along her color palette and take a
Speaker 3: look if any of the colors match what she knows
Speaker 3: looks good on her, and if not, she says she
Speaker 3: easily and happily walks away, not spending any money. So
Speaker 3: I think it can just bring such clarity to our
Speaker 3: spending decisions as well, and can help us say no
Speaker 3: because we've got that very very clear filter of it's
Speaker 3: just not going to look best on me, and scientifically
Speaker 3: here's why, and I can walk away and say no,
Speaker 3: and it's not deprivation.
Speaker 1: And the time piece is also one you don't we
Speaker 1: don't emphasize as much. But I remember there was a
Speaker 1: time I went to Goodwill and I got a huge
Speaker 1: stack of clothes to try on, and I tried on
Speaker 1: every single one. None of them looked that I felt
Speaker 1: looked good on me. Uh, And that part of it
Speaker 1: was just the colors, like part of it was size.
Speaker 1: But I wasted so much time pulling these clothes and
Speaker 1: trying them on when I could have saved. I could
Speaker 1: have done it in half the time if I had
Speaker 1: just stuck to close that were like that A were
Speaker 1: in the size that I am now currently, and we're
Speaker 1: in my color palette. If I had just done that,
Speaker 1: I could have saved so much time, especially thrifting, because
Speaker 1: you don't just get to walk in, pick one of
Speaker 1: each in your size, and walk into the dressing room.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: So, if you are somebody who likes to shop sec
Speaker 1: at hand, this can be really really good. And the
Speaker 1: back to the harmony part is that you don't have
Speaker 1: to match up colors exactly to your palette. Is that
Speaker 1: you can walk in with the palette and just open
Speaker 1: it and if the shirt looks good along with the
Speaker 1: rest of the colors, you know it's going to look
Speaker 1: good with the rest of your closet. You don't have
Speaker 1: to bring along everything in your closet with you where
Speaker 1: wherever you go to see if it's going to look
Speaker 1: good with you know, those pants that you have or
Speaker 1: that top you're looking, you know, for another piece for
Speaker 1: If you can bring along your tiny, you know, tiny
Speaker 1: little color palette, then you can eliminate some of that,
Speaker 1: you know confusion. The next is that you gain a
Speaker 1: wardrobe that really works. And so the color pellette really
Speaker 1: gives you a framework for building the wardrobe as long
Speaker 1: as it's paired with those things we were talking about
Speaker 1: at the top of the episode, your body, your lifestyle,
Speaker 1: and your taste. When you are true to that and
Speaker 1: you just use the color palette to accentuate those things,
Speaker 1: you will create a capsule wardrobe that you will love forever.
Speaker 1: Because your color palette never changes. You'll only get better
Speaker 1: and better at buying clothes that fit in it because
Speaker 1: it works on your What they use three words and
Speaker 1: if you know colors, maybe you'll understand it. I don't
Speaker 1: really understand, but it's hue, value and chroma, So Hugh
Speaker 1: is if your undertones are warm or cool, and this
Speaker 1: does not. It's not overtones because a lot there are
Speaker 1: women that can have like a warm overtone or maybe
Speaker 1: more olive skin. But two women with olive skin does
Speaker 1: not necessarily mean they are both warm. You could be
Speaker 1: one could be cool and one could be warm. So
Speaker 1: that's one of the like that's one of the benefits
Speaker 1: of having somebody that knows what they're doing help you
Speaker 1: with this is because I would have never known that.
Speaker 1: And then there's also value, so like I would say,
Speaker 1: this made me value, and chroma seemed the same to me,
Speaker 1: like saturated or desaturated, Like when I had a desaturated
Speaker 1: color in my palette, like draped over me. It made
Speaker 1: me look washed out. And that was like the soft
Speaker 1: attumn colors. When I had a very saturated color on me,
Speaker 1: that's the color you saw first. So like a lot
Speaker 1: of people will be like but these I know that
Speaker 1: I've had people like compliment dark colors on me, but
Speaker 1: like it made me think like were they complimenting me
Speaker 1: in how I looked in the outfit or the outfit
Speaker 1: itself because that's all they saw on me. So it's
Speaker 1: like something to think about, like was it was it
Speaker 1: my outfit dress forward or me forward? And that was
Speaker 1: the dark like saturated colors on me? But the middle
Speaker 1: like value you know, between desaturated and saturated, those look
Speaker 1: best on me. But yeah, so when you look at
Speaker 1: those things you create whatever colors are in there, whatever
Speaker 1: colors are in your wardrobe, you can gain a collection
Speaker 1: of them that really work together.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Number four on here is my personal favorite that
Speaker 3: when you know you're coloring, you can shrink your makeup drawer.
