Not Your Average Body Type Guide

🧪 Entry #05: Give me 2 minutes to change your mind about body types.

You’ve explored your color type and started crafting a personalized palette. Now, we’re moving to the next foundation of personal style: body type.

Before you cringe, this isn’t about fixing, hiding, or turning everyone into an hourglass. It’s about understanding and embracing your natural beauty.

• color type

• body type

• core style

• the wardrobe framework

• wardrobe editing

• fit + measurements

• silhouette + proportion

• color story

• texture

• multidimensional style

• conflict + balance

• full outfits

Body Type Without the Baggage

Body type gets a bad rap.

But understanding your body type isn’t about fixing your shape. It’s about embracing your shape, learning what works with your body instead of against it, and realizing that your proportions aren’t strange or wrong. In fact, they’re shared by countless other beautiful women.

When you identify your body type, you begin to notice the lines and silhouettes that are not only beautiful, but comfortable.

When I first learned that I belonged to the Natural body type family, it felt like a weight had been lifted. I had always struggled with my wide shoulders, constantly feeling like a linebacker in tailored clothes (I couldn’t find a well-fitting blazer to save my life). Understanding my body type reframed everything. I stopped trying to minimize my frame and started building my style around it. It was deeply validating to realize that so many other beautiful, stylish women shared my proportions. Suddenly, my shoulders weren’t a flaw to fix, they were a feature to embrace.

Learning my body type didn’t just change how I dressed. It changed how I saw myself. With more clarity, more compassion, and a whole lot more confidence.

And I want the same for you.

Yin-Yang Body Analysis

An intuitive, compassionate approach to body type.

When it comes to body type, Yin-Yang Body Analysis is far and away the most useful way to understand your body type.

This method has been developed and inspired by thinkers like David Kibbe, John Kitchener, Harriet McJimsey, Belle Northrup, and others. You might already know Kibbe’s Image ID system, which uses these same principles.

Understanding Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang represent two opposing yet complementary forces that not only manifest in our physical attributes but also in our personal essence.

Your personal essence is the overall feeling/aura/vibe that others feel when they are around you. Your essence is your character - it consists of your personality in combination with your physical appearance, mannerisms, and way of being.

Physical Yang

long, angular, broad, straight, contrasting, striking, sporty

Essence Yang

strong, formal, fierce, decisive, mysterious, sophisticated

Physical Yin

petite, delicate, rounded, small circular shapes or features, dainty

Essence Yin

bubbly, charming, demure, shy, sweet, radiant

The goal of Yin-Yang Body Analysis is to identify the unique balance of Yin and Yang in both body and essence to determine the overall effect and style lines.

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