In the 16 season system, this could mean you’re possible a more muted tone. So could be soft summer, soft autumn, dark winter, dark autumn, etc. It’s possible you could also be a true muted which is between muted autumn/muted summer. Or true deep, between dark winter/dark autumn. Etc etc
olive is your overtone, you need to focus on your undertones (cool or warm) to really find your best colors! personally i watched a lot of color analysis videos by professionals to learn the theory and decided that the best palette for myself is the deep winter palette. but you can be literally any of the seasons!
As a bright spring, myself, I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said about it being confusing, and that we are like chameleons. I have been confused for years about what I was as far as seasons goes. I knew I had a warm to neutral undertone, but since I had such dark hair, and pale skin that can come off as somewhat dark, I thought I had to be an autumn. That said, I’ve always been able to wear very bright colors like cobalt blue, or bright tomato red, and the autumn colors always felt either too gray, or heavy. I also couldn’t understand why I could get always with black. Then it just came to me one day watching a video, and I realized I was a bright spring. That said, gray is probably one of my worst colors, even if I try the ones in my palette. It just does not work. I would love if you’d do a more in depth video on bright springs because I feel you lend a great insight into the topic.
You mention a white woman as your example of a bright spring who gets misunderstood but i wanted to say, a lot of women of color are springs (or summers) who get automatically typed as winters and autumns because so often people assume that they must be. You can only know your color season based on what colors *look like* on you when you drape them - not through scrutinizing your features and going "well i have golden brown skin and dark eyes, so...."
I don't think that's necessarily true. I posit that you could argue in the reverse. The draped colors can be scrutinized and determined as cool, warm, dark, light etc
Soft summer here! I'm big on metallics, BUT because we soft summers are "muted" first and foremost, our metals need to honor that. So ultra-shiny chrome, fine jewelry gold, and glossy rose gold look fake on me. We need more satin/matte/antiqued finishes like pewter, champagne gold, matte gunmetal, graphite, and satin rosy-rose gold rather than shiny copper penny. These matte metals look very goddess-ey and rich on us. Whereas these matte metals would look cheap on "clear" and "bright" folks. And vice versa. Love you Ellie!!! ❤
I’m curious to know, did you ever get a professional color analysis done? I got one recently and it BLEW MY MIND. Everyone thought I was an autumn, turns out I’m a cool winter! The ”warmth” me and my friends saw in my skin was A)my olive complexion B)yellow looking skin due to wearing the wrong colors😮. Insane! I am really happy I finally got this analysis done. 😍
@@arundhathijs5454 of course! 😃I booked the online personal analysis by Colour Analysis Studio. I settled for them after A LOT of comparing, and I can honestly say they really know their stuff! It was obvious in their videos. They are so well trained yet so humble and kind🩷It was worth every penny.
@@arundhathijs5454 I second the recommendation for Colour Analysis Studio. They are one of the only online color analysts who know what they're talking about.
@Spikypotato. I wss recently analyzed by them as well. Someone in a FB group typed me as soft summer, but they said bc my skin is darker, I can take more intensity so I'm cool summer. The great thing about them is they don't have preconceived notions about skin color. Most people place Black people in autumn or winter, but they pay attention to undertone
I feel like its important to note that black dyes tend to have either a red, green or blue base. these become more obvious as a garment fades, but makes a diffenernce to how they look on you
My Gram would buy black fabric dye and do all her blacks together to make her wardrobe more cohensive and easy to wear interchangeably! there are dyes available on today's market that will dye synthetics and that was her biggest gripe LOL Cheers
You FINALLY explained why I don't like how blue jeans look on me! In the dark autumn you mentioned almost all blues are removed except teal. Everyone says blue jeans 'neutral' but they're not! They're blue! 🤯😂
As a soft summer, one of my favorite neutrals to wear is oatmeal, especially in the winter. Softer than white but lighter than gray, so cozy if worn as a sweater. Also, tonally with white jeans 🤍 very chic. Love your videos 🥰
Agree and don’t get me started on the people that think colour and black are a good combination when blacks should really only be worn with neutrals, animal print and certain blues. The black deadens most colour. Ugh.
@@kayelle8005Your comment made me laugh! I share the exact same opinion on black as you. I can see black with dark, rich colors but pair it with pink? Not a fan.
Please please do what doesn’t look good each season too! these videos have helped me so much. Analyzed my whole family and gave them tips on what colors to wear!
I'm realising slowly (official colour analysis pending) that I'm a bright spring and I am TERRIFIED of the spring palette. I've kind of already realised it to some degree subconsciously, because I have some dresses in bright colours and I have a bright yellow cardigan i wear all the time. But I just sometimes feel so self-conscious in these colors because everyone else is always in muted, more neutral colours. I just feel like a huge neon sign. I'm also plus size, so people always tell you to wear dark clothing and most of the plus size clothes in shops are, tbh, black or dark. And if I wear a bright pink dress (which I do have) I feel so extremely LOOK AT MEEEE.
As a dark autumn, I LOVED what you said about using blues and greens to compliment the warmer neutrals. Just the other day I wore deep deep teal leggings with a warm acorn brown top to the gym and it looked incredible in exactly this way!! The next day I happened to wear warm green / chartreuse with super deep aubergine and it did the exact same thing. Was definitely a good couple of days for me color-wise and you bet I added those combos to the outfit bank!!! Edit: oh and the red distinction you’re looking for is burgundy vs maroon. Burgundy is more red/purple based and maroon is more brown based
So I am an artist, and the part about different types of grey is soooo true. Cool Grey will lean more bluish while Warm Grey leans more yellowish. There's also a third type of gray called French Grey which leans purple or even pinkish, which I think is what you mentioned when discussing True Summer. There's even a greenish gray which I don't know what I would call, but it can be occasionally classified as a Cool Grey. Also do you have a bird in the background? I love parrots and I keep hearing little peeps in your videos so I had to ask!
@@DarkAlleyDollsI think french grey that leans toward pink is warmer, bc pink is white + red (red generelly is warm). Grey that has a touch of purple is cool bc purple is the cool colour blue + some red.
I'm right in between a dark autumn and a dark winter so the fact she talks about the two together was so helpful! I have a really hard time figuring out neutrals and whether or not I'm going too far either way.
@rachel - if you lean warm = DA, if lean cool = DW. If you're a a POC and with more melanin, you can sometimes pull off black or other colors not in your palette. DA usually look better in dark brown or navy blue than black.
@@theheartofthestone you can switch between the two (DA & DW) since they are sister palettes (beside each other on the season wheel). Accdg to another analyst (Cocoa Styling), DA can use the warmer colors in DW and DW can wear the cooler colors in DA.
Same! Can't decide between dark autumn and dark winter. I feel warm, so I lean towards autumn. Brown and gold eyeshadow seem natural on me, while silver and gray shadows are like dust on my eyes. 😅 ..but I love black liner and wearing black clothes, just not very close to my face. ..I think deep autumns can wear black very well, because of high contrast, just combine it with some warm color.💛
I have two daughters with a half-Korean husband, that a can't type. He can literally wear any color. One of our two daughters is a soft summer like me. For quite a long time, I couldn't grasp why some of her hand-me-downs looked great and some looked just awful on her little sister. The solution: the other daughter is a soft autumn. The very muted tones, they can both wear. But I can't go too warm or too cold, if I want to recycle their clothes. Since I know that, I can buy clothes based on both types. Love color theory!
This was wonderful. Soft Autumn is such a struggle because so many neutrals are too cool or too warm, describing the perfect colors as mushroom is GREAT, completely changes how you look at the colors. Thank you!
I'm soft summer (by process of elimination 🤷) and I'm not a fan of silver or gold near my face. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Rose gold, however, works great!
I’m pretty sure I’m a soft autumn - so your color season “neighbor” - and I also am not a huge fan of gold and silver near my face and find that bronze or copper can look better. It seems to be a combo of coloring potentially being closer to neutral and the fact that the soft palette leans so muted that “shiny” gold and silver can look off - not sure if that’d be the case for you as well.
I’ve been watching the 80s show Designing Women and I’m just so longing for color in clothing. Also I love how the stylist really enhanced each characters personal style and really chose outfits that suited their body types. I miss that 80s color pallet.
