Imagine a hairdresser saying mid-cut, 'We don't have to do this...' 🤣 This tells me the haircuts are a real clue into someone's essence, and you're the first one to really highlight this that I've heard.

I feel like people like you are the antidote to the toxic beauty standards they try to shove down our throats :)

I am gamine and sometimes I don't like it... I used to feel unsexy and not beautiful. Don't get me wrong, I love being "boyish", boisterous, and bold, but sometimes I felt that compared to how striking dramatics are, how gorgeous romantics are, how otherworldy ethereals are, etc, we gamines were just... underwhelming. Why would someone want to look at us when they can look at them? Well, the fact that you started by saying "All the essences are beautiful... but gamines have a special spot in my heart", well that was so flattering and honestly a boost of self-confidence. The fact that somebody could like... me? Game-changing. You say that people can be attracted to us because we do have charisma. You don't know how important it was for me to hear that. The nice things you said about us trying to show people that you can enjoy life, that we always show up with a smile, that we bring a positive energy to the environment, all of that was so important to hear. I honestly didn't know that there was someone who appreciated gamines. This video is also full of extremely helpful visual examples, I can only imagine how time-consuming it was to search for all those reference pictures and to edit them into the video. But it makes such a big difference: this video is extremely high quality. I will try to step more into my natural energy, the energy I would have had if my life and experiences didn't dampen my self-confidence, my desire for happiness, my high spirits. This video is so important and it was yet another piece of my "Love yourself" puzzle.

The kibbe community beat it out of me that I could possibly have any stitch of gamine essence. I was a soft natural, that’s it. I’m romantic and natural, but then - I looked back at my history. I suited short hair very well, I was known for being unexpected and playful, and I don’t feel right unless I wear my quirky pieces. I also studied essences from Truth is Beauty…. And low and behold everyone - when not seeing me through kibbe constraints - saw romantic natural AND gamine.

It took me sooo long to figure out my three dominant essences because I always thought Ingenue wasn’t for me as I am a Flamboyant natural and was pretty sure to have natural and gamine essence. I tried angelic for a while and then it clicked: my face has a lot of ingenue even though I have small eyes my lips are like so small and delicate and even though I am pretty tall (182cm) people thought a lot I was younger than I am and told me I had this innocent sweet vibe. I can only encourage you to ask people how they perceive you, maybe close friends or family when you are having trouble finding your essence blend!

Elis Regina, a Brazilian singer-songwriter, is a perfect example of a gamine. She was playful, pixie-like, energetic, fun, charismatic, and charming, with a boisterous laugh and contagious smile. She rocked a pixie cut like no one else. Her nickname was "pimentinha", meaning "little pepper". Love her!

I love how much effort and insight you put into these videos! 😊 you bring the focus and fun back into body typing & styling.

I have learned more by binge watching Gabrielle for the past month than I did In two years of design school. Gratitude 🙏🏽

I’m a FG in Kibbe and I recently determined what my “three words” are to describe my personal style: androgynous, structured & playful. I was having a hard time figuring out what my last word should be but when I looked more into the gamine essence, I found it really game-changing. I was always drawn to both classic and dramatic/edgy styles, but it always felt either too dull or too serious on me. When I realized my last word was “playful”, all I had to do was stick that adverb before any other aesthetic and it was now my style (eg. playfully classic or playfully edgy). It’s a relief knowing you have a word that really grounds your personal style together succinctly. Like a home base.

When the series is done, I hope you condier making some about specific blends, or how specific styles can work or be worked to suit different essences / blends. ( Gothic grunge for the ingenue or like boho for the classic - dramatic etc. etc. ) I think that would be a fun little time :)

The celebrity essence-blend examples blow me away everytime. Each example makes such perfect sense and offers such a great encapsulation of why Kibbe in isolation can be insufficient.

OH. MY. WORD. I'm only fifteen minutes in so far and I can't even put into words how incredible this makes me feel. I felt so out of place and awkward when it comes to fashion for so long, and I've started finding what works for me more recently but couldn't really put words to why. It all felt like such a weird combination....small but not delicate...bold but not dramatic (in the ID sense)...angular and boxy and somehow kinda...to borrow the word, impish?! But boom, this just puts it all into place. I feel so seen and SO much more confident already. THANK YOU

