This makes so much sense! I think I’m a winter (possibly deep?) and I love wearing jewel tones and black but I’ve always been confused about why I hate white on me so much. Now I realize it’s because I try to avoid tanning as much as possible so white is never able to offer the contrast I need!
i have Spanish/Portuguese on my dads side, and then Slavic/middle eastern from the Caucasus region on my moms. i have a specific look when i tan, almost grayed out, even when i'm tan. i find that look in many Slavic countries, also with Egyptian heritage. it's a certain look when olive's tan, same with when olives are very pale. i don't change no matter tan or pale. my undertone is the same. i got typed in the color breeze/pretty your world system as a cold deep winter, which is unique and it's kind of like a middleman to true winter and deep winter. I rarely can get very tan and i must work hard at it when I'm in a northern European or American country. But your season doesn't change. when I'm pale, even suppppper white like a vampire i need contrast because without it i "blend in with the walls" lol.
I’m a deep autumn and I feel like I can look quite good in black when I’m tanned. I have to combine it with a burgundy lipstick and some gold jewelry, but it’s nice!
Thank you! I'm outdoorsy, so even with high SPF, I go from almost-lavender in Winter to almost-beige in Summer 😂 Plus sea swimming lightens my hair, which is sort of mixed-mouse. So my contrast level is lower at the end of the Summer than it is now. This video helps me to grasp more about what works or doesn't at different times.
I tan easily in summer and i like it but i would never fake tan just to wear the "wrong" colours! I do have some pieces that aren't in my palette and i found with a little more makeup i can still wear them 😊! Very good topic ❤
Maybe in Ireland you see mostly people who look different than somewhere else, but in my Southern Europe country I see several kind of changes in people when they tan. There's not only the change in value, but a lot of people here become softer, and people who are already warm or neutral-warm can get very golden, and the relatively cooler colours in their palette no longer work for them.
I have travelled to over 80 countries and lived in multi cultural cities across the world. My knowledge is not based on only people in Ireland. Thank you!
I do fake tan in summer, since I am very pale. Otherwise people often make fun of me, and I have to explain why I look like yogurt. But I am soft autumn, so fake tan still looks in harmony with my coloring. And I don't go very dark. But one thing I don't understand obout me, is that white looks good on me. Ivory is better, but white is also ok. And I am pale, low contrast and I have warm undertone. It should not look good, but it does 🤔. My best colors are beige, camel and soft olive green. And I love to combine them with white.
I have porcelain skin, cool toned, never tan naturally and I'm not keen on self tan. I am a light spring and suit warm colours. Orange looks fab on me, yet all the time you hear only tan or dark skins can wear orange.
I have black hair & eyes and lighter skin (still more tan than western white skin if that makes sense lol ) and I think orange brings out a bit yellow on my skin (I haven’t figured out my season yet..) but the reason I can still wear orange it’s because it creates a beautiful contrast with my black hair and eyes. People also often assume warm undertones = darker skin. Which isn’t true
I’m a true winter who tans easily. I wear true winter colours in cooler months but I find I can wear some deep winter colours in summer. Now, thanks to this video it’s making sense.
This explains so much Sarah! I’m a cool winter as you know but years ago I had no clue about my colour season. In fact, my going away dress on my wedding day was a peachy salmon. Surprisingly, it actually looked nice, but only because of liberal fake tanning application! We all know salmon is one of the worst colours for a winter and in my normal very pale state it would have made me look ill 😆 The St Tropez self tan saved the day!
Thank you so much for the explanation, I have to get a spray tan whenever I go on stage for bodybuilding competition. My colour analyst never responded when I asked about that so this is great :)
I would really like to find someone like me on color analysis channel. I noticed that I tend to add cooler whites and cooler pinks in my spring/summer color pallette. Why? I tan redder. And I know I'm not hallucinating because my winter concealer (06)is noticeably more golden and lighter than my summer one (07). If I use only 07 now, I'll look gray. If I use 06 in summer, I look yellow/orange. Some yellows become too yellow for me in summer and my whiter clothes looks extremely white on me in winter, so I choose ivory or light cream. It's like I'm a bright spring in the summer and a warm or true spring in winter.
