Have you ever had a color analysis done?

When it comes to color choices and clothing, I scored when I married my husband. His mother is the queen of color analysis. If you ask her to tell you what color looks best for your skin type, she’ll drape clothing swatches across your face, talk about your hair color and your skin tones. She’ll even take you on a three hour shopping spree and have you try on clothes to suggest which colors and clothing cuts highlight your best features while downplaying your less attractive angles.

She lives over 5,000 miles away, but thankfully if I needed to, I could send over a pic via Instagram and call her for feedback.

What I love about color analysis is what it does to my wardrobe and product color for my skin. I’m reduced to only my favorite colors in my closet. For me, involves shades of brown (with a yellow, not red, undertone… there’s a difference!), turquoise, tangerine, and mustard yellow. It makes shopping easy when I try to only pair clothing, shoes, jewelry, accessories and skin care colors to fit this palette.

I am by no means  a color expert but it definitely helped me once I had a color scheme to work within.

Here’s a great tool to help you with color analysis.

The same works with make-up colors, by the way…

MadeOn’s Tinted Lip Balm
When I began experimenting with colorants for our tinted lip balm, I ran into a few snags. Having something safe for the lips was an obvious requirement, but finding oil soluble ingredients (because we use no water in our products) proved to be a bit more of a challenge. Out went the beet root powder idea, which would have been perfect because a true red colorant is difficult to find. It’s water-soluble, not oil-soluble, so I moved on.

I found great success with cocoa powder as a brown colorant, but then found that it’s not on the FDA approved list for colorants (strange, I know), so that idea was nixed. By the way, for you DIY-ers, it’s totally fine to use cocoa powder in your own creations, as long as you don’t sell your products.

Many mineral based natural make up products use carmine (it’s extremely common, but I’ll let you read up on what it truly is!)  I have yet to wrap my head around the source and whether I’d want to use it….if you have an opinion, I’m all ears.

What has worked? Iron oxide…. Iron oxide is an inorganic chemical mineral approved by both the FDA and the Environmental Working Group. The pigment colors tend to have warm tones (so they work well for autumns and springs). Only a tiny amount is needed to color the lip balm. In fact, it stains the MadeOn work area like crazy when not carefully contained. We also use mica to add a little glam to your lip balm. We added it to our Copper Glow to give a little shimmer to your lips.

If you’re a DIY-er who doesn’t plan to sell the products, you can use food ingredients like activated charcoal (black), cinnamon or nutmeg (brown), hibiscus petal powder (shades of red/rose), cocoa powder (brown), chlorophyll (green), paprika (red/brown)… to name a few.

What colors look best on you? Leave a comment: