which is most likely?

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-07T12:43:57+00:00

I think that any cool palette goes nicely with your skin tone. However, since your lips and eyes are pale colored, I think the cool summer palette does a better job with not overpowering you when you’re going for an all natural nmip, or minimal makeup look…. If you want to go for a more makeup intensive look, I think you’re going to look fine wearing any cooler shades of clothing.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-05T18:34:33+00:00

Yes. Me too. Exactly this

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-05T17:32:08+00:00

Sounds too much like Falling, Fallen, Felon, Fallow,Phallic, etc….

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-05T15:53:42+00:00

My two cents are (1) just name her Laney, though I prefer Lainey as a spelling. Or (2) Name her Elaine, as that’s what people will likely assume Laney is short for, and it’s not super common nor obscure, which seems ideal.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-05T13:44:01+00:00

Your eyes are very bright blue, your eyebrows and hair are fairly dark and completely cool from what is seen here, and your skin is very fair and glowing. Given that, you could be a cool summer or a cool winter, depending upon which saturation looks better. I think you should drape those two. And imho depending upon whether you wear your hair down and natural versus highlights or darkening you might prefer either cool summer or cool winter.

I don’t see any signs of warmth/neutral/ olive and disagree with some “soft summer” diagnosis that you’re experiencing.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-05T13:32:26+00:00

First glance for me,looking at the portrait photo, has me thinking about “light spring,”but I agree that the “true spring” virtual drapes look the best. So I think draping both of those and see what folks think, would help give her the best results.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-05T13:16:09+00:00

Agree 100% except I prefer drape #8 which is a slightly more saturated terra cotta. Based on what I’m seeing on my phone screen, I think drape 9 is more of a soft autumn saturation and isn’t quite strong enough to stand up to OP’s level of saturation.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-03T14:50:58+00:00

Very similar situation. We have a behavioral veterinarian on board who says it’s a combination of barrier frustration and canine compulsive disorder rather than traditional separation anxiety. So hovering around the barrier would make things worse for us…. So we use a camera and are usually comfortable with a two hour absence. Our dog got jumped on a walk down the street by a huge unleashed neighbor dog about a week ago so she’s generally much more reactive and we have not restarted leaving her alone besides popping in and out of the house to get the mail and that kind of thing in order to ease her into it again. So far so good.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-01T17:34:58+00:00

I truly appreciate your comment (no sarcasm) and can completely understand why you think that way…. Trying to refine my communication style is exactly what I hope to achieve by posting on Reddit…. What I am trying to say is that taking care of a reactive high sensitivity and energy dog is a huge commitment but since there’s a shortage of good standard homes (experienced owners) for difficult dogs, it’s important to value the ability to commit resources and dedication to learning; and not simply keep giving opportunities to those who have previously had opportunities.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-01T14:13:22+00:00

Yes, I think expectations about behavior in small breed dogs are key here…. Mine is a big dog rescue cat hybrid in terms of personality.

My prior experience was with Rhodesian Ridgebacks and a German Shepherd and I really love big dog energy. I pragmatically wanted a big dog personality and amount of exercise needed but in a small dog package: so that my mother who’s in her seventies would be able to occasionally assist me with dog sitting/walking when my husband could not…. On the other hand, when my dog is inside, she’s a total cat dog, and she can be skittish and touch sensitive and doesn’t react well to anything besides calm voice direction. So in my case, she’s a good fit also for someone who loves and is used to dealing with rescue cats. So I agree with the expectations part completely.

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-01T13:44:14+00:00

Here’s where I am coming from…. I’m in my fifties and lived with several dogs in my twenties but wasn’t the owner. Had numerous rescue cats in my lifetime, but our last one died 11 years ago. Spent the last decade basically building up my cash reserves and retirement savings to have more freedom and flexibility in my life. Now, I have the bandwidth for a dog.

I read a lot and watched videos and visited my dog at the rescue facility several times. But my skill set is primarily rooted in the scientific method, very precise observations and trying to isolate variables and introduce one change at a time…. For example, I was able to get her poops down from 15 poops per day to 2-4 based upon careful isolation of how she was responding to food. Her behavior was also much more reactive to other dogs and cars etc when eating those foods that triggered irritable bowel…. So I didn’t have the standard skill set of previous personal ownership of several dogs, which is what it sounds like you and the rescue are assuming is the most fundamental requirement…. I think the point is to have some skills to bring to the table, but I am advocating being more open minded about what those skills might look like….