Very interesting topic! I'm a self-diagnosed True Summer and I tan a lot during the summer - from fair to almost deep, and it's a big struggle for me (tanning starts from march where I live :) It changes all my wardrobe. I feel I can wear deeper tones better during the summer, deeper lipsticks for sure, white and soft yellow - gorgeous on me in summer (they give me exotic feel somehow). Also I learnt in the hard way not to use summer creams for "bronzy tan". My natural tan is some taupe color and some sun creams even not the bronzy ones make my skin on dirty orange spots. My best tan color shows up only with mineral sun creams so I can recommend it for natural tan on cool undertone people.
Wow, Sarah, you nailed it! I have always struggled with some of the lighter colors in the Winter color palette. I obviously needed more contrast. In the past years I found I could wear camel/caramel tones in the summer time for a "nude" look... especially when I had a tan and some highlights in my hair. I am now trying to avoid getting much sun, and my hair is natural with "salt & pepper". Embracing my Deep Winter clothing is getting much easier!
Interesting. Makes me wonder what it actually is that make somebody tan very easily and others burn quickly. BTW: It would be an interesting topic to learn what made you get a colour analysis yourself and how you got into the topic of style and different styles and bodyshapes. I didn't notice any big differences for me because I don't tan, but somehow I do wear darker colours in winter and lighter colours in summer nowadays (in my colour pallette of course). Oh and the funniest thing when I got my eye lashes and eyebrowns dyed and she asked me if I wanted black. And I said: No, a dark, warm brown please. The answer was: Huh, that is the first time I don't use black, interesting.
I do believe they make some cool undertone self tanning products (although I do not use them because I am have a neutral-warm undertone and I’m happy being fair). A quick google turned up a product by a company called Bondi Sands which has a product that comes in violet or olive tones. I have also noticed that there are celebrities who tan themselves MUCH darker than their natural skin tone but still look very off in warm toned clothing or hair - Kim K and Ariana Grande being 2 examples. So there must be some products that do work for this, although I also suspect these 2 examples also dress in colors that don’t suit their natural skin tones.
I used to wear Bondi Sands years ago but I can't be bothered with messy tan these days, especially since knowing my best colours. I don't need it thankfully!
I am light olive, and I typically burn. I noticed during the pandemic that if I go out 15 minutes at a time, I can tam, and it is a very strange color - it is pinkish, and I never bronze
Something I've just realised is that when I wore colours from Bright Winter or Bright Spring as shorts in the Summer months, my legs looked really pale. Now in the Summer or Cool Winter range, my legs automatically have colour to them. 😊 It seems like the brightest or warm colours emphasised the greyness or yellow in my skin before.
I'm pretty sure I have a light olive skin tone. I'm a deep winter. I get quite yellow in the summer. So is that just the pale warm overtone getting darker? I know my undertone is cool. I never wear white.
I did a color analysis and was told I am a winter - she said jewel tones and icy look best. Yet I do get a light airbrush tan weekly. Tried the color palette without the tan for a few weeks and got negative feedback. Would that make me a summer then?
This was so interesting! Thanks Sarah. What sub-season are you? I’m a winter. I don’t know my sub-season, but I am very high contrast. I find I can wear bright white really well all year round. I don’t tan at all, but I fake tan in summer. When I do, I find black works even better for me than when I’m not “tanned”. I’m not sure why. Could it be bc brighter cool colours appear to work better for me than deep/dark cool colours? Perhaps I’m a bright winter…..
So, do you stay a winter when you have a summer tan or does your colour palette go more towards a spring then since you have less contrast? I am curious to know because I am also a winter that tans.
