Hi, everyone, I'm so happy to share this video with you. I find Saoirse's colouring absolutely fantastic. Delicate and strong, magical and relatable, beautiful and unique. We see her wearing many colours in clothing, cosmetics, and hair colour as she makes the fascinating transition from teenager to adult. I'm excited to hear your thoughts!
I agree! With some of these photos I was also was reminded of the styles of Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and Kaley Cuoco. All wonderful styles but not quite the essence of Saoirse herself, not quite home. My favourite was the soft honey coloured image you showed as a refresh in look 10. I liked your wise words at the end about walking your own path. I wonder which one Saoirse would choose now!
Love this video. Saoirse's hair in the beginning, when it was wavy and goden, is fabulous. I can't understand why actresses always go for bleached blonde. It merely makes her look harsh and pale, when her natural hair makes her look radiant.
Glad you liked it :) Saoirse's colours are so luminous and never more than when they're her own. I agree about the bleached colour, it creates a papery impression. Her hair probably has darkened in the past 10 years, and highlights could be gorgeous but if the teenage hair colour wasn't this white, it's unlikely to be flattering as an adult. I felt the same as you about the honey blonde in the first image, both the colour and leaving the more yellow hair from the ears down. I also wondered about a highlight in the colour of her freckles, could also be good eyeshadow, would create a seamless flow between colours and features.
I love watching your videos. They are so informative and interesting. I also get such a sense of peace and calmness when you speak. Thank you for giving your time and talents for us to enjoy.
I so appreciate your encouragement, it means a lot, thank you. I love every minute of making these videos and learn so much about colour myself. The calm voice has been mentioned often and is so unlike how I perceive myself that I think about whether I'm doing it subconsciously. It's possible that I level out my voice as part of keeping my personal preferences and emotions out of the discussion. We have no other way to perceive the world besides our relative experiences but what I hope people hear is that the system works and it works the same for everyone. And that what I say is commentary, not criticism. So many thanks for helping me define my own perspective in this platform :)
I learned so much watching this. You speak so poetically about each person, finding what makes them beautiful, and using color as a tool to make it shine, it often sounds like you're evaluating art! I'm wondering if you could make a video about "white." What each season's perfect white would be, and wonderful examples of wedding dresses, or tux which would work with those whites. For many people getting married it's the first time they have been in head-to-toe white, and it can be intimidating to pick the right color! Thank you so much.
Looking at a painting is great analogy, seeing all the parts together rather than in parts. In a painting, it could be upper and lower halves or the four corners working well together to make for a better picture. White is on the list of colours we'll look at over time :)
You really conveyed the magic of the Lights with this video. So refreshing to see an example of a celebrity who at least sometimes shines as themselves. It was helpful to see how our primary color quality really IS the most important thing to get right. Darkness takes down the beauty of Lights more than warmth or saturation. It is the biggest non-negotiable. The positive is it if you can at least get that right it automatically removes most of uour bad choices. Reminder I cannot skimp on saturation.
Saoirse is also an example of a celebrity whose colour magic is more evident in film than pictures, at least the movies I've seen. The lighting and sets bring out the unusual beauty. Agreed about our colours, first identifying the dimension that needs most attention and then learning about it. For Lights, lightness is the one and it means dark doesn't go above medium-dark; there's also a boundary at the other end with light-medium. For Brights, it's brightness and it doesn't go below high, with an upper boundary at human saturation levels, rather than synthetic, neon, computer, cosmetic, and so on.
This is the first of your videos I’ve watched and I found it super interesting. I’ve always been drawn in by Saorise’s natural beauty and I found your analysis super insightful 😊
Dear Christine, thank you for making these videos! I enjoy going on these colour journeys with you and continue to learn about my own colouring (DA) and making the best choices from what's available. Thank you for sharing your talents!
Once again, thank you for your hard work on these videos, Christine. I’d love a video on gold and also one on white (neutrals are so hard for me). Also, if you have time, I’m in need of some SSu winter boots and was wondering if you could throw a couple options on your SSu pin board? The ones that are on there are out of stock.
Glad you enjoyed it :) Gold is a popular request, we'll get that one covered. Next week is dedicated to the Pin boards looking at navy and I love the idea of winter boots as well, thank you!
In my perception light seasons look brighter than bright seasons because of lightness, while technically they are softer than Brights. Enough clarity + lightness are perceived as brightness. I shy away from these colours because they look brighter than me - paradoxically LSp and even TSp looks brighter than BSp. And LSu while staying in the same cool-neutral range also looks brighter than BW and adding saturation to LSu colours helps them look less bright, how odd does it sounds. (I think with make up Saoirse looks quite good in BSp, definitely not the worst option she could choose) Could you make a video about soft colours of the Winter seasons? What properties make them belong to these particular palettes and how to distinguish them from Spring or Summer colours? For example, BW soft coral or soft light blue look like they could belong to spring/summer seasons and seeing them in BW palette was a surprise.
