What really annoys me about the color palettes is that wherever I look, they are composed completely different. One website says that a certain color completely fits the palette, one website puts the color on the no-go-list for the exact same season. Also, colors are never so pure like they are in the palettes. If a shirt is just a tiny bit too bright, too dark, too pink, it immediately does not fit anymore. I gave up and just try to find out which colors makes my face shine bright and healthy when not wearing makeup. Thats my personal palette and f*ck the rest.
Absolutely LOVE your last sentence! Yes!! I concur. This is how I feel even about body typing. There are too many exceptions to the "rules," too many variables, too many different opinions, etc. Wear what you love and "f*ck the rest!"😁
@@preciousypenguinoyou can wear whatever you want tho, even if you do fit into a category very well. none of this is law, just guidance for helping you to appear effortlessly good for events, interviews, photos, and/or your daily life if you so choose.
I agree with that they look different in every palette you can buy. I am light spring and I think that I finally found the palette (designed for light season designed by some kind of faithfull woman but I will not make any advertisement here) which colurs I can say that I like and I would choose to wear them because most palettes provide some kind of sweet colours and look like candys and I do not want to look like a candy. It does not fit my personality.
Finally I’ve found someone who makes me feel better after my colour analysis. I am supposed to be summer cool/muted and absolutely hate those muted colours. They just make me feel old and colorless. Thanks for being direct and not making me like I’ve thrown my money out of the window. Regards Sheila
Unless you sew your own clothes, you have a limited choice from what fits you, and what colors it comes in. No store has outfits in each size that come in Muted Autumn vs True Autumn colors. You might find one top in the store buyer's choice of red, brown, or black, and that's it. Online shopping is even more limited, because you can't even try it on.
Agree! I thought online shopping would be great - but for me the problem was a screen can never get the true color right. So, as a dark summer, finding that what I call the "summer coral" color was impossible - if it goes too orange which is always did once in my actual hands - the magic it did to my skin was gone. Frustrating really.
You should try Kettlewell Colours. They make a wide variety of clothes in each of the four seasons so you can always find your best colors! I'm a winter and love how I can find the perfect cool reds, greens, and pinks for my season! They're in the UK but ship to the US and other countries.
I had a color analysis that said I was a Autumn. I agree with that analysis. Then I went to the makeup counter at a department store. I was told I had cool toned skin and was sold a foundation that made me look terrible. I definitely am not cool toned. I look terrible in fuchsia, pink and other cool toned colors. I wish makeup consultants were better educated.
It’s so frustrating isn’t it? One makeup brand told me I was a winter probably because I had very dark hair and eyes at the time. But I have a warm skin tone do I would never be a winter! Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing! Stick to what you feel is right fir you 😘
I bet they think EVERYONE is cool-toned skin because the lighting is always blue at makeup counters!! Your skin may LOOK cool-toned but your UNDERTONE is what you're looking for. I have yellow-toned skin, ppl thnk that means I'm warm but if you're trained, you know it really doesn't mean anything - you HAVE to drape that ivory and that pure white IMHO to determine. I'm actually cool undertone.
I was told I was warm toned and have a normal skin type when I went to a makeup department in a store. Lol...never in my life have people told me I have any warmth to my skin, hair, or eyes and my skin type is dry. I looked horrible in oranges, yellows, and browns. I have no idea how these people are working there. The people at the store are so clueless. My man even asked about a cologne one time and he had more knowledge than the one at the perfume department.
The seasonal color scheme is just a guide. There are also other color schemes to consider, the great artists throughout history, for example mix colors, in such a way that is beyond any seasonal color palate. I do like the 4 seasons approach, as it has helped me to become disciplined in color choice and it has helped me find my power colors, but there is so much more to consider. Look at the bird world, insect colors and patterns in nature... wild, absolutely outrageous combinations.
The essential thing about color analysis is a thorough understanding of cool and warm colors and how to discern them correctly , and training on skin undertone. Get those wrong and everything will probably be inaccurate.
I agree! I've never seen a palette I 100% agree with, there's always something off. Also if you always wear strong make up it will affect the shades you can wear. I find it's important to understand your wow colours and what colours are the least flattering.
Every time I got draped a particular season, I ALWAYS ended up cheating on it with the Bright/Clear Winter palette. Whenever I go by wearing what I love the most, compliments always follow on how great I look. Sometimes you have to go by your gut instincts.
Right. Most of these people end looking like a clown. And the super saturated bright winter colors will annoy them, eventually. Plus, somewhere, sometime, they will find a HONEST feedback and they will dislike it.
@@carmaela2689The problem is that there is absolutely no proof at all that this theory is true. I and many people even proved it wrong by looking great in colors that are not in “our palette”, and not looking particularly good with some colors in “our palette”! Why invest so much time, energy, attention and money into something so limiting, subjective and that doesn't have any proof or scientific basis anyway?
Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I do agree on the fact that the seasonal palette is restrictive. I am a warm autumn but LOVE black and grey because I always had a rock style. I love myself in black and grey... yes, blues and browns are way better on me, however I still wear black, maybe trying to match it with colours from my palette. Personality IS essential.
Same. I'm actually a soft summer, so black should be a no-go according to my colour palette. And mind you, I'm not a person that only wears black, but I do wear it and I do think I look good in it, even though my palette doesn't agree. Personality is so important! However, I do try to add in more colours from my palette too, which is an interesting challenge :)
Same! I’m an Autumn but still have some black pieces in my wardrobe. I try not to wear black near my face, as it does me no favors, but that comes from knowing how bad I look in cool colors. So it’s not about ridding myself of black, but knowing how to wear it.
I think I’m a deep autumn and I absolutely dislike those colors. So I’m taking your advice and just wearing the colors that I like. I smile more when I do.
I recently got my colors done, and I love my palette. I now know what pinks and reds work for me, colors I always wanted to wear but avoided. I was typified as a "twilight summer." The best, though, is when I was told I can expand my palette by adding white to the color families for a lightening effect, and/or that I can pretty much wear color so long as it has an element of gray in it. Knowing this is incredibly helpful and explains why I always gravitated to the grays, blues, and greens. I never liked black and argued with friends over the diversity of it. So, yeah, black doesn't work for me (it does for my friends), but dark teal, purples, charcoals, and walnuts do. I found color analysis to be advantageous as it gave me fun the base in which to explore. I also love my clothes now because they now go well together and I can dress without overthinking it.
I don’t know who originally did your colours, but that was not how mine were done at all. I had mine done in the late 80s and it was not based on hair color or eye color, although they could give you a clue, but was solely based on skin tone. I have a yellow undertone to my light skin, as well as dark auburn hair and dark eyes. The colour palate I was given was mini swatches of colour fabrics, no stars or tick marks. I was told to use these swatches as a guide and that colours in those tones were the best for me, but that they could be brighter or darker depending on my personal preferences or time of year that I was wearing them. 30+ years later and I am still an autumn, even though my skin and hair have gotten darker and I still wear and look best in that same palette. I think the problem was in the poor analysis you received and not in the 4 season color system.
My eyes are cool, my skin is warmish, my hair looks dark and cool indoors, but lighter and warmer in the sunlight. My veins are blue-green. Colours that bring out my eyes, apparently don't suit my skin. Ones that look better with my skin don't bring out my eyes. This made me realize that I can't be boxed into one colour season. Some cool summer colours look nice, some winter and a few spring. I'm a quiet person so I like wearing [slightly] muted or black but with splashes of colour because I do love bright colours- perhaps fuchsia laces on black boots. Also, on a bright sunny day I feel to wear brighter and lighter, which I wouldn't on a bleak day.
The problem I have is how different the various color systems are. I have read books and purchased color fans. None of the fans contain the same set of colors, so I chose the one I like the best and sold the others. My current wardrobe generally follows that palette, but I’m petite and living in a country where it’s very difficult to find clothing that fits me, much less in colors that suit me. Shopping is a real challenge for me.
I have never had my colours done but have always worn colours in the Winter palette which really suit my pale blue toned skin, blue eyes and dark hair. I would never let somebody else tell me what colours to wear. I think choosing colours comes naturally as I am a knitter so always have to consider choosing yarn in many many shades and colour combinations.
Absolutely loved this video! I spent hours today trying to establish my colour palette and thought was either light summer or true summer. I was so confused and didn't agree with a lot of recommendations because I won't wear certain colours , especially hated make up tips. This video assured me that if I want to wear khaki or brown or even burnt orange for autumn, I can. Thanks so much. I'm subscribed now
Thank you 💖 I had a blazer that was amazing for me 5 years ago.. Now I can not wear it anymore because it looks totally diferent. Now I know it's my personality 💛🤗
I agree with you on the color season analysis. I've learned what colors look great on me, good on me and really bad on me. That's all you need to learn..plus, experiment with different foundations and makeups until YOU know exactly what works great for you.
And after watching a lot of videos, I’m still confused. It is advised that we do the tone determination without make-up, and everyone persistently shows the exact opposite.😃
Most Personal Coloring systems are full of flaws and tend to be more wrong than right, apart from the fact that they cling a lot to stereotypes and commonplaces. The best guide is your instinct and your personality.
Color analysis never worked for me lol I'm not white Caucasian so now I just wear what works for me. I was also said was autumn lol I would never wear that!
I really had an aha moment after discovering your channel and learning about your system - regardless of the specific colors I'm wearing, if there isn't a lot of contrast between my skin, hair and eyes, muted colors and low-contrast combinations look better on me. That explains why I never felt good in black and white even though black OR white don't look bad on me, or why I can pull off stronger colors and contrasts during winter when my hair is darker and my skin is lighter. (Your tips on how to wear colors that don't suit you have also been very helpful because my favorite color is a bright green that looks terrible with my skin tone...)
i completely agree with you. you are talking about personality, and i would say the most important thing that we are leaving out is listening to our intuition/ inner guidance. yes, i'm quite spiritual, but spirituality is an inseparable part of life. if we are listening to ourselves we will get quite confident about what to wear and we will realize that what we want to wear is actually what also suits us best. no matter what the experts are saying.
This video made me smile so much 😊 I am technically a cool summer but I cannot stand any pastel colours except periwinkle/cornflower blue. Yet I love bright yellow and mustard even though it 'shouldn't' suit me, and I have a bright yellow midi/tea dress with tiny cornflower blue flowers all over and everyone tells me how great I look in it because I love it so much and it's just such a fun friendly dress that it's impossible to not smile when you see someone wearing it.