Speaker 3: Whether or not you want to do this, but if
Speaker 3: you're anything like me, Jen, you and I talked about
Speaker 3: this specifically lipsticks, all lip things that what I have
Speaker 3: a tendency to do because I'm not going to Alta
Speaker 3: and trying out all of the different types of lipsticks.
Speaker 3: I'm going to Walmart and I'm getting what I think
Speaker 3: looks good on the shelf, only to get to my
Speaker 3: car and try and apply it using my rear view
Speaker 3: mirror and recognize this looks horrible on me. But I
Speaker 3: can't return it because now it's touched my lips and
Speaker 3: that's three to seven dollars down the drain and I'm
Speaker 3: never going to wear that anymore of anything. I am
Speaker 3: minimal in literally pretty much every aspect of life. But
Speaker 3: I have a handful of lipsticks and lip glosses because
Speaker 3: I love them. But I keep making mistakes and purchasing these,
Speaker 3: but then I feel like I can't buy new ones
Speaker 3: because I got to use up my old ones. But
Speaker 3: I'm not going to use them up because I think
Speaker 3: it looks awful on me. When you understand your coloring,
Speaker 3: you can find lipsticks, foundations, eyeshadows, eyebrow pencil color, eye liners,
Speaker 3: mascaras that look best on you, and spoiler alert, black
Speaker 3: is only reserved for winters. Only the people in the
Speaker 3: winter color and can wear black. I did not know that,
Speaker 3: and I have made the switch to browns. I always
Speaker 3: just thought, I want it to be more intensive, and
Speaker 3: they're all just like, no, it just doesn't look good.
Speaker 3: So it's helped me know what looks best on me.
Speaker 3: And then once you realize that you only need, according
Speaker 3: to House of Color and our friend Natalie, three lipsticks,
Speaker 3: I love that. I love that information. Those are some
Speaker 3: good facts that you can get all that you need
Speaker 3: in three different shades of lipsticks that will work with
Speaker 3: every single color, or like one of them is going
Speaker 3: to work with the different colors within that wardrobe. So
Speaker 3: it has helped save me money already in informing what
Speaker 3: type of makeup should I be buying, what type of
Speaker 3: eyeshadow should I be leaning into, and you can have
Speaker 3: such a minimalist palette in that way, which I think
Speaker 3: does resonate with a lot of our listeners. A lot
Speaker 3: of our listeners are just like, I want inexpensive makeup.
Speaker 3: I want a simple routine. I want minimalism in this,
Speaker 3: and I think right here, just when it comes to makeup,
Speaker 3: this is the key. Know what looks best on you,
Speaker 3: and then you only need one thing of eyeshadow, three lipsticks,
Speaker 3: and you could stop there. I mean you don't have
Speaker 3: to wear makeup at all. If you don't want to.
Speaker 1: Put yeah, but you could. I mean, you could always
Speaker 1: go further. If makeup is something you love, then this
Speaker 1: just helps you choose more natural styles. If you love
Speaker 1: dramatic makeup. This doesn't mean you can't, like nobody's going
Speaker 1: to stop, Like hold your wrist back as you're putting
Speaker 1: on black eyeliner and you're not a winter like, nobody's
Speaker 1: gonna stop you. But if you're putting on makeup and
Speaker 1: you're like, I just don't feel like this is the
Speaker 1: best that it could be. I feel like I can't
Speaker 1: do makeup. I'm not good at makeup. Like that is
Speaker 1: always how I have felt like I want to wear makeup.
Speaker 1: I like how it looks. I'm also confident without it,
Speaker 1: but I would like to wear it. And so I
Speaker 1: found out. So there's three points of red is how
Speaker 1: she described it. So my personal ones are rusts, corals,
Speaker 1: and warm reds. So that's like my brown, my pink,
Speaker 1: and my red. And I was able to go. I
Speaker 1: was able to get rid of freely, get rid of
Speaker 1: the lipsticks that don't look good on me because I
Speaker 1: had that sunk costs, like just like Jill. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: get rid of them because I felt like I was
Speaker 1: wasting them. But I really wasn't wearing them, you know.