I understand what you're describing, that light colours and Light Seasons can appear brighter than they are, maybe how warm colours look brighter to me than they are, or Soft Summer colours can look darker than they are. I'm not sure how much of this is individual or if most people have the same perceptions. I couldn't say that I see LSp as brighter than the other Springs, although I appreciate that the type of perception is so different that it can feel like asking different questions about the same thing rather than the same question about two different things. I recognize that internal shift, same with LSu to BW, but didn't recognize 'adding saturation to LSu makes them look less bright', I might need you to show me in person. I agree with you that Saoirse is decent in BSp except that it's not Saoirse. Some version of her manages the colours but even as I made the video, I wasn't sure I agreed with myself that BSp was wearable and that Soft Autumn wasn't better able to express the person. About soft colours for Winters...I wonder if I can show this in video. If you held the W fabrics in hand, I doubt that you'd put them into Summer-influenced groups. By brightness alone, once they were placed among Su colours, they'd jump apart whatever the lightness level. There are always the two sides of how colour works, meaning what does it do with the first Season and also what happens with the second Season in the comparison. Actually, that might be the theme right there. Thank you for the suggestion :)
Love watching these videos! Still binge watching previous videos and listening to your podcasts! I just reviewed an online articles about “who wore it best”. Practicing studying the two celebrities in the same outfit, analyzing as you do, looking for facial features, at their make up choices and hair color. The person who “wins” is always someone probably wearing the correct season (or closer to it)! So much to learn! So much fun! Thank you!💋💋 Adding a PS.- Can you explain using colour from across the color wheel in a video? You mentioned it a couple of times and I’m confused. (If you already did one, hopefully, I’ll catch up to it!😛)
I'm happy to hear that you're finding new information with each video. As you say, once you begin to see colour from this perspective, the world of knowledge is big, rich, and stable :) By 'colour across the wheel', the closest video I can think of would be Nextdoor Season Colours. I'm not enough of a believer in that approach to make a video but sometimes, it's a useful necessity, like the jumpsuit final image in this video. I expect that it's that compromise that you're wondering about? For the most part, I would look in neighbour Seasons before crossing the circle, and besides the example in this video, I'm not sure I can think of others...oh yes, the yellow top that could be worn by TSu or TW in the Your Best Yellow video.
@@ChristineScaman Yes! I think about creating outfits with complimentary colours- goes back to finding colours that harmonize and matching energy. My “advanced” curriculum...down the road. .
Complementary colours helped me define that even energy, as if the adjacent colours felt flat, like calm water, rather than a bumpy road or a needing big step up or down to get from one colour to the other. They're so energizing together that I would love to see them used more often, though for myself, it does take some planning.
I've really been getting into learning about my best colors and metals as well as hair color and makeup. Loving your videos. I always wonder on these celebrity analysis videos, how much the lighting on the subject makes a difference in your opinion. I'd love to see some of these like the white outfit in more natural lighting. Between lighting and photoshopping, I feel that photos are never accurate to what it would look like in person.
I could use your comment as a banner for this channel. The effect of lighting and software has huge influence over what we see on pages and screens. For any person in the videos, we could see them in the same outfit in five photos and have different comments. This totally includes me, who could film the video at different times of day or wear different clothes and I'd appear very different in each one or from how I'd look if we were standing in the same room. For me, pictures are hopeless to know Season. I try not to get into endless cycles of disclaiming myself but I make a point of saying in every video that I don't know their Season or what effect the colour had in real life. The only way I can know is in-person in a setting where surrounding colour and lighting is controlled. With the videos, I try to walk the middle ground where people might learn about colour and colour analysis, since both are too visual to communicate only with words, without overstepping my reach by making claims about Seasons or how the outfits really looked. It would be my dream to make videos using images in calibrated or natural lighting, but if those images exist, I have not found them, an example of helping people understand something new with the resources available to me. When you see celebrity analysis, keep wondering and learning! Glad you're enjoying the videos and many thanks for your comment :)
This video is very interesting to me, because I noticed a while ago that some people perceive Saoirse as a light spring. I´m a light spring myself and highly into colour analysis for years now, so her case definitely caght my interest! First I was very enthusistic to convince myself that Saoirse belongs to my own seasonal subgroup, because I find there aren´t many of them around. But when I started to take closer looks at pics of her in many different colours I realized that even though she is in the neutral-warm range with moderately bright chroma, she wears colours better which are less whitish than mine, but I assume she really knows that her delicate yet intense overall appearance predestine her to push the boundaries towards the light seasons. My best friend and flatmate is a deep autumn so I have these colours around, but it honestly wasn´t until I explored other women with a delicate and at the same time pretty dynamic energy within their features, like Emma Watson, Carey Mulligan, Kiernan Shipka or Natalie Portman that I realized Saoirse shares the same colour palette with them, the deep autumn palette. However I understand why some people are chosen as example for the light spring colouring, mostly due to a shared ´fairylike´ flair around them, personally I view only Dakota Fanning and Dove Cameron as popular representatives of the light spring subgroup. Saoirse´s colour choices are often in the light range of her palette nonetheless, much more often than I see it overall (except for maybe cream and white) which has my full emotional support, there are way too many dark clothes worn without any need. I´m aware that my opinion must sound very surprising to you and maybe appears even impossible to be true, but considering the idea that both light and deep palettes have the ´colours lightened by white/darkened by black´ attribute in common, maybe not that far fetched as thought of at the first moment. You also mentioned many aspects about Saoirse´s colour choices that I would totally agree with due to several parallels, that was really fascinating to hear and see. With kindest regards Betti
Sincere thanks for sharing your thoughts. I wish that colour analysts lived closer together and could learn from one another in person to understand how they apply the principles of colour to appearance. I couldn't be definitive about a person's Season from images but we seem to agree that Saoirse has some Spring attributes and DA and LSp share some colour properties...this came up in another recent video...oh yes, Harry Styles. I appreciate hearing your perspectives :)
Thank you for making these videos, color is really hard for me to grasp and even though i have a long way to go i know ive learned so much from your channel.
