Hi to everyone, I hope you're having a happy December. A question came to mind...What about True Warm Seasons with silver hair, wouldn't they have a version of silver? Although I haven't tried a range of silvers with True Springs and Autumns, I might suggest the warmest silver from the tones in the hair that also looks great with the palette grays, which might be tricky to choose (or find!) Hair colour is only a partial representation of our colours and the more important colours for harmonizing apparel, meaning our skin and eye colours, and therefore our clothing and cosmetics, remain the same when hair silvers. With gold being so easy, I would forget silver and focus on gorgeous golds, coloured stones, and beautiful shine. Please don't hesitate with any other questions!
First I just want to tell you that I've been reading your blog for what I think must be over ten years, and I have learned so much! You have such an sharp eye and a lovely poetic way of expressing things. Thank you so much Christine! Regarding the warm seasons and silver hair... It might be difficult to find, but I could imagine that gold metal jewelry set with stones that have a silvery sheen to them could be an interesting way to connect to both their silver hair and their colours... for instance, what about a warm tone opal, or a moonstone, or mother of pearl set in a yellow gold jewelry for spring? ... Or better yet, a clear slightly warm crystal such as rutilated quartz set in gold? For true autumn, some sort of raw geode crystal with warmed silver glints in it set in a bronzy brushed gold?
Thank you for being with me on the journey :) I often think of my website and other ventures as me trying to explain this miracle of human colouring and how we understand it to myself. I loved your ideas for silver hair on True Warm Seasons. The gold setting with the silvery glint in the stone is brilliant. Opal and moonstone for Springs, easy to imagine and not so hard to find. I looked up rutilated quartz, a fantastic stone!! I was truly impressed. Geodes are fantastic as well, and they sometimes have those gorgeous graduated colours that give an impression of coolness (like the silver hair colours of Warm Seasons). They also have that near-far effect that expresses distance, another beautiful way to imply coolness by distance without being actually cool. Such fabulous suggestions, thank you on behalf of all of us!
@@ChristineScaman My pleasure! Thank you! These ideas reminded me of a jewelry designer named Ilias Lalounis, I just happened to find a big book of his collection once and was completely enchanted by it. It just occurred to me that you might really enjoy looking at his work, there are alot of very dramatic gold pieces, some of my personal favorites are set with clear crystal.
I looked up his work. So beautiful, many pieces are like treasure found in a pyramid, with Grecian overtones, perhaps the dramatic gold pieces you mention, almost hard to imagine who might wear them, they seem worthy of the scale of pyramids. And other pieces are very unique and striking, the crystal with gold, as you mentioned. Thank you for sharing his vision :)
What a fun one. Seeing the comparisons between color groups always makes it so much easier to understand. I was draped as soft summer and just switched from black eyeglass frames to a thundercloud grey. I knew I'd made the right choice when my 11 y.o. niece told me that my new glasses say "look at my face," whereas my old ones said, "look at my glasses."
That niece of yours has insight! Children have a wonderful way to saying so much with few words. Glad you found your eyeglass frames, they sound like a perfect choice :)
I just made a cup of camomile tea and to make things even better now your new video popped up - I know my next half an hour will be great :) Now back to watching.
That sea monster ring under the “soft” column is STUN-NING!! Christine, I really enjoyed the format of this video. Very helpful to see the parent seasons, then the most important thing columns, then working our way out from the parent seasons. I found it very helpful in understanding the small differences especially in the sister, neutral seasons. 💗
Thanks so much! Silver can be so neutral and colourless that I hoped comparisons would help rather than confuse. The map is something colour analysts and their clients have nearby during the analysis and I'm glad helped you stay oriented within the 12 Seasons, thank you for mentioning that. The sea monster ring is indeed fabulous, the way the shapes are swirly like it's underwater and how it's protecting that stone. If it walked in a room, I'd have trouble taking my eyes off it...or if I were wearing it myself!
I'm so glad I found your channel! Your explanations of the difference between the 12 seasons and the overlap solidified for me why I gravitate to a color/style. I think I'm a true winter thanks to your clarification.
Thank you Christine! I feel the depth of my understanding growing with each video 😊 Cool seasons wear silver, warm wear gold is such an oversimplification. The quality and effect of summer silver and winter silver is very different in your examples. As a BW, high shine metallics in clothes and accessories are my best neutral. Silver, silvery gold, and champagne with sharp white reflection are so easy. It is interesting that I find myself admiring my opposite. The softs just look so elegant to me.
Mind expansion from stepping into someone else's world, one of my favourite experiences! You look around, pick up a few things, and hang them on your walls when you get back home. I guess they call that armchair travel :) I'm happy to know the differences in metals came across in the video, thank you for that. Yes to admiring our opposite, I guess the trick is admire without acting. A personal challenge is stepping into both sides of ourselves, because I find most of us are like two people in one. For example, I'm much better with my matrix side than the transcendent, though I can look at pictures of me and see the imbalance. Enough to keep us occupied and leave our opposite alone.
As a winter, I’m obsessed with silver. I own silver metallic derby shoes, pants, and bag. I also have a silk silver button up that has more of a muted neutral sheen to it. They’re very extra but I love incorporating any one or these pieces to make my outfits pop!
Oh yes! I love silver details in shoes, also silver handbags. I also have a button up shirt with muted sheen! It's the colour of the ring at the top of the Darks column in the last image. Amazing to me how easy silver can look, as much neutral item as ornament. Kind of like blue jeans actually, can be neutral item and colour at the same time.
