Although I agree that color analysis is not for everyone and doesn't need to be for everyone (especially those who wear makeup!) I do think the draping is fairly misinformed in the video. For instance, in the undertone test, we generally pick warm and cool tones in the same family, like red-pink vs red-orange, rather than two completely different colors like gray and brown. Also, many color analysis schools of thought do include palettes for neutrals. Though not always explicit, you can have a dominant attribute that makes the other two attributes less important. For instance, you can be so overwhelmingly muted, that temperature doesn't matter anymore. Keeping this in mind, sometimes it's easier to start with the most obvious trait and then adjust for the more subtle differentiations if they can be identified. In your instance, maybe starting with intensity, then moving to depth, then to temperature would have been more productive and less confusing. Comparing Spring vs Autumn and then Summer vs Winter is less useful then comparing Autumn vs Summer, which are both muted palettes in which you seem to be dominant. tldr; Kakkie's understanding of color is fantasic as always-- and that learned intuition really shows in the video. And I totally agree that there is nothing exact or defined about color seasons (like astrology? :) ). That being said, I think there was a lack of understanding of color analysis as a process, and I think that is why the "why" is not clicking. Would love to see Kakkie collab with an analysis studio to have her questions answered because I think Kakkie would ask all our questions, if not more.
I dont get why people keep doing this the wrong way in TH-cam, in various wrong ways, and expect to have a correct outcome. Just hire someone who knows what they are doing. So simple 🤦♀️
Yes, and yes please. I jive with Kackie's general attitude that your personal seasonal color analysis is not some essential trait, and that education about color theory means you can have more fun with your makeup and pull off a wider variety of looks (and I'm assuming most of us are here because we like to play with our makeup). I also know that I was mismatched with the wrong season more than once back in the 80s and suffered for it (neutral colors seemed to confuse people back in the day); that experience made me kinda meh about the whole idea, since I just looked wretched in everything on top of my adolescent awkwardness. Then I got older, and I lost some of the versatility of my youthful skin, which meant that I really had to think more about my ever-changing hair color and start to weed out some clothing and color choices that I noticed were making me look older. And that's when I finally figured out why and how this stuff actually can work in your favor; it was more of a diagnosis of elimination, which kinda sucked because I love some colors that I just can't wear, especially now.
Yes, you are so right; at least do it the right way if you are going to do it yourself! Look at Colour Analyst Studio and Sarah Ryan, both on youtube, for the best method. So much out there is nonsence. Whites are a really bad thing to test with first. Start with a warm red against a cool red, a warm pink versus cool pink, etc, otherwise you are going all over the place and just confusing yourself more and more!
This process was probably particularly frustrating because you were testing for cool vs warm when your dominant characteristic is neither. It’s soft. Soft autumn colors look stunning on you.
That's what I was thinking as well. She's soft and neutral-warm (also why the bold-red-lip-liquid-eyeliner-french-girl look doesn't feel natural). The reason neither the Roasted Chestnut nor the Indigo Cloth near 8:55 work well is that they're both too saturated. The cadet grey (though as she noticed it enhances her undereye purples) isn't awful because it's soft and muted and closer to neutral-cool. She mentions that the seasons don't cover everyone because we're not all warm or cool, but only two seasons are truly cool (True Winter and True Summer) and only two seasons are truly warm (True Spring and True Autumn). The rest are all neutral leaning one way or the other! I'm cool olive and somewhere in True Winter/Bright Winter. You can be olive and in any of the seasons. But yes, I agree Soft Autumn is stunning on Kackie! This was a fun video and I absolutely love her content.
The correct, established way is to test for warm versus cool first, then bright or soft, then find the subgroup last, so if she WERE soft autumn, the testing would show, warm looks best first, then slightly softer over bright, that would lead to autumn, then find the subgroup, testing deep autumn, warm and soft, and soft autumn would reveal itself quite naturally. Guessing does not work, it is not reliable like draping as a workable, dependable method.
One of the joys of color analysis is that when you find the right colors it really does make your skin and overall appearance better (or harmonized, as they say), which then might make you want to use less makeup. For example, if a certain color suddenly reduces the look of your undereye circles, you'd probably need way less concealer.
Had no idea I was cool toned (medium deep olive) until I took a bunch of pictures in diffuse, natural light with my clothing as drapes, one right after the other. Royal purple, black, charcoal and navy look amazing on me but olive, orange and mustard look vomitous, literally as though I’m about to throw up because I look so sickly.
The problem is that the soft autumn pallet isn’t very nice. It contains tons of brown, orange which I hate some traffic green colours which look cheap on me and teals which I don’t wear. On colour wise me there is no blue.
I’m olive and happen to be a bright winter. If I wear my best colors it’s like someone turned on the light. My face lits up, my complexion looks radiant, I literally look healthier and younger. It’s so worth it because it makes me feel better. How can you hate a color that makes you look stunning? I can’t.
Same! Learning my color season literally changed my life. Olive skin is tricky, and I'm so thankful for everyone that has put on information on the internet about it.
I get that it might be jarring for people to realize their favorite colors don't suit them the best, but of all the things you own, you look at your clothes (while you're wearing them) the least. Just like makeup, really. I'd much rather save my favorite colors for my home decor that I can look at all the time, and then wear the colors that make me feel the most confident, which would be the ones that, like makeup, make me look like a better version of myself.
I had mine done as a teenager in the 80’s when it was all the rage (the first time!). I was Golden Summer, which is now called Soft Summer, and means I can wear both Soft Summer & Soft Autumn colors as well as champagne gold & silver. I’m also low contrast and pretty neutral undertoned. Looks like you are also in that category!
I feel your pain with trying to decide if you’re neutral or warm or cool. I think it’s helpful to remember that just because a color is in the palette (e.g. Soft Autumn) it doesn’t mean that it will look good right next to your face. In other words, you’ll still have *your* best three or four colors out of that group.
Style me Jen has a very good series about why people who are olive or neutral could struggle a bit. And the fact you can use some colours from other pallets is not a bug, it's a feature! I am also very desaturated and it helped me so much to know I don't have to care with warm or cool I need to care about softness first and foremost.
Style Me Jenn is awesome! There are some analysts out there who sound super snobbish and kind of rude and am not really a fan of that lol. Jenn is so kind and sincere and seems like a genuinely nice person. I also like her "dominant feature" approach which is very useful rather than just going with "warm" vs "cool".
@@minervarose7664 Yes! I was going insane trying to go warm or cool first because i am desaturated and olive. I was unnecessarily complicating my life and her videos really helped. I also really like that she actually tells us about stuff she learns and how she has updated past beliefs and conceptions or about mistakes she used to make, because it truly shows growth. Not just that she keeps updating her knowledge and learning but that we can too, we get to evolve and change our minds too and that's beautiful.
Love Style Me Jenn! Her videos about color and high/low contrast features are very helpful. She and Ellie Jean Roydon (sp?), aka Body & Style, have helped me a lot.
And yes, it's like you said--I think the major distinction is that clothing colors *reflect* light onto our face in different ways, whereas makeup blends with our skin and has a different effect. Clothing is like reflection plus comparison/harmony, and makeup is blending plus comparison/harmony.
Yes, I'm an olive and my colour season is true winter. My undertone is blue -cool - and my overtone is yellow - warm-. To balance the yellowness, which otherwise would make me look jaundiced, I use cool tones. But I allow myself, sometimes, a bit of light gold jewellery.
I’m pale olive as well and sometimes I’ve been told I’m warm and other times true winter. And at this point I think I’m kind of a reflective ghost in winter and a golden goddess at the beach in summer. Those are my seasons 😅
@@isabelcode.hello50I am a medium cool olive. I feel your pain. Oddly enough, the Indian deep yellow 22K gold jewelry looks great on me but American 14K does not.
I’m an olive but turned out to be a winter which I found really interesting because I’d previously gravitated towards olive/burnt oranges but I realise now how dramatically those colours change my face. Still sticking with gold jewellery though because it’s not enough gold to be an issue and let’s face it, gold and navy are perfection.
Same. I have cyan eyes and light brown hair and it took me forever to consider a winter palette. It turns out, Bright Winter and True Winter colors are the only colors that don't change my skin tone and actually make me look alive. I thought I was a soft autumn forever. I LOOK low-contrast on the surface, but I'm most definitely not. Soft colors are the absolute WORST on me, and black, white, cobalt, and fuschia are the best. Learning all of this actually helped me fall in love with my olive skin.
@@ambertaylor88I feel your pain. I am a medium skin tone but my skin can be quite translucent. I am therefore olive but cool and muted. I had th hardest time because my dominant characteristic isn’t temperature. It’s value and intensity first. So by the 12 I am a deep winter but the brights are too bright and the lights are god awful. All of the darker soft summer colors look amazing on me. Instead, I just choose colors that fit my overall color categories and if I ever get confused, I take a picture in diffuse natural light with a color I know works and a color I’m not sure about and compare and contrast the whites of my eyes, my jawline, my scars, and whether you can focus on my face or if it feels like your eyes are being pulled to the color.
I’m an olive and categorically placed in deep winter. Nothing makes more sense and jewel tones truly are the only flattering shades on me. However, not a silver jewelry girly! My skin isn’t “cool” I look great with gold jewelry! I’ve finally chalked it up to it being bc of my olive skin!
Check out Merriem Style. She has a whole bunch of videos on why color analysis systems dont work for a lot of people, specifically if you're muted, neutral, or olive. She also talks about how sometimes your style/essence/whatever overrides your "technical" color season.
Meanwhile I did check her out initially and none of what she said worked - I’m olive skinned. I had a TCI analysis done and I’m a true autumn even as an olive. It made complete sense - finally an answer supporting why I struggled with neutral all the way to cool colors. Granted not everyone is fully warm as I am so maybe she’s more helpful for them but she wasn’t for me
@@missnars87I’m also autum, by 2 color analysis, however, the colors that are in that palette don’t make me “light up” so are they wrong? What am I??? 😂
What an absolute gem of a video! Thank you Kackie for going through the motions and I love your conclusion. Maybe because I feel the same 😂. Just because a colour works on my skin, I can still hate wearing that colour in clothes, aka red but can absolutely rock it as a lipstick…
Yep. I’m a light olive neutral. Some brights work some don’t. Muted colors work well. Can’t wear light gray and a lot of greens as it makes me look dead lol. My seasons given to me are either soft autumn or soft summer or a true summer. Finding foundation is fun. There’s a neutral olive that suits me. Not easy being green 😂
If you can distinguish between warm or cool and saturated or muted, then you can understand seasonal color analysis. Winter is cool and saturated, spring is warm and saturated, summer is cool and muted, autumn is warm and muted. The subgroups are about determining which of those characteristics is most important to your overall coloring. A Winter might pull off a warmer saturated color or warmer muted color indicating if saturation is equally or more important than your temperature. It seems like you already understand your coloring in these terms, being muted leaning warm. This would roughly place you in the autumn soft quadrant/area on the map. Your lip theory/technique keeping the temperature and tint (per picmonkey) the same but sliding it to red is theoretically how the different pallets were made. Color analysis posits everyone’s got some form of roygbiv that would complement their unique coloring based on their temperature and tint. Now when you get down to the granularity of it, selling swatches for exact color matching I think you get restrictive diminishing returns. To me, it’s about that moment you find something in your style that comes in multiple colors, you can choose the more muted or saturated or cool or warm of the options to suits you best without having to “work” for the color. Hope that makes sense!
Well no not really. Because colour temperature is RELATIVE. A warm blue is only warm in relation to other blues, and one blue might be warm next to one shade and cool against a different one. No colour has an intrinsic temperature.
@@catzkeet4860 the colors are compared relative to your skin!! It's about how the colors reflect onto the skin, brightening or creating shadow and taking away your skins glow.
Seasonal color analysis operates on the idea of achieving "harmony" with your skin tone and features. It does not account for all of the stunning outcomes that can be achieved from contrast. For example, Elle Fanning has very cool toned skin but looks amazing with very warm golden yellow hair. Another example would be how amazing Asian women with very warm skin tones can look with either platinum or violet haircolors (both cool). The contrast actually amplifies both attributes so instead of clashing it just creates a very stunning effect.
I think you don't understand, for some categories in spring and winter, they look great with contrast. It's part of the analysis. That's how there's bright spring and bright winter. Don't be reductive.