You are so welcome! Colour analysis is a different way of looking at colour in a way, because it's being applied to a person, rather than a room or flower. Colour, fashion, cosmetics, hair colour, each one is a huge topic. Having a place to start in how to think about them helps us get started and keeps our attention out of the places that are not relevant :)
I love love love listening to your videos while I work or clean. They are calm but informational enough to motivate me and keep my brain busy while I do tasks! Happy new year and can’t wait for more videos! 🎆🥳
Dear Christine, I bet I’m not the first one asking for that but could you please make a video about Tilda Swinton? I know she’s so chimerical and it’s impossible to guess her season but I’d really appreciate to hear your opinion on her best and worst colours/looks because I’ve read so many contradictory opinions on her colours that I’m just lost. Another person that has great style is Tessa Thompson.
Tilda has beautiful colouring, with several requests for a video. I wonder if people who are extremely famous (Angelina Jolie), beloved (Diana), or controversial in the public opinions about their colours (Tilda, Aishwarya) make the best subjects for the videos. For those about whom there is a lot of speculation, my opinion is just one more hat in the ring without any more or less weight than anyone else's, and as others have found, their colouring would be too hard for me to say much from pictures because they photograph well in many colours and effects. I'll look at images and see if a theme emerges, and Tessa as well, who could be great. Sincere thanks for the suggestions :)
Christine - what season are you? I am getting a professional analysis soon - I had one done previously online and was typed as cool and muted which doesn’t seem to quite fit. My coloring is somewhat similar to yours.
I'm a Dark Winter, Winter with a smaller amount of Autumn. Off screen, I have a feeling my colouring would be similar to Duchess Kate, just a little more saturation. I hope your analysis is a wonderful experience and the result feels just right :)
I have been leaning toward Dark Winter. I initially thought Soft Summer because my eyes are green but all the mauves and super muted colors wash me out. Skin is quite neutral so a transition season makes sense for me. Thank you again!!
You know how people are intrinsically attracted to colors that look good on them? Would you say that people are also intrinsically attracted to fabrics that look good on them?
I've heard the concept that people are attracted to their best colours but I've never found that to be true in adults, at least in my experience, with both clients and the people around me. Closets are often too eclectic or low key for the person. Possibly children gravitate to their own colours, I'm not sure, but even then, story books and the perceptions of others have a lot of influence very early on. In adolescence, too much space is occupied by the opinions of others and I've not met many people who find their way back appearance-wise as they clear out those voices and their own character takes shape. Great question about whether we're attracted to fabrics and textures that suit us, first time I've thought about that. My initial thought is that it's a different situation in that there are fabrics and textures that work for everyone, which doesn't happen with colour I don't think, and the challenge for people is finding their boundaries in terms of weight, texture, shine, and so on. As with colour, closets can be either too subdued or wide-ranging for the person until they find a system that organizes the possibilities relative to them.
Some kind of Spring influence in Saoirse, I would think, and hard to say about a second Season in the mix. I wonder if the brows and hair look darker next to the very light chemical colours, though for most people, hair colour is the least reliable indicator of Season (and more so if the person is the only one in the image). Did you happen to see Brooklyn on Netflix? Lovely story and she didn't strike me as particularly dark or saturated in hair colour (or any feature). Autumn seems to me unlikely, the other Season(s) can be surprising!
@@ChristineScaman I don’t have Netflix but have just looked at an image online from it, and her colouring looks very bright and warm there. The blouse and skirt she has on seem to fit in with her really well to my untrained eye!
@@ChristineScaman you are certainly bright.I think there is a video where you try on summer colors :). I need to see what level of contrast I can handle. May be some of the deep winter colors are too strong for me and make me grayish. I read about a toasted soft deep winter. May be I am a toasted soft deep winter.
16:20 Blue eyes aren’t blue, they are translucent and they appear blue because of the veins in the eyes (veins are blue even though some think they are red due to holding blood). This means that blue eyes tend to look like they shift in color. Depending on the light, how much sun and the colors that you’re wearing because those colors bounce and the eyes take on that color. Here she is wearing green so her eyes appear to have a green color to them due to the dress. I come from a family that have ice blue eye color (Ellen Degeneres eye color but lighter blue). This happens all the time and people that don’t have blue eyes tend to comment on this constant shifting eye color, because eyes with pigment in them don’t shift this way in color even if people with brown eyes eg. can give off a more warm brown outside in the sun but almost look like they have black eyes when they are inside (even though no one has black eyes not even bpoc). / Scandinavian
Thank you for this information. I had an impression that blue eyes acquired their colour from an absence of melanin. The scatter of light brings about the colour, as you say, in the same way that the sky looks blue. I also thought that blood vessels in the eye were located on the back wall of the globe, in the retina, but I'm not sure if that applies to both arteries and veins, so that's interesting as well. I'm not certain what causes the different types of blue, presumably various types and quantities of melanin.