My understanding is that for some people the characteristic "deep" is more important than temperature, i.e. warm (yellow hue) or cool (blue / grey / pink hue). Or at least that "deep" is very important. Then a _deep_ winter can borrow from _deep_ autumn. Normally a winter cannot stray into autumn palette, this is the one exception. I also notice that for me as a cool summer all green-blue colours work very well, even lighter petrol (a colour that is one of the few blues in the fall palette). Likely everything blue-green with some intensity is good for me as long as there is no or not much yellow in it. Green with a bit of yellow in it is not for me, not even regular green. It is like: the blue in the mix makes the green(ish) colour cool enough for me. My pale skin has a grey tone (at least it looks like that when I wear beige or salmon, or pastells, black, rust, ... ), and blue-green colours seem to counteract that the best. (along with certain shades of medium intensity pink). So there are specifics beyond the rules in color analysis. Ideally the eye is trained enough to detect the deviations and why it sometimes works to wear colours outside of the palette (even outside the sister palette).
Hi, I was typed as a Paintbox Spring 8 years ago- what subset of Spring is that most like? ( bright, true, light or warm?) Also, if I put fake tan on , am I right in thinking that my Spring clothes should still suit me then? Many thanks
@@sarahryanthestylecoach ah great glad my colours will still work. It was a Paintbox Spring type by House of Colour analysts but was done 8 years ago. many thanks for replying!
I'm quite sure I'm a cool summer. I bought new glasses with a dusky/antique pink frame in winter and they looked good on me. In summer however, they clash with my skin tone. Is it really impossible to look slightly warmer with a tan?
Hi, thank you, this was so informative! I’m a clear winter with a neutral skin tone but in summer I’m wondering if I am. In summer I get a tan but also a lot of hyperpigmentation and I feel that it warms my skintone a bit and there is less contrast between my skin and hair. Is it possible that I am a different season type in summer and winter? 🤗
So am I correct in saying, if I was analyzed a warm spring and had strawberry blonde hair and then started graying and are now a combination of blonde and gray with a tad of golden streaks, then my skintone will probably "lighten" in value in time to possibly a light spring, but I may be somewhere between warm and light spring now if I'm not all white or gray yet. I've also heard that you soften. Does that mean soft autumn could also be a possibility or is light spring a softer version of warm spring? I'm so confused and frustrated at this point in my life as to what looks the best on me anymore, but unfortunately don't have enough money to get re analyzed. I have found your channel to be the most thorough and watch as much as I can. @@sarahryanthestylecoach
Im a summer and I feel like light tones blends in with my skin in the winter. I do tan in the summer. Does the same apply for summers as for winters? More contrast in clothes necessary in the winter time?
Also, as a self-diagnosed winter, I also find that white doesn’t look the best on me in wintertime. While in summer it looks great!
I totally agree!
This makes so much sense! I think I’m a winter (possibly deep?) and I love wearing jewel tones and black but I’ve always been confused about why I hate white on me so much. Now I realize it’s because I try to avoid tanning as much as possible so white is never able to offer the contrast I need!
That sounds like it could be the case! ☺️✨
That's really interesting.
i have Spanish/Portuguese on my dads side, and then Slavic/middle eastern from the Caucasus region on my moms. i have a specific look when i tan, almost grayed out, even when i'm tan. i find that look in many Slavic countries, also with Egyptian heritage. it's a certain look when olive's tan, same with when olives are very pale. i don't change no matter tan or pale. my undertone is the same. i got typed in the color breeze/pretty your world system as a cold deep winter, which is unique and it's kind of like a middleman to true winter and deep winter. I rarely can get very tan and i must work hard at it when I'm in a northern European or American country. But your season doesn't change. when I'm pale, even suppppper white like a vampire i need contrast because without it i "blend in with the walls" lol.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing :)
Strongly. Easily tanned, arms looking like warm autumn, but being a cool summer
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I’m a deep autumn and I feel like I can look quite good in black when I’m tanned. I have to combine it with a burgundy lipstick and some gold jewelry, but it’s nice!