You may be confusing skin surface color with undertone. any ethnicity can be any undertone. I for one appreciate “clashing” color combos in art and fashion. Color analysis is meant to be a tool, not rules. For example, I am a true autumn and choose to wear charcoal and black because I love the combo with my favorite autumn colors. But I know I want my seasonal palette to be the colors I put near my face, they make me look most vibrant and authentically me.
Within 2 mins of watching I knew you’d loose you mind as you’d fall somewhere between (and be both) soft summer and soft autumn aka Neutral , like me! It doesn’t work for everyone. As a fellow artist THANK YOU for articulating what I couldn’t, so helpful.
As someone who has been very lost in the colour analysis sauce and is also neutral we don't really fit this system......your *main* aspect is muted (vs bright) and you lean slightly warm so you can borrow colours from both muted seasons Autumn and Summer I'm the exact opposite, neutral leaning cool and bright
Before you started, I had you pegged as soft autumn. But I also think there’s something to looking best when you wear colors you actually like because colors do affect our mood!
For those of us with untrained eyes for color-seasonal color analysis has been life changing! I really think the Italian ladies in Australia (color analysis studio) do a great job and turn something that seems subjective into something objective that people like me with a math/science brain can understand. Thanks for this video Kackie-made for a fun run on my treadmill!
Totally agree; a lot of what passes for colour analysis advice is rubbish online. Look at these ladies, also Sarah Ryan the Style Coach, also on youtube, she uses the same methods and brilliant as well.
Kackie...Girl... Pull yourself together ... You know all this knowledge already. I was trying to pin point my color season for years and you are the whole reason I figure mine out so quickly. You're the whole reason I was finally able to find my color season. I knew I was cool. I was having a hard time with saturation and your color theory videos completely helped me. I realized I was low contrast and soft/muted/grey. I was sure I was a summer and then your videos helped me fine tune into being a soft summer that can dip into light summer which brought me to bring a cool summer leaning more soft. You and the tools you gave me... Pic monkey and hex codes, diffused lighting were my key. Your lip color is so beautiful 😭... I absolutely love the color
This is literally me. My exact same process. And I've come to the same conclusion, that I'm a soft autumn. But also I think we can borrow a lot from soft summer because we look good in both warm and cool tones.
That’s because the main feature on this season is saturation! You can borrow colors from the sister palettes and they will look pretty good as long as you keep the focal feature.
@@natalieduarte3913 yes, I realised that along the way. But at the same time, some really bright colors look really good on me. Yet pastels make me look ill
i love watching this! as a color analysis devotee, i actually really hate most seasonal analysis systems. I really think the most important part of color analysis is knowing what qualities of color your individual skin and body looks best in! tbh, the seasonal systems put people in overly simplified boxes, but you yourself seem to have a really sophisticated sense of what colors work best on you: your specific warm/cool balance and wherever it leans, a range of depths that are reflected in your own color values, and the muted soft colors you love and the low contrast of your own features! I'm olive, bright, and neutral: no generic palette is ever gonna fit me, and i think thats true for the vast majority of people!! knowing your own colors and how to adjust them is good for color theory, but color theory is just another tool you can use to feel good in whatever you like
@farfromfloral Thank you for this explanation! The only color analysis video I've seen previously that made sense to me was one where she took her photo and pulled out the colors of in her eyes, hair and lips to get a set of neutrals that were "her colors". I don't know what the systems called and of course right now I can't find the video 🤦♀️ . @kakie With how good you are with color analysis and that makeup video series, I'd be curious if this might work better with how you analyze color for makeup???
You nailed it at the end!! For people that aren't as adept at determining what looks good on them color analysis is truly a life saver. At the risk of sounding like an infomercial -- I used to hate shopping for clothes, but having a little "cheat sheet" of colors that I can't go wrong with helps me avoid bringing something home only to realize it actually dulls my skin or makes me look sickly. Armed with my little palette I am finally not immediately intimidated when walking into a clothing store. Even my male friends got theirs done and it has been so helpful in their journeys to improve their wardrobe! Fortunately the woman we went to was wonderful - she never said we couldn't wear a color, encouraged us to wear what makes us feel beautiful, taught us how to "get away" with wearing a color that might not be in our palette (accessories, jackets, pants!!) and emphasized that our palettes were just a jumping off point to find the "vibe" of colors that work for us. As a very pale muted olive it kind of changed my life to learn what a difference saturation/contrast made when choosing colors to wear! But I will say for neutral people that it can be easier to rule out what you are NOT and use process of elimination to get to what you are. All my neutral friends appointments took longer than the non-neutrals 😅
It was such a shock to me that I was a cool season because I pinned so much on being a warm olive but once I really paid attention to how the colours worked with my under eyes, lip colour etc I realised I can be a warm/neutral olive but suit a cool palette for my clothes. Was somehow nice to give into it instead of trying to shoehorn myself into warm coloured clothes 😂
TL;DR Exactly the same - thought I was a Deep Winter because I have pale neutral skin and dark hair, high contrast, and highly saturated colours worked well on me. But make-up was way too dark! Turns out I’m a Bright Spring and all the nude shades for eyes and lighter lips suit much better. Still high contrast but the warm undertone couldn’t be seen till I got properly draped. Hated all the bright spring colours at first so started small with scarves and accents till I realised how often I was being complimented on my skin whilst not wearing make-up. Now I embrace the warm bright pinks and yellow-greens. Xx
I had mine done years ago, and it works. As the pro said who did my colours, it isn't for everyday, it's not rules. If sage green doesn't suit you, but you love it, wear it anyway, but provide a "break," like a necklace or collar, that suits you. Or just wear it. Your seasonal colours are for best, or job interviews, important occasions when you want to show out. If a colour makes you feel good, wear it. The questionnaires online seem flawed, since they're about choice, ie what colour jewellery do you prefer, gold or silver? If you prefer gold, but you know silver suits you as well, what do you answer? It does seem like a good idea to get someone to help you, since they might make less preferential decisions.
Sometimes the more helpful distinction with makeup is not warm vs cool but soft vs bright. Once I knew I was a soft summer, I understood why bold eye looks and shiny lip products have never looked right or flattering on me. When I started leaning into softness in my makeup, it made a huge difference.
This video is so fun! I was sure you were a Soft Autumn :) And by the way, being Soft means that your low-contrast is more domninant/important than being warm or cool, so it's a season where neutral people will fall (as well as Soft Summer, for example, which I am), and usually you will lean more on one side of the temperature spectrum but will be also look good in a lot of colors from the other side, as long as the colors are soft/muted. If you want to dig more, the ladies over at Color Class on TH-cam explain it all amazingly. They have a series of videos on the 6 seasons system (not really season but analyzing where you fall on the spectrum of the 3 criteria of brightness, temperature and depth). I was analyzed in that system too and find it makes much more sense, especially for olive people or neutral people. And in the end, we still wear what we want anyway :) But for me, it has made my makeup choices much easier at a time where I had no comprehension of what things like low-contrast were.
I was going to suggest Color Class too! I think Lucinda, with her painting background, thinks about color much like Kackie. I really appreciate that they interpret colors (and people) as being on continuums of Light-Dark, Warm-Cool, Soft-Clear. They’d probably appreciate Kackie’s “red” lipstick video, because they really understand the nuances!
@@michmash7888 ah, I thought the opposite of bright was muted. I'm pretty sure I'm both muted (of skin) and high contrast overall (dark hair and eyes, pale skin), which is really confusing when people seem to use soft/bright/clear/muted/saturated/low contrast/etc all jumbled up and matched differently depending on the person, the example, etc. So is 'soft' synonymous with low contrast or mutedness?
Regarding the point at 19:17 most seasonal analysis systems provide you with a swatch book or fan of colors in your season. And that's what you would take to the store with you to check if items harmonize with your palette. You don't have to look for an exact match--you're looking for harmony basically. Does the item look like it could fit cohesively with the other colors in that fan? So if you're looking at a stark, cool undertoned white in store but your fan is, say, the true autum palette, when you hold the fan up to it, it's not going to look like they belong together.
The swatch thing ended up being my lifesaver when shopping because it keeps me focused on the colors in the fan. Previously, I would dopamine shop and end up with a lot of colors and patterns that were immediately exciting to me in the store, but in my closet at home everything felt disharmonized (because it was) and then I’d resort to wearing all black.
From what I understand with me being a soft autumn I was explained that when you are low contrast and are more neutral you usually sit in the middle of either of the spectrums so in my case I'm in between summer and autumn so in between warm and cool but since I am warmer and low contrast muted warm colors are best.
I think it’s so much more helpful to think of colors in the same conversation as your contrast video. I’m low contrast neutral and I have found that tending towards subdued, washed out colors look great on me in warm or cool, whereas saturated colors wash me out. So if you’re on the fence or feeing neutral in your coloring think instead of the contrast, not the color itself!
Colour analysis actually made me more open to options. I had correctly identified black, cool white and bright red as my best colours, and my wardrobe used to be 90% these colours and 10% anything else. Then realizing I was a winter encouraged me to try and love other colours and placing myself in the cool winter subgroup helped me more easily identify the shade of lipstick that I love on me, without needing to first buy it and put it on my face. It also made me realize why I never even touched that orangey red dress I bought online and yeah... I'll never buy a colour like that again. Also, I started wearing some soft colours I would have never bought before, because I realized they can look good on me if I pair them with something brighter and darker or with pure cool white. I used to hate navy because I find it so hard to mix it with other colours, but because of my season I gave it a try and realized I love how it looks on me and now I'm motivated to figure out how to make it work
Kackie, I truly appreciate your blunt honesty about how confusing color analysis can be. My TH-cam algorithm has been flooded with color analysis videos. I stumbled on the Color Class @colorclassinc videos. They are a mother daughter duo (near the D.C. area I believe) who break down color analysis in their videos. The mother (Lucinda) is darling. She is a painter so she will often refer to how colors are approached from an artist’s perspective. I have learned a lot from their videos. You might enjoy watching how they break down the different types of color analysis palettes. They also discuss how different color palette systems fail to address people with more neutral skin tones. The mother is a summer. The daughter is an autumn. However, they regularly talk about how neither of them truly fit into those palettes perfectly. 💙🎨✨
@@melanieb1442 I also mentioned Color Class in a comment (as well as Colour Analysis Studio). The Color Class current series regarding palettes of colors currently available in clothing has been especially interesting.
@dogwalker97 Great minds think alike. I also enjoy learning from Color Analysis Studio. I find both channels to not just be informative but also relaxing to watch.
Don’t quote me on this because i had my colour analysis done 2,5 years ago, but I had temperature, contrast and intensity checked first (against grey, not white). I think, if you are not too cool or too warm, contrast or intensity will play a bigger role on your analysis. And it will somehow dictate your season, even if you’re neutral (again, as far as I remember 😂)
Thanks this was great. I agree wholeheartedly that personality plays a huge part in colours you choose to wear. I think the colours that make us feel good/comfortable/confident and that we get positive feedback on are the ones that suit us and that most people choose them naturally.
Agree. Personality (including what mood) & feedback from others. I was typed as a deep autumn decades ago & yes the colours are flattering. I've known red is my colour for decades as I have compliments when wear it. However, I have also had compliments with hot pink, which apparently isn't in the autumn family. I avoid pastels as they make me look washed out.
My guess is soft autumn. I think you might enjoy the TH-cam channels Color Class and Colour Analysis Studio. Those are two of my favorite color analysis channels
I appreciate seasonal color analysis as a structured way to explore. My DIY analysis didn't pinpoint a specific category for me, but it suggested colors I never considered wearing. I was pleasantly surprised to find two colors that make me look well rested and impeccably moisturized without fail. So now I have a shirt in each of those colors to wear on days when there is no time or energy to spend on my look. It's like taking a shortcut to foxiness, even if I'm sick or tired!
Fantastic observation, no one's going to be able to discern the undertone of a white sweater, say, without some contrast near. One of the things I love about my local thrift store is, they carefully hang every category of clothes by shade as well, and the ones I will like just stand out to me easily as I browse. FWIW, I don't really fit well in any category as is, and when I (frequently) change haircolor, all bets are off. And I can wear almost any color in makeup, but not in clothes.
As someone who paid to get their colors done, your contrast video has done more for me in a short amount of time than getting my colors done. Loved watching your wheels turn in this video and getting the Kackie Kommentary on this trend!