I keep a Google window open as I read comments, I always learn so much, thank you! Argentium looked lightweight, like Aluminum, with beautiful shine, somehow cool and silvery without seeming stiff. It lends itself so well to colour and shape variations for Light Seasons, like a metal that can't go wrong.
Thankyou Christine, this is a great reference video to come back to I think. Thankyou for showing the seasons jewellery side by side to give reference points. I'm a soft Autumn newly analysed by a pro 😀 and I've been acquainting myself with my colour fan and finding your podcast ep 25 helpful. Great tips for online shopping too, thanks to you and Jorunn! I'd love to see a video or hear a conversation on developing a wardrobe with barely any neutrals, all colour. Not necessarily for professional contexts or special occasions, more for day to day adventurous self expression.
Thank you for the wonderful suggestion! I'd love to look more closely at that idea and see what could be done with dressing in colour only. Thank you also for mentioning that the format of this video about silver is useful to you within the technical charts and language. I'll be sure to mention to Jorunn that ep. 25 was useful for you :)
I love your brain Christine! I absolutely love the poetic way you explain your observations. You make me appreciate these tiny details so much! I wish I wasn't so far away because I would LOVE to learn from you. Maybe one day I can venture to the other side of the planet from Australia.
Thank you! I'm so glad you're finding new perspectives for thinking about colour. You may find that the details and differences find their way into your life more and more often :)
I am a true summer, thank you so very much for this information, wonderful to see options for all silver seasons. For me it showed what doesn't work just as much as what does. I have just found you, seems you have many fans.
Your examples of silver jewellery that suit the various seasons were so stunning, and your suggestions for Dark Winters validated what I've recently noticed, that bright icy silver pieces of jewelry didn't suit me, a DW myself, as much as pieces which had a darker-hued silver. Another conclusion I've come to is that I can wear gold jewelry as well, in small doses, like pendants or earrings with mixed metals, both silver and gold, or with bold, deep, high contrast colored stones or enamel mixed in with the gold. And if I wear gold on its own, it has to be a rose-gold or burnished, antique gold. No yellow-gold jewellery for me, as they make me look sallow. Anyway, loved this video, and I'm off to check our your other videos. Hoping you've put out a similar vid but for gold jewellery instead, that best suit different seasons. 👍
Your instincts for choosing jewelry sounds beautiful and your observations are like mine. 'Average' silver can be just fine, meaning no particular colour and 'average' shine level, though more Season-specific choices can look more interesting. I agree about light, very shiny silver being distracting for DW, same as super light and sparkly crystals and stones. A video about gold has not been made yet but there is a small section at the end of the Your Best Yellow video on the channel.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you for replying! I enjoyed your vid on best yellows for different seasons and also many of your other videos as well. I used to steer clear of yellow articles of clothing just because I knew I belonged to the Winter color season and hadn't yet come across any yellows that I could get away with, so I'm grateful to have your recommendation of a yellow that I can wear. Am certainly looking forward to your future videos!
Glad you enjoyed it. Gold is on the list and with my love of jewelry, I hope it happens soon. You can find some ideas with gold at the end of the Your Best Yellow video on the channel, but I'm sure we can expand on that!
I'm a Bright Spring and would wear that pink ring. I appreciate that you keep saying that Spring is about movement. I keep forgetting, and I suspect that it will be a useful idea when I go shopping next.
Absolutely, that pink bubble ring could work well for BSp. Often the decision isn't only about a particular colour but how it works with the other colours. The idea of movement is a built-in with Spring colours to large degree and the amount added in colour combinations, accessories, and style depends on the person and occasion. Some Spring people have a busy energy, others feel more floaty or meditative, plenty of variations in every Season that can be expressed in many ways. Might be fun when you shop to think in terms of who's going to be wearing the items, which you probably do already instinctively but it's a fun awareness to apply to what we choose what we wear :)
It is always such a treat when you post a video! 🥰 The jewelry styles for the Dark seasons were too masculine for my taste. If only the Dark seasons’ metals in the jewelry examples were in more elegant and feminine styles… 💕
There is alot of ultra-feminine, beautiful, ornate antique jewelry available for the dark seasons! Marcasite jewelry could be a great option, it combines silver with the bronze colour of fool's gold. Dark autumn could go for a more tarnished version with a warm stone, whereas dark winter could do a slightly more polished marcasite set with amethysts, saphires, or cooler garnets.
I do agree, in looking for particular colours of metals, I should have also varied the styles more. I also second the comment that jewelry comes in many styles. Stones may be the easiest way to expand the options into truly intricate and delicate styling. Marcasite is brilliant. It can look like a piece chipped off a cliffside and then, like so many stones, is transformed into this incredible piece of jewelry. I appreciated these inspirations!
Glad you enjoy the videos. The ASMR tendency has been mentioned in the videos, never in real life though. It's a funny thing how film changes people, maybe because I love making the videos and feel very relaxed when I'm filming them (as opposed to still photographs, which make me tense!)
Thank you for another great video! It’s great to get confirmation that the recommended DW silver is also my natural predilection for “Bali” type silver jewelry (with tiny balls that look like they were rubbed with India ink), giving both smooth and matte, dark and light surfaces. And I love/have a lot of pieces with garnets (my birthstone) and moonstones! 💋💋
I think our body structure fits in a little her. I have very light skin and very dark hair. I’m a Dark Winter but I like shinier metals than what you suggest. I need the contrast. Those dark silvers would disappear on me and they hard too busy. I would prefer a hammered silver. Some texture, but not too busy.
Entirely agree with you, perceptive observation, thank you. Every person is an individual within their Season. Texture and shine in fabric and jewelry are variables that we each find on our own within the Season' larger menu, though not to the degree of lip colour.