@@ChristineScaman Pigment/Melanin, thank you for using the word I was looking for when I wrote my comment earlier! My English doesn’t really stretch that far that I can go into great detail of the medical parts of the eyes. The veins are all over but as you say further back, but since us with blue eyes don’t have any melanin in our irises it doesn’t block the blue veins from shining through and gives us the look of blue eyes. It is the same with strands of hair that can give off the color grey when they are translucent (my grandma’s hair could look blue, grey and green depending on the lightng she was in and what colors she would wear- because before her hair lost its pigmentation she had extremely blonde hair naturally and never dyed it). It’s the same with snow that can look pink/purple at dusk and takes on the color of the sky and other surrounding, but in itself it has no color at all. Which is why it’s really cool to be here in Scandinavia and see the Northern lights and how the snow takes on this intense neon green color (even if one might not wish to wear neon colored clothes). A doctor once explained to me, when I asked them, and they said that veins have different colors in people and some can have veins that look darker or lighter blue and some can have veins that can have a mixture of a blue/green color. This impacts which color blue one’s eyes might have. Blue eyes may be popular among many, but it’s an awful colors to have because you have no protection against the sun due to lack of pigmentation and the sun feels extremely sharp and make your eyes water and it’s hard to keep your eylids open. I always explain to people that I’m not trying to be rude when I wear my shades in spring, it just is an issue for many of us with blue eyes. Have a lovely day! :)
Thank you for the explanation :) I hear you about the sensitivity to sunlight and wish I had worn sunglasses (and sunscreen) from the time I was 10 years old. I'm glad that young people today find these fashionable!
I'm telling only you and it's a sad or just tragic story. I do not know my natural hair color. When I was thirteen I bought one of those silly teenager magazines. I wasn't allowed those normally but we were on holiday and I was bored so my mom let me. Inside the magazine there was a tiny flakon of hair bleach for 'a summer look' or something. I put in on my hair and it went real light blonde as it was when I was a small child. My mom who is a dark brunette would often talk about my fair hair when I was little and so did she that summer. In my family loving attention was a scarcity and somehow that attention for my 'summer hair' got stuck with me. The light blonde hair. So from the day I highlighted my hair regularly. Nobody knows this. Not my husband nor my children. And not even I myself. All my four children are very light blonde still with blue eyes from my husband. My eyes are olive green. I don't know my true hair. I highlighted it always as soon as it grew out. I'm fortytwo now. My hair is very long and light blonde. (English is not my first language)
I understand some of your experience and I'm sure many women do. I began changing my hair colour at 14 and continued for forty years. From lemon juice under the sun to whatever comes next, we decide to change ourselves to please some unknown voice or force, which we realize eventually can never be please enough. Teenage boys don't do this, but boys live in a different society, at least here in N. America 40 years ago, a world of subtle privilege and being admired. I hope our personal experience of this may make us different parents and our children better adults. The fact that you can share your story shows that you're not pretending to yourself. Maybe to everyone else, but external opinions of you don't matter as much as your own. You're free to colour your hair for all your life and never change or justify the choice. If you like the blonde colour, keep it. And if you decide to colour less or none at all, external opinions of you still won't matter as much as yours. If you would feel release and freedom and already imagine a world without dye, keep imagining that. We all have fear of acceptance with any change but if others can't accept us, it may say more about them than us. Having experienced this with many women and myself, what happens most often is that others step forward and admire your courage. When women do go back to blonde dye, it is often when they made the change too quickly or guessed a colour that they hoped might replicate their natural colour, but it never quite does. It takes courage to be ourselves and if that means blonde for one woman or Botox for another, we don't have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves. We're with you, sister. Make a choice for today and lay it to rest. Tomorrow might bring a new choice :)
Christine, thanks a lot for the video! Could you please do the next video about Avril Lavigne color evolution? I'd like to see your reaction and analysis.
Avril is a wonderful suggestion, a person I've wanted to feature for a long time. What stopped me is that I want this channel to be commentary without criticism and that requires balance where viewers see better and worse through my eyes, or those of a judgment-free system. For some celebs, I've not found those better images. They need not be perfect, that's rare for everyone, but enough good choices to talk about, and I've been unable to find them for Avril.
@ChristineScaman Oh, this is really sad to hear. I'm sure that would be a great video, but anyway, I respect your choice. I'd like to see more of your videos in the future. Thank you very much for the videos!💘 By the way, my other suggestion for you is Becky G. I think it would be interesting to see your analysis of her color evolution😊
Hi, everyone, I'm so happy to share this video with you. I find Saoirse's colouring absolutely fantastic. Delicate and strong, magical and relatable, beautiful and unique. We see her wearing many colours in clothing, cosmetics, and hair colour as she makes the fascinating transition from teenager to adult. I'm excited to hear your thoughts!
I agree!
With some of these photos I was also was reminded of the styles of Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and Kaley Cuoco. All wonderful styles but not quite the essence of Saoirse herself, not quite home. My favourite was the soft honey coloured image you showed as a refresh in look 10. I liked your wise words at the end about walking your own path. I wonder which one Saoirse would choose now!
I had the same experience, of feeling I was looking at other people. My favourite hair colour was the one at the very beginning :)
@@ChristineScamanmy favourite also. She looked perfect
Love this video. Saoirse's hair in the beginning, when it was wavy and goden, is fabulous. I can't understand why actresses always go for bleached blonde. It merely makes her look harsh and pale, when her natural hair makes her look radiant.