I have a very cool toned blue-heavy pink fair undertone. I wear gold jewelry with a few pieces of silver and I really like the overall harmony while being contrast-y. Sometimes, “rules” were meant to be broken to create something unique and true-to-self.
Hey, Kackie! Neutral girlies like you and me straddle the seasons. You could pull off soft summer too, though your best colors are soft autumn. When you are neutral, intensity is more important than tone which is exactly what you discovered but you already knew that because neither you or me look great in bold lipstick. I'm a design professional and master esthetician. This process actually makes a lot of sense to me. I tend to color analyze everyone I meet without them even knowing. I honestly believe this system works for 95% of people but it's a lot harder for those who have artistic backgrounds like yourself. Your brain thinks differently but that's okay! I enjoyed watching, thank you ❤️
I just did a color analysis on myself with the paint chips, and it turns out I'm a Cool Summer 👀😱. I'm utterly shocked and yet it makes so much since. I had thought going into it I was Soft Summer, but no. If that was the case, Soft Autumn would be my second best season, but Winter Cool works much better. I had no idea I was so cool. I have a slight yellow overtone that's been confusing me for years. But now that I see it, I can't un-see it.
Ok so I think everyone has different like main characteristics. So for you soft and medium intensity might matter more than warm or cool. Hence liking colours from where autumn and summer meet, leaning a bit more into the soft autumn. So i think if someone else were to do this and you cant decide warm or cool to start, maybe decide btight or soft, or saturation level, and then compare those colour seasons rathet than all the warm or all the cool.
If you're a soft autumn, your sister palettes (soft summer and true autumn) would still be flattering on you. This was partially what took me so long to figure out I'm a soft summer, because the warmer soft autumn colors look better on me than more intense cool tones. Like you I rebel against being put in a box and enjoy exploring outside of it on the regular. I moreso find it helpful as one tool amongst amongst many. Enjoyed watching your journey, even if it was frustrating sometimes! Thanks for sharing
There are other colour analysis systems that you might like more - no seasons, just sliding scales of muted/saturated, deep/light value, warm/cool and finding which of those is your prominent characteristic. For me, mine would be muted first and foremost, medium value, slightly warm. That would put me in the soft autumn I guess, but with muted being most important, any muted colour is going to work just fine because warm/cool is the least apparent aspect ( I'm pretty neutral)
When I got my color analysis done I was very neutral leaning slightly cool, and if you have neutral undertones you'll nearly always been a soft summer or soft autumn. I can "steal" some colors from the soft autumn palette, but nothing that veers too orange. I think the soft autumn colors look lovely on you, and I figured that would be your palette since you talk about needing such de-saturated makeup colors and have warm hair, eyes, and skin.
There are 3 categories of colors, value (deep to light), temperature (cool to warm), and intensity (bright to soft) for analysis. Worth noting that some of us have a dominant characteristic that isn’t the temperature, which is why looking for temperature can be difficult for some. I am deep, soft and a cool leaning olive in that order of importance for near my face. I can wear just about any temperature near my face if it is dark enough or soft enough. By the 12, I am a deep winter but I need a little more softness so by the 16 I am the toned version, smoky or toned winter, which adds a bit of gray. As a result I can borrow some of the darker colors of soft summer and some of the cooler colors within dark autumn. Gunmetal, antique silver and rose gold all look great on me. If I’m doing statement jewelry, I do it in sterling silver. As it was explained to me, you look at the white of your eyes, the circles under them and blemishes/scarring, as well as what colors are wearing you versus you wearing them. Since all colors are seen as relative to the human eye, colors that are too far away from where your skin sits in any category will compete and make it hard for your eye to focus on your face. Think of it almost like you can feel the tension in your eye relax because focus isn’t being;g forced away from: your face. Super brights like neon make my face disappear. Less good colors will also exaggerate flaws. My hyperpigmentation looks awful with colors that are too light or too warm. It can help to take a photo without filters in diffuse light (which you can do with your own clothing) and then compare and contrast the picture side by side, since cameras color and light balance just like our eyes.
You are SO right, soft autumn (especially that peach!!) looks absolutely GODDESS on you. I second the comment that urges you to check out Merriam Style -- it all makes sense when you listen to her (and she simplifies it very much and also approaches it with true color theory like a scientist), especially the way she incorporates the style, essence, personality, and preferences of the person and not just the colors (coming from a muted, high-contrast cool olive --- seasonal color analysis doesnt know where to put me! The best pallet I've found out in the wild for me is Dark Soft Summer, which was made to cover one of the gaps in the seaonal system, for people whose skintone is muted and cool but have high contrast or dark features). I'd also say that the easiest way to tell right away if someone is warm or cool is to picture them in tomato red vs cherry red (learned this one from the ladies at Colour Analysis Studio, absolutely love their channel). If tomato red makes you look golden and cherry red makes you kind of meh, you're warm. If cherry red makes you look radiant and tomato red makes you look kind of sick (not golden, but yellow in an unhealthy way), you're cool. I've found that this works for both olive and rosy people, because its using warm and cool reds (so reds with tiny bits if yellow or blue added) rather than more heavily yellow or blue colors to try and compare to start, which can get confusing for olives especially.
I am a natural red head with very pale skin and cool undertones. Wearing my hair up or down makes a big difference. My skin tone loooooves the bright winter jewel tones, my hair screams true autumn so I can do both depending on how I wear my hair. I like to put a cool pink depositing conditioner on my hair and it just makes my skin POP. Your series is so helpful!
I am obsessed with the Color Analysis Studio channel. I can actually see the differences on the model when they do the drapes. They explain things well. They also do online consultations if you wanted to do this professionally 😊 I genuinely could not figure this out on my own, but also can’t afford to have it done so I just continue to wear what is safe for me 😂
As a professional color analyst I prefer starting with contrast, low/light contrast for you. Then just use lower contrast colors on you for the rest of the analysis. Otherwise it's too confusing. I also don't agree with seasonal color analysis. I prefer putting you on a spectrum. For you I would catagorize you as soft, warm & light. That being as said, don't forget that you can jump the color wheel & wear the opposite colors that'll still compliment your complextion. It can get very confusing. Just wear what you feel good in. 🤷🏻♀️
You are definitley in a soft season and would look best wearing slightly greyish and desaturated colors. Your skin is olive in undertone and also very neutral temperature wise. Your season is for sure soft autumn since it goes along seamless with your skin :)
I just started watching your channel after finding it through the youtube algorithm, and I am in love with it! The way you talk about color theory and the personality types of color season analysis vs color theory speaks to me on an intellectual level. I'm working toward a BA/MA in art history and when you said in a different video that we use cool tones to make things look farther away and create the illusion of shadow I thought, "atmospheric perspective! That's atmospheric perspective!" and started bouncing up and down in excitement while doing my makeup. I, too, need to know the why for things for them to make sense, and now I know why atmospheric perspective works the way it does--it's the same as a contour shade being cooler than a bronzer shade! Thanks so much!
I think you would enjoy (not necessarily agree with her) going down the Suzanne Caygill rabbit hole. She invented seasonal color analysis and her original idea of the seasons is not as rigid as the commercial recreations of her ideas. The original process started with painting the skin tone and from the color mechanics of that endeavor informed the season. So it's more about what comes come together to create your skin tone and less about cool vs warm. There is a free book online you can download to read and an archive of her work at Cornell -- there are Caygill analysts out there as well who do incredible work ( Jessi Riolo is my fave.)
You would see a more clear effect if you were to put a chip under your face and then switch it to another. Often the effect is most obvious in the change you see in your skin. You can see your bias in the fact that you’re not giving yourself a fair test.
i loved the video! seasonal color analysis gives what makes harmony with your colors, so you can know what you're doing and then break all the rules and make the colors work for you. it gives what works best based on the personal image you wanna have. in my methodology i don't ever say that my client can't wear any other colors. but i say that the other colors that aren't in their palette may not give the results they want. even combining colors, or color psychology. or make up. in my methodology i blend everything so i can give the most personalized orientation.
Watching your video, I realized that I'm quite happy for the colours in my clothing to enter the room before me. It tracks ig bc I think it's fair to call myself a shy exhibitionist.
OMG, I so relate to all your comments! I was so frustrated with this process. I’m also an artist with an interest in color theory. I’ve decided that I’m also a soft autumn, but the journey to get here was so frustrating. I know that silver jewelry doesn’t look good on me, so I immediately thought I’m an autumn or summer, however, neither looked good on me. I’m definitely soft like you, but I feel like soft autumn and soft summer both work on me. At the end of the day, I wear what makes me happy!
I have tried to figure out what works for me. As far as clothes and jewelry I’ve learned I’m cool toned, but I still wear warm clothing sometimes, I just compensate with my makeup. I’ve also learned with makeup that my eyes are a warm color, so around my eyes I can always wear warmer shadows even though my lip color will typically be a bit cooler. Contrast makes a bigger difference with clothing and makeup than anything in my opinion. I think watching you narrow down to a soft autumn encompasses that experience.
Aren’t you supposed to put these under your chin to bounce the light from the color to your face to see how it changes your skin??? Not the side of your face…
The real headfuck for me as a painter is that seasonal analysis people treat cool and warm as a scale from yellow to blue. In painting, red is also a primary warm colour - so it took me a lot of listening to seasonal people to get used to the idea that's been taken out of the equation. Then again, as a painter who primarily uses watercolour approaches, I even bristle at the idea of adding black, white, or grey to get a tone. I'm almost always using true yellow, blue, and red - so I tend to view colours from that lens.
I grew up on the original “Color Me Beautiful” book in the 80s, and I always found it such a helpful compass to keep me from wasting money on colors that were going to make me look sad. Autumn colors were scarce in the mall in 1983, though.
Sarah Ryan The Style Coach is a good channel for in depth colour analysis, especially if you tend to neutral in terms of warm vs cool as she explains a lot about secondary intensity and saturation. I finally figured out I'm a soft summer and my sister season is soft autumn; I'm neutral tending to cool and look best in muted shades but I also wear some autumn colours quite well as long as they're muted and not too warm. I need muted colours. Winter and spring are too bright for me. I'm a very freckled redhead (half white now) with blue eyes, so my contrast is very low. It has helped me try new colours that I never thought I could wear, some I liked and adopted, some I despise. I won't wear a colour that I don't like just because it looks good on me because it makes me feel icky! 😂
I think your predominant chromatic characteristic could the the softness of the color, in that case the value and temperature wouldn't play as big of a role as the saturation (hence the neutral-looking undertone, and how both warm and colors can look good as long as they're muted) I highly suggest watching Colour Analysis Studio's videos, they explain this concept very concisely and I love their way of analyzing their clients' colors 🤍
Love color Analysis studio's videos. I definitely think Kackie has a muted low contrast look. She also has to consider overtone vs undertone. I think. People get very mixed up on that aspect when considering makeup.
@@Crystal.Calvinovertone and undertone only come into play when they are very disparate because it can cause inexplicable alchemy on the skin, but it's far too complicated for a general audience. Also I'm genuinely not interested in pursuing this further 😂
@@kackie I wasn't suggesting you had a problem with that. I'm saying that color Analysis weighs heavily on undertone vs overtone, so you have to consider it when analyzing
@@kackie At the end of the day, I guess the palettes are just guidelines and not rules Personally, I love "stealing" colors from Autumn and Summer even though I'm probably a deep winter because warm and light colors still make me happy (and that's what matters to me ✨)
A preference for blues and inability to wear orange is a dead give away for a cool leaning undertone. Cool olives often have a yellow "overtone" that mistaje for a warm tone. I am typing this in my shower because I screamed "YOU LEAN COOL" when you said the orange part.
I think the most beneficial thing I got from my color analysis was clarity around things like undertone, contrast, and chroma (soft vs bright). The specific season/colors that look good on me was helpful as well but understanding the "why" behind it was almost more helpful for me!
