The Unspoken Truth Behind Your Wardrobe Struggle
Standing before the mirror, you see a reflection that doesn't quite align with who you feel yourself to be.
The closet behind you—a collection of well-intentioned purchases, each representing a moment of hope that faded as soon as you brought it home.
"I can't say enough about how confused I felt before working with Andrea," shares E., who, like many women, had tried multiple color analyses only to end up with contradicting advice.
"I still had a really hard time understanding whether I was cool or neutral. Some of the colors I had been told would go well still didn't feel like the right fit."
This disconnect isn't merely about clothing—it's about recognition, about seeing yourself clearly again.
You've likely wandered through the landscape of style advice, gathering fragments that promised clarity:
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The online quizzes that placed you in boxes that felt too small
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The seasonal color systems that never quite captured your complexity
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The Pinterest boards filled with inspiration that somehow didn't translate to your own wardrobe
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The conflicting advice from well-meaning friends and professionals alike
Each morning becomes a quiet negotiation between how you want to feel and what your closet permits.
The frustration of having "nothing to wear" despite a full wardrobe.
The subtle exhaustion of second-guessing every purchase.
The traditional approaches to color analysis have failed you—not because you're difficult to dress or somehow "broken," but because they were never designed to see the full spectrum of who you are.
"I'd tell them that if they've ever had any questions about their colors, this service is an excellent way to figure that out," E. continues. "The confidence that provides is totally worth booking the session."
Here's the truth that transformed her relationship with color and could transform yours:
It's not you. It's never been you.
It's the systems that categorize rather than personalize.
It's the outdated color theories that can't account for the magnificent complexity of human skin tones.
It's the subjective assessments that change depending on who's doing the analyzing.
Your confusion isn't a failure of understanding—it's a sign that you've been seeking a deeper truth about how color works with your unique being.
A truth that science, rather than subjective opinion, can finally reveal.
What would it mean to finally see yourself reflected accurately in the colors that surround you? To recognize yourself in the mirror once again?
To reclaim the energy spent on uncertainty and redirect it toward genuine self-expression?
This is the journey Your Color Map© offers—not just another color analysis, but a homecoming to yourself through the clarity of science and the wisdom of personalized care.
SCIENCE - PERSONALIZATION - APPLICATION
MEET THE METHOD
why this isn't like any other color system
The moment you sit down for Your Color Map© consultation, you'll immediately sense the difference—this isn't another attempt to place you into a predetermined box. This is the moment color analysis becomes personal science. The Alchemy of Precision and Intuition Your Color Map© stands apart through its foundation in CIE-LAB color science—the same sophisticated system used by industries where color accuracy matters most. Unlike traditional seasonal analysis that relies on subjective observations and arbitrary categories, your analysis begins with mathematical precision: The CIE-LAB system maps your skin's exact positioning on three critical dimensions: Lightness (L): The precise brightness value unique to your complexion Red-Green (a): Your exact placement along this chromatic spectrum Yellow-Blue (b): Your specific positioning on this complementary axis This scientific approach eliminates the guesswork and inconsistency that left you confused after previous color analyses. As one client discovered: "It was so much more data-driven. It didn't feel like guesswork. It felt like an objective analysis of color and tone versus previous approaches that felt very subjective." Beyond Theory into Personal Expression What transforms this science into something magical is how we integrate your body's natural contrasts, your energy, and your personal aesthetic into a comprehensive color strategy: Personal Contrast Analysis: We measure the natural contrast levels between your skin, hair, eyes, and lips—revealing the harmony that already exists within you Intuitive Integration: Where traditional systems end with arbitrary rules, Your Color Map© begins the true work of integrating these discoveries into your authentic expression Empowerment Through Understanding: You'll leave with not just a palette but comprehension of why these colors work, enabling you to make confident choices long after our session The Difference You'll Feel Immediately The transformation our clients experience comes from this powerful combination of scientific precision and personal empowerment: "This system provides real data-driven solutions that are easy to use and provide a lot of clarity," explains E. after her consultation. "There is no confusion...instead of being, 'well, you know, here's your general palette. Now, good luck,' the system provides real data-driven solutions that are easy to use." The Liberation of True Color Knowledge What makes Your Color Map© truly revolutionary is how it frees you from arbitrary limitations. You'll discover: You can wear ANY color—when you understand your precise undertones and how to identify the right versions Your palette isn't limited to 8-12 colors but encompasses a rich spectrum tailored to your unique coloring Color becomes intuitive again, restoring the natural confidence you had before external systems created doubt This method restores your relationship with color as a tool for self-expression rather than another set of confining rules. It transforms color from something you worry about getting "right" into something that naturally amplifies who you already are. When you understand your colors at this fundamental level, getting dressed becomes not just easier but a daily practice of self-recognition—an alchemical moment where science transforms into the art of being fully, confidently yourself.