I love your videos so much! You're so articulate, and I can really sense your passion for this field. I would love to see you do a color analysis video on Hailee Steinfeld :D
I'm so glad you enjoy the videos :) Hailee is a wonderful suggestion for a video. She has a good sense of herself, exceptional for her age and profession, wears a wide variety of colours and styles, and wears her own hair colour or close enough. I can work with that, thank you!
OMG it's here!! Thank you for this Video! I definitely love S925 look on me but not Platinum or Rhodium, even Antique Silver. :( They just look too dark and dull on me, while the S925 brings out the contrast in my eyes a whole lot more! The simple the design(no crevices, textures), the better. For stones: Smooth White (Dainty) Pearls, Malachite, Opals, Moonstone, Aquamarine, and Moissanite are my best!
As soon as I read your suggestion, I started having all sorts of ideas. Every new video topic, I'm surprised by something and for this one, it was how much there was to say or show. From each idea or image, another one grew. Great experience, thank you for the suggestion!
Thank you Christine, I've discovered your videos recently and now each of them is such a bless! May I ask a question: in this video you tell that all body types will appear in all seasons. Style seasons I know of are based on combinations of sharp and soft, Yang and Ying. How to combine the opposite feeling shapes and seasons to flatter the person? For example, extreme extreme sharp Yang shaped person, that requires sharpness and contrast with Light Spring colouring that requires fairytale colours, movement and has a very low contrast? Thank you for your work!
This description makes me think of Cate Blanchett. Don't know her style or color, but she is light, low contrast with serious power and drama in her lines.
That's a great question and probably one better answered by a line or style analyst. Princess Diana also came to mind, who may have been a Light Season and had a body type with certain Yang features. I imagine that the answer might sometimes be in scale, meaning take the shape ideas of the Season and make them bigger. Overall, I prefer when jewelry respects body type over Season shape traditions. Traditions are like patterns, general ideas that have been averaged across all the people, that may apply in some way to everyone but we pick and choose the pieces we use. Might be just the colour of the metal and type of shine, leaving shape and scale to be determined by body type. Might be to repeat a feature of the body that has crossover into colouring, like Diana's eye shape or for another person, the texture of hair. The great thing about silver and gold is they come in every shape and colour and each Season has several versions they wear well.
I loved this video! So many ideas to work with. As a Light Summer Luxuriant, I have been wearing moissanite lately---moissanites with silver. The shine is playful but not as cool and harsh as diamonds. As a luxuriant, I need a more shine so it gives a lot of soft shine.
Thank you for introducing us to moissanite! I can see how it would be perfect, especially for Spring-influenced groups. I'm going to try to find it in jewelry stores to see it first hand. Diamond can seem brittle at times and is so expensive. I'm looking forward to learning more about gemstones, especially the more moderately priced ones. It is amazing what can be done in a laboratory. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Thanks Christine ~ I have trouble determining whether I’m cool neutral or warm neutral. Some people say I look brighter in yellow gold and silver looks sickly and others say silver looks like a part of me and yellow gold sits on top. I go round in circles! I even dither about soft vs bright for me and end up giving up. One analyst told me I can wear both shiny silver and shiny yellow gold too rather than brushed or rustic looking jewellery. I do know I suit a more relaxed draped fluid earring vs a round static one. Those jingle dot earrings you showed for light spring are perfect I think. I also suit freshwater pearls. p.s. would you agree that the wrong metal looks cheap on a person and the correct metal looks more expensive?
Identifying the Season between adjacent Neutral groups can be challenging, for all 4 pairs of Neutrals. I wouldn't be able to do it with metals or makeup, I'd need an excellent set of drapes. It's great that you've noticed some features of jewelry that work well, both in shape and colour. They might be starting point to try different colours and styles that align with those, maybe from the Light Seasons in the video. I see a more harmonious metal looking more expensive, whereas a less harmonious metal can look different ways, inexpensive is one, or very expensive but overbearing like it's showing off and ignoring the person wearing it. We expect jewelry to be ornamental and depending on the person, cartoon effects, fantasy, drama, large scale, they can all be great, but I enjoy jewelry most when it is in step with the person.
Thank you very much for this video! Would you, analogically, make a video about gold? It really helps to distinguish warmer and cooler silver despite the fact it is always associated with cool toned material. My impressions on the silvers: True Winter - static, serious, official, corporate, icy; Bright Winter - less static, more sparkling, energetic, still somewhat icy; Bright Spring - less static than winter silver, not icy any more, more fantasy-like, sparkling, energetic; True Summer - light, delicate, subtle, like a raindrop, Light Seasons: ethereal, subtle, luminous (especially Light Spring), marine, mermaid-like (especially Light Summer); Soft Summer - elegant, modest, retro, classic; Soft Autumn - vintage, a bit Fairytale-like, more earthy, retro; Dark Winter - sharp, royal, with some definition; Dark Autumn - earthy, volcano, windy, rebellious.
Glad you enjoyed the video. A companion video about gold will appear in time. Your terms for the Seasons are wonderful. If you had them in mind even before this video, that's great, I love that we all bring our own perceptions to colour. If these expressions came from the video, it may be worth mentioning that we only had a few images of what's possible for each group, in both colour and style, and some of these impressions might be interchangeable with other Seasons. I imagine that you had these words before the video, since some are original, perceptive, or interesting in ways that are new to me. For example, SA and fairytale or DA and windy, both brilliant. I understand SA and fairytale, amazing yet relatable combination, but how do you mean, DA and windy?