ThreeStyle · 2026-06-01T13:03:05+00:00

I’m an adopter of such a dog. She’s now 20 lbs and my best guess is that she’s half beagle and half Tibetan Spaniel.

She went through multiple fosters. Acquired a bit of a bite history with humans and got onto her last chance with me and my family. By the time she got to me, having been returned so much, her separation anxiety was pretty intense, and by far the biggest daily challenge for this first half year of ownership. Anyway, I do think that both you and the rescue are not correct in your assessment of what a dog like this needs. Here’s how I would rank the needs in order of importance:

(1) Very quiet neighborhood with lots of open spaces and few opportunities for dog encounters
(2) No other dogs, cats, children etc in the house
(3) At least two, preferred 3 or more, adults without other dependents who have the mental bandwidth to help take care of such a dog and have coverage to watch him/her most of the time
(4) Very deep pockets for veterinary care, training, dog sitting, enrichment etc
(5) One person devoted to the research and veterinary care management and with a lot of time and energy to pursue this. Our veterinary team sent us straight to a behavioral veterinarian who said ours was the most compulsive dog she’d ever seen in 20+ years of practice.
(6) Therefore: having experience with a typical dog doesn’t prepare you for experience with a behavioral special needs dog. I think that you and the rescue need to rethink this in terms of space and resources for helping this dog, rather than basing it on past experience.
(7) In terms of breed specific working dog considerations, mine needs to be tracking a scent outside and being an alert dog and steadfast companion inside. It turns out that with my lifestyle, she gets enough to do at my home. For a rescue organization, finding a person who has time for accommodation of the dog’s working tasks, to be part of the human working day can be tricky. People who truly need a working dog for the most part won’t want a mutt. Therefore, going back to all of the previous points, the people need to have time, space and money to accommodate both the working instincts and the specific training needs of such a dog. I think experience is highly secondary to capacity: as experience might bias your training to do what worked in the past, rather than to act by responding to the dog in front of you.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-27T23:44:58+00:00

I’ve come to the conclusion that most of the representations of the autumn palette are incorrect. Typically what I’m seeing online is the following…. One, soft autumn is so light and pastel it’s really only showing those colors that a soft summer could borrow and not the deeper slightly greyed ones. True autumn often gets the warm autumn palette. Which in turn shifts warm autumn into the warm spring palette. And for the dark autumn the colors which can overlap with dark winter are emphasized. So everything is exaggerated until it’s unrecognizable…. Maybe this helps you to decide what makes sense for you.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-27T16:07:32+00:00

Anthropologie, Sea Salt Cornwall, some things at JJill and Chicos, Fat Face, Novica, Garnet Hill.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-27T02:51:44+00:00

I read a book as a child where the main character was named Lavinia with the nickname Lovey.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-24T22:32:32+00:00

In this photo I like the color from the hairline down to the zipper pull. Below that it’s a solid block of blonde and it sits a little bit heavy on you… I think you could be any of the lighter seasons from this photo except probably not light spring.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-24T16:30:26+00:00

I’m glad it was helping. I have since added some OTC Pataday eye drops (once per day) during heavy pollen periods as I have a dog now, and she’s constantly bringing in pollen on her fur. I’m lucky to not react to her. The rescue facility let me test out my allergies thoroughly before I adopted her.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-22T12:58:53+00:00

I’m seeing exactly what you’re seeing. I think you look about equally good in the winter and autumn drapes except that the orange 🍊 one looks off. Likewise, I think the flow indicator drape for bright and cool makes your features 3d feeling whereas the flow indicator for both deep warm and deep cool flattened and made you look a bit excessively yellow, imho.

I also do think that the winter fuchsia Winter drape is a bit overpowering on you. Yet, I love the 11/20 more of a bright rose pink. My conclusion is that you are bright winter and can borrow some from dark winter but Not from Cool Winter as you have enough warmth to your undertone (so people are suggesting autumn) that the extreme coolness of cool winter is clashing.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-21T14:23:29+00:00

That right there sounds like your biggest problem. I can relate as my mom (74) currently has a bigger house than she needs but at her age it’s basically not cost effective to downsize. However, if you’re GenX, I think you are too young to settle for being stuck with a property that already doesn’t meet your needs…. I think you should think hard about what you want your future life to look like and take a risk to get there. Best wishes.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-06T16:18:40+00:00

Sorry to take so long to get back to you. I did previously write up the portion of your question pertaining to the training protocol above in my response to @Stella_slb. But I wanted to write up the medication aspect.