WHAT CHANGES
when you know your colors
The moment you receive your Color Map is the moment everything shifts—not just your wardrobe, but your relationship with yourself in the mirror.
This isn't merely about colors; it's about reclaiming the confidence that comes from genuine self-recognition.
When your colors truly align with your natural essence, the transformation ripples through every aspect of your style journey:
From Frustration to Flow
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❌ Before: Standing in a closet full of clothes yet feeling like you have "nothing to wear"
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✅ After: Effortlessly creating outfits that feel right because they're scientifically aligned with your natural coloring
From Guesswork to Guidance
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❌ Before: Second-guessing every purchase, wondering if that "perfect" color actually suits you
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✅ After: Shopping with the quiet confidence of knowing exactly which version of every color enhances your natural radiance
From Wasted Resources to Wise Investment
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❌ Before: A closet scattered with unworn items that never felt quite right
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✅ After: A thoughtfully curated collection where every piece serves your authentic expression
What clients don't expect—yet consistently report—are the deeper shifts that emerge beyond their wardrobes:
"I now realize I am worth the effort, cost, and time, and that doing these things will support me in leading the life I want to lead," shared S. after her consultation.
"Because of you, I now take a moment when I get home from walking the dog to comb my hair and reapply lip balm, which sounds silly that I didn't do this before, but now I am not walking around with 'hat head' for the rest of the day looking like I don't care, because the truth is, I do care."
This transformation extends beyond aesthetics into how you move through the world:
From Energy Drain to Energetic Alignment
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❌ Before: The subtle fatigue of daily style decisions that drain rather than sustain you
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✅ After: The energetic boost that comes from wearing colors that literally reflect light onto your face in the most flattering ways
From Comparison to Confidence
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❌ Before: Wondering why certain trends or "universally flattering" colors leave you feeling diminished
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✅ After: Understanding that your unique color signature is a strength to embrace, not a limitation to overcome
From Disconnect to Discovery
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❌ Before: The subtle dissonance of not recognizing yourself in your styling choices
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✅ After: The profound alignment that comes from seeing your authentic self reflected back in every outfit
THE SCIENCE
behind the shift
This transformation isn't magical thinking—it's rooted in visual science.
When your clothing harmonizes with your natural coloring:
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The right colors create optical harmony that literally draws attention to your face
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Your features appear more defined and balanced
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Signs of fatigue appear diminished
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Your natural undertones look vibrant rather than sallow or washed out
What emerges isn't just a style evolution but a return to yourself—that feeling of recognition when your outer expression finally aligns with your inner knowing.
As one client eloquently expressed: "You have helped me embody my word of the year, 'move,' in two ways: You have shown me how to include clothing in my wardrobe that inspires me to move my body and also working with you has moved my mindset about the value of my style in creating the life I want."
This is the true transformation of Your Color Map©—not just knowing your colors, but knowing yourself more deeply through the science of personal expression.
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THE ESSENTIALS
$250
The foundation of your color journey begins with two focused sessions that reveal your unique color DNA through scientific precision and artistic application.
Session 1: The Science of Color (60 min)
We'll dive deep into the exact science of your personal coloring:
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Skin tone + undertone mapping using the CIE-LAB system
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Analysis of your contrast levels and color DNA
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Placement in the Color Lab Model™ for scientific precision
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Foundational insight into why certain colors do (and don't) work
Session 2: The Art of Color (60-75 min)
We transform scientific findings into practical beauty wisdom:
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Delivery of your personalized digital + physical color map
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Strip system walkthrough (organized by value + chroma for ease of use)
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How to use your palette for shopping, wardrobe planning, and accessorizing
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Guidance on metallics, combinations, and creating harmony across your closet
Included Bonuses:
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Take-home strip set with clear labeling for wardrobe planning
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Access to Andrea's discounted hourly rates for future sessions
Best For:
Women ready for clarity, confidence, and a personalized color map they can trust.
