You're one of the best people who explain about color analysis. I like that you show POC among your examples - maybe because you're a POC too. Some other channels are too white-centric in their examples. Thanks for all that you do. Btw you look great in this vid! 👍😊
I'd always shopped dark colours because I somehow understood that I needed intensity and contrast with my very pale skin, but thanks to colour analysis I know now why it's contrast AND brightness I need most and saturated colours are better for me than deep ones. Dark and black clothes are "safe" but bright colours bring so much more.
Out of the nearly-saturated (pun intended) market of personal color videos, my favorite creators are you, Jenn, and another person who uploads in Korean only. Thank you bunches!!!
You are a very good teacher. Your explanations are so clear and concise. Thank you for all your work in putting together great videos. Pretty sure it takes a lot of time and effort.
I'm glad you're finding my explanations helpful ❤ This deep dive series has been especially challenging for me, but also rewarding because I myself am learning so much too!
Very good examples, thank you for an explanation! I still think even when the celebrities were technically wearing the "wrong" color, a lot of the time they still looked okay (with some exceptions that were immediately jarring to me), just not as stunning as in their best. My current approach for every day clothes is trying to find the "worst" colors for me and yeet them out of my life. Some will be just okay, not stunning, but wearable. I think I'm going to stick to these anyway as I like to have some variety and it's not always easy to find clothes in the perfect shade that also fulfill all the other visual and practical criteria.
Im DA and i would say my most dominant trait isn't darkness but richness with darkness being my secondary trait. You can't get richness from a light colour it has to be medium - dark. No one ever speaks of richness being a dominant trait , just bright , dark , true, soft or light. I can get away with wearing cool colours as long as theyre rich such as burgundy, pine, ruby and even navy looks ok if its rich. Without richness i look washed out , nearly as bad as when i put on light colours, light colours are the worst for me because they're light and lack richness.
Right in one. (Dark Autumn here, hi!) Older sources such as Caygill describe the Autumn palette as "somber-rich", and the hues they list reflect this (black-brown, bronze, teal, etc.). Once I figured out that richness in contrast was the way to go it was a lightbulb moment.
@@AngryTheatreMaker yeah rich is always included in the description but it's called dark autumn because darkness is the main trait , no sub seasons I've heard of are called rich autumn. I just thought that were a little strange
@@Carrie-sgda The baseline assumption with all Autumn subseasons, I think, is that is there is this richness underpinning the palette. Think of Italian Renaissance paintings; that's the overall sensibility even with Soft Autumn to some extent. You're not going for sharp clear colors as Winter seasons would, but rather warm sumptuous tones that can blend together. The closest I've found to a "rich Autumn" is Warm Autumn.
@@AngryTheatreMaker warm autumn is just that warm. I'm not fully warm but my main trait is richness . Richness and darkness are both features of autumn in general. Dark autumn's main feature is darkness which I'm sure is very true for a lot of dark autumns but for at least some of us it's richness. Maybe it's not rich autumn but dark autumn because as I said richness isn't really present in light colours
@@Carrie-sgda The other example I thought of was Caygill's (later Zyla's) Bronze Autumn, which I do think conveys the richness and darkness we associate with Dark Autumn. Both Caygill and Zyla emphasize the sumptuous opulence that this type gives off when she wears the things that focalize or bring out her coloration and features. Hope that helps!
I always think of the 12 seasons wheel as being able to be reformed into smaller circles. One is reforming it into a cool vs warm wheel. So for example, soft autumn and light spring link and deep autumn and bright spring link into a "warmth only" wheel (and this is where you see the gap that 16+ seasons fill). But with this wheel you know a level of warmth is important but the levels of clarity/value move you along the wheel. Another way to separate is by linking the group of subseasons into four smaller loops. So here deep winter and bright winter link. In this smaller winter wheel, you know cool, light, and deep are important but one could be less important than the other two. And when you add the spectrum persective, it makes sense that someone could be in-between bright winter and deep winter! 12 seasons wheel can address neutral-temp people who can cross those lines from warm to cool but sometimes people get stuck on it being the only way to arrange the colors in some spectrum.
This is exactly the video that I've been waiting for! Thank you so much! You are a genius. I'm absolutely certain I'm a bright winter. The dark colors that I've been able to wear such as navy, charcoal, black, burgundy are good colors for me, but they're very saturated shades so they're pigmented. And I'm discovering that although they're good colors, they aren't my best colors. One of the ways I've created enough contrast is by wearing black bottoms with bright colored tops or a bright shirt with a black or white jacket. I've avoided dressing this way through the years because it seems extreme especially with shades like fuchsia. I never felt like bright colors represented my personality well. But now I realize I need them in order for my face to come alive. I find it very freeing to learn what my best colors are. A friend once told me that I look best in jewel tones. At the time I didn't really know what she meant but now I understand.
Exactly what I needed! I was dancing between Deep autumn, and Bright spring, because I noticed I needed high contrast, and liked vibrant jewel tones on me the most more than the warm ends of the spectrum, without ever feeling I was a cool season instead. I'm not sure which one to pick yet, but it's nice to know why I've ended up where I am in my style analysis.
Am no expert, but maybe try this? Drape yourself in a towel - so shoulders, neck, face area bare...pull your hair back and then try a deep maroon vs bright red lipstick and see which looks better. Make sure you choose colours which are mostly neutral and not obviously warm or cool. Also, a completely bare face except for the lipstick. Lemme know how it goes 😊
@@minervarose7664I think I am a Bright Spring. I have always had the issue of figuring out if saturation or deepness were more important, and most tests I’ve taken suggest I’m a Dark Autumn. However, I have noticed I tend to get more compliments when I wear bright colors over dark ones, and I noticed that I can wear colors outside of my usual color season if the fabric contains metallic threads or is slightly shinier, which Jenn pointed out may be an indicator here. I also loved Jenn’s points about the feeling of the colors on our perceptions of personality - I tend to be seen as a bubbly, energetic person, so brighter colors gel better than darker ones, which still look good but often don’t mesh as well with me somehow. Plus, just in general, I prefer colors with greater saturation than what often appears in the autumn palettes, and I think I can even pull off bright colors in the winter palette pretty seamlessly. Nothing works for me quite like a saturated royal blue!
My dad is a BW that's easy to confuse for DW. He has quintessential DA eyes and the skin and hair color I got from him is a major part of why I'm DW. However, he looks best in dark and bright OR bright and light combos while I look best in all dark. The key difference between us really is the direct vs indirect light effect.
I like how you emphasised not feeling like we have to be bound by our sub season. I always debated between a bright spring or winter, maybe even a dark winter. But I recently had my colour analysis done professionally a few days ago and they landed on bright winter, which I'm happy with because although I still feel like deep colours suit me... they almost make me look too boring or blended. Which also made me realise that maybe the reason why I tend to dress in deeper colours at work is so I can feel more professional and serious at work (I look young for my age and don't want to give off intern vibes when I've been working in my industry for 9 years!) But then during events where I have to dress up quite nicely, I tend to dress in bright, vibrant colours that bring out my features and personality the most. And these outfits are usually the ones that I get more complements in. Overall, I guess it helps knowing and landing on a specific sub season. But I think I'm still going to explore its sister seasons depending on what vibe I'm aiming for with what I'm wearing 🤔
Thank you so much for taking the time to break this down! I've fairly certain I'm a deep autumn, but I also look good in some jewel tones which I now know I can borrow for deep winter. While I can handle some clarity, matte or less reflective colors tend to look better on me so brights are doable, but not always my best!
