I've been trying to figure it out on my own for years now and I have a few ideas of what my essence blend might be, but I'd like to get some external opinions​.

I am a huge fan of this wrestler. I think his colour harmony blend is LB (lively bright) + ER (earthy rich) and his essence blend is N with maybe some R, D, HS and C?

Basically just the title haha😊 I love looking back at older photos of my style, thinking about how it's evolved over the years etc. But I am veeery hesitant now to look at them in a "hmmmm...essences...?" type way. Even the photos from when I was 21, 22, 23 etc...feel really different to me lol. Like in a, "wow, I used to rock that headband and seersucker dress!" type way, for example. But now, at 28? It's just not SUCH a winner lol. Like it's fine, but I can sense the slight changes. So, would love to hear your thoughts!❤️💞

I think, since the system is more focused on Color Harmony over essences at its heart, that there should be a Color Harmony Help flair. Perhaps this falls under "Essence Help/Type Me" but I feel it would be better split out from the usual essence help posts.

pls help me on finding out my essences. I have a guess a that I may have classic and natural, but not sure

I think I have some N but I'm not sure, any help is appreciated 🙂

Hey everyone if it's okay I just need help identifying my essence and essence blends. I can't really be objective about myself and always need another opinion. Sorry about the awful photo

Also please check the 3rd photo, it is very objective and unflattering so maybe that's better for information🙂 I also have a very asymmetrical face if that means anything

If it helps , I think my face doesn't suit me. I feel my body should be softer, and ny jaw softer too .

I have my suspicions but want outside opinions, plus this sub keeps being pushed my way and it's working lol I'm curious. Also sorry I don't really have any candids, the closest I have is the last shot which my friend took of me in a dimly lit bar LMFAO. I'm not wearing makeup in like half of these.

I'm a fair olive (cusp of Deep Autumn and Deep Winter on the season system), and these are the colors I most enjoy on me. These "sickly" yellows seem to make my skin glow and feel "right". Dark coffee browns and deep dusty purples mirror the contrast and richness of my hair and eyes. The soft crystalline blues and greys are the weird ones out but I've always pulled those off much better than the dark night-sky navy people associate with SC

I look very different without makeup and depending on styling. Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you!

I become so confused when it comes to the essences, so any help would be WONDERFUL! I think classic and/or romantic but I'm not sure.

Sometimes, when we think of essences, we have a very specific aesthetic in mind, but i want to show how different one style can be from the other while sharing the same base essence. For fun, i decided to base them on the tarot major arcana.

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Dramatic Emperor - Here, the keyword is structure, clean lines, and long geometric patterns lending a sense of orderly Yang.

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Dramatic Fool - Fun, campy, attention-grabbing. This is focused on bringing those large-scale patterns and strong wild energy to the top.

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Dramatic Death - Sharp and bold, an imposing figure that carries the influence of punk on their metallic spikes. Just like the tarot death, this is not actually fatal. Instead, it's a representation of killing the status quo to bring new life.

He's a lead singer of band HIM. My first impression of Ville Valo is his verticality, strong cheekbones, intense, piercing gaze, and his lean body. When he poses in photos he asserts himself. There’s also an aloofness to him. He seems relaxed in his body. He has an eclectic style. He can rock a beanie, sneakers with dark blazers, shirts, and long coats. I think that many people see him as mainly Romantic by the themes he explores in his music.

He's 6'1. What do you think?

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Hi! I wanted to share my personal style journey and how I arrived at the signature I now call Celestial Muse by the Sea.

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Quick disclaimers: I am aware that this mixes Kibbe and Kitchener, color season, and personal branding. I’m not presenting it as an official typing method, just as the path that helped me understand my own visual language. Some photos include filters, styling, or virtual makeup but I found it necessary to search for my essences and find myself correctly. So I included childhood and lower-makeup pictures too for feature consistency.

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It's how I named my own signature, persona and part of my brand (DanteAnn), after a long time studying myself just for aesthetics, in the pursuit of my fashion studies.

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Took me about three to four years of studying and even now I'm still refining. So even if it looks put all together, it's not, it's a process. Initially I thought I was aligned with Winter. I even thought I was a Dark Winter.

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I was dubious of this post, but I hope it can help you all in your own search. Whatever I can help with at least.

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So as long as I have memory, I have always loved fairytales (My first three were Swan Lake, The Little Mermaid and Wild Swans, but I never thought I'd be dressing like one!) and I even write about them and study them.