Glad you liked it :) Saoirse's colours are so luminous and never more than when they're her own. I agree about the bleached colour, it creates a papery impression. Her hair probably has darkened in the past 10 years, and highlights could be gorgeous but if the teenage hair colour wasn't this white, it's unlikely to be flattering as an adult. I felt the same as you about the honey blonde in the first image, both the colour and leaving the more yellow hair from the ears down. I also wondered about a highlight in the colour of her freckles, could also be good eyeshadow, would create a seamless flow between colours and features.
I love watching your videos. They are so informative and interesting. I also get such a sense of peace and calmness when you speak. Thank you for giving your time and talents for us to enjoy.
I so appreciate your encouragement, it means a lot, thank you. I love every minute of making these videos and learn so much about colour myself. The calm voice has been mentioned often and is so unlike how I perceive myself that I think about whether I'm doing it subconsciously. It's possible that I level out my voice as part of keeping my personal preferences and emotions out of the discussion. We have no other way to perceive the world besides our relative experiences but what I hope people hear is that the system works and it works the same for everyone. And that what I say is commentary, not criticism. So many thanks for helping me define my own perspective in this platform :)
I learned so much watching this. You speak so poetically about each person, finding what makes them beautiful, and using color as a tool to make it shine, it often sounds like you're evaluating art!
I'm wondering if you could make a video about "white." What each season's perfect white would be, and wonderful examples of wedding dresses, or tux which would work with those whites. For many people getting married it's the first time they have been in head-to-toe white, and it can be intimidating to pick the right color!
Thank you so much.
Looking at a painting is great analogy, seeing all the parts together rather than in parts. In a painting, it could be upper and lower halves or the four corners working well together to make for a better picture. White is on the list of colours we'll look at over time :)
You really conveyed the magic of the Lights with this video. So refreshing to see an example of a celebrity who at least sometimes shines as themselves.
It was helpful to see how our primary color quality really IS the most important thing to get right. Darkness takes down the beauty of Lights more than warmth or saturation. It is the biggest non-negotiable. The positive is it if you can at least get that right it automatically removes most of uour bad choices.
Reminder I cannot skimp on saturation.
Saoirse is also an example of a celebrity whose colour magic is more evident in film than pictures, at least the movies I've seen. The lighting and sets bring out the unusual beauty. Agreed about our colours, first identifying the dimension that needs most attention and then learning about it. For Lights, lightness is the one and it means dark doesn't go above medium-dark; there's also a boundary at the other end with light-medium. For Brights, it's brightness and it doesn't go below high, with an upper boundary at human saturation levels, rather than synthetic, neon, computer, cosmetic, and so on.
I loved how the colors look on her in Lovely Bones
This is the first of your videos I’ve watched and I found it super interesting. I’ve always been drawn in by Saorise’s natural beauty and I found your analysis super insightful 😊
Welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Dear Christine, thank you for making these videos! I enjoy going on these colour journeys with you and continue to learn about my own colouring (DA) and making the best choices from what's available. Thank you for sharing your talents!
You are so welcome! I'm happy you're here for the journey :)
Yah, a New Year treat! Happy New Year, Christine, and thank you so much for making this. I know it's going to be a great watch.
Hope you enjoy it! Happy 2023 to you as well :)
I’m so excited about this video! I have the same skin, hair, and eye color as Saoirse so this video is extra helpful for me😊
I hope you find many ideas or new ways of looking at how colours react with you :)
Me too!!
Once again, thank you for your hard work on these videos, Christine.
I’d love a video on gold and also one on white (neutrals are so hard for me).
Also, if you have time, I’m in need of some SSu winter boots and was wondering if you could throw a couple options on your SSu pin board? The ones that are on there are out of stock.
Glad you enjoyed it :) Gold is a popular request, we'll get that one covered. Next week is dedicated to the Pin boards looking at navy and I love the idea of winter boots as well, thank you!
In my perception light seasons look brighter than bright seasons because of lightness, while technically they are softer than Brights. Enough clarity + lightness are perceived as brightness. I shy away from these colours because they look brighter than me - paradoxically LSp and even TSp looks brighter than BSp. And LSu while staying in the same cool-neutral range also looks brighter than BW and adding saturation to LSu colours helps them look less bright, how odd does it sounds.
(I think with make up Saoirse looks quite good in BSp, definitely not the worst option she could choose)
Could you make a video about soft colours of the Winter seasons? What properties make them belong to these particular palettes and how to distinguish them from Spring or Summer colours? For example, BW soft coral or soft light blue look like they could belong to spring/summer seasons and seeing them in BW palette was a surprise.
I understand what you're describing, that light colours and Light Seasons can appear brighter than they are, maybe how warm colours look brighter to me than they are, or Soft Summer colours can look darker than they are. I'm not sure how much of this is individual or if most people have the same perceptions. I couldn't say that I see LSp as brighter than the other Springs, although I appreciate that the type of perception is so different that it can feel like asking different questions about the same thing rather than the same question about two different things. I recognize that internal shift, same with LSu to BW, but didn't recognize 'adding saturation to LSu makes them look less bright', I might need you to show me in person.
I agree with you that Saoirse is decent in BSp except that it's not Saoirse. Some version of her manages the colours but even as I made the video, I wasn't sure I agreed with myself that BSp was wearable and that Soft Autumn wasn't better able to express the person.