Tried to do my seasonal colour analysis recently and couldn't figure out if I was a soft summer or a light summer. Eventually I looked at the bright-ish lilac blazer I love wearing and I said screw it! I'm a light summer. Or at least, I'll lean toward that pallet
I'm supposed to be summer. However, gray fits me terribly, I look like I'm dead. On the other side, whenever I wear warm olive green i get compliments. So at this point, I just let it go 😌
Thanks for this video! I’ve always had a hard time trying to find my colors. I’m fair skinned with a yellow undertone, with brown hair and blue eyes. I’ve been told Jewel tones look best on me, but I prefer the aesthetic of neutrals. And jewel tones are usually for a Cool or Winter, but my actually skin apparently has a lot of yellow in it, if the gadget at Sephora is correct. So....I’m on a journey. 😁
Then you’re most likely warm toned and you could either be a autumn or a spring. People tend to forget that not all fair skinned people are cool many are warm toned. It’s not about overtones it’s about undertones.
I don’t trust that Sephora gadget. I let them use it and pick a foundation for me without really questioning it. When I got that foundation home and put it on, it looked ridiculously yellow against my skin. That gadget read my olive skin as yellow, but the garish yellow tone of the supposed matched foundation on my skin said that gadget was dead wrong.
It is a lot of perspective. Anyone wearing a cooler shade will look cooler and the same with warmer. Doesn't mean one way is correct and other isn't. Life is too short to limit yourself.
A helpful video. One of the worst things going from a Winter in the 80s to a Soft Summer recently was "no hot pink"!! lol 67, grey hair and I still love hot pink. :) Mary Lou
If you love hot pink Mary Lou, wear it. You might find that if your hair is grey you have moved from a Soft to a Cool and hot pink looks great on a cool. But even so you could mix it with some of your softer pinks to create a blend as well :)
I wear my bright spring colours on the top e.g. hats and scarves. I wear navy, black and dark denim jeans or trousers. I wear bright in spring handbags and handbags e.g. tan, black and plum don't suit me but I like those colours so will use those as an accent colour.
I totally agree with your theory for choosing one's color pallet or season. It has been so difficult to determine my best colors. I find my wardrobe and sewing room are filled with mostly Spring colors. I love pairing them with black bottoms and wear them a lot. I have designed and sewn my own wardrobe for a few years. It is very difficult to find warm soft florals and other fabrics to coordinate with some of my statement pieces. I have had to go outside of my season to find fabrics that will at least give me some choices to give some diversity and variety to my wonderful jackets and pants. You words really helped me to feel ok with my color choices, especially since I have been dealing with a a an expert sewing instructor who is very critical about wearing only colors in one's season. And can't seem to be ok with me breaking the rules by wearing colors out of my season. Spring colors are also can be difficult to mix and match for summer and especially for winter. Understanding and finding colors that fit the holidays and coordinate can be very challenging. I have a few of your PDF's that offer great visuals to help me find separates that will go with my existing clothing. I love everything you do. You are amazing. Thanks for all this information.
This video was great, and I recognized a lot of my own hangups with the seasonal system. I've come to realize that tonal color is really the way to go. It gives so many more color options while still being flattering to the individual. I do agree, though. If you absolutely love a color...wear it!
I think this was a great video, as it reinforced what I believed about how to work with colour analysis. As my job requires a color that doesn't go with my personality, or that I'm supposed to wear, but I know that I need to wear it.
Interesting - I had my "colours" done 3 times as well - first summer, then spring, even winter, and finally autumn. Like you, I am a "soft autumn" and also finally trained under the "colour my beautiful" system in Hong Kong to sort myself out! While it took me several years to understand this, I realise there were 'elements of truth" in each analysis, since I am warm, soft, and deep - hence being wrongly classified as a spring, summer, and winter - although the latter was ridiculous. While I agree we shouldn't put people into little boxes, I think seasonal analysis works as long as it's tailored and clients are shown their "flow' colours which enable them to customise their seasonal palette. Otherwise, there is no system in the end and we should all just wear whatever we feel like -which defeats the purpose of having your colours done. If my clients do want to wear certain colours, (especially black - always a favourite) -I show them how to wear the colour and use multiple types of palettes, depending on their preferences (e.g. pure seasonal/tonal/etc). I think people get it at least 50% right and I see my service as giving them a system with flexibility and understanding that enables them to feel great every day about their image and how they want to project it. Especially as our natural colouring fades with age, I think it's good to understand the basics and mix them with creativity and choices. When I order colour on-line, my choice of palette has many more colours than the palettes of 20 years ago. Thank you for your insightful video.
I am always typed as an autumn usually Dark autumn... but most dark colors and dark makeup is very aging on me & Brownish lipsticks clash terribly. But sometimes deep rich brown (both warm and cool) can look great but they cant have any muddyness to them. Muted colors make me look dead most of the time... I can only wear very specific usually brighter yellows and oranges. I can wear cool colors pretty well so I thought dark winter but too cool or too dark and I look like I haven't slept in a month. but I can usually wear black pretty well especially with a bright lip or accessory. Tried bright winter and bright spring both of them sort of work well or the best.... but also neither work great... again can be very hit or miss... certain colors that lean too warm or too cool or too light/hot/icy dont work especially if Im not tan. Tried the light seasons and I could wear some of the more saturated & deeper colors from both palettes, but again mostly no. So Im just completely lost at this point....
Very interesting. What you say made a great deal of sense. I had my colours "done" many years ago and was analysed as a deep autumn. Spot on for me and I've happily used that palette for around 25 years now. I may need to adjust though, as my colouring has softened - not surprising at 75. Now my daughter had hers done at the same time and came out as a summer. Fine, except ever since she's mostly worn blue and mauve as she's not keen on the rest of the colours. A prime example of not taking her preferences into account. Luckily she's started experimenting more since I gave her a burnt orange sweater I knit which turned out too big for me and she looks fabulous in it. I'm going to suggest she takes a look at this and your other videos.
You can adjust your colours by going a few shades lighter if your colouring has softened and perhaps leaving out black or wearing it with a softer colour. If you or your daughter want to have analysis redone I have an online colour service www.mariasadler.com/colour that would help 😀
I had my colors done also, and I'm a True summer, quite happily so. BUT I can pull some True autumn teals, burgundys, bricks and plums, as long as they are not too dark or not too light, about the same color intensity like TSu. As a teenager I have lived in those colors - even if they weren't the best, I was young and the result was nice, similar to your daughter. What I cannot do is to borrow from Light summer (too light, too close to spring which is tragic on me) or Soft Summer (wash out).
I am a soft autumn, but I was typed years ago as a summer, I am a hair stylist and wear black most every day! I love my warm pallet now, but I still go outside of the box too!
I've been analyzed as a spring multiple times, but when I got custom colors done they gave me a summer leaning palette. (I say summer leaning because it was custom, not seasonal) and everytime i color my hair it goes brassy, no matter what shade I get it washes out and goes brassy in about four weeks. I cut my hair off to the uncolored roots specifically so that I could to an unbiased custom palette and it makes me wonder if they were only looking at my hair. Not my eyes or skin tone.
I love this comprehensive approach to styling. I struggle w color. I can't bring myself to spend money on a (non-computerized) color analysis. I want to look my best but is the person who's telling me what looks best on me viewing the world in the same way? And on the flip side, I'm not sure what suits my coloring or personality. (actually I think when I try to do the color analysis myself I tend to choose all the colors that don't suit me... And I run for the hills again-retreat retreat! But I also want to say that on this journey I have found your vudeos/support invaluable! I've tried new colors... And shapes! Sometimes, I go "shopping" just to try new colors/shapes /textures on, rather than to buy! I have almost wholly bought my wardrobe from charity shops, and I've really tried to stick to clothes that 1) I feel amazing in/make me gasp or squeal 2) fit perfectly 3) go with at least 3 outfits in my wardrobe. I'm still. Exploring who I am... Often the real test is when I bring it home, my husband is like "what IS that!?" and I say proudly "it's what I love!"
Thank you Eleanor for your comment. I am so pleased to have helped you and that you have developed the confidence in yourself to choose what you love. Colour is always tricky because there are those who want the "rules" to give them a framework and of course I can provide that and do give a starting point with the dominant and secondary colouring and there are those who don't want to be restricted to a set palette. Somewhere in the middle works well I think because it allows you to be creative and a recommend creating a wardrobe with a palette of colours so that you don't end up with lots of pieces that don't go with anything else. But you can expand that palette overtime by adding 2 or 3 pieces in a new colour. I hope you continue to enjoy exploring x
Thank you Lucy, I am so pleased you enjoyed it. I think you should be able to wear colours that you love and you can incorporate them with colours that "should" suit you. It's really common to find someone who is Bright colouring who doesn't like bright colours or is perhaps more introvert and doesn't want to stand out in bright colours, so adapting to work with your personality makes the colours really yours :)
I simply can't understand which season I am. I'm very pale but my hair colour is warm brown. I feel to contrasted to be in spring and not dark enough to be in winter. Veins are blue and green. Skin more yellow than pink. Eyes cold blue but I also have freckles. I just know I don't look good in anything beige or light blue. I think my best colours are dark grey, granite and marine blue
I don’t use the seasonal colour analysis so I wouldn’t call you a winter or a summer and I also wouldn’t recommend you take advice from someone without them seeing you! You may be cool colouring if your hair is grey but not everyone is. If my hair goes grey I wouldn’t be cool or summer or winter. I’m happy to help if you need it 😀
LOVE YOUR VIDEO! I think in the end I'm not focusing on the "dark" aspect of my color palette which is what initially felt off about being a (dark) Summer. Anything barbie-colored.... eeeewwww (on me). I mean, most of us have been wearing the same colors since birth - so of course some rebellion is going to occur! It's true that I have been receiving compliments in those colors that normally I would never wear. But I think you're spot-on that that color that's "you" - that you LOVE needs to be worked into your palette. Thank you for saying I can wear black again!!!!! It takes some effort to have a rock style in a Summer palette let me tell you.