I'm a bright winter and I can look passable in dark winter, but I feel like I'm being less authentic. Dark winter just feels too heavy and mature for me even when everyone says I look great.
Great video! Just a comment on your point at 12:39- when people are referencing ‘true’ seasons, there are some analysis systems that distinguish between warm/cool subseasons and ‘true’ sub seasons. In these systems, a warm autumn is an autumn for whom warmth is the most important characteristic, while a true autumn is someone who is evenly balanced between warmth, depth, and softness. A warm autumn could theoretically ‘borrow’ some colours from warm spring, while a true autumn can’t really stray outside of the autumn season because if they do, they’ll automatically lose at least one of those three characteristics (depth, warmth, or softness) and it’s the inclusion/balance of all three that is their most important trait. Hope this makes more sense, I’d love to hear you talk more about the perspectives that distinguish between warm/cool and true/balanced seasons. The channel ‘Colour Analysis Studio’ uses that system if you’d like to learn more 🙂
Oooooohhhhh my patience is finally rewarded and feels like this video is made for me 🤩 For the longest time i thought i was Deep Autumn but later felt am Bright Spring. I love the example you gave about Nicole vs Shay (never noticed it before, but they could be sisters!!) because i have very similar traits (with somewhat lighter skintone). I think with celebs it can be quite hard to tell because professional makeup, lighting etc can completely transform everything! But lipstick is often a dead giveaway, even more so than clothes. At 7:07 you can clearly see how the bright lip looks great on Nicole but overwhelms Shay. I can also pull off both dark and bright coloured outfits pretty well (hence the confusion between Deep Autumn/ Bright Spring). For me, the tell-tale sign was also lipstick. A deep lip - such as maroon for example - tends to make me look a bit vampirish 😅 though there ARE ways i can make it work.. but i can easily pull off a bright red lip, even when the rest of my makeup/ outfit is very understated.
13:53 Balance of soft and deep, but never too warm or cool. Something about this clicks for me (finally!) I wonder if this is why my best neutrals are dark navy, heather grey, and dark browns that are somewhat cool.
I definitely identify with this-when I was younger I was always told that I was a winter that just didn’t feel right. Over the years, I’ve realized I’m bright (very neutral lean ever so slightly warm). Deep colors look ok but as I’ve aged they seem to weigh me down more. I found that if I choose a deep color (or really any any color that isn’t traditionally in the bright palettes) the fabric having a slight reflective quality can counteract that effect. Do you think that the type of fabric can have an effect on the overall look? I love that you have included the idea that color inherently influences perception. Which may also be a reason I personally gravitate toward brighter/clearer colors? Thanks for your thoughtful, informative, and detailed videos.
It's a relief to finally figure out your season. I recently discovered I'm a bright winter after thinking I was a true summer all my life and struggling. Aging has definitely forced me to find my best colors which are bright. I recently lost weight and have had to replace my entire wardrobe. I've been doing a lot of shopping and noticed the same effect with clothing. If the cloth has a sheen to it, it has a light reflecting quality and that adds to the brightness. For example I just bought a blue silky top that was very close to one of the blues in the bright winter palette. It looked great on me but I don't think it would have if it hadn't been shiny.
@@danawoodcock8784 Thank you! I totally relate to you. I didn't think losing 25 pounds would force me to reconsider my color palette. All I knew was that the summer season colors were just not cutting it for me, not that they ever really did. I have always felt like a cheater, because I would resort to black, dark Gray, navy and white which I knew were winter colors, but they were safe for me and didn't make me look ill. I knew they weren't my best colors, so I still wasn't sure I was a winter season. When I pulled out my summer clothes from storage, I realized that I had nothing to wear that fit. So I've been on the fast track to figuring out my sub season, because I have been so tired of using makeup to try to make myself look better. I didn't want to invest in a whole new wardrobe of the wrong colours. It has been really fun to shop, and I've been going to a huge thrift store that groups clothing by size and color. It's been so easy just looking for the brightest colors, and I'm amazed how they transform my face. One day I was wearing one of my new perfect colors, and I just slapped on a matching lipstick and some eyeshadow and literally no other make up and my teen girls asked why are you all dressed up? Are you going somewhere? LOL It was the easiest make up look ever.
Are you self taught or did you have tertiary education in color specific? As someone who appreciates & LOVES color, you are fantastic! Thoroughly enjoy your videos! Thank you for your investment & effort!
I'm mostly self taught! I'm a MUA so I have a background on working with different skin tones and also have taken color analysis courses (theory-based than client-facing), but I'm not a certified color analyst ☺ I'm glad you're finding my content useful! ❤
Thanks Jen! This video was really helpful, I've been strugguling to find my subseason. The closest one is deep autumn (I have dark brown hair with redish/golden highlights, dark green olive eyes and fair olive skin). I think I'm one of those who have both dark and bright as dominant traits, the temperature of the color is not as important to me, the main thing is that I need contrast. I think that's why the DA, DW and bright spring colors suit me well. My worst colors are very muted and light. So yeah, as you said, we don't need to fit ourselfs into one subseason, but rather understand why the colors work for us. For example in my case, I don't fit fully into one subseason. As an artist, I can say that your interpreration of color is very fresh and easy to understand.
Hi Jenn. This particular creamy white that you’re wearing .. looks GREAT on you and really brightens your facial features, unlike the gray colors you’ve previously worn in your videos.
Hi Jenn, I'm loving all of your seasonal color videos bc they're basen on 16 seasons system. Could you please make a video giving us some examples of each season? This way it will be easier to notice the subtle differences ❤
Yay, this is me! I have neutral-warm undertone and my colours need to be both deep and soft. So I subcategirised myself as a deep soft autumn. I totally agree with you that it helps more to understand why certain colours work for you than sticking to much to categories. Thank you very much for explaining clearly!!
I love how you put a new spin on color analysis and dig into the “why”. Agree that other models like 16 season seem to be more comprehensive - Uireh’s channel/youtube (in Korean) touched on this. Finally I understand why I don’t fit neatly into any color season, as very cool and very warm colors don’t look good on me, and black washes me out (making it seem like I’m not a deep winter). Most likely I’m a “soft winter”.
thanks for this video, It's the first time i've ever truly understood color season. Very well explained. i think i am a balance of clear and deep colors. I am southeast asian and have medium to tan skin.
Dark spring, and strong or vivid autumn. My home is dark autumn, but I am slightly clearer. But because I am dark autumn I can go softer ie Soft dark autumn, soft dark winter, dark winter, soft spring, warm autumn. I think part of the problem is muted is the opposite of bright and clear is the opposite of diffused/muddy. I am literally medium to medium-high across most of the color analysis spectrums.
Hi, Jen! I think this video kind of solidifies my analysis for me. No palette except Winter does me any justice, this much I know, but I was very conflicted on why I didn’t really “feel” the bright winter colors that apparently make people say that I’m a BW. It’s not that I don’t have contrast, because I do, but I feel like I’m missing that level of sheen that comes from BWs. It doesn’t help that I don’t really wear makeup, but I do think I’m a touch lower on the intensity front than BW, cool, bright, medium darkness, not the darkest. It would be nice to have examples from people without makeup, though, since types of makeup would surely add some gloss to the skin that isn’t there normally
Thank you so very much! This was very helpful. I always thought I was a winter because when I was young I could wear higher contrast bold colors but not too much warmth, but now I realize that I am a Bright Spring. Your video helped me clarify that I am on the right track now.