About soft colours for Winters...I wonder if I can show this in video. If you held the W fabrics in hand, I doubt that you'd put them into Summer-influenced groups. By brightness alone, once they were placed among Su colours, they'd jump apart whatever the lightness level. There are always the two sides of how colour works, meaning what does it do with the first Season and also what happens with the second Season in the comparison. Actually, that might be the theme right there. Thank you for the suggestion :)
Love watching these videos! Still binge watching previous videos and listening to your podcasts! I just reviewed an online articles about “who wore it best”. Practicing studying the two celebrities in the same outfit, analyzing as you do, looking for facial features, at their make up choices and hair color. The person who “wins” is always someone probably wearing the correct season (or closer to it)! So much to learn! So much fun! Thank you!💋💋 Adding a PS.- Can you explain using colour from across the color wheel in a video? You mentioned it a couple of times and I’m confused. (If you already did one, hopefully, I’ll catch up to it!😛)
I'm happy to hear that you're finding new information with each video. As you say, once you begin to see colour from this perspective, the world of knowledge is big, rich, and stable :) By 'colour across the wheel', the closest video I can think of would be Nextdoor Season Colours. I'm not enough of a believer in that approach to make a video but sometimes, it's a useful necessity, like the jumpsuit final image in this video. I expect that it's that compromise that you're wondering about? For the most part, I would look in neighbour Seasons before crossing the circle, and besides the example in this video, I'm not sure I can think of others...oh yes, the yellow top that could be worn by TSu or TW in the Your Best Yellow video.
@@ChristineScaman Yes! I think about creating outfits with complimentary colours- goes back to finding colours that harmonize and matching energy. My “advanced” curriculum...down the road. .
Complementary colours helped me define that even energy, as if the adjacent colours felt flat, like calm water, rather than a bumpy road or a needing big step up or down to get from one colour to the other. They're so energizing together that I would love to see them used more often, though for myself, it does take some planning.
I've really been getting into learning about my best colors and metals as well as hair color and makeup. Loving your videos. I always wonder on these celebrity analysis videos, how much the lighting on the subject makes a difference in your opinion. I'd love to see some of these like the white outfit in more natural lighting. Between lighting and photoshopping, I feel that photos are never accurate to what it would look like in person.
I could use your comment as a banner for this channel. The effect of lighting and software has huge influence over what we see on pages and screens. For any person in the videos, we could see them in the same outfit in five photos and have different comments. This totally includes me, who could film the video at different times of day or wear different clothes and I'd appear very different in each one or from how I'd look if we were standing in the same room. For me, pictures are hopeless to know Season. I try not to get into endless cycles of disclaiming myself but I make a point of saying in every video that I don't know their Season or what effect the colour had in real life. The only way I can know is in-person in a setting where surrounding colour and lighting is controlled. With the videos, I try to walk the middle ground where people might learn about colour and colour analysis, since both are too visual to communicate only with words, without overstepping my reach by making claims about Seasons or how the outfits really looked. It would be my dream to make videos using images in calibrated or natural lighting, but if those images exist, I have not found them, an example of helping people understand something new with the resources available to me. When you see celebrity analysis, keep wondering and learning! Glad you're enjoying the videos and many thanks for your comment :)
This is excellent. I love your comment at the end about how we can work from the outside in too to own who we really are.
Thank you :) Or both ways, which is how it happened for me and maybe you as well. Two-way traffic.
Excellent as usual & again I wish I was inside your eyes seeing what you see. I must watch this again and learn. Happy and Healthy New Year Christine!
Thank you for being here, glad you enjoyed it!
This video is very interesting to me, because I noticed a while ago that some people perceive Saoirse as a light spring. I´m a light spring myself and highly into colour analysis for years now, so her case definitely caght my interest!
First I was very enthusistic to convince myself that Saoirse belongs to my own seasonal subgroup, because I find there aren´t many of them around. But when I started to take closer looks at pics of her in many different colours I realized that even though she is in the neutral-warm range with moderately bright chroma, she wears colours better which are less whitish than mine, but I assume she really knows that her delicate yet intense overall appearance predestine her to push the boundaries towards the light seasons.
My best friend and flatmate is a deep autumn so I have these colours around, but it honestly wasn´t until I explored other women with a delicate and at the same time pretty dynamic energy within their features, like Emma Watson, Carey Mulligan, Kiernan Shipka or Natalie Portman that I realized Saoirse shares the same colour palette with them, the deep autumn palette.
However I understand why some people are chosen as example for the light spring colouring, mostly due to a shared ´fairylike´ flair around them, personally I view only Dakota Fanning and Dove Cameron as popular representatives of the light spring subgroup.
Saoirse´s colour choices are often in the light range of her palette nonetheless, much more often than I see it overall (except for maybe cream and white) which has my full emotional support, there are way too many dark clothes worn without any need.
I´m aware that my opinion must sound very surprising to you and maybe appears even impossible to be true, but considering the idea that both light and deep palettes have the ´colours lightened by white/darkened by black´ attribute in common, maybe not that far fetched as thought of at the first moment.
You also mentioned many aspects about Saoirse´s colour choices that I would totally agree with due to several parallels, that was really fascinating to hear and see.
With kindest regards
Betti
Sincere thanks for sharing your thoughts. I wish that colour analysts lived closer together and could learn from one another in person to understand how they apply the principles of colour to appearance. I couldn't be definitive about a person's Season from images but we seem to agree that Saoirse has some Spring attributes and DA and LSp share some colour properties...this came up in another recent video...oh yes, Harry Styles. I appreciate hearing your perspectives :)
Thank you for making these videos, color is really hard for me to grasp and even though i have a long way to go i know ive learned so much from your channel.
