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Showing posts with label The Rebel in Me!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rebel in Me!. Show all posts
How I wish I had an amazing camera and that my house was full of windows to allow in the best natural light so I can show off the true colors of my wardrobe!
Since May, and since this post, I've been doing (read: wearing) my own thing.
It's liberation, if you ask me. I don't feel so tied down to a color scheme if I'm feeling like wearing something that a system says I'll look terrible in. And I have friends who will see me in black and saying in a joking, yet serious tone, "Ohhhhh Ladee! You know I cringe with that color on you!"
I've embrace the knowledge that everyone has their own energy and the need to have the energy of the colors you're wearing match your energy. And I do believe that we women, for the most part, have our own "beauty sixth sense". We know what looks good for us. I was looking at some of DYT's "Before and After"'s and noticed that a lot of these women WERE in fact wearing their Type's colors, but just didn't know how to style themselves correctly.
But sometimes our energy is simmered due to stress/anxiety/depression and other times our energies are burning bright due to excitement/happiness/love.
And I know that if I'm wearing what looks good on me, I'll feel leaps and bounds better than if I didn't while feeling down. But sometimes my mood calls for a muted-colored shirt because my anxiety levels are high and I don't want the visual noise some Type 3 colors give me (and I still hate brown. I know that's a calm color, but I don't like it so I almost never wear it).
I am so glad I don't have the color cards and now understand the reason as to why I wasn't to purchase any of DYT's programs. As much as I like the Type 3 colors and as much as it's a great example of colors to show you, to me though, it doesn't make me as happy looking at it like I hoped it would. Maybe it's the way the colors are lined up on the card (OCD anyone?), maybe it's because I feel like every color has been overlayed with brown, via photoshop, but something just doesn't enamor me like I thought it would upon first seeing it.
But still, of all the Type color cards, I love those colors the best. Duh.
I'm sticking with autumn colors. I still love those rich berry colors, burnt oranges, reds, and yellows.
But I also like white.
And I like black.
Some days I think I look hideous in black and others, I think I look pretty darn good! Especially if I load my accessories as Type 3 accessories.
If Type 3 colors are pure hues mixed with black then shouldn't the colors look good WITH black? That's something I've always wondered. I have a girlfriend that is a Type 3/1 and one Sunday she came to church in a black dress and looked incredible. I remember thinking, "WAIT, she's not supposed to look good in the black and yet, I can't stop admiring her outfit!" She donned a deep blue jean jacket with chunky, Type 3 accessories that, to me, put her whole look together and turned BLACK into a Type 3 color.
I got a comment the other day, stating that people are getting kicked off of DYT groups because they're posting how they wear black pants or shoes but they aren't a Type 4.
HOLY.
COW.
Please tell me I read that wrong.
I wear black gym clothes. I like them.
I have black pants. I like them too.
I have black socks and black shoes. Keeping those!
I have black shirts. I have no desire to throw them out. Although I have a pile waiting to be bleached.
I have black lingerie. And Mr Hunter does NOT care whether they're the right color for me.
But I'm still a happy, proud, Type 3, secondary Type 2 woman who admires the DYT system.
So anyways, to reiterate: My style today is pretty much the same as before but I have decided to do more "mood styling". More often than not, I'll go to put on a white, grey, or black shirt, take one look at myself in the mirror and go, "YUCK!" and will rip it off before finding another. But I've got to tell ya, last week I wore a jersey-colored grey shirt and loved it so much I wore it the next day.
I still love my chunky accessories, big (and warmer colored) hair, winged eye-liner but have changed my makeup in the sense that I'm trying to have more contrast, especially with eyeshadow colors. I love dramatic outfits. I love layers upon layers and I just LOVE that sexy can be shown through complete modesty.
I love pushing the envelope as to how far I can go while still looking appealing. It's fun! I think everyone should give it a try!
And how I WISH I had a better camera so I can show you all I wear, all the time, so you can see just how simple it is to beef up a wardrobe to look appealing. All you really need is the right fit and the right colors (or the right MOOD COLORS)!
I've asked Santa for a Canon T3i. Maybe he'll deliver. :D
Since May, and since this post, I've been doing (read: wearing) my own thing.
It's liberation, if you ask me. I don't feel so tied down to a color scheme if I'm feeling like wearing something that a system says I'll look terrible in. And I have friends who will see me in black and saying in a joking, yet serious tone, "Ohhhhh Ladee! You know I cringe with that color on you!"
