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Glad you enjoyed it! Your suggestion is so relevant and I thought about it at the time and many times since. In the world of celebrity, persons of darker complexion who may be Springs, or even those with dark hair and eye colours, don't easily come to mind. In the everyday world, I meet them a few times each year and wish I knew celebrities to add to videos. Two online people I believe to be Springs are fitness personality Patrick Goudeau and NY stylist Gabrielle Arruda, although once again, not so applicable for videos.

You're so welcome :) You're so right, knowing who we are in the world of colour gives us a centre for making our own best use of fashion's ever-changing landscape.

Glad you liked it!

Sure, many requests for BSp. I'm planning a video on the neutrals in the next series. Since the colours and neutrals are what make one another work in outfits, I'd be happy to add some colours to the content. What makes videos come together much faster is when I have specific questions to answer. Can you say more about what you've found challenging to understand or apply to your colour choices or the Season in general?

I understand, I love pink too but it's a hard to colour to find in my Season (Dark Winter). As you say, we feel more confident knowing the pink looks good with our colours (that alone makes me happy) (and peaceful!)

You're most welcome. I enjoy videos with people of colour, they often wear their natural hair colour and it looks great.

@@ChristineScaman may I ask...is Jodie Turner Smith in the same colour palette bracket as Lupita? I look exactly like her - complexion and even features (!) - so I'd love to have some guidance. Thank you 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Besides thinking both women may be some type of Winter in their colouring, I couldn't say if they're the same type. Surface complexion colour isn't really related to Season except in how it reacts to colour, which can be hard to know from pictures. They are both exceptionally beautiful and appear fairly young, which seem to make everything they wear look gorgeous. You're very fortunate if you look like either of them :)

Quite true, could be screens as you say, or the garment colour being better for another person, or possibly the colour is fine but the textile is one of those super-saturated pigments they use in fabric and cosmetics. Interesting about the bronzer, I've always associated warm climates with loving bronzer but I'm sure you're right about both, that UK folks love bronzer (I see it in videos) and it's related to climate.

That's great, I hoped you found some good ideas!

Sometimes Google can find surprisingly good things if you type what you're looking for directly into the search box, like 'clothing for women in soft colours' and then find the items in the Shopping tab. I often search for specifics like 'short sleeve blue top Canada' and it will bring up all sorts of choices. I also add items in current retail (at the time of pinning) to my 12 Season Pinterest boards (you'll find the link in the Description box of many videos, look in the newest videos, like Blue Green 1 and 2).

Yes, celebrities can have difficulty finding consistency in their colour choices, almost more than we might. Perhaps because they seem to desire differently levels of visibility in their appearance, either very neutral or very distinct.

@@ChristineScaman yes, and she was more of a goth in her youth, which is not just about classic beauty and harmony. So what is not beautiful to others may be beautiful to her.

Very good point. Like us, how they see themselves and how they use opinions of others' must change over their lives.

Many thanks for your comment :) I should have kept more of the old images. I read a post recently about women over 50 not feeling (or being) seen and I wonder if this is situation is one of the reasons. Me in beige is what I think of as 'puffed in the face with flour'. Less face, impression of less person. I see the same effect with young people and the colours they wear but I think they value visibility differently than women my age. Happens with men as well although appearance plays a different role in their self-perception. Speaking only for myself, who I see in the mirror and who I am tell myself I am are connected, and presence and power (meaning effective rather than competitive) are certainly part of it. Still here, still kicking, you know?

You're asking great questions that I'm sure many people have. With the videos, I appreciate the sensation of being dropped into the middle of a big and interesting world, but no map for where to begin. Each of the videos could be a course on its own. To answer your questions, the garments (clothing examples) come from a website called URStyle. You'll find links for each of the images in the Description Box below the video. Which Season the items represent depends on which panel you're wondering about. If you mean the turquoise sweater at the beginning and the coral jeans next, the idea is that we don't know their Season. We're pretending to be shopping, we see the sweater or the jeans, and think it might work well with our Season. Then, we compare two Seasons (TSu and LSu for the sweater, LSp and BSp for the jeans) and work through whether the garment. might work well in our closet. If the swatch blends so perfectly into the garment that it looks exactly the same, that could be a good sign, but how we see colour is so influenced by surrounding colours that the more comparisons we see, the more information we have, and the better decision we'll make. If we only look at the palette swatches that we think 'match' the garment, we'd have less information and may make a less informed or confident decision about buying the item for our closet. If we look at the garment with several colours in our palette or items in our closet, we raise the odds of making a great choice. I hope this helps. Please keep asking questions!

