Great topic. It's funny, when you showed the picture of Megan Fox in sage, I didn't even notice the tress was sage. the whole image just looked gray. I had to focus on the dress alone to see the color. Great explanation how we perceive color!
This makes a lot of sense, I can wear soft colours and look alright, not awful but fine - which I thought was a good thing, but I feel at my most 'alive' in bright colours - so when I learned I was a bright winter it was like a lightbulb coming on; I'm now starting to own it - and I get my most compliments in high contrast bright outfits (which luckily bring me soooo much joy!) ❤
Your comment just reminded me of a quote someone recently mentioned from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Someone tells Midge that she looks like either Vermeer painted her or she swelled a light bulb, and that person told me that’s why my skin tone is like (in the nicest way). I have no idea what season Rachel Brosnahan would be, but I think of this quote now for bright winters. We could have been painted by Vermeer!
this is what im figuring out as well, i look fine in soft colours but not good. It's a bit like it makes me look calm to the point of tired which is what i feel like most of the time anyway. But brighter colours (not sure how bright exactly, just not soft) look much better on me and actually also make me feel more awake/alive
My theory: Several of the celebrity bright winters actually started with dirty blonde/light brown hair. They changed to dark for a role and looked so good they never went back. But it's still artificial hair color. I suspect in real life a larger percentage of bright winters started as dark blonde as kids. As we aged our hair got darker but we associated bright blonde as prettier so get highlights and then the variation makes people think soft. Also since we're closer to neutral it's more difficult to tell.
Yes! As a toddler, I had blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin , but with time, my coloring ended up looking like the Welsh twins (level 3 or 4 hair, very dark brows and dark and striking brown eyes and very white sclerae).
@@brightwinter9334 Same here. My hair was WHITE like silver platinum for a hot minute, then that melanin kicked in and was like okay, i'll just steal the show. Now I'm super dark like a 3/4 as well neutral cool chocolate dark brown. I guess an off brown black. That's why my beliefs on color are "out there" compared to super traditional old school analysis. I'm an anthropologist studying race from the anthropological perspective I see this all the time the hair color shifts. Another fun fact changing hair colors often happens in people with a mutation in a gene many with Albinism have. You could full blown even have it if you inherited an allele from each parent, but if you only got one you may have symptoms of the disease without full blown technically having it. Thus, hair color shifts from white, to bleached, to ash blonde, to even brown! In any race too. I'm starting to study this in particular by itself as it relates to eye color in groups like this for gray eyes. I have gray eyes and they aren't as rare as people think, mostly confused blue/green eye people who never realized they are gray or what seperates blue from crossing a threshold to become "gray." So you are so right and yeah, just here to support you as a natural blonde as a clear winter! :)
I had several "aha" moments in the past couple years too. First of all, I discovered that I lean warm in hue and was really kind of shocked. How that happened was a coincidence. I ordered a dress that looked like a soft antique rose color on the image and when it came it was actually more like a bright coral color. I was like "Ugh, that color's gonna look awful on me, but let's at least see if the fit is alright, coz I can return it and order it in a different color later.", when I tried it on, the fit wasn't that great, but dang that color. I wore no make up and had my natural hair color in that moment and I looked in the mirror just to stare back a second time. I actually looked like I wore at least a tinted moisturizer, my skin looked more even, more radiant and healthy. Until that day I had never seen such a flattering effect created by a color on myself. That was when I REALLY started digging deeper. Even though that dress was in a brighter color (not the brightest though), I assumed I was still pretty soft/low chroma because I was VERY biased. I thought I might be a Soft Autumn and while these colors didn't look bad on me at all, there are certain colors in that palette that look quite flattering on me, I felt like something was off but doubted that I was a True Autumn. I then got my colors done (virtual analysis and I admit my submitted photos weren't showing my coloring very well, I looked way softer in these images than I actually do look like) I got the results of being a Light Spring. The palette I received shocked me, because I had not thought that I could wear THAT much color. But when I wore some of the colors, I saw how my coloring was actually fading (especially with the neutrals from that said palette) and figured that brighter neutrals and brighter colors with the same amount of warmth make me look way brighter. I am not claiming to know I am a Bright Spring, but I love what Bright Spring colors do with my coloring. They bring out the light ocean color of my eyes, they even out my skin, define my face and bring out warmth in my hair color that you could overlook if I wear softer colors. Another "aha" moment was when I ordered a bathing suit that looked like the colors it had, were about medium chroma, maybe leaning slightly bright. When it arrived, I was shocked about how intensely bright the colors were. Bordering neons, actually. I tried it on though and my mom was instantly like "Whoah, these colors really flatter you incredibly well, you should really wear brighter colors more often!", and I looked in the mirror and thought my skin would probably look incredibly grey next to the bright pink, bright teal and bright aqua. Nope, not at all. These colors actually brought out the golden warmth in my skin and I even looked less pale. I do have a jacket in a VERY bright orange too, and while the color looks insanely bright on its own, on me, it looks cohesive. I doubt that an actual Light Spring could carry THAT much brightness (because that jacket is also bordering neon). I also don't look horrible in black and white, but they are indeed not my BEST colors. What's always driven me crazy though: I never understood why people would tell me I look great in so many different types of colors. But you just gave the perfect explanation for this phenomenon. Even a co-worker of mine who was taught SCA several years ago once said "You're one of those types that can easily wear almost any color and still look great, I'm not like that, being a True Autumn, I really have to stick to my own colors or I will look funny.", I also noticed that whenever I chose a toner for my hair that is too soft for me, my entire coloring looks literally muted and dull, even hollow. And sometimes even the raw bleach result looked better than the toned result. Such things may happen if one believes they are soft but are actually bright instead. Photos can really take away a lot of intensity or even add it, aside from tweaking the entire hue of the image in various directions at once, so even color grading might not get you to the real true colors (also depending on the quality of the camera that's being used).
I'm a true winter, and I don't think I look bad in the wrong colors, that's why I wore them for years😅. But comparing with my colors... wow! I look way better in a vivid blue or an emerald green. My skin looks brighter, clearer.
I surprised myself and my mother in 1986 when I was typed as winter we both thought I would be a fall because I have dark auburn hair with bright green eyes so I always wondered until I discovered that I was actually a bright winter. This was well done 👏 ✔️
My hair is in the blonde family and I’m Bright Winter all the way. Light Summer makes me look sick! Soft seasons make my skin look dusted with concrete. 😵💫
Judging by your pic I would say you look like a sort of Spring. The bright pink lipstick is drawing too much attention. Your natural coloring isnt what a Winter looks like (which would be more like Snow White) and you are very lucky. I could recommend Carol Brailey's videos to you. She offers color analysis services too but personally I am just a viewer. It took me a year of watching and testing colors on me to discover that I am actually a Bright Winter and not a Summer which were my most common colors to wear. However what makes us shine shouldnt draw attention away from us but be in harmony with our looks. I was never brave enough to wear bright colors but once I decided to look at myself objectively I understood muted things didnt match my high contrast features..
You nailed it! I’m a Bright Spring and I was confused for a while because Autumn colors, especially deeper Autumn colors, aren’t bad. Some of them even look good! But they just don’t give me the same “pop” and vibrancy as the very bright colors do.
SNAP! Was so sure I was a deep autumn/winter and would wear saturated colours but much too dark for my proper season. Now I’m all about the warm bright colours and get lovely compliments, including “that suits your personality”.
I had a colour epiphany while I was watching this video. When you said that the wrong colour can make someone's upper lip look greyer, I thought, "Oh, so that's why some colours give me a greenish moustache." And usually, those colours are muted. Now I have a better idea of what to avoid. Thank you!
That happens to my undereye area. Drab greens and browns make my the shadows under my eyes really stand out while hot pink erases them. Figuring that out was my ah ha to knowing I was BW
I’m a warm spring and even though I have always known I was warm, I never actually considered spring because the colors were scary for me. They are personally my least favorite of all seasons but I can see how they work for me and make me glow.
Awesome video! So helpful thank you. I was mistyped as a summer most of my life. For these exact reasons. I'm an introvert so I never wore bright colors. I've had 3 pregnancies and worn many sizes. I saved only my favorite clothes in storage. Last year I lost a lot of weight, and in the winter I knew I was going to need a whole new summer wardrobe. I was tired of using makeup to try to correct the wrong colors I had been wearing. It was shocking to me that I was a bright winter. But when I went into storage and looked at all of my favorites, those were the colors I had saved! So subconsciously I knew what looked best on me. At age 48 the brighter the better. Even the neon colors look amazing. However I choose not to wear though those super bright shades because they don't suit my personality. I have found beautiful colors though, such as teal, Barbie pink, and cobalt blue that work for my personal style to go with the neutrals that are readily available like black, navy and white. I was able to find colors in stores on trend such as Kelly green and hot pink. I've gotten more compliments this year than I have in the past decade. I never even knew that my eyes were that bright of a blue because they look dull in summer colors.
I also noticed the weird "gatekeeping" about winter seasonal color online. I got my color analysis done by House of Color a couple months ago and was a "Sprinter Winter" (which I believe is their version of Bright Winter?). As soon as I went online to find other Bright/Sprinter winters for inspiration I found all this weirdness. I think a lot of it is due to the fact that soft color palettes are much more popular right now, with lots of beige, neutral, blended looks being preferred because it's trendy, without people realizing that's influencing their preference. Bright colors can also photograph very strangely; the photos my consultant took with my best drapes don't look very good, but it's from the color balancing the phone camera did. The effects of the bright drapes on my skin were undeniable in person - the camera just didn't pick it up. But I can see the difference when I wear them. I don't have what anyone would consider "high contrast", but that didn't stop the brighter cool colors from looking better against my face. My hair was covered!
You explain things so well. I’m typed as a winter. I know if I wore the top you have on, my skin wouldn’t look good and the colour would reflect up. I need a darker green, and find greens hard in general (olive?). But it was you who made me realise that I’m not a bright winter. I might have said this to you before 😄
Greens are tricky and yes that bright green would be way too bright on a true winter. I love the pine greens you all have in your palette though! They’re so sophisticated 😍
Yes! I have hazel eyes and naturally “dishwater blonde” hair, so I mistyped myself soft autumn for years. I thought there was no way I could be any sort of spring…until I started getting compliments on the few bright spring colors I owned…years later, I was typed bright spring and love it! I could truly see how my skin reacted so favorably to the bright, warm colors.
My bright spring sister in law has natural hair like yours- sort of a dark blonde- and bright spring is incredible on her!! She was nearly mistyped as an autumn.
I too have dishwater-colored hair and hazel eyes and look good in some Spring colors also. Not sure if I’m fully a Spring as I also look good in some Autumn ones, but I will wear other colors than my palette if they look good on me. Conversely, I rarely wear heavy orange and mustards that supposedly look good on Autumns.