You want a scientific foundation that eliminates guesswork and gives you a practical roadmap for your style decisions.
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THE MAKEUP LOVER'S
$450
Building on The Essentials, this experience extends your color journey into the realm of makeup with a third dedicated session that ensures every beauty product enhances your natural coloring.
Includes everything in The Essentials, plus:
Session 3: The Art of Makeup (90 min)
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Full swatching session of your current makeup to assess fit
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Keep/Toss decisions made with you in real time
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Creation of a seasonal Makeup Capsule based on your palette + lifestyle
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Color Strip overlays to guide future makeup shopping (in-store + online)
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Application tips for your top looks + tone harmony
Included Bonuses:
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Custom Makeup Color Strip added to your palette
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VIP access to discounted hourly services for future support
Best For:
Clients who want complete makeup clarity and beauty empowerment. You're ready to transform not just your wardrobe but your entire beauty approach with a cohesive system that eliminates product waste and decision fatigue.
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THE EXPERIENCE
$750
The complete transformation journey includes all previous sessions plus an extended wardrobe analysis that translates your color science into a practical, seasonal strategy for your existing closet.
Includes everything in The Essentials and Makeup Lover's, plus:
Session 4: The Art of Wardrobe (4-5 hours, may be split)
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Hands-on wardrobe color analysis (for upcoming season—warm or cool)
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Visual evaluation of your current closet by color alignment
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Client choice: participate alongside or have Andrea do it for you
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Identification of color gaps + seasonal capsule planning
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Recommendations for next purchases (types, colors, and key pieces
Post-Session Follow-Up Kit:
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Personalized wardrobe recap PDF
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Shopping guidance + curated visuals
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Suggested color capsules to build toward
Best For:
Women ready to transform how they dress, shop, and express themselves—seasonally or year-round. You're invested in creating a cohesive, intentional wardrobe that reflects your authentic self and supports your lifestyle goals.
Add-On Services: Continue Your Color Journey
Once you've completed your initial Color Map consultation, you'll have access to hourly support packages for:
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Your Body Map - use science to understand your proportions and significantly reduce dressing room stress
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Seasonal wardrobe planning
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Closet edits & personalized shopping strategies
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Style archetype integration & outfit formulas
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Makeup refresh or expansion capsule
Your color journey evolves with your life—these flexible add-ons ensure your palette grows with you through every season and transition.
The Color Map Process: What to Expect
Your color journey unfolds through thoughtfully structured sessions designed to reveal, understand, and implement your unique color truth.
The First Connection
We begin with a pre-session questionnaire that helps me understand your color history, current frustrations, and deepest style aspirations. This foundation ensures our time together is focused precisely on your unique needs.
The Scientific Discovery
Our initial session reveals the objective truth of your coloring through the CIE-LAB color system—moving beyond subjective seasonal typing into measurable, repeatable analysis. Here, we decode your exact undertones, contrast levels, and personal color range.
The Practical Application
After establishing your color foundation, we translate this science into practical wisdom. You'll receive both digital and physical color tools crafted specifically for your coloring, organized in a system that makes daily decision-making intuitive rather than overwhelming.
The Integration Journey
The true transformation happens as you begin implementing your newfound color knowledge. Whether through makeup alignment, wardrobe integration, or seasonal planning, each tier provides structured support for embodying your authentic palette in daily life.
The Ongoing Evolution
Your relationship with color evolves as you do. Through optional add-on sessions and seasonal refreshes, your color strategy grows alongside your life transitions, ensuring your self-expression remains aligned with both your inner truth and outer presentation.
The beauty of this process lies not in rigid rules but in newfound clarity—a foundation upon which you can build a wardrobe and beauty approach that truly reflects who you are, saving both energy and resources while amplifying your natural presence.
Common Questions About Your Color Map
Your relationship with color and style is deeply personal.
I understand the hesitation that can arise when considering a new approach—especially if past experiences have left you feeling unseen or misunderstood.
