Colour Guide & FAQs

Professional colour analysis is a personalized, transformative process that identifies the precise spectrum of shades that naturally harmonise with your unique skin tone, eyes, and hair. Instead of forcing you into a rigid, outdated seasonal box, my studio utilizes advanced tonal colour theory to uncover the colours that illuminate your features, elevate your natural beauty, and support authentic self-expression. Think of it as a personalized beauty blueprint that tells you exactly which shades make you look radiant and vibrant, and which ones wash you out. It is an empowering journey that helps you step away from trend-chasing and align your style completely with your colouring and features.

Colour analysis is an interactive draping session, which uses precision-dyed fabrics under daylight and balanced studio lighting to assess undertones, depths, and clarities in real time, isolating your dominant, secondary and tertiary characteristics to build your palette. 

Yes, whether you seek effortless clothing choices, specific makeup and/or hijab tones, the Leicester studio experience is completely adaptable to your personal shopping and styling goals. 

Choose:

• the Tonal Discovery Experience for a core 30-colour baseline of your dominant tonal palette, including makeup colour and shades analysis 
• the Hijab Colour Colour Experience for a core 30-colour baseline of your dominant tonal palette, which also includes a focus on hijab colours and modest dressing combinations, and a makeup colour and shades analysis 
• the Signature Experience for a comprehensive and full colour analysis, and 42-colour palette, of your dominant, secondary and tertiary tonal colours, including makeup colour and shades analysis
• the Beauty Experience for a standalone cosmetic edit to discover your makeup colour and shades

Sessions begin with a relaxed chat over a drink in your central Leicester studio, followed by the draping matrix, skin undertone and features analysis, colour palette creation, practical colour combination and coordination tips, and a dedicated makeup shade analysis and application before you leave with your physical colour swatch wallet. 

Arrive Fresh-Faced:

To ensure absolute precision during your skin undertone matrix draping, please arrive completely free of makeup (including tinted moisturiser). If you choose to wear minimal make-up for the journey to the studio, make-up remover is available to use prior to the colour analysis process.

Bring Your Makeup Bag: 

We encourage you to bring along your current everyday cosmetics bag. As part of your experience, we will review your products together to see how your existing shades align with your new personal tonal colour analysis.

Studio Accessibility Notice:

Our private consultations are hosted on our secure first floor to ensure complete, uninterrupted 1-on-1 privacy. Please note that the studio is accessible via stairs only. If you have any mobility concerns, please reach out to us at myira@colourandidentity.co.uk before booking so we can discuss how to best support your visit.

There is no need to take notes during your session! We want you to fully relax and enjoy the experience. Along with your physical fabric wallet tool, you will receive a detailed Post-Consultation Follow-Up Email capturing your exact colour palette, your favourite colour combinations, styling rules, and personalized makeup shade matches with direct shop links for easy online ordering.

Unlike surface-level styling, this approach combines certified Colour Me Beautiful consultant methods with an extensive background as a psychotherapist and identity author to foster authentic self-expression, style and confidence. 

Yes, a specialized hijab colour analysis evaluates how headscarf colours and shades frame your face, illuminating your complexion for natural radiance, and avoiding dull shadows, sallow skin, looking tired, aged or grey.

Privacy is guaranteed via a secure first-floor studio with a strict closed-door policy, private entrance, and no external viewpoints, allowing you to comfortably remove your headscarf. 

Yes. While our curated packages highlight specialized services like our Hijab Colour Experience, our foundational Tonal Discovery Experience and Signature Experience are completely gender-neutral and tailored to help anyone build an authentic, sustainable capsule wardrobe.

It serves as a lifelong investment that eliminates costly wardrobe and make-up mistakes, saves time getting ready, and acts as a sustainable act of self-care. It supports the creation of your bespoke wardrobe, to feel confident everyday in choosing your colour and outfit combinations, alongside your accessories, hijab and make-up.

Aligning your outer style with your natural colouring and features, creates a deep sense of ease, self-assurance, self-image and authentic presence, reflecting your personality and self-expression. It supports an intentional approach to your presence and reflection of your identity and sense of self.

A hands-on makeup lesson and colour analysis maps your undertones and features to be matched to your best shades and tones of foundation, powder, blush, eyeshadows, eyeliners, mascaras, lipliners and lipsticks, using minimal, targeted products available in-studio. All make-up and cosmetics products used during the consultation are available to buy after the session via the online shopping site and link, so you never go without 'your' shades of makeup, and can continue to repurchase your staple makeup products.

Yes, you absolutely can! Every cosmetic used during your makeup lesson and colour analysis is available to purchase through our secure online shop at:  https://colourmebeautifuldirect.co.uk/?aid=K260

Rather than carrying physical stock in our central Leicester studio, we provide a permanent digital link dedicated entirely to your profile. This allows you to explore and buy your exact cosmetic matches online whenever you are ready - whether that is during your session, immediately after you leave, or months down the line when you need a simple replenishment from home.

Every product is carefully curated to align seamlessly with your tonal colour palette, giving you a zero-pressure way to build your makeup collection with total confidence.

No, the process guides future purchases while showing you how to re-style existing favorites using your tonal neutral and accent tones and colours.

Yes, of course! Guidance is flexible and supportive rather than restrictive or a set of rules; if a colour brings you joy, you are always welcome to wear it. In fact during the consultation, if there is colour you love to wear and it's not in your palette, we can look at colour combinations on how best to wear your favourite colour alongside your colour palette, for maximum impact and style.

Our live booking calendar displays available individual appointments up to 60 days in advance on a strict first-come, first-served basis. Because we do not take short-notice or same-day bookings to ensure adequate preparation time for each bespoke experience, we highly recommend securing your preferred slot as early as possible. If a specific date within the next two months is not visible, it means that time slot has already been fully booked.

Please note: This live calendar is for individual experiences only. Group consultations, luxury private parties, and corporate wellness masterclasses cannot be booked online. For group availability or corporate bookings, please email Myira directly at myira@colourandidentity.co.uk to arrange your bespoke date. 

Options include flexible Monetary Gift Vouchers (e.g., £100) or specific Experience Gift Vouchers (e.g. Signature or Hijab), delivered as a digital certificate via email and valid for 12 months. Email myira@colourandidentity.co.uk to purchase.

Purchases are made via direct bank transfer by contacting myira@colourandidentity.co.uk. Vouchers are non-refundable and non-transferable, and any unused monetary balance remains as digital credit. 

To provide absolute client confidentiality and a calm environment, our private studio is located on a secure first-floor space which is accessible via a flight of stairs only. If stairs present a barrier for you, please get in touch with Myira directly at myira@colourandidentity.co.uk to discuss alternative styling arrangements or corporate/group onsite options.