Love this! I was draped a Deep Blue Autumn last month (dark autumn in other systems, blue just means the majority of my "wow" colors were in the blue family). The way my consultant described the jean color I should be looking for is an old worn-out farmer's jean. Almost sort of "muddy" looking with a slight greenish undertone. I have two particular pairs (same exact jeans) that fit that description before I even had my analysis done and what's funny to me is, those are my favorite (hence why I have two 😂). I don't care for dark-wash jeans unless I need to dress more formally which is rare. Lizard grey is a great grey for autumn's, especially dark autumn's. Other colors are oyster for our white, rosewood, apple jade, old gold, bronze, marine navy, amber, chestnut, brick, aubergine, mahogany, etc. Also, I just wanted to throw in another closet app! I have open wardrobe and I really love their video tips, but my favorite closet I use regularly to record my wears is AICloset. If you're familiar with Cladwell, it's similar to that, but completely free. I'd love if you could do a video on the color seasons and different color combos that include more color. I find I struggle with this, as I am neutrals girl, so adding the bolder colors from my palette when I'm not quite sure how to pair them, would be super helpful. So something with a mix of neutrals and a bold color and then a mix of just bolder colors, that would be really interesting!
I just now discovered that I am a soft autumn and I got my wardrobe so so right haha. Its so funny, I literally own every color of the soft autumn palette and its just perfect. Crazy. ESPACIALLY green! Khaki and olive green tones are the best of the best.
I would say I'm a soft summer, but I really feel like I'm on the cusp between summer and autumn, like some days I lean the other way. I think my undertone is almost completely neutral, and honestly I'm pretty comfortable in gold, as long as it's not like a bright yellow-gold. But tbh, I also don't feel comfortable in really bright shades of silver either. So gold or silver, it still needs to be a more muted, understated shade.
Me too! I think I have neutral undertone plus I appear so greyish. I can’t wear pure bright color, blue looks weird, but warm color also dont really fit me either. But if I wear grey my skin instantly looks bright and clear. I can’t decided between soft auntum and summer bcs I can wear both, but I can’t wear the extreme warm/cold color in it.
The examples shown here of Emma Stone look really poor on her-- to the point that either she is not a bright spring, or she is not actually wearing spring colors. I think the latter is correct. At 7:10 she's wearing almost Dark Autumn lip and eyes with a dress that is nowhere near bright enough to match her complexion. At 7:22 she is wearing a True Autumn or Dark Autumn burnt sweater color that just doesn't work with her skin tone at all. Her cheeks look muddy, not healthy, and her eyebrows looked grayed compared to her hair. That's an indication that the colors around her are too warm.
I agree. Emma Stone is a natural blonde, so she should be typed/ draped with her (colored) hair covered or in consideration of her blonde hair. I think her natural hair is more of a cool blonde (her hair in Amazing Spiderman) , so she might be a summer, not a spring or autumn.
Thanks Ellie, this was super helpful. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when looking at the colour palettes (im a dark Autumn) so seeing some examples & being talked through some colours gives a better general idea. Kia Ora from New Zealand 🇳🇿 👋🏼
14:37 from what i've heard, soft summers have a problem with ultra shiny metallics due to it reflecting light and thus having too much contrast, so if the silver is so polished and brand new that it's practically chrome then it's not the best look on a soft summer. likewise, i heard that soft summers can pull off gold, but it has to be either a champagne gold or like white gold in jewelry, something to that muted nature. basically golds that are so pale that it's almost silver, and silvers that are more of an antique vibe!
Very helpful video bc I live in neutrals. I still believe in the dominant trait theory which is that all features are not equal - for some people their lightness or depth is overwhelming and they can wear any temperature as long as they honor their value; for others it may be that their mutedness/softness is dominant and as long as they wear saturated shades of a color, it won't matter what color it is.
I find this true and an aspect that makes this whole color categorization far harder. For myself my eyes and skin basically are at war. I have very pale very cool toned skin with dark hair. This paired with golden black rimmed eyes makes it impossible. Everything but my eyes makes me a true winter, but eyes are rather an important feature so I can't just ignore them. I can't wait for the next evolution of color theory which deals with conflicts like this a bit better. Right now strategies to address this are mainly guesswork.
True Winter here! This video was so helpful how you broke down the best neutrals for each sub-category. It was interesting that you didn’t suggest black for True Winter, but said that indigos work well. That must be why I usually wear navy and indigos as my main dark neutral and save black for items further away from my face.
That comment about silver and gold made so much sense to me! I think I have very very neutral skin tone, I have been wearing silver out of habit for years, than found out gold works pretty good too.. and it kind of puzzled me. And now, after watching a couple of your wideos, I think I might be a soft summer :D but I have to say - rosegold does not look good on me at all, eventhough it is often recomended as the most versatile..
I am a soft summer, but I think this type can also be misunderstood. There are so many variations, e.g. pink looks brilliant on me (many different shades! except very bright, clear, cold fuschia), because despite of having muted/grayish eye whites, hair, brows and thin skin, I have quite pink lips. And emphasizing them changes the whole outlook DRAMATICALLY. I look more alive. My colouring is so much different than Kate Middleton's or other people we would classify as soft summer. Enchancing this 'colour' aspect (not only grayish shades) was a great discovery and a game changer for me.
Wow I think I'm a dark autumn. I always thought I was a soft autumn but the colors you explained in this video for dark autumn are all the ones that look good on me. My burgundy college sweater really does look like a neutral on me, and I've always looked good in green and teal. Midtoned grays always looked slightly off but charcoal gray looks amazing. I guess I was confused because I didn't think I was bright enough. One interesting thing that I can somehow pull off is an extremely muted dark navy. It looks quite classy on me, and I think is another good substitute for black.
That was a great overview! But I think not only the colors are important but also the finish of the fabric. As a soft summer i can get away with brighter colors or even black if the fabric has a matte finish. Silver can look a bit harsh on me if the finish is too metalic.
@Grit Kasdorf I think, silver is a colour for winters, it's too shiny and bright for summers. If fabrics have matte finishs, this looks automatically more muted, what is better for summers.
I thought of that when she mentioned that soft summers struggle to wear silver. I've had the inverse problem as a winter, where I thought i couldn't wear silver but it turns out i was only wearing antiqued/tarnished silver and it wasn't doing anything for me.
I saw a couple people in the comments saying they're between dark winter and dark autumn so: take pictures of yourself in the following colors (if you live near a clothing shop you can try things on and do it, though it's less helpful with dressing room lighting): true white, cream, and pale beige; true black, deep charcoal grey, and deep brown. If you are a dark winter the white and black will make you look the best and the others will wash you out somewhat. If you are a dark autumn white and black will wash you out but you will look more vibrant in the slightly more muted colors.
This Video and comment section was so helpful! I tried to settle for one metal color, but ended up super confused. Now I know that that's a typical soft summer problem. My wedding ring has a perfectly soft rose gold, but I don't find this color so often
Hello Ellie Jean! 🌷I believe I am warm autumn. I have dark brown hair, hazel eyes and pale skin. Exactly as you say I always thought that a burgundy and olive green/khaki colors were my neutrals. Same with all kind of browns. All colors I saw on a maple leaf I knew these are my colors and I can pull of all of them. 🍁🍂 Thanks for confirming that! Best regards! 😘
Soft summer here, and I would say I wear mostly rose gold. I don’t think silver suits me well, and I have to be careful with golds and making sure they aren’t too yellow, but any rose gold pieces I wear shine on me
Hi, try to watch Mikaela Carrizo's vids on seasonal color analysis & how to find your dominant characteristic. They helped me distinguish between TA & DA (I already knew that I'm an autumn.) Turns out that I'm TA but can wear some DA colors.
As a very pale dark winter, when I first started wearing make-up I struggled so hard with my colors. I knew I was cool toned at the time, but since I was so pale, I avoided darker colors fearing they'd be look too bold on me. It took noticing my mom, who's just as pale as I am, putting on a vampy purple lipstick and having it look completely neutral on her to get me to try darker colors. Once I learned my season it made a ton more sense. I said all that to say, I'm so glad there's people out there helping people learn their colors/seasons/body type. I had my mom, who just so happened to have had her colors done, but so many of my friends had to learn by trial and error and many selected the wrong colors because they liked how they'd look on someone else.
I have been struggling to figure out my color season but your comment has me thinking I might be a dark winter. Even though I'm really fair skinned I feel like I can take a lot of dark makeup without looking overly done up or vampy. My everyday eye make up is very cool, dark, and smokey but it almost looks natural on me. I frequently wear dark lipstick as well and it doesn't seem to ever look harsh or extreme... definitely things to think about. Thanks for the insight!