I understand your frustration with original seasonal color analysis, but there are so many more systems now..with up to 32 more color types and better approaches. The misanalyzing was common but not so much now. The older system was just not perfect [but what is?], but that doesn't mean it doesn't work for people in general. The new systems now can pretty well find your best colors. They've become so much more accurate. The second thing I got out of your video was that color systems lack personality. That's kind of true, but the mistake some analysts then do is deduct the personality type from the color type of their clients which doesn't really have to be a must. I think this is the job of a psychologist. Not the job of a color consultant. Of course, you should put outfits together with the colors you like and the ones that enhance your personality. But this dives too much into an area that belongs to a psychologist. Also, there is a method out there that gives clients a color palette only based on their personality or likings, I think this is also not helpful because this methodology misses the concept of visual harmony to the eye. You cannot deny that some colors will just look pleasing to the eye and suit skin, eyes and hair better of a person than others. It's just color psychology. The best that color analysis can do or should do...is to help people to give them a guideline they can follow but mustn't for every day. And let them know they also should adept their outfits to the situation/occasion and their own personality.
I gave up with seasonal colour analysis because it doesn't seem to take into account gingers, and it's so frustrating. Got told I was a warm spring because I've got ginger hair you might call coppery strawberry blonde. But I don't have light or pale eyes, I have dark, opaque green eyes that are a true olive. And I have very pale, cool toned skin veering on the pink side. Make up for warm springs looks so hideously wrong on my cool skintone it's just laughable, it's like it's sitting on top of my skin, so I have to wear cool toned make up in the summer category. But if I wear cool or pale tones as clothes, yuck, I look dead. Also if I wear clothes for autumns like olive greens and burgundy, it really brings out my eyes so I like wearing them in cooler months. So what the hell season am I then?
Yes as you know I don’t like the seasonal approach and sadly I have had so many clients who have been analysed wrong and left really confused. It sounds like you have a mix of warm hair and cool skin, so choosing colours that don’t go too far in one direction or the other. So orange is obviously at the end of the warm scale and fuchsia on the end of the cool scale. So a pink that sits nearer the middle might be better. There are universal colours that sit in the middle like taupe and pewter as well as teal. I hope that helps 😀
Sandy copper guy here. And you’re right. Hazel eyes, very Irish pink cheeks. I wear a lot of clear spring. That takes in a lot of winter brights. Very little yellow, lots of pinks, violets, greens, and blues. Burgundy and a couple autumn greens and peacock variances. Brown isn’t the best. All greys are good. Mostly that palate works for me, and I wouldn’t have had my colors done but I was wearing black or white off duty, too (I was Navy active at the time); female friends made me go to Hall’s shopping.
@@gszabofan Thank you! It's almost the same for me: warm gold-reddish hair color, cool skin undertone with blue veins, and gray eyes (darker and not clear). While warm autumn is not as wrong as the other seasons it's still not right. All the browns, oranges, yellows and reds emphasize the blue circles under my eyes, make me look sickly pale and somehow drain the glow from my hair. With pinks it is almost the same. In green I almost always look great (except for very light greens or if there is too much brown in it), darker blue and violett are good too. Also greys are fine, if not too light. Teal however does not look so good on me. Probably ideal for me would be one half of the warm autumn palette and another half of the cool winter palette.
@Rosa Wolke have you looked at clear spring and clear winter? These are closest to me as a combination, cool and warm person. Warm hair, green veins, cool and rosy face. The golden mustard and yellows are awful, but garnet red, warm camel, teal, and oddly sky blue are all great.
@@gszabofan Thank you for your reply :) Yes I looked into both, clear spring & clear winter but many of these colors are too bright for me (while the summer colors are mostly too soft). I just found a complete yt-video on skin undertones specifically for redheads and they also talk about why seasonal color analysis is way more difficult for us.
Color analysis doesn’t take into account your hair color though, except whatever your natural was when you were 20, and that’s only as a confirmation. Color analysis has to do with skin undertone, which never changes.
In this case many redheads will be put into summer because it is not uncommon to have reddish hair and a cool skin undertone. The summer colors just don't go well with warm red hair that is high in contrast.
My color analysis of you is currently, with your hair color-Autumn. When you had black hair, you were a winter. If you dye your hair blond, say #8 Neutral, you will be a warm spring. Hair color is the dominant factor for caucasians. Not sure if this 4 season thing works for African & Asian folks.
I’m afraid I disagree. I don’t like the 4 season approach for the reasons I gave in the video - not sure from your comments if you watched it 😀 I would never be a winter even with dark hair because I have a warm skin tone and this is the problem, so many of my clients have been Mis analysed by people who don’t understand. Thank you for your thoughts but we will have to agree to disagree 😀
I have medium brown hair with golden reflections and medium brown eyes with green outline with that I think I have a warm undertone but I have beige skin that tends to blush (silver suits me better than gold royal blue suits me better than mustard yellow everything that is cold in color suits me well but khaki green is not bad on me) I don't know if maybe cold undertones with hair and warm eyes?
Thank you for all this smart analysis on colour analysis..You are so beautiful with this red lipstick and turquoise necklace! Your tips are really helpful!
I have found another channel a colour artist with knowledge of science and quantum physics, she says there is no such thing as an undertone, it is how the light frequencies are absorbed reflected and scattered according to your melanin and root colour which causes one's skin to appear cool or warm against certain drapes, more a subjective perception rather than an undertone being based in science
Is it weird that I am an obvious spring (but light autumn shades look good on me too) when it comes to clothes but almost a "summer" type when it comes to makeup? Or more like very neutral type in between summer and spring when it comes to makeup, leaning towards cooler tones in eyeshadows and neutrals tones in lipsticks. I am very pale by nature, so I guess that makes it harder to tell the color type. Over the years I found out, that the best thing for me is not put myself in a box, but just keep on experimenting with colors from all of the seasons and just make my own personal set/mix of colors that I feel good in, because honestly, it doesn´t really help, when I am told I am spring so peachy, orange and copper shades should work well in makeup when I actually hate these colors on my face.
Take away the label “spring” and wear what suits you physically and emotionally. It sounds like you have a good idea of what’s right for you and what’s confusing you is being put in a box - my pet hate! 👍
Well, if the WARM Spring looks good in bright cool fuchsia pink, because of her bubbling, sunny PERSONALITY, surely a BRIGHT WARM colour, such as AMBER, or BRIGHT CARROT ORANGE, or BRIGHT orange-yellow will make her look absolutely RADIANT, and these colours are also bubbling, cheerful & bright, suiting her personality at best as well as her natural, bright & warm WARM Spring colouring . . .
This is enlightening. I've been really getting into colour analysis, but most of the true autumn colours that make me look my best are my least favourite colours. I love the bright winter colours the best, even though those truly are the worst colours on me. Using patterns and matching colours I like with colours that suit me might be the way to go for me. It might not be the best possible match that way, but at least I won't be wearing stuff that I actually hate just because it suits me best. Also, I ended up changing seasons as well. My mom had me typed as a spring in my childhood, but my hair has darkened a lot since then. Some outfits that used to look great on me just don't quite work well on me anymore.
Cindy Crawford was considered an Autumn? I thought for sure she was a winter, because once they started making her hair to copper or “golden” it really seemed to make her face sort of disappear into the background and her hair look generic/common (Still an amazing body of course)....Myself and a few friends who are familiar with the seasonal theories back in the time would notice it on the commercial started showing this so called Sun kissed look which detracted from her actual beauty… And yes some of these friends were male, LOL.
So true and well explained.. everyone always look amazing when they feel incredible in their colour. I rock multi colours that don't go together and somehow I feel so fabulous :)
@@penelopelambson9128 that’s what I was wondering. Sounds like most people are not doing the colour analysis correctly. Because your natural hair colour may not even match your undertone.
Where have you been??? I'm so glad I found your channel. Back in the '80's I was analyzed as a Spring. I'm not crazy about that colour palette and over the years I got into the black rut. I feel my colouring has changed over the years and I am again interested in finding out my colours. My Kibbe Body type is Theoretical Romantic. Dressing Your Truth says that I am a Type 2 with secondary Type 1. My energy flow feels like a Type 2, however, the colours seem like Summer. I do not have Type 1 energy flow but my colouring is Type 1. So, I am confused as to that method. Also, I am not sure if I am warm or neutral. My skin, eyes and hair are warm tones. However, I feel like I am a soft subtle muted colouring. I am blended with low contrast. David Zyla System I am an Early Spring/Playful Princess which is warm and secondary Sunset Summer/Elegant Bohemiam. I am interested in finding out what I am in your system.
Thank you for your comment Sherry. It sounds like you are overloaded with advice which contradicts and are left confused :) I developed my system exactly for this reason because so many women are still confused even after having colour analysis and often more than once as you have. I would suggest rather than trying to fit yourself into a box or type use colours that you know work and add in others that you love and that give you confidence. If you would like to use my colour service you can find more details here :) www.mariasadler.com/colour
Hello! :ike your friend, I am also classified as a warm spring, as you can see in my picture, , I have freckles and bright rosy cheeks, and I love fuchsia pink. For years I bought peach or coral lipsticks, and didn't like them. Then when I put on a blue pink one day, my whole face lit up, and I started getting compliments. It turns out that peachy pinks do not suit my skin at ALL, and I need the bluest pinks I can possibly find. I'm also a painter, and my portrait painting teacher, who specializes in color, held up a brush with Permanent Rose paint on it (a true blue pink). It was a perfect match. So, I don't know what that all means except I'm pretty sure I have a cool spring tone. They need to invent a cool spring for me. I look fabulous in clear blues, greens, and purples, and terrible in orange/yellow/beige.
I have similar problem - my best colors are from winter, but I'm ash blonde... I've seen it a few times already: "if your hair is not super dark, you can't be a winter" or "if you're blonde, you can't look good in jewel colors". Well, try me, I guess? It's the things that contrast me that look best, while the whole seasonal palette is made with the assumption that you should follow natural colouring, not contrast it.
@@tymondabrowski12 I feel you! I can TOTALLY see how an ash blonde would look best in winter colors. Honestly, the idea of categories is slightly helpful at best. If you are someone who is completely lost, I can see how it can be helpful. I'm 54, and this is not just a personal take. EVERYONE agrees I look great in blue-pinks and terrible in peach. We are INDIVIDUALS.
