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I understand the concept so much better from your video but I've made a mistake somewhere. I thought my primary feature was hue (warm), secondary light, then bright. But I can't find the season that is warm first, light second.
Don’t worry! It takes time to understand every aspect of color theory. I suggest you start with just temperature (I have a video on skin undertone) to determine if you’re cool or warm and that will help you a lot already when it comes to choosing colors for clothes
For those of you confused I watched the video 2x and I think I got it 😉 Basically see what you notice first about yourself. Is it your hair and eyes aka value, or is it the hue AKA warm or cool. Depending on what you notice first your season will vary. YOUR PRIMARY/ DOMINANT CHARACTERISTIC + YOUR SECONDARY CHARACTERISTIC = YOUR SEASONAL COLOR For example: 1: I first noticed that my hair was darker than my skin. Aka I have a dark value. So that is my primary/dominant characteristic. 2: I realized that my skin had warm undertones aka my hue. 3: when I looked at the chart it shows that DARK +. WARM = DARK Autumn for my seasonal color I HOPE THIS HELPS ☺️
Me too :) I hadn’t liked the Pinterest collages of my color palette so I restarted the entire process again (re-draped more professionally at-home myself), and came back to the same Deep/Dark Autumn result. I gotta make ‘mends with my coloring. I just really prefer saturated, high contrast in lieu of Autumn muted colors. They’re so dull to me 😂😅❤️ *Update, I can do a bit more vivid colors & I feel that’s really what I wanted. :) Deep orange, deep red, and rich brown colors really suit me well.
@@rafioled8997 By the sounds of it so far though, it sounds like you’re a Deep Autumn going into Winter (me too + I relate to the 3 descriptions you gave lol). If your undertone is Warm (wear gold jewelry best) then it’s definitely Autumn. If it’s silver jewelry that suits you best (brightens your face up and not make it look dull), then you’re a Cool undertone; Deep Winter then.
It's nice to know that a lot of us naturally gravitate towards the colours that suits us. No one wants to look ghastly. I remember, when I met one of my teachers in middle school, she talked about the four season theory, and pointed to me as example of a true winter. I wasn't paying attention back then, and was confused because I am born in winter lol, and didn't catch the drift of the conversation. (I was wearing head to toe in navy)
Amaaazing! I always say that, people have a natural instinct on what colors suit them best. If you have doubts if you're warm/cool I always suggest to look at the colors you have in your closet. What clothes do you wear the most? What clothes don't you wear ever? I am a dark winter myself, I remember buying a yellow sweater once, I really love the color yellow, but for "some reason" I never wore it, everytime I put it on I would take it off and put something else on last minute. The same happened with a gorgeous little yellow dress I got, I never wore it, not even once! A few years later, learning about color theory I realized that of course I didn't like "something" about those items. It was the color all along!! Navy is one of my favorite colors to wear as a dark winter! If you're a true winter, navy is amazing too. Also try french blue, emerald green and hot pink :)
Although, I noticed that I didn't naturally gravitate towards wearing my true colors until I was out of my teens Or I at least disregarded that instinct, by wearing the colors that were in style during my teens. Well, that was the eighties and of course NEON was the dominate IN color then. At least army green was also in, which suited me better.
@@MikaelaCarrizo Winters can wear sunflower yellow, right? Even when I was porcelain white with black hair I could still pull off gold and black hair jewelry and a darker more mature sunflower yellow dress- only yellow I can pull without looking washed out xD
Some winters can wear sunflower yellow, @margaritanoir. I am a clear bright winter so the only yellows I can wear are citron-acid yellow and neon yellow. Sunflower yellow is too gold-yellow for me, and makes me appear sallow and ill.