This is so helpful, thank you! I think I'm a true/cool summer, so now it makes so much sense why coral and peachy pink lipsticks don't look right on me but rosy tones do!
I really appreciate this video! I think when you’re first starting to learn about color seasons often times you end up learning more about the standout colors for each season as opposed to understand the spectrum, such as what neutrals look best. 💕
I don't really know if I am a bright spring or a bright winter... I feel like I haver a warm undertone in the summer and cool one in the winter. Anyone else can relate to that?
BW & BS are sister palettes - they are beside each other on the season wheel. If you're primarily warm, then you're most likely a BS; otherwise it's BW. You can borrow colors from your sister palettes.
I have felt the exact same way like a winter during winter and a autumn during summer because I tan more yellow than red. I just realised that I have an olive undertone even though I am quite pale, probably a cool olive that warms up a little with a tan. I am now leaning towards being a soft summer.
@@cecilia9618 yes, there are many olive skinned people who are soft summer/ soft autumn or DW/ DA. Ssu & SA are sister palettes, so you can also borrow colors from SA (if you think you're SSu). Good luck!
WAIT I had no idea Soft Summers could wear gold, and I LOVE golds and always thought they looked good on me despite me being cool. Learning more all the time from you!
I’m in a similar boat. I think as long as the gold isn’t too bright and yellow, they work well for me. I really like some rose gold, and brushed metals like bronze or a bit more of a matte silver versus a super bright almost white silver. I was typed as a pallet that aligns pretty close to soft summer and it is super tricky with how neutral we seem to be.
@@emmybailey2672 Rose Gold is beautiful!!! I think it's because Soft Summers can have almost grey features (ash blonde hair, grey or blue-grey eyes, neutral to cool skin) their features aren't as opinionated so to speak and so we can end up wearing a few things that wouldn't fit other cool types.
Thank you Ellie-Jean! I am also a Light Summer (I think!) and I have struggled at times with finding good neutrals. I always appreciate your amazing advice!
Excellent video, Ellie-Jean. Thank you. I’m wanting to add a little bit more colour to my wardrobe and its still a bit of hit and miss so this is super helpful. Btw, green is not a primary colour. Also, I know you wanted to be accurate to Colour Theory when discussing what is and what isn’t a neutral and I appreciated that. I heard someone talk about “neutrals” in context of our wardrobes and interiors as that hue with a value and/or intensity that serves as a backdrop for all the other hues in your palette and I like that definition. I think it’s what you were also communicating with this video. Black and white and grey in their pure form of course are the only true neutrals because they have no hue. But in real life, they all have either cool or warm undertones and come in a spectrum of intensities but all the other hues do as well and I think every season could potentially pick any colour from their palette and use it as the backdrop to their other colours. I’ve seen people choose orange as their neutral and it works beautifully for them. Also, I think Kate Middleton has to be one of the most consistently mis typed woman on the internet when it comes to her colour season. I don’t know if you’re right or wrong with your analysis of her. She looked great in the pics you showed as examples but I have seen her typed as a winter, as a spring, as an autumn …. Lol. Maybe she’s just a chameleon 😊. Also, I think our colours change as we age. Not drastically, of course. But I was typed as one season when I was younger. My hair had a lot of red in it and my eyes tended to look more green (they’re hazel) but as I have aged, my hair has gotten darker, less red, and my eyes look blue most of the time. My skin tone has changed as well. Now in my 40’s I have a lot of grey/silver streaks in my hair and I find I am more and more a true or bright winter when I was typed as Dark Autumn when I was a teenager. They still cross over for me which is part of my struggle in nailing down which colours I want to add to my very neutral wardrobe. Maybe something you could cover in a future video on colour seasons? Either way, this was helpful ❤
Regarding soft summers that you were asking about being able to wear gold or struggling with silver: it's is olive soft summers like me who struggle in this way and yes it is true that we can wear gold.
Another olive soft summer here, and honestly, I don’t look good in gold or silver unless muted. It can’t be shiny. oxidized (blackened) silver doesn’t work either. Too cool. Most of my silver is rustic/ hammered and gold not too bright and not worn right against skin. ((looks ok with a crew neck) but I am very light Olive. A darker olive might be ok with gold. One trick I use is to combine silver and gold. Like grey pearls or a blue grey stone with gold metal. These seem to look the best. I have just started experimenting with rose gold. Works with some outfits if the colors are true to soft summer and not too cool as with true summer.
I'm a soft summer. Gold is good on me, but it has to be muted. My dad have red hair, I think my pigment it's pinkish, and that's why it works on me. Sometimes even rose gold looks great. It really depends on the piece. Anything to bright will stand out in all the wrong ways.
Very useful video! And believe me, you don't want to be soft summer - in the world of bright colors almost every modern piece makes you look dirty and overwhelms you.
For that reason I started sewing my clothes myself. I am from Germany and there are quite a bit of Scandinavian fabric stores, that sell the perfect shades! Especially winter clothes are difficult, since they all tend to be too warm-colored and to saturated for me.
@@elisabethg.2360 Very good idea! May be I can order online... Unfortunately we don't have in Bulgaria such kind of stores but I was inspired of an American youtuber who sews summer dresses from sheets. So I intend to visit the Bedroom department of Ikea and Jysk and find the right materials for my new summer wardrobe 😁 There's always a way! 😎
I’m a bright spring and I completely agree with your assessment! I have this deeper, almost mustard yellow bag that, sitting on its own, does not look neutral at all. But on me? Definitely a neutral. There are many colors that, on most people, wouldn’t be neutrals, but end up serving as that for me - brownish orange, deep greens and teals, etc. And I agree that grays are rough. I look terrible in light grays, and originally, seeing that in my color palette made me question my season lol. If I go for a gray, it’s a warmer charcoal, but if I’m going for that level of depth in a neutral, I’d rather wear a cognac color or a really bright, warm navy. I do still have a weakness for black even though it’s not my best color, but I’m bright enough that it’s not terrible on me, at least. But I don’t wear completely black shirts or dresses, and if I’m wearing a black jacket/coat, bringing in a bright top or scarf helps balance it.
@lady - another analyst said that if you can wear pumpkin orange, olive green & mustard yellow, then you're an autumn. Otherwise, you're a spring (need brighter versions of those colors).
Same!! I’ve researched and read every article. And I find that I can wear a lot of both. Although the gray tones of Soft Summer look awful on me and the mustard yellow tones of Soft Autumn also look terrible on me. So I’m in the same boat I wear what suits me and still have no clue which palette I belong to.
There's a type in another system that's called summer-autumn, who can wear colours that are in between warm and cold and dark and light, but always muted. Perhaps that's an option?
@@kind_of_willow3193 that’s probably the closest thing. Because I know that I cannot wear anything bold or bright, but soft and muted colors look amazing. Thanks for your insight.
The main problem is that shops and the fashion industry simply don't cater for all of our seasons, they only present a limited colour range every season, because of economics. It took me several years to find a beige trench coat that had a cool undertone in the beige. Usually they are dirty yellow toned.
It’s not rare to be a brown eyed spring! Bright springs won’t have lighter hair than brown as per International Image Institute. Other springs can have red or blonde. Just like natural dark haired won’t be a light spring!
thank you for focusing on neutrals!! i've had an inkling that i am a soft summer but difficult to confirm using the colour palettes because my wardrobe is 90% neutrals. many of my favourite clothing items are grey, bright white, dusty pink, taupe/stone and navy blue! maybe that's why i'm drawn to kate middleton's outfits -- she's not only a soft summer but a FN too
I’m still confused by my color season but I realized I’m totally cool toned when I saw a pic of me with warm bleached bangs and an orange sweater… eek!
Loved the video! Only I wish you dug a bit deeper into the intensity of color for Soft summers. I have a hard time knowing whether something is too light/ dark. And I generally prefer darker colors ( washed out wine / forest green in particular) Personally, as a soft summer I really struggle with browns. I own a chocolaty brown sweater and it feels very odd. So not sure about that one. Great work 💕
After some videos for color analysis I would recommend you to use your natural color contrast as a tool. You can't make more contrast outfit than the actual contrast between your hair and your skin. Everything darker will overwhelm you. It works for makeup also. The good news is it will look that contrasted as black on dark winter 😁. Forget for the traditional chocolate brown - it's a clear color. Find a dusty greyish version that compliments the grey overtone of your skin.
