YOUR FASCINATING ESSENCE
Fascinating Essence Exploration + Discovery + Strategy
If your choices are beautiful, so too will you be. – Epictetus
In the third step of the Fascinating Individual Style™ framework, you discover the essence of your fascinating aesthetic — how your personality facets and inherent physical assets come together for essential and intrinsic elements that must be present when creating an effective fascinating style expression.
You can vary these elements to create a desired psychological effect for any and every occasion. But the intrinsic quality or qualities that serve to characterize your being and make you what you fundamentally are and without which you lose your identity must always be present.
Essential and intrinsic elements:
- Overall vibe — Informed by personality facets and physical assets of your aesthetic.
- Energy — Informed by the colour intensity, colour quality, and design activity of your aesthetic.
- Colour quality — Informed by the quality of colours of your aesthetic.
- Design character — Informed by your personality facets interpreted into design characteristics.
- Design weight — Informed by the colour intensity and textural weight of your aesthetic.
- Design activity — Informed by the number of design elements of your aesthetic.
- Refinement — Informed by the texture, textural weight, and design activity of your aesthetic.
- Seasonal design reference — Informed by the quality of colour, line, and texture of your aesthetic as it relates to the four seasons of the year.
How it works.
Just as the year’s seasons have a grouping of colour and design concepts that give each season its unique character and vibe, so it goes with the essence of your fascinating aesthetic.
We review the list of essential and intrinsic elements against your personality facets and physical assets assessment results.
What is the inherent quality or qualities that characterize your being and make you what you are? What must always be present and without which you lose your identity?
I’ve provided four essences as a starting point. Once done with the review of the essential and intrinsic elements of your fascinating aesthetic, your essence will be unique to you and much different from another individual’s.
Light & Delightful Essence.
With a light & delightful essence you have an overall vibe that is light and delightful — there must be lightness and delight — nothing absolutely serious or extreme in your fascinating aesthetic and ultimately your fascinating style expression.
The energy of your aesthetic is lit by sunlight with the optimum colour quality most likely being clear.
The design character is light-hearted and cheerful, and the design weight is light.
The design activity is simple, and the refinement is most often refined.
To support your personality facets and physical assets from the inside out, your fascinating aesthetic must have a dimension of lightweight even when using heavy colours.
The overall effect cannot be heavy, serious, or severe. There needs to be a sense of buoyancy, ease and comfort in design and ornamentation.
The qualities that serve to characterize the essence of your fascinating aesthetic are often seen in the Season of SPRING.
Genteel & Graceful Essence.
With a genteel & graceful essence you have an overall vibe of gentility and gracefulness in your fascinating aesthetic and ultimately your fascinating style expression.
The energy of your aesthetic is lit by twilight with your optimum colour quality being unclear, or indistinct.
The design character is soft — nothing stiff or hard.
The design weight is light and design activity is complex.
The level of refinement is most often highly refined.
To support your personality facets and physical assets from the inside out, your aesthetic must have a dimension of subtle and serene sensitivity and fluidity.
A sense of luxurious lusciousness must be a part of your aesthetic and ultimately your style expression. There needs to be a sense of gentle movement in design and ornamentation.
The qualities that serve to characterize the essence of your fascinating aesthetic are often seen in the Season of SUMMER.
Dynamic & Moving Essence.
With a dynamic & moving essence you have an overall vibe that is dynamic and moving.
The energy of your aesthetic is lit by sunset and your optimum colour quality most likely being unclear, indistinct, toned, or rich — even in light-weight fabrication.
The design character is drama and presence with a sense of movement outside the box.
The design weight is relatively heavy with design activity that is complex.
The level of refinement is most often unrefined or roughly textured.
To support your personality facets and physical assets from the inside out, your aesthetic must have a dimension of motion — it cannot look static.
There needs to be a sense of definitive movement and swift lines in design and ornamentation.
The qualities that serve to characterize the essence of your fascinating aesthetic are often seen in the Season of AUTUMN.
Contained & Dramatic Essence.
With a contained & dramatic essence you have an overall vibe that is contained and dramatic.
The energy of your aesthetic is lit by moonlight with your optimum colour quality most likely being pure, darkened, shaded, and contrasting.
The design character is drama, presence, and stillness.
The design weight is relatively heavy with design activity that is simple.
The level of refinement is most often highly refined.
To support your personality facets and physical assets from the inside out, your fascinating aesthetic must have a sense of grandeur and drama or dramatic simplicity — a touch of the extreme.
Rarely will there be anything done in moderation. Drama can be carried to the extreme. Extra-ordinary is usual fare. Even simplicity needs to be dramatic.
There needs to be a sense of stillness and drama along with the element of “contrast” in design and ornamentation.
The qualities that serve to characterize the essence of your fascinating aesthetic are often seen in the Season of WINTER.