@@ChristineScaman I gave an association with Wind Ethereal by Olga Brylińska, a Polish stylist. Wind essence is related to rebellious youthfulness, its colours are cold, soft, and raw, but "Windy" jewellery is similar to DA silver - it has something raw, unpolished and edge in it. Hope, I've answered it in a comprehensive way.
Your word combinations are so evocative, 'cold soft raw', I mean, that's fantastic. So is Wind Ethereal, would be a great name for something strong, light, and beautiful, an Arabian horse comes to mind. Olga sounds like an inspired person. DA jewelry could have so many descriptors, like their clothing style possibilities come to think of it, some could feel quite Burberry or Ralph Lauren where I don't sense windy, but then your previous words of volcanic and rebellious, which would bring those clothing designs to a new level. Thank you for your answer :)
Hi Christine! I really enjoy your videos, you explain the concept of human coloring very well to someone who is new to color analysis! I recently had my color analysis done, and imagine my surprise when it turned out I am True Spring when I was always convinced that I was cool-toned! I can't explain why I thought that, I just did. However... I recently (before my color analysis) bought a quite expensive watch in stainless steel/silver. I was drawn to it because of its brightness and I was tired of the "black squares" of smartwatches. Now, my question is, is there any hope of making this watch work in my favor? I'm really not ready to replace it! 😢 For exemple, could it harmonize better with my natural colors if I purchase a gold watchband for it? Thank you for your content! ❤ You have helped me feel inspired by my newly discovered True Spring identity!
Hi :) Thank you for mentioning that the videos have helped your understanding of colour and feel inspired about it. To answer your question, a watch would be an item to keep if you love it. I'm a believer in keeping all your pre-PCA items until you're very sure of your new Season and comfortable choosing colours accurately. We often find items at the back of a closet that work quite well, or have some quality that works with our new Season, like the brightness in the watch, as you say. The item is small, not near the face, and you loved it for a reason. You could change the strap at some point or wear it alongside a gold or, turquoise, or rose gold bracelet. One day, when you are ready to replace it, if ever, that's fine but not until then.
Well, that's a good question. Autumns glow. Summer....harder to capture in one word...they diffuse or disperse light, opposite of compact, sharp, or pointed, as if it's filtered, like that 'blurs imperfections' saying where light is scattered and softened...lustre? Is there a verb form of lustre, as in they ...?
So helpful! I love this One. We also want " your best Gold" . I am a dark Winter but love Gold more than silver , and i really have trouble searching for It. ( Sorry for my english)
Thank you, so glad it provided it some answers. Gold is on the list of topics we'll cover, and you'll find some mention of gold in the video on the channel, Your Best Yellow. Your English is great :)
I'm a Spring (not sure true or bright) and I wear light silver or platinum jewellery with spring color just like your bright spring top 3 choices. The bottom topaz/amber earrings I find the colour and the solid design too dense and heavy. It's sticky burnt honey.
Много интересно и полезно видео - благодаря ти! Имам въпрос за сплавите на среброто - кои сезони могат да насят розово сребро? А бяло злато (не съм сигурна дали това е смес от злато и сребро или нещо друго)? Много бих се радвала, ако направиш и видео за подходящия тип скъпоценни камъни за различните сезони. Аз съм soft summer и се оказва доста трудно да намеря бижу с камък, което да не изглежда прекалено на мен. Благодаря!
From Google Translate: Very interesting and useful video - thank you! I have a question about silver alloys - what seasons can seed rose silver? And white gold (not sure if it's a mix of gold and silver or something else)? I would be very happy if you also make a video about the right type of gemstones for different seasons. I'm a soft summer and find it quite difficult to find jewelry with a stone that doesn't look too much on me. Thanks! > I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I'm imagine rose silver is like rose gold, replacing the gold with silver. I've seen this colour in fabric and I'm sure it exists in jewelry. The Season that would wear it well depends on the particular colour. In the fabrics I'm thinking of, True Summer could be great, and possibly Light Summer if the colour has a touch of warmth. I know of variations for Dark Winter and True Winter as well but they're more like 'dark silver with a touch of red-purple', too dark and steely to be called rose. White gold would be similar to silver, with the Season depending on the particular colour of the metal, and the same guidelines for deciding. I would love to make a video about gemstones. I don't know a lot about them but would enjoy the chance to learn. We have viewers who know a lot about them and could share some lovely ideas. Thank you for the suggestion :)
Hi to everyone, I hope you're having a happy December. A question came to mind...What about True Warm Seasons with silver hair, wouldn't they have a version of silver? Although I haven't tried a range of silvers with True Springs and Autumns, I might suggest the warmest silver from the tones in the hair that also looks great with the palette grays, which might be tricky to choose (or find!) Hair colour is only a partial representation of our colours and the more important colours for harmonizing apparel, meaning our skin and eye colours, and therefore our clothing and cosmetics, remain the same when hair silvers. With gold being so easy, I would forget silver and focus on gorgeous golds, coloured stones, and beautiful shine. Please don't hesitate with any other questions!
First I just want to tell you that I've been reading your blog for what I think must be over ten years, and I have learned so much! You have such an sharp eye and a lovely poetic way of expressing things. Thank you so much Christine!
Regarding the warm seasons and silver hair... It might be difficult to find, but I could imagine that gold metal jewelry set with stones that have a silvery sheen to them could be an interesting way to connect to both their silver hair and their colours... for instance, what about a warm tone opal, or a moonstone, or mother of pearl set in a yellow gold jewelry for spring? ... Or better yet, a clear slightly warm crystal such as rutilated quartz set in gold?
For true autumn, some sort of raw geode crystal with warmed silver glints in it set in a bronzy brushed gold?
