Marissa Ray

Marissa Ray

Southwest Minneapolis, MN

Marissa Ray

Southwest Minneapolis, MN

Marissa Ray

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Helping you rediscover the joy of getting dressed—every single day. I’m here to equip you with the right tools and guidance to uncover your true style, whether you're navigating school drop-offs, packing for dream vacations, or showing up for big career moments. Because feeling like you matters. Let’s make getting ready fun again! 

I’m here to help you feel confident and beautiful every time you get ready—through personalized color, makeup and style consultations. Learn how to simplify your wardrobe and reflect who you truly are.

As a former client myself (and a recovering black-and-white-aholic!), I know firsthand how powerful it is to discover your best colors and clothing personality. My dark summer palette made my eyes pop, my skin glow, and helped me fall in love with lipstick! Learning how to dress for me—not the trends—was transformational.

I’d love to guide you on the same journey. In your color and style sessions, you’ll learn the hues, fits, and details that help you shine naturally. The right tools make getting dressed joyful again.

I offer one-on-one consultations by appointment in my St. Louis Park studio. Let’s uncover the magic of your unique beauty—because God made you to shine.

Welcome!

I offer one-on-one consultations and group sessions by appointment in my cozy St. Louis Park studio—a relaxed space where you can confidently explore your personal color and style. For established clients, I also offer in-home wardrobe edits and on-location personal shopping.

The studio is filled with natural light and located in the Miracle Mile Shopping Center, just above Hoigaards. Look for the Wooddale Offices awning to the right of the shop entrance. Come up the stairs and find Suite C on the right. Prefer an elevator? Park in the south lot behind the building and enter from Wooddale Avenue.

Light snacks and water are always available during your session. You're welcome to bring your own snacks and beverages as well.

I can't wait to have you in the studio for some color and style magic!

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My Services

Offering the full range of HOC services to help you build a wardrobe that feels right. I also offer Personal Shopping, Wardrobe Edits & Makeup Classes to bring it all together. Choose as much or as little as you like!

Color Analysis

Get dressed every day with purpose, ease, and JOY! A color analysis provides you with life-changing information. Using precision-dyed drapes and my extensive training I will prove to you the value of knowing your season; a palette of colors customized to your unique undertones. We apply this information to women, men, and children of all races, ethnicities, and genders. Your season will never change so this is information you can carry with you for a lifetime.

There are three parts to every color session. First is our world-class, scientific draping process that we have refined for excellence and accuracy over the past four decades. Next, I will provide advice on jewellery, watches, glasses, and when applicable: hair and makeup based on your season. Our makeup products will take the guesswork out of choosing colors that highlight your natural beauty. Finally, we'll dive further into your season and choose the best colors for your casual and professional life, discovering your list of WOW colors.

You will leave your appointment with a fan of your seasonal swatches and a brochure full of tips and reminders specific to you that you can reference later to make shopping and wearing your new colors a confident experience!

You should arrive at your analysis free of spray tans and makeup for optimal accuracy. No pictures will be taken without permission, nor are they shared on social media without your consent.

Uncover the colors that make you shine—whether it's for your wardrobe, makeup, accessories, or even your hair. Your session includes a seasonal swatch fan, personalized color booklet full of tips and reminders specific to you, and access to the exclusive HOC Lookbook.  You'll be equipped with the tools to make shopping and wearing your new colors a confident experience!

Available as a one-on-one experience or a fun group session—because discovering your best colors should feel as good as you’ll look.

 

Style Analysis

Discover the science behind personal style by unlocking the power of you. During a style analysis, I'll teach you how to combine who you are with how you dress so you can step out into the world looking fabulous as your authentic self. We consider your proportions, personality, and preferences to give you a style framework- we call this a “Clothing Personality. You will confidently know which fabrics, prints, patterns, and accessories, necklines, details, and silhouettes flatter your unique body architecture best. Because we factor your personality into this framework, our style analysis goes a step further to help you identify how you feel in different styles and pieces so your clothing not only looks great but also represents who you are.

For this appointment, you’ll bring 5–10 items from your closet that you LOVE and 5–10 that make you wonder why you don’t feel good when putting them on. We'll use this information to help you discover why you gravitated toward and loved certain pieces and what it is about the others that weren't working for you, so you save time and money in the future! At House of Colour, we believe clothing needs to be adjusted to you, not the other way around. It is our goal to make sure you feel your most confident as who you are and how you look right now.

You’ll leave with a book with detailed information specific to you that we'll fill out during the appointment and a Clothing Personality card with keywords that will help guide you when shopping. If you've already had a color analysis, this card can be inserted into your fan which will make shopping easy and efficient!

Discover how your unique body shape and personality guide the clothing styles, fits, and details that flatter you most. You’ll also learn how to make style work for your real, everyday life—so getting dressed feels effortless and authentic. At House of Colour, we believe clothing needs to be adjusted to you, not the other way around. It is our goal to make sure you feel your most confident as who you are and how you look right now.

Your session includes a personalized style workbook and exclusive access to the HOC Lookbook with a curated catalog of your style staples. Soon you'll be your own personal shopper!

Style consultations are best enjoyed in person—whether as a personalized one-on-one session or a fun, shared experience with others. Prior color analysis not necessary.

Advanced Color Analysis

Advanced Color Analysis is an opportunity revisit your season, refresh your seasonal color knowledge and build upon the foundation of your personal color analysis. It’s something you may want to explore at least three to six months after your initial House of Colour color analysis (I am happy to discuss ideal timing with you).