Thank you for making this video! When I first saw this video I thought it's not about me but decided to watch it anyways. But when you described a bright season wearing a muted color, that sounded just like me. I was analyzed to be warm autumn last year and the more I wear the warm autumn colors the more wrong they feel. Especially now that I have started growing back my own hair color (which is a cooler brown) and all of my tan has worn out, I feel muted colors make me look blurry and really warm colors jaudienced. The past few days I have been thinking about my preferences and doing a lot of draping. And all of a sudden I don't believe I'm a muted season at all. At this point I'm not even sure about the undertone. But wearing a bright color makes my skin clear and my eyes pop. I have also always loved a bright lipstick makeup look on me, while a more muted makeup looks just muddy and ages me.
Wow, the comparison pics of you in more dark/muted vs bright is just awesome. You look amazing in those brights! I like how you explained why people might get mistyped as well as your point about soft people actually looking quite vibrant in soft colors, not muted or dusty.
In Sweden we have a word for the fenomenon that people should not stand out and the fear of being too much/standing out (fear of people thinking: "Who do you think you are?") It's called "Jantelagen" (the jante law, direct translated) Meaning: if you stand out (bright colors or in other ways) you'll be a threat to the calm or "normal" and it could cause turbulense or something like that. Some people are afraid to wear colors and it's sad that it is like that. People mostly wear black and such. But since a few years back we see more colors popping up and that is fun!
I been professionally typed as a bright winter and still a little in denial because some bright colored clothing and makeup don't look right on me: for example i find mac's candy yum yum & everyone's heroine to look strange on me but i think they might be too cool toned. Bright winters are the warmest winter season. Ruby woo & all fired up looks amazing though so I am guessing because they are more warm. I switched over to cool tone makeup from warm tone and its been 100% an improvement and it looks amazing. Color analysis is so cool.
It’s possible that you lean a little warmer in your season. There will be some colors that you end up preferring over others with time so it’s good that you’ve eliminated a few things!
What’s also interesting is lipsticks. I tried Revlon 777 and on so many people it’s a dark, deep, wine red vampy shade. Me as a bright winter it looks like a raspberry-hued medium brown. I knew it would be too muted for me but I wasn’t expecting it to be so obvious !
I used to wear a lipstick called Siren, which was my brightest Cool Summer pink. A Bright Winter friend really liked it and bought some. She was darker skinned than I and it looked very soft on her.
I’m so glad this video was on my recommended page! I started getting into color analysis and the subreddit a few months ago. I was sure I was a warm season. I was shocked when I draped myself and was obviously cool. Then it made sense why I could never get my makeup to look right. It always looked like it was sitting on top of me like a plastic mask. Bronzer? Lord, how much money I’ve wasted trying to find the right one. I posted real life in natural life drapes twice in the subreddit and hardly got any response. Most (maybe all, I can’t remember) put me in spring or autumn. Idk if people troll there, giving purposely wrong answers but it made me question myself. I sent my 28 drape photos separately to two people in my real life and numbered them. Asking which ones made my skin look best. They were almost 100% agreement. The bright winter colors were the best. I can wear all winter colors, some summer and spring and the darkest of autumn but they don’t make my skin look as clear and healthy as bright winter. My hair is dark brown at the roots but after a few inches of growth the sun fades it to a brassy color, I can tan, and I am a bright winter.
I had just the opposite ”problem” 😅 meaning I thought I’m ok with the brightest winter colours, until I really got into this 12 season analysis and found out myself via online tests that most certainly I’m a deep/dark winter…!
Can you do a video on makeup/hair tips for the bright seasons? Like what to avoid and what looks good? I've recently heard that brights should avoid eyeshadow and contour and would love to know more as to why 😊 love your videos!!
Absolutely! I don’t know why I didn’t think to do videos for the neutrals based on their qualifiers (bright, dark, light, soft) but I will certainly do that!
Loved this video! 💗 Can you do more videos about makeup products for bright winters? It’s really hard to find the right makeup products that aren’t warm toned 😫
This was great! I thought i was an autumn for literal years because of my dark brown hair, fair skin with warm freckles and hazel eyes. But the muted colors always made me look flat, which I realize now is because I have high contrast and am actually a bright spring! I look soo much more alive and lifted in bright warm colors, I actually look younger now that I'm wearing my bright spring colors!
It's confusing bc i think i can handle both bright and muted, they just have different vibes, but neither is good or bad... i guess it's just not a strong feature? (I get mistyped as muted a a Lot tho, i am Not, i wear medium-bright colours all the time it looks great)
Having small features where the lip and eye color aren't as obvious I think is part of the mistyping. Also cliches like are mentioned in the video. Another cliche I have noticed is the freckles: any type can have them, I think but they are associated with being warm toned, it seems. I have been typed in person, used photo apps and watched video advice and been typed autumn, spring and summer. I think I'm a winter 😆 especially after I used a TikTok filter of lip colors with all the seasons blush choices overlayed and Winter was the one that perfectly matched my lip color. All the others looked like I was wearing orange chalk on my cheeks. I look great in florescent pink but also deep rich colors like midnight blue and plum. They make my feature details (like eyelashes) and bone structure stand out and my coloring pop.
Thank you, Bridget! As usual, this all seems spot on to me. I feel both seen and called out 😆 I also thought I was an autumn at first. And I was confused when I first started learning about personal color analysis because the soft summer colors looked fine on me. Just very “fine.” So much of what I saw online talked about how colors should look natural on you, but I know now there are probably better adjectives to use for bright winter, like “cohesive” or “in harmony.” I know a lot of people are very excited about the bright winter colors, but I was terrified to wear colors that bright. Like you said, I think part of me too has been afraid to be too much or to have someone accuse me of being too much, which isn’t good. I’ve been working on that, and I’m proud to say that I’ve acclimated to the brighter lip colors now to the point that anything else doesn’t look right anymore. Progress! Your videos have really helped me on my journey, so thank you again for all your hard work on these videos!
I think it's easier for people to see "that color overpowers you" vs "that color drains you"; like as long as the person is in front of the color, they think it's okay when in reality, it's actually softening the person or making them look tired, bringing out shadows, etc. But I do feel frustrated sometimes when I see someone who is at least a Winter but someone else insists they are Soft something (in the subreddit mentioned 😅) Even worse when "Soft" is the majority vote and you'd be the odd one out suggesting otherwise. I used to be active there (and some of the people said I got their season right when they got professionally draped!) but I have since left
I think confusion comes about when you have women with dark brown/black hair with medium/tan/light olive skin rather than the Snow White types. Women like supermodels Adriana Lima, Bianca Balti, Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk, Jessica Kahawaty, Miranda Kerr etc. They can look great with very bright colours and also soft colours to me at least.
It also seems as though people refuse to believe people with medium or tan skin can be Winters. Medium or tan immediatly means "warm" to many people. Kim Kardashian is my skintone twin, and you wouldn't believe how many times I've been typed as an Autumn on Reddit.
@sara.allegra I was correctly typed as a winter in childhood during the OG color me beautiful era but was always incorrectly pushed towards the darker part of the palette (I think because I'm mixed race). If I bought into online quizzes using eye color etc it would point me to autumn but warm tones are horrendous on me in real life. When I got a house of colour analysis a few years ago, the analyst was shocked (but I wasn't) that my top colors included light emerald, the brightest coolest red, electric blue, and magenta while pine, navy, burgundy, and fuchsia scored much lower. I also think there's still kind of this false belief that it's rare for women of colour to be summers or springs and I disagree regardless of how dark anyone's skintone is. It's important to let the drapes do all of the talking.
I just discovered your channel. You look so beautiful in all of these colors! I’m a winter but with dark brown eyes. I’m curious where do you shop to find your best colors?
@@lovelylotus8787 Thank you and thanks for being here!! I’ll have to make a video on shopping for your best colors because it does become a little complicated when your focus has been narrowed. For me it’s usually a combination of thrifting as well as perusing online searching specifically for the names of my colors and possibly visiting in store if it looks like a brand has some possibilities for me in their collection currently. Then I swatch and decide if it is a good match. Sometimes it’s just ordering and praying that it’s spot on and if it isn’t I’ll send it back. It’s definitely a process!
This is so timely - I have recently been seeing I’ve been totally wrong about being a soft season and am leaning toward True or Bright Winter for myself. I’m much more comfortable in the softer colors, not standing out, but the bright cool colors have such an effortlessly radiant effect on my skin. I would love to see more makeup videos and if you have any tips for online shopping when you’re looking for specific colors. It’s such a bummer when you find something that looks perfect just to see it’s too warm/dark in person.
Hallelujah! I was typed as a "dark brown summer" by House of Color because of my blue eyes and light brown hair. I started wearing the most dull colors. Would "cheat" and wear black when I wanted to look hot for a date. Two years later I got typed as a Bright Winter by a 12-season analyst. AND IT MADE SO MUCH SENSE. I got out all my fun clothes from storage, started wearing diamonds, bright lipstick, etc. and the compliments started pouring in.
@@tequilamockingbird4989 well the feeling is mutual! My soul is so deep winter- I love dark velvets and antique looking jewelry which looks amazing on DW. Also amazing user name btw
Thank you so much for this! I was typed long ago as a winter in four-season analysis. More recently, with my natural gray hair, I was typed as bright spring. The analysts spent about an hour trying to decide if I was warm or cool. But that season just felt off. I looked clownish. I should have trusted my gut and gone back to winter, but instead I paid to be analyzed online (probably a mistake) several times to see if I could solve the problem. And what did I get? Soft summer, cool summer, soft summer. And those colors are way too muted for me--the greenish upper lip is real! I think the natural instinct is to see gray hair (my eyes are blue-green hazel) and pale skin and think muted. But I am actually quite bright, and my hair is a mix of white, silver, and pewter. I'm back at true winter leaning bright. My big clue: realizing how good I look wearing striped shirts with lots of contrast.
I’m 99% sure I’m a bright spring after spending a ridiculous amount of time learning colour analysis. But before I draped myself I’d begun to think I was soft autumn! I had a medium-softness pink jumper and anytime I wore it I felt like I needed lipstick to look okay. So I thought that if I needed lipstick with that then it must be too bright. I began wearing soft autumn colours and in the mirror I saw this greyness in my face like the grey in the clothes, so I thought it was a match. Then I saw a photo of myself 😭 I’ve never looked so washed out! That’s when I decided to actually do drapes on myself. Turns out that little bit of grey in my pink jumper actually made it too soft for me and drained the colour from my face. I don’t want lipstick if I wear bright pink! It’s so funny too because I had colours from every season in my wardrobe, I feel like I should’ve known. But that’s why there’s an actual process to follow!
