The EASY Way to Find Your Colour Season
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 25. 06. 2024
- Do you really need a professional to find your colour season? These are some of my favourite methods for doing colour analysis at home. These are the best DIY methods in my opinion and I just want to say you got this, it is possible to do this yourself, it's just a learning curve!
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0:00 are colour seasons that complicated?
0:32 what are colour seasons?
0:51 how to prep
1:23 colorwise
2:35 draping
4:24 digital features
7:01 bobblehead
9:09 features method
10:09 general advice
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I love that you freely admit you donât feel you have the âeyeâ for this without breaking it down; itâs really empowering to see someone practice and learn and be willing to change their mind
I have tried multiple of these methods and I finally decided I just canât be objective about my own face. I see my flaws and uneven skin. I also have a hard time forgetting my preconceived ideas of my coloring from reading the Color Seasons book 15 years ago. Thatâs why Iâm having you decide for me in a few months. I canât wait! I love your videos and I canât wait to hear what your totally objective view of my coloring is. â€
I would also add, donât be afraid to make up your own âsub seasonâ!
I have really narrowed my colors down to soft Sumer, but like a more extreme version. My features are SO muted, that even soft summer colors look too bright next to my very delicately balanced colors, and I also need the colors to be darker than you would usually think for a summer season in order to have the smoothing affect Iâm looking for.
The other way I guess to think of it would be if you took dark autumn and made it much softer, but I have an easier time adjusting the other direction in my head.
I used to wear yellow ochre all the time!!!! I was always complemented in it, and then one day I looked at a photo of me wearing that color (which was my favorite color at the time) and I realized it looked ridiculous! Made me look like I was made of terra cotta clay. But I was so confused because I have yellow overtones to my skin. That photo absolutely haunted me đ€Ł
Like you I ended up using a combination of self-draping/ digital draping/ color wise. Itâs taken me three years and I am only just now confident with it.
Still struggling with kibbe and essences though.
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THANK YOU ELLIE-JEAN. This is the video we NEEDED. I am obsessed with color draping videos, but I canât afford that service right now. Thank you! :)
I was already into interior decorating and colors so how I figured out was draping clothes I owned in a color + cheap online tshirts next to a window in a mirror where I could see every flaw on my face lol. I really wanted to find my no makeup colors.
I started getting more accurate results from color wise by picking my eyebrow hair as my hair color because it more accurately reflected the color
Pulling isolated colors from well lit photos pushed me in the direction of summer, which I immediately didn't think was right. When I did summer drapes, they were awful.
However, it really made it obvious how muted and grey I am.
Definitely helped eliminate a lot of spring colors, now I'm pretty sure that I'm some kind of autumn đ
I've miss typed myself as spring in the past and then got diagnosed as soft autumn but I'm curious to see what some or these methods will come up with!
Also FYI the music was a little loud in this one
I learned my color season based on the method on your previous video. I very much prefer that way because it talks about the fundamentals of why you're a particular season. Dark or light, warm or cool, bright or muted. That also helps it get narrowed down easily. For example I know I'm warm so I'm left with autumn or spring. I know I'm bright and not muted so there's a high chance I'm spring...
I know I'm not light so I'm dark, that means I'm a bright spring. This is confirmed when I started wearing bright spring colors and people would stop me on the street and tell me that the color suits me so well.
Colourwise doesn't work for skin of colour because it always typed me deep autumn, when I am actually a bright winter.
Great Video. Thank you for the tips. I definitely will try all of these methods.
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I have a hard time determining which shades of blue and green are warm as a dark autumn. I would love a video on those two colors.
Funny this video came out now XD I did something similar to the bobblehead method just yesterday. Took a picture of myself with my hair up against a white wall, then covered the area over my shoulders and under my chin with solid colour, then compared (electronic draping if you will). In my case I know I'm dark and bright, but I wasn't too sure if I was warm or cool, so I tested Bright Spring and Bright Winter. Picked similar shades with different temperatures for red, blue, yellow, green, white, grey and black to compare against each other. After looking at them myself and having mum look at them, the conclusion is I'm very much neutral but leaning slightly cool, so Bright Winter would suit me best (but some Bright Spring colours will work too)
I am a neutral cool bright winter too. Can pull off some bright spring colours as long as they are medium in saturation , including 1 shade of orange . . . But I looked best in darker pinks, blues n purples.
With a light olive skin tone I'm always going to be in-between or a bit of both .
So far I've figured out find out what you're not -by if u have to enhance your features to wear item or if it washes you out .
Find out what you're if you're drawn to clothes and it naturally enhances features
Also guess peoples colours on the street while walking or people watching .
