Kim Bolsover Colour Analysis

12/06/2026

Do We See the Same Colors as Others?
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Study Suggests Brains Respond to the Same Hues in Similar Ways

Using MRI scans, researchers found that participants’ patterns of brain activity were alike when looking at certain colors. But people can still experience those colors differently

Using MRI scans, researchers found that participants’ patterns of brain activity were alike when looking at certain colors. But people can still experience those colors differently

11/06/2026

"Kim, I just need to understand. My client has dark brown eyes and I must say I thought she is Deep at it is a deep color. However, I am not sure what is the difference between deep brown eyes and bright brown eyes?" Wizburga

Dear Wizburga,

It's not about what colour anyone's eyes are.

The question you should be asking is, "What do you see FIRST?"

Bright-ness or Deep-ness?

If you saw Deep first, you would then probably expect this person to have dark hair, dark eyes, and dark eyebrows.

a) Sylvester Stallone actually has hazel eyes but you can't see them - because you see Deep first because of the combination of his dark hair, dark eyebrows, and brooding, scrunched-up eyes.

b) Penelope Cruz has dark hair, dark eyes, and dark eyebrows - you see Deep first. You do not see bright, shining eyes - unless a make-up artist has done their magic for a movie!

c) Catherine Zeta Jones has dark hair, dark eyes, and dark eyebrows - but you see her bright, shining eyes first, so her dominant tonal is Bright.

Then you check your initial diagnosis with the drapes:

>> Stallone, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas all look great in Deep/Dark colours worn together - black and brown, black and red, brown and deep red, etc.

>> Brights like Zeta Jones look great in Bright contrasting colours worn together - black and white, brown and ivory, navy and soft white, etc.

And if you're ever tempted to focus again solely on eye colour, remember that some people have two different eye colours...
.. so that blows that approach right out of the water!

The following is taken from my Masterclass #12 Simplified Eye Colour Analysis:

Two differently-coloured eyes?
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It is also impossible to base a colour analysis on being specific about eye colours as there are people with two completely different eye colours!

This is called heterochromia and is an ocular condition in which one iris is a different colour from the other iris, or where the part of one iris is a different colour from the remainder.

Famous examples
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>> The American actor, Christopher Walken, has one blue eye and one hazel eye

>> Other famous examples are: Michael Flatley, Dan Aykroyd, Mila Cunis, Henry Cavill, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jane Seymour, Demi Moore, Alice Eve, David Bowie

Don’t get caught up in the detail!
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It is far too easy to get distracted by tiny details and miss the obvious.

Instead of trying to make your client fit the list of possibilities (like the simplified chart on page 13 in the Colour Analysis Training Manual), stand back and take note of what you actually see FIRST.

10/06/2026

Your personality type is NOT cast in concrete.

A personality type quiz and/or consultation can show you:

- how you are choosing to present yourself right now
- how you are choosing to behave right now
- how you are choosing to communicate right now...
... highlighting who you are being right now, or pretending to be.

If you work with someone savvy who truly 'gets' this, you can then learn how you can CHOOSE:

- to change how you present yourself
- to change how you behave
- to change how you communicate
... in any situation, at any time.

It's ALL down to you.

How you choose to present yourself, how you choose to behave, and how you choose to communicate...
.. they are all YOUR choice.

10/06/2026

Loads of short articles about drapes, swatches, colour supplies, with questions answered, documents to download, and quick links to all our products.

A few examples:

Colour matching
Drape notations
Draping your client

Drape set contents
How to create your own colour analysis drape set
How many drapes do you need?
Your first colour analysis draping kit
Are all drapes the same?

Swatch wallet contents
Make your own swatch wallets
How to stop making your own swatch wallets!

Armani colours? Or neutrals?
Lightest and darkest neutrals
Aren't there just 4 seasons?

08/06/2026

My Nana was a natural redhead and never once did her hair show the slightest tinge of brown. She always, always had her hair coloured and curled at the salon every week.

Once, when she was down with some horrid virus and had to take to her bed, her natural hair colour began to show through. Most of it was still red with a few touches of silver grey.