The thing with season categories is that each has a focal quality that is more important than the rest. I’m a true autumn, and temperature is the main feature of this season. So I play with saturation and deepness more easily, as long as I keep the right temperature (warm). Soft autumn, for example, has saturation as the main feature (it has to be low saturation) so soft summer colors won’t look as jarring as, say, bright winter colors for that season. Deep autumn has deepness as its main feature so it won’t look bad in deep winter colors, but it will look best if the colors are dark AND warm. To me you look like a soft autumn, so muted colors with more grey look better. The warmer version muted shades brings out the best in your skin. Oh, and when comparing shades, it’s better to keep some characteristics in common between the colors, comparing an almost white sky blue to really deep blurple will make it harder to understand the subtle changes. It’s best to change only the temperature or saturation or brightness, not all three at the same time. But honestly, lovely video, I’m a fan ❤ I also did my own color analysis (I’m an artist so I got my color theory down lol) and it helped me a lot in understanding what looks best on me and avoiding buying unflattering colors (specially online, since we can’t try the clothes!)
As a Libra sun, Cancer Moon, ADHD brain and creative soul, colour season assignment is a torture to me, I wanna be in all seasons and colours AND I wanna make it work looking good on them whenever I want! Yesterday I was feeling like a cold witch queen with my grey and dark green eyeshadow, dusty rose blusher and icy highlighter... today I decided I wanted to be a summer bronzed fairy on my yellow golden eyeshadow, copper shiny cheeks and light peachy gloss. I admire the ones that are okay to stay in their season, tho. Not for me! Hahahaha Btw, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your content, Kackie! ❤️❤️❤️
If you don’t want to be stuck in a box, look into the YT channel Color Class. Many of their videos talk about color in terms of its properties (temperature, intensity, saturation) and one of the hosts really enjoys wearing colors that theoretically aren’t for her, but she explains how she makes them work for her. And they embrace wearing what makes you happy!
Good attempt. Larger samples are better (but I get how much of a pain that would be). Hold the color under your chin and watch what happens to the circles under your eyes and any red in you skin. Some colors will make a dramatic change.
Love the video!!❤❤❤ And besides, YOU were the first who explained to me why some colours work on me and some don't and I will always be so thankful to you for that!! Ironically, in consequence of your videos on colour theory I understood that I am NOT a bright spring, but a light spring because of my lack of contrast. And opposite seasons always are kind of related, as are the sister seasons, so from all of them you are encouraged to "steal" or try out colours. That's why spring sometimes really looked nice on you. I would like to encourage you to look at bright spring more as you really have high contrast and it might be fun for you to try out some of the louder colours. Some of them looked gorgeous on you!!❤
Greetings from Tallahassee! I am a winter. I am light skinned and olive, but have cool undertones. I think the paint swatches are too small. I also don’t think they were the best representatives of seasons. When you drape yourself with a color, that color is reflected under your jaw (happened some when you put swatch below your chin) and various other places on your face. Makes it much easier to see what works and what doesn’t. Try it with some clothes you already own. Even try holding swatch flat where you can’t see the color, just how it reflects on your face.
The white wall looks like it's glowing! Cannot wait to watch this video. Going to carve out some me time later and watch 😊 Thank you for making this video, Kackie. I remember you said a while ago in another video that you're skeptical about colour analysis. So now I'm even more intrigued
I do think that personality has to be considered when doing a season analysis but I also think it is helpful to know what family of colors looks good on you with your skin tone
From the minute I was given classes in color analysis in cosmetology school in 1983, I have thought it was complete hooey. Now that is seems to be back, I feel even stronger that it is. Its just not this simple.
This was refreshing. I get served so much content about color seasons, and it never made sense to me as an approach to what to wear. I can see if a color doesn't work or if it works extra great. But really awful colors aside, how it makes my skin look is not as big a factor as whether I like the color, whether it works with my other clothes, or whether it's a piece I like overall. Most clothes, especially secondhand, aren't available in more than a few shades, so even if I know a slightly cooler green would suit me more, it won't be an option.
Thanks for your perspecrive on this! The way my color analysis was done actually ran into a bunch of the issues you brought up at the beginning. When determining my undertones, they measured "ah, neutral-cool olive". Me coming in having watched some prior TH-cam color analysis videos thought I'd be a cool season. When I was draped with my hair behind the white cloth, the first analyst said the difference between Light Spring and Light Summer was pretty close. She kept testing those two different drapes, and eventually called in the head analyst. When the head analyst removed the white cloth from my hair, it was very obvious that Light Spring was a better match for me. (My hair has very red-orange undertones in the brown.) Ultimately, they told me that for Light Spring and Light Summers, picking colors that align with value matters more than stressing about the temperature. They told me if want to wear bone and crisp white, it flattens my features a bit and not to worry if I feel like I want contour (normally a step I skip in the interest of time). If I want to wear a black top, pick a top with a neckline that shows some clavicle to make some space between the color and my face. (I'd already come into the session knowing I look like a floating head in a black turtleneck.)
35 minutes oh Kackie going crazy. So fun! I would have thrown the swatches out the window about 5 minutes in but I am completely here for someone else going through it all. 🤣😊
There you go Kackie wear what you like and what makes you feel good I was told I'm cool toned but I love gold and am attracted to warmer tones in makeup so I do what looks good on me I personally feel I'm totally neutral because I can wear both warm and cool tones. Thanks for the video. You worked it, girl..❤
I paid to see David Zyla as i like that he is more personalized with his palettes going off your romantic color first and feels more custom rather than putting me in a session box that might not 100% work. and I'm a little odd being a Soft Winter not even in the 12 season xD
;) I find this video both fun and valuable. I used to offer image consulting services in the past and I realized that determining temperature first might not always be the best approach, especially with neutral clients or cases like Kackie's, where she has both cool and warm tones (her lips and eyelids are pink (cool), but she has a warm overcast). I would rather focus on natural contrast and overall coloring. Kackie is predominantly muted, with warm skin and a cool undertone, and a mid to mid-high contrast level. Soft summer and soft autumn colors would suit her well, but because of her dark eyes, she can also pull off saturated mid-value colors from any season. I believe, rather than one color attribute it is their combination (hue, itself value, saturation, temperature) that once identified, will make you look stunning. @Kackie - your makeup color series is fantastic! your talking about opacity next to the temperature and saturation - priceless! Thank you for making such an effort !
😂😂 I watched that YT you were referencing before this and was losing my mind like you are now. I am a neutral undertone (a sort of olive/apricot) and I can rock both high and low saturated colors in clothing in any season (although I prefer muted soft colors), it's more often than not just that some will clash with my complexion, or even the color of my hair. Which is why when they say to hide your hair it doesn't make sense. It totally matters. 😂
I’m gonna guess before you get started that you are an autumn. 🍂 Look forward to watching the rest of the video to see what your results were. I had an online color analysis done and it was immensely helpful in narrowing down which colors will look harmonious on me when I am shopping for makeup. For clothing , I don’t strictly adhere to my season because I am neutral-cool so most colors can work on me if I stay within my brightness and depth. I stay away from my absolute worst colors and just wear what I love. I think it matters more in terms of makeup.
The natural light is soooo much better, especially talking about makeup. You just can't really see everything properly in the ring lights. The way the light bumps off of the face distorts the textures, depth, colors. Honestly it's like I finally see your skin tone for the first time. A lot of the time influencers talk about their coloring, what they look good in etc and I just don't see it. In the ring lights the undertones get so blended, everybody looks the same save for the actual tone depth.
I think you'll find this info becomes more important as you get older. I also have a studio art background and I hated the way Color Me Beautiful (back in oldentimes) boxed me in. I wore the colors I loved. Done. Then I got older and found out that so many of the colors I could wear --especially in clothing and eyeshadow--when I was younger make me look gross now. I look sallow and wrinkled if I'm not wearing what blends the best with my natural look. Ultimately, it helped me to understand that neutral people with lower contrast (you and me) are either going to be soft autumn or soft summer. (You are absolutely a soft autumn!), which means we can cross from one to the other. So temperature isn't that important for us. The more important thing is to know whether you are bright or muted. But that's mostly for clothing. The nice thing about being neutral is we really can pretty much wear any makeup as long as it's well-blended. I just like knowing, now that I'm older, which tones will make my complexion look more youthful.
The dark teal that she painted her bedroom to feel more cozy, I painted my bedroom ceiling for the same reason in the same color, and it's awesome! It's unexpected and fun... our room is abnormally large with vaulted ceilings, so it doesn't make it seem any smaller, like I would think a darker color on the ceiling would do, but if anyone is in the market for a bedroom repaint... I highly recommend thinking about doing that, especially in that color, because it is very serene and relaxing and I wish it would have made our room feel smaller, making it more cozy. But, we've got tranquil and serene down pat.
There was an angry, on going debate last school year among my students if I was a true winter or a true autumn. I just kept trolling them by changing my jewelry tones.
I'm wondering how you chose your colors for this analysis? It did not look like you chose the same colors as Siobhan did in her video. A few times you complained about the colors being the same in different palettes, so it looked like the colors you picked were not true to the season palettes. It also seems you are have some misunderstanding and even resentment(?) towards the color season analysis. You are always free to wear whichever colors bring you joy - the color season analysis aims to show you which colors complement your complexion - brighten your skin, give you a healthy glow, minimize blemishes. Some people will find joy in wearing colors that harmonize with their complexion, and some will find joy in wearing their favorite colors, and some may choose to incorporate both. As far as color theory goes - the seasonal analysis focuses on 3 chromatic features: tone (warm/cool), depth (light/deep), and intensity (saturated/muted). Different people can have a primary chromatic feature. For example someone who is categorized as a "light spring" has depth(light) as their primary feature, so they can borrow colors from "light summer" because undertone is not as important on them. This accounts for people who have a less pronounced undertone and are close to neutral. "The Color Analysis Studio" channel explains this in more detail. Hope this helps!
Color theory is such a fascinating thing.. I've been a painter & graphic designer for a while now, but sometimes I feel like I still haven't have a full understanding on it 😅 Let alone using it on people. So I have respect for the legit personal color analyst out there 😎
Some autumns or maybe autumn’s in general am be neutral leaning warm. I think you’re neutral slightly warm. So you could be an autumn that lies between autumn and summer. Which is why muted cool tones suit you as well. I think soft autumn is the autumn between autumn and summer. You can wear shades from both palettes. Your observations are spot on . It’s confusing you because of the muted summer colors also looking good
This is solid entertainment.
Thank you!!! 😂
I ABSOLUTELY agree!
Sure is!
Love it!
Seriously 😂❤
It's chaos.
Smelling the swatch you liked is some kind of art math that I really resonate with
I've done this painting swatch thing and totally smelled them
Although I agree that color analysis is not for everyone and doesn't need to be for everyone (especially those who wear makeup!) I do think the draping is fairly misinformed in the video. For instance, in the undertone test, we generally pick warm and cool tones in the same family, like red-pink vs red-orange, rather than two completely different colors like gray and brown.
Also, many color analysis schools of thought do include palettes for neutrals. Though not always explicit, you can have a dominant attribute that makes the other two attributes less important. For instance, you can be so overwhelmingly muted, that temperature doesn't matter anymore. Keeping this in mind, sometimes it's easier to start with the most obvious trait and then adjust for the more subtle differentiations if they can be identified. In your instance, maybe starting with intensity, then moving to depth, then to temperature would have been more productive and less confusing. Comparing Spring vs Autumn and then Summer vs Winter is less useful then comparing Autumn vs Summer, which are both muted palettes in which you seem to be dominant.
tldr; Kakkie's understanding of color is fantasic as always-- and that learned intuition really shows in the video. And I totally agree that there is nothing exact or defined about color seasons (like astrology? :) ). That being said, I think there was a lack of understanding of color analysis as a process, and I think that is why the "why" is not clicking. Would love to see Kakkie collab with an analysis studio to have her questions answered because I think Kakkie would ask all our questions, if not more.
I dont get why people keep doing this the wrong way in TH-cam, in various wrong ways, and expect to have a correct outcome. Just hire someone who knows what they are doing. So simple 🤦♀️
Yes, and yes please. I jive with Kackie's general attitude that your personal seasonal color analysis is not some essential trait, and that education about color theory means you can have more fun with your makeup and pull off a wider variety of looks (and I'm assuming most of us are here because we like to play with our makeup). I also know that I was mismatched with the wrong season more than once back in the 80s and suffered for it (neutral colors seemed to confuse people back in the day); that experience made me kinda meh about the whole idea, since I just looked wretched in everything on top of my adolescent awkwardness. Then I got older, and I lost some of the versatility of my youthful skin, which meant that I really had to think more about my ever-changing hair color and start to weed out some clothing and color choices that I noticed were making me look older. And that's when I finally figured out why and how this stuff actually can work in your favor; it was more of a diagnosis of elimination, which kinda sucked because I love some colors that I just can't wear, especially now.