Soft Autumn here and from what I understand, its not the lightness or darkness of the color but the amount of grey or other colors added to it. A really clear brown might be overwhelming but brown with grey added will look better. Basically, the more ambiguous a color is (the more difficult to define it as green or blue or grey for example) the better for Soft seasons.
@@cealabeala4367 exactly this! also I've heard summer browns described as "cocoa" rather than "chocolate," which to me implies having a grey/purple tone to them.
@@vermiliongardens came here to say this! Chocolate brown is definitely a warm, rich brown great for true/dark autumn. Cocoa brown is a dusty, purpley brown and pretty much the only brown that a summer can pull off.
I’m so glad you mentioned black bc I have seen soooooooo many people say that everyone can wear black and I’m sitting here thinking that a majority of the people I see wearing black look so washed out, it looks horrible on them. :(
Ellie this was great!! I felt like thos video helped clear up which colour season I am! Thank you so much for your video today! I had a video idea, I think it could be super helpful I you discussed each colour season and talked about hair colour that suits each season!!
Neutrals are easy if you look good in cool/dark colors. Navy, Black, Burgundy, White & Grey are abundent. If you're light/warm, it's more difficult. Browns/Tans are not always available. I've leaned heavily into Olive for that reason & had to wait many seasons to find a coat in Camel. I'm still looking for more warm brown & rust basics. Traditional professional attire is almost always Navy Blue, Grey or Black. It's difficult to get away from Black.
I have been told I am a spring/warm but my whole life I have gravitated to deep greens sea foam blues and rose pink. My wedding dress was off white with blush colored shoes. I feel like these colors are more summer but maybe I'm just attracted to them? 🤷♀️ maybe light spring?
I've found that mine seems to hinge on what color I have my hair lol With my natural hair I'm a dark autumn, but if I have my hair dyed a true black ( or blue, green, or purple as I've done several times) I look better in more of the dark winter pallette .
I love your videos I feel like breaking down WHY things are flattering and tailoring my style to me is so much better than just copying other people's clothes/makeup and hoping for the best
Very helpful for someone who doesn’t know how to wear neutrals ie me 😂 so many people struggle to wear colour but I love colour so much I don’t know how to make neutrals look good! I think I see a lot of neutrals being very cool which I know looks bad on me, grey and black and white etc just don’t work for warm toned folk! I’ve got to get some warm browns in my wardrobe ASAP
for 18:53 - in spanish, those colors are called "borravino" (¿erases of wine?) or sometimes "marsala" for those brownier bordeaux and "uva" (grape) or "berenjena" (eggplant/aubergine) for the more violet leaning reds... i love those colors! there are a lot of white skinned women in the pictures you choosed... it would have been nice to see a little bit more variety... for the whole it's very interesting to get a grip on this distinction! i guess i'm a dark winter, though i love a pop of bright spring colours now and then jejeje and YEEESSS!!! your patterns video was so helpful!!
That was quite helpful. Thank you. Just like you I struggle with really cool neutral colours, although I am more cool than warm. Anything silver grey is too harsh/blue/bright somehow, unless it's darker. I seem to look best in a mix of muted warm and cool which leans slightly more cool f.ex. through a shiney surface. Very confusing. My son seems to be the opposite, he needs more warmth in the mix, but we both look great in greens and better than in blues... Have you heard of this concept of shaded soft summer/autumn where the colours are a bit more saturated?
Your videos are awesome! I will tell you as an American that I was desperately trying to figure out what car key was. I thought maybe some new slang that I was not up to speed on. I finally realized you were saying khaki 😂
Thank you for the video. It just confirms what I had already thought about myself - I'm a soft summer. Mind you, most of my wardrobe is black - lol. I've always known black wasn't really my colour but I just like it a lot so I wear it a lot. Lately, I've been adding a bit of pale pink to my wardrobe and I'm liking it quite well. This is rather strange for me as for most of my 52 yrs. I've hated pink - lol. As to khaki ... yes, it has to be a blue'er version rather than one with more yellow in it. I'm a big fan of khaki as well. Great video and waiting for the next one.
I was just analyzed as a bright spring and I’ve honestly never liked a true neutral on me. They have always looked just blah. I naturally gravitated towards the more saturated versions of neutrals that get classified more as colours than neutrals.
Wow! I've discovered I'm a dark autumn. I've NEVER been able to get away with wearing white (it turns me PINK). Meanwhile teal & brown have been my absolute favorite colors to wear my entire life
Hi, as an autumn your best white is off-white, cream or beige. Another analyst called it "white with a hint of brown in it". Hope that helps. (I'm a TA/DA).
As far as I know, I'm either a dark winter or true winter, since black works really well on me. I can wear all black and it will look rather classy and chique, even with a very dark make-up. I can wear certain dark greens, something like forest green or green with a brown/greyish undertone, grey works but I think rather the lighter ones or the really dark ones, bright red works, very light blue works. The one's I'm less sure about are darker blues. I think it might actually be the denim type that could fit me better, but I have a very dark blue hoodie and I think it's fine. I mean, I just don't look great in it because I always wear it when I don't intend to leave the house and don't care about my looks haha. With beiges I'm really unsure. They kinda tend to make my skin seem darker/more tanned. If they're really bright, kinda cold beiges that doesn't happen.
Another great, informative video. Thank you! For those of us with older tablets, would you put the links to your other videos in the description box, please? iCards no longer show up on my device. Thank you 😊
I still believe the color season is a bit hard to implement on asian skin, because I realize my undertone is almost neutral. Wearing extreme warm color or cool color tends to washes me out, but also I can wear both if the shade fits. Also I look great in any shade of grey (does that make sense? 😂) bcs I’m so muted my skin always look grey-ish. So I’m torn between soft summer and auntum (leaning more towards auntumn). If only they created a palletr for true neutral skintone
How about a video on olive skin tones? We come in many different shades and I seem to notice lots of warm/ cool crossover . Thanks 😊
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In the 16 season system, this could mean you’re possible a more muted tone. So could be soft summer, soft autumn, dark winter, dark autumn, etc. It’s possible you could also be a true muted which is between muted autumn/muted summer. Or true deep, between dark winter/dark autumn. Etc etc
olive is your overtone, you need to focus on your undertones (cool or warm) to really find your best colors! personally i watched a lot of color analysis videos by professionals to learn the theory and decided that the best palette for myself is the deep winter palette. but you can be literally any of the seasons!
As a bright spring, myself, I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said about it being confusing, and that we are like chameleons. I have been confused for years about what I was as far as seasons goes. I knew I had a warm to neutral undertone, but since I had such dark hair, and pale skin that can come off as somewhat dark, I thought I had to be an autumn. That said, I’ve always been able to wear very bright colors like cobalt blue, or bright tomato red, and the autumn colors always felt either too gray, or heavy. I also couldn’t understand why I could get always with black. Then it just came to me one day watching a video, and I realized I was a bright spring. That said, gray is probably one of my worst colors, even if I try the ones in my palette. It just does not work. I would love if you’d do a more in depth video on bright springs because I feel you lend a great insight into the topic.
You mention a white woman as your example of a bright spring who gets misunderstood but i wanted to say, a lot of women of color are springs (or summers) who get automatically typed as winters and autumns because so often people assume that they must be. You can only know your color season based on what colors *look like* on you when you drape them - not through scrutinizing your features and going "well i have golden brown skin and dark eyes, so...."
She has explained this in several of her videos if you watch them.
this is so true, people don't understand that whether you're "dark or light" is more about contrast between your features
I don't think that's necessarily true. I posit that you could argue in the reverse. The draped colors can be scrutinized and determined as cool, warm, dark, light etc
Soft summer here! I'm big on metallics, BUT because we soft summers are "muted" first and foremost, our metals need to honor that. So ultra-shiny chrome, fine jewelry gold, and glossy rose gold look fake on me. We need more satin/matte/antiqued finishes like pewter, champagne gold, matte gunmetal, graphite, and satin rosy-rose gold rather than shiny copper penny. These matte metals look very goddess-ey and rich on us. Whereas these matte metals would look cheap on "clear" and "bright" folks. And vice versa. Love you Ellie!!! ❤
I’m curious to know, did you ever get a professional color analysis done? I got one recently and it BLEW MY MIND. Everyone thought I was an autumn, turns out I’m a cool winter! The ”warmth” me and my friends saw in my skin was A)my olive complexion B)yellow looking skin due to wearing the wrong colors😮. Insane! I am really happy I finally got this analysis done. 😍
Yes, this is a great example of the effect that a wrong color can have on your skin! So it's not a surprise that many people find it confusing.