Here are thoughtful answers to the questions I hear most frequently:
1 / "What if this doesn't work for me? I've tried color analysis before."
I've stood exactly where you are now—confused, skeptical, and wondering if understanding your colors is even possible.
After being analyzed by six different systems with conflicting results, I created Your Color Map© because traditional approaches failed me too.
Unlike subjective seasonal systems that rely on an analyst's eye, this approach is grounded in measurable CIE-LAB color science. There's no guesswork—just clear data about your unique coloring that remains consistent regardless of who's doing the analysis.
As one client shared: "It was so much more data-driven. It didn't feel like guesswork. This felt more like a scientific process than an artistic process. There is actual map and data supporting why those selections were made."
The transformation isn't just about having "the right colors"—it's about reclaiming trust in your own perception of yourself.
2 / "What if my style keeps evolving or changing?"
Your style should evolve—it's a living expression of who you are in each chapter of your life.
But your underlying skin tone and contrast levels remain remarkably consistent, creating a reliable foundation beneath those changes.
Your Color Map© isn't about locking you into rigid style rules. It's about understanding the constant amid the change: your unique coloring. This knowledge becomes a compass that guides your evolving self-expression, not a cage that constrains it.
Think of your color palette as the canvas upon which you paint different versions of yourself.
The canvas remains consistent, while the artistic choices you make can shift with your mood, life phase, and personal journey.
Your wardrobe is more than fabric. It's a narrative you craft, a visual language that speaks before you say a word. Understanding your colors gives you more fluency in that language, not less freedom in how you use it.
3 / "Is this like Dressing Your Truth or seasonal color typing?"
Your Color Map© represents a fundamental departure from both seasonal typing and energy profiling systems like Dressing Your Truth.
Where seasonal systems place you in predetermined categories based on subjective visual assessment, Your Color Map© reveals your exact placement within the scientifically validated CIE-LAB color space.
This approach acknowledges that human coloring exists on a spectrum rather than in fixed boxes.
Unlike energy profiling systems that connect personality traits to color recommendations, Your Color Map© separates your essence from your physical coloring.
You might be bold and dramatic in spirit regardless of whether your natural coloring is soft and muted, or vice versa.
We're not here to fit into fashion.
Fashion is here to amplify who you already are.
Your Color Map© honors this truth by building from your physical reality while creating space for your emotional and energetic expression to flow through that understanding.
4 / "What if I hate shopping or don't have time for a complicated system?"
Many clients come to me precisely because shopping feels overwhelming or time-consuming.
The clarity Your Color Map© provides actually simplifies your relationship with shopping—transforming it from a draining guessing game into a focused, efficient process.
Your personalized color tools allow you to:
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Cut through the noise of trends and marketing
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Make faster decisions with greater confidence
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Reduce returns and buyer's remorse
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Create a more cohesive wardrobe with fewer purchases
As one client shared: "Instead of dreading getting dressed for events, I'm starting to feel more at ease finding clothing I'll feel and look amazing in. I've even been able to start shopping online for more than basics, because I'm confident in and knowledgeable about picking outfits that will work well for me."
True style isn't about following rules—it's about understanding yourself.
Once you have that foundation, each choice becomes more intuitive and less draining.
5 / "Will this work for my skin tone and hair color?"
Yes. Your Color Map© was specifically designed to work for every human coloring—not just those who fit neatly into traditional Western beauty standards or seasonal categorizations.
The CIE-LAB color system is comprehensive enough to map the entire spectrum of human coloring, identifying the precise undertones and contrast patterns present in your unique combination of skin, hair, and eyes.
Every choice you make is an act of self-definition.
Your clothing can be armor, invitation, rebellion, or comfort.
Understanding your colors doesn't limit these choices—it amplifies them by ensuring each one resonates with the physical truth of who you are.
I created this system to honor and celebrate the full diversity of human beauty, not to standardize or homogenize it.
Who you'll be working with
I'm Andrea Putnam, and my journey to creating Your Color Map© grew from the same frustration you may be feeling right now—that disconnect between how you see yourself and how your wardrobe reflects you back.
