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You are so welcome! Thank you for being here :)

Great observations about the influence of colours on your own appearance. Neutrals for Winters may be in the realm of white, gray, and black, but once they add a colour, the effect is as if they've been plugged them into a power source and they come to life. Never too late to reject the culture or beliefs we were born into :)

You have an impressive understanding of the Season relationships, their neutrals, and how to apply the palettes. I agree on every point. I have no experience with digital palettes so I'm not the person to make a video on that topic. Permission to show them in that format may be required, not sure about that either. NDU Colors encourages all of us to share their product in an open conversation, which is why I've begun adding this aspect to the videos. I'm happy about it because ultimately, we pick up our palettes to make our colour choices. Absolutely Yes to BSp neutrals being an education unto themselves. They're hard to describe in words or analogies. Each colour family within the neutrals seems to follow different parameters, though I find that true of Sp neutrals in general. In time, I've found their unpredictable aspect to be what I recognize, like if I'm not sure what the colour is, I check BSp. The images for the Warm Season Neutrals are almost done, so still a couple weeks out from filming and posting. True also about colder weather and less colour, choices of practicality and not knowing what colours suit us. IMO, Winter is long enough without fading ourselves too. Folks around us seem to love seeing colour, it's uplifting, and with the Brights, it's a management issue. Wearing one colour at a time seems the easiest solution. Less colour doesn't mean no colour. Was it Marianne Williamson who said, "It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." I meet so many people for whom years of not showing up as themselves have added up and the idea is frightening, too scary to try. The stakes of being You are much lower than playing it small to fit in, and more so in the years ahead. Make the choices others make, you'll have their results and their struggles. Just a choice and every choice has a trade-off. Life commentary aside, I hope the video is helpful for you once it appears. I hope you ask many questions :)

You're so welcome :) You mean that mushroom-top? I've been seeing it in the plumage of sand pipers and other bird species that live here and in that context, I could understand it better and see it as a Summer-based colour with warmth, so your Neutral Season will be happy. Glad the Neutrals fabrics are helping (you may be a Light Summer), they're great at showing how a dot of paint or ink would look in various textiles.

@@ChristineScaman Yes, you are right. I checked my colour samples, and I am a light summer. Oops!

Details, details. Your Neutrals Set will see you right :)

Wonderful to read this, sounds like inner cleansing. One day, we know what we longer need from the past and the freedom in letting it go is lovely, as if we open a whole. new room in ourselves. I love jewelry too. It adds so much for its size and unlike clothing, can be found in many colours and prices. Thank you for mentioning your horse, they are magnificent animals, you're so fortunate to have his beauty and friendship in your life :)

At [19:21] the rose gold is a big nope because it appears sort of clownish, as if he is wearing his child’s pjs. This outfit is too light, monotone and shiny/airy for the depth and substance of his facial hair and overall coloring; he also needs more contrast for the same reasons imo. It might have looked fine with at least a different jacket that had more texture with a stronger depth of color.

Agree about the rose gold, the colour on its own may be quite wearable, though a softer textile and smaller area might be better.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for the feedback. I set the recording and movie editing volume to be natural in the mid-ranges, maybe I should dial it higher. Does turning up the volume on your computer or phone help or doesn't make a difference?

@@ChristineScaman The max on my phone is pretty quiet. I definitely think setting it a bit higher would be ideal.

Many thanks, I appreciate that you find information of value presented in different ways. Warm neutrals for cool Seasons is on the list of future videos :)

I'm so happy that it's been visible and helpful for you and other viewers. I appreciate the feedback, we'll do more of it :)

You have good guidelines for shopping. TSp blue green often surprises me with how green it is. I agree about BSp, you'd think it would be easy and plentiful but actually not, same with BW in the light and medium ranges. All 3 Seasons are particular with this colour and spectacular when it's right. Depending on where you live, this might be one of those colours you find more easily in the warmer months. I think I'd have to go to Florida or Mexico :)

Glad you enjoyed the video :) My favourite part of making these is relaxing the 'colour dimensions' side of my mind and letting the associations drift in.

Thank you for this, I'm glad that you were able to see both the big picture and the details, and that the photography doesn't have to be complicated :)

@@ChristineScaman I always get concerned with the photography end of things myself when I'm trying to analyze colors (for "fun"). But I just started reading Suzanne Caygilll's book and what is clicking for me more than ever is color as energy - so that energy won't change even if the lighting does, or the screen specs etc. Harmonic resonance is harmonic resonance, and that's what your swatch test so clearly showed. Looking forward to more 😊

Caygill's book is beautiful, I enjoyed it as you do. It's a beautiful example of looking from many perspectives, and then coming back to "All energy is but one energy." I love the harmony practice as a way of measuring an energy that is also extremely abstract.

