Got Color?

Are you good with color, but you want to know more?
Maybe you are not a personal shopper, but you do select clothing for your family,
And friends are always asking your color advice.

Do you have a good sense of style, but sometimes you get stumped on the color?
Or,  you intuitively know what you picked works, but cannot explain why–
You may even be thinking of taking a color class, but don’t know where to start.

You may even be a professional interior designer, website designer, or style consultant and want to deepen your understanding of personal coloring and product selection.

These are all great reasons to learn more about color and here’s where to take the first step:

Learn to Use The CAT™ Assessment Tool

This tool puts personal color theory at your fingertips. It helps you identify someone’s inherent colors and provides color guidelines for personal shopping, closet audits, accessory selection, make-up, hair color selection, and/or personal environment design.

What You Can Accomplish with the CAT™ Assessment Tool

This tool will allow you to easily assess a client’s personal colors. You will be able to determine your client’s value and contrast pattern, color temperature, intensity level, and color families that relate to their hair, skin, eye colors and related reds. With this information, you can educate your client about their best color choices for clothing and home decor.

For example, if you are an interior designer, you can use the assessment tool to determine your client’s color preferences and also the range of colors they might like in their environment and design.

“We wear the colors—and live in the environments—that look like us,” says Mary Lou.

Many designers look into their client’s clothing and closets to help them identify what colors the client likes. The CAT™ Assessment Tool will help you keep track of those colors and determine if their closet colors are truly their colors.

For personal shoppers and stylists, using the CAT™ Assessment Tool will help you visualize your client’s colors, as well as help you match their coloring to the clothes you are recommending.

For color consultants and those who create color palettes, the CAT™ tool deepens your understanding of color and color harmony.

The CAT™ Assessment Tool includes a nine-page instruction guide and copies of sample Client Profiles with the rights to reproduce.

The CAT™ Assessment Tool includes:

• A Personal Colors section including eye colors, skin tones, hair colors, and families of related reds.
• Eleven different kinds of metals.
• Whites: warm, cool, and neutral color temperature.
• Six kinds of color qualities used to determine intensity, includes Pure Pigment, Tints, Muted with Gray,  Muted with Complements, Muted with Brown (Toasted), and Shaded with Black.
• 215 paddles to enable you to do a personal color palette. And gives you the parameters to build a more comprehensive palette with the ColorProfile™ System.

Investment: The CAT™  Workshop includes the CAT™ Tool and  7 hours training- $2000

Once you master the CAT™ Color Assessment Tool you can continue your advanced color training to be a Personal Color Consultant with the ColorProfile System and Suzanne Caygill Seasonal Design.

This can be combined with the ColorProfile Personal Color Analysis 5‑Day Intensive Workshop.

About Mary Lou

Mary Lou Manlove is a Color Specialist, Image Consultant and Trainer. She graduated from Color Designers International, Color Designer Program in 2001. This multi-year training was taught by Sharon Chrisman, a student and teaching assistant of Suzanne Caygill(1980). Sharon went on to develop a Color System and related materials to systemize the personal color analysis process. Although the color industry lost Sharon when she passed away in 2013. Mary Lou and other color enthusiasts in Color Designers International carry on her work today.

Mary Lou purchased the ColorProfile Color System in 2020 from Debra Lindquist. This system provides a wide array of all color qualities, which makes it possible to accurately select colors for all skintones, from the lightest to the darkest skinned individuals.

Mary Lou is now dedicated to helping color professionals and enthusiasts understand the basics of color, so they can excel in the color field of their choice. Please consider joining Mary Lou in bringing color education out into the world. There is room in this field for all, so whether you’re a talented beginner or seasoned professional, you can always learn about color.