Thank you Jenn you may have just explained why I can’t decide whether I am a deep winter or bright winter. Temperature is not my dominant characteristic, I have neutral skin leaning slightly cool. I have high contrast with dark hair and eyes and light medium skin but I also look good in bright colours, deep colours and high contrast.
You sound like me. I have bright blue eyes though, but I'm definitely a bright winter. Bright winters have yellows that deep winters don't have. Try finding something cool bright yellow and putting it up under your face. Also trying out lipsticks is really helpful. If the bright colors like bright cool red and bright fuschia look better than a deep plum or dark red, You might be a bright winter. Either way you probably need a lot of contrast in your outfits.
This really explains for me how I am seemingly neutral for temperature, but have the ability to wear both bright and deep colours when putting together my wardrobe. Thanks!
My winter-type clothes were upstaging me. Thanks to you, I am coming to terms with the fact that I look best in the darker colors of summer and the cooler colors of the autumn palate. Aubergine and charcoal are great on me,, for example. I'm a muted winter, dark summer, cool autumn --haha
Oh!! This is so helpful! Also those resources you added almost at the end of the video are very interesting, because they show a different light over the seasons. Thank you! As always, very grateful for all I learn from you🌸🙌🏻
Not sure if anyone noticed but I personally like your brows darker like that! Makes you look more alert and sharp! 😍 I'm super new to colour analysis and been spending hours on your videos but my brain is cracking! hahaha I'm confused. I thought I was dark autumn and then the more I learn..the more confused I get..wondering if I could be bright spring 😆 I used to make videos..if you (or whoever reading and has more experience than me) can take a look and help me out, that would be great! :)
Your explanation about needing both bright and deep makes so much more sense to me and I think might be my dominant features! I'm neutral, leaning cool, but can definitely handle some more warmth than a traditional true winter... But i also don't fit nicely in either the traditional bright winter or deep winter category either. Bright winter has a touch too much clarity, but I think traditional TCI dark winter has a touch too much black or dullness too. I look better in the brightet end of dark winter I think. Do you have any resources for people who are looking for information about the bright and deep characteristics for style color theory? I would love to research more!
Was thinking like “I’m pretty sure I’m Bright, do I still need to watch this video?” But I watch it anyways and I’m thankful for that! Your channel really explains personal color theory the best!❤
This video confirmed what I’ve suspected for about a month: I was a soft autumn as a young woman and now I am a soft summer. I’ve heard it said we don’t change but I was blonde, tan and could wear orange shirts & gold jewelry. I started gravitating towards silver jewelry in my forties, look much better in cool, muted tones, and am pinkish with ash brown hair tinged with white and silver. Thank you for your clear explanation!
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I’ve been between soft and deep autumn since the summer of 2023. I think because my hair was lighter and I have very sparse brows. I couldn’t see that my features were deep even though my eyes are dark amber. I confused the low visual weight of those features with low contrast. Also I think regularly having the cast from my mineral sunscreen ( as a medium brown skin) made me think I was ashier than I am. I knew that warmth wasn’t my main chromatic feature and I even questioned whether I was warm or cool from time to time. I have scarring discoloration on my face which can come off dark purplish but my chest left no assumption that I was anything but warm. I always wished there was a sub season for muted+dark+warm but all the seasons had warmth as the 2nd chromatic feature even though I felt that warmth was my third chromatic feature. At this point I think that I am dark autumn because - I look better with rich colors than ashy colors. - my worst warm colors are the colors that are low contrast. I can go for high value muted warm ( ex: banana powder yellow) or low value muted warm (deep green) but medium-low values (caramel) look worse on me because their value is too close to my complexion. I need more contrast. - light summer is the worst season for me as opposed to bright winter. I can pull off violet better than I can lavender. - I cannot wear lipstick colors that are lighter than my complexion even when the color is warm. It looks off on me without dark lip liner. I know many medium brown skin people who wears lipsticks that are light and it suits them. Not me. My best lipstick shades are deep terracotta and warm chocolate. I believe if you are between 2 seasons, get 2 lipstick shades who match your main chromatic features except the feature you’re testing. One of the lipsticks will help reveal your color season. I’ve come to the conclusion that I am deep autumn. The moment I enhance my low visual weight features to create more contrast, I look the best. However I’m still tempted to lighten my hair for summer again. 😂 I hope this post helps someone who is struggling placing themselves within the autumn season.
Thank to you now I know I’m not a Deep Winter but a Bright Deep Warm that lean more neutral and very dark. Your bit about the mood of the season is very very helpful.
I discovered a different color typing tool that I feel I fit into better than the seasonal system. In the seasonal system I would probably be considered a warm spring, but I always felt that the colors that were recommended for me were too light, and that I really look my best when I wear colors that are darker, while still being warm and highly saturated, and with no grey in them. I found a system that looks at the three main characteristics independently, instead of assuming that some of them always go together. With that system I was typed as a Warm/Clear/Deep.
I think my mother might have been one of those people with both depth and brightness as dominant colour traits. Or, at least, she could pull off so, *so* many colours and their temperature never seemed to affect her looks.
Great video! I've known for a while that super bright hues didn't suit me but dark warm hues did--what Suzanne Caygill described as "somber-rich" (as in Byzantine art and Italian Renaissance paintings). I will say it took me longer than it should have to realize precisely why I felt so at home in colors such as midnight blue, burnished gold, darker reds. Now that I have this knowledge it's fun to see how far I can stretch it or play with it. Again, thank you!
I was all over the place because of misinformation. I couldn't possibly be a spring because my hair is darker than medium brown and i tan easily. So settled on dark autumn, but something still wasn't right. Knowing that green is one of my best colours, dark green was weighing me down bringing out shadows. So i feel now that bright is more dominant than deep for me and use bright spring as a guide, including some of the brighter autumn colours 🤷♀️
Bright winter is more high in intensity and cool winter is medium-high in intensity. Bright winter colors on cool winter person looks too bright and appears first before the person,basically looks too bright. And cool winter can wear cool summer colors bcs share the same charasteristic witch is cool. Bright winter winter can wear bright spring colors for thr same reason. You may be a transition type that medium bright and cool -neutral are both important to u witch is normal.
I’m a soft summer but deep winter is my favorite season! It just looks so sophisticated…. Thanks for this video Jenn! I really like that lip color on you btw 🤭
I believe I’m bright and deep. I’m neutral or very light olive skin, high contrast and look good in both bright and deep. I have dark hazel green eyes which look brighter green depending on colours or the lighting I’m in. My hair is the darkest brown basically black. I look terrible in muted colours but can wear warm or cool colours if they are bright or deep. I have been very confused going through colour analysis for myself cause I can wear pretty much anything except very muted colours.
Thanks. I have been slowly coming to these conclusions as I try to work out my wardrobe, the explanations reaffirm what I was instinctively thinking. At first I thought I was deep, drapes of deep colors looked harmonious but when I started dressing fully like a deep winter, I was like this is so wrong. So while drapes can be important, I started looking at full outfits and trying to ask myself why do some combinations look better than others? For me it was likely because of the contrast level I needed, so full head to toe looks are more deterministic on what makes me look good, because monochrome looks just are more meh. So because temperature isn't a dominant trait, I have learned bright and contrast are more dominant and silly enough its easier to find than you think, because I already knew my worst looks where muted and later monochromatic, so why I never thought to look opposite to that for my best looks?! It's a process for sure but I think it's easiest to see what looks bad on us, not what is ok, good, to great on us. Your videos have helped me so much understanding color and have been super helpful in me getting where I am on my color journey. Thank you.