Speaker 1: So I was able to get rid of them and
Speaker 1: keep the one lipstick that I had that was in
Speaker 1: my palate. It's not even it wasn't even one of
Speaker 1: the ones shades under the list of that I got.
Speaker 1: It was an extra, so it wasn't even the correct shade.
Speaker 1: It was just an extra shade. So I kept that one,
Speaker 1: and I was able to buy one and that was
Speaker 1: like a neutral coral. And I still don't have my
Speaker 1: warm red or my rest yet, but I'm saving money.
Speaker 1: I'm taking my time to get my what will be
Speaker 1: four lipsticks, I guess, because I already had the bonus
Speaker 1: one and.
Speaker 3: I don't confidence.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't love the confidending on my money on
Speaker 1: eyeshadow because I don't wear it anyway and it's not
Speaker 1: going to make me. But I was already wearing brown
Speaker 1: mascara an eyeliner because one time I was working at
Speaker 1: a foster home and one of the teens like, for
Speaker 1: some reason, I just bought black eyeliner because I wanted
Speaker 1: to try something new, and I wore it with black mascara,
Speaker 1: and the girl was like one of the teen girls
Speaker 1: was like, you should not wear that again. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I'm like ten years older
Speaker 1: than you, but I'm so intimidated about you that I
Speaker 1: never wore it again.
Speaker 3: I went back to teens for that reason. I left
Speaker 3: to be so brutally honest.
Speaker 1: Yes, and I thanked her for that later. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's for makeup alone. I think it will save
Speaker 1: you so much money to know your color palette, especially
Speaker 1: if you are like me, like I want to wear makeup,
Speaker 1: but I am not a makeup artist. I don't watch
Speaker 1: makeup tutorials, like it's not my passion. I just I
Speaker 1: want to have a natural look that I feel good about,
Speaker 1: and this has really helped with that. It'll also tell
Speaker 1: kind of lead you with like are you more do
Speaker 1: you look better with like matt or gloss and blush,
Speaker 1: you know, stuff like that, and that kind of leads
Speaker 1: into the final one. Is you feel at home in
Speaker 1: your own skin, so, in a word, confident, that's what
Speaker 1: the article says. But yeah, I was not feeling confident,
Speaker 1: and that's what led me to look into this stuff.
Speaker 1: It led me on this journey of wanting to if
Speaker 1: I if I'm not going to have even if I
Speaker 1: want a different body type. In the meantime, I don't
Speaker 1: want to feel miserable about how I look. And that's
Speaker 1: that's what led me to this, and honestly, it's bled
Speaker 1: even over into I bought new workout clothes because I
Speaker 1: can't remember if I've ever intentionally bought workout clothes. It's
Speaker 1: always been like free shirts or whatever I can find,
Speaker 1: like when I get a free credited thread up, or
Speaker 1: I'm just like browsing, you know, thrift store stuff. Like
Speaker 1: none of my none of my sports bras fit. They
Speaker 1: were all too tight. So I finally was like, I
Speaker 1: need to buy new ath leisure because that's the lifestyle
Speaker 1: I lead. I want to be comfortable, but I want
Speaker 1: to look good for me. And I was able to
Speaker 1: buy new ath leisure for the gym and home in
Speaker 1: my color palette, and I feel really good in it.
Speaker 1: And let's be honest, leggings I just look good on everyone.
Speaker 1: They just do.
Speaker 3: I think there's a confidence that can come in feeling
Speaker 3: good when you've got things on your body that are
Speaker 3: really looking good on you, and a confidence in spending
Speaker 3: knowing that I will wear this because it looks good
Speaker 3: on me. Knowing and making confidence spending decisions, I will
Speaker 3: also quickly share. A friend of mine shout out to
Speaker 3: Britney Zoke. She said, I could share this had just
Speaker 3: gotten her coloring done too when I shared with her
Speaker 3: about what you and I did, Jen, and it helped
Speaker 3: her embrace her body even more. She also underscored this
Speaker 3: idea of confidence where she previously didn't love just the
Speaker 3: way that she looked. She felt as though she kind
Speaker 3: of had softer features, a softer jaw line, more rounded cheeks.
Speaker 3: I think she's stunning, but this was her reception of herself.