Good suggestion. Figuring out colors that absolutely do not work for you can help steer you in a better direction.
Example: my mom (some kind of dark-haired Summer) always stays away from strong reds (bright or dark) because it always seems 5 miles ahead of her. My dad (some kind of Autumn) stays away from very cool tones because they look incredibly harsh on him.
I thought I was a warm spring when I first tried color analysis based on online description pages, but after trying some of those colors, found they were too saturated and vivid for me. As opposed to softer, pastel type colors. So now I think light spring is best. My features are lower contrast and have a lot of mixing going on (blue grey eyes, red blonde hair.
With the AI method, I will caution anyone who is a non-stereotypical example of the color seasons (POC, olives, neutrals, etc). Ya know how photo recognition software is bad at POC identification bc the programmers were non-POC individuals? Well AI takes info from existing places to get their info and since info on non-stereotypical examples of the seasons often have inaccurate, conflicting, or nonexistent information...the AI can be wildly wrong!
Exactly! It shows every brown skin person as autumn
I would love to know what your Iceland packing list was! We are going this summer for 2 weeks, and I am struggling to make sure I hit all the bases that the tricky weather will require.
Ahhh I'm struggling! When I assess myself, I fall on Winter or Autumn. Using Colorwise, I fall in Winter and Summer. Using Copilot (AI), I fall into Autumn and Summer. I suppose the good news is I can rule out Spring entirely!
The channel that you used to show professional colour analysis draping released a video the same day as this one showing why you need to be professionally draped because you could look like an Autumn but be a winter. Undertone is a myth and you really can see that itâs just colour theory as youâve stated. You can really work it out yourself but it truly does take practice.
I'm puzzled by that colour analysis thing. I have dark, almost black eyes, dark cool-tone hair, light neutral skin and my lips are not too bright. The theory says I'm a dark winter. But I look the best in earthy- jewellery-toned clothes. Any tone of blue. Carrot orange looks good on me either. Cool white makes my eyes brighter, but creamy white is not bad for me as well. But I should avoid any warm-toned makeup. Warm shadows make my eyes teary, orange-toned lipstick separates lips from the face, and peachy blush makes me look sick.
'Classic Summer' is like ''True Summer', it's basically Cool Summer but you can borrow from Light Summer and Soft Summer (but not 'sister' Cool Winter - as could be with Cool Summer). It''s just another part of a similar theory.
Can you wear colors from other seasons not your own? For instance, I think Iâm an autumn and can wear burnt orange and olive green but I can also wear lavender and bright yellow, also royal blue and turquoise? Iâm confused.
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Me, trying every method, categorized as a winter by colorwise (deep cool true, all of it) as an autumn by chatgpt (weirdly, soft autumn, warm spring, soft summer and light spring in the order of possibility) and I... think I'm a spring đ
I'm closer to neutral and I'm still struggle with colour seasons. But more recently I've been watching videos from art.pete.repete and my mind has been blown.
All the colour analysis seasons and colour palettes in general work on the Red/Yellow/Blue primarys which is just wrong. I find it absolutely crazy that we still teach the red and blue mix to make purple, try it it always ends up grayish. And yet in printing ink yellow/cyan/magenta are the primarys, they don't use RYB because you can't get clear bright colours. The opposite is RGB for mixing colours if light which is the standard in TVs. So if these industries use CYM and RGB why is RYB still the standard that most people are taught.
So know we know we should be using CYM primarys most colour wheels are wrong and the warm cool split is in the wrong place. This is why I think other closer to neutral people find it hard to find their colour seasons.
If a certain color on you accentuates something in your features that's the opposite of that color is it not for you?
For example, when trying on clothes once, I tried on a very muted brown sweater, and it made my complexion look really white with no gray-ness to be seen. So this has made me rule out Soft color palettes for me.
Was that the right thing to do?
Showing no âgrey-nessâ in your complexion sounds like a positive attribute.
I used to believe I was a spring because bright orange made my eyes pop a more vivid green. But I wasnât seeing it made my skin look an unhealthy yellow.
Turns out Iâm a soft autumn.
Try to find colours that look in harmony with you. When youâre wearing a colour and it stands out before you do it most likely isnât for you. Hope that helps
Anyone else feel like they are stuck being medium in everything đ . I have medium reddish brown hair, medium blue/green eyes, medium light skin. Medium contrast because my skin is somewhat light compared to my hair and my lips are fairly bright. I do know Iâm warm so I think maybe warm spring?
