Before we start the quiz, let’s talk about Style Essences.
So, what is a style essence? They are a perceptible reflection of your inner self with a mix of your clothing lines. It considers your “vibe” or the way you perceive the world, and how that is reflected on your outer self. How you act and interact with others.
In a few words, this is how it all started and the evolution of the style Essences…
David Kibbe in the 1980s with wrote his book “Metamorphosis”. In there they included 5 main families:
- Dramatic
- Natural
- Classic
- Gamine
- Romantic
Harriet McJImsey was the one who matched the yin/yang balance of each that these families and proposed that there where 6 main archetypes: Dramatic, Athletic, Classic, Romantic, Gamine, and Ingenue.
Kitchener’s style essences, included an important 7th essence; The Angelic also known as the Ethereal.
We will be using all these 7 style essences on the quiz since we also believe these 7 essences exist and they are the most common nowadays.
Dramatic, Gamine, Natural, Classic, Romantic, Ingenue, & Angelic
Why is it important to know your style essence?
Kitchener style essences are a way to complement your Kibbe Body Type clothing lines. It will give a better understanding of your style and your image. Which will help you showcase your most authentic self, and feel much more comfortable with your dressing day by day.
Essences consider some traits that are “felt” rather than explained.
We would like you to know that this isn’t about beauty. It is simply about the kind of clothing that looks harmonious on you.
When answering the quiz, keep in mind what kind of clothing doesn’t make you feel like yourself in them, and which ones look like they are separated from you.
7 Style Essences Quiz (kitchener)
We suggest you write down your answers. So… grab a pen and let’s get started!
1. What color palette do you like the most?
A) Black – Gray – White
E) Red – Maroon – Pink
B) Aqua – Beige – Yellow
F) Light Pink – White – Blue
C) Green – Brown – Blue
G) Purple – Dark Blue – Golden
D) Navy Blue – Beige – Wine
2. What is your Kibbe Body Type?
A) Dramatic
D) Dramatic Classic – Soft Classic
B) Flamboyant Gamine
E) Romantic – Theatrical Romantic – Soft Dramatic
C) Natural – Flamboyant Natural – Soft Natural
F) Soft Gamine
If you don’t know what your Kibbe Body Type is, you can start by doing the Kibbe Quiz first. And… if you still have doubts we can help you figure it out, by doing a styling consulting here.
3. If you could describe yourself with one of these pictures, what would it be?
A)
E)
B)
F)
C)
G)
D)
4. In a fictional movie, what character would you play?
A) The Villain
D) The queen
G) The mermaid
B) The superheroe
E) The Mistress
C) The cool market vendor
F) The Princess
5. What is your personality style?
A) Urban
E) Vintage
B) Creative
F) Romantic or Preppy
C) Boho or Sporty
G) Natural
D) Classic
If you don’t know what your Personality Style is, we recommend you answer that QUIZ first, or answer with whichever you feel like you relate to the most.
6. How much contrast do you have? (between your natural hair, eyebrows, eye color and your skin)
*Write down all the letters of your response.
A) B) E) High Contrast
D) F) Medium Contrast
C) G) Low Contrast
7. How would you describe yourself?
A) Jazzy, confident, and bold.
D) Formal, traditional, tidy, elegant, and timeless.
G) Unique, an old soul, interesting, and a dreamer.
B) Charismatic, rebellious, original, and peculiar.
E) Mature, attractive, feminine, and glamorous.
C) Laid-back, relaxed, simple and practical.
F) Innocent, cute, feminine, and pretty.
8. What is the perception others have of you?
A) I’m usually perceived as a tall, intimidating person (even if i’m not).
D) People perceive me as someone who they should respect.
G) Others perceive me as mysterious.
B) Others usually perceive me younger than my actual age.
E) People see that I’m very confident in my body (even when I have insecurities, others think I don’t).
C) I’m usually perceived as strong (physically) and approachable.
F) I’m usually perceived as delicate and harmless.
9. Are you an introvert or Extrovert?
*Write down all the letters of your response.
D) F) G) Introvert
C) E) Ambivert
A) B) Extrovert
10. Choose a nightgown to wear for a gala.
A)
E)
B)
F)
C)
G)
D)
11. What would you rather do on a Friday night?
A) I would go out and check the new place for myself to see if it’s good.
D) Spend time practicing my hobbies.
G) I would throw a one person dance party.
B) Have people over for dinner and boardgames.
E) Take the night off to pamper myself, take a long warm bath and put on a face mask.
C) Depending on the mood, I would stay home or do something chill with my friends.
F) Stay home reading a book, continue my knitting project, and a cup of tea. The cozier the better.
12. How does your room looks like?
A)
E)
B)
F)
C)
G)
D)
13. How do people react when they are near you?
A) They are intimidated by me.
D) They usually take me seriously and respect me.
G) They might be curious about me or treat me like I’m weird (I probably am).
B) They find me interesting and always have something to ask.
E) People either feel threatened by me or find me attractive.
C) I guess they are mostly nice to me and don’t mind being themselves around me.