Speaker 3: And then in discovering she also is a summer that
Speaker 3: these are kind of the qualifiers of a summer. It's
Speaker 3: softer hue, softer colors, kind of like a sunset. And
Speaker 3: it really helped her to embrace the features that she
Speaker 3: has that she's going to be living with for the
Speaker 3: rest of her life, and the ways in the unique
Speaker 3: beauties of those hues and the softness and you know,
Speaker 3: it's not jagged, it's not super overwhelmingly vibrant, but it
Speaker 3: looks it's what's going to look best on her and
Speaker 3: brings out her best features and helped her to embrace that. Okay,
Speaker 3: she may not in her mind have what she finds beautiful,
Speaker 3: but how can she find beauty in herself and the
Speaker 3: parts that are beautiful about her? And so just the
Speaker 3: way that she I'm butchering how she described it, but
Speaker 3: it felt so beautiful how she was able to recognize, Oh,
Speaker 3: these are the things that I can celebrate. I do
Speaker 3: have to live with myself for the rest of my life,
Speaker 3: so might as well find the things that are going
Speaker 3: to help me feel confident and see what aspects of
Speaker 3: my makeup are beautiful and lean into those qualities rather
Speaker 3: than just being upset that you don't have the qualities
Speaker 3: that you wish you had. So, yes, there's maybe certain
Speaker 3: greens I can't wear, even though I love autumns. But
Speaker 3: there's some really fun colors I get to wear and
Speaker 3: they look the best on me. So I think so
Speaker 3: many layers of confidence and feeling comfortable in your own
Speaker 3: skin comes from this process. It probably sounds like we're
Speaker 3: becoming color analysis and we are going to like make
Speaker 3: money off of this. We're not.
Speaker 1: We just don't know anything on that color analysis, except yeah,
Speaker 1: my own, like, I know nothing. There's no way I
Speaker 1: could ever do this because I just can't see it.
Speaker 1: And that's a big thing to be said for getting
Speaker 1: it professionally done.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I thought I was one thing, and then somebody else
Speaker 1: who knows what they're looking at when they see these things,
Speaker 1: was able to show me things I didn't even know
Speaker 1: to look for. And so, yes, you do spend a
Speaker 1: couple hundred bucks up front for someone to do this
Speaker 1: in person, but you save that ten times over throughout
Speaker 1: the course of your life on clothes that you don't buy,
Speaker 1: and then clothes that you can you know do, that
Speaker 1: you do buy, you you keep longer because they're not
Speaker 1: just You're not just buying them for the fact they
Speaker 1: look good on somebody else or they're on trend.
Speaker 3: So real quick on the how to if you are
Speaker 3: sold on this, we're not getting any kickback on any
Speaker 3: of this, but there's a few ways that you can
Speaker 3: find your coloring. We would say the best way is
Speaker 3: to go to someone in person and get a color
Speaker 3: console with a professional. We used House of Color. Natalie
Speaker 3: was awesome, but we realized not everybody lives in Saint Pete,
Speaker 3: so look at.
Speaker 1: It, Doole, google Natalie Hansen hoc you'll find her. She's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Then the next best option would be online with a pro.
Speaker 3: So this is where you would send in pictures of
Speaker 3: yourself within natural lighting, wearing different types of colors. This
Speaker 3: might be a little bit more difficult if you don't
Speaker 3: have an extensive wardrobe to begin with, because it does
Speaker 3: require you to show a lot of different hues on yourself.
Speaker 3: But I've heard from other people that maybe they bring
Speaker 3: some of their own clothing and go to another friend's
Speaker 3: house who has also a big wardrobe and can show
Speaker 3: the different colors on themselves. That will be less expensive
Speaker 3: than the in person option. And finally, the least best
Speaker 3: option it could work option is to try out a
Speaker 3: tutorial online with your own wardrobe to determine yourself what
Speaker 3: your best colors are. I'm hesitant about that one because
Speaker 3: I I was not convinced of my coloring without the
Speaker 3: perspective of Natalie the professional and Jen in the room
Speaker 3: with me. I don't think I would have landed on
Speaker 3: the truth if I had just relied on my own eyes.
Speaker 3: But you could try it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're going to go online, I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of people enjoy like like created colorful. You can
Speaker 1: just look her up online or on Instagram. That's probably
Speaker 1: the only one I would go to for an online
Speaker 1: But honestly, you have to have so many pieces of clothing,
Speaker 1: and you have to add access to the right light
Speaker 1: at the right time, and there are some stipulations. So
Speaker 1: if you're willing to jump through all those hoops, you
Speaker 1: could do that. But it's so much easier to just
Speaker 1: go to a professional who has all the things, knows
Speaker 1: what they're looking at, can tell you what they are seeing,
Speaker 1: what other people are seeing. Yeah, and maybe sometimes tell
Speaker 1: you something that you don't want to hear, but tell you,
Speaker 1: like why you're better off for listening to them.