I mean, if you look good in both then wear both! No need to "box" yourself in. I wear colors from different palettes cuz I like how they look. Some people can wear colors that go with their hair and some days pick colors that go with their skin. My skin is so pale that most days I love pale summer colors and save my winter colors for days I wear makeup. Still wear those dark colors but make sure they're shiny then you hit both points. Black or deep colors can look overwhelming or heavy on me but if they're reflective, shiny, or sparkly they work with my brightness, not against it. If that helps. Now you can do both. 🙂
I need clear chroma, almost jewel toned cool colors that are on the deep side. I’m not deep winter as I don’t look good in typical navy, but if it’s a shiny texture I’m good. Purple is my color, any purple look great on me. 😅
I'm so confused about my season.. I would say I have a light/medium olive/neutral skin tone. Dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. I lean towards silver jewelry but can wear gold too. Black washes me out. Bright colors overpower me, I used to think I was an autumn but definitely find mustard yellows tend to make me look yellow and orange colors look awful. Dark greens look amazing on me but olive greens kind of wash me put and mint looks good on me. So confused. I've been told I look like natalie portman and also olivia Cooke by different people. Mauve makeup flatters me but also I feel that burnt colors can be flattering... Thoughts??
Thank you for this video! ☺️ what do you advice a bright Winter with medium olive skin? As an olive it’s sooooo tricky to wear my palette, for an example the red is amazing but brings out the yellow in my skin. P.S. I feel and look the same when I wear a deeper shade, I look old or odd just like you mentioned with Nicole.
I think i am somewhere between true winter and bright winter. I have a high contrast true cool brown eyes and my brows are also very light compared to my eyes and hair.
Dear Jen, love your posts!!! Could you please help me find your video (one of the first of the seasonal colours series) on the difference between bright spring and bright winter please?? It seems to have disappeared 😶😶😶
Thank you for a great video! I have a question regarding bright spring. Some people argue that bright springs can't have blond hair. Whats your thoughts on that? I am blond, with pale skin and dark eyebrows and lashes. I also have that type of "glowing" skin (as you have described as direct sunlight). I really believe I am a bright spring, but sometimes struggles to find good examples of people with similar colours 😊
I'm a mess. When I was young I was a true winter. Now I'm 74, I have light olive skin and white hair I tone to a neutral light blonde. What am I? I look good in most shades of blues and green.
I think the info is amazing but it is so complicated and nuanced that I will never be able to type myself:( Especially when it's all relative! I know I am olive but cannot tell if warm or cool since I cannot tell if my skin has greyness, how do I know if it has greyness versus warm greeness? I think the only way is to compare to some baseline, but who is the baseline?:D Also, no nude/beige looks good on me and all seasons include them in the pallettes, how to understand that?:)
For me this is where the 12 color season systems fails because I am deep, cool, and slightly muted. So I don’t really have a color season. This is a great video!
I'm always so confused by colour analysis using 'dark' and 'deep' interchangably; from a colour theory perspective, 'dark' relates only to value, whereas 'deep' means a hue is both dark AND has high chroma.
Hey Jean thanks for this video! I'm Bright Spring but somehow I can pull some colors from every season.....is that even possible? Like Orange, Pinks ,Peach and most of the Blues are great on me even the cool versions of pinks and blues but then again am I even a Bright Spring I'm so confused here. As per my oberservation only dark colors make me sick looking but even pastels looks good as long as they are warm colors.Plz help me..I'm so confused I wanna feel confident in knowing my personal color season!😢 Btw love ur videos!❤❤❤
Actually no. True seasons have an even balance of all 3 in their home season. Warm and cool are the ones that have temperature as dominant. True Winter is not not Cool Winter. Took time to understand this.
@@emmamartin4045 yes. I don't know if Jen uses any one particular system. I feel like she touches across the board. In 12 season True and Cool is the same. In 16 system it isn't. I use the 16 and I am just as clear/bright as I am deep as I am cool.
It also depends on which version of 16 seasons system since there is more than one! The one I refer to and the one I resonate with the most is the version that adds Soft Winter, Deep Summer, Light Autumn and Soft Spring to the traditional 12 seasons, so might be different from the version you're looking at that differentiates True vs Warm/Cool :)
You look fabulous with that cream color, Jenn! Solids and stripes look very clean and beautiful on you, but not boring ❤Thank you for this video! I struggle with this topic, but now I have a plan of attack for choosing colors 🤗
Hi, Jen! I think this video kind of solidifies my analysis for me. No palette except Winter does me any justice, this much I know, but I was very conflicted on why I didn’t really “feel” the bright winter colors that apparently make people say that I’m a BW. It’s not that I don’t have contrast, because I do, but I feel like I’m missing that level of sheen that comes from BWs. It doesn’t help that I don’t really wear makeup, but I do think I’m a touch lower on the intensity front than BW, cool, bright, medium darkness, not the darkest. It would be nice to have examples from people without makeup, though, since types of makeup would surely add some gloss to the skin that isn’t there normally
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You're one of the best people who explain about color analysis. I like that you show POC among your examples - maybe because you're a POC too. Some other channels are too white-centric in their examples. Thanks for all that you do. Btw you look great in this vid! 👍😊
Thank you for the compliment! 😍
I'd always shopped dark colours because I somehow understood that I needed intensity and contrast with my very pale skin, but thanks to colour analysis I know now why it's contrast AND brightness I need most and saturated colours are better for me than deep ones. Dark and black clothes are "safe" but bright colours bring so much more.
@@ouicertes9764 Same!
Out of the nearly-saturated (pun intended) market of personal color videos, my favorite creators are you, Jenn, and another person who uploads in Korean only. Thank you bunches!!!
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What is this Korean channels name?
Is it uirehcolor?
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....this video series opened my color season theory third eye
You are a very good teacher. Your explanations are so clear and concise. Thank you for all your work in putting together great videos. Pretty sure it takes a lot of time and effort.
I'm glad you're finding my explanations helpful ❤ This deep dive series has been especially challenging for me, but also rewarding because I myself am learning so much too!
Thank you for using dark skin examples of south asian descent too! Very helpful!
Glad it was helpful! 💕
Very good examples, thank you for an explanation! I still think even when the celebrities were technically wearing the "wrong" color, a lot of the time they still looked okay (with some exceptions that were immediately jarring to me), just not as stunning as in their best.
My current approach for every day clothes is trying to find the "worst" colors for me and yeet them out of my life. Some will be just okay, not stunning, but wearable. I think I'm going to stick to these anyway as I like to have some variety and it's not always easy to find clothes in the perfect shade that also fulfill all the other visual and practical criteria.
I do the same - avoid my worst colors and we're golden!
Im DA and i would say my most dominant trait isn't darkness but richness with darkness being my secondary trait. You can't get richness from a light colour it has to be medium - dark. No one ever speaks of richness being a dominant trait , just bright , dark , true, soft or light. I can get away with wearing cool colours as long as theyre rich such as burgundy, pine, ruby and even navy looks ok if its rich. Without richness i look washed out , nearly as bad as when i put on light colours, light colours are the worst for me because they're light and lack richness.
Right in one. (Dark Autumn here, hi!) Older sources such as Caygill describe the Autumn palette as "somber-rich", and the hues they list reflect this (black-brown, bronze, teal, etc.). Once I figured out that richness in contrast was the way to go it was a lightbulb moment.
