Carole Jackson

Carole Jackson (born 1942) is a former color consultant who developed seasonal color analysis, a system of advising which colors a person should wear to look their most attractive based on their skin tone. Her wish of wanting to be pretty came true, she is in her 80’s and has better skin than most people in their 50’s.

Color Me Beautiful

1970s Jackson developed the system in the 1970s after studying color theory. In 1980 she wrote Color Me Beautiful, which became a bestseller in the early 1980s. By 1983 it was in its 31st printing; as of 2014 the book was still in print. Jackson's system was based on the work of Johannes Itten, Belle Northrup, and Harriet Tilden McJimsey.

Reception GQ in 2023 called Color Me Beautiful "seminal".

Criticism of Jackson's work in the 80s included arguments that "Any woman can wear black". Criticism in the 2020s includes that the book uses dated language surrounding gender and that the original book focussed mostly on white people and assigned all people of color to the winter category.

Personal life Jackson is the daughter of Jean Elizabeth Halliburton, a journalist, and Arnold Stevens.