Speaker 3: Do you know what else? Is super easy and we'll
Speaker 3: make us better off every week?
Speaker 1: Yes, I never question it.
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Speaker 1: Today's lightning round. Uh is very personal, it's very intimate.
Speaker 1: We talk a lot about color and our lightning round.
Speaker 1: Question is what's one color you'd never include in your
Speaker 1: capsule wardrobe, regardless of it being in your palette? And why.
Speaker 3: Bright yellow? Cause, yeah, kes is bright yellow in your palate.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I've got a yellow of some sort.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, yellow is not my thing. My answer
Speaker 1: was orange I do have even in your palett. It
Speaker 1: is orange is in my palette, but it was not
Speaker 1: like the ones. The worst ones in my palette were
Speaker 1: old gold, which is like a yellowish it's like old gold.
Speaker 1: And royal purple were my worst.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Orange Orange was okay, So maybe I should be saying
Speaker 1: royal purple, but orange.
Speaker 3: There because there and yikes, And those are our reasons.
Speaker 3: And that's all the information you're gonna get. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's that's why.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure be round. This is the most lightning round,
Speaker 3: Lightning round.
Speaker 1: That's the only lightning round that's ever been quick, but honestly,
Speaker 1: we hope that you got a lot out of this
Speaker 1: episode and that you will not feel restricted by a
Speaker 1: color palette. It's like a budget. Budgets, if you follow
Speaker 1: them super rigidly, can be restricting. They are restricting if
Speaker 1: you follow them super rigidly, and color palettes are the
Speaker 1: same idea. If you are trying to make sure every
Speaker 1: piece of clothing you own is identical to the ones
Speaker 1: on your palette, it will feel super restricting and you
Speaker 1: will not keep up with it. But the the word
Speaker 1: we want you to remember is harmony. We want you
Speaker 1: to find your favorite colors on your palette, colors that
Speaker 1: will just by proxy from being in the in the palette.
Speaker 1: They will work well, They will work well together. You
Speaker 1: will like them all, You will like how you look
Speaker 1: in them because they are adhering to the first three rules.
Speaker 1: That the clothes fit the body you have now, they
Speaker 1: fit the lifestyle you have now, and they fit the
Speaker 1: taste that you have now. And that doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: don't have any on trend styles, but if you do,
Speaker 1: it's because you like them, not because you're trying to
Speaker 1: be someone who's on trend.
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Speaker 3: Jen. Have you gotten rid of a lot of clothing
Speaker 3: since going through this coloring? I know it's not about that.
Speaker 3: It's not about just going out and buying a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff. It's really about like being able to narrow
Speaker 3: down what's just already in your closet. But have you
Speaker 3: gotten rid of things? Yes?
Speaker 1: And so here was a benefit that I did not realize.
Speaker 1: I felt the freedom to let go of clothes I
Speaker 1: was holding onto for years that I never wore, simply
Speaker 1: because they were outside of my palette. Not because I'm
Speaker 1: a rational person who said, oh I never wear this,
Speaker 1: I should get rid of it, but because it's not
Speaker 1: in my palette. And that is what gave me permission
Speaker 1: to get rid of these things.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Alternately, there are quite a few things that are not
Speaker 1: in my palette that I still wore, and I did
Speaker 1: not get rid of those. So I am as I
Speaker 1: need things. That's how I am moving more towards my palette.
Speaker 1: I'm not going out and just replacing everything with stuff
Speaker 1: in my palette. So like this, at the end of
Speaker 1: last winter, I was like, Okay, next winter, I'm buying
Speaker 1: sweaters because all the sweaters I have are like too
Speaker 1: thin now and not helpful in the type of weather.