@@AngryTheatreMaker yeah rich is always included in the description but it's called dark autumn because darkness is the main trait , no sub seasons I've heard of are called rich autumn. I just thought that were a little strange
@@Carrie-sgda The baseline assumption with all Autumn subseasons, I think, is that is there is this richness underpinning the palette. Think of Italian Renaissance paintings; that's the overall sensibility even with Soft Autumn to some extent. You're not going for sharp clear colors as Winter seasons would, but rather warm sumptuous tones that can blend together. The closest I've found to a "rich Autumn" is Warm Autumn.
@@AngryTheatreMaker warm autumn is just that warm. I'm not fully warm but my main trait is richness . Richness and darkness are both features of autumn in general. Dark autumn's main feature is darkness which I'm sure is very true for a lot of dark autumns but for at least some of us it's richness. Maybe it's not rich autumn but dark autumn because as I said richness isn't really present in light colours
@@Carrie-sgda The other example I thought of was Caygill's (later Zyla's) Bronze Autumn, which I do think conveys the richness and darkness we associate with Dark Autumn. Both Caygill and Zyla emphasize the sumptuous opulence that this type gives off when she wears the things that focalize or bring out her coloration and features. Hope that helps!
I always think of the 12 seasons wheel as being able to be reformed into smaller circles. One is reforming it into a cool vs warm wheel. So for example, soft autumn and light spring link and deep autumn and bright spring link into a "warmth only" wheel (and this is where you see the gap that 16+ seasons fill). But with this wheel you know a level of warmth is important but the levels of clarity/value move you along the wheel. Another way to separate is by linking the group of subseasons into four smaller loops. So here deep winter and bright winter link. In this smaller winter wheel, you know cool, light, and deep are important but one could be less important than the other two. And when you add the spectrum persective, it makes sense that someone could be in-between bright winter and deep winter!
12 seasons wheel can address neutral-temp people who can cross those lines from warm to cool but sometimes people get stuck on it being the only way to arrange the colors in some spectrum.
This is exactly the video that I've been waiting for! Thank you so much! You are a genius. I'm absolutely certain I'm a bright winter. The dark colors that I've been able to wear such as navy, charcoal, black, burgundy are good colors for me, but they're very saturated shades so they're pigmented. And I'm discovering that although they're good colors, they aren't my best colors. One of the ways I've created enough contrast is by wearing black bottoms with bright colored tops or a bright shirt with a black or white jacket. I've avoided dressing this way through the years because it seems extreme especially with shades like fuchsia. I never felt like bright colors represented my personality well. But now I realize I need them in order for my face to come alive. I find it very freeing to learn what my best colors are. A friend once told me that I look best in jewel tones. At the time I didn't really know what she meant but now I understand.
Exactly what I needed! I was dancing between Deep autumn, and Bright spring, because I noticed I needed high contrast, and liked vibrant jewel tones on me the most more than the warm ends of the spectrum, without ever feeling I was a cool season instead. I'm not sure which one to pick yet, but it's nice to know why I've ended up where I am in my style analysis.
Am no expert, but maybe try this? Drape yourself in a towel - so shoulders, neck, face area bare...pull your hair back and then try a deep maroon vs bright red lipstick and see which looks better. Make sure you choose colours which are mostly neutral and not obviously warm or cool. Also, a completely bare face except for the lipstick.
Lemme know how it goes 😊
Thank you!! This is SO helpful, as I have always been stuck between Deep Autumn and Bright Spring. This video was made for me!
Glad it was helpful! 🙌❤
Didn't know so many people had this issue, thought it was just me 😅 which do you think you are and why (if i may ask)?
@@minervarose7664I think I am a Bright Spring. I have always had the issue of figuring out if saturation or deepness were more important, and most tests I’ve taken suggest I’m a Dark Autumn. However, I have noticed I tend to get more compliments when I wear bright colors over dark ones, and I noticed that I can wear colors outside of my usual color season if the fabric contains metallic threads or is slightly shinier, which Jenn pointed out may be an indicator here. I also loved Jenn’s points about the feeling of the colors on our perceptions of personality - I tend to be seen as a bubbly, energetic person, so brighter colors gel better than darker ones, which still look good but often don’t mesh as well with me somehow. Plus, just in general, I prefer colors with greater saturation than what often appears in the autumn palettes, and I think I can even pull off bright colors in the winter palette pretty seamlessly. Nothing works for me quite like a saturated royal blue!
My dad is a BW that's easy to confuse for DW. He has quintessential DA eyes and the skin and hair color I got from him is a major part of why I'm DW. However, he looks best in dark and bright OR bright and light combos while I look best in all dark. The key difference between us really is the direct vs indirect light effect.
I like how you emphasised not feeling like we have to be bound by our sub season. I always debated between a bright spring or winter, maybe even a dark winter. But I recently had my colour analysis done professionally a few days ago and they landed on bright winter, which I'm happy with because although I still feel like deep colours suit me... they almost make me look too boring or blended.
Which also made me realise that maybe the reason why I tend to dress in deeper colours at work is so I can feel more professional and serious at work (I look young for my age and don't want to give off intern vibes when I've been working in my industry for 9 years!) But then during events where I have to dress up quite nicely, I tend to dress in bright, vibrant colours that bring out my features and personality the most. And these outfits are usually the ones that I get more complements in.
Overall, I guess it helps knowing and landing on a specific sub season. But I think I'm still going to explore its sister seasons depending on what vibe I'm aiming for with what I'm wearing 🤔
You are truly a blessing to have on the internet you've literally taught me so many things. You are an awesome observer I must say.
Thank you so much for the kind compliment ❤❤❤
@@stylerefinement you really suit the longer hair and the wine lip Jenn, so flattering on your gorgeous self ❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to break this down! I've fairly certain I'm a deep autumn, but I also look good in some jewel tones which I now know I can borrow for deep winter. While I can handle some clarity, matte or less reflective colors tend to look better on me so brights are doable, but not always my best!
I'm a bright winter and I can look passable in dark winter, but I feel like I'm being less authentic. Dark winter just feels too heavy and mature for me even when everyone says I look great.
Great video! Just a comment on your point at 12:39- when people are referencing ‘true’ seasons, there are some analysis systems that distinguish between warm/cool subseasons and ‘true’ sub seasons. In these systems, a warm autumn is an autumn for whom warmth is the most important characteristic, while a true autumn is someone who is evenly balanced between warmth, depth, and softness. A warm autumn could theoretically ‘borrow’ some colours from warm spring, while a true autumn can’t really stray outside of the autumn season because if they do, they’ll automatically lose at least one of those three characteristics (depth, warmth, or softness) and it’s the inclusion/balance of all three that is their most important trait.
Hope this makes more sense, I’d love to hear you talk more about the perspectives that distinguish between warm/cool and true/balanced seasons. The channel ‘Colour Analysis Studio’ uses that system if you’d like to learn more 🙂
Others have also commented on that :) added to topics list!
Oooooohhhhh my patience is finally rewarded and feels like this video is made for me 🤩
For the longest time i thought i was Deep Autumn but later felt am Bright Spring. I love the example you gave about Nicole vs Shay (never noticed it before, but they could be sisters!!) because i have very similar traits (with somewhat lighter skintone). I think with celebs it can be quite hard to tell because professional makeup, lighting etc can completely transform everything! But lipstick is often a dead giveaway, even more so than clothes. At 7:07 you can clearly see how the bright lip looks great on Nicole but overwhelms Shay.