I am a warm spring and was originally typed as a cool summer. Another tendency for criss cross applesauce that causes issues is a confusion between light, medium, and deep value with warm, neutral, and cool undertones
I only went to a discussion forum once and had really bad pics with drapes (I tried my best but my camera sucks). I already knew I was some kind of winter but was suggested a true summer as black looked "off" which was mostly due to bad lighting. I wasn't able to dismiss summer entirely as I don't always like black on me either, I need to combine it with another colour to feel "present" or at least not boring. This video clarified a few possibilities for the mistype as I absolutely do look drained/tired/grey-ish in muted colours; they don't scream awful just "whatever". But what does still sway me between summer and winter is that I can't overload on how dark/how much dark I wear. I think I'm most comfortable in the middle-ground tending toward dark, just not extremely so. And definitely cool and bright, though I'm still trying to figure out which one is more important for me.
If black alone seems too harsh you make suit a bright winter palette more. They are the lightest winters so bright color is better for them and black without a contrasting moment with make them appear sort of dull.
@@BridgetCappelthanks! Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to express. Black doesn't look that bad on me just kind of a bit blah, if still better than soft colours. My mother is most likely a dark winter and she can wear black on black no problem. I need to be more careful with it lol, I do find some of her best colours weigh me down a little
I typed myself as bright spring, but stayed confused, because I can wear some muted colours, like olives (because of my green eyes I guess), so I started hesitating, but I think you have comforted me)
What about light seasons? Light summer and light spring have some pretty bright colours and are almost toned down versions of the bright seasons. I wonder if wearing the light season colours will simply look like a "natural/nude" look on bright season people.
I think you pointed out something interesting here: you will only look like what the colour analysis describes your season as while wearing the colours of that season. Bright people only look bright in bright colours (while soft people actually look bright in soft colours). Also a lot of cool people are mislabeled as warm, because when they wear warm clothes, their face gets a yellow tint that actually doesn't suit them, but is interpreted as their natural warmth. I guess that a better description would be that all seasons look normal while wearing their season, and they look off (yellowish, ashy, muted, etc) while wearing the colours of other seasons
@@cassif19 yes, 100% exactly this. This is what I was getting at. Essentially- the correct colors will not create an optical illusion on your face, the wrong colors will always cast some sort of undesirable filter over your appearance. We are revealed in our best colors.
So i have never been confirmed by a professional but i'm pretty sure now that i'm a bright spring from doing drapes and virtual drapes on myself, but it took me so long to realize because the internet always tells you that the bright pallettes are REALLY rare and that you probably aren't a bright spring/winter. I think we should stop the gaslighting with this, just because it's rare doesn't mean it's impossible to be that pallette.
I'm a Latina, brown eyes, lightly tanned with chestnut brown hair, and everyone thinks I'm an autumn. I do like some autumn colors, but as soon as I put them on, I feel sad. Lol I've even had color analysis done online, and I was told I was warm and muted. It wasn't until I had a color analysis done in person that I heard from a professional what I had suspected all along. I have a cool undertone, and I look best in bright winter colors. It's amazing what an in person analysis can do when you're confused about your coloring.
@@ma.3934 Did you instinctively have a feeling that you were a winter, or did you think you were an autumn? Every time I tried autumn colors, I would think if this is how people think I look my best, then I must be really unattractive 😆
I'd love videos on makeup and nail colors for the types. With specific color suggestions. Even if you only do a video on your personal type it would be interesting. Only do color makeup not foundation though as that's too complicated.
I'm a winter, but am trying to determine my subseason. I would love to see a video that might help determine the differences and how to notice these in someone. Right now, I think I'm a TW that can dip into the deeper end of BW or the brighter/cooler end of DW. I'm olive, so sometimes I think im a neutral-cool tone, but I'm not sure if my undertone is fully cool with just my overtone being warm, or if I'm a neutral-cool undertone person.
I see you in this video and you immediately look bright to me. What is odd is that your colouring and mine are very, very similar, but I'm definitely soft. My hair is ashier than yours, my eyes are greyer, my skin is a little fairer, so I'm possibly higher contrast than you. Yet you definitely look bright to me and I'm definitely soft. I wonder, then, if there is a quality not yet talked about, that is the deciding factor on whether or not someone is bright or soft.
There is definitely more to someone's colour season than their colouring alone. I'll give you my thoughts on it because there are a few things that I never see anyone talk about, but that I've noticed definitely contribute to our colour seasons. Just a preface so you understand where I'm coming from, I've always been an artist so a lot of these things about colour, tints, tones, shades and contrasts are quite intuitive to me. [warning - this turned out to be very long!] When I first heard about colour season analysis, I could never type myself from those quizzes because they rely solely on asking about the colouring of your hair, skin and eyes. I mean those are the most obvious places to ask about your colouring, right? Then in the end you come to a conclusion based on how different those colours are from each other and where they fall on the cool-neutral-warm spectrum. However, this is an incomplete picture. Two people with identical colouring in their hair, skin and eyes could actually come out with different contrasts because of the rest of their features. I'll explain how it works. Contrast by definition, is the difference between at least two things. Therefore it might seem obvious to compare the different colours of our features, but that's only part of the picture. Think of where on the face features naturally have an opportunity to contrast - the eyebrows and lips and to a lesser extent our irises against our scleras (white of eyes). Eyebrows contrast against our skin, but it isn't only their colour that is providing the contrast, it is also the thickness of the strands of hair and the density of the brows. Two people could have black eyebrows and identical skin colour, but the person with thick strands and high density is going to have a greater contrast than the person with finer, wispy strands and sparse hairs that allows more of their skin the show through. (This is quite easily understood from sketching and shading - if you only have one pencil for shading, you can get different depths of shades by controlling how much of the paper is allowed to show through.) We are finely tuned to this - probably one of the easiest ways to look like a different person is to change the contrast of your brows dramatically. Then there's lips. Lips are different from the rest of the skin on your face, but a lot of colour analysis doesn't treat them separately. Some people's lip colour blends quite well with the skin on their faces, so they'll have a lower contrast in that area and probably look great with light nude lips, while other people have a dramatic difference between their lips and face (and everything in between). So if we go back to the two people in my eyebrow example, say the first person with the courser, denser brows also had the darker lips, while the second person with finer, sparser brows also had lighter lips that blended with their skin, then those two people would be different seasons, the first one either a bright or deep season, the second one soft or light. Finally there's the irises. It isn't only the iris colour itself but also the ring around them that adds contrast to the features. Again you could have two people with identical iris colours, but have different contrasts against the sclera for two reasons - first the colour of the sclerae could be different (remember there are different shades of white, just like with teeth - it's best to match teeth with eyes when whitening) and secondly is the depth of the colour of the outer ring. All three of these features affect our contrast in important ways that aren't simply the hair, skin and eye colour. I eventually figured out my season by simply looking at the palettes for each season and evaluating which one had colours that worked well for me. Turns out I'm bright winter. Looking at the palette made it so obvious. With my warm brown hair and eyes, you couldn't come to this conclusion from the quizzes - no not even bright spring with that warmth, my skin is quite cool-toned, blue veins. The thing is, I discovered it a bit late because by that point, I already knew which colours looked best on me. Kind of nice to have a name for reference though. This is why draping seems to get the most accurate results for people, because it seems like nobody understands all of the factors that contribute to contrast beyond how the colours interact with each other. Overall, I think the missing pieces to the puzzle of contrast is to consider eyebrows separately from hair and lips as separate from skin. Actually, you could ignore the hair on your scalp altogether, since as humans we are highly tuned to faces and that's where we look for harmony (to test this, you could look at how bald men can show different contrasts and how women who wear hijab definitely have colours that look better and worse on them despite not showing hair). Wow I got carried away! Does any of this make sense to you? I'd really like to hear your thoughts on my ideas, if you're willing to share them.
@Chrysaetos3 Yes, I think you make very good points. My eyebrows aren't sparse but the individual hairs are very fine. It has the effect of making them appear lighter than they are. I notice that the way my hair and skin reflect light is more like a pearl. It sort of semi-absorbs it, whereas people who are bright seem to reflect more.
@@helenfitch6590 Oh I like your point about the skin and hair texture too! I actually already use that to determine the best-looking texture of fabrics and makeup to wear as well, but I didn't connect that part to seasons. I bet you would look lovely in pearls. On the other hand, while I've always loved the idea of them, I think bright, shiny metals look so much better on me because it reflects the natural sheen in my skin and hair.
People make the mistake that brightness is about how much contrast you have but you can have bright skin without having high contrast. Like you said your hair and eyes are softer and so your skin can be soften in and of itself as well. What this means for someone who is lower contrast, like me, dark blond, but still has brightness as my dominant feature in the skin is that I can't wear the darker colors in the bright winter palette, the normal clear colors are perfect but nothing mixed with black. Black on its own as a clear color is great though. The palettes aren't refined enough for everyone, I think we still have to fine tune things.
@Dani-lc9hq I agree. I think softness and brightness stand apart from contrast. Contrast can play a part, but it's often taught as the defining characteristic of contrast, and like you, I think that's wrong. By the sounds of thingsI'm higher contrast than you, but we agree that you're bright because you're bright and I'm muted because I'm muted. Very often, colour systems place me as a True Summer, but the bright end of the Summer palette is too bright. Yet apparently, I can't be soft because I'm also very cool toned, and it goes against accepted theory.
I really need to get typed because people love my blue black hair and bright clothing colors but don’t like bright lipsticks on me saying it makes my skin look lighter. 😅
@@chandraadam3656 you might be a true or dark winter if saturation works on you but bright lipsticks are too bright. It would be tough for a bright winter to pull off blue/black hair without getting washed out, but a true or dark winter could probably wear it really well!
In my opinion, no one really wears bright colors so when a bright winter isn’t wearing their season, they actually look gray and muted which gives the appearance of soft season. I can only think of this girl named deepti from love is blind. She has a podcast and she’s always in wrong colors EXCEPT one podcast where she’s wearing a bright pink sweater and omg, she looks so lively
It’s tough because bright colors aren’t always trendy and most times people will choose to conform to trends over wearing what best suits them in order to feel admired and accepted socially by others that are aware of current trends. The question becomes- would you rather risk expressing authenticity or be more easily accepted by sticking to the conformity of trends?
Why is this so true….because I do have dark dark hair, very pale skin, blue-grey eyes and even still I’m like “I think I’m a bright winter but….maybe I’m actually a summer and am only going off stereotypes?” However I always get compliments in bright colours-not on the clothes but on me looking natural, those being my colours, etc. cherry red and sunshine yellows especially.
You sound so much like a bright winter! You’re probably correct there. It’s hard to adopt those colors when what’s on trend is usually softer or earthier colors. Marketing plays such a big role in what colors we gravitate towards.