Thank you for being with me on the journey :) I often think of my website and other ventures as me trying to explain this miracle of human colouring and how we understand it to myself.
I loved your ideas for silver hair on True Warm Seasons. The gold setting with the silvery glint in the stone is brilliant. Opal and moonstone for Springs, easy to imagine and not so hard to find. I looked up rutilated quartz, a fantastic stone!! I was truly impressed. Geodes are fantastic as well, and they sometimes have those gorgeous graduated colours that give an impression of coolness (like the silver hair colours of Warm Seasons). They also have that near-far effect that expresses distance, another beautiful way to imply coolness by distance without being actually cool. Such fabulous suggestions, thank you on behalf of all of us!
@@ChristineScaman My pleasure! Thank you! These ideas reminded me of a jewelry designer named Ilias Lalounis, I just happened to find a big book of his collection once and was completely enchanted by it. It just occurred to me that you might really enjoy looking at his work, there are alot of very dramatic gold pieces, some of my personal favorites are set with clear crystal.
I looked up his work. So beautiful, many pieces are like treasure found in a pyramid, with Grecian overtones, perhaps the dramatic gold pieces you mention, almost hard to imagine who might wear them, they seem worthy of the scale of pyramids. And other pieces are very unique and striking, the crystal with gold, as you mentioned. Thank you for sharing his vision :)
@@ChristineScaman "The scale of the pyramids"... so apt!
What a fun one. Seeing the comparisons between color groups always makes it so much easier to understand. I was draped as soft summer and just switched from black eyeglass frames to a thundercloud grey. I knew I'd made the right choice when my 11 y.o. niece told me that my new glasses say "look at my face," whereas my old ones said, "look at my glasses."
That niece of yours has insight! Children have a wonderful way to saying so much with few words. Glad you found your eyeglass frames, they sound like a perfect choice :)
I just made a cup of camomile tea and to make things even better now your new video popped up - I know my next half an hour will be great :)
Now back to watching.
Hope you enjoy it :) Tea and a video calms the soul.
That sea monster ring under the “soft” column is STUN-NING!!
Christine, I really enjoyed the format of this video. Very helpful to see the parent seasons, then the most important thing columns, then working our way out from the parent seasons. I found it very helpful in understanding the small differences especially in the sister, neutral seasons. 💗
Thanks so much! Silver can be so neutral and colourless that I hoped comparisons would help rather than confuse. The map is something colour analysts and their clients have nearby during the analysis and I'm glad helped you stay oriented within the 12 Seasons, thank you for mentioning that. The sea monster ring is indeed fabulous, the way the shapes are swirly like it's underwater and how it's protecting that stone. If it walked in a room, I'd have trouble taking my eyes off it...or if I were wearing it myself!
I’m a dark autumn and I’m loving your videos! ✨
Thank you :) I find it so enriching to hear how the world looks to someone else, I hope you found some new ways of looking at your Season.
I'm so glad I found your channel! Your explanations of the difference between the 12 seasons and the overlap solidified for me why I gravitate to a color/style. I think I'm a true winter thanks to your clarification.
Wonderful, thank you! I'm glad the videos help :)
Thank you Christine! I feel the depth of my understanding growing with each video 😊
Cool seasons wear silver, warm wear gold is such an oversimplification. The quality and effect of summer silver and winter silver is very different in your examples.
As a BW, high shine metallics in clothes and accessories are my best neutral. Silver, silvery gold, and champagne with sharp white reflection are so easy.
It is interesting that I find myself admiring my opposite. The softs just look so elegant to me.
Mind expansion from stepping into someone else's world, one of my favourite experiences! You look around, pick up a few things, and hang them on your walls when you get back home. I guess they call that armchair travel :)
I'm happy to know the differences in metals came across in the video, thank you for that. Yes to admiring our opposite, I guess the trick is admire without acting. A personal challenge is stepping into both sides of ourselves, because I find most of us are like two people in one. For example, I'm much better with my matrix side than the transcendent, though I can look at pictures of me and see the imbalance. Enough to keep us occupied and leave our opposite alone.
I’m so happy you addressed my gold/silver question.I’m a silver haired true spring.Thanks😊
Could almost be a video in itself! Have a look at the comments, some great suggestions have been added.
Wow!My head is swirling. So much educational info. You’re the best Christine.
Hopefully lots of ideas! Glad you're here :)
As a winter, I’m obsessed with silver. I own silver metallic derby shoes, pants, and bag. I also have a silk silver button up that has more of a muted neutral sheen to it. They’re very extra but I love incorporating any one or these pieces to make my outfits pop!
Oh yes! I love silver details in shoes, also silver handbags. I also have a button up shirt with muted sheen! It's the colour of the ring at the top of the Darks column in the last image. Amazing to me how easy silver can look, as much neutral item as ornament. Kind of like blue jeans actually, can be neutral item and colour at the same time.
Light Summer could also wear argentium. It’s such a beautiful metal because it’s quite close to white without being a heavy metallic.
I keep a Google window open as I read comments, I always learn so much, thank you! Argentium looked lightweight, like Aluminum, with beautiful shine, somehow cool and silvery without seeming stiff. It lends itself so well to colour and shape variations for Light Seasons, like a metal that can't go wrong.
Thankyou Christine, this is a great reference video to come back to I think. Thankyou for showing the seasons jewellery side by side to give reference points.
I'm a soft Autumn newly analysed by a pro 😀 and I've been acquainting myself with my colour fan and finding your podcast ep 25 helpful. Great tips for online shopping too, thanks to you and Jorunn!