Timestamps if you need to watch more than once like me: What is seasonal color analysis? 0:00-2:09 Which color season are you? 2:10-2:48 (Chart of 12 seasons characteristics 2:21) What is your dominant characteristic? 2:49-10:31 *Hue* 3:10 Warm primary characteristic 3:27 Cool primary characteristic 4:39 *Value/depth* 5:38 Light primary characteristic 5:50 Dark primary characteristic 6:50 *Chroma* 8:03 Muted primary characteristic 8:24 Bright primary characteristic 9:35 Color analysis wheels/swatches/gradients and more analysis detail 10:32-11:20 @Mikaela carrizo skin undertone video suggestion 11:21 Putting everything together and finding your color season 12:00 Spring 12:10 Summer 12:30 Autumn 12:50 Winter 13:08 Outro 13:33
Hue/Temperature: 3:10 Hue (dominant warm): 3:29 Hue (dominant cool): 4:40 Value/Depth: 5:38 Value (dominant light): 5:50 Value (dominant dark): 6:51 Chroma/Clarity: 8:04 Chroma (dominant muted): 8:25 Chroma (dominant bright): 9:37 Given your dominant charc, which is secondary?: 10:58 The math: 12:00 Your colour palette: 0:12 This was such a well presented video, thank you! Hope the timestamps help others :)
I swear I must be SO neutral that I can't make up my mind what is even dominant about my face. At first I thought I must be bright, but then I thought maybe I was desaturated.... I can't even decide if my eyes are blue or green and whether my hair is golden brown or dark ash blonde. I always thought I was cool toned and joked about being pasty white, but I know I'm not literally the color of milk. I can wear bright summery colors (cool pink and orange) but I also like wearing warmer muted tones (pumpkin orange and teal) and soft pastels (although I think beige and white washes me out). Also fashion can be subjective enough that I can't always tell the difference between "looking washed out" and "serving a look"... Anyway it messes with my head sometimes.
Last week, I finally bought a silver scarf and a gold scarf from amazon. My daughter draped me and she said that while the silver looked okay, the gold made my skin glow and enhanced my eyes. So I think I'm neutral leaning warm and that I'm a Bright Spring. I have dark hair, light green hazel eyes, and fair skin. Was surprised to find that although rarer, there are dark haired Bright Springs.
Maybe a tip (looking back it would have helped me). Take a look at the colors in your closet (or only the ones you wear/look good on you) and then choose one of the seasonal color analysis palettes that corresponds the best with it. In my case looking back I had my personal colors laying in my closet and was struggling while I didn’t have to. I also did this for my sister and that also was correct for her. (Im a soft autumn and my sister is a light summer)
@Cuzthisgirljustfell most of the seasons have a lot of color in their palettes but it’s for instance for soft autumn a muted warm version of the colors etc. I would say look up the palettes of both those seasons and ask yourself which of the palettes look better on you based on the colors in it if you can’t choose ask a good friend or family member or multiple ones
Yes to me that is the best way to confirm what colour you are. This video made me think I may be bright spring, but then I looked up the colour pallete and half those colours look awful on me. Especially colours like royal or navy blue.
Yes I did that before to confirm my pallette and also did the method in the video just now confirming I am a true autumn. Actually I would amend you comment to specify that you should only look at items in your closet that you feel amazing in and think back to items that got you compliments.
I'm a fair olive soft summer(asian) with very deep hair. If I wear dark colors, it makes me look tired and sick. So I have to dye my hair soft brown black for that matter. Rosy mauves with medium saturation are my best colors for blush or lips. Cool colors mixed with light gray suit me best(seafoam, powder blue, lilac)!
Wow. I’ve never seen someone explain this so well! I think people struggle finding their season because they like a certain color/ colors and it influences what they think they are. (For instance if you love gold jewelry but you are actually cool toned..) I’ve always been so confused but thanks to this video I’ve figured out I am a soft Autumn. Thanks! 💕
this is so interesting. i identified with dark autumn right away and thats what i ended up with at the end of the video. dark, saturated jewel tones have always suited me best.