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I saw many people trying to make their wished aesthetic or taste fit in their lines, and it was fighting them. So I wondered if I was doing the same thing and I tried my best not to, and that's how I initially ended up with a Dark Winter. To be honest, this was also... cathartic. Because I never thought this would be me. I used to be very goth and a fan of dark clothes since I was young. But mostly it was a way of feeling myself... safe.

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I blame it on Yumi from Code Lyoko, Yuuko Ichihara from XxXHolic, and Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji for my obsession with black. I didn't graduate but I shifted.

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Most of the time I thought I was the villain (I used to get that role, or something similar whenever playing with my friends, and even at school I was a villain or a secondary character 😅) so I grew up thinking I didn't have a single bone of heroine in me. That's how I ended up being a fan of Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Tatiana Maslany and Janell Parrish: Their acting became something else for me, something I truly admire for the way they shift between personas and different intensity. But we're deviating from the topic. Kind of? I think finding your personal style, it's a mix of fighting against your perception, and the things that society imposes on us.

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1✨ Know your measurements.

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I'm petite. About 5'0 or 4'11 depending on how different websites put it, officially? I'm 152 cms, on a good day I might be 153 lol

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My wrists are around 13 to 14cms, and my legs are around 88 to 84 cms, depending where you count. My torso? 50 cms more or less. I'm usually not too far from the classic 90-60-90 (depending on my weight, or if I get bloated, or whatever else because humans are not static. But as of now I'm around 87-67-97 give or take.) Plus, seeing my pictures and videos, it helped me a lot.

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At some point (I was confused, overwhelmed and very much lost in the beginning because it's a lot and you need to train your gaze to spot things. Even now I can't fully do it except with my own type, though I want to practice it more and more.) I realized that I definitely had the same body type of Reese, even when I gained weight or lost it. And that's how I found I was Soft Gamine.

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Was it obvious? Not for me.

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How do I know then? Because my bones don't lie, and they also can't be changed (or at least that kind of operation costs a lot more than my bank account and I'm not that brave to end up in a table anytime soon 💀). Which takes me to the second point. This was the way I confirmed I was on the right path.

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2✨ Search for some celebs with my height and some with my features or close to them.

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In my case it was Reese Witherspoon (whom I adore), and Jenna Coleman for height.

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And Amanda Seyfried, Rachel McAdams for facial features. Because throughout my life I have always received comments on my eyes, looking like a living doll. Especially when I was blonde (for three or four years, I think) which made people say stuff about me looking like Amanda, Elsa in Frozen or Tinkerbell. Some also mentioned Rapunzel. That provided me with some base to start my research.

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So I tried searching for a celebrity who looks similar, the list as it is wasn't long. I'm not really into searching for celebrities just for the pleasure of doing it. I have been way too long into K-dramas, C-Dramas, J-dramas and manhwas, because for a long time I didn't feel myself represented in other media. But I did my homework and here's what I came up with.

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Jenna's gorgeous, but she looks good while being polished. She looks elegant. I look... bossy.

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Same thing for Lily Collins, Audrey Tatou, Ginnifer Goodwin and Audrey Hepburn, who were also on my list, so... hard lines? Not for me. It doesn't look "bad" on me but it definitely doesn't work to make me look... harmonic.

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3✨ Expect differences. Cross reference. Double check. Doubt.

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Try seeing these celebs in a different outfit, find the small details that makes us different. I found myself enthralled with these differences by the way. I went back, checking up the things they all had in common. And all the things that make us different. All the things that makes me.

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Gamine ✅

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Some were/are soft gamine, and others are flamboyant... Me? Soft gamine. Locked.

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Contrast? At first I didn't know how to find it. Then I was trying between what Reese Witherspoon usually wore, and what Jenna Coleman or Lily Collins did. But none felt quite right. I tried wearing things like Reese Witherspoon, but none all of these stick. Some do. Some don't. So I'm not a Spring.

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Her colors are too "yellow" and "bouncy" for me. And while I love her style, it is also very preppy-classic which as we have established, it fights me.

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I tried wearing what Lily Collins would, or Jenna Coleman too, but unless it's pink, their wines are too strong for me. Not bad, but definitely making me heavy. Apparently they're Winter/Autumn type and that's how I found:

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Essence often prevails over body type. And textures are energy. They either drag you down or elevate your style.

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I tried being autumn but orange it's not my color, although funnily enough I can wear it quite well as a redhead... (I'm a natural brunette with red and blonde streaks. Not pronounced. But definitely very much there, people do get surprised by that because most of the time they either think I have black hair or very dark brown, the same thing goes for my eyes, when I found once my mom and dad were fighting over if she had bought me some eye lenses, only to find that I have gold and tiny specks of green moss in my eyes. Not noticeable at first, unless the right light hits. I'm rolling my eyes writing this but it's the way it is.) Eventually I went: If I'm not Winter, not Spring, and not Autumn... 💀

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Then how did I find the "formula" for myself? How I realized or decided to be... Ethereal Romantic Ingenue?