Yes, you are so right; at least do it the right way if you are going to do it yourself! Look at Colour Analyst Studio and Sarah Ryan, both on youtube, for the best method. So much out there is nonsence. Whites are a really bad thing to test with first. Start with a warm red against a cool red, a warm pink versus cool pink, etc, otherwise you are going all over the place and just confusing yourself more and more!
@@trishagoodwin4069 i Love Sarah Ryan, her method is so simple. Some consultants here in Brazil complicate the process a lot, when really has no need.
This process was probably particularly frustrating because you were testing for cool vs warm when your dominant characteristic is neither. It’s soft. Soft autumn colors look stunning on you.
That's what I was thinking as well. She's soft and neutral-warm (also why the bold-red-lip-liquid-eyeliner-french-girl look doesn't feel natural). The reason neither the Roasted Chestnut nor the Indigo Cloth near 8:55 work well is that they're both too saturated. The cadet grey (though as she noticed it enhances her undereye purples) isn't awful because it's soft and muted and closer to neutral-cool.
She mentions that the seasons don't cover everyone because we're not all warm or cool, but only two seasons are truly cool (True Winter and True Summer) and only two seasons are truly warm (True Spring and True Autumn). The rest are all neutral leaning one way or the other!
I'm cool olive and somewhere in True Winter/Bright Winter. You can be olive and in any of the seasons.
But yes, I agree Soft Autumn is stunning on Kackie! This was a fun video and I absolutely love her content.
The correct, established way is to test for warm versus cool first, then bright or soft, then find the subgroup last, so if she WERE soft autumn, the testing would show, warm looks best first, then slightly softer over bright, that would lead to autumn, then find the subgroup, testing deep autumn, warm and soft, and soft autumn would reveal itself quite naturally. Guessing does not work, it is not reliable like draping as a workable, dependable method.
@@LongLiveSiriusBlack "That is what I was thinking..." Sorry that is guessing, we could ALL do that!
One of the joys of color analysis is that when you find the right colors it really does make your skin and overall appearance better (or harmonized, as they say), which then might make you want to use less makeup. For example, if a certain color suddenly reduces the look of your undereye circles, you'd probably need way less concealer.
Had no idea I was cool toned (medium deep olive) until I took a bunch of pictures in diffuse, natural light with my clothing as drapes, one right after the other. Royal purple, black, charcoal and navy look amazing on me but olive, orange and mustard look vomitous, literally as though I’m about to throw up because I look so sickly.
The problem is that the soft autumn pallet isn’t very nice. It contains tons of brown, orange which I hate some traffic green colours which look cheap on me and teals which I don’t wear. On colour wise me there is no blue.
@@charlotte-dp9sz Colourwise me is not really accurate.
Ok well that’s good because it looks terrible
I’m olive and happen to be a bright winter. If I wear my best colors it’s like someone turned on the light. My face lits up, my complexion looks radiant, I literally look healthier and younger. It’s so worth it because it makes me feel better. How can you hate a color that makes you look stunning? I can’t.
Same! Learning my color season literally changed my life. Olive skin is tricky, and I'm so thankful for everyone that has put on information on the internet about it.
I’m also a bright winter. I used to eschew pinks and purples but now I love them! And neon yellow is a staple!!
I get that it might be jarring for people to realize their favorite colors don't suit them the best, but of all the things you own, you look at your clothes (while you're wearing them) the least. Just like makeup, really. I'd much rather save my favorite colors for my home decor that I can look at all the time, and then wear the colors that make me feel the most confident, which would be the ones that, like makeup, make me look like a better version of myself.
I’m in the position where I really hate soft pink, but unfortunately I look amazing in it. So not fair! 😫
and I'm olive bright spring! shining like the sun when in my best colors
Honestly the soft autumn colors really look beautiful on you
Thank you! I agree. It really only made sense when I got to that.
I had mine done as a teenager in the 80’s when it was all the rage (the first time!). I was Golden Summer, which is now called Soft Summer, and means I can wear both Soft Summer & Soft Autumn colors as well as champagne gold & silver. I’m also low contrast and pretty neutral undertoned. Looks like you are also in that category!
@@foodfairy4546I feel I have the same thing going on. Great comment!
@@kackietbh the moment you said "I'm going to find out my colour season" I said Soft Autumn 😅
I feel your pain with trying to decide if you’re neutral or warm or cool. I think it’s helpful to remember that just because a color is in the palette (e.g. Soft Autumn) it doesn’t mean that it will look good right next to your face. In other words, you’ll still have *your* best three or four colors out of that group.
You had me at "welcome to the void."
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Same
Style me Jen has a very good series about why people who are olive or neutral could struggle a bit. And the fact you can use some colours from other pallets is not a bug, it's a feature! I am also very desaturated and it helped me so much to know I don't have to care with warm or cool I need to care about softness first and foremost.
Style Me Jenn is awesome! There are some analysts out there who sound super snobbish and kind of rude and am not really a fan of that lol. Jenn is so kind and sincere and seems like a genuinely nice person. I also like her "dominant feature" approach which is very useful rather than just going with "warm" vs "cool".
@@minervarose7664 Yes! I was going insane trying to go warm or cool first because i am desaturated and olive. I was unnecessarily complicating my life and her videos really helped. I also really like that she actually tells us about stuff she learns and how she has updated past beliefs and conceptions or about mistakes she used to make, because it truly shows growth. Not just that she keeps updating her knowledge and learning but that we can too, we get to evolve and change our minds too and that's beautiful.
Love Style Me Jenn! Her videos about color and high/low contrast features are very helpful. She and Ellie Jean Roydon (sp?), aka Body & Style, have helped me a lot.
I'm the same way only with brights.
And yes, it's like you said--I think the major distinction is that clothing colors *reflect* light onto our face in different ways, whereas makeup blends with our skin and has a different effect. Clothing is like reflection plus comparison/harmony, and makeup is blending plus comparison/harmony.
many olives end up being cool seasons bc warm colors can sometimes make us look super yellow/green/gray
Yes, I'm an olive and my colour season is true winter. My undertone is blue -cool - and my overtone is yellow - warm-. To balance the yellowness, which otherwise would make me look jaundiced, I use cool tones. But I allow myself, sometimes, a bit of light gold jewellery.
@@isabelcode.hello50omg this sounds like my skin but I’m in the soft summer side.
I’m pale olive as well and sometimes I’ve been told I’m warm and other times true winter. And at this point I think I’m kind of a reflective ghost in winter and a golden goddess at the beach in summer. Those are my seasons 😅
@@isabelcode.hello50I am a medium cool olive. I feel your pain. Oddly enough, the Indian deep yellow 22K gold jewelry looks great on me but American 14K does not.
I'm olive and I'm neutral. Though, due to my contrast level and hair color, I'm an autumn.
I’m an olive but turned out to be a winter which I found really interesting because I’d previously gravitated towards olive/burnt oranges but I realise now how dramatically those colours change my face. Still sticking with gold jewellery though because it’s not enough gold to be an issue and let’s face it, gold and navy are perfection.
same! it's nuts how much olive skin can change based on whether we're wearing a cool or warm color.
Same. I have cyan eyes and light brown hair and it took me forever to consider a winter palette. It turns out, Bright Winter and True Winter colors are the only colors that don't change my skin tone and actually make me look alive. I thought I was a soft autumn forever. I LOOK low-contrast on the surface, but I'm most definitely not. Soft colors are the absolute WORST on me, and black, white, cobalt, and fuschia are the best. Learning all of this actually helped me fall in love with my olive skin.
@@ambertaylor88I feel your pain. I am a medium skin tone but my skin can be quite translucent. I am therefore olive but cool and muted. I had th hardest time because my dominant characteristic isn’t temperature. It’s value and intensity first. So by the 12 I am a deep winter but the brights are too bright and the lights are god awful. All of the darker soft summer colors look amazing on me. Instead, I just choose colors that fit my overall color categories and if I ever get confused, I take a picture in diffuse natural light with a color I know works and a color I’m not sure about and compare and contrast the whites of my eyes, my jawline, my scars, and whether you can focus on my face or if it feels like your eyes are being pulled to the color.
I’m an olive and categorically placed in deep winter. Nothing makes more sense and jewel tones truly are the only flattering shades on me. However, not a silver jewelry girly! My skin isn’t “cool” I look great with gold jewelry! I’ve finally chalked it up to it being bc of my olive skin!
Check out Merriem Style. She has a whole bunch of videos on why color analysis systems dont work for a lot of people, specifically if you're muted, neutral, or olive. She also talks about how sometimes your style/essence/whatever overrides your "technical" color season.
Meanwhile I did check her out initially and none of what she said worked - I’m olive skinned. I had a TCI analysis done and I’m a true autumn even as an olive. It made complete sense - finally an answer supporting why I struggled with neutral all the way to cool colors. Granted not everyone is fully warm as I am so maybe she’s more helpful for them but she wasn’t for me
@@missnars87I’m also autum, by 2 color analysis, however, the colors that are in that palette don’t make me “light up” so are they wrong? What am I??? 😂
What an absolute gem of a video! Thank you Kackie for going through the motions and I love your conclusion. Maybe because I feel the same 😂. Just because a colour works on my skin, I can still hate wearing that colour in clothes, aka red but can absolutely rock it as a lipstick…
Yep. I’m a light olive neutral. Some brights work some don’t. Muted colors work well. Can’t wear light gray and a lot of greens as it makes me look dead lol. My seasons given to me are either soft autumn or soft summer or a true summer. Finding foundation is fun. There’s a neutral olive that suits me. Not easy being green 😂
If you can distinguish between warm or cool and saturated or muted, then you can understand seasonal color analysis.
Winter is cool and saturated, spring is warm and saturated, summer is cool and muted, autumn is warm and muted.
The subgroups are about determining which of those characteristics is most important to your overall coloring.
A Winter might pull off a warmer saturated color or warmer muted color indicating if saturation is equally or more important than your temperature.
It seems like you already understand your coloring in these terms, being muted leaning warm. This would roughly place you in the autumn soft quadrant/area on the map.
Your lip theory/technique keeping the temperature and tint (per picmonkey) the same but sliding it to red is theoretically how the different pallets were made. Color analysis posits everyone’s got some form of roygbiv that would complement their unique coloring based on their temperature and tint.
Now when you get down to the granularity of it, selling swatches for exact color matching I think you get restrictive diminishing returns.
To me, it’s about that moment you find something in your style that comes in multiple colors, you can choose the more muted or saturated or cool or warm of the options to suits you best without having to “work” for the color.
Hope that makes sense!
Yeeesszzz
Well no not really. Because colour temperature is RELATIVE. A warm blue is only warm in relation to other blues, and one blue might be warm next to one shade and cool against a different one. No colour has an intrinsic temperature.
@@catzkeet4860 How does that contradict what I said?
@@catzkeet4860 the colors are compared relative to your skin!! It's about how the colors reflect onto the skin, brightening or creating shadow and taking away your skins glow.
@@thealucas7247 exactly this!!!
Seasonal color analysis operates on the idea of achieving "harmony" with your skin tone and features. It does not account for all of the stunning outcomes that can be achieved from contrast. For example, Elle Fanning has very cool toned skin but looks amazing with very warm golden yellow hair. Another example would be how amazing Asian women with very warm skin tones can look with either platinum or violet haircolors (both cool). The contrast actually amplifies both attributes so instead of clashing it just creates a very stunning effect.
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Yes!!! This!
I fully disagree with any color analysis I’ve had done. Probably for that exact reason. 😂
Key word: contrast!
I think you don't understand, for some categories in spring and winter, they look great with contrast. It's part of the analysis. That's how there's bright spring and bright winter. Don't be reductive.
You may be confusing skin surface color with undertone. any ethnicity can be any undertone. I for one appreciate “clashing” color combos in art and fashion. Color analysis is meant to be a tool, not rules. For example,
I am a true autumn and choose to wear charcoal and black because I love the combo with my favorite autumn colors. But I know I want my seasonal palette to be the colors I put near my face, they make me look most vibrant and authentically me.