This video is soo helpful. My slow brain made me watch this almost 5 times and I am so glad I did. I used to identify as having olive but warmish undertone and today I figured out I am Dark Autumn. This video makes so much sense and now I can embrace myself without much trial and error. Thank you so much for making this video in such a detail. Also those of you who think they have olive undertone , i guess you also have Chroma in tertiary and somewhere around in the middle (medium/neutral) range.
the amount of videos I've watched about color analysis and this is the FIRST one that's made me have even a little bit of understanding 😭😭😭 thank you so much for your explanations
I’ve always thought this color system was a bit Eurocentric, especially once you get to the eye color chart. Asians have a different analysis system that uses the PCCS color chart that’s more inclusive of everyone, including POC.
I agree with you! It’s hard because with POC and asian ethnicity the features will always be dark hair. So in those cases 12 seasons still applies, but we have to sometimes ignore the CONTRAST and focus on the VALUE. So if your features are dark compared to people from your ethnicity. 12 season still works for POC and asians BUT features will change slightly (especially with hair color) although the over all appearance will be true to the season coloring. This is because this theory is based on natural colors and made up categories. It’s based on the depiction of each season’s natural colors in nature at a certain time during the seasons changes. You will be surprised how much of our colors are due to the environments and natural surroundings that we come from.
@@MikaelaCarrizo So what you mean is asians like me, emphasize and add color value on our facial features. Example for me, my black hair and eyes stands out but except for my eyebrows so I will focus on putting value on my brows to make it as my primary color. My secondary is my undertone. Is it possible to combine the (primary) Value with chroma?
Hi, thank you for explaining it well. Also, gracias for saying "light or dark for your ethnicity". I'm medium toned for my ethnicity, so that's not my primary characteristic (am a POC). I was confused between DA or TA. Now, I know I'm a TA: warm, dark, muted. 😊
Learning that chroma is a thing has literally changed my life. I could NEVER figure out of I was cool or warm. Turns out I'm BRIGHT. I kinda hover right in the middle of bright winter and bright spring. Turns out that I can wear both warm and cool colors, gold and silver...its the hue that matters to me. I look ghastly in light colors, no matter what color I choose. This was a big issue growing up because my sister is a light summer and my mom dressed us in pastels constantly lol
Me too. None of these hard categories work for me. I can wear super bright colors like bright green. My mom tried to put me in pastels. I think of us as when winter is passing and bright flowers are coming out of the snow.
The exact colors on a dark winter pallete were the ones people often commented me on when I would wear them, like they suit me really good and so on. Now I get it why because thanks to you, I see by my characteristics I'm a dark winter! Seemed complicated but you've explained it so good! Great job 🫶
This helped so much! I knew I was a summer but didn't know what kind of summer. Now I I know my dominant characteristic is muted! So I'm definitely a soft summer.
I so appreciate learning about the three different aspects, rather than just warm/cool or light/dark. My #1 priority for many years when looking for clothes is to choose muted colors. It makes so much sense that this could be a dominant feature. I’ve been wavering between Autumn and Spring for years, but don’t look good in pastels. Soft Autumn make SO much sense!!! Thanks!!
Hi, I’m just curious about your findings? 🤔 How is it that you’re a soft autumn if you don’t look good in pastels? Pastels (warm) are literally perfect for Soft Autumns and by definition, they are: “muted” 🤷🏻♀️
You did a wonderful job explaining this. I somehow am now able to see colours better. Also helps that I paint occasionally- I mix grey for muted colours, and add white to get lighter colours. You are such a great educator ❤
Thanks that was so helpful. I took a selfie in natural light too get a better idea of what stood out most. Then I looked at the photo in black and white to check. All this time I thought I was a warm autumn but taking in your tips I now think I’m a bright spring! So happy as I love these colours. 😊
This is the absolute BEST break down of the concept that I've seem and has really helped me really have a better idea of what should look for while purchasing new garments & elevate my style. Thanks a bunch!