I can also pull off both dark and bright coloured outfits pretty well (hence the confusion between Deep Autumn/ Bright Spring). For me, the tell-tale sign was also lipstick. A deep lip - such as maroon for example - tends to make me look a bit vampirish 😅 though there ARE ways i can make it work.. but i can easily pull off a bright red lip, even when the rest of my makeup/ outfit is very understated.
The lipstick method is so underrated but I agree that it can make things more obvious!
@@stylerefinement 😍
13:53 Balance of soft and deep, but never too warm or cool. Something about this clicks for me (finally!)
I wonder if this is why my best neutrals are dark navy, heather grey, and dark browns that are somewhat cool.
I definitely identify with this-when I was younger I was always told that I was a winter that just didn’t feel right. Over the years, I’ve realized I’m bright (very neutral lean ever so slightly warm). Deep colors look ok but as I’ve aged they seem to weigh me down more. I found that if I choose a deep color (or really any any color that isn’t traditionally in the bright palettes) the fabric having a slight reflective quality can counteract that effect. Do you think that the type of fabric can have an effect on the overall look? I love that you have included the idea that color inherently influences perception. Which may also be a reason I personally gravitate toward brighter/clearer colors?
Thanks for your thoughtful, informative, and detailed videos.
It's a relief to finally figure out your season. I recently discovered I'm a bright winter after thinking I was a true summer all my life and struggling. Aging has definitely forced me to find my best colors which are bright. I recently lost weight and have had to replace my entire wardrobe. I've been doing a lot of shopping and noticed the same effect with clothing. If the cloth has a sheen to it, it has a light reflecting quality and that adds to the brightness. For example I just bought a blue silky top that was very close to one of the blues in the bright winter palette. It looked great on me but I don't think it would have if it hadn't been shiny.
@@pajamamama5965 yes, well said. Exactly 💯what I have experienced. I hope you are enjoying finding a new wardrobe. 😃
@@danawoodcock8784 Thank you! I totally relate to you. I didn't think losing 25 pounds would force me to reconsider my color palette. All I knew was that the summer season colors were just not cutting it for me, not that they ever really did. I have always felt like a cheater, because I would resort to black, dark Gray, navy and white which I knew were winter colors, but they were safe for me and didn't make me look ill. I knew they weren't my best colors, so I still wasn't sure I was a winter season. When I pulled out my summer clothes from storage, I realized that I had nothing to wear that fit. So I've been on the fast track to figuring out my sub season, because I have been so tired of using makeup to try to make myself look better. I didn't want to invest in a whole new wardrobe of the wrong colours. It has been really fun to shop, and I've been going to a huge thrift store that groups clothing by size and color. It's been so easy just looking for the brightest colors, and I'm amazed how they transform my face. One day I was wearing one of my new perfect colors, and I just slapped on a matching lipstick and some eyeshadow and literally no other make up and my teen girls asked why are you all dressed up? Are you going somewhere? LOL It was the easiest make up look ever.
Are you self taught or did you have tertiary education in color specific? As someone who appreciates & LOVES color, you are fantastic! Thoroughly enjoy your videos! Thank you for your investment & effort!
I'm mostly self taught! I'm a MUA so I have a background on working with different skin tones and also have taken color analysis courses (theory-based than client-facing), but I'm not a certified color analyst ☺ I'm glad you're finding my content useful! ❤
Thanks Jen! This video was really helpful, I've been strugguling to find my subseason. The closest one is deep autumn (I have dark brown hair with redish/golden highlights, dark green olive eyes and fair olive skin). I think I'm one of those who have both dark and bright as dominant traits, the temperature of the color is not as important to me, the main thing is that I need contrast. I think that's why the DA, DW and bright spring colors suit me well. My worst colors are very muted and light. So yeah, as you said, we don't need to fit ourselfs into one subseason, but rather understand why the colors work for us. For example in my case, I don't fit fully into one subseason. As an artist, I can say that your interpreration of color is very fresh and easy to understand.
Aw thanks for this! I'm glad you found the video helpful ♥
Hi Jenn. This particular creamy white that you’re wearing .. looks GREAT on you and really brightens your facial features, unlike the gray colors you’ve previously worn in your videos.
Jenn, this was a big help to me. I have finally figured out where I belong - in deep, not bright. So now I know I’m a Dark Winter. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful! ❤❤❤
Hi Jenn, I'm loving all of your seasonal color videos bc they're basen on 16 seasons system. Could you please make a video giving us some examples of each season? This way it will be easier to notice the subtle differences ❤
Yay, this is me! I have neutral-warm undertone and my colours need to be both deep and soft. So I subcategirised myself as a deep soft autumn. I totally agree with you that it helps more to understand why certain colours work for you than sticking to much to categories. Thank you very much for explaining clearly!!
Glad you found the video helpful!
I love how you put a new spin on color analysis and dig into the “why”. Agree that other models like 16 season seem to be more comprehensive - Uireh’s channel/youtube (in Korean) touched on this.
Finally I understand why I don’t fit neatly into any color season, as very cool and very warm colors don’t look good on me, and black washes me out (making it seem like I’m not a deep winter). Most likely I’m a “soft winter”.
thanks for this video, It's the first time i've ever truly understood color season. Very well explained. i think i am a balance of clear and deep colors. I am southeast asian and have medium to tan skin.
Dark spring, and strong or vivid autumn. My home is dark autumn, but I am slightly clearer. But because I am dark autumn I can go softer ie Soft dark autumn, soft dark winter, dark winter, soft spring, warm autumn. I think part of the problem is muted is the opposite of bright and clear is the opposite of diffused/muddy. I am literally medium to medium-high across most of the color analysis spectrums.
color analysis has been so confusing to me, but you're so good at explaining it! love this series! ❤
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the series so far!
Thank you for the excellent explanation! I was typed as being both deep and bright winter and finally I get how this was possible.
Hi, Jen! I think this video kind of solidifies my analysis for me. No palette except Winter does me any justice, this much I know, but I was very conflicted on why I didn’t really “feel” the bright winter colors that apparently make people say that I’m a BW. It’s not that I don’t have contrast, because I do, but I feel like I’m missing that level of sheen that comes from BWs. It doesn’t help that I don’t really wear makeup, but I do think I’m a touch lower on the intensity front than BW, cool, bright, medium darkness, not the darkest.
It would be nice to have examples from people without makeup, though, since types of makeup would surely add some gloss to the skin that isn’t there normally
This video is for me❤. Thank you 😻🙏🏼.
You're welcome Leticia 😊❤️
Same ❤
Thank you so very much! This was very helpful. I always thought I was a winter because when I was young I could wear higher contrast bold colors but not too much warmth, but now I realize that I am a Bright Spring. Your video helped me clarify that I am on the right track now.
Thank you Jenn you may have just explained why I can’t decide whether I am a deep winter or bright winter. Temperature is not my dominant characteristic, I have neutral skin leaning slightly cool. I have high contrast with dark hair and eyes and light medium skin but I also look good in bright colours, deep colours and high contrast.
You sound like me. I have bright blue eyes though, but I'm definitely a bright winter. Bright winters have yellows that deep winters don't have. Try finding something cool bright yellow and putting it up under your face. Also trying out lipsticks is really helpful. If the bright colors like bright cool red and bright fuschia look better than a deep plum or dark red, You might be a bright winter. Either way you probably need a lot of contrast in your outfits.
Love how you recap at the end of each point. Very complex yet effective.
Also you look fantastic. I love this color combo on you 😍
Thanks again sis 💕
Aw thanks for the compliment! ❤
Your content is just nothing but excellence. You are amazing - and I appreciate you very much.