Had she been born 40 years later, she would have been a wild, Creative flower child.

Nana was absolutely a full-blown Yellow personality. She loved life, people, parties, ballet, and the theatre, especially panto.

She sat on the front row of wrestling matches waving her handbag and shouting her head off.

She found it hysterical if you managed to catch her cheating at cards - which was most of the time!

And she gave my mother, my sister, and me our love of gin and chocolate lumumbas, which she always referred to as 'LaBumbas' because that's exactly where you ended up after 3 or 4 of them.

I firmly believe it's all to do with personality as to whether a redhead will maintain her vibrant hair colour virtually all her life or whether she will turn a gentle browny-grey before she turns white or silver.

Understanding your client's personality type is fundamental to how they want to present themselves, how they prefer to live their lives, and how they want to feel about themselves.

My Colour Psychology course will teach you all this and more. You'll learn how to understand family, friends, AND yourself.

And the insights you'll have into your clients will make a 'bespoke experience' in your consultations seem an understatement.

08/06/2026

Learning when and how to use all 4 colour psychology types in your day-to-day life can be more than useful

Some years ago I went to a Christmas coffee morning run by a friend. Normally I can't stand these things but I wanted to put something back into the loyal friendship she's offered me over the years.

For almost 2 hours, I had to sit and listen to women whingeing about everything under the sun which drives me nuts as I deliberately avoid all the rubbish that they seemed to thrive on like horrible news items - for crying out loud, they even cut out newspaper articles and brought them along!

I am so glad I learned (purposefully) how to assume YELLOW colour psychology traits for such an occasion, even if I do have to do it through gritted teeth.

If I'd stuck to my true RED personality, I'd have said something very cutting and got up and walked out, and that would not have been at all kind to my dear friend, and it would have totally negated the reason that I'd decided to turn up in the first place!

I have to warn you...

Pretending to be something you're not always has consequences.
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In this case, pretending to be a YELLOW for longer than 30 seconds meant I had to lie down in a darkened room for several days afterwards,

Can YOU learn this for yourself?
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Yes, of course, you can learn all about how to do this for yourself, and for your clients, with my Colour Psychology course.

Half-price until Monday 8 June (TODAY)
Use this special coupon PSY2664 at the checkout.

Stuff the System. Put the Client First!

06/06/2026

I believe in this so much that I'm giving you a massive 50% saving so that you can get started right NOW

Adding colour psychology and personality changed my entire business and my life, so much so that I wanted every consultant on the planet to know how to incorporate colour psychology/personality into their own business.

Watch the videos, soak up the training, and you could be booking in clients NEXT WEEK for your fresh, innovative colour & personality consultations.

And don't forget to invite all your existing colour clients to discover their unique colour psychology/personality profile and discuss how this will re-define what they've already learned about themselves.

You can discuss HOW to do this with me at any time:
>> with unlimited personal email support from ME
>> franchise-free online training with certification
>> immediate, lifetime access

Half-price until Monday 8 June
Use this special coupon PSY2664 at the checkout.

Stuff the System. Put the Client First!

04/06/2026

Thousands of years ago, when I was a young whippersnapper and just starting out in the wonderful world of colour and style, I was in partnership with another image consultant.

Griselda revelled in telling anyone who would listen, "Kim and I are having a working lunch today," or "Last week, Kim and I had a working lunch..."

I was so young, so naive. I assumed because she was older than me that she had more experience and wisdom and I should follow what she did.

When I finally twigged that it was always me implementing the action points from what we discussed at these 'working lunches', I realised something had to give.

The final straw came when I arrived to pick her up for an evening presentation at a local women's group. She was still finishing her tea and declared that she hadn't had time to change her clothes!

She had on the most horrible skirt made out of what looked like dirty green baize, the stuff they cover snooker tables with! Her jumper was virtually the same dingy colour... and this Bright Spring was supposed to be promoting our colour business wearing dark, muted Autumn shades...?

She hadn't combed her hair. She hadn't refreshed her lipstick. Had she remembered to brush her teeth?

