Color is the most important aspect of your personal design.
If you know what your best colors are, and which ones to avoid, you’re miles ahead of the game already. If you know what effects are created when you wear combinations of your best colors, you add to your power.
Is this color draping?
No! Draping will give you a palette of printed colors, some of which will probably be fine. Others … not so much.
What I offer is a personal analysis that results in a fabric palette with your skin tones, your eye color, your hair color, and all the other colors that work perfectly for you. No pre-printed palette can do that.
Your palette (fan) becomes the perfect shopping tool for clothes, makeup, nail polish, and even home decorating. (You want to look good in your environment, right?)
What’s the process?
You come to my home, where I have the perfect lighting and an assortment of color analysis tools.
During our first session, I’ll teach you a few things about color qualities, color temperature (there’s more than warm and cool), and contrast.
Next, I’ll determine your personal colors. These create an individualized palette for you. This all takes two to three hours.
Then you’ll go home, all excited because you finally know what your season is, and I order your fan. (They’re all custom-made.)
Two weeks later, you come back and receive your fan. All the sticks are labeled with the color names, temperature, effect (dramatic, playful, credible, subdued, etc.). We go over it all, including how to tell if a color not in the fan will be okay.
Then we go over your personal color harmony, pattern, and texture, and you’ll learn what your best necklace lengths are, and some other cool stuff. This session is around two hours.
Okay, but what does it cost?
$495. This is for several hours of my time and includes the $150 that the fan costs me. If it seems like a lot, remember – it’s a life-changing process and an investment in you that will last until you change your hair color (one way or another).
I enjoyed the time with you and I have benefitted greatly. I now shop and look into my closet with confidence that I will “clothe the day”. Again, thank you for your help. By the way, the wedding went well, I got lots of compliments on my dress, hat, etc. the whole outfit. In fact, I get more compliments on my dress these days than I ever have before.
Thanks Bernie — This change is fantastic for me. I look better; Ifeel better, and this impacts my clients’ perceptions in ways I couldn’t have anticipated. The investment of time and money was more than worth it for the expertise and the upgrade in confidence, image, and knowledge of the colors and fashions that work best for me, and why.

Member of CDI
Bernie Burson is a proud member of Color Designers International.