Sunday, September 14th 2008

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Carole Jackson - Author of "Color Me Beautiful," the book that tells you what season you are and what colors work best for your hair color and skin tone. This book was the shit in 80s! I've never checked to see what season I am. I'm probably the season of the fucking witch.

Posted by: Michael K


this stuff is actually still relevant today. it all depends on what undertones your skin has, eyes and hair. it can be helpful to wear one's colors...you begin to realize that everything you own goes with something else you own. no more "pants that i'm gonna wear someday when i find something to match them." when i do buy shirts that arent my colors i look like a washed out drug addict.

starvis's picture

My mom was into this crap. I couldn't buy any clothes that didn't come from my "season".

angel_i's picture

Eep! I remember that weird "season" stuff! Weird ass shit.

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lovehaight's picture

i just took this quiz http://www.colormebeautiful.com/seasons/index.html
and im an autumn im not wearing fucking exotic spice colors.

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that book is stupid. it reminds me of all the times i went to the department store cosmetics counter and got my face fucked up in clown makeup, and then hoped to god noone would see me walking out to the car.

wear whatever you want.

vixen's picture

Oh man! When I was about 19 or 20 in 1982, on my very first job at an accounting firm (as receptionist), we had someone come in with this book and do a seminar for all the women in the office - me, Office Manager, Accounting "gals". We all had our colors done.

I carried that little swatch of colors in my purse for *years*. It didn't help me all that much, and I can't even remember if I was a Spring or an Autumn, and that's a *big* difference.

Memories!

Effin Bean's picture

I had this book as a teenager! I'm a winter and I remember wanting to be a summer. The winter colors really do look best on me though. Wich season are YOU, Michael K?

Ford_Prefect's picture

HEAVES! Bad 80's flash backs. I worked at a hospital, and all the frumpy, breeder nurses were so into that book. Doesn't matter what color you use, when one is a good 200lbs over weight, it ain't gonna hide the blub.

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CheeryBitch's picture

Oh shit! My mom lived by that damn book. If I can remember, I'm a "winter;" the "cool" tones.

bernstar69's picture

Oh, I remember this!!! (I was "autumn," I remember like it was yesterday...and I thought the colors looked good on me. Even now!)
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Holy cow! I just picked this book up at a used book sale because I thought it was so funny! How retro!
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Hysteria's picture

i don't what it is with mothers and this book. my mom practically ordered me to buy it. then we had to go to a 'color me' party. i liked 'winter' colors best so i picked that season.

you know, you can just pick the season you want.

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Aphid's picture

As my asshole ex mother in law used to constantly spout to me, I'm a winter. That's the only non-insulting thing (I think) the bitch ever said to me in the 10 years I was married to her asshole son.

darlingjulie's picture

you're season of the slut

Deb's picture

Submitted by platypus on September 14, 2008 - 10:23am.
I remember the neighbor lady had this book. I had a nervous breakdown when my hair, eyes, and skin all fit in different categories.

LOL! Same here! I just gave up on it. It was like some crazy trigonometry problem that I couldn't crack.

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LOVE CARROTTOP's picture

My mom had one of these. I vividly remember pictures instructing you on how to cover your lids in bright blue shadow and then top them off with a fluorescent pink.

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CeeCee's picture

I remember all this. They actually had parties (like Tupperware parties) where they'd do your colors. They had this scanner that they'd hold over your skin and click and it would tell you what season you were. I was winter. I was mad because I wanted to be autumn.

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I'm Summer.

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platypus's picture

I remember the neighbor lady had this book. I had a nervous breakdown when my hair, eyes, and skin all fit in different categories.
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speakit's picture

This is better than the 'rooms of the house method'.

I'm a 'utility closet'.

No Words's picture

Thanks, Bradi. (-:
I wear beige and tan. *wailing*

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No Words on September 14, 2008 - 10:13am.

Damn! I had this done and the consultant couldn't put me in ANY season definitively. Yeah, I'm the one. NO COLOR looks good on me.

- Think of it as NO COLOR IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!!!
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so i don't know how in the fucking fuck i got my hands on that book as a kid, but i did. it was my bible. i'm a winter and therefore should wear lots of bright pinks!!! amazing, thanks for reminding me of grade school michael.

Princess PinkyStink's picture

I'm a Winter too!! It was pretty much racist, though, because it assumed you were a Caucasian, so all African-American and Latina and Asian women were lumped together in their own categories.

SweetPollyPurebred's picture

Don't laugh! I'm a winter and it's always worked for me. Luckily the recommended colors are ones I like anyway.

No Words's picture

Damn! I had this done and the consultant couldn't put me in ANY season definitively. Yeah, I'm the one. NO COLOR looks good on me.

Deb's picture

This is what Deb was referring to in "Napoleon Dynamite" when she put the wig on Pedro after he shaved his head, saying, "This matches your season".

"This ain't rock n roll. This is genocide!"

ImpertinentVixen's picture

HA! I remember this. I was an autumn, if I remember correctly.

aquarius's picture

Holy crap, I have that book! I got it for free in the reject pile at my college library. Not even worth the trouble of bringing it home. (The pictures are funny, though.)

My mother bought me this for my 14th birthday, lmao. Amazing.

Cheez-It's picture

...Color me There!!!

Snarkley's picture

Nowadays it's all pretty much orange.