That makes sense :)
Thank you! I'm outdoorsy, so even with high SPF, I go from almost-lavender in Winter to almost-beige in Summer 😂 Plus sea swimming lightens my hair, which is sort of mixed-mouse. So my contrast level is lower at the end of the Summer than it is now. This video helps me to grasp more about what works or doesn't at different times.
Love that! I’m also a sea swimmer 🏊♀️
@@sarahryanthestylecoach excellent. It makes everything so much better.
Danke!
Thank you so much for your generosity and support Jeannette! It means a lot! ☺️💕
I tan easily in summer and i like it but i would never fake tan just to wear the "wrong" colours! I do have some pieces that aren't in my palette and i found with a little more makeup i can still wear them 😊! Very good topic ❤
Love that! Thanks for sharing! ☺️
Maybe in Ireland you see mostly people who look different than somewhere else, but in my Southern Europe country I see several kind of changes in people when they tan. There's not only the change in value, but a lot of people here become softer, and people who are already warm or neutral-warm can get very golden, and the relatively cooler colours in their palette no longer work for them.
I have travelled to over 80 countries and lived in multi cultural cities across the world. My knowledge is not based on only people in Ireland. Thank you!
I do fake tan in summer, since I am very pale. Otherwise people often make fun of me, and I have to explain why I look like yogurt. But I am soft autumn, so fake tan still looks in harmony with my coloring. And I don't go very dark. But one thing I don't understand obout me, is that white looks good on me. Ivory is better, but white is also ok. And I am pale, low contrast and I have warm undertone. It should not look good, but it does 🤔. My best colors are beige, camel and soft olive green. And I love to combine them with white.
Autumn is a low contrast season so white could look nice. Each individual is different.
I have porcelain skin, cool toned, never tan naturally and I'm not keen on self tan. I am a light spring and suit warm colours. Orange looks fab on me, yet all the time you hear only tan or dark skins can wear orange.
Light skin can definitely wear orange!
I have black hair & eyes and lighter skin (still more tan than western white skin if that makes sense lol ) and I think orange brings out a bit yellow on my skin (I haven’t figured out my season yet..) but the reason I can still wear orange it’s because it creates a beautiful contrast with my black hair and eyes. People also often assume warm undertones = darker skin. Which isn’t true
I’m a true winter who tans easily. I wear true winter colours in cooler months but I find I can wear some deep winter colours in summer. Now, thanks to this video it’s making sense.
Glad it has helped :)
This explains so much Sarah! I’m a cool winter as you know but years ago I had no clue about my colour season. In fact, my going away dress on my wedding day was a peachy salmon. Surprisingly, it actually looked nice, but only because of liberal fake tanning application! We all know salmon is one of the worst colours for a winter and in my normal very pale state it would have made me look ill 😆 The St Tropez self tan saved the day!
Thanks Ally! Yes, beware that salmon colour 😅
Thank you so much for the explanation, I have to get a spray tan whenever I go on stage for bodybuilding competition. My colour analyst never responded when I asked about that so this is great :)
Glad it was helpful! Sorry your analyst never got back to you!
I would really like to find someone like me on color analysis channel.
I noticed that I tend to add cooler whites and cooler pinks in my spring/summer color pallette.
Why? I tan redder.
And I know I'm not hallucinating because my winter concealer (06)is noticeably more golden and lighter than my summer one (07).
If I use only 07 now, I'll look gray. If I use 06 in summer, I look yellow/orange.
Some yellows become too yellow for me in summer and my whiter clothes looks extremely white on me in winter, so I choose ivory or light cream.
It's like I'm a bright spring in the summer and a warm or true spring in winter.
You choose the best topics. Thank you!!
