We need to set up a fund so megan can come to all of our houses and pick out colors.

I just looked at a bunch of pictures of myself on flickr to see if I could figure out the color thing somewhat...I wear a lot of black. Also, blue.

Yes, but our attitudes toward intellectualism (both pro and con) are hugely, hugely tied up with class in the US.

True, but I think that it is intellectualism in particular that explains Bush. Otherwise, he lead as privileged a life as anybody could.

Light/medium/dark skin doesn't matter as much as whether there is a cool (blue) or warm (yellow) tone to it.

Definitely yellow, so I am thinking fall which I never would have thought due to thinking it brings out the yellow in my skin.

But if it's possible to be a winter/fall mix, that's what I am. My best colors are winter ones--black does wonderful things for my skin tone and makes my eyes (dark brown) just pop, and white, burgundy, navy, teal, and forest green are almost as good. (Purple I can't wear. At all. It makes me look jaundiced. Same thing for ivory, beige, and almost all pastels.) But I can get by with dark browns, olive greens, and even burnt orange, and I tend to pick make-up in fall colors rather than winter, because it feels like the slightly browner shades match my skin, hair, and eyes better.

This is me exactly except for purple.

Also, I'm thinking this is a perfect example of me overthinking. :) Off to invite the NY friend to my facebook place holder.

We need to set up a fund so megan can come to all of our houses and pick out colors.

Yes, please.

Well, I haven't actually looked at Color Me Beautiful since I was a teenager, but I would've sworn there's a deep forest green in the winter section. And it's the only green that looks really good on me, though I can get by with dark olives. Emerald, kelly, and lime are all hideous on me. But if it's possible to be a winter/fall mix, that's what I am.

I totally believe people can cross categories as no one "system" could really capture all the nuances of people's coloring.

We need to set up a fund so megan can come to all of our houses and pick out colors.

As PixKristin can testify, I am so down with this concept.

Also, a compliment from Nilly is like the bestest gift ever for one's day.

Yes, but our attitudes toward intellectualism (both pro and con) are hugely, hugely tied up with class.

Part of what is screwed up about them. An anti-intellectual dumbass pork-rind chewing multi-millionaire is working class, while (to take an example local to me) an adjunct professor earning $15,000 per year teaching comparative literature is part of the elite? Really? (And I know that is not what anyone is arguing. But it is genuinely believed by a large part of the U.S. population, and it is a valid reduction to absurdity of the idea of social class trumping economic class. And yes, in this case we have real life public opinion to show that the slope really IS that slippery.)

Typo Boy, I really don't understand what you're arguing about, exactly. I assumed it was a given that any definition of class is dumb and arbitrary. All I was saying was that people's judgments about class are not strictly economic. Whether they should be is a meaningless question to me. This is something that only exists in a social context, so if it is believed by a lot of people... it is true.

I also wore a lot of peach in the 80's

My prom dress was peach. I loved it.

I'm a spring who can wear some autumn colors. My mom used to do everyone's colors back in the 80's. She always pulled me in so show springs. Right now, I'm wearing a light leaf green shirt that looks pretty good on me.

Huh, Rep. Ted Stevens of Alaska has just been indicted. No big surprise given his level of corruption and the charges that have been swirling around him for some time now, but he is the longest-serving member of the House (as well as the originator of the phrase "the Internet is a series of tubes").

he is the longest-serving member of the House

And has been involved in AK politics since before statehood. I, for one, am very happy to see the snake get caught for something.