Updated book features hues you can use

"Having your colors done" was an early '80s obsession. Women and many men paid big money to be diagnosed as autumns or springs. Or they sat in front of a mirror while a consultant held paint chips to their faces.
"Don't ever wear gray," they were told. "Don't go near navy." The experts' credentials were sometimes foggy. But clients took the idea so seriously they couldn't buy stockings without their "palette."
The idea re-emerges with the publication of an update on an old book, "More Alive With Color: Personal Colors, Personal Style" (Capital Books, $30). It's by longtime color consultant Leatrice Eiseman, the author of four books and an executive with Pantone Color Institute.
Using hair, eye and skin color as a guide, she designates categories such as sunrise, sunlight and sunset. Then she adds "crossover colors," which she says are those most often found in nature and work well for accessories.
Overall, she addresses a wide range of issues including proper makeup, hair coloring, men's business attire (subtle) and a personal quiz.
She points out that as you grow older, hair color should be softer to flatter changing skin tones and wrinkles, you can use color to influence others, and if you want to express your quiet, gentle side, wear light to medium tones.
And the most interesting chapter is about what your favorite color says about you. Green, for instance, implies stability, balance, a good listener and a tendency to gossip.