@@MsNiqie2022 help me out, how could I provide better information so that this translates better and is informative for POC? I think there is a lot of bad info out there re “contrast” and people thinking that in order to have contrast you must have dark hair and light skin, but that is absolutely false. A celebrity like Lupita Nyong’o is very dark overall in complexion and hair color, and someone misunderstanding color harmony might say she has low contrast or that she is “dark”- leading to a mistyping. However, she is actually a high contrast bright season- or rather she needs brightness and high contrast in her clothing and makeup to look her best. I would have liked to address this in this video but I didn’t think it applied to being mistyped as a muted season. I could make a separate video addressing this kind of mistyping for POC. In the 80s almost every woman with darker than white skin was typed as a winter which is horribly reductive and false. I’d love to talk about this and show how modern personal color analysis is actually extremely inclusive and personalized. I’d love to hear your thoughts as well!
Thank you for your response. I think that seeing photos of a variety of poc to reference will help a lot. Cocoa Styling here on RUclips has videos dedicated to poc but some of the information is confusing. If your able to add at the very least one poc in your reference photos. It will help. Thank you
I’ve been stuck between if in a Bright Spring or a Soft Autumn due to having medium contrast and unsure of my chroma value. But if I think about the colours I get the most compliments on, it’s definitely bright colours.
I was typed as Bright Winter from one colour consultant (in person analysis) and Soft Summer from another consultant (online). I am struggling to find out, who is right. I shine in bright colours when it comes to clothing but somehow I don't feel the bright colours in make up (maybe I bought the wrong colours?). I took pictures of myself with Bright Winter and Soft Summer styling but still can't tell which season I'm in. My eyes pop with BW colours but somehow I look younger and skin looks smoother in Soft Summer. Is it just because of my phone camera? How can I figure out my correct season? 😭
@@weewooweewoo906 she’s definitely soft imo. I’ll use her as an example when I do my Best and Worst of Soft Summer. They dress her as a winter a lot but it is really stark and overwhelming on her. Bright red lipstick stands out from her face but she glows with a nude lip wearing gray or beige. And soft summers are notorious for being dressed as all the other seasons as some point, they often try a bunch of different hair colors too.
A big part of it might be that the old books on the subject like CMB said, if you have hazel or brown eyes, you can’t be a Spring, period. However, at that time, the system was for Caucasian women, so thankfully it’s gotten more inclusive. I like to watch Korean color analysis as they have people of all seasons who mostly have brown or black hair and brown eyes. Also, the refinements such as subseasons help.
Your before photos look exactly like me with my natural color. The muted tones make me look sick and grey. But I only wear black and love it. I want to know my colors to add accent and accessories colors though. When I get typed they usually only see my bleached hair. Recently I started growing my natural very dark ash brown out and only add ash blonde highlights now. I usually get told I am a dark summer but I just don’t suit those colors. I get most compliments when I wear black. It makes me glow, which I thought was against summer ?
Can bright have muted grey/green eyes ? Mine change depending on light, my hair has golden hues level 6. Neutral skin ( olive I think) green blue veins
😊I find these confusing. Your explanations make sense. Especially if you're a neutral skin tone you can wear a lot of colours. I can wear oranges and cool pinks equally well. I look good in brights and pastels both because I'm very fair w dark hair. mute and earthy colours though make me feel uncomfortable and tired when I wear them. But I can wear autumn yellows, greens and warm browns as long as they are saturated mid tones.... I think I must be a winter as I can pull of fuchsia, purples, reds and bright greens easily and they make me look more healthy...
Yes absolutely! Your season doesn’t change as you age though you may prefer lighter or darker colors in your palette over time. Actually a persons natural gray hair is the most harmonious hair color for them! I’d love to see more women embrace their natural gray instead of doing artificial yellow blonde highlights. I don’t think they realize how beautiful they will look with their natural hair and their best colors.
I think a lot of other color analysts argue that your coloring softens with age; however I see so many older women with bright white hair that suits them. I am an older bright spring with naturally bright cream hair. My hair enters the room before I do.
@@monicawall778 Looking at Jamie Lee Curtis, I think she is still firmly a true winter even with her gray hair. I think to wear softer colors would be a mistake and make her look less vibrant than she is. It is an interesting concept to ponder though- maybe an aging/graying and color analysis video needs to be in the works!
I have been typed a true summer and think it’s accurate, BUT I look dead in very light colors and best imo in medium to medium dark summer shades. I know I look off in some of the most intense winter colors.
Megan Fox's hair is naturall that more reddy light brown/blonde color it's more blonde than brown. But I've always been outspoken as an anthropologist in my color groups about hair color and all the strict criteria of these systems. I think white silver blondes can be winter, I think Megan is clear and is better in the dominant characteristic system than trying to shove her in a box based on her hair color. She looks more natural with it dyed darker than it is natural and so that to me says clear is correct and BW is fine for her. I guess I study race from the anthropological perspective so I see traits that are considered more "avant garde" occuring more often than you'd think in nature. Genetics doesn't play by these social construct rules we created for color analysis. So I appreciate now in 2024 we have lots of places to go get an analysis with differing systems for typing and color beliefs. It is much needed. I'm a bit deeper than Meganbut super clear too, so I kind of stretch for all of winter and grab some spring brights too. I was typed as a Cold Clear Winter in color breeze's system but I'd say I'm more of a Cold True Winter or something like a Cold True Bright who kind of dominantes the bright seasons as if winter + spring had a baby. I have a neutral undertone. I never fit nicely into a system myself either. I'm Cold (no outward perceived warmth... but it is there just hard to see!) Megan you can see more of that warmth in her natural coloring skin it's clearly seen in the skin + hair so just staying more in BW is ideal maybe possible to try spring colors to see if any BS is nice too. If she had clear + deep natural hair or tanned gray and deep she might be able to reach for more CW/DW shades like me. I just don't see that in her though. What do you think? I see her put everywhere but BW/Clear is right to me.
I'm a cool Winter w mousy blonde/brown hair and blue gray eyes. Bcs of it I get mistyped as a Summer. However soft and light Summer cols make me washed out. I can wear cool Summer palette though.
I´m a deep winter (typed a an autumn 20 years ago , but the colour brown and beige doesn´t work with my grey hair; so I got an other typing). Love to hear, that you want to do a video on deep winter colours. Thanks!!!
@@DhkniDhkni-go1qz Possibly- Dark Autumn and Bright Spring can also pull off black and not look too overwhelmed. But winters all have back in their palate and will wear it the best compared to the other seasons.
@@emm-w9u that would be interesting to know- I know a bright spring who was nearly mistyped as an autumn because she could handle the warmth of the colors well. She looked beautiful in autumn but absolutely stunning and undeniable as a bright spring.
@@shelleymusleh439 No, though I did talk about the crossover. I did mean bright seasons mistaken for muted seasons. I talk about how I mistook myself for muted before I was professionally draped because the description and stereotypes of bright seasons threw me off. I also talk about how bright seasons will look fine or just ok in a softer season which is why we may not intuit their full potential for color as a bright. Also the misconception that muted or soft seasons should look muted or soft in their best colors which is not true. Bright seasons will look muted or soft in colors that are not bright enough for them hence the mistyping from folks that misunderstand color harmony.
@@shelleymusleh439 Not exactly- those celebrities were not mistaken as bright- I’m showing how the soft season celebrities look vibrant and glowing- not soft and muted- in their own soft colors. I’m trying to demonstrate that any person in good color harmony, in their own season’s colors, will appear vibrant and striking on their own, as a bright in bright colors will look. By contrast, a bright in soft muted colors will appear muted and softened- not what we want in good color harmony. So the point is “muted” is a good term to describe certain colors, but “muted” is not what we should expect to label someone’s appearance in the correct coloration for them. If they look muted or sunken or softened, something is off and we should re-examine the color analysis.
@@BridgetCappel yes I understand! And agree but I think I’m trying to point out that you’re title, pictures, and intro may be confusing to most people.
I’m the classic example you were speaking of… for years, I thought I was a winter because I have very pale skin and almost black hair, but the darker colors wore me instead of me wearing them. Then more recently, I’ve discovered that I’m actually a bright spring, which makes a ton of sense given that my hair always had red highlights, my skin tone is more peach than rose, and I have the classic Spring eye with a yellow ring around the center. So yes, stereotypes can be deceptive.
Your skin, the lipstick, that green! Perfection!
@@marialwable ahh thank you!! I love this top so much! Greens can be tough but this one feels spot on 🤩
@@BridgetCappelThis green is perfect. Ypu look so good in it.
Great topic. It's funny, when you showed the picture of Megan Fox in sage, I didn't even notice the tress was sage. the whole image just looked gray. I had to focus on the dress alone to see the color. Great explanation how we perceive color!
This makes a lot of sense, I can wear soft colours and look alright, not awful but fine - which I thought was a good thing, but I feel at my most 'alive' in bright colours - so when I learned I was a bright winter it was like a lightbulb coming on; I'm now starting to own it - and I get my most compliments in high contrast bright outfits (which luckily bring me soooo much joy!) ❤
Your comment just reminded me of a quote someone recently mentioned from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Someone tells Midge that she looks like either Vermeer painted her or she swelled a light bulb, and that person told me that’s why my skin tone is like (in the nicest way). I have no idea what season Rachel Brosnahan would be, but I think of this quote now for bright winters. We could have been painted by Vermeer!
this is what im figuring out as well, i look fine in soft colours but not good. It's a bit like it makes me look calm to the point of tired which is what i feel like most of the time anyway. But brighter colours (not sure how bright exactly, just not soft) look much better on me and actually also make me feel more awake/alive
@@NorthLakePark I believe she is a bright winter! I talk about her in my Best and Worst of Bright Winter video!
My theory: Several of the celebrity bright winters actually started with dirty blonde/light brown hair. They changed to dark for a role and looked so good they never went back. But it's still artificial hair color. I suspect in real life a larger percentage of bright winters started as dark blonde as kids. As we aged our hair got darker but we associated bright blonde as prettier so get highlights and then the variation makes people think soft. Also since we're closer to neutral it's more difficult to tell.
Yes! As a toddler, I had blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin , but with time, my coloring ended up looking like the Welsh twins (level 3 or 4 hair, very dark brows and dark and striking brown eyes and very white sclerae).
@@brightwinter9334 Same here. My hair was WHITE like silver platinum for a hot minute, then that melanin kicked in and was like okay, i'll just steal the show. Now I'm super dark like a 3/4 as well neutral cool chocolate dark brown. I guess an off brown black. That's why my beliefs on color are "out there" compared to super traditional old school analysis. I'm an anthropologist studying race from the anthropological perspective I see this all the time the hair color shifts. Another fun fact changing hair colors often happens in people with a mutation in a gene many with Albinism have. You could full blown even have it if you inherited an allele from each parent, but if you only got one you may have symptoms of the disease without full blown technically having it. Thus, hair color shifts from white, to bleached, to ash blonde, to even brown! In any race too. I'm starting to study this in particular by itself as it relates to eye color in groups like this for gray eyes. I have gray eyes and they aren't as rare as people think, mostly confused blue/green eye people who never realized they are gray or what seperates blue from crossing a threshold to become "gray." So you are so right and yeah, just here to support you as a natural blonde as a clear winter! :)
I had several "aha" moments in the past couple years too.
