Taylore’s life work began with a job in the fashion industry over 25 years ago. When working with fit models she began to notice that even when designs were being tested on models of the same size, basic features and coloring – the same article of clothing looked completely different on each woman. She realized it had to be the model, not the clothes. But what was it about them that was different? It was this nagging question that moved Taylore to take the first step toward creating the art and science of combining body energetics with the energetics of style, design, texture and color—the art and science of helping people find and express their authentic self through fashion.
Taylore’s investigations first led her to the image industry where she spent years as an expert teaching color, facial shapes, and body types. In the 1980s Taylore was a protege of Suzanne Caygill – originator of color analysis in the 1940’s and creator of “the four seasons color theory”, which was the basis for the book Color Me Beautiful by Carole Jackson. Suzanne accurately predicted, to a close friend, that of all of her students and associates, Taylore was the one most likely to have the next big discovery.
Over time, Taylore’s studies and experience in the image industry revealed to her that mainstream color matching and facial/body matching theories could not accurately profile people because they only deal with the surface: hair, eye and skin color; bone structure; and basic physical attributes. Intuitively, she knew something was missing, so she continued to search for a way to accurately identify a person’s innate style and inner core characteristics—their essence.
Striking out on her own in the 1980s, in the beginning, Taylore would identify each individual client’s unique frequency signature and then custom match design elements – including color, shapes, design lines, and textures – that exactly matched the radiance of each specific individual. In this way people were wearing clothing that exactly matched their vibration, helping them more fully become themselves and show up as they truly are in the world.
Taylore had a natural gift which she further developed into an exceptionally keen sense with regards to the specific radiance (vibration) that a piece of fabric or clothing emitted. Of course, we all know that colors are literally different wave lengths of light, i.e. different radiances or vibrations, but what Taylore also discovered is that shapes, design lines and textures put off specific radiances (vibrations). Furthermore, she developed the ability to discern when the radiance of a specific piece of clothing or specific eye shadow, for example, was resonant or dissonant with the person wearing them. In this way, she could help individuals stop wearing items that were dissonant with who they are, i.e. dissonant with the natural radiance they would be projecting if the clothing or make-up was not in the way covering up and distorting their true signal (vibration). Taylore saw that these distortions in a persons’ signal were blocking their success in relationships and life in general, which was a big part of her motivation to help free people from these blocks and experience the profound, life changing benefits of putting out a true vibration, i.e. being in their Essensce.
Through word of mouth, more and more people kept showing up wanting to discover their personal radiance (Essensce) and learn how to match their clothing, cosmetics, hairstyles and other items to their natural radiance, their innate inner beauty. While Taylore enjoyed doing custom consultations that helped transform the lives of her clients, she knew there would be only so many lives she could touch this way.
Based on ample experience and wanting to find a way to reach more people with this life-changing information, Taylore had her next break through. She saw that while each person has a unique radiance, all people fit into one of four groupings, inside of which all the unique radiances are resonant, i.e. in harmony with one another. She began calling each of these groups Harmonic Tones™.
What Taylore discovered with the Harmonic Tones was a way to provide the same benefit of custom one-on-one sessions in a more systemic, scalable way – making IlluminEssensce accessible to a much broader audience. She also discovered a system that was more scalable on the design side as well – a systematic set of design elements and guidelines that clothing designers can use to design clothing for each of the four Harmonic Tones that every human on the planet fits into.
Taylore continues to offer workshops and presentations – mostly in Southern California and Hawaii – and has continued developing and perfecting the IlluminEssensce system into what it is today. She has trained and certified several exceptional women as IlluminEssensce Consultants and developed a number of training modules for end-users, designers and consultants.
To date, Taylore has worked with over 7,500 individuals – the early adopters – and believes that the world is now ready to embrace this system and is open to see and experience for themselves the profound and life changing benefits of IlluminEssensce.
It is at this moment in our journey where you join us now.