Left+Down Essence: Five Archetypes
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Video Chapters:
0:00 reintroduction to left-down logic
3:37 the role of archetypes in our system
6:20 description of the archetypes
6:45 The Cool Girl
10:16 The Spicy Girl Next Door
14:33 The Seductress
18:56 The Outsider
22:34 The Wildflower
25:40 Important Conclusion - Jak na to + styl
Besides the style advice, what I really, REALLY appreciate in videos where the both of you are present is the example of a loving, nurturing and kind relationship. You two interact with such kindness, respect and appreciation for each other that is truly inspiring. I hope everyone watching these videos recognize that we all, regardless of our body types and essences, deserve to be treated with the same kindness, generosity and respect as the two if you exude.
I definitely thought I was Left + Up, but I think I'm the Wildflower through and through. I just thought I would be in the Left + Up because of how extravagant I can come off and how much gravity I hold, but truly it's such a natural and intuitive part of me.
Love Helen Mirren as the Seductress! It's helpful to see that archetype in its maturity. I would love more mature references in each quadrant. I feel like a mature reference really grounds or fleshes out the quadrant. When women are in their 20s and 30s they have more wiggle room. Meryl Streep seems like a right down person to me, without thinking about it too hard, even though she' s similar looking to Helen, I'd be curious if you agree.
Yes definitely Meryl for right down!
Tbh though I don't observe women in 20/30s having more wiggle room among my clients compared to those in 50/60s, the range seems similar to me
I love being a left down, but this expansion of this archetype makes me more in love and feel more at home being a garnet. I am everything you described to a "t". I love how you chose gemstones and the simplicity of your system is so four seasons to me. I am such a romantic and love the way you are into each other. Thank you for inventing this key type essence system 😊❤
i am so excited for a potential left + up expansion of archetypes! such a difficult quadrant for me to understand for everyday people but i gravitate towards it the most
Yes!!! I have had many clients who feel this way too and I'm really excited for the archetypes to help explore it 🌸
Me too! I very much relate to left up and am not sure how it manifests in ordinary life!
"artful ease" is PRECISELY what I'm going for with my wardrobe 🥺 I love love love this way of thinking about style, thank you!!
Also as a fellow philosopher I love the counterfactual analysis for the “spicy girl next door” 😂❤️
I love the way you look at each other! 🥰🥰 So fun that Meradj is back!
❤️ I am also so glad to have him return!
It would be really cool if you eventually discovered archetypes that naturally “straddle” two of the quadrants! I could see it being the case that someone who is down but sort of hovers in between right and left, for instance, might have a distinctive vibe that could be echoed by other women in a similar straddled placement :)
Edit: after watching the whole thing I think you already answered it with the spicy girl next door! I’m so excited about that one because I think that might be me :):)
I love the expansion into more archetypes! 🌸
#scientistsdofashion. Sample sizes, thematic analyses, phenomenological descriptions, sociocultural critique. I'm dying of joy and extra pleased that LD went first for the update. What a great follow up to the LD workshop & course - signed, an inadvertent seductress on the outer margins (also, glad to see M doing well!)
FIRST OF ALL you guys are the cutest
Thank u 💗
This expansion on the archetypes was so helpful! When I watched the introduction video to this system I thought I must be a right down woman. However, when I watched the right down video and you mentioned that some women may try to force themselves into the right down and that it works as a form of self-erasure I realized that I am likely doing exactly that. I find the idea of the right down, girl nextdoor essence appealing but I don’t think it has every fully suited me, no matter how hard I’ve tried to squeeze myself into that quadrant. I’ve felt fairly confident that I belong in one of the down quadrants, but when I watched the first left down video I did not relate to the seductress or outsider archetypes so I was very confused about where I fit in the system. However, now that you two have introduced the spicy girl nextdoor archetype I think that the left down quadrant may indeed be where I belong.
I will wait to see the right down expansion video so I can really be sure. But I am excited to potentially stop trying to force myself into a role I just don’t quite fit.