The Search for Reflection
After being analyzed by six different color analysts with no consensus, I found myself standing in that familiar liminal space—somewhere between knowing something wasn't quite right and yet not having the language to articulate what was missing. Each system placed me in a different category, each stylist saw me through their own predetermined lens, and none of them truly saw me.
It wasn't just about colors. It was about recognition. About feeling seen in my wholeness rather than fragmented into seasonal boxes that never quite contained me.
This pattern of misrecognition led me on a deeper inquiry: What if the traditional frameworks themselves were incomplete? What if the very systems designed to help women see themselves more clearly were actually obscuring our vision?
Beyond Fashion Into Embodiment
With formal training from FIT, I had learned the industry's rules—those subtle dictates about "flattering" women's bodies that often felt more like constraints than liberation. I observed how style was being used not to amplify women's power but to contain it—to make us smaller, more palatable, more aligned with external expectations.
I stopped trying to categorize women.
And I never assume their goal.
My job is to be their mirror, not their judge.
That philosophical shift led me toward science—toward the objective clarity of the CIE-LAB color system, where I could find measurable truths rather than subjective opinions.
I taught myself modern color theory and built a proprietary system that honors the mathematical harmony already present in each woman's natural coloring.
The Deeper Transformation
What emerged wasn't just another color analysis system.
It became a pathway back to self-trust—a bridge between science and intuition, between what we see and what we feel.
Like you, I've experienced those moments of standing before the mirror, wondering why the reflection doesn't match the internal sense of who I am.
I've felt the subtle fatigue that comes from navigating a world that often doesn't see us in our complexity.
My background in psychology and years as a knitting instructor revealed something profound: our relationship with aesthetics is never just about the visible elements.
In my classes, women would weep over dropped stitches—not because of the mistake itself, but because of deeper narratives about perfectionism, worthiness, and being seen.
It was never just about the yarn, it was about their mothers, their grandmothers, their sense of worth.
I learned that people need permission to be beginners—and to feel safe doing so.
The Color Alchemist Approach
Your Color Map© emerged from this understanding—that color analysis isn't just about categorization. It's about liberation.
About giving women the frameworks, tools, and permission to trust themselves again.
In a society that thrives on keeping women overwhelmed and uncertain, I'm building a quiet revolution rooted in clarity, sovereignty, and deeply personal style.
Because I believe women leading from their authentic expression is what our world desperately needs.
My approach isn't about telling you what to wear—it's about revealing what's already there, helping you recognize yourself in your choices, and supporting you as you reclaim the energy that has been scattered through years of second-guessing.
Because when your colors align, so does your energy. And when your energy aligns, you become an unstoppable force for the life you're here to create.
READY TO SEE YOURSELF CLEARLY AGAIN?
I keep my Color Map calendar intentionally spacious, taking only a limited number of new clients each month.
This limited booking approach ensures each woman receives my full presence, expertise, and care throughout her color journey. It allows me to create truly personalized tools rather than rushed, generic palettes.
How to Secure Your Spot
Once you choose your Color Map© package, you'll receive a welcome email with your next steps. From there, you’ll book your first session at your own pace—no pressure or deadlines.
We’ll move through each phase of the experience one session at a time, giving you space to reflect, integrate, and make aligned style decisions between appointments.
This isn’t about rushing—it’s about clarity, confidence, and honoring your rhythm.
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The transformation begins the moment you decide to see yourself differently.
Your color clarity doesn't have to wait another season.
A note on timing: Most clients report wishing they had done this years ago. The clarity you gain becomes the foundation for every style decision moving forward—saving both time and resources with each passing month. Why wait to recognize yourself again?
Choose your pricing plan
The Essentials
250$The Science + Art of ColorValid for 6 months- Session 1: The Science of Color
- Session 2: The Art of Color
- Take-Home Strip Set for Color Matching
- Digital Palette PDF
The Makeup Lover’s
450$Clients who want complete makeup clarity and beauty empowerment.Valid for 6 months- Your Color Map© - The Science of Color
- The Art of Makeup
- Your Color Map© - The Art of Color
The Experience
750$Women ready to transform how they dress, shop, and express themselves—seasonally or year-round.Valid for 6 months- Your Color Map© - The Science of Color
- The Art of Makeup
- The Art of Wardrobe
- Your Color Map© - The Art of Color