That's so cool. May I know how u got to know yours?
@@arundhathijs5454 of course! 😃I booked the online personal analysis by Colour Analysis Studio. I settled for them after A LOT of comparing, and I can honestly say they really know their stuff! It was obvious in their videos. They are so well trained yet so humble and kind🩷It was worth every penny.
@@arundhathijs5454 I second the recommendation for Colour Analysis Studio. They are one of the only online color analysts who know what they're talking about.
@Spikypotato. I wss recently analyzed by them as well. Someone in a FB group typed me as soft summer, but they said bc my skin is darker, I can take more intensity so I'm cool summer.
The great thing about them is they don't have preconceived notions about skin color. Most people place Black people in autumn or winter, but they pay attention to undertone
I feel like its important to note that black dyes tend to have either a red, green or blue base. these become more obvious as a garment fades, but makes a diffenernce to how they look on you
Yes I have a black sweatshirt with a blue base. I’m a bright spring it looks so pretty.
My Gram would buy black fabric dye and do all her blacks together to make her wardrobe more cohensive and easy to wear interchangeably! there are dyes available on today's market that will dye synthetics and that was her biggest gripe LOL
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I think Soft Summer's can get away with a lot of colours from the other seasons too as long as they are not too bright or too pastel.
You FINALLY explained why I don't like how blue jeans look on me! In the dark autumn you mentioned almost all blues are removed except teal. Everyone says blue jeans 'neutral' but they're not! They're blue! 🤯😂
The channel of Christine Scaman has a vid on which jeans are good for every color season, same as which blues, oranges, yellows, etc.
@@kitty_s23456 I love that woman 😭🫶🏾
As a soft summer, one of my favorite neutrals to wear is oatmeal, especially in the winter. Softer than white but lighter than gray, so cozy if worn as a sweater. Also, tonally with white jeans 🤍 very chic. Love your videos 🥰
I have that exact outfit! Love it!
Thank you for this 🥺 have a great day
Thank you for saying black is hard to wear. So many people don't believe that but it's so harsh on so many people.
Agree and don’t get me started on the people that think colour and black are a good combination when blacks should really only be worn with neutrals, animal print and certain blues. The black deadens most colour. Ugh.
@@kayelle8005Your comment made me laugh! I share the exact same opinion on black as you. I can see black with dark, rich colors but pair it with pink? Not a fan.
I'm south Asian and I swear I've never done black. It's so harsh
Winters can wear it, but not almost anyone else.
As a dark autumn TR, I consider leopard print a neutral
Oh absolutely!
Please please do what doesn’t look good each season too! these videos have helped me so much. Analyzed my whole family and gave them tips on what colors to wear!
I'm realising slowly (official colour analysis pending) that I'm a bright spring and I am TERRIFIED of the spring palette. I've kind of already realised it to some degree subconsciously, because I have some dresses in bright colours and I have a bright yellow cardigan i wear all the time. But I just sometimes feel so self-conscious in these colors because everyone else is always in muted, more neutral colours. I just feel like a huge neon sign. I'm also plus size, so people always tell you to wear dark clothing and most of the plus size clothes in shops are, tbh, black or dark. And if I wear a bright pink dress (which I do have) I feel so extremely LOOK AT MEEEE.
Definitely a lot of women of color with brown eyes that are springs. 🙂
As a dark autumn, I LOVED what you said about using blues and greens to compliment the warmer neutrals. Just the other day I wore deep deep teal leggings with a warm acorn brown top to the gym and it looked incredible in exactly this way!!
The next day I happened to wear warm green / chartreuse with super deep aubergine and it did the exact same thing. Was definitely a good couple of days for me color-wise and you bet I added those combos to the outfit bank!!!
Edit: oh and the red distinction you’re looking for is burgundy vs maroon. Burgundy is more red/purple based and maroon is more brown based
Berry is also a good term for a cool red
So I am an artist, and the part about different types of grey is soooo true. Cool Grey will lean more bluish while Warm Grey leans more yellowish. There's also a third type of gray called French Grey which leans purple or even pinkish, which I think is what you mentioned when discussing True Summer. There's even a greenish gray which I don't know what I would call, but it can be occasionally classified as a Cool Grey.
Also do you have a bird in the background? I love parrots and I keep hearing little peeps in your videos so I had to ask!
is French Grey considered warm or cool? Can it be both?
@@DarkAlleyDollsI think french grey that leans toward pink is warmer, bc pink is white + red (red generelly is warm). Grey that has a touch of purple is cool bc purple is the cool colour blue + some red.
@@kupaadop Thank you!
@@kupaadop I personally use it as a warmer grey but it can lean cool depending on the type.
I always thought French gray was more greenish
I'm a soft summer and I love pale gold - there are some truly yelowy gols, but some of them are softer, more muted and these ones I adore on myself
I'm right in between a dark autumn and a dark winter so the fact she talks about the two together was so helpful! I have a really hard time figuring out neutrals and whether or not I'm going too far either way.
Same here, I guess you can mix and match with both palettes :D
@rachel - if you lean warm = DA, if lean cool = DW. If you're a a POC and with more melanin, you can sometimes pull off black or other colors not in your palette. DA usually look better in dark brown or navy blue than black.
I swear I switch between the two depending on the time of year and how much sun I've gotten
@@theheartofthestone you can switch between the two (DA & DW) since they are sister palettes (beside each other on the season wheel). Accdg to another analyst (Cocoa Styling), DA can use the warmer colors in DW and DW can wear the cooler colors in DA.
Same! Can't decide between dark autumn and dark winter. I feel warm, so I lean towards autumn. Brown and gold eyeshadow seem natural on me, while silver and gray shadows are like dust on my eyes. 😅 ..but I love black liner and wearing black clothes, just not very close to my face. ..I think deep autumns can wear black very well, because of high contrast, just combine it with some warm color.💛
I have two daughters with a half-Korean husband, that a can't type. He can literally wear any color. One of our two daughters is a soft summer like me. For quite a long time, I couldn't grasp why some of her hand-me-downs looked great and some looked just awful on her little sister. The solution: the other daughter is a soft autumn. The very muted tones, they can both wear. But I can't go too warm or too cold, if I want to recycle their clothes. Since I know that, I can buy clothes based on both types. Love color theory!
Wow that darker hair made your skin SPARKLE!!
This was wonderful. Soft Autumn is such a struggle because so many neutrals are too cool or too warm, describing the perfect colors as mushroom is GREAT, completely changes how you look at the colors. Thank you!
I'm soft summer (by process of elimination 🤷) and I'm not a fan of silver or gold near my face. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Rose gold, however, works great!
I’m pretty sure I’m a soft autumn - so your color season “neighbor” - and I also am not a huge fan of gold and silver near my face and find that bronze or copper can look better. It seems to be a combo of coloring potentially being closer to neutral and the fact that the soft palette leans so muted that “shiny” gold and silver can look off - not sure if that’d be the case for you as well.
I’ve been watching the 80s show Designing Women and I’m just so longing for color in clothing. Also I love how the stylist really enhanced each characters personal style and really chose outfits that suited their body types. I miss that 80s color pallet.
Love this! I was draped a Deep Blue Autumn last month (dark autumn in other systems, blue just means the majority of my "wow" colors were in the blue family).
The way my consultant described the jean color I should be looking for is an old worn-out farmer's jean. Almost sort of "muddy" looking with a slight greenish undertone. I have two particular pairs (same exact jeans) that fit that description before I even had my analysis done and what's funny to me is, those are my favorite (hence why I have two 😂). I don't care for dark-wash jeans unless I need to dress more formally which is rare.
Lizard grey is a great grey for autumn's, especially dark autumn's. Other colors are oyster for our white, rosewood, apple jade, old gold, bronze, marine navy, amber, chestnut, brick, aubergine, mahogany, etc.
Also, I just wanted to throw in another closet app! I have open wardrobe and I really love their video tips, but my favorite closet I use regularly to record my wears is AICloset. If you're familiar with Cladwell, it's similar to that, but completely free.