You are so welcome! Colour analysis is a different way of looking at colour in a way, because it's being applied to a person, rather than a room or flower. Colour, fashion, cosmetics, hair colour, each one is a huge topic. Having a place to start in how to think about them helps us get started and keeps our attention out of the places that are not relevant :)
I love love love listening to your videos while I work or clean. They are calm but informational enough to motivate me and keep my brain busy while I do tasks! Happy new year and can’t wait for more videos! 🎆🥳
Thank you, I appreciate your relaxed productivity approach :)
For Lights season, the risk is too bright, too dark, too soft and too warm(cool) haha
Makes them medium in many ways, it's those 'too' extremes they avoid :)
Dear Christine, I bet I’m not the first one asking for that but could you please make a video about Tilda Swinton? I know she’s so chimerical and it’s impossible to guess her season but I’d really appreciate to hear your opinion on her best and worst colours/looks because I’ve read so many contradictory opinions on her colours that I’m just lost.
Another person that has great style is Tessa Thompson.
Tilda has beautiful colouring, with several requests for a video. I wonder if people who are extremely famous (Angelina Jolie), beloved (Diana), or controversial in the public opinions about their colours (Tilda, Aishwarya) make the best subjects for the videos. For those about whom there is a lot of speculation, my opinion is just one more hat in the ring without any more or less weight than anyone else's, and as others have found, their colouring would be too hard for me to say much from pictures because they photograph well in many colours and effects. I'll look at images and see if a theme emerges, and Tessa as well, who could be great. Sincere thanks for the suggestions :)
Love your work, thank you for sharing 🙏🙂
Thanks for watching!
Your videos are always amazing ❤
Thank you so much, I'm so glad you're here to enjoy them :)
I love videos you do like this!!! I just love em!!!!!
Great to hear, thank you!
@@ChristineScaman thank you!!! :)
Christine - what season are you? I am getting a professional analysis soon - I had one done previously online and was typed as cool and muted which doesn’t seem to quite fit. My coloring is somewhat similar to yours.
I'm a Dark Winter, Winter with a smaller amount of Autumn. Off screen, I have a feeling my colouring would be similar to Duchess Kate, just a little more saturation. I hope your analysis is a wonderful experience and the result feels just right :)
I have been leaning toward Dark Winter. I initially thought Soft Summer because my eyes are green but all the mauves and super muted colors wash me out. Skin is quite neutral so a transition season makes sense for me. Thank you again!!
Christine I would love a video with Anne Hathaway, someday 😀
Oh yes, Anne would be interesting actually. Thank you for the suggestion :)
very interesting like always!
Thank you!
You know how people are intrinsically attracted to colors that look good on them? Would you say that people are also intrinsically attracted to fabrics that look good on them?
I've heard the concept that people are attracted to their best colours but I've never found that to be true in adults, at least in my experience, with both clients and the people around me. Closets are often too eclectic or low key for the person. Possibly children gravitate to their own colours, I'm not sure, but even then, story books and the perceptions of others have a lot of influence very early on. In adolescence, too much space is occupied by the opinions of others and I've not met many people who find their way back appearance-wise as they clear out those voices and their own character takes shape. Great question about whether we're attracted to fabrics and textures that suit us, first time I've thought about that. My initial thought is that it's a different situation in that there are fabrics and textures that work for everyone, which doesn't happen with colour I don't think, and the challenge for people is finding their boundaries in terms of weight, texture, shine, and so on. As with colour, closets can be either too subdued or wide-ranging for the person until they find a system that organizes the possibilities relative to them.
It was a surprise that Saoirse could possibly be a light spring, with hair and brows as dark as they are.
Some kind of Spring influence in Saoirse, I would think, and hard to say about a second Season in the mix. I wonder if the brows and hair look darker next to the very light chemical colours, though for most people, hair colour is the least reliable indicator of Season (and more so if the person is the only one in the image). Did you happen to see Brooklyn on Netflix? Lovely story and she didn't strike me as particularly dark or saturated in hair colour (or any feature). Autumn seems to me unlikely, the other Season(s) can be surprising!
@@ChristineScaman I don’t have Netflix but have just looked at an image online from it, and her colouring looks very bright and warm there. The blouse and skirt she has on seem to fit in with her really well to my untrained eye!
Yes, and I didn't find her hair and brows so dark once she looked more natural.
Wonderful video. I am drawn to bright colors but I can' t go too bright or I dissappear.
You and me both on the bright colours :) I see myself in these thumbnail images and picture the clothes migrating under my face. Talk about disappear!
@@ChristineScaman you are certainly bright.I think there is a video where you try on summer colors :). I need to see what level of contrast I can handle. May be some of the deep winter colors are too strong for me and make me grayish. I read about a toasted soft deep winter. May be I am a toasted soft deep winter.
16:20 Blue eyes aren’t blue, they are translucent and they appear blue because of the veins in the eyes (veins are blue even though some think they are red due to holding blood). This means that blue eyes tend to look like they shift in color. Depending on the light, how much sun and the colors that you’re wearing because those colors bounce and the eyes take on that color. Here she is wearing green so her eyes appear to have a green color to them due to the dress.