@@tymondabrowski12 Always trust your own eyes, color analysis will give you only the shade of each color (e.g., warm red, cool red, muted red, vibrant red) that will look best based on your skin tone, it can not give you your personal best colors. Plus the results are not on an absolute scale so it might be that even your worst green looks better than your best red, as an example.
My hair as a child was a light and very golden brown which became more ash as an adult with no highlights, like Summer. I was analyzed by a Color Me Beautiful consultant and she said I was an Autumn. But there is nothing dark or deep about me other than my earthy, olive hazel eyes. My skin is the color of cream with a yellow undertone. I am very fair. Soft Autumn color don't suit me. Spring doesn't either as that palette includes pink which I look awful in. I've been stuck in limbo. In another system I've recently been pegged as "T4" which is winter. I do like to wear black. I've found that if I keep my makeup in the warm range, such as peaches, light oranges, and keep my hair tinted reddish I can successfully wear colors that otherwise wouldn't be right for me. My question is, would the Autumn palettes suit me better or the Springs? I do prefer brighter colors to the muted, especially grey greens. Maybe I've answered my own question! Lol!
Hi Karla, I don't use the seasonal method for colour analysis. I use the tonal method as a starting point and then tailor colours to suit my clients. I developed this season exactly for the reasons you describe and because so many women are still confused even after having colour analysis. It sounds like you have found some colours that work for you and that you are happy wearing. If your skin tone is warm there will be some colours in both the traditional Spring and Autumn palettes that work for you. So I would suggest rather than trying to fit yourself into a box (Autumn or Spring) use colours that you know work and add in others that you love and that give you confidence. If you would like to use my colour service you can find more details here :) www.mariasadler.com/colour
Great video! Thank you 😍 I am quite confused about my color type. I have always thought being a winter (looking good in white, fuchsia, clear pink...). But i have golden reflexes in my hair and if i use "cool" foundations, i just look like piglet :-( my veines are greenish/turquoise, and i have a very, very light skin which i find a little olive, but absolutely not rosy. But not really warm neither. How does that all fit together..? I am quite confused...
It’s difficult for me to say without seeing you. But it might be that your colouring is bright if you look good in bright colours. Then you may have a warm skin tone and golden colouring would normally say warm rather than cool - which is what a winter is. I have a colour analysis service if you need more help www.mariasadler.com/colour 😀
You sound like you have olive skin and you’re a winter. I also can’t wear warm or cool foundations. I have light skin and had to find a greenish foundation which is neutral. And I’m a dark winter. So you’re probably some kind of winter.
@@BbGun-lw5vi well it finally turns out that i am completely cool toned, even pink. Thats why I am best in fuchsia, blue etc. But my skin is so fair that nearly every foundation is too dark - and then I look like piglet 🙈🤪. The solution seems to be a very, very fair and cool / rose foundation. So the problem was not the too pink, but the too dark foundation.
The whole season palette is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Did the analysis and I respectfully disagree the outcome. I wear the opposite colours and other people can see it suits me better. Wear whatever you want and what makes you happy. Period.
And nowadays, most people know that the 4 original seasonal colour analysis is INDEED too RESTRICTED . . . Really . . . That is why the 12 seasonal colour system works so much, much better, than the 4 seasonal colour system . . . The 12 seasonal colouring seasonal system, can even be subdivided into a 16 seasonal colouring system . . . And, the chocolate brown & teal (or is the colour more towards aqua or turquoise?) necklace that you are wearing and looking so radiant in, is indeed in the SOFT Autumn colour pallette, as well as in the WARM Autumn colour pallette. Teal & chocolate brown is also in the DEEP Autumn Colour Pallete . . . A WARM Autumn are much closer related to a WARM Spring, than to a SOFT Autumn and/or a DEEP Autumn . . . Apply it correctly, use the 12 seasonal colouring system, or even the 16 seasonal colouring system, in stead of the original, but very restrictive 4 seasonal colouring system, and THEN a proper, thorough and COMPLETE colour analysis will then WORK for EVERYBODY . . . TRY it . . .
I dunno, still I don't see a palette that says "use whatever color, just dark or intense". Don't use white, don't use peachy, don't use pastel blue or green, don't use light grey, but use intense blue, or green, or dark purple, or black, everything that it's light or pastel. One would think it means winter, but wherever I look, "a blonde cannot be a winter, ever", and I'm not that cool, bright intense orange or red still looks better than light cool pink or pastel blue. That's because everything on my face is pretty greyish (ash blonde hair, blue grey eyes, neutral skin), but has a reasonably high contrast (very pale skin, very dark eyelashes and eyebrows, medium dark hair, even eyes have dark circles around he iris), and when I wear anything too light, especially before summer (no tan), I just look half dead. Thereis a slight cool bias though, so it's not completely neutral, I think. But the lightness and intensity of the colors are way more important. But whenever I look up seasonal palettes, there is none that fits. From the looks alone, it would be probably summer, but the summer colors don't work well. And generally it seems like there is this idea that with muted colors on the person, one can only wear muted colors, which is, again, a terrible look on me (though especially light - light grey, beige, but medium grey is still much worse than intense color with the same lightness) despite my features being muted/greyish. I would like to go once to a specialist that checks with colored fabric and see what they say, just out of curiosity.
Can your season change based on your hair color I was born a soft autumn but I agree with you because I looked good as a clear spring,warm Autumn,and deep Autumn. I have been golden blonde chocolate brown ,blue-black and warm redhead. I think my skintone is neutral because everyone says I look good in whatever I choose. I can wear black and brown white and cream hot pink and warm red. I know for sure I am warm not cool but my color choses in wardrobe change based on my hair color along with my makeup.
Hi Donna, yes your season or palette can change with hair colour. Skin tone can also lighten with age too and that can affect your colour palette. As hair goes grey for example, a warm skin tone will look better with lighter and softer colours whereas a cool skin tone with hair that has got grey looks great with cooler and some brighter colours. My hair was very dark brown when I was on my 30's making me a deep Autumn but in my 20s with blonde highlights I was better in the Soft Autumn colours. It is the combination of hair, skin and eyes that affect your colour palette so if one of those changes you may want to adjust the colours you wear. :)
Yes good point. My pet hate is hearing someone say “I’m not allowed to wear” wear what you love and what gives you confidence and be guided by the colours that suit you 😀
I don’t think just because color consultants have failed to analyze correctly or were not well trained that the Seasonal Color System does not work. It works perfectly! It’s the people who are not properly trained to analyze the right way. I do not agree at all with the title of your video “Seasonal Colour Analysis Doesn’t Work”
A good tip I got years ago was to eliminate seasons based on lipcolours. If brownish/auburn for autumn, burgundy/cherry for winter, so on so forth. I knew I wasn't a spring because peach and coral lipstick looked tragic lol.
If you can *find* anything about it, try looking into a 16 season color system. I spent a year-and-a-half researching color systems and trying to find a palette that satisfied me and only *just* heard of the four additional seasons from this reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/coloranalysis/comments/883hod/muted_dark_winter/
I think you completely misunderstood Color Analysis. Though how you see yourself is important... and what you relate to is personal... Color Analysis is honest. If something does not suit you... it just does not suit you. You change as you age. The "small percentages" that you did not understand were the basics of showing you how you can cheat and still wear colors you love while still still using your palette. I find the red lipstick your wearing in this video harsh on your coloring... I would wear a softer color. As women age... there coloring changes. And when your hair color changes... you are entering another palette.
Did you watch the video and my explanation or any of my other videos that clearly demonstrate I have extensive experience in colour analysis over many years and thousands of clients. I didn’t say I don’t believe in colour analysis and I do understand it as I have been trained to do it. What I said was I believe putting people into 4 colour boxes - seasons is too restrictive. As you say, you would wear a different colour lipstick but you aren’t me, I didn’t ask for an opinion on my lipstick and not sure how you are qualified to advise but it’s a good job we are all individuals which was the point I was making in the video.
@@Mariafsadler Thank you for making this video. There is no season where I really fit in because my features are a mixture of warm and cool. Maybe this person did not really watch til the end.
Just because you like colours they may not suit you I love pastels Can’t wear them They wash me out I love white I can only wear cream White chops my head off Personality doesn’t come into it in mho sorry don’t want to offend. But what you’re born with is what you have to work with
Please forgive me, but your make up seems completely wrong. It makes you skin very bright pink or red. Usually when that happens, you have the wrong under toned shades. Your lips tip isn’t flattering as well… I’m sorry to say. I don’t think it’s that it’s dark… just the wrong shade.
What really annoys me about the color palettes is that wherever I look, they are composed completely different. One website says that a certain color completely fits the palette, one website puts the color on the no-go-list for the exact same season. Also, colors are never so pure like they are in the palettes. If a shirt is just a tiny bit too bright, too dark, too pink, it immediately does not fit anymore. I gave up and just try to find out which colors makes my face shine bright and healthy when not wearing makeup. Thats my personal palette and f*ck the rest.
Absolutely LOVE your last sentence! Yes!! I concur. This is how I feel even about body typing. There are too many exceptions to the "rules," too many variables, too many different opinions, etc. Wear what you love and "f*ck the rest!"😁
Exactly
@@preciousypenguinoyou can wear whatever you want tho, even if you do fit into a category very well. none of this is law, just guidance for helping you to appear effortlessly good for events, interviews, photos, and/or your daily life if you so choose.
I agree with that they look different in every palette you can buy. I am light spring and I think that I finally found the palette (designed for light season designed by some kind of faithfull woman but I will not make any advertisement here) which colurs I can say that I like and I would choose to wear them because most palettes provide some kind of sweet colours and look like candys and I do not want to look like a candy. It does not fit my personality.
Finally I’ve found someone who makes me feel better after my colour analysis. I am supposed to be summer cool/muted and absolutely hate those muted colours. They just make me feel old and colorless. Thanks for being direct and not making me like I’ve thrown my money out of the window. Regards Sheila
Unless you sew your own clothes, you have a limited choice from what fits you, and what colors it comes in. No store has outfits in each size that come in Muted Autumn vs True Autumn colors. You might find one top in the store buyer's choice of red, brown, or black, and that's it. Online shopping is even more limited, because you can't even try it on.
Agree! I thought online shopping would be great - but for me the problem was a screen can never get the true color right. So, as a dark summer, finding that what I call the "summer coral" color was impossible - if it goes too orange which is always did once in my actual hands - the magic it did to my skin was gone. Frustrating really.