First of all, I discovered that I lean warm in hue and was really kind of shocked. How that happened was a coincidence. I ordered a dress that looked like a soft antique rose color on the image and when it came it was actually more like a bright coral color. I was like "Ugh, that color's gonna look awful on me, but let's at least see if the fit is alright, coz I can return it and order it in a different color later.", when I tried it on, the fit wasn't that great, but dang that color. I wore no make up and had my natural hair color in that moment and I looked in the mirror just to stare back a second time. I actually looked like I wore at least a tinted moisturizer, my skin looked more even, more radiant and healthy. Until that day I had never seen such a flattering effect created by a color on myself. That was when I REALLY started digging deeper.
Even though that dress was in a brighter color (not the brightest though), I assumed I was still pretty soft/low chroma because I was VERY biased. I thought I might be a Soft Autumn and while these colors didn't look bad on me at all, there are certain colors in that palette that look quite flattering on me, I felt like something was off but doubted that I was a True Autumn. I then got my colors done (virtual analysis and I admit my submitted photos weren't showing my coloring very well, I looked way softer in these images than I actually do look like) I got the results of being a Light Spring. The palette I received shocked me, because I had not thought that I could wear THAT much color. But when I wore some of the colors, I saw how my coloring was actually fading (especially with the neutrals from that said palette) and figured that brighter neutrals and brighter colors with the same amount of warmth make me look way brighter. I am not claiming to know I am a Bright Spring, but I love what Bright Spring colors do with my coloring. They bring out the light ocean color of my eyes, they even out my skin, define my face and bring out warmth in my hair color that you could overlook if I wear softer colors.
Another "aha" moment was when I ordered a bathing suit that looked like the colors it had, were about medium chroma, maybe leaning slightly bright. When it arrived, I was shocked about how intensely bright the colors were. Bordering neons, actually. I tried it on though and my mom was instantly like "Whoah, these colors really flatter you incredibly well, you should really wear brighter colors more often!", and I looked in the mirror and thought my skin would probably look incredibly grey next to the bright pink, bright teal and bright aqua. Nope, not at all. These colors actually brought out the golden warmth in my skin and I even looked less pale. I do have a jacket in a VERY bright orange too, and while the color looks insanely bright on its own, on me, it looks cohesive. I doubt that an actual Light Spring could carry THAT much brightness (because that jacket is also bordering neon). I also don't look horrible in black and white, but they are indeed not my BEST colors.
What's always driven me crazy though: I never understood why people would tell me I look great in so many different types of colors. But you just gave the perfect explanation for this phenomenon. Even a co-worker of mine who was taught SCA several years ago once said "You're one of those types that can easily wear almost any color and still look great, I'm not like that, being a True Autumn, I really have to stick to my own colors or I will look funny.", I also noticed that whenever I chose a toner for my hair that is too soft for me, my entire coloring looks literally muted and dull, even hollow. And sometimes even the raw bleach result looked better than the toned result. Such things may happen if one believes they are soft but are actually bright instead. Photos can really take away a lot of intensity or even add it, aside from tweaking the entire hue of the image in various directions at once, so even color grading might not get you to the real true colors (also depending on the quality of the camera that's being used).
I'm a true winter, and I don't think I look bad in the wrong colors, that's why I wore them for years😅. But comparing with my colors... wow! I look way better in a vivid blue or an emerald green. My skin looks brighter, clearer.
That color is STUNNING on you Bridget! 😊
Thank you!!
I surprised myself and my mother in 1986 when I was typed as winter we both thought I would be a fall because I have dark auburn hair with bright green eyes so I always wondered until I discovered that I was actually a bright winter. This was well done 👏 ✔️
My hair is in the blonde family and I’m Bright Winter all the way. Light Summer makes me look sick! Soft seasons make my skin look dusted with concrete. 😵💫
Judging by your pic I would say you look like a sort of Spring. The bright pink lipstick is drawing too much attention. Your natural coloring isnt what a Winter looks like (which would be more like Snow White) and you are very lucky. I could recommend Carol Brailey's videos to you. She offers color analysis services too but personally I am just a viewer. It took me a year of watching and testing colors on me to discover that I am actually a Bright Winter and not a Summer which were my most common colors to wear.
However what makes us shine shouldnt draw attention away from us but be in harmony with our looks. I was never brave enough to wear bright colors but once I decided to look at myself objectively I understood muted things didnt match my high contrast features..
You nailed it! I’m a Bright Spring and I was confused for a while because Autumn colors, especially deeper Autumn colors, aren’t bad. Some of them even look good! But they just don’t give me the same “pop” and vibrancy as the very bright colors do.
I feel the same about some of the darker summer colors, they are pretty good but no comparison to what the bright colors do!
SNAP! Was so sure I was a deep autumn/winter and would wear saturated colours but much too dark for my proper season. Now I’m all about the warm bright colours and get lovely compliments, including “that suits your personality”.
Can’t wait for the deep winter video you have planned, since that’s my season 😊
It’s up next!
I had a colour epiphany while I was watching this video. When you said that the wrong colour can make someone's upper lip look greyer, I thought, "Oh, so that's why some colours give me a greenish moustache." And usually, those colours are muted. Now I have a better idea of what to avoid. Thank you!
Glad I could help!! 😊
That happens to my undereye area. Drab greens and browns make my the shadows under my eyes really stand out while hot pink erases them.
Figuring that out was my ah ha to knowing I was BW
@@LaurenCarman I'll keep an eye out if that happens to me, too. 😉
@@LaurenCarman I get a telltale blue/purple shadow on the bridge of my nose in some of my worst colors
@Deem57 I get a green moustache with cool soft shades too.
I’m a warm spring and even though I have always known I was warm, I never actually considered spring because the colors were scary for me. They are personally my least favorite of all seasons but I can see how they work for me and make me glow.
Your style is perfect omg
Awesome video! So helpful thank you. I was mistyped as a summer most of my life. For these exact reasons. I'm an introvert so I never wore bright colors. I've had 3 pregnancies and worn many sizes. I saved only my favorite clothes in storage. Last year I lost a lot of weight, and in the winter I knew I was going to need a whole new summer wardrobe. I was tired of using makeup to try to correct the wrong colors I had been wearing. It was shocking to me that I was a bright winter. But when I went into storage and looked at all of my favorites, those were the colors I had saved! So subconsciously I knew what looked best on me. At age 48 the brighter the better. Even the neon colors look amazing. However I choose not to wear though those super bright shades because they don't suit my personality. I have found beautiful colors though, such as teal, Barbie pink, and cobalt blue that work for my personal style to go with the neutrals that are readily available like black, navy and white. I was able to find colors in stores on trend such as Kelly green and hot pink. I've gotten more compliments this year than I have in the past decade. I never even knew that my eyes were that bright of a blue because they look dull in summer colors.
I also noticed the weird "gatekeeping" about winter seasonal color online. I got my color analysis done by House of Color a couple months ago and was a "Sprinter Winter" (which I believe is their version of Bright Winter?). As soon as I went online to find other Bright/Sprinter winters for inspiration I found all this weirdness. I think a lot of it is due to the fact that soft color palettes are much more popular right now, with lots of beige, neutral, blended looks being preferred because it's trendy, without people realizing that's influencing their preference.
Bright colors can also photograph very strangely; the photos my consultant took with my best drapes don't look very good, but it's from the color balancing the phone camera did. The effects of the bright drapes on my skin were undeniable in person - the camera just didn't pick it up. But I can see the difference when I wear them. I don't have what anyone would consider "high contrast", but that didn't stop the brighter cool colors from looking better against my face. My hair was covered!
You explain things so well.
I’m typed as a winter. I know if I wore the top you have on, my skin wouldn’t look good and the colour would reflect up. I need a darker green, and find greens hard in general (olive?). But it was you who made me realise that I’m not a bright winter. I might have said this to you before 😄
Greens are tricky and yes that bright green would be way too bright on a true winter. I love the pine greens you all have in your palette though! They’re so sophisticated 😍
Yes! I have hazel eyes and naturally “dishwater blonde” hair, so I mistyped myself soft autumn for years. I thought there was no way I could be any sort of spring…until I started getting compliments on the few bright spring colors I owned…years later, I was typed bright spring and love it! I could truly see how my skin reacted so favorably to the bright, warm colors.
My bright spring sister in law has natural hair like yours- sort of a dark blonde- and bright spring is incredible on her!! She was nearly mistyped as an autumn.
I too have dishwater-colored hair and hazel eyes and look good in some Spring colors also. Not sure if I’m fully a Spring as I also look good in some Autumn ones, but I will wear other colors than my palette if they look good on me. Conversely, I rarely wear heavy orange and mustards that supposedly look good on Autumns.
Thank you for making this video! When I first saw this video I thought it's not about me but decided to watch it anyways. But when you described a bright season wearing a muted color, that sounded just like me. I was analyzed to be warm autumn last year and the more I wear the warm autumn colors the more wrong they feel. Especially now that I have started growing back my own hair color (which is a cooler brown) and all of my tan has worn out, I feel muted colors make me look blurry and really warm colors jaudienced. The past few days I have been thinking about my preferences and doing a lot of draping. And all of a sudden I don't believe I'm a muted season at all. At this point I'm not even sure about the undertone. But wearing a bright color makes my skin clear and my eyes pop. I have also always loved a bright lipstick makeup look on me, while a more muted makeup looks just muddy and ages me.
Wow, the comparison pics of you in more dark/muted vs bright is just awesome. You look amazing in those brights! I like how you explained why people might get mistyped as well as your point about soft people actually looking quite vibrant in soft colors, not muted or dusty.
In Sweden we have a word for the fenomenon that people should not stand out and the fear of being too much/standing out (fear of people thinking:
"Who do you think you are?")
It's called "Jantelagen" (the jante law, direct translated)
Meaning: if you stand out (bright colors or in other ways) you'll be a threat to the calm or "normal" and it could cause turbulense or something like that. Some people are afraid to wear colors and it's sad that it is like that. People mostly wear black and such. But since a few years back we see more colors popping up and that is fun!
I been professionally typed as a bright winter and still a little in denial because some bright colored clothing and makeup don't look right on me:
for example i find mac's candy yum yum & everyone's heroine to look strange on me but i think they might be too cool toned. Bright winters are the warmest winter season. Ruby woo & all fired up looks amazing though so I am guessing because they are more warm.
I switched over to cool tone makeup from warm tone and its been 100% an improvement and it looks amazing. Color analysis is so cool.
It’s possible that you lean a little warmer in your season. There will be some colors that you end up preferring over others with time so it’s good that you’ve eliminated a few things!