@@ChristineScaman I agree, this book is profound. I love that she's considering the science end of color, but also very clear about color as an energy being fluid and changeable. "Measuring energy that is extremely abstract", I think you just hit the nail on the head of why I have always been so fascinated with color and these sorts of exercises! I am considering reaching out to Michaelin Reamy Watts, who provided the book for Cornell, to ask permission to read and discuss the book on RUclips. I would really love the book to have a wider audience, and there is so much color *mis*information and misinterpretation on social media. I think it would be helpful to so many.

Glad you enjoyed the video :) This video and the upcoming Part 2 for Autumn and Spring focus on the basics of neutrals and how to distinguish the main or True Season groups. Neutral Seasons have their own versions of neutrals based on their colour properties but broadly speaking, they're more similar to the main Season in their blend. For example, Bright Winter is more like True Winter, consistent with TW having higher proportion in the Season. You make a good point, that colours in Neutral Seasons may have more similarity with colours in the neighbouring Neutral Season than the neutral tones would, so BW colours resemble Bright Spring colours more than their neutral tones do. Not sure if that's an observation rather than fact, but interesting to think about. Thank you for new perspective!

Thank you for sharing these excellent observations. Perhaps for you, the neutral tones act more as an effective backdrop for the colours rather than colour elements within the overall appearance. Winters wear black and dark neutrals well but many might agree that these choices are not their most beautiful colours, they're simply practical, easy to find, and functional. Although BW can look gorgeous in a shimmered black, I prefer white or icy gray as neutrals that truly elevate and enhance the appearance. I agree that the mid-darkness grays are more challenging to find for the 3 Winters, but when the colour's just right, they can be spectacular. A BW client owns a very light gray fleece vest, it looks amazing!

Your mention that 'artistry is needed' when combining brightness levels is perceptive (and true!) Bringing in neutral tones is a great idea, partly for their bridging effect and also for LSu where quite a few neutral tones resemble Winter neutrals. It's good that you purchased pastel items for the upper half since you may have noticed in your colour analysis that next to your own colours, they are beautifully bright and energized.I love that you approach it with a light heart. In the beginning, learning new things can take patience and practice, and now you've reached a level of comfort and exploration that will stay with you and help you look exactly how you feel :)

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it and found some answers :)

I wish I could but I don't test cosmetics for the Seasons.

I'm so glad you found new answers and ways of building on what you already know :) A new lens is like a cleaner windshield, makes for a good day!

So happy you're here :)

I'd help if I could but I didn't even know Nivea made cosmetics. I live in a small place with limited access to cosmetic brands and couldn't test it for you.

Also, great video. I love mid-range grey but sometimes wonder if it's more of a summer grey. Now I know just to ask "Will this go with my favourite black jeans"😊

Cool Seasons, including the True Seasons, often have yellow in the eyes. It doesn't really look cool, since lemon yellow might be an odd colour to recognize in an eye, and it's mixed and layered with other colours in the iris in the same way as in skin. I do find that the colours in eyes, whatever the Season, maintain the saturation of the Season though, for example Autumn and Spring can have similar versions of a colour but Sp is brighter. True Summer can also have yellow in the eyes, often in eyes that might be described as gray green. Glad that you found the video helpful, thank you for mentioning it :) I agree that mid-range Winter grays are harder to find. I use the tungsten-silver-lead imagery, possibly easier for Dark Winter, although gemstones might work well for the other two Winters.

I am a bright winter with light green eyes that have a cool dark yellow ring around the pupil that bleeds into the green of my eyes. It gives my eyes a cat like darker yellow appearance in most lighting but in the sun they are obviously a light cool green. for a long time I thought green and yellow could only be warm but now I know that’s incorrect. I’ve started noticing yellow in eyes more often and it’s usually in people I suspect could be a winter. I guess this long reply is to say, don’t rule out winter! I feel more confident than I ever have about my uniquely colored eyes. Wearing my colors has helped me to appreciate how they glow.

I recognize your eye colour patterns for BW, the 'yellow bleeding out into the iris' sounds like the touch of Spring. To add to the beliefs I've adjusted over the years, orange can also be found in the eyes of cool-tone people. It's not prominent and often more of a red-orange or yellow-orange. The brightness level varies and the area may be tiny. Cool-neutral Summer eyes can have the same yellows and oranges. I enjoy the feeling of replacing or upgrading my previous beliefs, like walking along a path and watching the changing landscape :)

@jk-ml7dv I like to joke that my cat inherited her eyes from me, because she also has greeny-yellow eyes.

So interesting! I had the same thoughts about warmth and Winter combined and didn't see it for the Dark Seasons. Since I'm currently working on the Warm Seasons video, I pulled it into one of the images and it worked better than I expected. Comments from viewers also helped me recognize that it's a colour that makes more sense in groups or combinations than in a large single area. I so respect when clothes are offered in uncommon colours that I would love someone to wear it well! One of the light, warm BSp grays is a wonderful suggestion, thank you!