Also I think Iâm most likely some sort of kibbe classic - just a moderate person I guess
Are we twins? Because same
There is a "neutral" pallette i have found through the International Image Institute called Universal. Unfortunately, I don't know if I just like that pallette best or if I would have always liked it because it is universally flattering
Why are you feeling "stuck" because of this? This just sounds like a warm autumn to me. And it's such a beautiful season! No need to feel stuck :)
My personal experience is that with a medium kind of appearance, you want to figure out whether there are colors that light you up in a way that kind of dispels the medium appearance. When I got started learning 12 season systems, I assumed I was some kind of Autumn, and Soft Autumn in particular seemed very plausible to me, given itâs warm but not all-the-way warm and about as light/dark as me. Trouble was, there was something in every single Autumn that I knew was absolutely dreadful on me. I couldnât work it out. The most obvious thing about me is that Iâm warmer than I am cool, but there do exist colors that are too warm for me. The second most obvious thing is that I can wear some quite dark and some quite light colors well, but overall I am kind of medium. The Springs didnât seem possible bc True Spring was too warm, and Light Spring was too light⊠and Bright Spring was talked about like it was for rainbow unicorns. And letâs just say, outside of one hairdresser who told me once, âif my brown hair was as brown as your brown hair, I wouldnât dye my hair,â people have not exactly been telling me Iâm special looking and sooo visibly bright all my life.
The Bright Seasons were literally the last options I gave serious consideration. The idea that my best colors would all be high saturation had never crossed my mind. But what Iâve seen since then is that the colors switch me on inside. Iâm fine with being a basically medium person - brown hair, the green eyes in my all green-eyed family that are noticed the least, actually- but once Iâm in my colors Iâm not quite so medium. At thirty I started seeing my eyes do things theyâd never done before. Hue contrasts in my natural coloring kind of leap into focus, and thereâs this weird visible continuity where you can see the golds in my hair are the same as in my eyes.
I feel like Iâm pretty good with colors, but when I see TikTokâs where people are doing digital drapings on their photos, a) I get really disoriented and every option mostly kind of looks good to me in a different way, b) I wonder if these methods can even detect a visible âlight upâ effect. Tbh, I donât think pulling individual pixels from my face and hair *would* yield Bright Spring.
I'm really not sure on my features, I feel like there's such a contrast in the components of my feature. It's like I'm a cross between soft summer and deep autumn, which arent even next to each other.
I heard a method of the colours you naturally like best will be the colours that suit you.
Classic summer might be Zyla
If my hair is bleached at the tips (from the sun, not died) and darker at the roots, should I take my whole hair into account? Or should I just ignore the ends like I woukd with died hair since they don't really "touch" my face? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks :)
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This depends if you wanna leave your hair natural or bleach back. I would recommend watch the channel here on CZcams,Ella Ray Style.
I didn't even know the sun could bleach anything other than paint đđ your hair can change color because of the SUN?????
@@brownfamily1892 yes. It can be "lightened". Search about it for more info.
The bottom line is always, "how does this color interact with the skin?"
Don't even worry about the hair. If you want to use the "Bubble Head" method, erase the hair while you're at it. The colors in your skin (old school makeup artists learned to mix primary colors plus black and white to turn them into skintones) are far less likely to change drastically than your hair if you spend a lot of time in the sun, and even if your hair doesn't /seem/ to be a part of the palette, your natural color should still work really well with it.
I'm confused by the season system đ Winter colours are the ones that get me most of the compliments I recieve. Yet I have brown hair with, depending on the light, red-ish or gold-ish shine (mostly gold), something that I read to be a sign of a warmer season. I have red marks on my skin, purple veins on my legs, I burn when I'm outside in the sun, those are characteristics I've seen for winter palettes. And yet, I can't help seeing some yellow-ish tint when I look at my skin. I don't have a clear very fair pink tinted skin
I have hazel/olive eyes, I also saw it was warmer
I also have the ginger gene, it shows on my body... features... that are pink
I'm lost đ
I also have a lot of yellow or warm toned âoverlay colorsâ but I am in a cool season. I also used to think I was an autumn because of it. I call them overlay colors because they appear warm on the surface, but the more important colors are whatâs underneath the skin. So the best place to look are things like your under-eyes, lips, tip of the finger when pressed. Overtone and even hair color can be affected by how you are or what youâve been eating but undertone will always stay the same.
So when you are comparing colors, do those colors make you look drained, ashy, red, jaundiced? Or do the colors bring out a natural blush, smooth blemishes, lighten under-eyes.
For muted seasons it can be especially hard because the effects are less obvious since itâs less that the right colors make you âglowâ and more that they minimize distracting qualities.