I'd love to see a video or hear a conversation on developing a wardrobe with barely any neutrals, all colour. Not necessarily for professional contexts or special occasions, more for day to day adventurous self expression.
Thank you for the wonderful suggestion! I'd love to look more closely at that idea and see what could be done with dressing in colour only. Thank you also for mentioning that the format of this video about silver is useful to you within the technical charts and language. I'll be sure to mention to Jorunn that ep. 25 was useful for you :)
Thank you Christine. I am a silver girl-and this is so helpful!
You are so welcome!
I love your brain Christine! I absolutely love the poetic way you explain your observations. You make me appreciate these tiny details so much! I wish I wasn't so far away because I would LOVE to learn from you. Maybe one day I can venture to the other side of the planet from Australia.
Thank you! I'm so glad you're finding new perspectives for thinking about colour. You may find that the details and differences find their way into your life more and more often :)
Thank you, Christine! Your work is so helpful to me.
You are so welcome! I'm happy to help :)
I am a true summer, thank you so very much for this information, wonderful to see options for all silver seasons. For me it showed what doesn't work just as much as what does. I have just found you, seems you have many fans.
Welcome to the channel :) I'm glad you found helpful information.
Loved this! I'd be thrilled if you made a video on purples for all the seasons! Also a video about various copper metals!
Glad you enjoyed it :) Purple is high on the list and copper is there as well. Hoping to get to all the colours in time.
@@ChristineScaman Awesome! Take your time!
Your examples of silver jewellery that suit the various seasons were so stunning, and your suggestions for Dark Winters validated what I've recently noticed, that bright icy silver pieces of jewelry didn't suit me, a DW myself, as much as pieces which had a darker-hued silver. Another conclusion I've come to is that I can wear gold jewelry as well, in small doses, like pendants or earrings with mixed metals, both silver and gold, or with bold, deep, high contrast colored stones or enamel mixed in with the gold. And if I wear gold on its own, it has to be a rose-gold or burnished, antique gold. No yellow-gold jewellery for me, as they make me look sallow. Anyway, loved this video, and I'm off to check our your other videos. Hoping you've put out a similar vid but for gold jewellery instead, that best suit different seasons. 👍
Your instincts for choosing jewelry sounds beautiful and your observations are like mine. 'Average' silver can be just fine, meaning no particular colour and 'average' shine level, though more Season-specific choices can look more interesting. I agree about light, very shiny silver being distracting for DW, same as super light and sparkly crystals and stones. A video about gold has not been made yet but there is a small section at the end of the Your Best Yellow video on the channel.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you for replying! I enjoyed your vid on best yellows for different seasons and also many of your other videos as well. I used to steer clear of yellow articles of clothing just because I knew I belonged to the Winter color season and hadn't yet come across any yellows that I could get away with, so I'm grateful to have your recommendation of a yellow that I can wear. Am certainly looking forward to your future videos!
Thank you. I love your precision. Would love to see a similar video with gold.
Glad you enjoyed it. Gold is on the list and with my love of jewelry, I hope it happens soon. You can find some ideas with gold at the end of the Your Best Yellow video on the channel, but I'm sure we can expand on that!
I second the gold vid! ❤
Really useful. I am a dark winter so might get a silver ring with a matt black stone.
Yes, or a shiny black stone!
I'm a Bright Spring and would wear that pink ring. I appreciate that you keep saying that Spring is about movement. I keep forgetting, and I suspect that it will be a useful idea when I go shopping next.
Absolutely, that pink bubble ring could work well for BSp. Often the decision isn't only about a particular colour but how it works with the other colours. The idea of movement is a built-in with Spring colours to large degree and the amount added in colour combinations, accessories, and style depends on the person and occasion. Some Spring people have a busy energy, others feel more floaty or meditative, plenty of variations in every Season that can be expressed in many ways. Might be fun when you shop to think in terms of who's going to be wearing the items, which you probably do already instinctively but it's a fun awareness to apply to what we choose what we wear :)
It is always such a treat when you post a video! 🥰
The jewelry styles for the Dark seasons were too masculine for my taste. If only the Dark seasons’ metals in the jewelry examples were in more elegant and feminine styles… 💕
There is alot of ultra-feminine, beautiful, ornate antique jewelry available for the dark seasons! Marcasite jewelry could be a great option, it combines silver with the bronze colour of fool's gold. Dark autumn could go for a more tarnished version with a warm stone, whereas dark winter could do a slightly more polished marcasite set with amethysts, saphires, or cooler garnets.
I do agree, in looking for particular colours of metals, I should have also varied the styles more. I also second the comment that jewelry comes in many styles. Stones may be the easiest way to expand the options into truly intricate and delicate styling.
Marcasite is brilliant. It can look like a piece chipped off a cliffside and then, like so many stones, is transformed into this incredible piece of jewelry. I appreciated these inspirations!
This True Spring thinks your voice is unintentional ASMR. Love your videos!
Glad you enjoy the videos. The ASMR tendency has been mentioned in the videos, never in real life though. It's a funny thing how film changes people, maybe because I love making the videos and feel very relaxed when I'm filming them (as opposed to still photographs, which make me tense!)
Thank you so much!
You're most welcome!
Your Soft Dragon ring + Soft Autumn collection are mesmerising! What I'd imagine Guardian a Fairy Queen would wear 🥰
There's so much story in that piece, I agree :)
Thank you for another great video! It’s great to get confirmation that the recommended DW silver is also my natural predilection for “Bali” type silver jewelry (with tiny balls that look like they were rubbed with India ink), giving both smooth and matte, dark and light surfaces. And I love/have a lot of pieces with garnets (my birthstone) and moonstones! 💋💋
Nice to know that your choices were great!
