Fantastical Beauty Archetype Guides
Archetype Guides for all 9 of the Fantastical Beauty style types are now available. If you're ready for a deeper understanding of a type through specific recommendations, you will find it in a 10 page pdf detailing tops, bottoms, accessories, mood, keywords, color scheme, and more. Each guide has a few line drawings to help illustrate the ideas, as well as a description of a possible life vignette or two.
Step into a type and see how it fits. If you're still unsure of your type, consider being typed. The guide for your type will be sent to you free with purchase of any of the typing services. *If you already have the guide for the type you turn out to be, you may choose another.
How to Get Away with Never Wearing Heels Again pt. 2
We continue our series with three more outfits, finishing up our exploration of mini-lengths; and again, the trick is to match the flat to the mood of the outfit. Which shoes you choose can shift the mood of the outfit, taking it from funky to sexy to more casual; but rarely can it completely change the mood of an outfit, and so we try to stay in-range with what the outfit is saying.
The left is cute-cozy/casual-flirty. Choosing oxfords continues casual-flirty, the sandals casual, the slides casual with a funkier element given the print, and the rainboot would be really cute and a bit flirty. This is a potential outfit for spring-autumn Maenads, Angels, and Seers.
The middle outfit is edgy, and any variation on a moto-boot will pair. I especially like the first boot with cutouts because it helps continue the line of the leg/exposed skin while still having the feeling of a boot. If you do a solid boot with a mini length, it segments the leg in a way that can be harsh- anything with scalloping or cutouts will help blend the line, as would dark tights or leggings. This is a potential outfit for winter Nymphs, Maenads, Fae.
The third outfit is sensual-cozy, and I really like the simple peep toes or sandals as an echo. The closed toe slingback is cozy. If you wanted more sensual-dressy, you could choose peep toes with sparkles or bow detailing. This outfit has potential for Angels and Mermaids.
The post series on How To Get Away With Never Wearing Heels Again has concluded and you can find it all here:
Fantastical Beauty Quadrants and Subtypes (In-Type Variants)
In determining your Fantastical Beauty style archetype (or having it determined for you), you're likely to come to a square of possibility. A person's face is often between full and balanced or full and linear; and it's common for a woman's s-curve to be in between subtle and moderate or moderate and major s-curve types as well. While some people will have a clear best type, and others will be between two, the most common is to be in a square of four possibilities (a few rare people span a possibility of six).
Once you narrow it down to your four, personality, energy, outer perception, and even coloring can come into play and aid you in narrowing it down from there.
One of the six possible type squares.
Even after you've come to your true type, knowing your location relative to neighboring types can be useful in personalizing the type recommendations.
If this is your four, but in the end you were able to confidently claim a linear face, but lean in personality/coloring/vibe and other tertiary considerations toward nymph, your placement might look like this, and you may have fun pulling some Nymph elements into your Fae look.
In this possibility, you are Fae, but due to tertiary considerations, you were able to completely eliminate Valkyrie and Nymph, while there was still something right to be found in Maenad, and you can now draw to a small degree from that type.
Your location on the Fantastical Beauty map will never be directly on a line. You will always be located as one of the nine types. That said, whatever your type, there IS a way to borrow an element from any of the other eight types, while staying true to your Fantastical Beauty archetype.
Valkyrie contains Glamazons, Were, Huntress, Godiva, Raven Riders, and Valkyrie-as-subtype.
Fae contains Elf, Dark Pixie, Garden Fairy, PixiePuck, Brownie, and Fae-as-subtype.
Magic Queens contains Sorceress, Spirit Healer, Imp, Enchantress, Necromancer, and Magic Queen-as-subtype.
Maenads contains Gorgon, Vampire, Succubus, Jinn, Satyress, and Maenad-as-subtype..
Nymphs contains Woodland Puck, Kitsune, Heket, Centaur, Nyx, and Nymph-as-subtype..
Angels contains Star Woman, Fallen Angel, Iris, Soul Guardian, Pegasus, and Angel-as-subtype.
Dragon Princesses contains Cupcake Princess, Harpy, Phoenix, Mother of Dragons, Lucky Water Dragons, and Dragon Princess-as-subtype.
Mermaids contains Sea Witch, Selkie, Seapuck, Lamia, Kelpie, and Mermaid-as-subtype.
Seers contains Banshee, Lady Luck, Ghost, Reaper, Siren, and Seer-as-subtype.