Thank you so much 🙂 I appreciate your kind words! Twice a month may mean a new system or shorter topics, but it's a winter commitment.

I'm not sure if I can recall back then, but my makeup has been identical for the videos. I'd guess the lipstick is Lancome Perfect Fig with a touch of Burt's Bees Rose Shimmer. Lip and clothing colour can look brighter in video than they are so this past summer, I looked for the most natural lip tone. Urban Decay Ravenswood barely adds visible colour, maybe more of a dark Soft Season tone, but for video, with a layer of Fig or plum gloss, it seems to balance better without looking darker or brighter.

@@ChristineScaman Thank you for replying. My guess is you are a dark winter too. The dress you wear in the Best Purple video has inspired me.

Good guess, I am a DW.

My pleasure 😊

So nice of you, thank you. I learn as much making these videos as I hope you do watching them :)

Where the moon ends...and meets black sky. Fantastic visual for a gray scale! I agree about clouds being a source of Summer colours, there's often an element of colour and mist. I think of Bright Winter white as cloud, but it would be the top side with the sun shining on it :) Clouds never really look metallic though, possibly another reason why they suit Summer imagery so well.

Summers are very much on the list. I'm hoping to move through a few videos on neutral tones first, especially since they figure so beautifully in Summer wardrobes and can be challenging to understand. Once we have this baseline, we can start building colour combinations :)

Glad you're here to enjoy it! And hopefully posting more often now that winter is on the way :)

That's great to know, thank you :)

Glad it was helpful! With dark eyes and fair skin, your contrast is still high. I think of actors like Richard Gere, with the dark eyes and silver hair, a different kind of impact than his early days, although still wears Winter best. My opinion, when hair silvers, a colour in our overall impression changes to a neutral tone (in the same Season) and to restore the overall energy, it looks great to add more colour in appearance, even if it's the previous hair colour or another neutral. Our features may soften and give a blended effect, but softening our colours usually adds to the blended or blur effect. We need our own colours to return definition to shapes in the facial features. Silver hair in Winters is often impacting in its own way, a new kind of contrast, that looks terrific when repeated in appearance. How much things change in the wardrobe depends on personal preference, with options for neutrals such as matte fabrics, charcoal or navy rather than black, lighter colours in the upper half, or lower or open necklines when wearing black. One of the most important improvements is re-dedicating ourselves to wearing colour. It adds energy and is the most rejuvenating thing we can do.

@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much for your response it’s incredibly helpful ❤️

Good to know these things!

It is fun and quite satisfying to visit a new way of seeing the world, I find :) I'm glad that your deductive process brought you back to your colour home. True Summer has many neutral tones, and they can look so similar in the palettes but in combinations, they're like related notes on a musical scale that sweep us along in a lovely experience.

I tried your idea and figured it out! Even if the colour were made in leather, I couldn't get it, plus elephants are grayer. I thought the colour had enough pigment to be a Summer or Soft or some sort and left it at that. A viewer mentioned goslings and that was the nearest I got to a place in Nature. I walk on the beach most days and noticed the little sand piper birds we have here and there was the colour, among their feathers, or something close. I've realized that was felt confusing about the colour was seeing it as a single solid colour, which is not how it would appear in the natural world (or not the one I'm familiar with). Like the many tones in natural hair colour, especially for the Summers and Softs, we normally see them in a multi-tonal group. I feel much better, thank you for your help :)

It's so true, gray can be as functional as it can be elegant and sophisticated. Fabric choice and the right gray for the right person make all the difference. Yes about white needing a little more planning :)

Yes, with a list of video topics I'm looking forward to making!

Hopefully you'll see new things with each watching :) I dedicated a lot of outdoor time this summer and got lots of behind the scenes work done, hoping to be a little closer to my dream of posting a video twice a month!

Glad I am not the only one. LOL

Interesting that the yellow component appears in dye as well. So this is a real thing! I've see the yellow-green in palettes and fabrics and thought it was come kind of complimentary colour effect between red and green. Even in black, True Winter black is greenish relative to the other Winters. I hope to know the reason one day. Thank you for the insight!