As a Kibbe soft classic with some blend of classic, gamine, and ethereal essence, and a true summer color season, there is absolutely a way to combine all of them together. My gamine essence and classic essence are probably equally dominant based on how clothes work with my face and body and there’s a lot of subtle finessing that’s made it possible for me to express my gamine essence while still honoring my balance and light, muted coloring. I use SC silhouettes (and I stick to solid colors mostly), gamine details like sharp collars and cropping, and playful combinations of my summer colors while keeping everything very luminous, and I end up successfully conveying my unique essence blend, which is really true to my personality

LET'S GOOOO

I was waiting for this ❤️ Gamine is my first essence, my family always compare me with celebs like Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci and Jenna Coleman, soooo, it has sense that I have gamine essence 😅. It’s so great to understand a little bit more about our natural beauty ❤️ I cannot wait to see the “Dramatic essence” video, I’m sure it will be fun ⚡️❤😅

Please know that I usually find style videos incredibly boring. But yours? Very entertaining. It appears to me that you’re being very genuine and being yourself. I love the way you edit your videos bc it keeps my attention. You also provide a thorough explanation for things. Like I really appreciate that you talk about the history in each of these videos. Because of you I finally feel like maybe I can develop a personal style! 😭 Thank you and keep being you! It’s helping people!

*LOUD STANDING OVATION* I have been awaiting this video (I think Gamine is my dominant essence) and you did NOT disappoint. This was masterful. Wonderful. All the things. This also helped clarify my essence blend a bit b/c I've been debating whether I just like small c classic style or if Classic is in my blend. I look really good in small scale sharp pieces and rock the hell out of my signature super short pixie. But I can go from sassy to silly REAL quick with too many quirky details. Thank you for another amazing breakdown. I'll probably watch this a million times.

This really confirmed that I have gamine essence but it is a smaller part of my blend. Gamine pants and shoes look great on me. It does make sense why I have been drawn to certain brands and why I have had trouble with pants. Thank you so much for all the work you have done in this series.

⚡⚡⚡I'm not a gamine or a dramatic but I think one of my besties is a dramatic-gamine-romantic and im excited to share with her! I seriously always look forward to your videos and I go back to them a lot for reference. Thanks for all the hard work you put into these your videos are so well produced, informative, and creative! I appreciate you sharing your talents, gifts, and great humor with us! :D

I’m a Kibbe Romantic, but struggled when I followed the lines slavishly, as I often felt I was taking myself too seriously and coming across a bit cringe or overtly sexy. Essence-wise, I’m pretty much pure Gamine and resonate with everything you say, even down to the mid century home! I toyed with Ingenue as I look youthful for 46, but I’ve always known-deep down- that I’m far too naughty for that 😂 What a fantastic video, thank you.

Fully agree on your look on Zooey, especially because I myself was compared to her a lot of times and I see classic+gamine+ingenue essences in me but at the same time I guess I'm flamboyant gamine. Troughout my whole life I always looked best in classic pieces but my body is definitely FG. I can wear braids and look perfectly normal in them, but I can't wear braids with doll-like dresses. On the other hand I can wear doll-like dresses with loose hair -> I can't go fully yang or yin, I always felt that. I also have all of this perky characteristics of a gamine so, well, your interpretation helped me a bit! Thanks!

That thing about home, that's so damn relatable! Everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I say that my apartment is just "a place to sleep and keep my stuff in"😅 It's like everyone around is so attached to their homes and I'm like "damn, what's wrong with me?" This part of the video was a huge relief for me - I'm not crazy or psychopathic, I'm just a true Gamine and fun and nomadic lifestyle is in my DNA!❤

This was excellent. i thought i was ingenue but i actually think i might be gamine! thanks for all the detail.

Finally! Thank you so much for making such a comprehensive explanation. I felt very good after finally discovering I was a Soft Dramatic in kibbie, because, as you said, it explains what silhouettes and fabrics look best on my curves. But I always related more with the gamine essence, and throughout my life friends would say "you look like a fairy" or "you have such a pixie energy about you". Now you finally helped me see how I can combine the two systems in a way that feels like ME. What you do is a service to humanity, thank you so much. 🙏💕

A few minutes into this video and it made me realise that all the women on my maternal grandmother's side of the family definitely have gamine essence, my great grandmother had some classically gamine traits, same goes for my grandma and her sister, her sister's children and their children as well, my aunt also seems to have some gamine, however my mother takes after her father and definitely looks less playful.

I remembered Aurora, the Norway singer, when you talked about quriky personality, looking young, and the medium dresses

I need you to burn this video into my neurons with a laser like I am a DVD

Totally agree about Zooey Deschanel being a soft classic.