I’d love to see you do a professional one. Those swatches aro too small, actual drapes reflect light onto the face more so it’s easier to see
@@k.285 yes! Swatches are too small- can easily confuse and act like accents
yes!!! and she is way too color biased since she knows what she likes and does not haha. SOmeone needs to look a little more objective at her
Within 2 mins of watching I knew you’d loose you mind as you’d fall somewhere between (and be both) soft summer and soft autumn aka Neutral , like me! It doesn’t work for everyone. As a fellow artist THANK YOU for articulating what I couldn’t, so helpful.
As someone who has been very lost in the colour analysis sauce and is also neutral we don't really fit this system......your *main* aspect is muted (vs bright) and you lean slightly warm so you can borrow colours from both muted seasons Autumn and Summer
I'm the exact opposite, neutral leaning cool and bright
Is it okay if this just makes my brain feel like soup
@@kackie yes as long as it's muted soup
Cool toned redheads or similar people break the system a bit too.
Kackie slowly becoming unhinged while trying to come to terms with these colors is amazing. I hope she got a nap in after. 😂❤😂
Before you started, I had you pegged as soft autumn. But I also think there’s something to looking best when you wear colors you actually like because colors do affect our mood!
For those of us with untrained eyes for color-seasonal color analysis has been life changing! I really think the Italian ladies in Australia (color analysis studio) do a great job and turn something that seems subjective into something objective that people like me with a math/science brain can understand. Thanks for this video Kackie-made for a fun run on my treadmill!
I understand them the best and seem to be the most objective.
Totally agree; a lot of what passes for colour analysis advice is rubbish online. Look at these ladies, also Sarah Ryan the Style Coach, also on youtube, she uses the same methods and brilliant as well.
Kackie...Girl... Pull yourself together ... You know all this knowledge already. I was trying to pin point my color season for years and you are the whole reason I figure mine out so quickly. You're the whole reason I was finally able to find my color season. I knew I was cool. I was having a hard time with saturation and your color theory videos completely helped me. I realized I was low contrast and soft/muted/grey. I was sure I was a summer and then your videos helped me fine tune into being a soft summer that can dip into light summer which brought me to bring a cool summer leaning more soft. You and the tools you gave me... Pic monkey and hex codes, diffused lighting were my key. Your lip color is so beautiful 😭... I absolutely love the color
Awwwww thank you
So glad you did this! As someone who unprofessionally pegged you as a fellow soft autumn girlie a couple years ago I feel vindicated hehe
This is literally me. My exact same process. And I've come to the same conclusion, that I'm a soft autumn. But also I think we can borrow a lot from soft summer because we look good in both warm and cool tones.
That’s because the main feature on this season is saturation! You can borrow colors from the sister palettes and they will look pretty good as long as you keep the focal feature.
@@natalieduarte3913 yes, I realised that along the way. But at the same time, some really bright colors look really good on me. Yet pastels make me look ill
i love watching this! as a color analysis devotee, i actually really hate most seasonal analysis systems. I really think the most important part of color analysis is knowing what qualities of color your individual skin and body looks best in! tbh, the seasonal systems put people in overly simplified boxes, but you yourself seem to have a really sophisticated sense of what colors work best on you: your specific warm/cool balance and wherever it leans, a range of depths that are reflected in your own color values, and the muted soft colors you love and the low contrast of your own features! I'm olive, bright, and neutral: no generic palette is ever gonna fit me, and i think thats true for the vast majority of people!! knowing your own colors and how to adjust them is good for color theory, but color theory is just another tool you can use to feel good in whatever you like
I love this!! ❤
@farfromfloral Thank you for this explanation!
The only color analysis video I've seen previously that made sense to me was one where she took her photo and pulled out the colors of in her eyes, hair and lips to get a set of neutrals that were "her colors".
I don't know what the systems called and of course right now I can't find the video 🤦♀️ .
@kakie With how good you are with color analysis and that makeup video series, I'd be curious if this might work better with how you analyze color for makeup???
@@corecenteredcare6038i know the video! i can't remember the name of the system, but the video was by ellie jean royden/body and style by ellie jean
@@RocketNinjaSlap I like Ellie-Jean so that makes sense. Thanks 🙏
You nailed it at the end!! For people that aren't as adept at determining what looks good on them color analysis is truly a life saver.
At the risk of sounding like an infomercial -- I used to hate shopping for clothes, but having a little "cheat sheet" of colors that I can't go wrong with helps me avoid bringing something home only to realize it actually dulls my skin or makes me look sickly. Armed with my little palette I am finally not immediately intimidated when walking into a clothing store. Even my male friends got theirs done and it has been so helpful in their journeys to improve their wardrobe!
Fortunately the woman we went to was wonderful - she never said we couldn't wear a color, encouraged us to wear what makes us feel beautiful, taught us how to "get away" with wearing a color that might not be in our palette (accessories, jackets, pants!!) and emphasized that our palettes were just a jumping off point to find the "vibe" of colors that work for us. As a very pale muted olive it kind of changed my life to learn what a difference saturation/contrast made when choosing colors to wear!
But I will say for neutral people that it can be easier to rule out what you are NOT and use process of elimination to get to what you are. All my neutral friends appointments took longer than the non-neutrals 😅
It was such a shock to me that I was a cool season because I pinned so much on being a warm olive but once I really paid attention to how the colours worked with my under eyes, lip colour etc I realised I can be a warm/neutral olive but suit a cool palette for my clothes. Was somehow nice to give into it instead of trying to shoehorn myself into warm coloured clothes 😂
TL;DR Exactly the same - thought I was a Deep Winter because I have pale neutral skin and dark hair, high contrast, and highly saturated colours worked well on me. But make-up was way too dark! Turns out I’m a Bright Spring and all the nude shades for eyes and lighter lips suit much better. Still high contrast but the warm undertone couldn’t be seen till I got properly draped. Hated all the bright spring colours at first so started small with scarves and accents till I realised how often I was being complimented on my skin whilst not wearing make-up. Now I embrace the warm bright pinks and yellow-greens. Xx
I had mine done years ago, and it works. As the pro said who did my colours, it isn't for everyday, it's not rules. If sage green doesn't suit you, but you love it, wear it anyway, but provide a "break," like a necklace or collar, that suits you. Or just wear it. Your seasonal colours are for best, or job interviews, important occasions when you want to show out. If a colour makes you feel good, wear it.
The questionnaires online seem flawed, since they're about choice, ie what colour jewellery do you prefer, gold or silver? If you prefer gold, but you know silver suits you as well, what do you answer? It does seem like a good idea to get someone to help you, since they might make less preferential decisions.
The second I saw this title I shouted 'you're autumn!' before I even clicked, lol
Sometimes the more helpful distinction with makeup is not warm vs cool but soft vs bright. Once I knew I was a soft summer, I understood why bold eye looks and shiny lip products have never looked right or flattering on me. When I started leaning into softness in my makeup, it made a huge difference.
Same! I’d love to hear some of your favorite blushes, bronzers, and lipsticks!
I wish I knew sooner, bright red was god awful on me! (regardless of it being cool or warm)
This video is so fun! I was sure you were a Soft Autumn :) And by the way, being Soft means that your low-contrast is more domninant/important than being warm or cool, so it's a season where neutral people will fall (as well as Soft Summer, for example, which I am), and usually you will lean more on one side of the temperature spectrum but will be also look good in a lot of colors from the other side, as long as the colors are soft/muted. If you want to dig more, the ladies over at Color Class on TH-cam explain it all amazingly. They have a series of videos on the 6 seasons system (not really season but analyzing where you fall on the spectrum of the 3 criteria of brightness, temperature and depth). I was analyzed in that system too and find it makes much more sense, especially for olive people or neutral people. And in the end, we still wear what we want anyway :) But for me, it has made my makeup choices much easier at a time where I had no comprehension of what things like low-contrast were.
I was going to suggest Color Class too! I think Lucinda, with her painting background, thinks about color much like Kackie. I really appreciate that they interpret colors (and people) as being on continuums of Light-Dark, Warm-Cool, Soft-Clear. They’d probably appreciate Kackie’s “red” lipstick video, because they really understand the nuances!
What's the opposite of soft?
@@FlailTV The opposite of soft is clear (which in some systems is called bright). The ladies on the Color Class channel explain it much better!
@@michmash7888 ah, I thought the opposite of bright was muted. I'm pretty sure I'm both muted (of skin) and high contrast overall (dark hair and eyes, pale skin), which is really confusing when people seem to use soft/bright/clear/muted/saturated/low contrast/etc all jumbled up and matched differently depending on the person, the example, etc.
So is 'soft' synonymous with low contrast or mutedness?
@@FlailTV Bright. Then you have a warm/cool spectrum, and a light/deep one.
Regarding the point at 19:17 most seasonal analysis systems provide you with a swatch book or fan of colors in your season. And that's what you would take to the store with you to check if items harmonize with your palette. You don't have to look for an exact match--you're looking for harmony basically. Does the item look like it could fit cohesively with the other colors in that fan? So if you're looking at a stark, cool undertoned white in store but your fan is, say, the true autum palette, when you hold the fan up to it, it's not going to look like they belong together.
The swatch thing ended up being my lifesaver when shopping because it keeps me focused on the colors in the fan. Previously, I would dopamine shop and end up with a lot of colors and patterns that were immediately exciting to me in the store, but in my closet at home everything felt disharmonized (because it was) and then I’d resort to wearing all black.
My colors were done around 1985. I still have my swatches around here somewhere. I am an autumn.
From what I understand with me being a soft autumn I was explained that when you are low contrast and are more neutral you usually sit in the middle of either of the spectrums so in my case I'm in between summer and autumn so in between warm and cool but since I am warmer and low contrast muted warm colors are best.
I think it’s so much more helpful to think of colors in the same conversation as your contrast video. I’m low contrast neutral and I have found that tending towards subdued, washed out colors look great on me in warm or cool, whereas saturated colors wash me out. So if you’re on the fence or feeing neutral in your coloring think instead of the contrast, not the color itself!
Colour analysis actually made me more open to options. I had correctly identified black, cool white and bright red as my best colours, and my wardrobe used to be 90% these colours and 10% anything else. Then realizing I was a winter encouraged me to try and love other colours and placing myself in the cool winter subgroup helped me more easily identify the shade of lipstick that I love on me, without needing to first buy it and put it on my face. It also made me realize why I never even touched that orangey red dress I bought online and yeah... I'll never buy a colour like that again. Also, I started wearing some soft colours I would have never bought before, because I realized they can look good on me if I pair them with something brighter and darker or with pure cool white. I used to hate navy because I find it so hard to mix it with other colours, but because of my season I gave it a try and realized I love how it looks on me and now I'm motivated to figure out how to make it work
Kackie, I truly appreciate your blunt honesty about how confusing color analysis can be. My TH-cam algorithm has been flooded with color analysis videos. I stumbled on the Color Class @colorclassinc videos. They are a mother daughter duo (near the D.C. area I believe) who break down color analysis in their videos. The mother (Lucinda) is darling. She is a painter so she will often refer to how colors are approached from an artist’s perspective. I have learned a lot from their videos. You might enjoy watching how they break down the different types of color analysis palettes. They also discuss how different color palette systems fail to address people with more neutral skin tones. The mother is a summer. The daughter is an autumn. However, they regularly talk about how neither of them truly fit into those palettes perfectly. 💙🎨✨
@@melanieb1442 I also mentioned Color Class in a comment (as well as Colour Analysis Studio). The Color Class current series regarding palettes of colors currently available in clothing has been especially interesting.
@dogwalker97 Great minds think alike. I also enjoy learning from Color Analysis Studio. I find both channels to not just be informative but also relaxing to watch.
Don’t quote me on this because i had my colour analysis done 2,5 years ago, but I had temperature, contrast and intensity checked first (against grey, not white). I think, if you are not too cool or too warm, contrast or intensity will play a bigger role on your analysis. And it will somehow dictate your season, even if you’re neutral (again, as far as I remember 😂)
Thanks this was great. I agree wholeheartedly that personality plays a huge part in colours you choose to wear. I think the colours that make us feel good/comfortable/confident and that we get positive feedback on are the ones that suit us and that most people choose them naturally.
Agree. Personality (including what mood) & feedback from others. I was typed as a deep autumn decades ago & yes the colours are flattering.
I've known red is my colour for decades as I have compliments when wear it.
However, I have also had compliments with hot pink, which apparently isn't in the autumn family.