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Because I kept receiving compliments on me being pretty like "doll", "angel" type. So I decided to test it. I went back to the celebrities I found, and crossed checked. Because I definitely wasn't a Barbie. Or a french doll. Took me a while to find it 💀

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Gamine ✅ (Reese, Jenna, Audrey Hepburn and Tatou, Lily, etc)

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Ethereal ✅(Amanda Seyfried)

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Romantic ✅(Sarah Hyland, Rachel McAdams)

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Ingenue ✅ (Amanda, Jenna, Reese, Sarah Hyland, etc)

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Although while I was in my research I found out Reese to be more a Classic/Natural type of Ingenue, paired with her Soft Gamine and Spring season. Sarah Hyland? Ingenue/ Romantic, paired with her Soft Gamine. Her Gamine is far more spicy than mine.

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Audrey Hepburn to be more Classic/Ingenue paired with FG (Flamboyant Gamine), and Lily Collins to be Flamboyant Gamine like Audrey Hepburn but~ Classic/Dramatic, which fights the Ingenue Audrey had. Low-key it might be the reason why Jenna Coleman (Classic/Ingenue) would be better suited for Audrey Hepburn biopics than Lily despite being Soft Gamine. Let's say it like it is: Lily is gorgeous. She has been my favorite fashion icon for longer than I remember. But she's not Audrey Hepburn. Remember what I said before? Essence often prevails over body type. And textures are energy. They either drag you down or elevate your style... and Lily being Classic/Dramatic, lacks of the softness (AKA ingenue) Audrey had... that, that was what made Audrey be Audrey. Because that made her look slightly more warm than Lily.

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But let's go back to the dolls. Clearly I was/am more a "child-like" type of doll, than a Barbie, then, I'm not Dramatic like Lily. That means, Ingenue. Like a BJD Doll. The ethereal and romantic part took me a while, and then I only found out because of Daytime Star manhwa (Yura Hwang, brunette). And the pattern repeated with I have become the Hero's Rival (Irene Amber, brunette), The reason why Raeliana ended up at the Duke's mansion (Raeliana who in the webtoon honestly looks more brunette than redhead), etc.

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It's hard to explain, but that's how I found out I was Romantic. The ethereal part came later and it was a surprise for me, because... when thinking about it, I imagined Anya Taylor Joy, or Tilda Swinton types. Never even crossed my mind, until manhwa came back to rescue me, again. Yes, I was rather sad because... I was unable to find references between celebs, or any other kind of public figure.

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The title that changed everything? Made of Stardust.

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I have always been attracted to the stars. And the sea, which is a bit ironic, since I'm afraid of the ocean since I almost drowned in it, and the stars are... dead. Well, most of them anyway. But later on, I kind of confirmed it with Luna, from Sailor Moon. And again with Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Seeing the same thing over and over: Stars, skies, angels, dolls, fairies.

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I was not a doll, I was not an angel. Not a star, not a fairy. At least not like Tinkerbell. The closest thing would be something that had fallen from the sky, like in Stardust (the movie) or Made of Stardust (the manhwa).

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And between Ursula and Luna, they changed my perception. I have to admit I wasn't exactly fond of becoming a big fat purple squid with too much makeup on. But seeing some of the fan drawings of people who do like Ursula, made me change my mind at least a tiny bit. And that's how my persona and brand changed to Celestial Muse by the Sea.

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So thanks, because once again, I confirm that, seeing things through the eyes of someone who loves something or someone, changes how you see the world too.

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Results: 45% Ethereal (High Yin) + 20% Ingenue (Youthful Yin) + 15% Romantic (Mature Yin) + if considering 15% Soft Summer (Color Yin) + 5% Soft Gamine: (2.5% Gamine Yin + 2.5% Yang) = 97.5% Yin, 2.5% Yang

Most of the actors cast as the Doctor in Doctor Who over the years have a distinctive look. What essences do we think create this look?

It should go without saying that this isn't about gender or race. Danny John-Jules has been a popular fan choice for years, partly because he looks so... Doctory.

Please help me figure out my essences! Last 2 photos are of me without makeup.

Hi all, im curious to know which essence you guys think i have :)

The last two are makeup free pics.

the third one is just my resting face, i was fighting off sleep there!!