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! You're so right about beige for cool Seasons, Su and W, both True and Neutral Seasons. It does exist and is not always intuitive or predictable. The request for this video was the basics of the 4 main Seasons and I try to limit the time to 30 minutes so we stayed with gray, although I so agree that the topic of neutrals without beige is incomplete. Beige for the Cool Seasons is an excellent topic suggestion that I've added to the list. I appreciate that you recognize the yellow and green in Winter people, in skin, hair, and eyes. My hair is definitely greenish, possibly an Autumn contribution, good eye to notice it! The question about yellow in Winters isn't whether it's there (it often is), the question is how saturated it is. In skin, eyes, or hair, I doubt we can know the actual warmth of the single or many yellows, but we can compare saturation, especially in eyes. Many W have yellow in the eyes in a more saturated version than the A colours. Well done for your analyst to suggest you close your eyes, sounds as though they know what they're looking for :)

i am a dark blonde bright winter, with decidedly warm golden hair (like honey tint) and teeny orangey gold busts in the center of my blueish gray eyes. higher chroma autumn and spring colors in my draping felt harmonious, neither too forward or backward from my face, and my features were vibrant and defined (my lips are a warm coral, nearly orangey), but the effect on my skin was undeniable once i saw it, going far too yellowy and even green. higher chroma true winter and true summer colors were so cold that they made me a bit white and frozen, and some darker true winter and dark winter colors drained me, features receding on all accounts, while their more jewel-like mid tones worked pretty well, similar to most of my bright winter palette! seeing my grey has been easy as a bright winter. i just look for a version of grey that i’d describe with a metal word. i’ve been saying goodbye to almost every heathered, if i can. but damn those few beiges/taupes (and the cool dark chocolate brown) in bright winter have been sooooo tricky to get. i’m getting better at seeing the colors now, but they can be tough to find and kinda tough to style (especially when using one or more other fashion neutrals with them!)

Thank you, it means so much to know that the presentation is useful and helpful :) Having the fabrics speeds progress, I agree. Great to have the neighbour Seasons, hopefully you have a sense of what they have in common. My general feeling between TW and BW is that in the everyday world of changing light, the rest of the outfit, and the cosmetic colours, how much difference can the nuances possibly make? With Summer having more pigment, the differences may be more visible, and DW wouldn't cooperate as well with its Autumn component, but TW and BW? Not different enough to matter, I don't think, except possibly for white.

Thank you! For both comments! I'm happy to know that you could see the colour palettes on the fabric. You can see how shiny that fabric is in the lower corners of the picture, it's almost hard to look at, but so many colours can succeed depending on application or placement. These fabrics rarely make their way into fabric kits to leave room for the more general-use colours but they can add interest and personality in small areas. If it were less shiny, I could easily see a trench coat, would be great actually. Good idea about the ruffle neck blouse and the top next to it throwing it off. I agree that we'd have to have it on its own (on the neutral gray tablecloth!) and try some combinations.

@@ChristineScaman that fabric is a beautiful color, though! Like you said, it would be great as jewelry. I also wanted to mention that showing the color pickers was really helpful too, a lightbulb moment for me, actually! I thought, aw, now I know what she means when she says what color is the gray coming from!!

This is wonderful to read, thank you! Light bulb moments are so clarifying, as if we take a big jump forward into a clearer day. I appreciate the feedback!

I love the gosling feather analogy for that top. First time I could see it as something recognizable. I was trying to ignore the fabric, wondering if that was confusing the interpretation of the colour, but in this context, it works, along with the pairing with muted plum. Thank you for sharing the vision :) Agree that gray is challenging. I returned or donated quite a few items before solving gray. I'm not sure how long it would have taken if I didn't have enough fabric colours to bring pieces with me shopping. Nowadays, I like gray depending on context. Eyeshadow, athletic wear, sweaters, easy. Shirts, summer skirts, pants, I'm like you, darker is better. Iron gray and charcoal are a good alternative for black though, along with navy and dark greens.

Glad you found it helpful, thank you :) I have exactly the same thoughts regarding neutrals for myself as you have. You'll know from your Neutrals Set that some have slight warmth and they add richness that the iron grays may not, although these work well together in clothing and eyeshadow designs. Lighter neutrals can be harder to find for DW but white isn't and I like it as a layering item. Your expression of 'too busy' for light heather gray is interesting, a nice way of saying that something's off, like pieces of different puzzles although not obviously clashing. Yes to darkness helps normalize neutrals for W, which makes sense and works in practice. You have a good understanding of how to enhance your colouring!

@@ChristineScaman thank you Christine for your tips. I think I recognize the white tee you are wearing in the video. You look very nice in it. It looks like a Lululemon white tee. It has a slight colour texture with a very light grey and thin horizontal stripes, but from the distance looks just white. I have a couple of them, bc they work so good for me. Even before I had my colours done, I felt good in this “white”. I call it a “non-flat white” lol. Looking forward to your future videos.

Yes, that's the top! Lulu clothes often suit my shape and lifestyle and I'd been looking for a white that didn't look so bright on video, as my other white tops do. This one seems to work. I don't think it's as bright in person? 'Flat white' is a perfect description. The tiny very light gray stripes and dots soften it just enough.