Love this ❤️❤️❤️
These are great! The one who surprised me was Helen Mirren; I always saw her as right-up. I also can't help but always think of the monologue from Gone Girl whenever I hear a "cool girl" archetype.
Wild flower ✌ Unless I'm actually on the Up side, so looking forward to Left Up archetypes 😊 It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference between dressing for myself but wanting to look unique and and interesting, and dressing to make an impact but still wanting to look sort of low maintenance. I guess it doesn't really even matter as long as I feel like myself in what I wear.
That's about where I am, too. Either the crux between Wildflower and Seductress or actually in Left Up, towards Down, but not the Trendsetter necessary.
I am 💯 without a doubt a L+D person. I'm so excited about your archetype system. I was explaining my style as "girl next door, grown up" and so I feel like a little bit of cool girl, a little bit of seductress but mainly spicy girl next door. Love love love this.
After this video i like "left down" a lot more, because the new archetyps are so much more connectable. Might have misjudged myself. Excited to see more of this content. Will enjoy rewatching for sure😘
You guys are a brilliant team. And how he looks at you when you’re being brilliant and vice versa is just stunning couples goals.
Can't wait for the other quadrums 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌼
That lip and that top are SO good together.
I guess I just found myself somewhere within the Wildflower and the Outsider - just feel like these two natures are somewhat intermingled within myself:) Loved the Wildflower expansion! Great insight:)
I have a feeling I am going to watch this video 10.000 times
Rita, Meradj, great job! You actually answered my unasked question that was forming in my mind for some time now - what with the people who don’t fit within any of the two initial archetypes (I felt like not everyone was, for example in case of Left Down, very Left and very Down or closer to the Right and closer to the Up - you could be very Left and closer to the Up). I’m super excited because with your explanation of the Wildflower a lot of things got more clear to me. I suppose I could be this one since I think I’m a mover. I’m waiting for your Left Up expansion. Once again, great job and keep going! I’m very grateful for your approach.
And yes, the LD course is an amazing resource!
Kasia
Great explanation, thank you! I can’t wait for the right down!
Also if there is any L+D celebrity whose archetype you're curious about, ask me!
I think you included Zoe Kravitz in the last L+D video, what archetype would you say she is? Love your videos so much 😌😌
@@AmazingMargalit Yes, Zoe Kravitz!
We out Zoe in left+up in the "celebrity guessing game" video 🌸
If Bella Hadid is here, she is really fascinating example
@@jiarendoesntcare I would think of her as LD
I am so excited about these expansions! Yes! And the L+D course was really useful, so much info, and it helped move me deeper into knowing what I want to express and how.
As L+D I would definitely be the Wildflower part that's on the line, or slightly over in the Up quadrant -- this is me at present. The course and the L+D and L+U workshops have unlocked desires and dreams that I think could send me straight up, maybe even to the Mystic spot, once I have the courage. Or maybe I am exactly where I am meant to be, about to unfurl my Wildflower petals, moving me only slightly to the upper limit of this archetype. No side-to-side movement for me! I can't wait for the L+U archetype expansion, especially to discover what is directly above/overlapping Wildflower.
Thank you, Rita! ❤️ Your videos have been a very important resource to me as I've been exploring my personal style. I have overcome depression and lost a big amount of weight, and now in my early 30s I have found myself wondering how I actually _want_ to dress now that clothes aren't about "what will fit me" or "what's the least possible effort" anymore. I've felt a very strong sense of belonging to the left down ever since you introduced your quadrant system, and I really loved this expansion video. I'm thinking spicy girl next door for myself, at leats for now...
P.S. Love the bright, harsh spring light in your videos lately - so very similar to ours here in Helsinki!
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Looking forward to the Left+Up video! 😊😊
This is so fun! I love all the added archetypes and can definitely see the LD women I know in them. Also love the little add on at the end ✨ So excited for the rest of the quads 💕
Love watching you guys interact and hearing all the concepts
Yaaaay!!! You guys are so sweet.
This was very informative, many thanks to you both.
