Bertha was the confirmation we were looking for at elea blake. When I was testing her for foundation it became quite clear that even though the Dark Autumn palette of colors had too much red in them for her features the Dark Autumn foundation was quite suitable on her.
This thought had been in my head for months. I have driven Stacie crazy with my ponderings. And now the thought confirmed. There are cross over colors. Perhaps this is due to blood flow to the face, hormone levels, hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation. I really could not tell you exactly but I know this to be true, as here in the flesh was Bertha. Bertha and I had just spent the last hour or so analyzing her colors. She was absolutely a Soft Autumn as the True Autumns were too warm and the Dark Autumns were too red.
Challenged with OCD the perfectionist in me emerged. Bertha patiently awaited as I formulated an even more perfect foundation just for her. Scrumtuous was birthed and Bertha herself named the color. Why did I do this when Dark Autumn matched so well? Bertha has some hyperpigmentation on her skin due to a traumatic fall so it was necessary to find a color that would either cover or help bring down the coloration on her skin. We were not able to cover it entirely but were able to balance it much better. The Dark Autumn color did not balance as well as the formulated new Soft Autumn. This is where the true colors really kick in when there are skin balancing concerns.
We did stick to her Soft Autumn colors for eyes and lips and pumped up her Soft Autumn blush with a snippett of True Autumn blusher the color named warmth. There was a color named hot that I had developed and forgot about. I felt he would have been lovely but I could not find anymore of him (note to self, find hot)
Her eye colors were primadonna on the eye ball up into the crease, treasured inner eye, refined (which is also a foundation) on the bone, and then since she had Some True Autumn colors I used her goldish shimmery color (I forget his name - he's not on the website because there are a lot of TA not loaded yet) I also used a deep blue along her lash line (I forget his name too a Soft Autumn that is missing from the website = we are still working on some missed colors) I used counselor a SA lip gloss with a number of lip liners just for giggles. We found that in the lip liners she could cheat to some TA and some DA.
I really believe that there are some cross over colors. Think about it we are all unique and depending where we fall into our seasonal palette we might be able to cheat one side or the other. I know I (a Bright Winter) can cheat to True Winter - by no means entirely but I can grab a few colors here or there. There are even a few Dark Winters that I like to play with from Time to Time but they don't play as well with my true colors so I typically avoid those guys. So anyway I enjoyed Bertha she rocks and we had a blast even saved a bird from the nest. I will try to get her photos posted soon! I have been in a bit of a tail spin in the last couple of days just trying to keep up. So stay tuned! We are always enlightened how science and art come together!
Bertha emerges as a Soft Autumn
