Welcome! If you’re into the topics below, you’re in the right place! -Yin/Yang Principle created by Northrop and expanded on by McJimsey, Kitchener and Kibbe -Style Aeshetics -Fashion Topics -Style Tips
psychologically I am an ingenue maiden / lover mix- looking facially like Audrey Hepburn- problem is according to this standing at 5'11" I am too tall!! 😂😂😂
This is the first time I've seen the subdivisions described and now I actually do think this describes me. I feel like a petite soft natural! I never saw myself in the waif-like, Audrey Hepburn type that is normally represented.
It is so clear this creator is informed and passionate on this topic. I loved seeing the gamine variations and including more than 1 body type! The video is long but worth every minute
I have through my whole life had a dramatic essence if I look back, but I just realised I also have ethereal essence mixed in. Through time people have told me it seemed like I came from another place. Some place like in a fantasy world with elves, dragons and magic... like in out of space on another planet with magical beings. I have never understood why they said so? They could not explaine it. It was just a feeling they had. People often think I come from another country, but I have lived my whole life in the same place. They say I speak differently. Today I tried to find out, so I found a lot of photos of me and made them black and white as you suggested. Then I saw what it was. In all my pictures it seemed like I looked past or through to something distant and far away in a soft and mild way. It is very contrasting compared to my face shape, which is more dramatic angular and diamond shaped. My kibbe body shape is dramatic classic.🐲
Hello Elyssa, I'm watching this videos 4 years later as I found your channel (and this video!) as as recommendation on reddit to explain how to approach different style for different body types. I believe it would be amazing to have more videos like this one! where you explain how to achieve given style in given body types. There is some content like this on yt but I really liked how you approached it with different categories and we just NEED MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS. I hope you will take it on <3
7:15 I think this shows how Kate Winslet´s black dress doesnt really work for her (as in many other examples shown here) She needs more yin in her wardrobe. They keep over doing the yang and classic lines because they focuse on the dignified serious look and it just doesn´t work for her. I actually think the issue is the fabric of these outfits. They are too thick, too yang. Maybe the classic look could work but the fabric has definetely to be way softer.
Can you guys genuinely stop saying the word Bohemian? It was a slur used for Romani people during slave trade, and It is literally so disrespectful and disgusting that you choose to use it as a descriptor for an aesthetic. Thanks.
I feel like ingenue is my greatest challenge. In Kibbe I am a theatrical romantic, 100%, but my face is so ingenue that I find I’m still struggling to strike a balance between looking like I’m not playing dress up in my mothers clothes, but also dressing appropriately for different events. I can’t pull off gamine though, that always looks like I’m wearing kids clothes more so than when I actually wear kids clothes!
I’ve never been able to figure this out as a woman who is 5’2” and curvy and have had a feminine face my whole life, yet I love edgy, structured clothing, and style. If anybody else out there is like that let me know if you have a board because I will follow you!
This is me! I'm an "earthy" ingenue. It's similar to being a nature or elemental nymph without the ethereal touch (because that would obviously be an ethereal essence, and I'm way too carnal to be ethereal). There's a Pinterest board called "nature girl essence," and it pretty much suits me because the style reminds me of a barefoot Disney princess on a hike. Bohemian or folk pieces are fitting. My touches are more from the American southwest because that's where I'm from. I guess this is why the cat girl stuff is working out for me even though I'm no longer a "young adult," and just an adult. It's the ingenue... I know soft natural is a different style system, but it's kind of like that moreso than a soft gamine. I'm small and bony enough to be a flamboyant gamine (sharp/dramatic + petite + blend), but I don't have the quirky facial features for it. I'm like a skinny soft gamine (romantic/soft + petite + blend) or a tiny soft natural (romantic/soft + blunt/natural). The yin/yang essence system is easier for me though, and so I can easily see that I'm high in youthful yin as opposed to mature yin or any kind of yang. I embody the archetypal Persephone for this reason, and the Hestia touches aren't quite as blatant, but I'm sure I'll embody more of it as I age (a more mature crone archetype). This combo seems to look either "earthy or hedge witch" (blunt/yang + blend or sharp?) or outright dark Hecate (blunt/yang + dramatic/sharp) elements. I'm not sure. I just know I'm strongly an ingenue with natural elements.
That sounds like an amazing combo! Like rapunzel for example a princess running in the nature. That sounds perfectly from fairytale so I think you can def take inspirations from it!!
(That’s me with no filters and minimal makeup in my pfp) I think I’m romantic because I have the stereotypical luscious lips and such however people online always like everyday tell me ‘you look so angelic’ ‘you’re ethereal’ and in videos that show my personality they say ‘you’re so cute’ and ‘you seem so sweet’ however people in real life always tell me they found me intimidating at first and that they thought I was prestige (look at the urban dictionary definition if you’re not in the uk) so I’m really conflicted because my essences seem to be romantic and ethereal but I still have highly obvious contrast that contradicts the defining ethereal trait, I think I’m more romantic in terms of first impression and my face but bc of how people perceive me later on I have no idea
I am so embarrassed, confused, and shook, I thought Catherine Zeta Jones was AMERICAN! 😭 I’m questioning everything right now. I’ve watched entrapment so many times. This explains many things. Anyway I love this video so much. When you put them speaking it changed everything. Also Janet in the Marilyn inspired shoot OMG! She looks amazing. And Catherine in that leather dress in the daytime says everything! Bc it really does look so casual as you said.
The staccato way is such an aha for me! I am primary classic and now realizing secondary ingenue… was always wondering why I could do some gamine sounding stuff (sets, color blocking). Love that you featured Sarah hyland I forgot how often I used to get “you look like her”. Thank you for this video, it’s the first I’ve seen on ingenue all on its own
I'm pretty sure I am a Dramatic (not FN or SD) much yang, but also have some flesh. I have a hard time with the dramatic clothing because it's just to boring. I find that I need more action than just a sharp cut. Sure, I look great in it, but I am so bored. I am edgy, I am alternative, I need it to show, even in my office wear. I need it to show through just enough, but I am not succeeding in doing that.
This is such an amazing breakdown. Recently stumbled across the while kibbe/ kitchener system and although i am intrigued it is confusing 😅 But the way you break things down and explain essences makes sense to me. Hope you haven't been discouraged from making more videos, these are all so very informative ✨
I’m 39 years old and some people say I look like a pixie and others say I look like a Polly doll. I could never find my true body type. I do look good in theatrical romantic and soft Gamine… it can be frustrating to be child like when you are a grown woman.
Hi elyssa! What I find so interesting about the kibbe series is that we really have no idea wha goes on in another persons head or what it “feels like to be them”… as a classic I had no idea until I came across your video that there are people who struggle to look more formal. I simply never thought about and apparently took it for granted. I was always envious of the gamine spunk and expressiveness - something I will never have. What a great learning experience for us all!