I can only imagine how much time and effort this video took. Loved every minute of it! Been waiting for this one 🧡

Haha I mean I definitely sometimes feel like a dirty kid who wants to throw rocks 😂 These videos are gold! Thank you!

Your videos are incredible btw. You go deep but explain and demonstrate clearly and on top of it all you're funny and keep the video super entertaining. Absolute talent, I love it.

I remember waiting and waiting for your website to have more added on to it. You have always had great insight and are really good at communicating it to others. Ao glad I found your KZfaq ❤

Your videos are so detailed and full of so much information! I can't even imagine how long they take to produce, but THANK YOU!!

i love the intro so much lol i think bc of your cheerful personality and the fact that you can pull of vintage looking pieces people may see that you're gamine. this video is so so helpful and confirms that i have gamine essence in my blend, tho pixie hair looks horrible on me lol apart from that i think the descriptions best describe me and what i want to portray. natural and classic lines look good on me but i think bold colors and funky patterns are always my thing. thank you so much for this video, i enjoy watching it so much!

When you put that dress of natural/dramatic blend you were BLINDING!! It looks gorgeous on you

I appreciate all your hard work on this video, but I'm already HYPED for the Dramatics video. Thanks in advance!⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡

This is the one I’ve been waiting for!!!!

OMG PLEASE do dramatic essence. It took me years to type myself and now that I know I’m having the HARDEST time finding detailed information on the dramatic body type (it’s so looked over). I can’t wait to hear your take on the dramatic essence!!

Thank you so much for this video the quality of your content is incredible! You just made my description I didn't even know that I was a Gamine type thank you so much 🙏🏾✨

This was a FANTASTIC video thank you! This is a huge game changer for me and I feel more beautiful having gamine in my blend and body ❤️

I agree these systems help us appreciate the unique features in each essence or image id. The content keeps getting better and better. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

⚡️⚡️ So excited for the final installment! I've been really enjoying your videos and appreciate all the time and effort you put into these!

Lightning bolt x 10 for anticipated dramatic essence video. These videos are incredibly helpful. Thanks, Gabrielle!

15 seconds in and clicked on subscribe right away!!! I love the New Girl reference so much omg

I love the Reeses on the shelf. Hehe. My fav! Love this video. The algorithm is very random but in times like these, very appreciated. I can’t wait to check out your channel!

Gabby these videos are so insightful and I love there are people in the world as in love with silhouette and visual expression as much as me! I think a super interesting video to make after these deep dives would be how to test out all the essences in order like recommendations when you have genuinely zero idea, or even how to train the eye etc. It's an invisible skill that I envy.

Lightning bolt!!!! I'm glad you dropped this December first because I could not have spared the time during NaNo to watch it and I love your videos!

I have never felt so SEEN before 🥹thank you for this gorgeous video essay 🙏🏼

Omg! I have inky just started watching this video and it’s like you’ve nailed my essence if I were to be free to express myself; wholly; or….pre-marriage. Thank you! This explains the essence part of the whole Kibbe concept I’ve been trying to understand in regards to myself for over the past year! Thank you!❤

I love the way you communicate your thoughts, and thank you for these videos. You've really gone above and beyond to show your ideas and the history. It's very helpful. Also love the way you speak about women, it's always very caring and thoughtful. This is a great space to learn

Wow! So much great information! This was like a dissertation, lol! I love how you articulate the nuances of the different types/essences. Your breakdown of Zoey Deschanel was very eye-opening- it helps pinpoint the fine details and is a more sophisticated interpretation of how the types can manifest. I'm going to need to re-watch this whole series- I see many happy hours in my closet 😂😂Thank you for the amazing work!

Your videos are so helpful and insightful! Please never stop creating ❤ Thank you for guiding us through our style journeys

What a treasure you are Gabrielle ❤😂 please don't stop those intros they brighten my day 😊

I would love to see a series where you talk about how to blend different essences and kibbe types together, particularly when the essences and kibbe body type don’t match

*Fabulous Intro* . I love seeing a new drop from you Gabrielle. Your content is off the hook!

and now I`m a proud gamine!!

