Rachel Harvey Style Blog

A few weeks ago I was chatting with a friend who happens to be one of London’s most celebrated hairdressers. His eponymous London salon is frequented by celebrities and ‘civilians’ alike who all agree that he is pure magic when it comes to women’s hair.

When I trained to be a colour analyst, in addition to learning the theory and the science behind it, I also had to practice on ‘real’ people – a lot of people. Friends, family, friends of family, the family of friends, they all became my trial models while I learned the ropes.

A couple of weeks ago I did a colour analysis, dressing for your body shape session and wardrobe edit with Abi. We have a personal shopping session booked for October, which we’re both really excited about.

From very young, I experienced and identified colour in a very specific way. The days of the week for example had a specific colour and shape. Tuesday was a navy rectangle, Wednesday a bright yellow square, Thursday a fir-green triangle and Friday a tomato-red diamond.

If you type ‘Virgo Character Traits’ into Google you will get the following:

The year was 1998. I was working in my first job in fashion PR and while we didn’t earn a lot in terms of actual money to buy things like food, we were given an awful lot of free clothes and underwear. At that time, I was prepared to live on beans if it meant a free designer wardrobe and a good selection of balconette bras at my disposal.