FOR PREPARATION

It is absolutely essential that you arrive with a bare face - this includes skipping sunscreen, tinted moisturizer, and blemish treatments  Know that I've seen many bare faces and whatever perceived flaws you typically cover will receive no judgment from me.

I recommend that you bring a supportive friend. It's so much more fun and enlightening to have the company of someone who knows you well or is interested in PCA.

You'll be sitting one place for over an hour. Please be sure you are fed, watered, and well-rested before your appointment.

Avoid tanning beds, self-tanner, and sunburns in the weeks prior to your analysis.

Perhaps it goes without saying, but I ask that you arrive with a mind open to truth and harmony, however unexpected it may be.

FOR THE PROCESS

Any truth-seeking journey requires some level of humility, and this one is no exception. In addition to wearing no makeup the first - and possibly only - time you meet a total stranger (me), we will cover your hair with a gray cap and study your face under full-spectrum lighting. We'll observe together how your skin tone harmonizes (or doesn't) with a variety of calibrated colorful drapes. You will see those that illuminate your appearance and those that confuse it.

FOR PERSONAL GROWTH AND REFLECTION

"I didn't know I could be this beautiful."

"I never thought of myself as pretty."

"I had no idea I could wear this!"

​Those are just a few joyous comments I have the pleasure of hearing from people in my chair. But color has a strange way of bringing other, deeper things to the surface:

"I don't like people looking at me."

"My mom always made me wear things like that."

"My husband has stopped telling me I'm beautiful."

"Other guys always made fun of me."

​I see a lot of tears - sad ones sometimes, as the colors remind my clients of their relationship with their appearance over the years - but also so many happy ones as they realize their beauty has been there all along, just waiting to be revealed.