I think Everyone's Heroine is TW, as it is darker and more blue. I am a bright winter, and Candy Yum Yum and Everyone's Heroine are too much on me.
What’s also interesting is lipsticks.
I tried Revlon 777 and on so many people it’s a dark, deep, wine red vampy shade.
Me as a bright winter it looks like a raspberry-hued medium brown. I knew it would be too muted for me but I wasn’t expecting it to be so obvious !
I used to wear a lipstick called Siren, which was my brightest Cool Summer pink. A Bright Winter friend really liked it and bought some. She was darker skinned than I and it looked very soft on her.
@@lilibetp I think lipsticks are one of the most fascinating ways of demonstrating seasonal colours!
I’m so glad this video was on my recommended page! I started getting into color analysis and the subreddit a few months ago. I was sure I was a warm season. I was shocked when I draped myself and was obviously cool. Then it made sense why I could never get my makeup to look right. It always looked like it was sitting on top of me like a plastic mask. Bronzer? Lord, how much money I’ve wasted trying to find the right one. I posted real life in natural life drapes twice in the subreddit and hardly got any response. Most (maybe all, I can’t remember) put me in spring or autumn. Idk if people troll there, giving purposely wrong answers but it made me question myself.
I sent my 28 drape photos separately to two people in my real life and numbered them. Asking which ones made my skin look best. They were almost 100% agreement. The bright winter colors were the best.
I can wear all winter colors, some summer and spring and the darkest of autumn but they don’t make my skin look as clear and healthy as bright winter. My hair is dark brown at the roots but after a few inches of growth the sun fades it to a brassy color, I can tan, and I am a bright winter.
I had just the opposite ”problem” 😅 meaning I thought I’m ok with the brightest winter colours, until I really got into this 12 season analysis and found out myself via online tests that most certainly I’m a deep/dark winter…!
AND I’m looking for your next videos definitely!! (But I already got rid of almost all true and brigh winter coloured clothes 😅)
You dress for your season so well. It's so fun watching your videos because you're seriously the best eye candy!
Oh thank you!
Can you do a video on makeup/hair tips for the bright seasons? Like what to avoid and what looks good? I've recently heard that brights should avoid eyeshadow and contour and would love to know more as to why 😊 love your videos!!
Absolutely! I don’t know why I didn’t think to do videos for the neutrals based on their qualifiers (bright, dark, light, soft) but I will certainly do that!
Loved this video! 💗 Can you do more videos about makeup products for bright winters? It’s really hard to find the right makeup products that aren’t warm toned 😫
There's less available for Springs. Almost all warm makeup is dark or muted
This was great! I thought i was an autumn for literal years because of my dark brown hair, fair skin with warm freckles and hazel eyes. But the muted colors always made me look flat, which I realize now is because I have high contrast and am actually a bright spring! I look soo much more alive and lifted in bright warm colors, I actually look younger now that I'm wearing my bright spring colors!
@@emilyanne1426 That’s amazing!! So glad to hear you found your bright spring colors!
It's confusing bc i think i can handle both bright and muted, they just have different vibes, but neither is good or bad... i guess it's just not a strong feature? (I get mistyped as muted a a Lot tho, i am Not, i wear medium-bright colours all the time it looks great)
Having small features where the lip and eye color aren't as obvious I think is part of the mistyping.
Also cliches like are mentioned in the video.
Another cliche I have noticed is the freckles: any type can have them, I think but they are associated with being warm toned, it seems.
I have been typed in person, used photo apps and watched video advice and been typed autumn, spring and summer.
I think I'm a winter 😆 especially after I used a TikTok filter of lip colors with all the seasons blush choices overlayed and Winter was the one that perfectly matched my lip color. All the others looked like I was wearing orange chalk on my cheeks. I look great in florescent pink but also deep rich colors like midnight blue and plum. They make my feature details (like eyelashes) and bone structure stand out and my coloring pop.
Thank you, Bridget! As usual, this all seems spot on to me. I feel both seen and called out 😆 I also thought I was an autumn at first. And I was confused when I first started learning about personal color analysis because the soft summer colors looked fine on me. Just very “fine.” So much of what I saw online talked about how colors should look natural on you, but I know now there are probably better adjectives to use for bright winter, like “cohesive” or “in harmony.” I know a lot of people are very excited about the bright winter colors, but I was terrified to wear colors that bright. Like you said, I think part of me too has been afraid to be too much or to have someone accuse me of being too much, which isn’t good. I’ve been working on that, and I’m proud to say that I’ve acclimated to the brighter lip colors now to the point that anything else doesn’t look right anymore. Progress! Your videos have really helped me on my journey, so thank you again for all your hard work on these videos!
@@NorthLakePark oh my gosh that makes me so happy to hear!! Keep shining on in your brightness!!
I think it's easier for people to see "that color overpowers you" vs "that color drains you"; like as long as the person is in front of the color, they think it's okay when in reality, it's actually softening the person or making them look tired, bringing out shadows, etc. But I do feel frustrated sometimes when I see someone who is at least a Winter but someone else insists they are Soft something (in the subreddit mentioned 😅) Even worse when "Soft" is the majority vote and you'd be the odd one out suggesting otherwise. I used to be active there (and some of the people said I got their season right when they got professionally draped!) but I have since left
I think confusion comes about when you have women with dark brown/black hair with medium/tan/light olive skin rather than the Snow White types. Women like supermodels Adriana Lima, Bianca Balti, Bella Hadid, Irina Shayk, Jessica Kahawaty, Miranda Kerr etc. They can look great with very bright colours and also soft colours to me at least.
It also seems as though people refuse to believe people with medium or tan skin can be Winters. Medium or tan immediatly means "warm" to many people. Kim Kardashian is my skintone twin, and you wouldn't believe how many times I've been typed as an Autumn on Reddit.
I believe Kim is a Dark Winter! I’m talking about her in my next video 👀
@sara.allegra I was correctly typed as a winter in childhood during the OG color me beautiful era but was always incorrectly pushed towards the darker part of the palette (I think because I'm mixed race). If I bought into online quizzes using eye color etc it would point me to autumn but warm tones are horrendous on me in real life.
When I got a house of colour analysis a few years ago, the analyst was shocked (but I wasn't) that my top colors included light emerald, the brightest coolest red, electric blue, and magenta while pine, navy, burgundy, and fuchsia scored much lower.
I also think there's still kind of this false belief that it's rare for women of colour to be summers or springs and I disagree regardless of how dark anyone's skintone is. It's important to let the drapes do all of the talking.
I just discovered your channel. You look so beautiful in all of these colors! I’m a winter but with dark brown eyes. I’m curious where do you shop to find your best colors?
@@lovelylotus8787 Thank you and thanks for being here!! I’ll have to make a video on shopping for your best colors because it does become a little complicated when your focus has been narrowed. For me it’s usually a combination of thrifting as well as perusing online searching specifically for the names of my colors and possibly visiting in store if it looks like a brand has some possibilities for me in their collection currently. Then I swatch and decide if it is a good match. Sometimes it’s just ordering and praying that it’s spot on and if it isn’t I’ll send it back. It’s definitely a process!
This is so timely - I have recently been seeing I’ve been totally wrong about being a soft season and am leaning toward True or Bright Winter for myself. I’m much more comfortable in the softer colors, not standing out, but the bright cool colors have such an effortlessly radiant effect on my skin. I would love to see more makeup videos and if you have any tips for online shopping when you’re looking for specific colors. It’s such a bummer when you find something that looks perfect just to see it’s too warm/dark in person.
I will certainly do that! I get the frustration with online shopping!
Hallelujah! I was typed as a "dark brown summer" by House of Color because of my blue eyes and light brown hair. I started wearing the most dull colors. Would "cheat" and wear black when I wanted to look hot for a date. Two years later I got typed as a Bright Winter by a 12-season analyst. AND IT MADE SO MUCH SENSE. I got out all my fun clothes from storage, started wearing diamonds, bright lipstick, etc. and the compliments started pouring in.
@@suburbanwreck oh goodness, I believe I have a bone to pick with House of Color…
Bridget I am sooo jelaous of your color season. I am a deep winter who wishes he was cool or bright winter. I love those seasons too much ♡♡♡
@@tequilamockingbird4989 well the feeling is mutual! My soul is so deep winter- I love dark velvets and antique looking jewelry which looks amazing on DW. Also amazing user name btw
I’m was analyzed by a TCI expert as a bright spring and really appreciate the detail in this video
Bright Spring is so lovely!!
How would you type Billy Eilish? She likes to wear bright colors, but it's often speculated that she's summer and looks better in soft colors.
@@magdam8290 maybe I’ll do a video on her specifically
Thank you so much for this! I was typed long ago as a winter in four-season analysis. More recently, with my natural gray hair, I was typed as bright spring. The analysts spent about an hour trying to decide if I was warm or cool. But that season just felt off. I looked clownish. I should have trusted my gut and gone back to winter, but instead I paid to be analyzed online (probably a mistake) several times to see if I could solve the problem. And what did I get? Soft summer, cool summer, soft summer. And those colors are way too muted for me--the greenish upper lip is real! I think the natural instinct is to see gray hair (my eyes are blue-green hazel) and pale skin and think muted. But I am actually quite bright, and my hair is a mix of white, silver, and pewter. I'm back at true winter leaning bright. My big clue: realizing how good I look wearing striped shirts with lots of contrast.
Hi Bridget, thanks for the video. Could you make a video on how to put bright winter outfits togther?
Yes absolutely!
I’m 99% sure I’m a bright spring after spending a ridiculous amount of time learning colour analysis. But before I draped myself I’d begun to think I was soft autumn! I had a medium-softness pink jumper and anytime I wore it I felt like I needed lipstick to look okay. So I thought that if I needed lipstick with that then it must be too bright. I began wearing soft autumn colours and in the mirror I saw this greyness in my face like the grey in the clothes, so I thought it was a match. Then I saw a photo of myself 😭 I’ve never looked so washed out! That’s when I decided to actually do drapes on myself.
Turns out that little bit of grey in my pink jumper actually made it too soft for me and drained the colour from my face. I don’t want lipstick if I wear bright pink! It’s so funny too because I had colours from every season in my wardrobe, I feel like I should’ve known. But that’s why there’s an actual process to follow!
I am a warm spring and was originally typed as a cool summer. Another tendency for criss cross applesauce that causes issues is a confusion between light, medium, and deep value with warm, neutral, and cool undertones
Exactly- we have to consider all three dimensions of color
I only went to a discussion forum once and had really bad pics with drapes (I tried my best but my camera sucks). I already knew I was some kind of winter but was suggested a true summer as black looked "off" which was mostly due to bad lighting. I wasn't able to dismiss summer entirely as I don't always like black on me either, I need to combine it with another colour to feel "present" or at least not boring. This video clarified a few possibilities for the mistype as I absolutely do look drained/tired/grey-ish in muted colours; they don't scream awful just "whatever". But what does still sway me between summer and winter is that I can't overload on how dark/how much dark I wear. I think I'm most comfortable in the middle-ground tending toward dark, just not extremely so. And definitely cool and bright, though I'm still trying to figure out which one is more important for me.