F) People smile at me and always are willing to help me. Sometimes I’m treated like a kid.
results!
Count the repeated letters. The majority is most likely to be your main essence. The other two that are repeated the most are your complementary essences. For example, you can get 5 B, 4 E and 2 C. Which means you’re a Gamine with Ingenue and a little bit of Natural.
They way you can incorporate them to your style:
Main Essence: it’s the base of your whole outfit.
Stronger Complementary Essence: 1 garment of your outfit.
Lower Complementary Essence: accessories.
Comment below your results. We’d love to know what is you essence blend!!
I’m probably late but I took the quiz. It looks like I’m mostly Natural but Gamine and Classic come close and they’re tied.
Here’s what I got:
1)D
2)D
3)C
4)C
5)B
6)D, F
7)B
8)B
9)D, F, G
10)C
11)C
12)B
13)C
Hi Faith!
You could have Natural as your main essence, and Classic and Gamine as your complementary essence. It is possible that those two have the same percentage, you could consider that, but if you feel more connected to one you could give it more importance.
Hope this helps, but if you’d like us to help you find your essences based on your facial features we could help you with our styling consultation, take a look!
Well I got 4D,4F,4C,4G,2B,2E and now I’m confused
I got 4 b 4 e 4 g 3 c and 1 a. Is that even possible. I’m a theatrical romantic.
I’m a bit confused on my results and need help understanding a little bit more because I received two of the same numbers 🙂
A (6)
B (4)
E(4)
Hi Naz!
It looks like your main essence is Dramatic, but your other two complementary essences (Gamine and Romantic) have the same influence on your style. It is normal, sometimes we have two of our essences that have equal importance. You might want to balance you outfit and wear the same amount of details from the gamine and romantic essence. We would love to help you find the best way to blend your essences and mix it with your personal style with your styling consultation. If you’d like that don’t hesitate to contact us!
Mostly gamine with some ethereal/angelic. I don’t know how to combine these. They seem so opposite!
Top 3
7 Bs
4 Gs
2 Ds
The body type test was very clear and I am a Classic, but my results here were very confusing. I got 3 points by Natural, Classic and Romantic and 2 points by Gamine, Ingenue and Ethereal. What can I do with this?
Hi Lilian! You probably have Natural, Classic and Romantic as essences.
Thank you
Hi so when I finished taking the test and I’m a bit confused. I figured out my main essence and lower complementary essence easily enough as I have 7 Fs (so mainly ingenue) and 1 A (dramatic), and I’m able to cut out Classical as I have 0 Ds. But with al the other letters, B, C, E, and G, they all tied with 2 points each. So would that mean my secondary essence is a mix of gamine, natural, romantic, or ethereal? Or should I just pick one of the four?
Hi Ari!
Oh you have a lot of ingenue essence!, love that!
For your Complementary essence 2, you might want to consider your personality, the impression people have of you, you facial features, and sometimes your Kibbe can influence your essences. For example if you are Soft Natural you might have Natural essence.
If you are still struggling on your essence blend we could help you find your specific essences and mix it with your personal style with our complete styling consultation. Contact us!
I’m somewhat confused by which my main essence would be. I scored 5 responses for both Natural and Gamine, since they’re both equal do I just pick one to be my primary? Also Ingenue is my tertiary, and my palette is Bright Spring lol so I’m not even sure how to balance all this.
Hi Amy-Louise,
This can totally happen! You might want to choose which one is your main essence based on what you feel is more you and what which one has more impact on how people perceive you. Although, there are other factors to have in mind like your facial features. We would love to help and guide you on this journey of blending your essences and your color palette with your personal style with our styling consultation. Contact us here if you would like our help 🙂
My Main Essence is “Natural”! My Second is “Gamine”! And my Third is “Angelic”! I find these to be very interesting and true, as I love to be creative, unquie, bohemian, stylish, but comfortable at the same time! However, my kibbe type is a “Soft Classic”.
Love this quiz!
Hi Layla!!
It’s so interesting how our Essences could be different from our Kibbe. I’m happy you took the quiz and liked it! Happy day 🙂
Hi, i just did the test to see what my style essence is exactly…and my answer(at least i hope i did it correctly), came out with a lot of minor inbetween answers. My primary essence is a Gamine, secondary is Angelic. Then i have 2 of Natural, Romantic, and Ingenue. My kibbe is also a Romantic apparently.
Hi Tiffany!
A lot of times our Kibbe is present on our essences, so you might want to consider the Romantic essence being your second complementary. But this is not a rule, you could consider it in order to see what best feels like you 🙂 If you are still doubting what your essences might be, we could help you with an Essences Analysis. Don’t be shy to contact us here!
Sincerest apologies I messed up on my first post, my results were:
A:2, B:1, C:3, D:2, E:2, F:3, G:2
It’s confusing because it seems to be a mix of everything (except ‘gamine’) could you help me understand this, please and thank you so so much!! Again sorry for the double post.
