She’s perfectly right (we are looking in a mirror), and it’s impossible not to feel thoroughly converted by the end of the process not just by her enthusiasm for the colours that suit me, but also by her chat about broader clothing personality “archetypes” and where I fit. There are 10 of these altogether – “your clothes have a character just as you do” – and include the diva, the classic and the huntswoman. I’m apparently an “adventurer princess” (excellent!) although so is Nicole Kidman, despite being about a foot taller than me. “She may be more adventurer, given her height,” Weldon concedes. 

Bauhaus theories permeate all industries that have anything to do with colour, and colour theories with the seasonal labels when it comes to clothing have been currency for 50 years, not least at the operation where Weldon trained, House of Colour, but Red Leopard offers the sort of highly-detailed, bespoke advice about what you should wear and how you should look that it is a delight to be on the receiving end of. 

Their celebrity clients go to the very top of the A-list (NDAs forbid them naming them). People earn more as a result of their help – Saunders describes clients reporting back on how they’ve had promotions after their makeovers. Women have wept on their shoulders in joy at feeling “totally different” after a session. “So many women end up being invisible at a certain age and they think that’s ok?” says Weldon. “We make people visible again.”

My own session with Red Leopard was, above all, fun. I got make-up advice too – black mascara outlawed in favour of brown, and an orangey lip stain to banish that fatally blueish red that Weldon had first met me in. I came away with a colour wallet so that I could check I was buying the right clothes, and slowly the latter have started creeping into my wardrobe.