If black alone seems too harsh you make suit a bright winter palette more. They are the lightest winters so bright color is better for them and black without a contrasting moment with make them appear sort of dull.
@@BridgetCappelthanks! Yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to express. Black doesn't look that bad on me just kind of a bit blah, if still better than soft colours. My mother is most likely a dark winter and she can wear black on black no problem. I need to be more careful with it lol, I do find some of her best colours weigh me down a little
I always tried to get my own color hair and😢it looked horrible, so I had to color it and a lot to look much better😂❤
I typed myself as bright spring, but stayed confused, because I can wear some muted colours, like olives (because of my green eyes I guess), so I started hesitating, but I think you have comforted me)
What about light seasons? Light summer and light spring have some pretty bright colours and are almost toned down versions of the bright seasons. I wonder if wearing the light season colours will simply look like a "natural/nude" look on bright season people.
I’ll do a video comparing bright winter and light spring so we can see what those light colors do on a bright season!
@BridgetCappel oooohh so excited and can't wait to watch it! 😍
Thank you! What eyeshadow and lipstick color are you wearing?
Bright winters are rare so they get mistyped. Most people have medium chroma.
Oh that's interesting.
I'm a Bright Winter man with hair color level 4 and dark yet striking brown eyes.
Bright winter colors even make you younger!
Would you mind sharing what lipstick you’re wearing?
I believe this one was raspberry rush by L’oreal* with summer fruit lip gloss by NYX on top.
I originally said Revlon but it’s not Revlon!
I think you pointed out something interesting here: you will only look like what the colour analysis describes your season as while wearing the colours of that season. Bright people only look bright in bright colours (while soft people actually look bright in soft colours). Also a lot of cool people are mislabeled as warm, because when they wear warm clothes, their face gets a yellow tint that actually doesn't suit them, but is interpreted as their natural warmth. I guess that a better description would be that all seasons look normal while wearing their season, and they look off (yellowish, ashy, muted, etc) while wearing the colours of other seasons
@@cassif19 yes, 100% exactly this. This is what I was getting at. Essentially- the correct colors will not create an optical illusion on your face, the wrong colors will always cast some sort of undesirable filter over your appearance. We are revealed in our best colors.
So i have never been confirmed by a professional but i'm pretty sure now that i'm a bright spring from doing drapes and virtual drapes on myself, but it took me so long to realize because the internet always tells you that the bright pallettes are REALLY rare and that you probably aren't a bright spring/winter. I think we should stop the gaslighting with this, just because it's rare doesn't mean it's impossible to be that pallette.
@@anna-cvanderwal7705 my hot take is that bright seasons aren’t actually that rare 👀
I'm a Latina, brown eyes, lightly tanned with chestnut brown hair, and everyone thinks I'm an autumn. I do like some autumn colors, but as soon as I put them on, I feel sad. Lol I've even had color analysis done online, and I was told I was warm and muted. It wasn't until I had a color analysis done in person that I heard from a professional what I had suspected all along. I have a cool undertone, and I look best in bright winter colors. It's amazing what an in person analysis can do when you're confused about your coloring.
I'm middle eastern and I also had people insisting I'm deep autumn or winter. Turns out I'm a bright winter too.
@@ma.3934 Did you instinctively have a feeling that you were a winter, or did you think you were an autumn? Every time I tried autumn colors, I would think if this is how people think I look my best, then I must be really unattractive 😆
Sorry, I'm sure you've heard this before, but you are so very Snow White and it's lovely.
Oh thank you! That’s so kind!!
I'd love videos on makeup and nail colors for the types. With specific color suggestions. Even if you only do a video on your personal type it would be interesting. Only do color makeup not foundation though as that's too complicated.
I'm a winter, but am trying to determine my subseason. I would love to see a video that might help determine the differences and how to notice these in someone. Right now, I think I'm a TW that can dip into the deeper end of BW or the brighter/cooler end of DW. I'm olive, so sometimes I think im a neutral-cool tone, but I'm not sure if my undertone is fully cool with just my overtone being warm, or if I'm a neutral-cool undertone person.
@@kraz11funk5 I’m going to do a BW vs TW and BW vs DW video with makeup and drapes soon that should be helpful!
I see you in this video and you immediately look bright to me. What is odd is that your colouring and mine are very, very similar, but I'm definitely soft. My hair is ashier than yours, my eyes are greyer, my skin is a little fairer, so I'm possibly higher contrast than you. Yet you definitely look bright to me and I'm definitely soft.
I wonder, then, if there is a quality not yet talked about, that is the deciding factor on whether or not someone is bright or soft.
There is definitely more to someone's colour season than their colouring alone. I'll give you my thoughts on it because there are a few things that I never see anyone talk about, but that I've noticed definitely contribute to our colour seasons. Just a preface so you understand where I'm coming from, I've always been an artist so a lot of these things about colour, tints, tones, shades and contrasts are quite intuitive to me. [warning - this turned out to be very long!]
When I first heard about colour season analysis, I could never type myself from those quizzes because they rely solely on asking about the colouring of your hair, skin and eyes. I mean those are the most obvious places to ask about your colouring, right? Then in the end you come to a conclusion based on how different those colours are from each other and where they fall on the cool-neutral-warm spectrum. However, this is an incomplete picture. Two people with identical colouring in their hair, skin and eyes could actually come out with different contrasts because of the rest of their features. I'll explain how it works.
Contrast by definition, is the difference between at least two things. Therefore it might seem obvious to compare the different colours of our features, but that's only part of the picture. Think of where on the face features naturally have an opportunity to contrast - the eyebrows and lips and to a lesser extent our irises against our scleras (white of eyes). Eyebrows contrast against our skin, but it isn't only their colour that is providing the contrast, it is also the thickness of the strands of hair and the density of the brows. Two people could have black eyebrows and identical skin colour, but the person with thick strands and high density is going to have a greater contrast than the person with finer, wispy strands and sparse hairs that allows more of their skin the show through. (This is quite easily understood from sketching and shading - if you only have one pencil for shading, you can get different depths of shades by controlling how much of the paper is allowed to show through.) We are finely tuned to this - probably one of the easiest ways to look like a different person is to change the contrast of your brows dramatically.
Then there's lips. Lips are different from the rest of the skin on your face, but a lot of colour analysis doesn't treat them separately. Some people's lip colour blends quite well with the skin on their faces, so they'll have a lower contrast in that area and probably look great with light nude lips, while other people have a dramatic difference between their lips and face (and everything in between). So if we go back to the two people in my eyebrow example, say the first person with the courser, denser brows also had the darker lips, while the second person with finer, sparser brows also had lighter lips that blended with their skin, then those two people would be different seasons, the first one either a bright or deep season, the second one soft or light.
Finally there's the irises. It isn't only the iris colour itself but also the ring around them that adds contrast to the features. Again you could have two people with identical iris colours, but have different contrasts against the sclera for two reasons - first the colour of the sclerae could be different (remember there are different shades of white, just like with teeth - it's best to match teeth with eyes when whitening) and secondly is the depth of the colour of the outer ring. All three of these features affect our contrast in important ways that aren't simply the hair, skin and eye colour.
I eventually figured out my season by simply looking at the palettes for each season and evaluating which one had colours that worked well for me. Turns out I'm bright winter. Looking at the palette made it so obvious. With my warm brown hair and eyes, you couldn't come to this conclusion from the quizzes - no not even bright spring with that warmth, my skin is quite cool-toned, blue veins. The thing is, I discovered it a bit late because by that point, I already knew which colours looked best on me. Kind of nice to have a name for reference though.
This is why draping seems to get the most accurate results for people, because it seems like nobody understands all of the factors that contribute to contrast beyond how the colours interact with each other. Overall, I think the missing pieces to the puzzle of contrast is to consider eyebrows separately from hair and lips as separate from skin. Actually, you could ignore the hair on your scalp altogether, since as humans we are highly tuned to faces and that's where we look for harmony (to test this, you could look at how bald men can show different contrasts and how women who wear hijab definitely have colours that look better and worse on them despite not showing hair).
Wow I got carried away! Does any of this make sense to you? I'd really like to hear your thoughts on my ideas, if you're willing to share them.
@Chrysaetos3 Yes, I think you make very good points. My eyebrows aren't sparse but the individual hairs are very fine. It has the effect of making them appear lighter than they are.
I notice that the way my hair and skin reflect light is more like a pearl. It sort of semi-absorbs it, whereas people who are bright seem to reflect more.
@@helenfitch6590 Oh I like your point about the skin and hair texture too! I actually already use that to determine the best-looking texture of fabrics and makeup to wear as well, but I didn't connect that part to seasons.
I bet you would look lovely in pearls. On the other hand, while I've always loved the idea of them, I think bright, shiny metals look so much better on me because it reflects the natural sheen in my skin and hair.
People make the mistake that brightness is about how much contrast you have but you can have bright skin without having high contrast. Like you said your hair and eyes are softer and so your skin can be soften in and of itself as well.
What this means for someone who is lower contrast, like me, dark blond, but still has brightness as my dominant feature in the skin is that I can't wear the darker colors in the bright winter palette, the normal clear colors are perfect but nothing mixed with black. Black on its own as a clear color is great though.
The palettes aren't refined enough for everyone, I think we still have to fine tune things.
@Dani-lc9hq I agree. I think softness and brightness stand apart from contrast. Contrast can play a part, but it's often taught as the defining characteristic of contrast, and like you, I think that's wrong. By the sounds of thingsI'm higher contrast than you, but we agree that you're bright because you're bright and I'm muted because I'm muted. Very often, colour systems place me as a True Summer, but the bright end of the Summer palette is too bright. Yet apparently, I can't be soft because I'm also very cool toned, and it goes against accepted theory.
I really need to get typed because people love my blue black hair and bright clothing colors but don’t like bright lipsticks on me saying it makes my skin look lighter. 😅
@@chandraadam3656 you might be a true or dark winter if saturation works on you but bright lipsticks are too bright. It would be tough for a bright winter to pull off blue/black hair without getting washed out, but a true or dark winter could probably wear it really well!
@@BridgetCappel that makes total sense that’s it’s the saturation not the brightness that looks good.
In my opinion, no one really wears bright colors so when a bright winter isn’t wearing their season, they actually look gray and muted which gives the appearance of soft season.
I can only think of this girl named deepti from love is blind. She has a podcast and she’s always in wrong colors EXCEPT one podcast where she’s wearing a bright pink sweater and omg, she looks so lively
It’s tough because bright colors aren’t always trendy and most times people will choose to conform to trends over wearing what best suits them in order to feel admired and accepted socially by others that are aware of current trends. The question becomes- would you rather risk expressing authenticity or be more easily accepted by sticking to the conformity of trends?