Hi, i figured my type of body is dramatic classic in Kibbs test, overall my results is leaning towards gamine and ethereal with balance score, and others.Which i am a bit confused. since my presence sometimes can be noticeable even i am wearing simple outfits. base on comments all around me, i am more to intimidating looking and mysterious. when i wore something classic like a dress it toned down my strong looking face and looking softer and more elegant. In relaxed mood i prefer wearing something practical and relaxed
i do always wears mostly with natural colour in my everyday wear. My season is dark winter, pattern arent my forte. stripes is my go to.other than that i hardly tolerate.
do you have any suggestion base on my results?
Hi Kamila
Yes, I think what you’re describing is very important to have in mind. Our personality and how people perceive us have a role on defining our essences. You do might want to consider classic on your essence blend since you say your presence is noticeable.
We could help you find your style by blending your kibbe and essences with our Essences Analysis. If you’d like us to guide you on this journey don’t hesitate to contacts us here!
I’m having a bit of trouble with my results. I got an equal amount of Classic and Ingenue answers. My Kibbe type is Soft Classic. My results were A:0, B, 2, C:1, D:5, E:3, F:5, G:1. Do you have any advice for me? It would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Anjolie!
I’m happy to help you! It is a bit hard to give you a super detailed advice without looking at a photo of you but you might want to analyze which one do you think is more noticeable in you. Do you think you have a lot of presence or do you feel more innocent? Since you are Soft classic it might feel like the classic is very present, since your features a very moderate. Since your first essence will influence the overall structure of the outfit, you might want to consider in which essence do you feel more comfortable wearing a whole outfit?
We could help you find your essences blend and the exact percentages you have, plus give you tips on how to blend it with your personal style with our essences analysis. Don’t be shy to send us an email here if you’re interested 🙂
Hi, on the Kibbes it says I’m a Romanitc, except on this it says I’m a natural, then the second is angelic, then romantic. I am very curvy, taller than average, and auburn hair and blue eyes, and i’m a warm summer. i’m just confused
Hi Zoey!
It is possible to have very different Kibbe and Essences blend. You could follow the romantic structure and the clothing lines like keep the waist emphasis tight around your hip curve but maybe a bit loose on the top part to add the natural. Use natural fibers on your garments like lightweight linen or cotton. Keep the prints minimal and use the color palette of the angelic essence. You could also use your hair very natural and put on a romantic makeup look. All of this with your color palette in mind. Hope this helps you find your blend and style, and if you would like more tips and tricks on how to do this don’t be shy to send us an email here. We’ll be happy to guide you with our styling consultation.
Hi there Dani, I’m a bit confused my results were as follows: A:2, B:1, C:3, D:2, E:2, F:3, G:2
It seems to be a mix of everything excluding ‘gamine’ what can/should I do with this information?
Thank you in advance!
my results/ likes:
1. color palette: C
2. Kibbe body type: Dramatic Classic
3. describe self with pic: C
4. fictional movie character: G mermaid
5. Personality type: C boho and G natural
6. contrast: c/g low contrast
7. describing myself: G Unique, an old soul, interesting, and a dreamer.
8. perception others have of me: B/C
9. Introvert D/F/G
10. gown gala: C
11. friday night: C
12. room: A
13. people around me: c/g
c8; g6
Physically I’m a natural, I’m heavy built but no curves, blunt, long lines and no waist line, when over Wright I gain on the upper body above the waist, my legs stay thin. I have thin lips, but on nose snd small eyes, square face. Whilst I look ‘butch’ my personality is very ethereal, so I’m in the wrong body. I look as if I’d be an athlete a d Tom boy but I’m very overly feminine in style and tastes, love anything mystical to do with history and other worldly things, books and historic buildings, cats and I’m very introvert.
Hi Alison!
Even though they might feel contrasting, your body and your essence, it is possible to blend smoothly your Kibbe and your Essences. We can help you find the best way to do it if you want. Contact us here 🙂
Idk. My result was angelic (mostly G) but my Kibbe body type is Natural (I think FN but I am not sure) and the angelic style looks too soft for me.
hi Ava!
It might seem weird when our Kibbe is sharp and our essence is softer, but it can happen. You just need to find the things that work best for you. For example, if you’re a FN you could use long garments and that is also Angelic. If you’re interested we could help you find the perfect balance between your kibbe and your essences with a complete consultation! Check it out here,and don’t be shy to send us an email.
I’m a tie between gamine and romantic. Does that make me an ingenue?! Lol. I’m a flam-gam and like a 50s-inspired girl next door/pinup look (my style personality is vintage!)
Hi Vanessa! Oh great! your style is super defined and goes well with your kibbe. You could be Ingenue, it is an option you could consider as your second complementary essence. If you want we could do personalized essence analysis, send us an email! Contact us here.
Found this by chance and was a bit confused at some of the questions but have to say it’s SPOT ON!
Going I try some of your other quizzes now…awesome! Thank you
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I’m gamine with natural and a little bit dramatic!
Hi Sandy,
Great! Your blend is really interesting. Hope you create awesome outfits that will make you feel like your best self.