I avoid pastels as they make me look washed out.
Is there a spreadsheet of your foundation or concealer shades lurking somewhere?
hmmm that's a really good idea
@@kackie Yes please.
Omg YES PLEASE
My guess is soft autumn. I think you might enjoy the TH-cam channels Color Class and Colour Analysis Studio. Those are two of my favorite color analysis channels
I love how the ladies at color analysis studio explain things.
I appreciate seasonal color analysis as a structured way to explore. My DIY analysis didn't pinpoint a specific category for me, but it suggested colors I never considered wearing. I was pleasantly surprised to find two colors that make me look well rested and impeccably moisturized without fail. So now I have a shirt in each of those colors to wear on days when there is no time or energy to spend on my look. It's like taking a shortcut to foxiness, even if I'm sick or tired!
Fantastic observation, no one's going to be able to discern the undertone of a white sweater, say, without some contrast near. One of the things I love about my local thrift store is, they carefully hang every category of clothes by shade as well, and the ones I will like just stand out to me easily as I browse. FWIW, I don't really fit well in any category as is, and when I (frequently) change haircolor, all bets are off. And I can wear almost any color in makeup, but not in clothes.
As someone who paid to get their colors done, your contrast video has done more for me in a short amount of time than getting my colors done. Loved watching your wheels turn in this video and getting the Kackie Kommentary on this trend!
Can you link it? I can't find it
I have a very cool toned blue-heavy pink fair undertone. I wear gold jewelry with a few pieces of silver and I really like the overall harmony while being contrast-y. Sometimes, “rules” were meant to be broken to create something unique and true-to-self.
Hey, Kackie! Neutral girlies like you and me straddle the seasons. You could pull off soft summer too, though your best colors are soft autumn. When you are neutral, intensity is more important than tone which is exactly what you discovered but you already knew that because neither you or me look great in bold lipstick. I'm a design professional and master esthetician. This process actually makes a lot of sense to me. I tend to color analyze everyone I meet without them even knowing. I honestly believe this system works for 95% of people but it's a lot harder for those who have artistic backgrounds like yourself. Your brain thinks differently but that's okay! I enjoyed watching, thank you ❤️
I just did a color analysis on myself with the paint chips, and it turns out I'm a Cool Summer 👀😱. I'm utterly shocked and yet it makes so much since. I had thought going into it I was Soft Summer, but no. If that was the case, Soft Autumn would be my second best season, but Winter Cool works much better. I had no idea I was so cool. I have a slight yellow overtone that's been confusing me for years. But now that I see it, I can't un-see it.
Ok so I think everyone has different like main characteristics. So for you soft and medium intensity might matter more than warm or cool. Hence liking colours from where autumn and summer meet, leaning a bit more into the soft autumn.
So i think if someone else were to do this and you cant decide warm or cool to start, maybe decide btight or soft, or saturation level, and then compare those colour seasons rathet than all the warm or all the cool.
If you're a soft autumn, your sister palettes (soft summer and true autumn) would still be flattering on you. This was partially what took me so long to figure out I'm a soft summer, because the warmer soft autumn colors look better on me than more intense cool tones. Like you I rebel against being put in a box and enjoy exploring outside of it on the regular. I moreso find it helpful as one tool amongst amongst many. Enjoyed watching your journey, even if it was frustrating sometimes! Thanks for sharing
There are other colour analysis systems that you might like more - no seasons, just sliding scales of muted/saturated, deep/light value, warm/cool and finding which of those is your prominent characteristic. For me, mine would be muted first and foremost, medium value, slightly warm. That would put me in the soft autumn I guess, but with muted being most important, any muted colour is going to work just fine because warm/cool is the least apparent aspect ( I'm pretty neutral)
When I got my color analysis done I was very neutral leaning slightly cool, and if you have neutral undertones you'll nearly always been a soft summer or soft autumn. I can "steal" some colors from the soft autumn palette, but nothing that veers too orange. I think the soft autumn colors look lovely on you, and I figured that would be your palette since you talk about needing such de-saturated makeup colors and have warm hair, eyes, and skin.
There are 3 categories of colors, value (deep to light), temperature (cool to warm), and intensity (bright to soft) for analysis. Worth noting that some of us have a dominant characteristic that isn’t the temperature, which is why looking for temperature can be difficult for some. I am deep, soft and a cool leaning olive in that order of importance for near my face. I can wear just about any temperature near my face if it is dark enough or soft enough. By the 12, I am a deep winter but I need a little more softness so by the 16 I am the toned version, smoky or toned winter, which adds a bit of gray. As a result I can borrow some of the darker colors of soft summer and some of the cooler colors within dark autumn. Gunmetal, antique silver and rose gold all look great on me. If I’m doing statement jewelry, I do it in sterling silver. As it was explained to me, you look at the white of your eyes, the circles under them and blemishes/scarring, as well as what colors are wearing you versus you wearing them. Since all colors are seen as relative to the human eye, colors that are too far away from where your skin sits in any category will compete and make it hard for your eye to focus on your face. Think of it almost like you can feel the tension in your eye relax because focus isn’t being;g forced away from: your face. Super brights like neon make my face disappear. Less good colors will also exaggerate flaws. My hyperpigmentation looks awful with colors that are too light or too warm. It can help to take a photo without filters in diffuse light (which you can do with your own clothing) and then compare and contrast the picture side by side, since cameras color and light balance just like our eyes.
You are SO right, soft autumn (especially that peach!!) looks absolutely GODDESS on you. I second the comment that urges you to check out Merriam Style -- it all makes sense when you listen to her (and she simplifies it very much and also approaches it with true color theory like a scientist), especially the way she incorporates the style, essence, personality, and preferences of the person and not just the colors (coming from a muted, high-contrast cool olive --- seasonal color analysis doesnt know where to put me! The best pallet I've found out in the wild for me is Dark Soft Summer, which was made to cover one of the gaps in the seaonal system, for people whose skintone is muted and cool but have high contrast or dark features). I'd also say that the easiest way to tell right away if someone is warm or cool is to picture them in tomato red vs cherry red (learned this one from the ladies at Colour Analysis Studio, absolutely love their channel). If tomato red makes you look golden and cherry red makes you kind of meh, you're warm. If cherry red makes you look radiant and tomato red makes you look kind of sick (not golden, but yellow in an unhealthy way), you're cool. I've found that this works for both olive and rosy people, because its using warm and cool reds (so reds with tiny bits if yellow or blue added) rather than more heavily yellow or blue colors to try and compare to start, which can get confusing for olives especially.
I am a natural red head with very pale skin and cool undertones. Wearing my hair up or down makes a big difference. My skin tone loooooves the bright winter jewel tones, my hair screams true autumn so I can do both depending on how I wear my hair. I like to put a cool pink depositing conditioner on my hair and it just makes my skin POP. Your series is so helpful!
I am obsessed with the Color Analysis Studio channel. I can actually see the differences on the model when they do the drapes. They explain things well. They also do online consultations if you wanted to do this professionally 😊 I genuinely could not figure this out on my own, but also can’t afford to have it done so I just continue to wear what is safe for me 😂
I love your color based videos! I learn so much. Thank you! Now to try to figure out my colors.
As a professional color analyst I prefer starting with contrast, low/light contrast for you. Then just use lower contrast colors on you for the rest of the analysis. Otherwise it's too confusing. I also don't agree with seasonal color analysis. I prefer putting you on a spectrum. For you I would catagorize you as soft, warm & light. That being as said, don't forget that you can jump the color wheel & wear the opposite colors that'll still compliment your complextion. It can get very confusing. Just wear what you feel good in. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeeeeeesssss, this is what I have been wanting! I have been total obsessed with this and am so excited to hear your thoughts!
You are definitley in a soft season and would look best wearing slightly greyish and desaturated colors. Your skin is olive in undertone and also very neutral temperature wise. Your season is for sure soft autumn since it goes along seamless with your skin :)
I just started watching your channel after finding it through the youtube algorithm, and I am in love with it! The way you talk about color theory and the personality types of color season analysis vs color theory speaks to me on an intellectual level. I'm working toward a BA/MA in art history and when you said in a different video that we use cool tones to make things look farther away and create the illusion of shadow I thought, "atmospheric perspective! That's atmospheric perspective!" and started bouncing up and down in excitement while doing my makeup. I, too, need to know the why for things for them to make sense, and now I know why atmospheric perspective works the way it does--it's the same as a contour shade being cooler than a bronzer shade! Thanks so much!
I think you would enjoy (not necessarily agree with her) going down the Suzanne Caygill rabbit hole. She invented seasonal color analysis and her original idea of the seasons is not as rigid as the commercial recreations of her ideas.
The original process started with painting the skin tone and from the color mechanics of that endeavor informed the season. So it's more about what comes come together to create your skin tone and less about cool vs warm.
There is a free book online you can download to read and an archive of her work at Cornell -- there are Caygill analysts out there as well who do incredible work ( Jessi Riolo is my fave.)
You would see a more clear effect if you were to put a chip under your face and then switch it to another. Often the effect is most obvious in the change you see in your skin. You can see your bias in the fact that you’re not giving yourself a fair test.
This was so validating! I’ve never fallen nicely into that theory’s division of colours.
i loved the video! seasonal color analysis gives what makes harmony with your colors, so you can know what you're doing and then break all the rules and make the colors work for you. it gives what works best based on the personal image you wanna have. in my methodology i don't ever say that my client can't wear any other colors. but i say that the other colors that aren't in their palette may not give the results they want. even combining colors, or color psychology. or make up. in my methodology i blend everything so i can give the most personalized orientation.
Watching your video, I realized that I'm quite happy for the colours in my clothing to enter the room before me. It tracks ig bc I think it's fair to call myself a shy exhibitionist.
OK when you got to The Audacity of the Blurple I had to pause it I was laughing so hard 🤣
OMG, I so relate to all your comments! I was so frustrated with this process. I’m also an artist with an interest in color theory. I’ve decided that I’m also a soft autumn, but the journey to get here was so frustrating. I know that silver jewelry doesn’t look good on me, so I immediately thought I’m an autumn or summer, however, neither looked good on me. I’m definitely soft like you, but I feel like soft autumn and soft summer both work on me. At the end of the day, I wear what makes me happy!
I have tried to figure out what works for me. As far as clothes and jewelry I’ve learned I’m cool toned, but I still wear warm clothing sometimes, I just compensate with my makeup. I’ve also learned with makeup that my eyes are a warm color, so around my eyes I can always wear warmer shadows even though my lip color will typically be a bit cooler. Contrast makes a bigger difference with clothing and makeup than anything in my opinion. I think watching you narrow down to a soft autumn encompasses that experience.
Omg, yes!!! I had my season done (light summer here! 🙋🏼♀️) and I have felt incredibly stifling. So your approach is super helpful!
Aren’t you supposed to put these under your chin to bounce the light from the color to your face to see how it changes your skin??? Not the side of your face…
The real headfuck for me as a painter is that seasonal analysis people treat cool and warm as a scale from yellow to blue. In painting, red is also a primary warm colour - so it took me a lot of listening to seasonal people to get used to the idea that's been taken out of the equation.
Then again, as a painter who primarily uses watercolour approaches, I even bristle at the idea of adding black, white, or grey to get a tone. I'm almost always using true yellow, blue, and red - so I tend to view colours from that lens.
I grew up on the original “Color Me Beautiful” book in the 80s, and I always found it such a helpful compass to keep me from wasting money on colors that were going to make me look sad. Autumn colors were scarce in the mall in 1983, though.
That was true for me as a Spring but, like you, was a great guide to direct purchasing clothes that didn’t clash with my skin color.
Sarah Ryan The Style Coach is a good channel for in depth colour analysis, especially if you tend to neutral in terms of warm vs cool as she explains a lot about secondary intensity and saturation.
I finally figured out I'm a soft summer and my sister season is soft autumn; I'm neutral tending to cool and look best in muted shades but I also wear some autumn colours quite well as long as they're muted and not too warm. I need muted colours. Winter and spring are too bright for me. I'm a very freckled redhead (half white now) with blue eyes, so my contrast is very low.