Aw thank you for this ❤
This really explains for me how I am seemingly neutral for temperature, but have the ability to wear both bright and deep colours when putting together my wardrobe. Thanks!
Thank you so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This has been my struggle to understand, but I didn’t know what I didn’t know.
Amazing content as always, and extra extra props for using women of color / multiple ethnicities
My winter-type clothes were upstaging me. Thanks to you, I am coming to terms with the fact that I look best in the darker colors of summer and the cooler colors of the autumn palate. Aubergine and charcoal are great on me,, for example. I'm a muted winter, dark summer, cool autumn --haha
Thank you so much. I have no courage to use bright winter colors so I try to fit in deeps😢
Oh!! This is so helpful! Also those resources you added almost at the end of the video are very interesting, because they show a different light over the seasons. Thank you! As always, very grateful for all I learn from you🌸🙌🏻
Glad it was helpful!
Not sure if anyone noticed but I personally like your brows darker like that! Makes you look more alert and sharp! 😍
I'm super new to colour analysis and been spending hours on your videos but my brain is cracking! hahaha I'm confused. I thought I was dark autumn and then the more I learn..the more confused I get..wondering if I could be bright spring 😆 I used to make videos..if you (or whoever reading and has more experience than me) can take a look and help me out, that would be great! :)
Your explanation about needing both bright and deep makes so much more sense to me and I think might be my dominant features! I'm neutral, leaning cool, but can definitely handle some more warmth than a traditional true winter... But i also don't fit nicely in either the traditional bright winter or deep winter category either. Bright winter has a touch too much clarity, but I think traditional TCI dark winter has a touch too much black or dullness too. I look better in the brightet end of dark winter I think.
Do you have any resources for people who are looking for information about the bright and deep characteristics for style color theory? I would love to research more!
Was thinking like “I’m pretty sure I’m Bright, do I still need to watch this video?” But I watch it anyways and I’m thankful for that! Your channel really explains personal color theory the best!❤
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This video confirmed what I’ve suspected for about a month: I was a soft autumn as a young woman and now I am a soft summer. I’ve heard it said we don’t change but I was blonde, tan and could wear orange shirts & gold jewelry. I started gravitating towards silver jewelry in my forties, look much better in cool, muted tones, and am pinkish with ash brown hair tinged with white and silver. Thank you for your clear explanation!
Your color stays the same your whole life.
THE! UNIVERSE! HAS! ANSWERED! MY!!!! P R A Y E R S ! ! ! ! !
HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!
100% confirming Soft winter now!!!!! Thank you so so so so much!!!!!! 💗✨✨✨✨✨
I’ve been between soft and deep autumn since the summer of 2023. I think because my hair was lighter and I have very sparse brows. I couldn’t see that my features were deep even though my eyes are dark amber. I confused the low visual weight of those features with low contrast. Also I think regularly having the cast from my mineral sunscreen ( as a medium brown skin) made me think I was ashier than I am. I knew that warmth wasn’t my main chromatic feature and I even questioned whether I was warm or cool from time to time. I have scarring discoloration on my face which can come off dark purplish but my chest left no assumption that I was anything but warm. I always wished there was a sub season for muted+dark+warm but all the seasons had warmth as the 2nd chromatic feature even though I felt that warmth was my third chromatic feature.
At this point I think that I am dark autumn because
- I look better with rich colors than ashy colors.
- my worst warm colors are the colors that are low contrast. I can go for high value muted warm ( ex: banana powder yellow) or low value muted warm (deep green) but medium-low values (caramel) look worse on me because their value is too close to my complexion. I need more contrast.
- light summer is the worst season for me as opposed to bright winter. I can pull off violet better than I can lavender.
- I cannot wear lipstick colors that are lighter than my complexion even when the color is warm. It looks off on me without dark lip liner. I know many medium brown skin people who wears lipsticks that are light and it suits them. Not me. My best lipstick shades are deep terracotta and warm chocolate. I believe if you are between 2 seasons, get 2 lipstick shades who match your main chromatic features except the feature you’re testing. One of the lipsticks will help reveal your color season.
I’ve come to the conclusion that I am deep autumn. The moment I enhance my low visual weight features to create more contrast, I look the best.
However I’m still tempted to lighten my hair for summer again. 😂
I hope this post helps someone who is struggling placing themselves within the autumn season.
This was explained so well, Jenn. I deeply appreciate the time and effort you put into your excellent content . Thank you 💗
Glad it was helpful!
Thank to you now I know I’m not a Deep Winter but a Bright Deep Warm that lean more neutral and very dark.
Your bit about the mood of the season is very very helpful.
Great video, Jenn! I think about this similarily and I like when people go more in the depth, like You!
I discovered a different color typing tool that I feel I fit into better than the seasonal system. In the seasonal system I would probably be considered a warm spring, but I always felt that the colors that were recommended for me were too light, and that I really look my best when I wear colors that are darker, while still being warm and highly saturated, and with no grey in them. I found a system that looks at the three main characteristics independently, instead of assuming that some of them always go together. With that system I was typed as a Warm/Clear/Deep.
I think my mother might have been one of those people with both depth and brightness as dominant colour traits.
Or, at least, she could pull off so, *so* many colours and their temperature never seemed to affect her looks.
Great video! I've known for a while that super bright hues didn't suit me but dark warm hues did--what Suzanne Caygill described as "somber-rich" (as in Byzantine art and Italian Renaissance paintings). I will say it took me longer than it should have to realize precisely why I felt so at home in colors such as midnight blue, burnished gold, darker reds. Now that I have this knowledge it's fun to see how far I can stretch it or play with it. Again, thank you!
This is so helpful!! I’m pretty sure I’m a warm season and that colours with a lot of grey don’t suit me but after figuring that out I got stuck
I was all over the place because of misinformation. I couldn't possibly be a spring because my hair is darker than medium brown and i tan easily. So settled on dark autumn, but something still wasn't right. Knowing that green is one of my best colours, dark green was weighing me down bringing out shadows. So i feel now that bright is more dominant than deep for me and use bright spring as a guide, including some of the brighter autumn colours 🤷♀️
Can you make Cool Winter vs Bright Winter please? I am sooo between those two
Aren’t those the same thing ..?
@@Me-xo5twno. They arent
Bright winter is more high in intensity and cool winter is medium-high in intensity. Bright winter colors on cool winter person looks too bright and appears first before the person,basically looks too bright. And cool winter can wear cool summer colors bcs share the same charasteristic witch is cool. Bright winter winter can wear bright spring colors for thr same reason. You may be a transition type that medium bright and cool -neutral are both important to u witch is normal.
You look especially fabulous today (you always look great) and must be wearing all your best colours!
Aw thank you so much! ❤
I’m a soft summer but deep winter is my favorite season! It just looks so sophisticated…. Thanks for this video Jenn!
I really like that lip color on you btw 🤭
Thank you! ❤️ If you love deep colors but you’re a soft summer, seeing which colors you can borrow from the Deep Summer palette might be helpful!
I believe I’m bright and deep. I’m neutral or very light olive skin, high contrast and look good in both bright and deep. I have dark hazel green eyes which look brighter green depending on colours or the lighting I’m in. My hair is the darkest brown basically black. I look terrible in muted colours but can wear warm or cool colours if they are bright or deep. I have been very confused going through colour analysis for myself cause I can wear pretty much anything except very muted colours.
Thank you for doing this video!
You are so welcome!