Glad you like them! ☺️
Very interesting topic! I'm a self-diagnosed True Summer and I tan a lot during the summer - from fair to almost deep, and it's a big struggle for me (tanning starts from march where I live :) It changes all my wardrobe. I feel I can wear deeper tones better during the summer, deeper lipsticks for sure, white and soft yellow - gorgeous on me in summer (they give me exotic feel somehow). Also I learnt in the hard way not to use summer creams for "bronzy tan". My natural tan is some taupe color and some sun creams even not the bronzy ones make my skin on dirty orange spots. My best tan color shows up only with mineral sun creams so I can recommend it for natural tan on cool undertone people.
Thanks for watching and sharing :)
Thank you, Sarah, very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow, Sarah, you nailed it! I have always struggled with some of the lighter colors in the Winter color palette. I obviously needed more contrast. In the past years I found I could wear camel/caramel tones in the summer time for a "nude" look... especially when I had a tan and some highlights in my hair. I am now trying to avoid getting much sun, and my hair is natural with "salt & pepper". Embracing my Deep Winter clothing is getting much easier!
Yay glad to hear you liked the video :)
Interesting. Makes me wonder what it actually is that make somebody tan very easily and others burn quickly. BTW: It would be an interesting topic to learn what made you get a colour analysis yourself and how you got into the topic of style and different styles and bodyshapes. I didn't notice any big differences for me because I don't tan, but somehow I do wear darker colours in winter and lighter colours in summer nowadays (in my colour pallette of course). Oh and the funniest thing when I got my eye lashes and eyebrowns dyed and she asked me if I wanted black. And I said: No, a dark, warm brown please. The answer was: Huh, that is the first time I don't use black, interesting.
I can definitely answer those questions in another video! Thanks for the suggestion Jennifer ✨
I do believe they make some cool undertone self tanning products (although I do not use them because I am have a neutral-warm undertone and I’m happy being fair). A quick google turned up a product by a company called Bondi Sands which has a product that comes in violet or olive tones.
I have also noticed that there are celebrities who tan themselves MUCH darker than their natural skin tone but still look very off in warm toned clothing or hair - Kim K and Ariana Grande being 2 examples. So there must be some products that do work for this, although I also suspect these 2 examples also dress in colors that don’t suit their natural skin tones.
I used to wear Bondi Sands years ago but I can't be bothered with messy tan these days, especially since knowing my best colours. I don't need it thankfully!
Loved this video, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am light olive, and I typically burn. I noticed during the pandemic that if I go out 15 minutes at a time, I can tam, and it is a very strange color - it is pinkish, and I never bronze
Interesting! Thanks for sharing :)
Something I've just realised is that when I wore colours from Bright Winter or Bright Spring as shorts in the Summer months, my legs looked really pale. Now in the Summer or Cool Winter range, my legs automatically have colour to them. 😊 It seems like the brightest or warm colours emphasised the greyness or yellow in my skin before.
Interesting! Yes the colours can have a dramatic impact on the skin appearance!
I use sunbed and use my summer colours very well. I like medium and dark on me, so find myself a pink skinned version without a tan😂…
I'm pretty sure I have a light olive skin tone. I'm a deep winter. I get quite yellow in the summer. So is that just the pale warm overtone getting darker? I know my undertone is cool.
I never wear white.
Yes your skin tone is getting darker
this theory got me thinking, if I can still wear bright orange as a cool undertone by putting on false tan or any other warmer color foundation?
Perhaps! It's difficult to say without having seen it :)
I did a color analysis and was told I am a winter - she said jewel tones and icy look best. Yet I do get a light airbrush tan weekly. Tried the color palette without the tan for a few weeks and got negative feedback. Would that make me a summer then?
I wonder if your analysis was done with tan on? This could be misleading!
My body doesn't tan very well. It either freckles or burns. I am a warm spring.
This was so interesting! Thanks Sarah. What sub-season are you? I’m a winter. I don’t know my sub-season, but I am very high contrast. I find I can wear bright white really well all year round. I don’t tan at all, but I fake tan in summer. When I do, I find black works even better for me than when I’m not “tanned”. I’m not sure why. Could it be bc brighter cool colours appear to work better for me than deep/dark cool colours? Perhaps I’m a bright winter…..