You look so beautiful, Rita. 💙🤍💚💜💗
The waiting was worth it 😍 I truly like your concept, it speaks to me very naturally. I think I am a cool girl and it confirms how I feel about my style. Thank you so much
I think I am the spicey girl next door 🤓 I always felt most represented in the down qualities.
Great video, thank you!
Regarding the Seductress: I can't really think of a word in English that means "draws people towards them" that involves sensuality, can involve sexuality for certain people, but doesn't necessarily. For a Left-Down person, we dress for ourselves and not the other person, so the Seductress isn't dressing for the "seducee", so to speak, and I can imagine people being confused without the explanation. Although I relate even more strongly to both Outsider and Wildflower, one thing I've said and heard others say is, "I like my clothes to feel like a hug", and I have often felt like many people who like soft, form fitting knits with some stretch relate to this.
I love you guys!! Keep up the amazing content.
Love it! I love watching your system grow so organically ❤ Zendaya was my own left-down inspiration when you made your first video (and Zoe Kravitz, who I think is a little more towards Seductress), so having a name to the "Wildflower" archetype is very helpful and feels clearer!
This is so interesting! Such an interesting framework to think about style
I love when you said the outsider is their own little planet.
I so relate to that. 😂
I cannot wait to see if you are able to expand the archetypes for all quadrants. I’m pretty sure I’m on the right side but still finding it difficult to place myself on the up/down axis so I’d be intrigued to see where on the right quadrants you might place other more specific archetypes like this. Also, you are the sweetest couple!
Hiiie Rita. This video became even more interesting. Although as someone who have had body image issues throughout my childhood, a part of it feels sad but I am healing. And style is helping a lot. 🌸 I wanna request for like taking day to day outfits for people like us and classifying them into may be there base quadrants so tht we can learn to identify the elements more in the outfits.
Love this and you guys! 🙏🔥💕
I love the explanation of showing and hiding - this is the first time I really understood! Also just want to say that the shade of purple you’re wearing looks gorgeous on you Rita! 💖
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I just a subtle booty shake for Spicy Girl Next Door! You guys are awesome! I believe in your system. This is a breath of fresh air after running circles around Kibbe, when all I really desired was to express my internal energy outward. I’ve always called myself spicy or spunky as a way to define myself as someone with some flirty intrigue. I’ve battled with my light and darker side for years. Looking forward to seeing more!
Still feel like I'm a Charmer archetype but a woman! :D
Your thoughts are always great, both of you - I can't wait for Expand, and I'll absolutely be checking out the L+D course as well. 💛
What a fun video! I can't wait to watch all the new quadrant archetypes. For Left Down celebs, which archetype would you say Marisa Tomei is?
I think she is the Cool Girl but she can play up the Seductress!
I’ve been watching your style essence videos over the last couple days and I love them!! I realized quickly I’m definitely down. But have really been exploring whether I am right or left. “Am I right and just want to be left?” has been a big question…. but it feels more than a want .. I gravitate towards sensual clothing. (I’m pretty sure I’m soft natural, after a few days of study and reflection..) but I also feel I can’t ignore that I tend towards dreamy. Is the dreamy me an older me? Maybe, there are more refined pieces in my wardrobe that just don’t feel quite “me” anymore. But then there are also some left+down ways of dressing that don’t really fit me either. So this new video with updated archetypes has almost decided it for me! Spicy girl next door is totally screaming that she is my essence home. And I like playing with seductress and cool girl and outsider and wildflower even maybe. But I also think I moreso admire / am fascinated by those rather than fully being them. I think I am quintessential spicy girl next door ….. which is so funny because I randomly started describing myself as spicy on tinder years ago lmao??? kind of cringe but huh! and, I am suuuuper super curious about your right+down added archetypes. I literally cannot wait.