@@TheJediAwakens try Kettlewell Colours.
You should try Kettlewell Colours. They make a wide variety of clothes in each of the four seasons so you can always find your best colors! I'm a winter and love how I can find the perfect cool reds, greens, and pinks for my season! They're in the UK but ship to the US and other countries.
Especially if you’re petite.
I had a color analysis that said I was a Autumn. I agree with that analysis. Then I went to the makeup counter at a department store. I was told I had cool toned skin and was sold a foundation that made me look terrible. I definitely am not cool toned. I look terrible in fuchsia, pink and other cool toned colors.
I wish makeup consultants were better educated.
It’s so frustrating isn’t it? One makeup brand told me I was a winter probably because I had very dark hair and eyes at the time. But I have a warm skin tone do I would never be a winter! Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing! Stick to what you feel is right fir you 😘
I bet they think EVERYONE is cool-toned skin because the lighting is always blue at makeup counters!! Your skin may LOOK cool-toned but your UNDERTONE is what you're looking for. I have yellow-toned skin, ppl thnk that means I'm warm but if you're trained, you know it really doesn't mean anything - you HAVE to drape that ivory and that pure white IMHO to determine. I'm actually cool undertone.
I was told I was warm toned and have a normal skin type when I went to a makeup department in a store. Lol...never in my life have people told me I have any warmth to my skin, hair, or eyes and my skin type is dry. I looked horrible in oranges, yellows, and browns. I have no idea how these people are working there.
The people at the store are so clueless. My man even asked about a cologne one time and he had more knowledge than the one at the perfume department.
I was draped as a winter and found the process to be totally accurate. I looked sickly in anything warm-toned!
They aren't half of them don't go to school ! Only some of Use did
The seasonal color scheme is just a guide. There are also other color schemes to consider, the great artists throughout history, for example mix colors, in such a way that is beyond any seasonal color palate. I do like the 4 seasons approach, as it has helped me to become disciplined in color choice and it has helped me find my power colors, but there is so much more to consider. Look at the bird world, insect colors and patterns in nature... wild, absolutely outrageous combinations.
I agree. I’m an Autumn, but love the interesting way that artists combine colors that I wouldn’t think of putting together.
The essential thing about color analysis is a thorough understanding of cool and warm colors and how to discern them correctly , and training on skin undertone.
Get those wrong and everything will probably be inaccurate.
I agree! I've never seen a palette I 100% agree with, there's always something off. Also if you always wear strong make up it will affect the shades you can wear. I find it's important to understand your wow colours and what colours are the least flattering.
Every time I got draped a particular season, I ALWAYS ended up cheating on it with the Bright/Clear Winter palette. Whenever I go by wearing what I love the most, compliments always follow on how great I look. Sometimes you have to go by your gut instincts.
Right. Most of these people end looking like a clown. And the super saturated bright winter colors will annoy them, eventually. Plus, somewhere, sometime, they will find a HONEST feedback and they will dislike it.
Color analysis doesn't mean you are stuck with those palettes. Also, wear what makes you FEEL good and alive. When you feel good, you look good.
@@carmaela2689The problem is that there is absolutely no proof at all that this theory is true. I and many people even proved it wrong by looking great in colors that are not in “our palette”, and not looking particularly good with some colors in “our palette”! Why invest so much time, energy, attention and money into something so limiting, subjective and that doesn't have any proof or scientific basis anyway?
Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I do agree on the fact that the seasonal palette is restrictive. I am a warm autumn but LOVE black and grey because I always had a rock style. I love myself in black and grey... yes, blues and browns are way better on me, however I still wear black, maybe trying to match it with colours from my palette. Personality IS essential.
Same. I'm actually a soft summer, so black should be a no-go according to my colour palette. And mind you, I'm not a person that only wears black, but I do wear it and I do think I look good in it, even though my palette doesn't agree. Personality is so important! However, I do try to add in more colours from my palette too, which is an interesting challenge :)
Same! I’m an Autumn but still have some black pieces in my wardrobe. I try not to wear black near my face, as it does me no favors, but that comes from knowing how bad I look in cool colors. So it’s not about ridding myself of black, but knowing how to wear it.
I think I’m a deep autumn and I absolutely dislike those colors. So I’m taking your advice and just wearing the colors that I like. I smile more when I do.
Me too based on it says I’m deep autumn but I’m more of a bright spring suits me the best other people can see that too
I recently got my colors done, and I love my palette. I now know what pinks and reds work for me, colors I always wanted to wear but avoided. I was typified as a "twilight summer." The best, though, is when I was told I can expand my palette by adding white to the color families for a lightening effect, and/or that I can pretty much wear color so long as it has an element of gray in it. Knowing this is incredibly helpful and explains why I always gravitated to the grays, blues, and greens. I never liked black and argued with friends over the diversity of it. So, yeah, black doesn't work for me (it does for my friends), but dark teal, purples, charcoals, and walnuts do. I found color analysis to be advantageous as it gave me fun the base in which to explore. I also love my clothes now because they now go well together and I can dress without overthinking it.
I don’t know who originally did your colours, but that was not how mine were done at all. I had mine done in the late 80s and it was not based on hair color or eye color, although they could give you a clue, but was solely based on skin tone. I have a yellow undertone to my light skin, as well as dark auburn hair and dark eyes. The colour palate I was given was mini swatches of colour fabrics, no stars or tick marks. I was told to use these swatches as a guide and that colours in those tones were the best for me, but that they could be brighter or darker depending on my personal preferences or time of year that I was wearing them. 30+ years later and I am still an autumn, even though my skin and hair have gotten darker and I still wear and look best in that same palette. I think the problem was in the poor analysis you received and not in the 4 season color system.
I love your approach because it takes into account your personality! No other system does as far as I know.
My eyes are cool, my skin is warmish, my hair looks dark and cool indoors, but lighter and warmer in the sunlight. My veins are blue-green. Colours that bring out my eyes, apparently don't suit my skin. Ones that look better with my skin don't bring out my eyes.
This made me realize that I can't be boxed into one colour season. Some cool summer colours look nice, some winter and a few spring.
I'm a quiet person so I like wearing [slightly] muted or black but with splashes of colour because I do love bright colours- perhaps fuchsia laces on black boots.
Also, on a bright sunny day I feel to wear brighter and lighter, which I wouldn't on a bleak day.
The problem I have is how different the various color systems are. I have read books and purchased color fans. None of the fans contain the same set of colors, so I chose the one I like the best and sold the others. My current wardrobe generally follows that palette, but I’m petite and living in a country where it’s very difficult to find clothing that fits me, much less in colors that suit me. Shopping is a real challenge for me.
I’m sorry to hear that I hope you get some tips from my channel that help
I have never had my colours done but have always worn colours in the Winter palette which really suit my pale blue toned skin, blue eyes and dark hair. I would never let somebody else tell me what colours to wear. I think choosing colours comes naturally as I am a knitter so always have to consider choosing yarn in many many shades and colour combinations.
Absolutely loved this video! I spent hours today trying to establish my colour palette and thought was either light summer or true summer. I was so confused and didn't agree with a lot of recommendations because I won't wear certain colours , especially hated make up tips. This video assured me that if I want to wear khaki or brown or even burnt orange for autumn, I can. Thanks so much. I'm subscribed now
Thank you 💖 I had a blazer that was amazing for me 5 years ago.. Now I can not wear it anymore because it looks totally diferent. Now I know it's my personality 💛🤗
I agree with you on the color season analysis. I've learned what colors look great on me, good on me and really bad on me. That's all you need to learn..plus, experiment with different foundations and makeups until YOU know exactly what works great for you.
And after watching a lot of videos, I’m still confused. It is advised that we do the tone determination without make-up, and everyone persistently shows the exact opposite.😃
Most Personal Coloring systems are full of flaws and tend to be more wrong than right, apart from the fact that they cling a lot to stereotypes and commonplaces. The best guide is your instinct and your personality.
Color analysis never worked for me lol I'm not white Caucasian so now I just wear what works for me. I was also said was autumn lol I would never wear that!
I really had an aha moment after discovering your channel and learning about your system - regardless of the specific colors I'm wearing, if there isn't a lot of contrast between my skin, hair and eyes, muted colors and low-contrast combinations look better on me. That explains why I never felt good in black and white even though black OR white don't look bad on me, or why I can pull off stronger colors and contrasts during winter when my hair is darker and my skin is lighter. (Your tips on how to wear colors that don't suit you have also been very helpful because my favorite color is a bright green that looks terrible with my skin tone...)
i completely agree with you. you are talking about personality, and i would say the most important thing that we are leaving out is listening to our intuition/ inner guidance. yes, i'm quite spiritual, but spirituality is an inseparable part of life. if we are listening to ourselves we will get quite confident about what to wear and we will realize that what we want to wear is actually what also suits us best. no matter what the experts are saying.
This video made me smile so much 😊 I am technically a cool summer but I cannot stand any pastel colours except periwinkle/cornflower blue. Yet I love bright yellow and mustard even though it 'shouldn't' suit me, and I have a bright yellow midi/tea dress with tiny cornflower blue flowers all over and everyone tells me how great I look in it because I love it so much and it's just such a fun friendly dress that it's impossible to not smile when you see someone wearing it.
Sounds perfect 👌
Tried to do my seasonal colour analysis recently and couldn't figure out if I was a soft summer or a light summer. Eventually I looked at the bright-ish lilac blazer I love wearing and I said screw it! I'm a light summer. Or at least, I'll lean toward that pallet
I'm supposed to be summer. However, gray fits me terribly, I look like I'm dead. On the other side, whenever I wear warm olive green i get compliments. So at this point, I just let it go 😌
Thanks for this video! I’ve always had a hard time trying to find my colors. I’m fair skinned with a yellow undertone, with brown hair and blue eyes. I’ve been told Jewel tones look best on me, but I prefer the aesthetic of neutrals. And jewel tones are usually for a Cool or Winter, but my actually skin apparently has a lot of yellow in it, if the gadget at Sephora is correct. So....I’m on a journey. 😁
I am on the same journey with you😂
Then you’re most likely warm toned and you could either be a autumn or a spring. People tend to forget that not all fair skinned people are cool many are warm toned. It’s not about overtones it’s about undertones.
@@lesliegonzalez2858 thank you!