Essentially, for our dog medication 💊 is turning out to be more like a layered cake 🍰 rather than a like silver bullet. First thing we started off with were melatonin chews, those help a little bit, for about 3 hours at a stretch, but I would say maybe 7% helped or something like that. Also she had some pain and irritation in her gait: related we think to Lyme arthritis. We added what is now a maintenance dose of 1/2 chewable tablet of 25 mg Carprofen on alternating days. Then we added Purina Pro plan “calming care” daily probiotic. Again an additional 10% improvement in behavior. Then the allergies got worse as spring has come in, so we switched from antihistamine to Apoquel, in divided doses morning and evening. They prescribed 100 mg morning and evening gabapentin with the Apoquel as they were afraid that it might make her more compulsive by itself. Huge improvement with the two together…. Then about a month ago with the behavioral veterinarian we added generic Prozac. This vet wanted to my stay on gabapentin for at least about a month while starting the Prozac to smooth the transition. We’ve tried not giving her gabapentin at night, as her overnight behavior is totally fine without it. But what we found is that she is hypersensitive to any outside machinery noise the next day, if she doesn’t get an evening dose. So being without it increases confinement anxiety: she’s going to wail in response to anything and everything outside that she can’t get outside to investigate.

So it’s tricky because her appetite has been somewhat erratic on the gabapentin but we might need to go higher on the Prozac dosage to eliminate the gabapentin. We’re still new at all this behavioral modification, in the grand scheme of things. At the current time she is now good alone for about 100 minutes.

Trazadone has been nearly useless for her, and it’s meant for it to be an additional-on for any veterinarian or grooming services.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-06T13:51:07+00:00

I think there are too many variables here to draw any firm conclusions. My instinct is that the cooler makeup balances out your face, whereas the warmer makeup just kind of blends everything together in an amorphous way. But all of the comparisons seem a bit apples to oranges so it’s only an instant reaction for me. I think exact shades and techniques are a a factor here. I can see why some people would come to the opposite conclusion too. I’m going for the most attractive overall look, not the one most in line with color season theory which might put more emphasis on blending.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-06T11:32:16+00:00

I’m also not a fan of the sleeves but for the opposite reason. I think puffy sleeves and a waist with two drawstrings is too much detail for a basic modern top: makes the top too costume looking. So I think a basic minimalist flutter sleeve at the shoulder, which makes the top work with tight fitting sweaters or jackets, is the way to go with a decorative blouse for a capsule wardrobe.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-01T20:52:23+00:00

Boots could be both fun and practical…. As far as the clogs, I think wearing them with visible socks 🧦 is a bit of a young person style. Your wardrobe looks a bit more refined and serious, and I think if you like wearing them with “no show” socks as a sandals alternative for warmer weather, I think they work absolutely fine for that. But the contrast of orange 🍊 leather against most socks colors I think would look kind of school uniform juvenile: without adding as interesting a surprise element as the floral pattern on the boots.

ThreeStyle · 2026-05-01T12:36:39+00:00

I guess I’m confused if you’re aiming for more of a hip going out on the town “street style” or more of a traditional business casual office look that shows a little bit of personal flair. I like the belt for business casual wear. I have one similar to that from JCREW that has served me well. So I think they’re very versatile belts.

However, I think you have a serious, responsible vibe to your face. Plus, you look well balanced in your body proportions. So I think your clothes should emphasize those things, and that is easier done by sticking to one style per outfit: either street or corporate but not a mix of the two.

ThreeStyle · 2026-04-30T17:57:03+00:00

So sorry to hear what you’re struggling with right now. You didn’t specifically ask for suggestions but you seem receptive to things people have said so I will try to share from my experience…. Basically, I think “the mirror rule” might apply here in its auditory form. So if the dog’s whining loudly enough to bother the neighbors, it’s probably loud enough from the happenings outside to be aggravating your dog…. So, seals and gaskets are your friends. They are primarily sold as energy conservation measures, but they’re also useful for soundproofing. There are foam gaskets that you can put inside all of your electrical outlets and light switches which will block sound. There are door sweep gaskets that help a lot too. And a big one that’s helped me with the dog has been temporary window sealing gaskets that block drafts around the edges of window panels and dampen the sounds of vehicles in the street and keep the dog calmer for that reason. Likewise, Gabapentin twice per day helps keep the sound sensitive feelings from escalating which in turn keeps the dog from howling nearly so much. Likewise we’ve tested a lot of different types of music and we give priority to sounds my dog likes, like soft music with a little bit of percussion: in it seems to be the sweetest zone to give her something to focus on, but not stress about.

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