Amazing information as aways!
Glad it was helpful :)
I think our body structure fits in a little her. I have very light skin and very dark hair. I’m a Dark Winter but I like shinier metals than what you suggest. I need the contrast. Those dark silvers would disappear on me and they hard too busy. I would prefer a hammered silver. Some texture, but not too busy.
Entirely agree with you, perceptive observation, thank you. Every person is an individual within their Season. Texture and shine in fabric and jewelry are variables that we each find on our own within the Season' larger menu, though not to the degree of lip colour.
I love your videos so much! You're so articulate, and I can really sense your passion for this field. I would love to see you do a color analysis video on Hailee Steinfeld :D
I'm so glad you enjoy the videos :) Hailee is a wonderful suggestion for a video. She has a good sense of herself, exceptional for her age and profession, wears a wide variety of colours and styles, and wears her own hair colour or close enough. I can work with that, thank you!
This was very helpful. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
OMG it's here!! Thank you for this Video! I definitely love S925 look on me but not Platinum or Rhodium, even Antique Silver. :( They just look too dark and dull on me, while the S925 brings out the contrast in my eyes a whole lot more! The simple the design(no crevices, textures), the better. For stones: Smooth White (Dainty) Pearls, Malachite, Opals, Moonstone, Aquamarine, and Moissanite are my best!
As soon as I read your suggestion, I started having all sorts of ideas. Every new video topic, I'm surprised by something and for this one, it was how much there was to say or show. From each idea or image, another one grew. Great experience, thank you for the suggestion!
Wow! I had no idea that there was such a range of silver! Thank-you so, so much for putting this video together!
You are so welcome! I hope it brings you many new insights and ideas :)
Thank you Christine, I've discovered your videos recently and now each of them is such a bless! May I ask a question: in this video you tell that all body types will appear in all seasons. Style seasons I know of are based on combinations of sharp and soft, Yang and Ying. How to combine the opposite feeling shapes and seasons to flatter the person? For example, extreme extreme sharp Yang shaped person, that requires sharpness and contrast with Light Spring colouring that requires fairytale colours, movement and has a very low contrast? Thank you for your work!
This description makes me think of Cate Blanchett. Don't know her style or color, but she is light, low contrast with serious power and drama in her lines.
That's a great question and probably one better answered by a line or style analyst. Princess Diana also came to mind, who may have been a Light Season and had a body type with certain Yang features. I imagine that the answer might sometimes be in scale, meaning take the shape ideas of the Season and make them bigger. Overall, I prefer when jewelry respects body type over Season shape traditions. Traditions are like patterns, general ideas that have been averaged across all the people, that may apply in some way to everyone but we pick and choose the pieces we use. Might be just the colour of the metal and type of shine, leaving shape and scale to be determined by body type. Might be to repeat a feature of the body that has crossover into colouring, like Diana's eye shape or for another person, the texture of hair. The great thing about silver and gold is they come in every shape and colour and each Season has several versions they wear well.
@@ChristineScaman thank you so much!
Please do your best purple next ❤
Purple is on the list :)
I loved this video! So many ideas to work with. As a Light Summer Luxuriant, I have been wearing moissanite lately---moissanites with silver. The shine is playful but not as cool and harsh as diamonds. As a luxuriant, I need a more shine so it gives a lot of soft shine.
Thank you for introducing us to moissanite! I can see how it would be perfect, especially for Spring-influenced groups. I'm going to try to find it in jewelry stores to see it first hand. Diamond can seem brittle at times and is so expensive. I'm looking forward to learning more about gemstones, especially the more moderately priced ones. It is amazing what can be done in a laboratory. Glad you enjoyed the video :)
Thanks Christine ~ I have trouble determining whether I’m cool neutral or warm neutral. Some people say I look brighter in yellow gold and silver looks sickly and others say silver looks like a part of me and yellow gold sits on top. I go round in circles! I even dither about soft vs bright for me and end up giving up. One analyst told me I can wear both shiny silver and shiny yellow gold too rather than brushed or rustic looking jewellery. I do know I suit a more relaxed draped fluid earring vs a round static one. Those jingle dot earrings you showed for light spring are perfect I think. I also suit freshwater pearls.
p.s. would you agree that the wrong metal looks cheap on a person and the correct metal looks more expensive?
Identifying the Season between adjacent Neutral groups can be challenging, for all 4 pairs of Neutrals. I wouldn't be able to do it with metals or makeup, I'd need an excellent set of drapes. It's great that you've noticed some features of jewelry that work well, both in shape and colour. They might be starting point to try different colours and styles that align with those, maybe from the Light Seasons in the video.
I see a more harmonious metal looking more expensive, whereas a less harmonious metal can look different ways, inexpensive is one, or very expensive but overbearing like it's showing off and ignoring the person wearing it. We expect jewelry to be ornamental and depending on the person, cartoon effects, fantasy, drama, large scale, they can all be great, but I enjoy jewelry most when it is in step with the person.
Thank you very much for this video! Would you, analogically, make a video about gold? It really helps to distinguish warmer and cooler silver despite the fact it is always associated with cool toned material.
My impressions on the silvers:
True Winter - static, serious, official, corporate, icy;
Bright Winter - less static, more sparkling, energetic, still somewhat icy;
Bright Spring - less static than winter silver, not icy any more, more fantasy-like, sparkling, energetic;
True Summer - light, delicate, subtle, like a raindrop, Light Seasons: ethereal, subtle, luminous (especially Light Spring), marine, mermaid-like (especially Light Summer);
Soft Summer - elegant, modest, retro, classic;
Soft Autumn - vintage, a bit Fairytale-like, more earthy, retro;
Dark Winter - sharp, royal, with some definition;
Dark Autumn - earthy, volcano, windy, rebellious.