I'd love if you could do a video on the color seasons and different color combos that include more color. I find I struggle with this, as I am neutrals girl, so adding the bolder colors from my palette when I'm not quite sure how to pair them, would be super helpful. So something with a mix of neutrals and a bold color and then a mix of just bolder colors, that would be really interesting!
I just now discovered that I am a soft autumn and I got my wardrobe so so right haha. Its so funny, I literally own every color of the soft autumn palette and its just perfect. Crazy. ESPACIALLY green! Khaki and olive green tones are the best of the best.
I would say I'm a soft summer, but I really feel like I'm on the cusp between summer and autumn, like some days I lean the other way. I think my undertone is almost completely neutral, and honestly I'm pretty comfortable in gold, as long as it's not like a bright yellow-gold. But tbh, I also don't feel comfortable in really bright shades of silver either.
So gold or silver, it still needs to be a more muted, understated shade.
Me too! I think I have neutral undertone plus I appear so greyish.
I can’t wear pure bright color, blue looks weird, but warm color also dont really fit me either. But if I wear grey my skin instantly looks bright and clear. I can’t decided between soft auntum and summer bcs I can wear both, but I can’t wear the extreme warm/cold color in it.
The examples shown here of Emma Stone look really poor on her-- to the point that either she is not a bright spring, or she is not actually wearing spring colors. I think the latter is correct. At 7:10 she's wearing almost Dark Autumn lip and eyes with a dress that is nowhere near bright enough to match her complexion. At 7:22 she is wearing a True Autumn or Dark Autumn burnt sweater color that just doesn't work with her skin tone at all. Her cheeks look muddy, not healthy, and her eyebrows looked grayed compared to her hair. That's an indication that the colors around her are too warm.
I agree. Emma Stone is a natural blonde, so she should be typed/ draped with her (colored) hair covered or in consideration of her blonde hair. I think her natural hair is more of a cool blonde (her hair in Amazing Spiderman) , so she might be a summer, not a spring or autumn.
@@kitty_s23456 Yes, summer would be my guess too, given how the dark warm colors she is wearing don't harmonize with her skin.
Thanks Ellie, this was super helpful.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when looking at the colour palettes (im a dark Autumn) so seeing some examples & being talked through some colours gives a better general idea.
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The blue dress in your intro is literally the most beautiful item of clothing I’ve ever seen
14:37 from what i've heard, soft summers have a problem with ultra shiny metallics due to it reflecting light and thus having too much contrast, so if the silver is so polished and brand new that it's practically chrome then it's not the best look on a soft summer. likewise, i heard that soft summers can pull off gold, but it has to be either a champagne gold or like white gold in jewelry, something to that muted nature. basically golds that are so pale that it's almost silver, and silvers that are more of an antique vibe!
Very helpful video bc I live in neutrals. I still believe in the dominant trait theory which is that all features are not equal - for some people their lightness or depth is overwhelming and they can wear any temperature as long as they honor their value; for others it may be that their mutedness/softness is dominant and as long as they wear saturated shades of a color, it won't matter what color it is.
I find this true and an aspect that makes this whole color categorization far harder. For myself my eyes and skin basically are at war. I have very pale very cool toned skin with dark hair. This paired with golden black rimmed eyes makes it impossible. Everything but my eyes makes me a true winter, but eyes are rather an important feature so I can't just ignore them. I can't wait for the next evolution of color theory which deals with conflicts like this a bit better. Right now strategies to address this are mainly guesswork.
True Winter here! This video was so helpful how you broke down the best neutrals for each sub-category. It was interesting that you didn’t suggest black for True Winter, but said that indigos work well. That must be why I usually wear navy and indigos as my main dark neutral and save black for items further away from my face.
That comment about silver and gold made so much sense to me! I think I have very very neutral skin tone, I have been wearing silver out of habit for years, than found out gold works pretty good too.. and it kind of puzzled me. And now, after watching a couple of your wideos, I think I might be a soft summer :D but I have to say - rosegold does not look good on me at all, eventhough it is often recomended as the most versatile..
I am a soft summer, but I think this type can also be misunderstood. There are so many variations, e.g. pink looks brilliant on me (many different shades! except very bright, clear, cold fuschia), because despite of having muted/grayish eye whites, hair, brows and thin skin, I have quite pink lips. And emphasizing them changes the whole outlook DRAMATICALLY. I look more alive. My colouring is so much different than Kate Middleton's or other people we would classify as soft summer. Enchancing this 'colour' aspect (not only grayish shades) was a great discovery and a game changer for me.
Girl, tell me why I just followed this and went with an eyeshadow with a little orange and it looks FIRE on me!? Thank yooouuuu
You're so welcome! This is awesome!
Wow I think I'm a dark autumn. I always thought I was a soft autumn but the colors you explained in this video for dark autumn are all the ones that look good on me. My burgundy college sweater really does look like a neutral on me, and I've always looked good in green and teal. Midtoned grays always looked slightly off but charcoal gray looks amazing. I guess I was confused because I didn't think I was bright enough.
One interesting thing that I can somehow pull off is an extremely muted dark navy. It looks quite classy on me, and I think is another good substitute for black.
For real you are my one true best guide through this world of styling, TYSM
That was a great overview!
But I think not only the colors are important but also the finish of the fabric. As a soft summer i can get away with brighter colors or even black if the fabric has a matte finish. Silver can look a bit harsh on me if the finish is too metalic.
@Grit Kasdorf I think, silver is a colour for winters, it's too shiny and bright for summers. If fabrics have matte finishs, this looks automatically more muted, what is better for summers.
I thought of that when she mentioned that soft summers struggle to wear silver. I've had the inverse problem as a winter, where I thought i couldn't wear silver but it turns out i was only wearing antiqued/tarnished silver and it wasn't doing anything for me.
I saw a couple people in the comments saying they're between dark winter and dark autumn so: take pictures of yourself in the following colors (if you live near a clothing shop you can try things on and do it, though it's less helpful with dressing room lighting): true white, cream, and pale beige; true black, deep charcoal grey, and deep brown. If you are a dark winter the white and black will make you look the best and the others will wash you out somewhat. If you are a dark autumn white and black will wash you out but you will look more vibrant in the slightly more muted colors.
Thank You :)
This Video and comment section was so helpful! I tried to settle for one metal color, but ended up super confused. Now I know that that's a typical soft summer problem. My wedding ring has a perfectly soft rose gold, but I don't find this color so often
Hello Ellie Jean! 🌷I believe I am warm autumn. I have dark brown hair, hazel eyes and pale skin. Exactly as you say I always thought that a burgundy and olive green/khaki colors were my neutrals. Same with all kind of browns. All colors I saw on a maple leaf I knew these are my colors and I can pull of all of them. 🍁🍂 Thanks for confirming that! Best regards! 😘
Soft summer here, and I would say I wear mostly rose gold. I don’t think silver suits me well, and I have to be careful with golds and making sure they aren’t too yellow, but any rose gold pieces I wear shine on me
I watch all your videos even though I'm still deeply confused over which season I am.
Hi, try to watch Mikaela Carrizo's vids on seasonal color analysis & how to find your dominant characteristic. They helped me distinguish between TA & DA (I already knew that I'm an autumn.) Turns out that I'm TA but can wear some DA colors.
As a very pale dark winter, when I first started wearing make-up I struggled so hard with my colors. I knew I was cool toned at the time, but since I was so pale, I avoided darker colors fearing they'd be look too bold on me. It took noticing my mom, who's just as pale as I am, putting on a vampy purple lipstick and having it look completely neutral on her to get me to try darker colors. Once I learned my season it made a ton more sense.
I said all that to say, I'm so glad there's people out there helping people learn their colors/seasons/body type. I had my mom, who just so happened to have had her colors done, but so many of my friends had to learn by trial and error and many selected the wrong colors because they liked how they'd look on someone else.
I have been struggling to figure out my color season but your comment has me thinking I might be a dark winter. Even though I'm really fair skinned I feel like I can take a lot of dark makeup without looking overly done up or vampy. My everyday eye make up is very cool, dark, and smokey but it almost looks natural on me. I frequently wear dark lipstick as well and it doesn't seem to ever look harsh or extreme... definitely things to think about. Thanks for the insight!
This is so helpful, thank you! I think I'm a true/cool summer, so now it makes so much sense why coral and peachy pink lipsticks don't look right on me but rosy tones do!
