gladly it's no longer some racial personality system. for mcjimsey, only the ingenue is "fair", and the dramatic is "dark, olive". i myself am severely pale, rather fitting kibbe's dramatic description of "anything goes, as long as it's extreme", better managing to gauge the concept. advances in seasonal color analysis really helped there, too. or, many of us don't fit the "type yourself by voice" schtick obviously, any type can be "flirtatious", and classics can have green eyes. the list goes on. the metamorphosis made all of this more universal. it could be less embellished, but i guess part of kibbe is the lack of science and math indeed 😅 we could use more ratios and measurements there.

he succeeded getting all the credit largely by promising everyone the same level glow-up no matter their body, arranging and diversifying belle's yin/yang idea to 13 and not 2 types. he IS baffling in how he created this complicated but often accurate categorization that is more applicable than not (i personally am much happier finally knowing and styling my own type, it worked for me - otherwise, i wouldn't talk to you about it. kibbe helps me understand why i look the way i look, so i figure it helps others, too). and it got less weirdly racist and MBTI-like nowadays, thankfully. still room to improve. we came from this:

height is important for modern kibbe, the old style relies on old hollywood roles and flair, that's where perception came in. but even mcjimsey had a height cutoff, to be a natural or dramatic you had to be at least 5'7 and i agree with it. that's just where we see vertical, globally, past the 170cm mark a person is not tiny in any relation. although, that is also a socially constructed bias. kibbe bridging subjective and objective aesthetics is the crux of the matter.

as for the missing 6th type, many people have tried to add to the system, while kibbe ironically subtracted from it, removing pure types except D and R. personally, his 80s version was perfect as it was, that's why it blew up: because it would fit all of us, and anyone could find themselves. deleting 3 whole types was a severe decision, imo. the community compensated by adding ethereal, oneiric, etc essences and mixing style systems. so far, i'd rather see a better fusion of color theory and kibbe first. new types are experimentation.