Your personality traits for a gamine are literally hitting it right on the head for me personally. It’s a little scary how textbook I am! 😭😂

I am a thankful for your videos. They bring new joy, fun an high end information about style. Thank you, Gabrielle ❤

I'm a Kibbe FG with classic, natural and gamine essences. I'm still figuring out which of the 3 essences are most prominent but it's been such a fun journey for me. I've always been drawn to timeless/classic pieces but always feel the need to mix it up with something quirky, fun, or unexpected which translates in many ways through contrasting fabrics (lace and leather), mixing dressy/casual (graphic tees with work trousers and chunky loafers), or basic tee and jeans with a super fun belt, bag, or shoes. Some of my best outfits include really cool thrifted finds. I loved your video! Super helpful and helps me embrace my style without feeling the need to put myself in a box!

I’m so proud of how far ur videos have come! Love the creativity and content 🫶🫶

Finally I understand someone talking about Kibbe, your videos are amazing!

Wow Gabrielle, such a sublime and complete video. Amazing as always 🖤

You are incredibly informative this is a topic I’m so excited about and you make it really fun to learn from!🥰💕

Love this video Gabrielle! Love the deep dive, I think you did a really great job! Look forward to more insights from you.

thank you for this! i notice that my fav style is "chic, playful, cute". i take inspiration from the 60s, some 2014 tumblr soft grunge (yes i grew up with tumblr lol) and coquette aesthetic. so i think my essence is a blend of gamine with ingenue as well♡

These videos are so much more helpful than the written versions for me! Thank you, this is so fun.

Amazing video once again Gabriella!! Excited for the video about dramatic essence 💕❤️

OMG FINALLYYYYYYY I can’t tell you how much I was looking forward to this video! It totally explained why I have such a hard time finding business clothes that look good on me. If you’re looking for video ideas after this series I would love a guide to gamine business wear and business casual.

That intro OMFG!!!! Just a minute in and am like how can this get any better!!! Let’s gooo!

This has to be theee most comprehensive video on gamines I have watched!!! Very informative but fun and entertaining 😀 Particularly enjoyed how the gamine style can be incorporated into the every day life. Thank you sooo much!!! This is absolutely life changing 🙏🏾🙏🏾

THIS IS THE BEST DEEP DIVE YET!!! It even touches on nuances of the earlier essences that I hadn’t picked up on!!! I honestly had 0 clue there was any gamine in my blend. But after the objective chart look and hearing that ingenue + gamine is super common. Allllllll the light bulbs came on!!!! You are such a valuable resource. ❤

I’ve been checking daily for this video!! Thank you for the in depth analysis, as per usual! ❤

⚡️⚡️⚡️ this whole series has been amazing!

This is the best gamine video I've seen! I somehow feel that I am Gamine to some level, but people very rarely include overweight examples. Thank you.❤❤

Your videos are seriously everything!!!! Thank you!! I really appreciated you let the fabric flow. Fabric is something we undervalue sometimes when shopping. Especially online shopping if we don't understand what a fabric means ( ex. like what does rayon flow like?) by the way I NEEDDDD you on my show! You need more exposure you help so many women 💕

So interesting! I definitely type as a gamine in the kibbe system and yet I wouldn’t be a gamine “essence” at all

That was so awesome!! I'm primarily gamine and you made me so excited about my own features and style. Thank you so much for these style essence videos. I've loved every one of them, and can't wait for the dramatic one! I have a dash of that essence, too.

I'm checking your channel daily for updates, finallyyyyy

Thank you! So good, like always. I truly believe my top essences are gamine, romantic and natural. Now for percentages. I cant wait for the dramatic video, I'm always learning something new

I haven't even started playing the vid, but just wanted to say I've been checking almost daily to see if you've uploaded the Gamine vid, hehe. Excited as it's the one I'm most curious about!

This was such a very thorough description, thank you so much!!!

Got told I’ve gamine in my mix but the description of the personality is the opposite of me lol like I’m the quiet one that stays in.

I have looked at every notification from KZfaq for weeks waiting for this video to come up! Finally!

Have been loving bingeing these essence videos! They're really helping me embrace my actual self with my clothing. I've always been quite bold with style, but sometimes went overboard and felt less like myself. I think I'll have a better understanding of my essence blend when I watch the dramatic video (just from the intensity of my face, it's likely a pretty big part of my blend even though I'm 5'4 and most definitely a Kibbe SN). I think my favorite dress really exemplifies my essence blend - it's a tea-length cream linen dress with a sweetheart neckline, tortoiseshell buttons down the center, a nipped in waist, and a large lemon print motif throughout. The pattern continues through the entire dress, and isn't stopped by the clearly defined waist, and the fabric is lined, so it's floaty but not like an unlined linen - it's still got weight and structure to it. I always get heaps of compliments when I wear it, whether it's with heels, sneakers, giant matching lemon earrings, or a dainty ear stack. Hair down and free (I have wavy hair with some ringlets if I let it dry without styling, as I usually do), or in a loose bun. I have the same dress silhouette in white with a blue porcelain print, but it doesn't look as good on me (smaller print, cooler toned colors) by itself. I have to wear that one with bolder coordinating eye makeup and heels OR wear a cardigan/sweater on top to wear with casual shoes. Oops this is long, my apologies.