Oh, thanks for the tip, I'll give it a look. When I tried draping with one of my boyfriend sport t-shirt, the only orange clothe in our house, to compare with other colours, I was trying to compare my general look like in the draping videos, brighter face and all, and it wasn't very conclusive đ
Thanks again !
Sounds like you might be a bright spring who can pull off a lot of winter colours because winter is full of highly saturated aka "bright" colours
Thanks for that opinion, I'll go check in that type of colour palette to see if I have those colours in my wardrobe, I might be surprised
Happy to help! Figuring out colors can be honestly a frustrating experience sometimes, But it should be fun! Good luck!
Photos often don't show colour accurately. It's probably better to use a mirror.
Agree! Especially if you don't have a nice phone. Colormewise typed me as a deep winter if I used photos I took with my phone, but typed me correctly as a deep autumn when I used photos taken with my boyfriend's iPhone. My camera washes down/changes colors, while the iPhone camera is way better. If someone plans on using the website, I think it is necessary to have very good pictures.
I've watched a lot of videos on color analysis and I'm still confused. I might be a dark autumn based on the app, but I'm not sure because my skin is glowy instead of soft.
I have brown skin, and the app typed me a deep autumn 6 times, whereas I am actually bright winter. Deep autumn colours are some of the worst colours for me. Bright is my primary color criteria, and so anything soft n muted kills my naturally glowy skin. So if u have dark hair, or u are a person of colour etc. . . Apps will type u wrong.
This could be a case of the word âbrightâ being used to describe skin in two different and valid ways, in two different contexts. Thereâs the coloring and then thereâs the luminous quality of really nice skin. If youâre an Autumn with really luminous skin quality (which I have certainly seen in life), we might be opposites. (This is about to get a little longish, but I promise I think I have some practical suggestions for you if you bear with me). I seem to be naturally kind of blotchy, and I had a lot of acne as a teen, so my skin has all kinds of texture and thickening here and there⊠I have maybe felt glowy a few times on my best days, haha. But over time, despite it being virtually the last option I considered, I have worked out that I am probably Bright-Spring-colored - at the very least one of the Springs. I do believe that my uneven skin tone (and my essence type, for that matter) affect my relationship with how I wear my best colors, which I donât think is a hugely popular idea among stylists/experts. Maybe this is a case of others not being as sensitive to your blemishes as you are yourself - I.e. where I look at my self and say âIâm too insecure to wear a big block of this color with no makeup, but I still think itâs very good done a certain way,â the expert might say they see the color as good already, bc looking at my bare skin doesnât hurt *their* feelings lol. Bright Springs are often warned against prints, especially small delicate ones, with the thought that smaller areas of bright, contrasting colors just gray each other, negating their brightness, but my blotchiness makes me more of a printed person than a solid colorblocked person, if that makes sense, and I personally think one of my best looks is a ditsy print made up of my eye colors and natural blush tones on a bground about as dark as my hair. Meanwhile, youâre supposed to feel that, in any color from your season, the eye immediately goes to your face, not to the color youâre wearing, but I have trouble believing that my unglowy skin quality has the same sheer graphic impact as a large uninterrupted area of very saturated color. The colors light me up inside and give me my clearest skin - I can see that - but does it follow that my bare face is as arresting to look at as a big unapologetic splash of yellow or hot pink? I think if we were designing a poster, we would probably say no. Anyway, my point so far is you can be a lovely glowy luminous person in any color palette, but where I wear my colors in a way that I think suits my uneven skin, you might approach your colors with a special strategy that suits your particularly luminous skin. Off the top of my head, that might involve wearing big areas of solid color. Or more emphasis on hue contrast than is usually found in the autumns, to really punch up that glow. This could mean wearing complementary colors together, of favoring the colors that are in some way direct color wheel opposites to your own skin, hair, blush and eye tones. I also believe that many of the best most thorough palette interpretations of the Seasons include within them *some* variation in saturation. Within Soft Autumn, for example, just as some of the colors are the darkest or lightest, on the warmest end or the coolest of the season, there are also going to be some that are the brightest in the range. Maybe you would have a special relationship with the brightest shades of your palette, just as some people like the darker or lighter end of theirs best⊠Thereâs also texture. Autumns are often told to embrace tweed and wool and such, but if oneâs skin is smooth and glowy, maybe one should seek out smooth and glowy fabrics?