I really appreciate this video! I think when you’re first starting to learn about color seasons often times you end up learning more about the standout colors for each season as opposed to understand the spectrum, such as what neutrals look best. 💕
Any advice to help me distinguish whether I’m a soft summer or light summer? You were right Ellie when you said how difficult it is to type yourself!
I don't really know if I am a bright spring or a bright winter... I feel like I haver a warm undertone in the summer and cool one in the winter. Anyone else can relate to that?
BW & BS are sister palettes - they are beside each other on the season wheel. If you're primarily warm, then you're most likely a BS; otherwise it's BW. You can borrow colors from your sister palettes.
Totally relate. I think the main thing is just to wear colors that are BRIGHT and not worry so much about tone.
I have felt the exact same way like a winter during winter and a autumn during summer because I tan more yellow than red. I just realised that I have an olive undertone even though I am quite pale, probably a cool olive that warms up a little with a tan. I am now leaning towards being a soft summer.
@@cecilia9618 yes, there are many olive skinned people who are soft summer/ soft autumn or DW/ DA. Ssu & SA are sister palettes, so you can also borrow colors from SA (if you think you're SSu). Good luck!
“Anything that relates to me is harder to see” SAME!!!!!!!
Yessss I feel I’m a soft summer. I love greys and greens and golds that are more taupe
WAIT I had no idea Soft Summers could wear gold, and I LOVE golds and always thought they looked good on me despite me being cool. Learning more all the time from you!
I’m in a similar boat. I think as long as the gold isn’t too bright and yellow, they work well for me. I really like some rose gold, and brushed metals like bronze or a bit more of a matte silver versus a super bright almost white silver. I was typed as a pallet that aligns pretty close to soft summer and it is super tricky with how neutral we seem to be.
Light Summer can also tolerate gold quite well
Soft Summers can wear some golds because it’s transitioning into Autumn 💕
@@emmybailey2672 Rose Gold is beautiful!!! I think it's because Soft Summers can have almost grey features (ash blonde hair, grey or blue-grey eyes, neutral to cool skin) their features aren't as opinionated so to speak and so we can end up wearing a few things that wouldn't fit other cool types.
Thank you Ellie-Jean! I am also a Light Summer (I think!) and I have struggled at times with finding good neutrals. I always appreciate your amazing advice!
Excellent video, Ellie-Jean. Thank you. I’m wanting to add a little bit more colour to my wardrobe and its still a bit of hit and miss so this is super helpful. Btw, green is not a primary colour. Also, I know you wanted to be accurate to Colour Theory when discussing what is and what isn’t a neutral and I appreciated that. I heard someone talk about “neutrals” in context of our wardrobes and interiors as that hue with a value and/or intensity that serves as a backdrop for all the other hues in your palette and I like that definition. I think it’s what you were also communicating with this video. Black and white and grey in their pure form of course are the only true neutrals because they have no hue. But in real life, they all have either cool or warm undertones and come in a spectrum of intensities but all the other hues do as well and I think every season could potentially pick any colour from their palette and use it as the backdrop to their other colours. I’ve seen people choose orange as their neutral and it works beautifully for them. Also, I think Kate Middleton has to be one of the most consistently mis typed woman on the internet when it comes to her colour season. I don’t know if you’re right or wrong with your analysis of her. She looked great in the pics you showed as examples but I have seen her typed as a winter, as a spring, as an autumn …. Lol. Maybe she’s just a chameleon 😊. Also, I think our colours change as we age. Not drastically, of course. But I was typed as one season when I was younger. My hair had a lot of red in it and my eyes tended to look more green (they’re hazel) but as I have aged, my hair has gotten darker, less red, and my eyes look blue most of the time. My skin tone has changed as well. Now in my 40’s I have a lot of grey/silver streaks in my hair and I find I am more and more a true or bright winter when I was typed as Dark Autumn when I was a teenager. They still cross over for me which is part of my struggle in nailing down which colours I want to add to my very neutral wardrobe. Maybe something you could cover in a future video on colour seasons? Either way, this was helpful ❤
Regarding soft summers that you were asking about being able to wear gold or struggling with silver: it's is olive soft summers like me who struggle in this way and yes it is true that we can wear gold.
Another olive soft summer here, and honestly, I don’t look good in gold or silver unless muted. It can’t be shiny.
oxidized (blackened) silver doesn’t work either. Too cool.
Most of my silver is rustic/ hammered and gold not too bright and not worn right against skin. ((looks ok with a crew neck) but I am very light Olive. A darker olive might be ok with gold.
One trick I use is to combine silver and gold. Like grey pearls or a blue grey stone with gold metal. These seem to look the best. I have just started experimenting with rose gold. Works with some outfits if the colors are true to soft summer and not too cool as with true summer.
I'm a soft summer. Gold is good on me, but it has to be muted. My dad have red hair, I think my pigment it's pinkish, and that's why it works on me. Sometimes even rose gold looks great. It really depends on the piece. Anything to bright will stand out in all the wrong ways.
I’m a bright spring and I too have always thought I struggled with neutrals! Lol. I wear color whenever I can, especially near my face.
Very useful video! And believe me, you don't want to be soft summer - in the world of bright colors almost every modern piece makes you look dirty and overwhelms you.
For that reason I started sewing my clothes myself. I am from Germany and there are quite a bit of Scandinavian fabric stores, that sell the perfect shades! Especially winter clothes are difficult, since they all tend to be too warm-colored and to saturated for me.
@@elisabethg.2360 Very good idea! May be I can order online... Unfortunately we don't have in Bulgaria such kind of stores but I was inspired of an American youtuber who sews summer dresses from sheets. So I intend to visit the Bedroom department of Ikea and Jysk and find the right materials for my new summer wardrobe 😁 There's always a way! 😎
I was trying to figure out what color was cocky 😂
I figured it out 😅
Great video once again, thank you!
I thought the same thing, took me a minute! 😂
I’m a bright spring and I completely agree with your assessment! I have this deeper, almost mustard yellow bag that, sitting on its own, does not look neutral at all. But on me? Definitely a neutral. There are many colors that, on most people, wouldn’t be neutrals, but end up serving as that for me - brownish orange, deep greens and teals, etc.
And I agree that grays are rough. I look terrible in light grays, and originally, seeing that in my color palette made me question my season lol. If I go for a gray, it’s a warmer charcoal, but if I’m going for that level of depth in a neutral, I’d rather wear a cognac color or a really bright, warm navy. I do still have a weakness for black even though it’s not my best color, but I’m bright enough that it’s not terrible on me, at least. But I don’t wear completely black shirts or dresses, and if I’m wearing a black jacket/coat, bringing in a bright top or scarf helps balance it.
Burgundy for Dark Autumn as a neutral color is so so so TRUE 👌🏻🔥
Worked wonders for me, when I bought a burgundy turtleneck pullover 2 years ago.
I've seen so many people classify Kate Middleton as a True Summer...now you have me rethinking my subseason!!
It is so hard to figure out the spring VS autumn. But the golden VS copper is actually really helpful!
@lady - another analyst said that if you can wear pumpkin orange, olive green & mustard yellow, then you're an autumn. Otherwise, you're a spring (need brighter versions of those colors).
I really struggle with soft summer vs. soft autumn. Maybe you could do a short on the difference?
One is warm one is cool, though soft is the key feature
Same!! I’ve researched and read every article. And I find that I can wear a lot of both. Although the gray tones of Soft Summer look awful on me and the mustard yellow tones of Soft Autumn also look terrible on me. So I’m in the same boat I wear what suits me and still have no clue which palette I belong to.
There's a type in another system that's called summer-autumn, who can wear colours that are in between warm and cold and dark and light, but always muted. Perhaps that's an option?
@@kind_of_willow3193 that’s probably the closest thing. Because I know that I cannot wear anything bold or bright, but soft and muted colors look amazing. Thanks for your insight.
Filoso Vlog has a good vid on soft summer & soft autumn. She calls them in-transition types.
The main problem is that shops and the fashion industry simply don't cater for all of our seasons, they only present a limited colour range every season, because of economics. It took me several years to find a beige trench coat that had a cool undertone in the beige. Usually they are dirty yellow toned.