Happy I could help :)

I'm glad you enjoyed the video :) I wish I'd kept more of my early pictures, it's amazing to see that person from this distance and know what was happening on the inside compared with who she is now. You're quite right to post here about the podcast, it was fun to spend time with Jorunn and I miss that but I was under a lot of time pressure last year and had to resolve a few other things. I do have a few pictures on my walls these days (partly because the ceilings are so high that the proportions of the space were odd), only in the living area and a hallway. The other walls, still bare and staying that way. Yes to not loving stuff to dust that we have to climb to reach. The two blushes sound lovely. A touch of highlight on LSu can be so lovely and your gradient is a beautiful adaptation.

You're most welcome for the videos, along with the added bonus of relaxation :) Colour is a supportive flow to be part of. For belts, it might depend on the outfit pumice stone, rose, soft burgundy, soft pine, Atlantic blue...any colour in the palette would work well. Summers are lighter colour groups, and I love to see lighter colours in outfits or entire outfits that are not dark, even from the palette. Belts and shoes can often be dark in stores but I'd include some of the lighter choices, as well as several actual colours since these shades can't help but be graceful and sophisticated. About the eyeshadow, I'm not sure if it's a colour or formulation issue. You could try mixing with a soft, cool gray or choosing a darker colour, which may have fewer warm tones. I haven't heard anyone describe this experience with cosmetics (they do with hair dye), although it may be an extension of a cosmetic appearing warmer on application than it did in the pan, which usually means it's too warm for the skin tones.

@@ChristineScaman I started using cool grays and darker taupe colors for my eyeshadow and seemed to fix the problem! Thank you so much!!

Glad I could help and it was an easy fix!

You've gathered a lot of good observations on your own, you seem good at noticing specific features and changes. I'm really not sure what to suggest next in terms to taking this further on your own. The bigger part of the colour analysis iceberg is under the water and this is the part that's hard to folks to recreate or interpret on their own. Like you can only get so far at the drugstore and well-meaning suggestions can sometimes send you in the wrong direction without knowing it. Your descriptions could sound right for any Summer, as you say, but I'm not able to separate them from there except to agree with your observations.

@@ChristineScaman thank you so much for your answer! In that case, would you have any recommendations of color analysts in France ? If i would want to take it further than my own observations :)

Happy to help if I can. The only directories I'm familiar with are on my website (under Colour Analysis) and at Chrysalis Colour (link in Desc. box). I hope you can find a nearby resource :)

Thank you ❤

1000% agree. I admire how well you expressed so many ideas and images! So right about how bright teal expresses that Spring touch on BW (yellow too, I find). You seem very perceptive about how colours feel to look at (glad we feel the same way!) How TW completes in high value contrast and since colour always adds movement or motion, it can interrupt the stillness (body type depending). I'm with you about DW contrast, standard Winter but more subtle in some way. I don't know the words, something around density comes to mind, the self-sufficiency of strength and wealth (sounds elitist, I don't mean it in a status way, more like a wrought iron lamppost, the colours are rich, you know?)

@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much! I guess I have been watching many of your videos and that’s why I get these vibes haha. I was about to edit my comment to write “a dimmer light like a lamppost” haha, exactly my thought! I also think, compared to TW’s sharp contrast, DW is otherwise softened a little by autumn wind.

We could talk for days if we were to meet! As colours change where I live, the wind is also shifting from our summer breezes, more fluttery, to fall's more substantial, dense nature of wind. Comes to mind that I'm really just an observer. Love our mutual lamppost, I was thinking that I recognize more of myself in wrought-iron railings (like metal vines) but that could be body type drifting in :)

I'm not aware of such a place, either online or a certain brand. I add items from current retail to my Pinterest boards a few times per year (summer casual most recently). You'll find a link to those boards in the description boxes for the videos.

I can be nervous when I think about doing new things too. I think many of us experience that. Once we get started with the project, we take back control of our emotions and the worry settles down. We might be worried about specific aspects like finding an outfit for an event but the general anxieties subside. BW is easy enough to spot because it has a lot of colour. Many TW colours work fine for BW. Don't be concerned about colours being perfectly in Season and you'll soon be gathering better and better choices.

Congratulations, that's wonderful to hear! As you describe the drape colours, I felt as though I was in the room with you and the analyst. I'm glad that you have these answers now and happy that I've been able to help along the way.

Yes, I have the same experience of being more challenged by finding my scale and style than colour. For other people, it's the opposite. Still worth it though, once we find what's right for us, it looks so much better!

Thank you, happy you're here :)

I'm not a colour theorist and what said may not be true, but it's how it looks to me. I've looked up the reason a few times from a theory perspective but have never found an answer. An artist might know. The idea follows through into practice because those are the combinations that look 'right'.

I agree, there's a lot more person!

You're so welcome! I'm glad it answered your question about blending vs. matching.

@@ChristineScamanI can’t believe you remembered me and my question! ❤ 😊

It was a terrific question and I truly appreciate that you took the time to ask :)

So glad you enjoyed it, thank you!