You can imagine how I felt at being seen with this so-called 'business associate' who looked more like a bag lady.

For crying out loud, this talk was supposed to drum up business for how to LOOK fabulous...

Needless to say, after such a dreadful evening, that partnership came to an abrupt end.

The problem was, back then, I simply didn't understand her:

1. I expected her to behave like a professional
2. I expected her to dress for the occasion
3. And, for the life of me, I couldn't fathom out why she didn't

When I stumbled into colour psychology and personality types a few years later, suddenly everything became clear.

I learned that Griselda and I are two completely different types of people, with completely different aspirations

a) Griselda's revolve around status - being SEEN by her friends and family as a business owner, rather than actually doing the work

b) My aspirations revolve around each individual client and helping her achieve what SHE wants

>> Older and wiser, I would now have the confidence to tell Griselda to 'stop at home' and present to that group on my own
>> Older and wiser, I would never have been in partnership at all!

All this fabulous psychology stuff explains everything:

A. why and what I think, say, and do

B. why other people think, say, and do things differently

C. how to get along better with other 'types' - or whether to cut them out of my life completely (sweet!)

Adding colour psychology and personality changed my entire business and my life, so much so that I wanted every colour consultant on the planet to know how to incorporate colour psychology/personality into their own business.

So I wrote it all down, created step-by-step tools, notes, and handouts, ran a live training course and recorded it.

My Colour Psychology course makes it easy for YOU to learn exactly who your client is currently being, who she would much rather be, and how you can help her get there.

And the stuff you learn about yourself along the way will blow your mind!

Including colour psychology/personality will change the way you run YOUR entire business, and even your life!

I believe in this so much that I looked for a way to encourage you to get started right NOW.

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So I'm giving you 50% off my Colour Psychology training

Use this special coupon PSY2664 at the checkout by Monday 8 June
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Watch the videos, soak up the training, and you could be booking in clients NEXT WEEK for your fresh, innovative colour & personality consultations.

And don't forget to invite all your existing colour clients to discover their unique colour psychology/personality profile and discuss how this will refine what they've already learned about themselves.

You can discuss how to do this, plus any other ideas, with me at any time
>> with unlimited personal email support from ME
>> franchise-free training course with certification
>> immediate, lifetime access

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Stuff the System. Put the Client First!
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"Kim, Having just watched the Colour Psychology Course has been helpful to get a bit more from it all, see it [colour psychology] in action and the potential that is there, not only with the quiz, but in various other forms of psychology too as ideas to think about to add in later. I still need to go thru all the resources, so I'm sure I'll get some more direction after that too." Stacey, Australia

02/06/2026

Did you know I actually used to wear luminous yellow without protest?

In the early Eighties I was out virtually every weekend as a volunteer rally stage marshal.

I even worked on rally butty-wagons in the freezing cold – the only time I’ve ever stood outside freezing my wotsits off voluntarily.

A kind friend gave me a bright yellow Sheffield-council worker’s coat and with at least 4 other layers underneath, it was a wonder I could move, let alone drive.

I must have looked like a Michelin man!

To put this into perspective

Normally I wouldn't be caught dead in yellow!

I am a Cool Winter and any shade of yellow makes me look utterly gangrenous...

30/05/2026

These are the universal colour drapes that I personally use and recommend (with drape numbers in brackets)

White - (110) Soft White

Ivory - (113 Ivory. An alternative - (114) Oyster

Stone - (132) Taupe (a cool, light taupe)

Pewter - I use the back of either (303) Antique Silver or (304) Antique Gold

Taupe - (153) Cool Taupe (rather like a darkish moleskin). A darker alternative - (124) Dark Taupe

Emerald Turquoise - (52) Emerald Turquoise

Teal - (63) Teal Blue

Muted Purple - (39) Warm Purple. An alternative - (38) Muted Violet (lighter than Warm Purple)

NB.
These drapes numbers (mentioned above):
>> 110, 114, 39, 52, 63, 124 are already in the Seasonal drape set
>>110, 113, 114, 38, 39, 132, 52, 153 are already in the Tonal drape set