This is such a fun way to explore fashion. I love your open approach to this being more about inspiration rather than rigid categorization. I love how poetic you both are in your descriptions! Dressing is an art and we are our own muse! So fun. I also love admiring those essences that I am not and witnessing other beings exude their radiance in their own unique ways. Thank you for sharing this system! It has honestly been life changing. Because yeah now I feel like I can exclude things simply - “oh, that’s pretty and cool and interesting but it’s not me because I am *this*” or “oohh this isn’t fully me but I want to try it on any way to see how it feels” 💓💓💓 and I’m so curious to continue exploring how I am Gaia sensual and also dreamy ethereal
This is exciting, thank you for expanding your archetypes!! I don’t know which quadrants they are in but I’d love to know where Natalie Portman, America Ferrera and Britney Spears are in your system. No pressure to include any of them I’m happy with any examples you want to give.
I didn't feel like I fit too well into the original L+D archetypes (although I knew I was L+D by your definition, without a doubt), but now with more to consider, I am finding that I may be more cool girl or outsider (one of the original archetypes). So, I dunno, it's like where I felt like maybe with fewer options things were too 'labeled' for me, I now am seeing with the expansion that I might be able to experiment, have fun, and maybe even find my favorite thing on the map. This definitely is exciting, and you guys are awesome together and so fun ("shoop!").
Can't wait to hopefully see Left + Up!
Love this! I’m definitely the Spicy Girl Next Door! Thank you so much for this video.
I resonate with the cool girl, the spicy, the seductress and the outsider. I've been all of those at different times in my life.
you are very lucky to have found each other - it's a pleasure watching your love dynamic :)
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I’m so excited for the expansion of the right+down. I’m either spicy girl next door, or the equivalent on the right side haha :)
I have been trying to figure out where I fit in this system. I knew I was down but it was the left and rightness that was stumping me. I recently watched the right + down video and the Explorer drew me a bit but didn’t feel quite right. So I thought lets watch left + down again. And this time I heard what you were saying, the spicy in Spicy Girl Next Door, is what’s spicy for ME. I feel like I messed that the first watch. I was drawn to it but didn’t think I was spicy enough, lol. Found my spot!
I have recently discovered this beautiful system and am learning so much. I was wondering about Helen Mirren and where she fit and tonight I am rewarded with the answer. Thank you for this . ❤
Yay! Thank you for being here
When will the next video be out? I'm looking forward to it so much🥺🥺🥺
What a sweet couple you are and clearly so passionate about this! Heard about this video in Freely Kibbe group when posting about where I'm at with trying to clarify my style through Kibbe, Kitchener, etc. David Zyla also interests me. For colors I dip into Soft Autumn and Soft Summer. Natural essence plus with guess romantic and ethereal is where I'm leaning. Definitely not dramatic or classic. Maybe some gamine quirky playful touch in there? Still figuring it out. I went into more detail and someone suggested this video, mentioning wildflower.
Wonderful!👏👏👏👏👏❤⚘👍
I identify a lot with Zendaya style wise ☺️
You can find me and all my fellow infps in the outsider archetype of the left-down quadrant
Love the drums, they feel so expectant, like, "What is about to happen here?". Also the couple videos are so cool. I enjoy the conversation you two have around this system. Looking forward to expanded archetypes in every quadrant :)
I feel like I relate to Left + Up but I'm also "sweet" so maybe after/if you make more archetypes I can find my match there, hopefully.
You can definitely be very sweet and be in the Left Up, many of the sweetest people I know are 🌸 hope the future videos help
@@StyleThoughtsbyRita ❤ I will love to see these videos!
I’m pretty sure I’m either “the cool girl” or the “spicy girl next door” type. Can you do a video going more in depth on styling suggestions for these?
Very interesting! Now I am really sure I am in L+D (actually, I already knew, but still). I might relate to the outsider archetype, which is a bit scary but also VERY exciting to me!
Can I ask where the art mom aesthetic would fit on this scale? :D
Please do right up next!!!!!
Hi everyone who is left down what are some tips you have that elevate your own style ?
I couldn’t even be more of the outsider. Fun fact I’m diagnosed schizophrenic and schizotypal so that probably has a lot to do with it. 🙃
Ah. Well, that makes sense.
I'm the outsider in approach, I just happen to like moonstone aesthetics 😂
Yeah I have given up trying to define aesthetics for the Outsider you truly wear whahever you want however you want 💖
I'm not sure yet if I'm left or right down, but I felt really drawn to the 'spicy girl next door' aesthetic.
