Favourite colour 🩷💕💗

No surprises on my favourite colour right now, especially in terms of what I wear! 💕💖 🩷

This was a good challenge for me, as I spent some time looking back at photos from a few years ago to find outfits of me wearing pink.

Let me start with the second slide. In 2019, I began my style journey with Dress Your Truth. For those of you who know the system, you will likely recognise the evolution from type 4 to 1 and then 3. 2019 included a lot of pink in my outfits, but as you can see, those outfits largely reflect my ability to follow the system rather, and I did not then understand anything about colour or how I related to it. Type 3 in the system does not include a lot of pink (it’s more closely connected to autumn in seasonal colour analysis) though I still incorporated versions of it.

During 2020 and various pandemic-related lockdowns into 2021, two things made a significant impact that helped me to connect with myself through style. I began to learn about other style systems and approaches, and I started to grow out my natural hair colour, in 2021. As a result, I started to pay much more attention to the unique dimensions of my own body and face. There was a turning towards myself, instead of fitting myself into a system.

I found ‘Style thoughts by Rita’ in 2022. It’s been an absolute game changer in terms of my style. The first slide shows outfits from my self-exploration journey as a Ruby. I have included a photo from 2021, where I first started to grow out my grey. But the rest are from 2022 to this week. As you can see, my love affair with pink has deepened, and shades of pink and brown form the spine of my curated wardrobe today. But I am much more aware of the different hues, values and chromas of the versions of ‘pinks’ I connect with today, than I was back in 2019. Today, it’s a soft, earthy pink that most resonates with my internal landscape, and I like to experiment with slighter warmer and cooler options for this. Today, I play with pink using a ‘delicate’ approach, where a little goes a long way. I think my love affair with pink is informed by keywords such as elemental (for me, this references the earthy versions of pink), delicate (in the subtle ways I now incorporate softer pinks), sensual (in my love of the colour itself) and ease (I feel most ‘myself’ in versions of pink and brown).

So that’s a long-winded version of my favourite colour, how I incorporate this into my style, and how it connects with my style logic as a Ruby. Thoughts, comments and feedback most welcome. 🤗