Why is this so true….because I do have dark dark hair, very pale skin, blue-grey eyes and even still I’m like “I think I’m a bright winter but….maybe I’m actually a summer and am only going off stereotypes?”
However I always get compliments in bright colours-not on the clothes but on me looking natural, those being my colours, etc. cherry red and sunshine yellows especially.
You sound so much like a bright winter! You’re probably correct there. It’s hard to adopt those colors when what’s on trend is usually softer or earthier colors. Marketing plays such a big role in what colors we gravitate towards.
@@BridgetCappel truly!
Like please give even an icy shade in this sea of dusty colours! 😂
Thank you so much❤🎉
You’re welcome 😊
If you're a POC, this video will not provide clarification.
@@MsNiqie2022 help me out, how could I provide better information so that this translates better and is informative for POC? I think there is a lot of bad info out there re “contrast” and people thinking that in order to have contrast you must have dark hair and light skin, but that is absolutely false. A celebrity like Lupita Nyong’o is very dark overall in complexion and hair color, and someone misunderstanding color harmony might say she has low contrast or that she is “dark”- leading to a mistyping. However, she is actually a high contrast bright season- or rather she needs brightness and high contrast in her clothing and makeup to look her best. I would have liked to address this in this video but I didn’t think it applied to being mistyped as a muted season. I could make a separate video addressing this kind of mistyping for POC. In the 80s almost every woman with darker than white skin was typed as a winter which is horribly reductive and false. I’d love to talk about this and show how modern personal color analysis is actually extremely inclusive and personalized. I’d love to hear your thoughts as well!
Thank you for your response. I think that seeing photos of a variety of poc to reference will help a lot. Cocoa Styling here on RUclips has videos dedicated to poc but some of the information is confusing. If your able to add at the very least one poc in your reference photos. It will help. Thank you
I’ve been stuck between if in a Bright Spring or a Soft Autumn due to having medium contrast and unsure of my chroma value. But if I think about the colours I get the most compliments on, it’s definitely bright colours.
@macaylacarlene879 try true spring. Bright spring runs a bit cooler from the winter influence
@@tomjones2157 I’m somewhat neutral though and can pull off some cool colours. Which is why I feel like I must be a warm season bordering cool season
I was typed as Bright Winter from one colour consultant (in person analysis) and Soft Summer from another consultant (online). I am struggling to find out, who is right. I shine in bright colours when it comes to clothing but somehow I don't feel the bright colours in make up (maybe I bought the wrong colours?). I took pictures of myself with Bright Winter and Soft Summer styling but still can't tell which season I'm in. My eyes pop with BW colours but somehow I look younger and skin looks smoother in Soft Summer. Is it just because of my phone camera? How can I figure out my correct season? 😭
i have seen adriana lima classed as bright winter and bright spring, now a soft season and i just don't know 😭
@@weewooweewoo906 she’s definitely soft imo. I’ll use her as an example when I do my Best and Worst of Soft Summer. They dress her as a winter a lot but it is really stark and overwhelming on her. Bright red lipstick stands out from her face but she glows with a nude lip wearing gray or beige. And soft summers are notorious for being dressed as all the other seasons as some point, they often try a bunch of different hair colors too.
A big part of it might be that the old books on the subject like CMB said, if you have hazel or brown eyes, you can’t be a Spring, period. However, at that time, the system was for Caucasian women, so thankfully it’s gotten more inclusive. I like to watch Korean color analysis as they have people of all seasons who mostly have brown or black hair and brown eyes. Also, the refinements such as subseasons help.
Your before photos look exactly like me with my natural color.
The muted tones make me look sick and grey.
But I only wear black and love it. I want to know my colors to add accent and accessories colors though.
When I get typed they usually only see my bleached hair.
Recently I started growing my natural very dark ash brown out and only add ash blonde highlights now.
I usually get told I am a dark summer but I just don’t suit those colors. I get most compliments when I wear black. It makes me glow, which I thought was against summer ?
If you wear black well and soft colors mute you, you may be some kind of winter. It’s very likely!
Can bright have muted grey/green eyes ? Mine change depending on light, my hair has golden hues level 6. Neutral skin ( olive I think) green blue veins
@@anir8023 yes they can- my eyes are steely blue/teal with a little gray. They look much for vibrant and blue when I wear the best colors for me.
@@BridgetCappel oh yes mine change colour depending on colours I wear ! Sowmtimes more blue sometimes more green ! Thank you !
You are definitely bright season! That green top looks amazing. But the lipstick… i dont know, maybe too bright or wrong colour for you.
Thanks for the feedback!
I completely disagree I think it looks great
😊I find these confusing. Your explanations make sense. Especially if you're a neutral skin tone you can wear a lot of colours. I can wear oranges and cool pinks equally well. I look good in brights and pastels both because I'm very fair w dark hair. mute and earthy colours though make me feel uncomfortable and tired when I wear them. But I can wear autumn yellows, greens and warm browns as long as they are saturated mid tones.... I think I must be a winter as I can pull of fuchsia, purples, reds and bright greens easily and they make me look more healthy...
Can someone with gray hair be a bright person?
Yes! It happens quite a bit! 😊
Yes absolutely! Your season doesn’t change as you age though you may prefer lighter or darker colors in your palette over time. Actually a persons natural gray hair is the most harmonious hair color for them! I’d love to see more women embrace their natural gray instead of doing artificial yellow blonde highlights. I don’t think they realize how beautiful they will look with their natural hair and their best colors.
I think a lot of other color analysts argue that your coloring softens with age; however I see so many older women with bright white hair that suits them. I am an older bright spring with naturally bright cream hair. My hair enters the room before I do.
@@monicawall778 Looking at Jamie Lee Curtis, I think she is still firmly a true winter even with her gray hair. I think to wear softer colors would be a mistake and make her look less vibrant than she is. It is an interesting concept to ponder though- maybe an aging/graying and color analysis video needs to be in the works!
I have been typed a true summer and think it’s accurate, BUT I look dead in very light colors and best imo in medium to medium dark summer shades. I know I look off in some of the most intense winter colors.
True summer colors are pretty medium in value so this would make sense. They don’t lean very bright or very dark.
Megan Fox's hair is naturall that more reddy light brown/blonde color it's more blonde than brown. But I've always been outspoken as an anthropologist in my color groups about hair color and all the strict criteria of these systems. I think white silver blondes can be winter, I think Megan is clear and is better in the dominant characteristic system than trying to shove her in a box based on her hair color. She looks more natural with it dyed darker than it is natural and so that to me says clear is correct and BW is fine for her. I guess I study race from the anthropological perspective so I see traits that are considered more "avant garde" occuring more often than you'd think in nature.
Genetics doesn't play by these social construct rules we created for color analysis. So I appreciate now in 2024 we have lots of places to go get an analysis with differing systems for typing and color beliefs. It is much needed. I'm a bit deeper than Meganbut super clear too, so I kind of stretch for all of winter and grab some spring brights too. I was typed as a Cold Clear Winter in color breeze's system but I'd say I'm more of a Cold True Winter or something like a Cold True Bright who kind of dominantes the bright seasons as if winter + spring had a baby. I have a neutral undertone. I never fit nicely into a system myself either. I'm Cold (no outward perceived warmth... but it is there just hard to see!) Megan you can see more of that warmth in her natural coloring skin it's clearly seen in the skin + hair so just staying more in BW is ideal maybe possible to try spring colors to see if any BS is nice too. If she had clear + deep natural hair or tanned gray and deep she might be able to reach for more CW/DW shades like me. I just don't see that in her though. What do you think? I see her put everywhere but BW/Clear is right to me.
I'm a cool Winter w mousy blonde/brown hair and blue gray eyes. Bcs of it I get mistyped as a Summer. However soft and light Summer cols make me washed out. I can wear cool Summer palette though.
I´m a deep winter (typed a an autumn 20 years ago , but the colour brown and beige doesn´t work with my grey hair; so I got an other typing). Love to hear, that you want to do a video on deep winter colours. Thanks!!!
Is that true if someone look good in black colour that's mean they are a winter ??
@@DhkniDhkni-go1qz Possibly- Dark Autumn and Bright Spring can also pull off black and not look too overwhelmed. But winters all have back in their palate and will wear it the best compared to the other seasons.
@@BridgetCappelso if only bright spring and dark autumn also look good in black so im definitely a winter,but how i can know my sup season
please make a video on true winter
I have one out right now- best and worst of true winter- what would be most helpful for you to see next on True Winter?
Lots of valuable information, but reference images are needed to illustrate your points.
Has anyone here been mistyped as a bright spring?
@@emm-w9u that would be interesting to know- I know a bright spring who was nearly mistyped as an autumn because she could handle the warmth of the colors well. She looked beautiful in autumn but absolutely stunning and undeniable as a bright spring.
I am confused. Did you mean why did soft seasons get confused for bright?
@@shelleymusleh439 No, though I did talk about the crossover. I did mean bright seasons mistaken for muted seasons. I talk about how I mistook myself for muted before I was professionally draped because the description and stereotypes of bright seasons threw me off. I also talk about how bright seasons will look fine or just ok in a softer season which is why we may not intuit their full potential for color as a bright. Also the misconception that muted or soft seasons should look muted or soft in their best colors which is not true. Bright seasons will look muted or soft in colors that are not bright enough for them hence the mistyping from folks that misunderstand color harmony.
@@BridgetCappel but in the photo and the beginning you are talking all about a bunch of soft season people who were previously mistaken as bright.
@@shelleymusleh439 Not exactly- those celebrities were not mistaken as bright- I’m showing how the soft season celebrities look vibrant and glowing- not soft and muted- in their own soft colors. I’m trying to demonstrate that any person in good color harmony, in their own season’s colors, will appear vibrant and striking on their own, as a bright in bright colors will look. By contrast, a bright in soft muted colors will appear muted and softened- not what we want in good color harmony. So the point is “muted” is a good term to describe certain colors, but “muted” is not what we should expect to label someone’s appearance in the correct coloration for them. If they look muted or sunken or softened, something is off and we should re-examine the color analysis.
@@BridgetCappel yes I understand! And agree but I think I’m trying to point out that you’re title, pictures, and intro may be confusing to most people.
@@shelleymusleh439 ok thanks for the feedback!
I’m the classic example you were speaking of… for years, I thought I was a winter because I have very pale skin and almost black hair, but the darker colors wore me instead of me wearing them.
Then more recently, I’ve discovered that I’m actually a bright spring, which makes a ton of sense given that my hair always had red highlights, my skin tone is more peach than rose, and I have the classic Spring eye with a yellow ring around the center. So yes, stereotypes can be deceptive.