I don’t trust that Sephora gadget. I let them use it and pick a foundation for me without really questioning it. When I got that foundation home and put it on, it looked ridiculously yellow against my skin. That gadget read my olive skin as yellow, but the garish yellow tone of the supposed matched foundation on my skin said that gadget was dead wrong.
It is a lot of perspective. Anyone wearing a cooler shade will look cooler and the same with warmer. Doesn't mean one way is correct and other isn't. Life is too short to limit yourself.
A helpful video. One of the worst things going from a Winter in the 80s to a Soft Summer recently was "no hot pink"!! lol 67, grey hair and I still love hot pink. :) Mary Lou
If you love hot pink Mary Lou, wear it. You might find that if your hair is grey you have moved from a Soft to a Cool and hot pink looks great on a cool. But even so you could mix it with some of your softer pinks to create a blend as well :)
Mary Lou Hi! I am 65 and I used to be an autumn in the 80:s but now I wear my hot pinks and purples and black....and I feel great!
I bet hot pink looks stoking next to your white hair!
I wear my bright spring colours on the top e.g. hats and scarves. I wear navy, black and dark denim jeans or trousers. I wear bright in spring handbags and handbags e.g. tan, black and plum don't suit me but I like those colours so will use those as an accent colour.
I totally agree with your theory for choosing one's color pallet or season. It has been so difficult to determine my best colors. I find my wardrobe and sewing room are filled with mostly Spring colors. I love pairing them with black bottoms and wear them a lot. I have designed and sewn my own wardrobe for a few years. It is very difficult to find warm soft florals and other fabrics to coordinate with some of my statement pieces.
I have had to go outside of my season to find fabrics that will at least give me some choices to give some diversity and variety to my wonderful jackets and pants. You words really helped me to feel ok with my color choices, especially since I have been dealing with a a an expert sewing instructor who is very critical about wearing only colors in one's season. And can't seem to be ok with me breaking the rules by wearing colors out of my season.
Spring colors are also can be difficult to mix and match for summer and especially for winter. Understanding and finding colors that fit the holidays and coordinate can be very challenging. I have a few of your PDF's that offer great visuals to help me find separates that will go with my existing clothing. I love everything you do. You are amazing. Thanks for all this information.
Thank you, I am so pleased that I have helped you 😀
That lipstick is great on you! I've discovered you fairly recently and enjoyed the videos I've seen. That's for all the great info!
This video was great, and I recognized a lot of my own hangups with the seasonal system. I've come to realize that tonal color is really the way to go. It gives so many more color options while still being flattering to the individual.
I do agree, though. If you absolutely love a color...wear it!
Thank you 😊
I think this was a great video, as it reinforced what I believed about how to work with colour analysis. As my job requires a color that doesn't go with my personality, or that I'm supposed to wear, but I know that I need to wear it.
Interesting - I had my "colours" done 3 times as well - first summer, then spring, even winter, and finally autumn. Like you, I am a "soft autumn" and also finally trained under the "colour my beautiful" system in Hong Kong to sort myself out! While it took me several years to understand this, I realise there were 'elements of truth" in each analysis, since I am warm, soft, and deep - hence being wrongly classified as a spring, summer, and winter - although the latter was ridiculous. While I agree we shouldn't put people into little boxes, I think seasonal analysis works as long as it's tailored and clients are shown their "flow' colours which enable them to customise their seasonal palette. Otherwise, there is no system in the end and we should all just wear whatever we feel like -which defeats the purpose of having your colours done. If my clients do want to wear certain colours, (especially black - always a favourite) -I show them how to wear the colour and use multiple types of palettes, depending on their preferences (e.g. pure seasonal/tonal/etc). I think people get it at least 50% right and I see my service as giving them a system with flexibility and understanding that enables them to feel great every day about their image and how they want to project it. Especially as our natural colouring fades with age, I think it's good to understand the basics and mix them with creativity and choices. When I order colour on-line, my choice of palette has many more colours than the palettes of 20 years ago. Thank you for your insightful video.
I am always typed as an autumn usually Dark autumn... but most dark colors and dark makeup is very aging on me & Brownish lipsticks clash terribly. But sometimes deep rich brown (both warm and cool) can look great but they cant have any muddyness to them. Muted colors make me look dead most of the time... I can only wear very specific usually brighter yellows and oranges. I can wear cool colors pretty well so I thought dark winter but too cool or too dark and I look like I haven't slept in a month. but I can usually wear black pretty well especially with a bright lip or accessory. Tried bright winter and bright spring both of them sort of work well or the best.... but also neither work great... again can be very hit or miss... certain colors that lean too warm or too cool or too light/hot/icy dont work especially if Im not tan. Tried the light seasons and I could wear some of the more saturated & deeper colors from both palettes, but again mostly no. So Im just completely lost at this point....
Very interesting. What you say made a great deal of sense. I had my colours "done" many years ago and was analysed as a deep autumn. Spot on for me and I've happily used that palette for around 25 years now. I may need to adjust though, as my colouring has softened - not surprising at 75. Now my daughter had hers done at the same time and came out as a summer. Fine, except ever since she's mostly worn blue and mauve as she's not keen on the rest of the colours. A prime example of not taking her preferences into account. Luckily she's started experimenting more since I gave her a burnt orange sweater I knit which turned out too big for me and she looks fabulous in it. I'm going to suggest she takes a look at this and your other videos.
You can adjust your colours by going a few shades lighter if your colouring has softened and perhaps leaving out black or wearing it with a softer colour. If you or your daughter want to have analysis redone I have an online colour service www.mariasadler.com/colour that would help 😀
I had my colors done also, and I'm a True summer, quite happily so. BUT I can pull some True autumn teals, burgundys, bricks and plums, as long as they are not too dark or not too light, about the same color intensity like TSu. As a teenager I have lived in those colors - even if they weren't the best, I was young and the result was nice, similar to your daughter. What I cannot do is to borrow from Light summer (too light, too close to spring which is tragic on me) or Soft Summer (wash out).
I am a soft autumn, but I was typed years ago as a summer, I am a hair stylist and wear black most every day! I love my warm pallet now, but I still go outside of the box too!
I've been analyzed as a spring multiple times, but when I got custom colors done they gave me a summer leaning palette. (I say summer leaning because it was custom, not seasonal) and everytime i color my hair it goes brassy, no matter what shade I get it washes out and goes brassy in about four weeks. I cut my hair off to the uncolored roots specifically so that I could to an unbiased custom palette and it makes me wonder if they were only looking at my hair. Not my eyes or skin tone.
I love this comprehensive approach to styling. I struggle w color. I can't bring myself to spend money on a (non-computerized) color analysis. I want to look my best but is the person who's telling me what looks best on me viewing the world in the same way? And on the flip side, I'm not sure what suits my coloring or personality. (actually I think when I try to do the color analysis myself I tend to choose all the colors that don't suit me... And I run for the hills again-retreat retreat! But I also want to say that on this journey I have found your vudeos/support invaluable! I've tried new colors... And shapes! Sometimes, I go "shopping" just to try new colors/shapes /textures on, rather than to buy! I have almost wholly bought my wardrobe from charity shops, and I've really tried to stick to clothes that 1) I feel amazing in/make me gasp or squeal 2) fit perfectly 3) go with at least 3 outfits in my wardrobe. I'm still. Exploring who I am... Often the real test is when I bring it home, my husband is like "what IS that!?" and I say proudly "it's what I love!"
Thank you Eleanor for your comment. I am so pleased to have helped you and that you have developed the confidence in yourself to choose what you love. Colour is always tricky because there are those who want the "rules" to give them a framework and of course I can provide that and do give a starting point with the dominant and secondary colouring and there are those who don't want to be restricted to a set palette. Somewhere in the middle works well I think because it allows you to be creative and a recommend creating a wardrobe with a palette of colours so that you don't end up with lots of pieces that don't go with anything else. But you can expand that palette overtime by adding 2 or 3 pieces in a new colour. I hope you continue to enjoy exploring x
Thank you so much for this video! I absolutely love your take on the seasonal colors :)
I’m so pleased you enjoyed it. I’ve just filmed a new video on colour you might enjoy too 👍
@@Mariafsadler I'll surely check it out!
I really enjoyed this video, particularly since I've been colour-analysed twice! Your comments about personality are spot-on, thank you :)
Thank you Lucy, I am so pleased you enjoyed it. I think you should be able to wear colours that you love and you can incorporate them with colours that "should" suit you. It's really common to find someone who is Bright colouring who doesn't like bright colours or is perhaps more introvert and doesn't want to stand out in bright colours, so adapting to work with your personality makes the colours really yours :)
I simply can't understand which season I am. I'm very pale but my hair colour is warm brown. I feel to contrasted to be in spring and not dark enough to be in winter.
Veins are blue and green. Skin more yellow than pink. Eyes cold blue but I also have freckles.
I just know I don't look good in anything beige or light blue.
I think my best colours are dark grey, granite and marine blue
My hair turned gray. This now makes me a true summer. I was a winter and I still like to wear some of those colors.
I don’t use the seasonal colour analysis so I wouldn’t call you a winter or a summer and I also wouldn’t recommend you take advice from someone without them seeing you! You may be cool colouring if your hair is grey but not everyone is. If my hair goes grey I wouldn’t be cool or summer or winter. I’m happy to help if you need it 😀
You can’t assume anything without seeing her I’m afraid
I'm still confused, I was a warm or deep autumn but I'm letting my grey hair grow out 🙃
LOVE YOUR VIDEO! I think in the end I'm not focusing on the "dark" aspect of my color palette which is what initially felt off about being a (dark) Summer. Anything barbie-colored.... eeeewwww (on me). I mean, most of us have been wearing the same colors since birth - so of course some rebellion is going to occur! It's true that I have been receiving compliments in those colors that normally I would never wear. But I think you're spot-on that that color that's "you" - that you LOVE needs to be worked into your palette. Thank you for saying I can wear black again!!!!! It takes some effort to have a rock style in a Summer palette let me tell you.
I don't really care about the colors i like, i just want to look ok and i think color analysis will help me.
I understand your frustration with original seasonal color analysis, but there are so many more systems now..with up to 32 more color types and better approaches. The misanalyzing was common but not so much now. The older system was just not perfect [but what is?], but that doesn't mean it doesn't work for people in general. The new systems now can pretty well find your best colors. They've become so much more accurate.