Glad you enjoyed the video. A companion video about gold will appear in time. Your terms for the Seasons are wonderful. If you had them in mind even before this video, that's great, I love that we all bring our own perceptions to colour. If these expressions came from the video, it may be worth mentioning that we only had a few images of what's possible for each group, in both colour and style, and some of these impressions might be interchangeable with other Seasons. I imagine that you had these words before the video, since some are original, perceptive, or interesting in ways that are new to me. For example, SA and fairytale or DA and windy, both brilliant. I understand SA and fairytale, amazing yet relatable combination, but how do you mean, DA and windy?
@@ChristineScaman I gave an association with Wind Ethereal by Olga Brylińska, a Polish stylist. Wind essence is related to rebellious youthfulness, its colours are cold, soft, and raw, but "Windy" jewellery is similar to DA silver - it has something raw, unpolished and edge in it. Hope, I've answered it in a comprehensive way.
Your word combinations are so evocative, 'cold soft raw', I mean, that's fantastic. So is Wind Ethereal, would be a great name for something strong, light, and beautiful, an Arabian horse comes to mind. Olga sounds like an inspired person. DA jewelry could have so many descriptors, like their clothing style possibilities come to think of it, some could feel quite Burberry or Ralph Lauren where I don't sense windy, but then your previous words of volcanic and rebellious, which would bring those clothing designs to a new level. Thank you for your answer :)
@@ChristineScamanthank you for the complement.
Hi Christine! I really enjoy your videos, you explain the concept of human coloring very well to someone who is new to color analysis! I recently had my color analysis done, and imagine my surprise when it turned out I am True Spring when I was always convinced that I was cool-toned! I can't explain why I thought that, I just did. However... I recently (before my color analysis) bought a quite expensive watch in stainless steel/silver. I was drawn to it because of its brightness and I was tired of the "black squares" of smartwatches. Now, my question is, is there any hope of making this watch work in my favor? I'm really not ready to replace it! 😢 For exemple, could it harmonize better with my natural colors if I purchase a gold watchband for it?
Thank you for your content! ❤ You have helped me feel inspired by my newly discovered True Spring identity!
Hi :) Thank you for mentioning that the videos have helped your understanding of colour and feel inspired about it. To answer your question, a watch would be an item to keep if you love it. I'm a believer in keeping all your pre-PCA items until you're very sure of your new Season and comfortable choosing colours accurately. We often find items at the back of a closet that work quite well, or have some quality that works with our new Season, like the brightness in the watch, as you say. The item is small, not near the face, and you loved it for a reason. You could change the strap at some point or wear it alongside a gold or, turquoise, or rose gold bracelet. One day, when you are ready to replace it, if ever, that's fine but not until then.
You said “winter gleams, and spring sparkles”. What do summer & autumn do?
Well, that's a good question. Autumns glow. Summer....harder to capture in one word...they diffuse or disperse light, opposite of compact, sharp, or pointed, as if it's filtered, like that 'blurs imperfections' saying where light is scattered and softened...lustre? Is there a verb form of lustre, as in they ...?
So helpful! I love this One. We also want " your best Gold" . I am a dark Winter but love Gold more than silver , and i really have trouble searching for It. ( Sorry for my english)
Thank you, so glad it provided it some answers. Gold is on the list of topics we'll cover, and you'll find some mention of gold in the video on the channel, Your Best Yellow. Your English is great :)
@@ChristineScaman thank you so much 💗
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I'm a Spring (not sure true or bright) and I wear light silver or platinum jewellery with spring color just like your bright spring top 3 choices. The bottom topaz/amber earrings I find the colour and the solid design too dense and heavy. It's sticky burnt honey.
Great analogy with burnt honey. So true that we are individuals within our Seasons, with our own preferences in design, and colour too.
Много интересно и полезно видео - благодаря ти! Имам въпрос за сплавите на среброто - кои сезони могат да насят розово сребро? А бяло злато (не съм сигурна дали това е смес от злато и сребро или нещо друго)? Много бих се радвала, ако направиш и видео за подходящия тип скъпоценни камъни за различните сезони. Аз съм soft summer и се оказва доста трудно да намеря бижу с камък, което да не изглежда прекалено на мен. Благодаря!
From Google Translate: Very interesting and useful video - thank you! I have a question about silver alloys - what seasons can seed rose silver? And white gold (not sure if it's a mix of gold and silver or something else)? I would be very happy if you also make a video about the right type of gemstones for different seasons. I'm a soft summer and find it quite difficult to find jewelry with a stone that doesn't look too much on me. Thanks!
> I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I'm imagine rose silver is like rose gold, replacing the gold with silver. I've seen this colour in fabric and I'm sure it exists in jewelry. The Season that would wear it well depends on the particular colour. In the fabrics I'm thinking of, True Summer could be great, and possibly Light Summer if the colour has a touch of warmth. I know of variations for Dark Winter and True Winter as well but they're more like 'dark silver with a touch of red-purple', too dark and steely to be called rose.
White gold would be similar to silver, with the Season depending on the particular colour of the metal, and the same guidelines for deciding.
I would love to make a video about gemstones. I don't know a lot about them but would enjoy the chance to learn. We have viewers who know a lot about them and could share some lovely ideas. Thank you for the suggestion :)
@@ChristineScaman Thank you very much! ❤