Women of Color: The Multicultural Guide to Fashion and Beauty

by Darlene Mathis

The world's women are a universe of colors with a gorgeous spectrum of eye, hair and skin tones. Now acclaimed personal image consultant Darlene Mathis offers her easy-to-follow system for identifying the palette of colors that will enhance natural beauty and develop "fashion fitness" so women of all colors will look great and feel terrific no matter what their ethnic African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and more. From hairstyle and wordrobe building to makeup and accessories, this complete fashion guide is a must for all women of color - Winters, Summers, Autumns, and Springs!

192 pages, Paperback

First published August 23, 1994

Reviews

[Shelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I guess you could say I got this book for odd reasons. I find it helpful that it is real CMB seasonal stuff but, for colored people. The original I think included colored people but, there wasn't much in the way of pictoral examples. This book has pictures for all sorts of races. It also has a race related coloring slant to everything. I'm not another race in my opinion, I'm white (my grandma thinks Greek's are another race and I'm 1/4th Greek). Anyways, I never could find my eye color in the original book under Spring and it also acted like I could only burn and not tan. This book has my eye color under Spring. I don't think it really addresses the tanning issue, lol. I think it's good for brown eyed girls as many books automatically think all brown eyes are the same shade of brown and only go with certain seasons but, brown eyes vary and can fit into any season. Also, brown hair can be in any season, not just fall or winter. This book addresses that too. It's not that it isn't in the original CMB but, you have to read all the fine print to see it. And non-CMB books tend to think only green eyed blondes are Springs. (4 seasons). P.S. this is not an official CMB but, because it's still 4 seasons I count it as part of the original line up. It's just the enhancer you need to fill the gap of how to figure out multicultural people.