The second thing I got out of your video was that color systems lack personality. That's kind of true, but the mistake some analysts then do is deduct the personality type from the color type of their clients which doesn't really have to be a must. I think this is the job of a psychologist. Not the job of a color consultant. Of course, you should put outfits together with the colors you like and the ones that enhance your personality. But this dives too much into an area that belongs to a psychologist.
Also, there is a method out there that gives clients a color palette only based on their personality or likings, I think this is also not helpful because this methodology misses the concept of visual harmony to the eye. You cannot deny that some colors will just look pleasing to the eye and suit skin, eyes and hair better of a person than others. It's just color psychology.
The best that color analysis can do or should do...is to help people to give them a guideline they can follow but mustn't for every day. And let them know they also should adept their outfits to the situation/occasion and their own personality.
What color system has 32 types? I would love to use it! I don't fit into the 12 type system.
I agree personality is psychology not visual harmony. I don’t have to like or use my color information, it’s just a tool, in my toolbox.
Your hair style is wonderful for you ! You are looking quite glamorous !
You are still looking like an Autumn !
I gave up with seasonal colour analysis because it doesn't seem to take into account gingers, and it's so frustrating. Got told I was a warm spring because I've got ginger hair you might call coppery strawberry blonde. But I don't have light or pale eyes, I have dark, opaque green eyes that are a true olive. And I have very pale, cool toned skin veering on the pink side. Make up for warm springs looks so hideously wrong on my cool skintone it's just laughable, it's like it's sitting on top of my skin, so I have to wear cool toned make up in the summer category. But if I wear cool or pale tones as clothes, yuck, I look dead. Also if I wear clothes for autumns like olive greens and burgundy, it really brings out my eyes so I like wearing them in cooler months. So what the hell season am I then?
Yes as you know I don’t like the seasonal approach and sadly I have had so many clients who have been analysed wrong and left really confused. It sounds like you have a mix of warm hair and cool skin, so choosing colours that don’t go too far in one direction or the other. So orange is obviously at the end of the warm scale and fuchsia on the end of the cool scale. So a pink that sits nearer the middle might be better. There are universal colours that sit in the middle like taupe and pewter as well as teal. I hope that helps 😀
Sandy copper guy here. And you’re right. Hazel eyes, very Irish pink cheeks. I wear a lot of clear spring. That takes in a lot of winter brights. Very little yellow, lots of pinks, violets, greens, and blues. Burgundy and a couple autumn greens and peacock variances. Brown isn’t the best. All greys are good. Mostly that palate works for me, and I wouldn’t have had my colors done but I was wearing black or white off duty, too (I was Navy active at the time); female friends made me go to Hall’s shopping.
@@gszabofan Thank you! It's almost the same for me: warm gold-reddish hair color, cool skin undertone with blue veins, and gray eyes (darker and not clear). While warm autumn is not as wrong as the other seasons it's still not right. All the browns, oranges, yellows and reds emphasize the blue circles under my eyes, make me look sickly pale and somehow drain the glow from my hair. With pinks it is almost the same.
In green I almost always look great (except for very light greens or if there is too much brown in it), darker blue and violett are good too. Also greys are fine, if not too light. Teal however does not look so good on me.
Probably ideal for me would be one half of the warm autumn palette and another half of the cool winter palette.
@Rosa Wolke have you looked at clear spring and clear winter? These are closest to me as a combination, cool and warm person. Warm hair, green veins, cool and rosy face. The golden mustard and yellows are awful, but garnet red, warm camel, teal, and oddly sky blue are all great.
@@gszabofan Thank you for your reply :) Yes I looked into both, clear spring & clear winter but many of these colors are too bright for me (while the summer colors are mostly too soft). I just found a complete yt-video on skin undertones specifically for redheads and they also talk about why seasonal color analysis is way more difficult for us.
Color analysis doesn’t take into account your hair color though, except whatever your natural was when you were 20, and that’s only as a confirmation. Color analysis has to do with skin undertone, which never changes.
In this case many redheads will be put into summer because it is not uncommon to have reddish hair and a cool skin undertone. The summer colors just don't go well with warm red hair that is high in contrast.
My color analysis of you is currently, with your hair color-Autumn. When you had black hair, you were a winter. If you dye your hair blond, say #8 Neutral, you will be a warm spring. Hair color is the dominant factor for caucasians. Not sure if this 4 season thing works for African & Asian folks.
I’m afraid I disagree. I don’t like the 4 season approach for the reasons I gave in the video - not sure from your comments if you watched it 😀 I would never be a winter even with dark hair because I have a warm skin tone and this is the problem, so many of my clients have been Mis analysed by people who don’t understand. Thank you for your thoughts but we will have to agree to disagree 😀
I have medium brown hair with golden reflections and medium brown eyes with green outline with that I think I have a warm undertone but I have beige skin that tends to blush (silver suits me better than gold royal blue suits me better than mustard yellow everything that is cold in color suits me well but khaki green is not bad on me) I don't know if maybe cold undertones with hair and warm eyes?
You're my favorite color analyst
The best thing to sell is something intangible. Regardless of your ideal palette, seasons or not, you can only buy what is being offered for sale.
Thank you for all this smart analysis on colour analysis..You are so beautiful with this red lipstick and turquoise necklace! Your tips are really helpful!
Thank you 😊
I have found another channel a colour artist with knowledge of science and quantum physics, she says there is no such thing as an undertone, it is how the light frequencies are absorbed reflected and scattered according to your melanin and root colour which causes one's skin to appear cool or warm against certain drapes, more a subjective perception rather than an undertone being based in science
That’s an interesting take 👍
Is it weird that I am an obvious spring (but light autumn shades look good on me too) when it comes to clothes but almost a "summer" type when it comes to makeup? Or more like very neutral type in between summer and spring when it comes to makeup, leaning towards cooler tones in eyeshadows and neutrals tones in lipsticks. I am very pale by nature, so I guess that makes it harder to tell the color type. Over the years I found out, that the best thing for me is not put myself in a box, but just keep on experimenting with colors from all of the seasons and just make my own personal set/mix of colors that I feel good in, because honestly, it doesn´t really help, when I am told I am spring so peachy, orange and copper shades should work well in makeup when I actually hate these colors on my face.
Take away the label “spring” and wear what suits you physically and emotionally. It sounds like you have a good idea of what’s right for you and what’s confusing you is being put in a box - my pet hate! 👍
Well, if the WARM Spring looks good in bright cool fuchsia pink, because of her bubbling, sunny PERSONALITY, surely a BRIGHT WARM colour, such as AMBER, or BRIGHT CARROT ORANGE, or BRIGHT orange-yellow will make her look absolutely RADIANT, and these colours are also bubbling, cheerful & bright, suiting her personality at best as well as her natural, bright & warm WARM Spring colouring . . .
Good information and great necklace! ❤
This is enlightening. I've been really getting into colour analysis, but most of the true autumn colours that make me look my best are my least favourite colours. I love the bright winter colours the best, even though those truly are the worst colours on me. Using patterns and matching colours I like with colours that suit me might be the way to go for me. It might not be the best possible match that way, but at least I won't be wearing stuff that I actually hate just because it suits me best.
Also, I ended up changing seasons as well. My mom had me typed as a spring in my childhood, but my hair has darkened a lot since then. Some outfits that used to look great on me just don't quite work well on me anymore.
Cindy Crawford was considered an Autumn? I thought for sure she was a winter, because once they started making her hair to copper or “golden” it really seemed to make her face sort of disappear into the background and her hair look generic/common (Still an amazing body of course)....Myself and a few friends who are familiar with the seasonal theories back in the time would notice it on the commercial started showing this so called Sun kissed look which detracted from her actual beauty… And yes some of these friends were male, LOL.
So true and well explained.. everyone always look amazing when they feel incredible in their colour. I rock multi colours that don't go together and somehow I feel so fabulous :)
Changing hair color, can change your season altogether.
That’s one of the reasons the seasonal approach doesn’t work!
Not if skin undertone is the basis for analysis.
@@penelopelambson9128 that’s what I was wondering. Sounds like most people are not doing the colour analysis correctly. Because your natural hair colour may not even match your undertone.
Your photo with long, dark hair is stunning; and it's clear that you're Dark Autumn
Thank you 😊 I’ve gone a bit lighter now the grey is coming in but still like the richer colours
Where have you been??? I'm so glad I found your channel. Back in the '80's I was analyzed as a Spring. I'm not crazy about that colour palette and over the years I got into the black rut. I feel my colouring has changed over the years and I am again interested in finding out my colours. My Kibbe Body type is Theoretical Romantic. Dressing Your Truth says that I am a Type 2 with secondary Type 1. My energy flow feels like a Type 2, however, the colours seem like Summer. I do not have Type 1 energy flow but my colouring is Type 1. So, I am confused as to that method. Also, I am not sure if I am warm or neutral. My skin, eyes and hair are warm tones. However, I feel like I am a soft subtle muted colouring. I am blended with low contrast. David Zyla System I am an Early Spring/Playful Princess which is warm and secondary Sunset Summer/Elegant Bohemiam. I am interested in finding out what I am in your system.
Thank you for your comment Sherry. It sounds like you are overloaded with advice which contradicts and are left confused :) I developed my system exactly for this reason because so many women are still confused even after having colour analysis and often more than once as you have. I would suggest rather than trying to fit yourself into a box or type use colours that you know work and add in others that you love and that give you confidence. If you would like to use my colour service you can find more details here :) www.mariasadler.com/colour
Hello! :ike your friend, I am also classified as a warm spring, as you can see in my picture, , I have freckles and bright rosy cheeks, and I love fuchsia pink. For years I bought peach or coral lipsticks, and didn't like them. Then when I put on a blue pink one day, my whole face lit up, and I started getting compliments. It turns out that peachy pinks do not suit my skin at ALL, and I need the bluest pinks I can possibly find. I'm also a painter, and my portrait painting teacher, who specializes in color, held up a brush with Permanent Rose paint on it (a true blue pink). It was a perfect match. So, I don't know what that all means except I'm pretty sure I have a cool spring tone. They need to invent a cool spring for me. I look fabulous in clear blues, greens, and purples, and terrible in orange/yellow/beige.