I've embrace the knowledge that everyone has their own energy and the need to have the energy of the colors you're wearing match your energy. And I do believe that we women, for the most part, have our own "beauty sixth sense". We know what looks good for us. I was looking at some of DYT's "Before and After"'s and noticed that a lot of these women WERE in fact wearing their Type's colors, but just didn't know how to style themselves correctly.
But sometimes our energy is simmered due to stress/anxiety/depression and other times our energies are burning bright due to excitement/happiness/love.
And I know that if I'm wearing what looks good on me, I'll feel leaps and bounds better than if I didn't while feeling down. But sometimes my mood calls for a muted-colored shirt because my anxiety levels are high and I don't want the visual noise some Type 3 colors give me (and I still hate brown. I know that's a calm color, but I don't like it so I almost never wear it).
I am so glad I don't have the color cards and now understand the reason as to why I wasn't to purchase any of DYT's programs. As much as I like the Type 3 colors and as much as it's a great example of colors to show you, to me though, it doesn't make me as happy looking at it like I hoped it would. Maybe it's the way the colors are lined up on the card (OCD anyone?), maybe it's because I feel like every color has been overlayed with brown, via photoshop, but something just doesn't enamor me like I thought it would upon first seeing it.
But still, of all the Type color cards, I love those colors the best. Duh.
I'm sticking with autumn colors. I still love those rich berry colors, burnt oranges, reds, and yellows.
But I also like white.
And I like black.
Some days I think I look hideous in black and others, I think I look pretty darn good! Especially if I load my accessories as Type 3 accessories.
If Type 3 colors are pure hues mixed with black then shouldn't the colors look good WITH black? That's something I've always wondered. I have a girlfriend that is a Type 3/1 and one Sunday she came to church in a black dress and looked incredible. I remember thinking, "WAIT, she's not supposed to look good in the black and yet, I can't stop admiring her outfit!" She donned a deep blue jean jacket with chunky, Type 3 accessories that, to me, put her whole look together and turned BLACK into a Type 3 color.
I got a comment the other day, stating that people are getting kicked off of DYT groups because they're posting how they wear black pants or shoes but they aren't a Type 4.
HOLY.
COW.
Please tell me I read that wrong.
I wear black gym clothes. I like them.
I have black pants. I like them too.
I have black socks and black shoes. Keeping those!
I have black shirts. I have no desire to throw them out. Although I have a pile waiting to be bleached.
I have black lingerie. And Mr Hunter does NOT care whether they're the right color for me.
But I'm still a happy, proud, Type 3, secondary Type 2 woman who admires the DYT system.
So anyways, to reiterate: My style today is pretty much the same as before but I have decided to do more "mood styling". More often than not, I'll go to put on a white, grey, or black shirt, take one look at myself in the mirror and go, "YUCK!" and will rip it off before finding another. But I've got to tell ya, last week I wore a jersey-colored grey shirt and loved it so much I wore it the next day.
I still love my chunky accessories, big (and warmer colored) hair, winged eye-liner but have changed my makeup in the sense that I'm trying to have more contrast, especially with eyeshadow colors. I love dramatic outfits. I love layers upon layers and I just LOVE that sexy can be shown through complete modesty.
I love pushing the envelope as to how far I can go while still looking appealing. It's fun! I think everyone should give it a try!
And how I WISH I had a better camera so I can show you all I wear, all the time, so you can see just how simple it is to beef up a wardrobe to look appealing. All you really need is the right fit and the right colors (or the right MOOD COLORS)!
I've asked Santa for a Canon T3i. Maybe he'll deliver. :D
*Please note that I am no longer The Type 3 Woman. Here's why.*
Well, everyone else is doing it. I might as well do drugs and jump off a cliff too.
Mark it in your journals people, I wore color on my lips.
These big lips wear nothing but Chapstick Medicated.
So what does that mean?
It means I only have one lipstick color...from four years ago.
Buried deep within the dark part of my bathroom drawer, hadn't seen the light of day in several months, to be pulled out for "Just In Case" moments.
Like today. Thanks to The Crazy for making me keep it.
So I had to get a little creative.
Type 1's lipcolor = The lipstick + white liquid shimmer eye shadow
Type 2's lipcolor = The lipstick + a dab of this (brunette). No joke.
Type 3's lipcolor = towel burned lips (I did T3 last) + light brown shadow to bring back to "normal".
Type 4's lipcolor = The lipstick + a bright pink eye shadow that also bunks with lipstick.
While I should have gone all out and done a full face of makeup with each Type, I didn't. I had the burning desire to get this all done now, and to do that would take several days, if not all day. And motivation. Which comes at random.