I come from a family that have ice blue eye color (Ellen Degeneres eye color but lighter blue). This happens all the time and people that don’t have blue eyes tend to comment on this constant shifting eye color, because eyes with pigment in them don’t shift this way in color even if people with brown eyes eg. can give off a more warm brown outside in the sun but almost look like they have black eyes when they are inside (even though no one has black eyes not even bpoc). / Scandinavian
Thank you for this information. I had an impression that blue eyes acquired their colour from an absence of melanin. The scatter of light brings about the colour, as you say, in the same way that the sky looks blue. I also thought that blood vessels in the eye were located on the back wall of the globe, in the retina, but I'm not sure if that applies to both arteries and veins, so that's interesting as well. I'm not certain what causes the different types of blue, presumably various types and quantities of melanin.
@@ChristineScaman Pigment/Melanin, thank you for using the word I was looking for when I wrote my comment earlier! My English doesn’t really stretch that far that I can go into great detail of the medical parts of the eyes. The veins are all over but as you say further back, but since us with blue eyes don’t have any melanin in our irises it doesn’t block the blue veins from shining through and gives us the look of blue eyes. It is the same with strands of hair that can give off the color grey when they are translucent (my grandma’s hair could look blue, grey and green depending on the lightng she was in and what colors she would wear- because before her hair lost its pigmentation she had extremely blonde hair naturally and never dyed it). It’s the same with snow that can look pink/purple at dusk and takes on the color of the sky and other surrounding, but in itself it has no color at all. Which is why it’s really cool to be here in Scandinavia and see the Northern lights and how the snow takes on this intense neon green color (even if one might not wish to wear neon colored clothes).
A doctor once explained to me, when I asked them, and they said that veins have different colors in people and some can have veins that look darker or lighter blue and some can have veins that can have a mixture of a blue/green color. This impacts which color blue one’s eyes might have.
Blue eyes may be popular among many, but it’s an awful colors to have because you have no protection against the sun due to lack of pigmentation and the sun feels extremely sharp and make your eyes water and it’s hard to keep your eylids open. I always explain to people that I’m not trying to be rude when I wear my shades in spring, it just is an issue for many of us with blue eyes.
Have a lovely day! :)
Thank you for the explanation :) I hear you about the sensitivity to sunlight and wish I had worn sunglasses (and sunscreen) from the time I was 10 years old. I'm glad that young people today find these fashionable!
I'm telling only you and it's a sad or just tragic story. I do not know my natural hair color. When I was thirteen I bought one of those silly teenager magazines. I wasn't allowed those normally but we were on holiday and I was bored so my mom let me. Inside the magazine there was a tiny flakon of hair bleach for 'a summer look' or something. I put in on my hair and it went real light blonde as it was when I was a small child. My mom who is a dark brunette would often talk about my fair hair when I was little and so did she that summer.
In my family loving attention was a scarcity and somehow that attention for my 'summer hair' got stuck with me. The light blonde hair. So from the day I highlighted my hair regularly. Nobody knows this. Not my husband nor my children. And not even I myself. All my four children are very light blonde still with blue eyes from my husband. My eyes are olive green. I don't know my true hair. I highlighted it always as soon as it grew out. I'm fortytwo now. My hair is very long and light blonde.
(English is not my first language)
I understand some of your experience and I'm sure many women do. I began changing my hair colour at 14 and continued for forty years. From lemon juice under the sun to whatever comes next, we decide to change ourselves to please some unknown voice or force, which we realize eventually can never be please enough. Teenage boys don't do this, but boys live in a different society, at least here in N. America 40 years ago, a world of subtle privilege and being admired. I hope our personal experience of this may make us different parents and our children better adults.
The fact that you can share your story shows that you're not pretending to yourself. Maybe to everyone else, but external opinions of you don't matter as much as your own. You're free to colour your hair for all your life and never change or justify the choice. If you like the blonde colour, keep it. And if you decide to colour less or none at all, external opinions of you still won't matter as much as yours. If you would feel release and freedom and already imagine a world without dye, keep imagining that.
We all have fear of acceptance with any change but if others can't accept us, it may say more about them than us. Having experienced this with many women and myself, what happens most often is that others step forward and admire your courage. When women do go back to blonde dye, it is often when they made the change too quickly or guessed a colour that they hoped might replicate their natural colour, but it never quite does.
It takes courage to be ourselves and if that means blonde for one woman or Botox for another, we don't have to explain ourselves to anyone but ourselves. We're with you, sister. Make a choice for today and lay it to rest. Tomorrow might bring a new choice :)
Christine, thanks a lot for the video! Could you please do the next video about Avril Lavigne color evolution? I'd like to see your reaction and analysis.
Avril is a wonderful suggestion, a person I've wanted to feature for a long time. What stopped me is that I want this channel to be commentary without criticism and that requires balance where viewers see better and worse through my eyes, or those of a judgment-free system. For some celebs, I've not found those better images. They need not be perfect, that's rare for everyone, but enough good choices to talk about, and I've been unable to find them for Avril.
@ChristineScaman Oh, this is really sad to hear. I'm sure that would be a great video, but anyway, I respect your choice. I'd like to see more of your videos in the future. Thank you very much for the videos!💘 By the way, my other suggestion for you is Becky G. I think it would be interesting to see your analysis of her color evolution😊
So she is a light spring?
I'm not able to know Season from pictures (I wish I could) but Light Spring could be high on the list of possibilities.