As to whether you actually are an Autumn, I canât tell you, but these are the best hints I have. One of my absolute worst colors is Terra cotta - brown with a lot of visible red in it or red with a lot of visible brown in it, and this should not be any Autumnâs worst. My Bright Spring palettes include some golden yellow and even vivid rust tones that many people would look at and say should be Autumn colors, though I personally love them, and hot pink with what one blog post once called âApple juice goldâ is one of my favorite combos. If versions of golden yellow and even rust exist in both the Autumns and Springs, they might not make the best test. I also tend to feel that I can cheat to many shades of mustard and pumpkin that are not in my season and do okay. But Terra cotta I cannot do. I also have zero capacity for smoulder. Burgundy is another one of my worst colors, and dark smouldery makeup of any kind is just a no-go on me. It looks like sabotage lol. (I have naturally black lashes and brows, so I can wear black liner just fine, but not dark smoky shadows or lipstick colors). There are almost certainly Dark Autumns out there whose best makeup looks use mainly colors from the lightest end of their palettes, but a real Dark Autumn is going to have a relationship with smoulder that I just canât manage at all. (Moreâs the pity; it would be so romantic to look good in burgundy lipstick!) On the cooler end, clear wine colors are not as bad on me as burgundy, and I still sometimes buy them just bc theyâre beautiful, but if I put on a wine colored top, you look at it and say, âthis person and that color have nothing to do with each other.â Thereâs no visual connection. A Dark Season probably wonât see the same thing.
On the flip side (maybe you just ARE a Bright season), a) you might appreciate some of Gabrielle Arudaâs recent videos. I bet a lot of people in her comments tell her she must be a Dark season, but sheâs a Bright Spring. Visually, she could pass for a Winter or DA better than me. Also, one of the reasons I think Bright Spring makes the most sense for me, despite doing okay in most colors so long as they are Spring, is that while visually I am kind of a peachy-coral person, I have very unexpected relationship with hot pink. Until I started experimenting with Bright Spring, I had instinctively avoided all shades of hot pink and fuchsia on the assumption that they must be awful on me, but the specific versions of these colors that exist in Bright Spring (v. tricky bc of course there are loads of too-cool hot pinks in the Winters) can be so shockingly good on me. Itâs very counterintuitive, but for me itâs one of the single easiest effects to witness. I donât think that would also be found in the Autumns. (Whereas Iâve definitely seen side by side palette comparison photos where some of the corals look practically interchangeable). I would recommend the Bright Spring purples as another test, but honestly theyâre really hard to find. We live in not very purple times!
I know this was long, but I hope it helpsâŠ
@@emilyglass6625 the reason I think I couldn't be a dark autumn is because I don't like colors, especially dark ones. Brown doesn't exist in my wardrobe. I wear bright colors and different shades of white. I also love pink colors. But I'm not sure I'm a bright spring. maybe I'm somewhere in the middle. however I will try wearing different colors and see the difference even though I think itâs difficult to notice it on ourselves.
ChatGPT doesnât seem to know the Kitchener essences. Have you had any luck?
Hello sweetie how are you doing today hope good â€â€â€ coolcat dan
It is amazing to me how we see ourselves. Who 'typed' you? You are a FG and your mom is a SN. Smh. One must 'take in'/ account for the whole of a person, head included (head to body size proportions, I mean) â€
its not easy at all đź ive tried for a long while lol. im a neutral obvious and gave up figuring my out color season. đ
Colorwise failed me miserably. Donât use it.
Too many clicks in the editing. So distracting
Hey Ellie, I think you are a gamine. Hahaha. You are beautiful though. Love your style!
I've always felt that if "soft spring" were a subseason that would be me and I just tried the Chat GPT method using my eye, skin, and hair hex codes and it told me I was a "soft spring" which wasn't entirely helpful lol. I did ask it to recommend me colors that would compliment me and it was pretty spot on about what I feel like are my best colors, all light, warm leaning, and dusty
update: tried colorwise and it says that I'm either a soft autumn or soft summer depending on how I color pick. I think I might just be *muted* which feels chic
Soft spring is a thing in the extended 16 colour seasons
The three characteristic of spring are light, warm and bright. Soft is the opposite of bright. So a spring can't be soft. If a spring doesn't have bright as the most striking characteristic then it can be a light spring or a warm spring. But those two will sill be bright and definitely not soft.
The seasons that are soft are summer and autumn, if you are soft you are one of the two. In order to understand which you should try to understand if you are light and cold (summer) or warm and dark (autumn).
@@alessia9328 I think thatâs where Iâm having a problem, because Iâm light, warm leaning neutral, and soft which doesnât seem to fit nicely into any traditional color season category :(
@@T_Cup Ooo Iâm going to look into that thank you!