Thank you for an excellent video. I'm just now getting into color palettes and seasons and it is a lot of information! I often find myself overwhelmed and a little frustrated midway through a color analysis video but you did a really fantastic job of explaining each characteristic. It was information and helpful. Thanks again!
The thing is, skin color tans especially for fair to tan brown skin, which means we'll get darker or warmer. I'm currently tanned, as I used to be neutral to warm undertone and light medium in skin. Now there's more yellow and peach in my tan skin. So I guess we'll have to adapt with the chart.
Yes, when you tan you can add some colors into your pallet but in general they stay the same. It does not mean that you become warm though, it just means you can tolerate different tones
I’ve been researching this for months and this is easily the clearest and best explanation I have EVER heard. Thank you! I’m still confused but now I understand why 😅
Thank you! It must have been a ton of work to make this video but the breakdown and explanation of each category, all your examples, and detailed characteristics made all the difference. Well done and again thanks.
This is one of the best explanations. My issue is I have no idea my natural haircolor til now. I dyed from 18. I'm 62 now and a gunmetal gray. When I use to sun bathe Id burn then the next day I would be tan. That is suppose to be a sign of warmth. I think I'm a true summer and can get away with a few winter and autumn colors. I absolutely love the yellow green color but I look terrible in it. 😊
Thank you sooo much! I will keep uploading videos soon my laptop broke and I was saving for a new one that can render videos faster and well! So I can edit smoothly. I will keep posting in May ❤️ I have had a hard time not being able to post 🥲 Thank you so much :)
Just when I thought I had it down, I decided to embrace my gray hair. Now I’m not sure of anything, lol! True winter before to....who knows?! Actually, maybe I was a Dark Winter before. And now I’m...a summer? I don’t know anymore now that I’ve lost all my contrast with my salt and pepper hair with mostly salt around my face. I think a video explaining how or if things change with a change in hair color would be helpful for anyone embracing a new hair color, especially if that change comes from changing value from bleaching or saturation from embracing grays.
Thank you for such a thorough explanation about the three main elements and how their order of impact is important. I wasn’t sure what type of Winter I am- even though I assumed Dark- and you just helped me confirm that my instincts were correct :-)
Such a great explanation which is a huge help when talking about this with others! Still not sure about my self though…I’m light and muted with neutral skin, warm eyes and cool hair…so whatever season that is…maybe spring on Neptune 😂
Same! My hair skews more warm as well though as it picks up a lot of red in light. I’ve found I can borrow some colors from soft autumn as well as using “my” soft summer colors. As long as I stay away from the extreme ends of the color spectrum those seasons colors look good on me. For example I can wear an olive green, but not anything near yellow or orange in autumn colors.
Yeah I hear you. I think many of us who are fair can fall on either side of spring/summer. I was usually told I was a "spring" & the "warm spring" colors do look best on me. But if I get my makeup done the MUA will say I'm neutral without any strong undertones. It's 50/50 coinflip whether they use warm or cool shades. If I didn't highlight my hair or go in the sunshine, I might look like that "light summer" lady.
I just left a comment on this! And especially since this video explains it so well I thought I would finally nail it as to what I am just not to find my combination on the chart :/ I don't know if this applies to any of you, but I perceive the summers suit me best, but not completely, and the autumn and spring (in that order) though no too much either (mainly I need them to be slightly to middle of the range muted, warm-ish colors and pretty much indifferent to gold and silver)
This whole time I’ve been struggling to find out what I am but it turns out I’m a bright spring! Finally!! Primary characteristic - bright Secondary characteristic - warm This was an amazing breakdown. Thank you so much!! 🫶🏽
oh my god, it's been a long, road with this and this video literally helped me finally crack it. i always knew I was in the autumn family, but i never quite fit what i was looking at. phew. soft autumn!!