It’s not rare to be a brown eyed spring! Bright springs won’t have lighter hair than brown as per International Image Institute. Other springs can have red or blonde. Just like natural dark haired won’t be a light spring!
thank you for focusing on neutrals!! i've had an inkling that i am a soft summer but difficult to confirm using the colour palettes because my wardrobe is 90% neutrals. many of my favourite clothing items are grey, bright white, dusty pink, taupe/stone and navy blue! maybe that's why i'm drawn to kate middleton's outfits -- she's not only a soft summer but a FN too
I’m still confused by my color season but I realized I’m totally cool toned when I saw a pic of me with warm bleached bangs and an orange sweater… eek!
Loved the video!
Only I wish you dug a bit deeper into the intensity of color for Soft summers. I have a hard time knowing whether something is too light/ dark. And I generally prefer darker colors ( washed out wine / forest green in particular)
Personally, as a soft summer I really struggle with browns. I own a chocolaty brown sweater and it feels very odd. So not sure about that one.
Great work 💕
After some videos for color analysis I would recommend you to use your natural color contrast as a tool. You can't make more contrast outfit than the actual contrast between your hair and your skin. Everything darker will overwhelm you. It works for makeup also. The good news is it will look that contrasted as black on dark winter 😁. Forget for the traditional chocolate brown - it's a clear color. Find a dusty greyish version that compliments the grey overtone of your skin.
@chloe - Filoso Vlog has a good vid on soft summer/ soft autumn.
Soft Autumn here and from what I understand, its not the lightness or darkness of the color but the amount of grey or other colors added to it. A really clear brown might be overwhelming but brown with grey added will look better. Basically, the more ambiguous a color is (the more difficult to define it as green or blue or grey for example) the better for Soft seasons.
@@cealabeala4367 exactly this! also I've heard summer browns described as "cocoa" rather than "chocolate," which to me implies having a grey/purple tone to them.
@@vermiliongardens came here to say this! Chocolate brown is definitely a warm, rich brown great for true/dark autumn. Cocoa brown is a dusty, purpley brown and pretty much the only brown that a summer can pull off.
Soft summer here! This was very helpful, thank you!
I’m so glad you mentioned black bc I have seen soooooooo many people say that everyone can wear black and I’m sitting here thinking that a majority of the people I see wearing black look so washed out, it looks horrible on them. :(
Ellie this was great!! I felt like thos video helped clear up which colour season I am! Thank you so much for your video today! I had a video idea, I think it could be super helpful I you discussed each colour season and talked about hair colour that suits each season!!
Mushroom!! Yeeesss. This video has helped me so much. Thank you!
Neutrals are easy if you look good in cool/dark colors. Navy, Black, Burgundy, White & Grey are abundent. If you're light/warm, it's more difficult. Browns/Tans are not always available. I've leaned heavily into Olive for that reason & had to wait many seasons to find a coat in Camel. I'm still looking for more warm brown & rust basics. Traditional professional attire is almost always Navy Blue, Grey or Black. It's difficult to get away from Black.
Totally agree 👍🏻
I have been told I am a spring/warm but my whole life I have gravitated to deep greens sea foam blues and rose pink. My wedding dress was off white with blush colored shoes. I feel like these colors are more summer but maybe I'm just attracted to them? 🤷♀️ maybe light spring?
I second the idea of a video on olive skin tones!
I still can't tell if I'm a Dark Autumn or Dark Winter because I have true neutral undertone, but it's nice to know they share similar color palettes!
I've found that mine seems to hinge on what color I have my hair lol With my natural hair I'm a dark autumn, but if I have my hair dyed a true black ( or blue, green, or purple as I've done several times) I look better in more of the dark winter pallette .
I have the same problem
I Will never stop using Black, but i really like Your videos 💜
I love your videos I feel like breaking down WHY things are flattering and tailoring my style to me is so much better than just copying other people's clothes/makeup and hoping for the best
Your content is great!! (I have no idea what my season is but I watched the whole video lol)
Very helpful for someone who doesn’t know how to wear neutrals ie me 😂 so many people struggle to wear colour but I love colour so much I don’t know how to make neutrals look good! I think I see a lot of neutrals being very cool which I know looks bad on me, grey and black and white etc just don’t work for warm toned folk! I’ve got to get some warm browns in my wardrobe ASAP
More color content please! I love this subject 😊
for 18:53 - in spanish, those colors are called "borravino" (¿erases of wine?) or sometimes "marsala" for those brownier bordeaux and "uva" (grape) or "berenjena" (eggplant/aubergine) for the more violet leaning reds... i love those colors!
there are a lot of white skinned women in the pictures you choosed... it would have been nice to see a little bit more variety...
for the whole it's very interesting to get a grip on this distinction! i guess i'm a dark winter, though i love a pop of bright spring colours now and then jejeje
and YEEESSS!!! your patterns video was so helpful!!
That was quite helpful. Thank you. Just like you I struggle with really cool neutral colours, although I am more cool than warm.
Anything silver grey is too harsh/blue/bright somehow, unless it's darker. I seem to look best in a mix of muted warm and cool which leans slightly more cool f.ex. through a shiney surface. Very confusing. My son seems to be the opposite, he needs more warmth in the mix, but we both look great in greens and better than in blues... Have you heard of this concept of shaded soft summer/autumn where the colours are a bit more saturated?
If only I could like this a million times, really helped me a lot.. mwah! thank you!
Your videos are awesome! I will tell you as an American that I was desperately trying to figure out what car key was. I thought maybe some new slang that I was not up to speed on. I finally realized you were saying khaki 😂
Bright spring here- thank you for this very informative video ❤
I'm a soft summer and I noticed that I can wear pale gold tones well, which amazed me, a "silvery" gold so to speak.
As a likely Bright Spring, this was so helpful! Thank you!
Great Video!! You look amazing in that denim shirt.
Thank you for the video. It just confirms what I had already thought about myself - I'm a soft summer. Mind you, most of my wardrobe is black - lol. I've always known black wasn't really my colour but I just like it a lot so I wear it a lot. Lately, I've been adding a bit of pale pink to my wardrobe and I'm liking it quite well. This is rather strange for me as for most of my 52 yrs. I've hated pink - lol. As to khaki ... yes, it has to be a blue'er version rather than one with more yellow in it. I'm a big fan of khaki as well.
Great video and waiting for the next one.
I was just analyzed as a bright spring and I’ve honestly never liked a true neutral on me. They have always looked just blah. I naturally gravitated towards the more saturated versions of neutrals that get classified more as colours than neutrals.
you look ABSOLUTELY AMAZING with that light grey kind of pearlish dress! The epitome of ethereal essence! where did you buy it? Hello from Italy!
Wow! I've discovered I'm a dark autumn. I've NEVER been able to get away with wearing white (it turns me PINK). Meanwhile teal & brown have been my absolute favorite colors to wear my entire life
Hi, as an autumn your best white is off-white, cream or beige. Another analyst called it "white with a hint of brown in it". Hope that helps. (I'm a TA/DA).
Where is soft autumn? It seems to be missing. A video on our neutrals would be really lovely. Thanks. :)
It's at 14:47.
Ahhh so glad you mentioned Melanie Murphy! I've always found my complexion to be similar but have had a tough time nailing down my colour season.
As far as I know, I'm either a dark winter or true winter, since black works really well on me. I can wear all black and it will look rather classy and chique, even with a very dark make-up. I can wear certain dark greens, something like forest green or green with a brown/greyish undertone, grey works but I think rather the lighter ones or the really dark ones, bright red works, very light blue works. The one's I'm less sure about are darker blues. I think it might actually be the denim type that could fit me better, but I have a very dark blue hoodie and I think it's fine. I mean, I just don't look great in it because I always wear it when I don't intend to leave the house and don't care about my looks haha.
With beiges I'm really unsure. They kinda tend to make my skin seem darker/more tanned. If they're really bright, kinda cold beiges that doesn't happen.
Another great, informative video. Thank you! For those of us with older tablets, would you put the links to your other videos in the description box, please? iCards no longer show up on my device. Thank you 😊
Please do more color theory videos, this was great!
I still believe the color season is a bit hard to implement on asian skin, because I realize my undertone is almost neutral. Wearing extreme warm color or cool color tends to washes me out, but also I can wear both if the shade fits.
Also I look great in any shade of grey (does that make sense? 😂) bcs I’m so muted my skin always look grey-ish.
So I’m torn between soft summer and auntum (leaning more towards auntumn). If only they created a palletr for true neutral skintone
Soft summer here. I think I could pull out both silver and golden but some intense yellowish gold could be overpowering.