I have similar problem - my best colors are from winter, but I'm ash blonde... I've seen it a few times already: "if your hair is not super dark, you can't be a winter" or "if you're blonde, you can't look good in jewel colors". Well, try me, I guess?
It's the things that contrast me that look best, while the whole seasonal palette is made with the assumption that you should follow natural colouring, not contrast it.
@@tymondabrowski12 I feel you! I can TOTALLY see how an ash blonde would look best in winter colors. Honestly, the idea of categories is slightly helpful at best. If you are someone who is completely lost, I can see how it can be helpful. I'm 54, and this is not just a personal take. EVERYONE agrees I look great in blue-pinks and terrible in peach. We are INDIVIDUALS.
@@tymondabrowski12 Always trust your own eyes, color analysis will give you only the shade of each color (e.g., warm red, cool red, muted red, vibrant red) that will look best based on your skin tone, it can not give you your personal best colors. Plus the results are not on an absolute scale so it might be that even your worst green looks better than your best red, as an example.
My hair as a child was a light and very golden brown which became more ash as an adult with no highlights, like Summer. I was analyzed by a Color Me Beautiful consultant and she said I was an Autumn. But there is nothing dark or deep about me other than my earthy, olive hazel eyes. My skin is the color of cream with a yellow undertone. I am very fair. Soft Autumn color don't suit me. Spring doesn't either as that palette includes pink which I look awful in. I've been stuck in limbo. In another system I've recently been pegged as "T4" which is winter. I do like to wear black. I've found that if I keep my makeup in the warm range, such as peaches, light oranges, and keep my hair tinted reddish I can successfully wear colors that otherwise wouldn't be right for me. My question is, would the Autumn palettes suit me better or the Springs? I do prefer brighter colors to the muted, especially grey greens. Maybe I've answered my own question! Lol!
Hi Karla, I don't use the seasonal method for colour analysis. I use the tonal method as a starting point and then tailor colours to suit my clients. I developed this season exactly for the reasons you describe and because so many women are still confused even after having colour analysis. It sounds like you have found some colours that work for you and that you are happy wearing. If your skin tone is warm there will be some colours in both the traditional Spring and Autumn palettes that work for you. So I would suggest rather than trying to fit yourself into a box (Autumn or Spring) use colours that you know work and add in others that you love and that give you confidence. If you would like to use my colour service you can find more details here :) www.mariasadler.com/colour
@@Mariafsadler ,thank you! I've ordered your Colour Manual.
You are so right!!
You look very nice. Thank you for this video.
Great video! Thank you 😍 I am quite confused about my color type. I have always thought being a winter (looking good in white, fuchsia, clear pink...). But i have golden reflexes in my hair and if i use "cool" foundations, i just look like piglet :-( my veines are greenish/turquoise, and i have a very, very light skin which i find a little olive, but absolutely not rosy. But not really warm neither.
How does that all fit together..? I am quite confused...
It’s difficult for me to say without seeing you. But it might be that your colouring is bright if you look good in bright colours. Then you may have a warm skin tone and golden colouring would normally say warm rather than cool - which is what a winter is. I have a colour analysis service if you need more help www.mariasadler.com/colour 😀
@@Mariafsadler thank you so much for your answer! I will have a look to the colour service! 😃
You sound like you have olive skin and you’re a winter. I also can’t wear warm or cool foundations. I have light skin and had to find a greenish foundation which is neutral. And I’m a dark winter. So you’re probably some kind of winter.
@@BbGun-lw5vi well it finally turns out that i am completely cool toned, even pink. Thats why I am best in fuchsia, blue etc. But my skin is so fair that nearly every foundation is too dark - and then I look like piglet 🙈🤪. The solution seems to be a very, very fair and cool / rose foundation. So the problem was not the too pink, but the too dark foundation.
@@majorneryz I’m glad you figured it out!
Excellent, balanced video.
Glad you liked it!
The whole season palette is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Did the analysis and I respectfully disagree the outcome. I wear the opposite colours and other people can see it suits me better. Wear whatever you want and what makes you happy. Period.
And nowadays, most people know that the 4 original seasonal colour analysis is INDEED too RESTRICTED . . .
Really . . .
That is why the 12 seasonal colour system works so much, much better, than the 4 seasonal colour system . . .
The 12 seasonal colouring seasonal system, can even be subdivided into a 16 seasonal colouring system . . .
And, the chocolate brown & teal (or is the colour more towards aqua or turquoise?) necklace that you are wearing and looking so radiant in, is indeed in the SOFT Autumn colour pallette, as well as in the WARM Autumn colour pallette. Teal & chocolate brown is also in the DEEP Autumn Colour Pallete . . .
A WARM Autumn are much closer related to a WARM Spring, than to a SOFT Autumn and/or a DEEP Autumn . . .
Apply it correctly, use the 12 seasonal colouring system, or even the 16 seasonal colouring system, in stead of the original, but very restrictive 4 seasonal colouring system, and THEN a proper, thorough and COMPLETE colour analysis will then WORK for EVERYBODY . . .
TRY it . . .
I dunno, still I don't see a palette that says "use whatever color, just dark or intense". Don't use white, don't use peachy, don't use pastel blue or green, don't use light grey, but use intense blue, or green, or dark purple, or black, everything that it's light or pastel. One would think it means winter, but wherever I look, "a blonde cannot be a winter, ever", and I'm not that cool, bright intense orange or red still looks better than light cool pink or pastel blue. That's because everything on my face is pretty greyish (ash blonde hair, blue grey eyes, neutral skin), but has a reasonably high contrast (very pale skin, very dark eyelashes and eyebrows, medium dark hair, even eyes have dark circles around he iris), and when I wear anything too light, especially before summer (no tan), I just look half dead. Thereis a slight cool bias though, so it's not completely neutral, I think. But the lightness and intensity of the colors are way more important.
But whenever I look up seasonal palettes, there is none that fits. From the looks alone, it would be probably summer, but the summer colors don't work well. And generally it seems like there is this idea that with muted colors on the person, one can only wear muted colors, which is, again, a terrible look on me (though especially light - light grey, beige, but medium grey is still much worse than intense color with the same lightness) despite my features being muted/greyish.
I would like to go once to a specialist that checks with colored fabric and see what they say, just out of curiosity.
Can your season change based on your hair color I was born a soft autumn but I agree with you because I looked good as a clear spring,warm Autumn,and deep Autumn. I have been golden blonde chocolate brown ,blue-black and warm redhead. I think my skintone is neutral because everyone says I look good in whatever I choose. I can wear black and brown white and cream hot pink and warm red. I know for sure I am warm not cool but my color choses in wardrobe change based on my hair color along with my makeup.
Hi Donna, yes your season or palette can change with hair colour. Skin tone can also lighten with age too and that can affect your colour palette. As hair goes grey for example, a warm skin tone will look better with lighter and softer colours whereas a cool skin tone with hair that has got grey looks great with cooler and some brighter colours. My hair was very dark brown when I was on my 30's making me a deep Autumn but in my 20s with blonde highlights I was better in the Soft Autumn colours. It is the combination of hair, skin and eyes that affect your colour palette so if one of those changes you may want to adjust the colours you wear. :)
that person who said you were a Winter needs their eyes checked so obvious you are autumn and warm
Thank you for this video
Great video!
I switched to Dressing your truth and solve all those problems.
Sorry, but I see Fergi as. Spring , not an Autumn !
So it's not really that seasonal color analysis doesn't work, you just shouldn't let it restrict you.
Yes good point. My pet hate is hearing someone say “I’m not allowed to wear” wear what you love and what gives you confidence and be guided by the colours that suit you 😀
Thank you, this Video not only helpt me IT makes me Happy !!!
Thank you I’m so pleased it helped you 😀
I don’t think just because color consultants have failed to analyze correctly or were not well trained that the Seasonal Color System does not work. It works perfectly! It’s the people who are not properly trained to analyze the right way. I do not agree at all with the title of your video “Seasonal Colour Analysis Doesn’t Work”
I would say Cindy Crawford is darker than you. Her skin tone particularly. Her natural hair colour is very dark as well. She looks Native American.
I came here because there is no season for me. I believe I am a mix.
A good tip I got years ago was to eliminate seasons based on lipcolours. If brownish/auburn for autumn, burgundy/cherry for winter, so on so forth. I knew I wasn't a spring because peach and coral lipstick looked tragic lol.
If you can *find* anything about it, try looking into a 16 season color system. I spent a year-and-a-half researching color systems and trying to find a palette that satisfied me and only *just* heard of the four additional seasons from this reddit thread www.reddit.com/r/coloranalysis/comments/883hod/muted_dark_winter/
For me there is also no season :(
You seem to be bright spring 🤔
Trust your gut and wear what you feel looks good on you ….
I think you completely misunderstood Color Analysis. Though how you see yourself is important... and what you relate to is personal... Color Analysis is honest. If something does not suit you... it just does not suit you. You change as you age. The "small percentages" that you did not understand were the basics of showing you how you can cheat and still wear colors you love while still still using your palette. I find the red lipstick your wearing in this video harsh on your coloring... I would wear a softer color. As women age... there coloring changes. And when your hair color changes... you are entering another palette.
Did you watch the video and my explanation or any of my other videos that clearly demonstrate I have extensive experience in colour analysis over many years and thousands of clients. I didn’t say I don’t believe in colour analysis and I do understand it as I have been trained to do it. What I said was I believe putting people into 4 colour boxes - seasons is too restrictive. As you say, you would wear a different colour lipstick but you aren’t me, I didn’t ask for an opinion on my lipstick and not sure how you are qualified to advise but it’s a good job we are all individuals which was the point I was making in the video.
@@Mariafsadler Thank you for making this video. There is no season where I really fit in because my features are a mixture of warm and cool. Maybe this person did not really watch til the end.
Have you ever come across dressing your truth. I really love it but may not be for you. Always worth a look though x
Just because you like colours they may not suit you
I love pastels
Can’t wear them
They wash me out
I love white
I can only wear cream
White chops my head off
Personality doesn’t come into it in mho sorry don’t want to offend. But what you’re born with is what you have to work with
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Please forgive me, but your make up seems completely wrong. It makes you skin very bright pink or red. Usually when that happens, you have the wrong under toned shades. Your lips tip isn’t flattering as well… I’m sorry to say. I don’t think it’s that it’s dark… just the wrong shade.
There are shadows all over your face.
Wrong