It has helped me try new colours that I never thought I could wear, some I liked and adopted, some I despise. I won't wear a colour that I don't like just because it looks good on me because it makes me feel icky! 😂
I think your predominant chromatic characteristic could the the softness of the color, in that case the value and temperature wouldn't play as big of a role as the saturation (hence the neutral-looking undertone, and how both warm and colors can look good as long as they're muted)
I highly suggest watching Colour Analysis Studio's videos, they explain this concept very concisely and I love their way of analyzing their clients' colors 🤍
Love color Analysis studio's videos. I definitely think Kackie has a muted low contrast look. She also has to consider overtone vs undertone. I think. People get very mixed up on that aspect when considering makeup.
@@Crystal.Calvinovertone and undertone only come into play when they are very disparate because it can cause inexplicable alchemy on the skin, but it's far too complicated for a general audience. Also I'm genuinely not interested in pursuing this further 😂
@@kackie I wasn't suggesting you had a problem with that. I'm saying that color Analysis weighs heavily on undertone vs overtone, so you have to consider it when analyzing
@@kackie At the end of the day, I guess the palettes are just guidelines and not rules
Personally, I love "stealing" colors from Autumn and Summer even though I'm probably a deep winter because warm and light colors still make me happy (and that's what matters to me ✨)
A preference for blues and inability to wear orange is a dead give away for a cool leaning undertone. Cool olives often have a yellow "overtone" that mistaje for a warm tone. I am typing this in my shower because I screamed "YOU LEAN COOL" when you said the orange part.
I think the most beneficial thing I got from my color analysis was clarity around things like undertone, contrast, and chroma (soft vs bright). The specific season/colors that look good on me was helpful as well but understanding the "why" behind it was almost more helpful for me!
The thing with season categories is that each has a focal quality that is more important than the rest. I’m a true autumn, and temperature is the main feature of this season. So I play with saturation and deepness more easily, as long as I keep the right temperature (warm). Soft autumn, for example, has saturation as the main feature (it has to be low saturation) so soft summer colors won’t look as jarring as, say, bright winter colors for that season. Deep autumn has deepness as its main feature so it won’t look bad in deep winter colors, but it will look best if the colors are dark AND warm. To me you look like a soft autumn, so muted colors with more grey look better. The warmer version muted shades brings out the best in your skin. Oh, and when comparing shades, it’s better to keep some characteristics in common between the colors, comparing an almost white sky blue to really deep blurple will make it harder to understand the subtle changes. It’s best to change only the temperature or saturation or brightness, not all three at the same time. But honestly, lovely video, I’m a fan ❤ I also did my own color analysis (I’m an artist so I got my color theory down lol) and it helped me a lot in understanding what looks best on me and avoiding buying unflattering colors (specially online, since we can’t try the clothes!)
As a Libra sun, Cancer Moon, ADHD brain and creative soul, colour season assignment is a torture to me, I wanna be in all seasons and colours AND I wanna make it work looking good on them whenever I want! Yesterday I was feeling like a cold witch queen with my grey and dark green eyeshadow, dusty rose blusher and icy highlighter... today I decided I wanted to be a summer bronzed fairy on my yellow golden eyeshadow, copper shiny cheeks and light peachy gloss.
I admire the ones that are okay to stay in their season, tho. Not for me! Hahahaha
Btw, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your content, Kackie! ❤️❤️❤️
THIS!!!! You are my tribe 😂😂😂
Heck YEAH!! 😂😂❤❤❤
If you don’t want to be stuck in a box, look into the YT channel Color Class. Many of their videos talk about color in terms of its properties (temperature, intensity, saturation) and one of the hosts really enjoys wearing colors that theoretically aren’t for her, but she explains how she makes them work for her. And they embrace wearing what makes you happy!
Good attempt. Larger samples are better (but I get how much of a pain that would be). Hold the color under your chin and watch what happens to the circles under your eyes and any red in you skin. Some colors will make a dramatic change.
Love the video!!❤❤❤
And besides, YOU were the first who explained to me why some colours work on me and some don't and I will always be so thankful to you for that!! Ironically, in consequence of your videos on colour theory I understood that I am NOT a bright spring, but a light spring because of my lack of contrast.
And opposite seasons always are kind of related, as are the sister seasons, so from all of them you are encouraged to "steal" or try out colours. That's why spring sometimes really looked nice on you.
I would like to encourage you to look at bright spring more as you really have high contrast and it might be fun for you to try out some of the louder colours. Some of them looked gorgeous on you!!❤
Greetings from Tallahassee! I am a winter. I am light skinned and olive, but have cool undertones. I think the paint swatches are too small. I also don’t think they were the best representatives of seasons. When you drape yourself with a color, that color is reflected under your jaw (happened some when you put swatch below your chin) and various other places on your face. Makes it much easier to see what works and what doesn’t. Try it with some clothes you already own. Even try holding swatch flat where you can’t see the color, just how it reflects on your face.
The white wall looks like it's glowing! Cannot wait to watch this video.
Going to carve out some me time later and watch 😊
Thank you for making this video, Kackie. I remember you said a while ago in another video that you're skeptical about colour analysis. So now I'm even more intrigued
I do think that personality has to be considered when doing a season analysis but I also think it is helpful to know what family of colors looks good on you with your skin tone
“I’m doing the ABSOLUTE best I can, but I AM going to have little asides about…my feelings.” Felt that very deeply lmao
From the minute I was given classes in color analysis in cosmetology school in 1983, I have thought it was complete hooey.
Now that is seems to be back, I feel even stronger that it is.
Its just not this simple.
This was refreshing. I get served so much content about color seasons, and it never made sense to me as an approach to what to wear. I can see if a color doesn't work or if it works extra great. But really awful colors aside, how it makes my skin look is not as big a factor as whether I like the color, whether it works with my other clothes, or whether it's a piece I like overall. Most clothes, especially secondhand, aren't available in more than a few shades, so even if I know a slightly cooler green would suit me more, it won't be an option.
Thanks for your perspecrive on this! The way my color analysis was done actually ran into a bunch of the issues you brought up at the beginning. When determining my undertones, they measured "ah, neutral-cool olive". Me coming in having watched some prior TH-cam color analysis videos thought I'd be a cool season.
When I was draped with my hair behind the white cloth, the first analyst said the difference between Light Spring and Light Summer was pretty close. She kept testing those two different drapes, and eventually called in the head analyst. When the head analyst removed the white cloth from my hair, it was very obvious that Light Spring was a better match for me. (My hair has very red-orange undertones in the brown.)
Ultimately, they told me that for Light Spring and Light Summers, picking colors that align with value matters more than stressing about the temperature. They told me if want to wear bone and crisp white, it flattens my features a bit and not to worry if I feel like I want contour (normally a step I skip in the interest of time). If I want to wear a black top, pick a top with a neckline that shows some clavicle to make some space between the color and my face. (I'd already come into the session knowing I look like a floating head in a black turtleneck.)
You are the best. This series is amazing and I am forever impressed at how smart you are. Thank you for high quality and HELPFUL content 🥰🥰
35 minutes oh Kackie going crazy. So fun! I would have thrown the swatches out the window about 5 minutes in but I am completely here for someone else going through it all. 🤣😊
There you go Kackie wear what you like and what makes you feel good I was told I'm cool toned but I love gold and am attracted to warmer tones in makeup so I do what looks good on me I personally feel I'm totally neutral because I can wear both warm and cool tones. Thanks for the video. You worked it, girl..❤
I paid to see David Zyla as i like that he is more personalized with his palettes going off your romantic color first and feels more custom rather than putting me in a session box that might not 100% work. and I'm a little odd being a Soft Winter not even in the 12 season xD
;) I find this video both fun and valuable. I used to offer image consulting services in the past and I realized that determining temperature first might not always be the best approach, especially with neutral clients or cases like Kackie's, where she has both cool and warm tones (her lips and eyelids are pink (cool), but she has a warm overcast). I would rather focus on natural contrast and overall coloring. Kackie is predominantly muted, with warm skin and a cool undertone, and a mid to mid-high contrast level. Soft summer and soft autumn colors would suit her well, but because of her dark eyes, she can also pull off saturated mid-value colors from any season.
I believe, rather than one color attribute it is their combination (hue, itself value, saturation, temperature) that once identified, will make you look stunning.
@Kackie - your makeup color series is fantastic! your talking about opacity next to the temperature and saturation - priceless! Thank you for making such an effort !
😂😂 I watched that YT you were referencing before this and was losing my mind like you are now. I am a neutral undertone (a sort of olive/apricot) and I can rock both high and low saturated colors in clothing in any season (although I prefer muted soft colors), it's more often than not just that some will clash with my complexion, or even the color of my hair. Which is why when they say to hide your hair it doesn't make sense. It totally matters. 😂
Thank you for making me feel sane.
I’m gonna guess before you get started that you are an autumn. 🍂 Look forward to watching the rest of the video to see what your results were.
I had an online color analysis done and it was immensely helpful in narrowing down which colors will look harmonious on me when I am shopping for makeup. For clothing , I don’t strictly adhere to my season because I am neutral-cool so most colors can work on me if I stay within my brightness and depth. I stay away from my absolute worst colors and just wear what I love. I think it matters more in terms of makeup.
The natural light is soooo much better, especially talking about makeup. You just can't really see everything properly in the ring lights. The way the light bumps off of the face distorts the textures, depth, colors. Honestly it's like I finally see your skin tone for the first time. A lot of the time influencers talk about their coloring, what they look good in etc and I just don't see it. In the ring lights the undertones get so blended, everybody looks the same save for the actual tone depth.
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I think you'll find this info becomes more important as you get older. I also have a studio art background and I hated the way Color Me Beautiful (back in oldentimes) boxed me in. I wore the colors I loved. Done. Then I got older and found out that so many of the colors I could wear --especially in clothing and eyeshadow--when I was younger make me look gross now. I look sallow and wrinkled if I'm not wearing what blends the best with my natural look.
Ultimately, it helped me to understand that neutral people with lower contrast (you and me) are either going to be soft autumn or soft summer. (You are absolutely a soft autumn!), which means we can cross from one to the other. So temperature isn't that important for us. The more important thing is to know whether you are bright or muted. But that's mostly for clothing. The nice thing about being neutral is we really can pretty much wear any makeup as long as it's well-blended. I just like knowing, now that I'm older, which tones will make my complexion look more youthful.
The dark teal that she painted her bedroom to feel more cozy, I painted my bedroom ceiling for the same reason in the same color, and it's awesome! It's unexpected and fun... our room is abnormally large with vaulted ceilings, so it doesn't make it seem any smaller, like I would think a darker color on the ceiling would do, but if anyone is in the market for a bedroom repaint... I highly recommend thinking about doing that, especially in that color, because it is very serene and relaxing and I wish it would have made our room feel smaller, making it more cozy. But, we've got tranquil and serene down pat.
There was an angry, on going debate last school year among my students if I was a true winter or a true autumn. I just kept trolling them by changing my jewelry tones.
I'm wondering how you chose your colors for this analysis? It did not look like you chose the same colors as Siobhan did in her video. A few times you complained about the colors being the same in different palettes, so it looked like the colors you picked were not true to the season palettes.
It also seems you are have some misunderstanding and even resentment(?) towards the color season analysis. You are always free to wear whichever colors bring you joy - the color season analysis aims to show you which colors complement your complexion - brighten your skin, give you a healthy glow, minimize blemishes. Some people will find joy in wearing colors that harmonize with their complexion, and some will find joy in wearing their favorite colors, and some may choose to incorporate both.
As far as color theory goes - the seasonal analysis focuses on 3 chromatic features: tone (warm/cool), depth (light/deep), and intensity (saturated/muted). Different people can have a primary chromatic feature. For example someone who is categorized as a "light spring" has depth(light) as their primary feature, so they can borrow colors from "light summer" because undertone is not as important on them. This accounts for people who have a less pronounced undertone and are close to neutral. "The Color Analysis Studio" channel explains this in more detail. Hope this helps!
Color theory is such a fascinating thing.. I've been a painter & graphic designer for a while now, but sometimes I feel like I still haven't have a full understanding on it 😅 Let alone using it on people. So I have respect for the legit personal color analyst out there 😎
Some autumns or maybe autumn’s in general am be neutral leaning warm. I think you’re neutral slightly warm. So you could be an autumn that lies between autumn and summer. Which is why muted cool tones suit you as well. I think soft autumn is the autumn between autumn and summer. You can wear shades from both palettes. Your observations are spot on . It’s confusing you because of the muted summer colors also looking good