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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Color Me Beautiful about Using, COLOR, BEAUTIFUL with the genre: Self-Help, Self-Esteem?
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conversations.value: Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant the author helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages you can cut out to carry when you shop!
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Color Me Beautiful
  When shopping, work toward completing your basic wardrobe. Buy first the clothes you need most, using your priority list as a guide. If you see a dress you like, but you already have enough dresses, don't buy. Many of us accumulate the clothes we find easiest to buy for ourselves and consequently never reserve enough in our budget to buy something else we really need. If you have trouble finding pants that fit, and you need pants, resist that extra dress and keep hunting. On the other hand, when you see an item that is missing from your wardrobe, grab it, if your budget allows. This purchase is not impulsive. It's part of your plan.
  Invest your money in the clothes that really count. If you wear a suit only occasionally, it's fine to buy a less expensive suit and put your money somewhere else. But if you wear a suit to work everyday, you need quality. It would be a mistake to squander your budget on an expensive cocktail dress for one occasion, if it means skimping on a suit. The suit must be of a good cut and fabric to hold its shape wearing after wearing. A lesser-quality garment in this case would be a poor investment, costing you more money in the long run because it would have to be replaced so quickly. Invest in the suit and hunt for less expensive evening attire.
  Dressing well when you shop gives you two advantages: You will be better able to judge clothes on yourself, and you will receive better service. It isn't fair, but it is true that salespeople will respond to you according to the way you look. If you wear dungarees and your gardening shirt when you shop for a nice dress, the salespeople will assume that you are a person with limited taste and/or no money to spend and they will concentrate on the woman who looks as if she will buy. Dressed carefully, I have often walked away with only a scarf, but much attention and solicitation from a fawning salesperson. Another time, dressed in my hack-arounds, I have practically had to force someone to take my money for a rather expensive purchase.
  You can best judge how a garment looks on you if you are wearing the right underwear, stockings, and shoes. If you are shopping for jeans, wear pants; but if you are looking for a dress, suit, or evening gown, dress accordingly. It is impossible to decide whether an elegant evening dress is flattering in your sneakers.
  Shopping by color is the biggest timesaver in the world! It is a boon for the working woman or anyone who requires a complete wardrobe but whose life style leaves little time for shopping. First find your size. Then pull the items in your color. Third, check out the personality of each outfit—is it your type? Next, look at the style and cut of the garment. Now, feel the fabric; scrunch it to see if it wrinkles. Is it appropriate for the intended occasion and for your needs? Check the laundering instructions. Labels give instruction on care, and it is disappointing to discover at home that the "wash-and-wear" skirt you bought has to be dry-cleaned. Now try on the garment and check for fit. Don't overlook the possibility of alterations. Although color works magic, a poor fit is still noticeable and detracts from your best look.
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conversations.value: Do you know four more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Get to know which manufacturers (or designers if you are lucky) consistently produce clothes that are cut well for you. With practice, you will be able to buy some clothes without even trying them on.
  Shopping can be fun even if you don't have much time for it. Color makes it easier, faster, and more rewarding, since you know that whatever you buy in your colors will look great.
  We have all seen the woman who, despite attractive features, perfect makeup, and immaculate grooming, radiates nothing. She looks good on the outside, but on the inside she feels like nobody, and that is the image she projects to others.
  As you wear your colors, you can internalize the good looks and the compliments into good feelings, so that you not only look your best, but feel beautiful as a person—and that's the ultimate winning combination. The special magic of color is that your new image is authentically you, based not on fakery or "beauty tricks" but on flattery of the real you. You are not hiding what you don't like about yourself; you are revealing the best of yourself.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last two paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Do you see how your palette can permeate your entire life style and even help you develop your identity?
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