Surprisingly I identify with the spicy girl next door quite a bit :)
Prior to that I thought I am a hard right down but I see some left ness in me :D
Hm, I am really interested in where should we place Bella Hadid. Left up or left down?
Can one be an outsider without the "sensuality" aspect of LD? I've related to this archetype a lot for a variety of reasons, I'm very dependent on mood when it comes to choosing outfits, colours, etc. and I combine things as they speak to me and my imagination (I rarely ever follow trends), and I also oscillate a lot between appearing more delicate and rather harsh and unapproachable. I've been termed "cool" by other people even though I'm actually super aloof. But! I don't really dress in a way that is sensual nor do I appear sensual to others I don't think (although people have told me that I come off as intriguing). This "sensuality" thing has been tripping me up for the longest time!
I think you can totally be in that part of the quadrant without being guided by the sensuality aspect. But I would also say that 1) sensuality is often a bit of a spooky concept because it's has this wired normative significance in our culture. So it's like good to ponder yo what extent aversion towards sensuality might have to do with that. And 2) even the outsider is still guided by sensory dressing
I read your comment right when listening to 16:50 in the time stamp. On that time stamp and 20secs in, he talks about what sensuality really means and that its something that attracts, not necessarily in a sexual aspect.
I think of it more as a sensory thing,like walking in the forest and smelling the trees, or putting your toes in a creek. I prefer elemental. I can relate to that. 😊
Cool Girl/Spicy Girl Next Door
Hi Rita! Question: Would it be accurate to say that the Left+Down woman's energy is more 'receptive', whereas the Right+Down woman's energy is more 'expressive'? Like, the Left+Down woman goes to a party expecting people to come to her, whereas the Right+Down woman goes to the party expecting to... approach others? Or something? Or am I conflating this with personality too much, and either woman would be equally likely to just plant her butt on a couch and wait for people to come to her?
I do think that receptive versus expressive is a good way to think about it
but honestly every essence will have many people who are shy and just will huddle in a safe corner at a party, ykwim?
@@StyleThoughtsbyRita Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I definitely relate to the 'receptive' more than 'expressive' aspect, and in my case not due to shyness (though I am introverted). More just when I'm doing my own thing, it seems to draw people in, and I relate more to the experience of other people approaching me, rather than me approaching others. I'm typically confused about why I'm receiving attention when I'm trying to be alone doing my own thing -- not so much trying to 'shine' something for others to see.
I initially assumed I'd be Right+Down, but I increasingly think I'm Left+Down with a mental block about _allowing_ myself to be Left+Down. It's not the diagonal decision you've mentioned many people seem torn between (I'm pretty confident I'm a Down), but I do think that as I gradually allow myself to unpack how it's 'okay' to be Left+Down, it's starting to make far more sense of how I actually dress when I enjoy how I dress, than the Right+Down image that I may be more socialized into wanting to present.
Thanks again for putting your very interesting ideas into the world! This is helpful food for thought!
Did you notice that there are only brunettes ? I wonder why ? Does being brunette adds to the vibe ?
We strive to include many examples of WOC in all quadrants, and the majority of these women have darker hair. There are many light haired left+Down women and celebrities for example Sophie Turner or Cameron Diaz. Cassie from Euphoria or Miranda from Just Like That also come to mind
thank you so much! loved it I think I'm between the cool girl and the seductress :)
@@deborahsalazar5617 cool! I also thought of Brie Larson as a blonde left Down, although she is closer to the Spicy Girl Next Door
My main takaway is that you gotta have dark hair for being Left Down lmao.
There are plenty of L+D people with blonde hair. We just didn't think about mixing up the hair colours in the video. We will make sure to do that one for the next video.
@@inquiry6274 Ah, no problem, I just just joking!! ;) Sorry if it came across as too snarky. I guess I'm used to joking about stuff like that becasue also with Kibbe types it sometimes seems that for example Classics are blondes and TRs are dark haired and such. Even though I realise of course that any colouring can be any type. Or quadrant!