Thank you this is a video that confirmed a lot for me. I always knew that I looked better in bright colors but wasn’t sure where I fell on the scale. I believe I am a true spring or bright spring as colors such as pinks, yellow, orange, bright green‘s, bright blue‘s, certain shades of white/cream and true red look great on me, but certain shades of tan, gray/silver and black make me look dreary. It took me a long time to realize this however being from the metro NY area everyone gravitates towards black and gray scale except in summer.
I'm so glad that this video was useful for you. A lot of the colorful bright seasons like how they dress better in summer/spring than in winter haha! Right now we are seeing a colorful trend so I suggest you snatch up some colorful items for winter
Hey! Thank you so much for posting this video, your advice has spread like wildfire amongst my family and friends. I have always really struggled with picking out the right colour for myself as I personally prefer pale colours,.. but, ever since finding out that I am a deep winter, my confidence and happiness has really grown! I always thought there was something wrong with me as I felt like no clothes ever made me look good. This is all changed now! As someone with AuDHD, a lack of structure and certainty really impacts me, so now instead of dreading going shopping, I actually find it a very pleasant experience as I have my set colours that I can confidently choose and feel relaxed in. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you for this video! I watched it all, and thus far I know i might be a Dark Autumn, but i can still carry all the colors in Bright spring, and true spring. So this has helped to clarify that im not cool toned, or muted. still a little confused, but happier, that i can see a clearer scope of the colors that suit me best. Thanks again!
Same here i am warm, dark and bright characteristics...so i should either be DA, BS or TS. But still cannot figure out which of those characteristics are dominant. TS seems a bit off for some reason. I can pull off colours in both DA and BS palette, i think...
This was a great video. I’m a true spring. I have a lot of yellow in my skin and look amazing in orange, teal, emerald- all jewel tones. I hate the way I look in white or pastels, for neutral colors I go black, grey or navy or olive, but not close to the face.
all this time i thought i was a dark winter, and no, i'm a bright winter - the chroma is my dominant feature, followed by hue. thanks so much for this video!
As a strawberry blonde with blue eyes I always thought I was a cool undertone. But I think I'm warm undertone. I asked on reddit and got so many different things that it confuses me soo much. I think it's either in autumn or in spring. But I have no idea what my primary and secondary characteristics are. Thank you for making the video! I can definitely use this to help me discover my season and finally buy the good clothings for my capsule wardrobe.
@@MikaelaCarrizo it's very clear how you explain it! The only problem with me is I have no idea how you determine or recognise the primary characteristic in someone's picture.
Damn I think I finally figured my season out. I'm definitely with dark autumn/winter. I'm pretty sure my skin tone is neutral (pale olive, in summer a bit more warm, in winter more cool) and I've been gravitating towards both color palettes for a while. I can also wear some colors of muted autumn as well. Nice :D Those standard 4 season charts always confused me, because my skin is neutral and I couldn't figure out for the life of me where I'd fall there.
Hey!! You should watch my new video if you have time, I show a test for you to realize if you’re cold or warm undertone and I think it will be super helpful!