During this appointment, we'll dive deeper into the specifics of your season and show you color combos, and more makeup options, and provide guidance specific to you.

You will leave your appointment with an Advanced Color guide in your season where we will log all color and make up combinations (we rate them too!) for future reference. You may pair this guide with your fan and color brochure you received at your first color analysis to further customize your look.

Sessions take approximately two to three hours and we will review 40+ color combinations in your season.

Feeling stuck in a color rut or unsure how to combine colors beyond basic neutrals? This personalized, in-person one-on-one session is designed to help you confidently explore your best seasonal color combinations and find your ideal lipstick shades. You'll also receive an advanced color workbook to support you beyond the appointment.

A prior color analysis with House of Colour is required to book this session.

Testimonials

Read client testimonials—the why behind everything I do!

I wanted to let you know how special it has been to meet you, work with you, and discover my TRUE colors as a Blue…

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I wanted to let you know how special it has been to meet you, work with you, and discover my TRUE colors as a Blue Spring.  Remember how shocked I was to learn that I was not a Summer?  I have embraced being a Spring!

At the beginning I was so anxious to buy clothing in my colors that I made a number of mistakes in style.  But I am learning to look for fitted clothing, set in sleeves and round necklines and mid-rise pants. The frump is starting to disappear and my husband loves the new look.  I feel so much better about my appearance, and my eye is becoming trained to know what styles work for me.

Shopping is now fun!  I love using my color swatches.  It's all worth it when I buy items at different stores and they go with what I already have.  Even shoes coordinate, and I'm being very picky about matching socks.

I love that you truly care about helping a person to look their very best, and I am forever grateful to you.

Anonymous

I have really enjoyed my new color and style awakening.  It has been years since I received random compliments from strangers but now I hear them…

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I have really enjoyed my new color and style awakening.  It has been years since I received random compliments from strangers but now I hear them quite regularly.  I was traveling with one of my daughters and she was shocked and almost annoyed by the number of compliments I got Ha Ha! Those are nice and surprising but the real joy has been the spring in my step and renewed confidenceI feel.  Thank you, thank you for helping me kickstart this third phase of my life!!  

Lesley

I can't tell you all the $$$ I've saved by avoiding impulse purchases this last month. It's ok to say 'that's cute but not my…

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I can't tell you all the $$$ I've saved by avoiding impulse purchases this last month. It's ok to say 'that's cute but not my color!' Thank you!

Rachel

By the way! Super fun picking out my mother of the groom dress, knowing my best color and style ????

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By the way! Super fun picking out my mother of the groom dress, knowing my best color and style ????

Cindy

Thank you again for Sunday’s session. To be honest it was much more than I expected, which is awesome.

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Thank you again for Sunday’s session. To be honest it was much more than I expected, which is awesome.

Peggy

I've spent the last 24 hours clearing out my closet and organizing - the exciting news is that I don't need to add anything other…

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I've spent the last 24 hours clearing out my closet and organizing - the exciting news is that I don't need to add anything other than one spring blouse and a casual pair of pants to get me through the next few weeks. It's nice to know I have some breathing room and can get a better feel for the new role before going shopping... next month ???? 

Melissa

My consult with Marissa was AMAZING! I had a Color Analysis done with friends and went back 1.5 months later for a Style Analysis. The…

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My consult with Marissa was AMAZING! I had a Color Analysis done with friends and went back 1.5 months later for a Style Analysis. The information learned has been invaluable! I can't recommend these services enough! It's been 4 months and I am still RAVING about them to everyone that will listen.

Rachael

Marissa did an excellent and thorough color analysis. Having these new tools- along with the perfect make up for my coloring- allows me to confidently…

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Marissa did an excellent and thorough color analysis. Having these new tools- along with the perfect make up for my coloring- allows me to confidently build my wardrobe with my most flattering colors. Shopping and picking out outfits for the day has been so much easier and more fun, since I can now be certain my color choices suit me.

Barbara

This was a fun experience for my mom, sister and I to share together. Marissa was friendly, patient, and knowledgeable. We now know what colors…

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This was a fun experience for my mom, sister and I to share together. Marissa was friendly, patient, and knowledgeable. We now know what colors work for us and why and left feeling ready to tackle our wardrobes confidently. Thanks Marissa!

Christina

Marissa was great, it is amazing what wearing the right colors can do. I highly recommend getting your colors done by Marissa!

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Marissa was great, it is amazing what wearing the right colors can do. I highly recommend getting your colors done by Marissa!

Stacy

My husband and I had our colors done by Marissa. We had a great time and learned so much about what colors work best for…

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My husband and I had our colors done by Marissa. We had a great time and learned so much about what colors work best for us. It was truly amazing to see the difference.

Katie

Absolutely loved my experience! Marissa was great!

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Absolutely loved my experience! Marissa was great!

Hannah

Marissa Ray did a fantastic job explaining and demonstrating many times through draping, why I was a paintbox spring season. This was an extra special…

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Marissa Ray did a fantastic job explaining and demonstrating many times through draping, why I was a paintbox spring season. This was an extra special experience because she did a TWIN session with my identical twin sister. I look forward to doing my styling session next! Get your colors done you won’t regret it, except that it may consume your mind for the following weeks while you sort your closet for your season and hunt the internet for more inspiration:) thanks Marissa!

Jamie

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