Glad you enjoy the videos and that each one gives you a new way of seeing colour and people. Analyzing ourselves and the people we know is the hardest of all. Your lighter colours may be just fine in the total impression of you. They may not define features as well as darker shades but they illuminate the complexion and lighten shadows, which can be a good thing.

I'm so glad! Thank you for being here :)

Glad you enjoyed it. It's really true that men are so great because they appear without hair colour and makeup but their clothing colour choices can be so limited or too costume.

So nice of you, you're most welcome!

I'm sorry for the confusion and SO appreciate that viewers share their honest reactions. Folks often hold back for many reasons, but I hope they don't with me :)

Yes, we were on similar paths. From all the warm and muted makeup in the world, much more of it than there are people who wear it well, I'd guess that many people are on the same path.

Thanks so much 😊 You mean the third LSp image? I so agree. It's amazing when all the colours come to the party, especially for a Spring. And then it goes up another level when a Spring person wears them.

So glad you enjoyed it and learn from the comparisons. The colour analysis reproduces the simultaneous contrast images on a bigger scale, much easier to see the differences! I'm with you on the hair, my own is better (and better with the brow colour), the least attractive was blonde...water under the bridge :) I wish I'd kept more of those early images. I love the idea of Season colours with eye colours. Very original, thank you for the suggestion! I'm going to give this some thought.

You are so kind Christine❤😊

@@ChristineScaman thank you Christine, I felt so validated by your re-upload (I’m the person who wondered if they were Light Summer). This is what I respect so much about you, you have a mind of an explorer, of a scientist, you never claim to be right and give others their freedom to look at things differently. This openness is one of my core values too and I strive to be like that and practice this kind of mindset. To me you’re an expert, almost like a model of an analyst from Sevres ;), and I value your opinion so much. I felt honoured that you acknowledged my remark.

Thanks so much. I'm like you, this mindset was a choice. It came easily but also needed practice. We both knew we didn't want the dogmatic single way of being 'right' and realized that all the roads to 'right' are more meaningful and inclusive than some kind of 'right' declaration that's relative at best. . One of my mantras is, always move towards the most learning. I entirely agreed with and respected your call on the first pink pants. Whichever Season they may be, they didn't make the point clearly for viewers. I admire the person who steps out of the crowd and asks. The video is better for your comment.

Congratulations on learning your Season! That's a huge step in creating beautiful appearance for yourself. It's amazing how much diversity natural appearances can have in BW but all the people are much the same in their colour reactions. BW is a heart-melting group of colours, as pure as colour can be. It's almost a good thing that we can't buy all our colours on the first day, we need time to learn to wear them. Start with one item in your favourite textile. Mine is fleece :)

@@ChristineScaman thank you for such an thoughtful response. I will take your advice. Much appreciated.

Thank you, it's my own colour actually (stopped colouring around 2015). I find it looks different in every video, but that's just cameras and lighting. I began using a new camera recently and the colour looks closer to the real colour.

I'm not able to know Season from pictures (I wish I could) but Light Spring could be high on the list of possibilities.

That may be too general of a conclusion from that single observation. Gold is like any other colour, it can have warmth, brightness, and darkness levels that would agree better with some Seasons than others. Also, since most people are between warm and cool, called neutral, they can wear gold or silver depending on the shade. An example video might be "How to be Dark Winter, not True Winter' on this channel. DW is a cool-neutral Season and can wear both metals.

That's a good idea. I hadn't thought of it as a specific colour category, rather letting it find its way into relevant videos. Thank you for the suggestion!

He really is radiant in those colours. A beautiful person :)

I appreciate your comment :) It helps in making the videos to know what isn't working for viewers.

Yes, well said. Whatever the Season, I think of using our own colours to build a world, one with neutrals and colours, lights and darks, and all the colour families.

I'm not familiar with other colour analysis system, but generally speaking, I think the terms are different names and mean the same thing. If you look below the surface at each system's grouping systems, analysis process, and the colour palettes, I'm sure there would be differences, but overall, they could be interchangeable titles. The more significant differences are between 4, 12, and more Season systems, since 4 Season systems may have the subgroups combined into the 4, and with higher numbers, each group is more subdivided. I use a 12-Season system called Sci\ART.

Congratulations on learning your Season! True Spring is incredibly beautiful.

That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of it. The Olympics will be well over before I'm able to put a video together but I'll keep sporting events in mind. Thank you for the suggestion!

I wonder if it's because there's warmth in your natural colours. I can have a similar effect of appearing yellow or orange in colours that are too cool (or too soft) because they cannot complete the harmony with my own colours.

@@ChristineScaman they can not complete the harmony indeed. I will avoid those green blues. It is not for me. Indigo blue and lilacs are my blues.