So, do you stay a winter when you have a summer tan or does your colour palette go more towards a spring then since you have less contrast? I am curious to know because I am also a winter that tans.
Definately not to a spring, because she is cool. You never change undertone.
I'm also a winter that tans. I can wear the lighter colors in my palette better in the summer. :-)
No you stay within the same palette :)
Here’s where I get mixed up. How does that sister fall color work if you’re a winter???
My understanding is that for some people the characteristic "deep" is more important than temperature, i.e. warm (yellow hue) or cool (blue / grey / pink hue). Or at least that "deep" is very important.
Then a _deep_ winter can borrow from _deep_ autumn. Normally a winter cannot stray into autumn palette, this is the one exception.
I also notice that for me as a cool summer all green-blue colours work very well, even lighter petrol (a colour that is one of the few blues in the fall palette). Likely everything blue-green with some intensity is good for me as long as there is no or not much yellow in it.
Green with a bit of yellow in it is not for me, not even regular green.
It is like: the blue in the mix makes the green(ish) colour cool enough for me.
My pale skin has a grey tone (at least it looks like that when I wear beige or salmon, or pastells, black, rust, ... ), and blue-green colours seem to counteract that the best. (along with certain shades of medium intensity pink).
So there are specifics beyond the rules in color analysis. Ideally the eye is trained enough to detect the deviations and why it sometimes works to wear colours outside of the palette (even outside the sister palette).
Hi, I'm not sure I understand your question. Happy to help if you want to elaborate :)
Hi, I was typed as a Paintbox Spring 8 years ago- what subset of Spring is that most like? ( bright, true, light or warm?) Also, if I put fake tan on , am I right in thinking that my Spring clothes should still suit me then? Many thanks
I’m not familiar with paintbox spring 8 but yes, I imagine tan would work well for you.
@@sarahryanthestylecoach ah great glad my colours will still work. It was a Paintbox Spring type by House of Colour analysts but was done 8 years ago. many thanks for replying!
I'm quite sure I'm a cool summer. I bought new glasses with a dusky/antique pink frame in winter and they looked good on me. In summer however, they clash with my skin tone. Is it really impossible to look slightly warmer with a tan?
To the untrained eye you might say someone looks warmer.
Hi, thank you, this was so informative! I’m a clear winter with a neutral skin tone but in summer I’m wondering if I am. In summer I get a tan but also a lot of hyperpigmentation and I feel that it warms my skintone a bit and there is less contrast between my skin and hair. Is it possible that I am a different season type in summer and winter? 🤗
No I don't think so.
What if you have neutral undertone. Is there a possibility to choose for warmer false tan to wear colors from spring or autumn?
I don't think anyone is fully neutral. I think everyone falls either one side or the other.
Does your skin tone change as you age and get gray hair? Does your undertone change ever change from a warm to cool?
Yes skin tone changes with age but undertone does not
So am I correct in saying, if I was analyzed a warm spring and had strawberry blonde hair and then started graying and are now a combination of blonde and gray with a tad of golden streaks, then my skintone will probably "lighten" in value in time to possibly a light spring, but I may be somewhere between warm and light spring now if I'm not all white or gray yet. I've also heard that you soften. Does that mean soft autumn could also be a possibility or is light spring a softer version of warm spring? I'm so confused and frustrated at this point in my life as to what looks the best on me anymore, but unfortunately don't have enough money to get re analyzed. I have found your channel to be the most thorough and watch as much as I can. @@sarahryanthestylecoach
Or could a warm spring ever move to a bright spring as she grays?
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Yay! :)
Can you help me pls? I know this is an old video.
Of course!
Im a summer and I feel like light tones blends in with my skin in the winter. I do tan in the summer. Does the same apply for summers as for winters? More contrast in clothes necessary in the winter time?