This was so worth the wait! ☺Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into these videos - they are so helpful! Before this video I assumed I had some gamine essence, but this really helped me to see how much and in what order. I'm a SG with a classic-ingenue-gamine essence I believe, but never really click with the gamine style and look absolutely horrible in very colourful and playful outfits, and easily get overwhelmed in too busy outfits. I think I have certain physical descriptors of a gamine but the personality is very far from mine. I am really glad that you spoke about the sometimes negative connotations to the gamine (like the misconsumption that gamines can't be attractive/hot), because it made me realize why I always felt almost offended if anyone said that they saw some gamine in me :') I feel like I can embrace it more now and hopefully figure out what parts of my outfits could use a little gamine, so thank you so much! 🥰

🥲I've been loudly saying "Thank you!" to each of the descriptive vignettes throughout the video, all of which I took as compliments hehee. So grateful for this loving and thorough overview!! So many good stills to screenshot for my moodboards 💖👏🏼

Watching this video made me realize that my best friend definitely has gamine essence. I literally call her my captain of fun, because I can be too serious at times. She's such a rebel that she won't even look into body types and essences because she doesn't want to be boxed in! She's 3 years older than me but people think she's younger than me. But I think her Kibbe type is Flamboyant Natural or Soft Dramatic. She's 5'7 and I'm 5'11.5.

Thank you so much for these videos! They are so helpful. I am Kibbe’s flamboyant gamine but I never felt like gamine styles work for me. This video helped me confirm that I have a very small percentage of gamine (for my petiteness). I think I have bigger percentages of romantic and dramatic styles so now I know to experiment with those and see what fits me 😁

I love your videos! You seem like such a cool and kind person. I loved that this was an hour long lol

Wow I LOVED this. Before watching I thought oh I know I defo don't have gamine essence in my blend but I'll watch anyway just because I like your content and interested in the system. Just finished it and now I'm convinced that I have a bit of gamine in me!! I'm a flamboyant natural in kibbe and defo natural is my dominant essence, but I've always gravitated to quirky styles, clashing prints, interesting cuts and my style has morphed so much over the years, my wardrobe is constantly changing because I love trying out new fashion trends even though sometimes they defo don't work on me. People have also described my style as cool or quirky at times. You've given me a lot to think about! Thank you so much for this series, I can tell a lot of hard work goes into making these videos💗

Since learning about essences I've been confused about having gamine or ingenue essence, I've been waiting for this video cause you give the best descriptions for the essences, and now I can finally see I have a very obvious gamine essence mixed with natural and maybe a bit of ingenue. Great video :D

I just wanted to say that this video is a MASTERPIECE.

This video and your chart are super helpful!!! Thanks to this I was finally able to figure it out cuz I’ve always suspected I’ve had gamine essence but something wasn’t quite clicking - and my essence answer is an almost even spread of romantic and gamine essence with some natural essence! It also now makes PERFECT SENSE with all the looks that I gravitate towards ^_^ and I think the romantic gamine combo is why I also am attracted to ingenue styles

I don't identify as having gamine essence (I’m still on the journey tho!) but I guess my whimsical style really shines through because I see a lot of pieces I own in the outfit recommendations for essence+body type combos. Can't wait for Dramatic!

⚡⚡⚡⚡ love your work Gabrielle! love these deep dives yay

I'd love a video series about certain blends! These videos are very helpful!

Thank you so much 🖤 You can't imagine how enormously happy I am watching this video. Reading some Kibbe gurus, I got an impression, that being gamine is just being a shorty clown with zero sex appeal. And your approach just breaks the whole game and at the same time makes it all sensible. I adore your content, seriously. And as a person struggling dismorphomania for many years I must say that your videos really give me hope and inspiration.

Wow! Gabrielle I’ve been following your essence videos for a while now trying to type myself. I explored gamine for my Kibbe ID but moved on. This video helped me see my gamine essence. Thank you!

Thank you for this vid! It was super helpful and insightful.

Cupids bow! The defined dips in lips! I was worried until the lips section, the beginning wasn’t me at all until that point.