Maybe makeup can be another day.
Perhaps.
Eh.
My conclusion on wearing each Type:
Type 1 - I laughed at myself with this look. I look ridiculous. And like a man. My nose looks eww. And I felt like I was suffocating myself with trying to be excited in this photo.
Type 2 - I felt like I was forcing myself to be the romantic we all know I'll never be. I hated trying to be soft and sweet, yuck. Reminded me of times past when I wasn't myself.
Type 3 - DUH, how do YOU think I felt?
Type 4 - I had three different Type 4 tops and after doing those photos, I felt like I had a knot in my stomach. I can see why people feel anxiety for reasons not found as I was on the verge of having an attack myself wearing such bold colors. I threw off my last top and didn't hang it back up. I'd rather go naked, I've decided.
But I have a confession.
I have one color that I love beyond my love for chocolate turnovers that, according to the Type 3 mold, is not a color I should be wearing.
Sorry?
No, I'm not. Will I ever place myself in a mold again?
Crud, I hope not.
I really don't know what this color is called. It's a deep grey with a hint of blue. Looking online I found a site that called it "pewter" but that brings me back several years ago when I was debating with my friend that pewter was more of a grey-brown than a grey-blue.
According to Wikipedia, we're both right.
But regardless, I don't see this color as "pewter".
I loved this pewter shirt as it sat for weeks in my closet, unworn. Something about that shade me happy, but I figured it wouldn't look good on me as grey was just for the Type 2s.
Encouragement of a friend had me trying it on.
How could I look so good in such a "wrong" color? I don't know! But the rebel inside smirked and said, "Who cares? I like it!" I took a pic and sent it to my friend with this message, "Screw brown, this is my black".
And then I was introduced to the beautiful name Zyla. I know little of Zyla.
...except that Zyla calls me "The Sexy Librarian".
Hello, best name ever!
I sure as hell like her.
Or him. Whoops yes, HIM.
(My bad.)
Especially after hearing my friend, Jane, say this:
"Zyla does NOT determine your (type) by your...colors, you are (your type) first and then those are your special additional colors, that might even seem out of range."
Why does this make me so stinkin' happy?
Because it allows me to be a rebel without really being a rebel! Ya know that I'm sayin'?
That's like God saying, "No one can cheat in college and expect to become a high-paying doctor... Except. For. You. You are immune. Enjoy."
My "First Base" color is technically my black! And my energy color is a darker version of my first base color which therefore would make sense why I love wearing it and why I feel so darn good doing so!
Sometimes being a rebel is being right.
I can't figure if the reason I'm cheap is because one, I have been raised that way; two, because I can't justify spending money on myself when I can use it for more useful things; or three, because I know that eventually I can get it for a cheaper price or free.
And that's why I haven't bought Carol Tuttle's course. Believe me, I'm sure it's mind-blowing. I believe when my Type 1 sis-in-law says it's gives you a world of knowledge. But I would want the whole package, the biggest package she is selling and for that price, I'd hire a maid and lawn-guy for a month.
All this talk about Energy Types between the gals at church, the gals on facebook, that even the small amounts that I talk about it at home (to be considerate) has driven my husband to madness that if I said, "Hey sexy man, I'm gonna buy this course from Carol Tuttle to help me with my energy profiling...and it's $250," that I'd lose him...toss up between him just leaving or going to the loony bin.
So instead I waste my time online. Because all mothers, especially married mothers of three children, have the time to do that.
I found a post with some tips on the colors we Miss T3ers can wear.
And I'm a little excited.
Because I got all this info fo' FREE.
And that's why I haven't bought Carol Tuttle's course. Believe me, I'm sure it's mind-blowing. I believe when my Type 1 sis-in-law says it's gives you a world of knowledge. But I would want the whole package, the biggest package she is selling and for that price, I'd hire a maid and lawn-guy for a month.
All this talk about Energy Types between the gals at church, the gals on facebook, that even the small amounts that I talk about it at home (to be considerate) has driven my husband to madness that if I said, "Hey sexy man, I'm gonna buy this course from Carol Tuttle to help me with my energy profiling...and it's $250," that I'd lose him...toss up between him just leaving or going to the loony bin.
So instead I waste my time online. Because all mothers, especially married mothers of three children, have the time to do that.
I found a post with some tips on the colors we Miss T3ers can wear.
And I'm a little excited.
Because I got all this info fo' FREE.
To the Type 3's: Don't these colors just make you happy?