Speaker 1: So I already knew I was going to buy a
Speaker 1: few new sweaters this year, and when it came time
Speaker 1: to buy those, I just made sure that they were
Speaker 1: in my color palette, which was great. I needed new
Speaker 1: sunglasses and even made sure that the sunglasses were in
Speaker 1: harmony with my color palette, so instead of getting black frames,
Speaker 1: I got like a lighter brown. So yeah, so I'm
Speaker 1: just taking whenever I need something new, I'm going in
Speaker 1: that direction. First. I don't do that as much as
Speaker 1: thrift stores. Thrift stores are kind of just I go
Speaker 1: through everything and just you know, it's a take what
Speaker 1: you can get. But when I do need something specific,
Speaker 1: I'll buy that firsthand, and it's a lot easier to
Speaker 1: do that way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Somebody that I'm not doing that was suggested is
Speaker 3: that for winters and summers, they're not supposed to wear
Speaker 3: gold jewelry. They're only supposed to wear silver jewelry, and
Speaker 3: I know that I can change and I have the
Speaker 3: right to throw them a plot twist, as Jen likes
Speaker 3: to say. But for right now, I feel pretty confident
Speaker 3: that you are not gonna convince me to not wear
Speaker 3: gold jewelry. I'm not going to give that one up.
Speaker 1: Well, I have a lot of black.
Speaker 3: Gold's my favorite.
Speaker 1: I still wear my black tank tops, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my black tank tops are me and I still wear them.
Speaker 1: And I am creating this like new wardrobe, and it's
Speaker 1: like going in a direction I really like. But only
Speaker 1: maybe like a third of my wardrobes so far is
Speaker 1: in my palette, and I'm not going to like just
Speaker 1: only wear a third of my wardrobe. I only got
Speaker 1: rid of the things that were out, like I already
Speaker 1: wasn't wearing them, and I just needed kind of like
Speaker 1: a kick to get rid of them. But I actually
Speaker 1: didn't care about jewelry silver or gold. My wedding rings
Speaker 1: are rose gold, and I had a rose gold nose
Speaker 1: ring for a long time, and I wore pearls. Those
Speaker 1: were the only earrings I were. I don't wear a
Speaker 1: lot of jewelry, but I have since switched to gold
Speaker 1: studs because autumn and spring are warm undertones that look
Speaker 1: better in gold. I don't like to say can't wear,
Speaker 1: but look better in And I've been pleased. I actually
Speaker 1: got a pair of I wanted a new pair of
Speaker 1: like going out earrings because I the only I haven't
Speaker 1: bought a pair of like, you know, dangly earrings since
Speaker 1: I got married eight years ago. And so I did
Speaker 1: actually find the freedom to purchase some nice ear rings,
Speaker 1: which is another thing, Like I felt permission to buy
Speaker 1: something for me that wasn't like one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: a necessity but makes me feel really cool when I
Speaker 1: wear them. Y. Yeah, so that's like a that's just
Speaker 1: a biproxy benefit and I'm not going overboard, but like,
Speaker 1: yeah I am. I am feeling better about what I'm
Speaker 1: wearing because it fits me and like, I know the
Speaker 1: colors look good on me.
Speaker 3: Agreed. I think it takes out some of that decision
Speaker 3: fatigue when I'm dressing myself every morning of what should
Speaker 3: I put on? I can know with confidence that is
Speaker 3: gonna look good on me because scientifically PROVENCIE. But there
Speaker 3: are certain areas where my taste lifestyle preferences are gonna
Speaker 3: win out, and the gold jewelry is not going anywhere
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 1: So my favorite thing that I've learned in this journey.
Speaker 1: And if you take nothing away from this episode, here's
Speaker 1: what you should take away at the very enth hour.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Lindsay from Created Colorful, she's the one I
Speaker 1: recommended if you're going to do the online. She has
Speaker 1: something she calls the face test, and she will put
Speaker 1: something on and then look in the mirror and like
Speaker 1: capture her face as she's looking in the mirror, because
Speaker 1: your face doesn't lie like whatever you feel. If you
Speaker 1: light up like that's going to be, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: If you don't light up, it's not you. It's not
Speaker 1: who you want to be. So color palette or not.
Speaker 1: If it makes you, if it passes the face test,
Speaker 1: it's you, and wear it. And even in your color palette,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't pass the face test, it's not you.
Speaker 1: Don't get it, don't wear it.
Speaker 3: And then just do the face test for all aspects
Speaker 3: of your life, like take a picture of yourself at
Speaker 3: work versus at home, versus interacting with your kids versus
Speaker 3: your take and if you're not lighting up around your children.
Speaker 1: I'm lighting up.
Speaker 3: Take them back.
Speaker 1: Just take them back,