Thanks. I have been slowly coming to these conclusions as I try to work out my wardrobe, the explanations reaffirm what I was instinctively thinking. At first I thought I was deep, drapes of deep colors looked harmonious but when I started dressing fully like a deep winter, I was like this is so wrong. So while drapes can be important, I started looking at full outfits and trying to ask myself why do some combinations look better than others? For me it was likely because of the contrast level I needed, so full head to toe looks are more deterministic on what makes me look good, because monochrome looks just are more meh. So because temperature isn't a dominant trait, I have learned bright and contrast are more dominant and silly enough its easier to find than you think, because I already knew my worst looks where muted and later monochromatic, so why I never thought to look opposite to that for my best looks?! It's a process for sure but I think it's easiest to see what looks bad on us, not what is ok, good, to great on us. Your videos have helped me so much understanding color and have been super helpful in me getting where I am on my color journey. Thank you.
What color lippy are you wearing here? could totally go with my pallete
I love your videos sm you're literally my personal stylist atp ❤
This is fantastic.
I am Olive and i love Dark Colors on me 😅
Me too! ❤️
I mean, if you look good in both then wear both! No need to "box" yourself in.
I wear colors from different palettes cuz I like how they look. Some people can wear colors that go with their hair and some days pick colors that go with their skin. My skin is so pale that most days I love pale summer colors and save my winter colors for days I wear makeup.
Still wear those dark colors but make sure they're shiny then you hit both points. Black or deep colors can look overwhelming or heavy on me but if they're reflective, shiny, or sparkly they work with my brightness, not against it. If that helps. Now you can do both. 🙂
I need clear chroma, almost jewel toned cool colors that are on the deep side. I’m not deep winter as I don’t look good in typical navy, but if it’s a shiny texture I’m good. Purple is my color, any purple look great on me. 😅
Love your examples. Excellent job.
Thank you! 😃
I'm so confused about my season.. I would say I have a light/medium olive/neutral skin tone. Dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. I lean towards silver jewelry but can wear gold too. Black washes me out. Bright colors overpower me, I used to think I was an autumn but definitely find mustard yellows tend to make me look yellow and orange colors look awful. Dark greens look amazing on me but olive greens kind of wash me put and mint looks good on me. So confused. I've been told I look like natalie portman and also olivia Cooke by different people. Mauve makeup flatters me but also I feel that burnt colors can be flattering... Thoughts??
Thank you for this video! ☺️ what do you advice a bright Winter with medium olive skin? As an olive it’s sooooo tricky to wear my palette, for an example the red is amazing but brings out the yellow in my skin. P.S. I feel and look the same when I wear a deeper shade, I look old or odd just like you mentioned with Nicole.
You really made me think, thank you ❤
So good! Thank you, thank you.
As always you are amazing!
I think i am somewhere between true winter and bright winter. I have a high contrast true cool brown eyes and my brows are also very light compared to my eyes and hair.
Do you do color/season analysis?
Currently I am not offering color analysis services!
@@stylerefinement okay, thanks for letting me know and all the best to you and your channel
Merci !
Aw thank you! ❤❤❤
I think I’m a deep winter 😊
It's so exciting to figure it out isn't it?
@@pajamamama5965yes it is
Dear Jen, love your posts!!! Could you please help me find your video (one of the first of the seasonal colours series) on the difference between bright spring and bright winter please?? It seems to have disappeared 😶😶😶
I haven’t created a video comparison of the two seasons 😅
Thank you 👌
Thank you for a great video! I have a question regarding bright spring. Some people argue that bright springs can't have blond hair. Whats your thoughts on that? I am blond, with pale skin and dark eyebrows and lashes. I also have that type of "glowing" skin (as you have described as direct sunlight). I really believe I am a bright spring, but sometimes struggles to find good examples of people with similar colours 😊
Is possible for a blond person be bright in chroma. Specially if its for your skin.
I'm a mess. When I was young I was a true winter. Now I'm 74, I have light olive skin and white hair I tone to a neutral light blonde. What am I? I look good in most shades of blues and green.
May I ask what your lip colour is? It’s gorgeous!
Thank you! It's actually a mix of 2 colors - MAC Dare You & NARS Soft Matte Tinted Lip Balm in Whip Lash ♥
Wait but what subseason would the people then be who need to balance debth and brightness?
I think the info is amazing but it is so complicated and nuanced that I will never be able to type myself:( Especially when it's all relative! I know I am olive but cannot tell if warm or cool since I cannot tell if my skin has greyness, how do I know if it has greyness versus warm greeness? I think the only way is to compare to some baseline, but who is the baseline?:D Also, no nude/beige looks good on me and all seasons include them in the pallettes, how to understand that?:)
For me this is where the 12 color season systems fails because I am deep, cool, and slightly muted. So I don’t really have a color season. This is a great video!
Soft Winter!
@@stylerefinement oh cool thanks!
Research first. Systems like this are comprehensive.
@@khplaylistyt9729 I was referring to the 12 seasons. I have researched it extensively.
@@vivalabeauty33 I am referring to Color Analysis.
Is true the same as bright ?
I'm always so confused by colour analysis using 'dark' and 'deep' interchangably; from a colour theory perspective, 'dark' relates only to value, whereas 'deep' means a hue is both dark AND has high chroma.
Hey Jean thanks for this video!
I'm Bright Spring but somehow I can pull some colors from every season.....is that even possible? Like Orange, Pinks ,Peach and most of the Blues are great on me even the cool versions of pinks and blues but then again am I even a Bright Spring I'm so confused here. As per my oberservation only dark colors make me sick looking but even pastels looks good as long as they are warm colors.Plz help me..I'm so confused I wanna feel confident in knowing my personal color season!😢
Btw love ur videos!❤❤❤
I don't think they're the same people on your thumbnail lol. One's Nicole Scherzinger and one is Shae Mitchell
She said that they are not the same person. She use they for comparison. Watch the video.
@@YumeraChauque hehe caught. I haven't watched the whole video yet
Actually no. True seasons have an even balance of all 3 in their home season. Warm and cool are the ones that have temperature as dominant. True Winter is not not Cool Winter. Took time to understand this.
Depends on what system you’re using. The 12 seasons system doesn’t work like that and the one that Jenn uses also doesn’t work like that.
@@emmamartin4045 yes. I don't know if Jen uses any one particular system. I feel like she touches across the board. In 12 season True and Cool is the same. In 16 system it isn't. I use the 16 and I am just as clear/bright as I am deep as I am cool.
It also depends on which version of 16 seasons system since there is more than one! The one I refer to and the one I resonate with the most is the version that adds Soft Winter, Deep Summer, Light Autumn and Soft Spring to the traditional 12 seasons, so might be different from the version you're looking at that differentiates True vs Warm/Cool :)
You look fabulous with that cream color, Jenn! Solids and stripes look very clean and beautiful on you, but not boring ❤Thank you for this video! I struggle with this topic, but now I have a plan of attack for choosing colors 🤗
Thank you! I've been enjoying stripes a lot these days :D Glad you liked the video! ❤
Hi, Jen! I think this video kind of solidifies my analysis for me. No palette except Winter does me any justice, this much I know, but I was very conflicted on why I didn’t really “feel” the bright winter colors that apparently make people say that I’m a BW. It’s not that I don’t have contrast, because I do, but I feel like I’m missing that level of sheen that comes from BWs. It doesn’t help that I don’t really wear makeup, but I do think I’m a touch lower on the intensity front than BW, cool, bright, medium darkness, not the darkest.
It would be nice to have examples from people without makeup, though, since types of makeup would surely add some gloss to the skin that isn’t there normally