@@LibertyIndiaRose I don't think I've really settled on one of the two (it's okay to not fit a box imo). But I've figured out that colors that are just slightly muted look better on me than very bright ones (for example a very dark brown/grey instead of black (at least around and on my face)). And also I mostly wear colors that are not extremly warm or cool. Like greens and purples or yellow. All of those are in between because if you add the tiniest amounts of cyan/blue or magenta/red respectively it changes to warm or cool tones. And all of those look good on me. The only one that looks really bad on me is orange for some reason (and I'm personally not a big fan of blue). So maybe that makes me more of a dark autumn? Still not sure cause I can definitely wear silver jewerly and certain blues or cool toned purples. But I'm fine with it, I mostly wear black, brown, grey, and green anyway. And for makeup a muted dark purple really brings out the green in my hazel eyes so I love that (you could try playing with contrast, like if you prefer high or low contrasting features on you or like somewhere in the middle). It's like a super power tbh cause I've dyed my hair every color of the rainbow and almost none looked bad (others even said that the ones I hated were totally fine) which is lucky :) I hope you figure your season out though! But I think it's totally fine to just take parts of seasons and look what works for you. Imo it also makes a huge different where on your body you wear which color. Like some I only like on my nails, some only as hair color, some for clothing and some I just avoid. (Sorry for the lengthy reply)
@@erdbar718 I found a fantastic tip accidentally because i didn't sleep that well last night and when i looked into my face in the morning in natural light i saw purple and blue under and around my eyes which is apparently a cool toned thing, so dark winter it is for me! now that i'm thinking about it, it very much makes sense as to why I never really thought my highlights suited me, because they're warm
@@LibertyIndiaRose That's pretty cool! My blood vessels are unfortunaly blue in some spots and turquoise in others so I remain confused. Also from your profil pic it looks like you have red hair - I'm sure that must look pretty amazing on you being a dark winter
No, because I'm pale and I have natural light blonde hair, but I can't be light just because I have dark brown eyes? Come on... These colour pallettes never help me get into a category since they always put blonde hair with blue/green eyes.
You have the best video on this topic. Thank u for explaining everything clearly. Other vids only have the outdated 4 seasons; explain stuff well, but then the examples don't actually match what they explained; or they don't have enough diverse examples of ppl in photos.
Thanks for making this video and explaining the definitions of each seasons, and I found out that I'm leaning towards Dark Winter-Dark Autumn vice versa as my primary characteristic is my dark hair and I appear a bit muted but not too much, but I can't even tell my hue because I'm more neutral and my skintone is medium.
I’m the same in my case it depends on my skin color depending in the season. In winter I’m more pale and can use winter colors with more ease. People say it doesn’t matter but of course it does because tan decreases contrast and some of us get a golden tone with sun. People have told me I look amazing in warm intense colors and also in black and deep blue. For me contrast is king, I know I look awful in pastels though. I’m mixed race and I think this rigid systems crash with people like us
Thank you for this video! I've watched a bunch of videos trying to explain the seasons, but this one really helped me understand the underlying principles in such a simple and straightforward way. I'm definitely either a bright winter or a bright spring
If you're taking requests, I wondering if you could talk about how changing your hair colour can affect your colour season? Like in my case, I'm naturally pale, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. Which made me automatically think bright winter... (I tend to favour silver jewellery tho my skin is pretty neutral.) But I've always natural had caramel hightlighs in the summer, and often in photos there'd appear to be a reddish tint to my hair. I've been dying my hair red for a while now, and it really adds life to my features and flatters me - much more than my natural brown does imo. So I'm really confused😂 Am I just deluding myself about not being a bright winter, or could I be a bright spring (or somewhere in the middle between bright winter and bright spring)?
This is GREAT!!! It helps me understand why I feel so great in highly saturated colors, jewel tones, and pastels but terrible in gray and earth tones. Im struggling to choose my secondary characteristic. My primary is definitely bright, but I'm not sure if I'm cool or warm. I feel like I'm neither cool nor warm, but rather neutral. Unfortunately, there isn't a category for those who are neutral. Does that mean I can fall in either bright spring or bright winter?
I just commented this to someone else, but I’m the same (except opposite 😂). I’m definitely muted, but more neutral in coloring, cooler skin but warmer eyes and hair especially in brighter light. I can use some colors from soft summer and soft autumn. So it’s a good bet you can also borrow colors between seasons!
Hi, same here, in thst my primary I feel is definitely bright also but I'm neither strongly cool nor warm but somewhere in between. Although I would say possibly a little more on the warmer side as my skin is a bit sallow & I do tan. Silver jewellery looks better on me than gold though, and I look better in ivory & winter white than pure white. Seems like I can wear some of the clearer winter colours and some of the clearer spring colours, but none that are too cool nor too warm in value I feel..
same boat. my dominant is definitely bright but my shade of olive skin is right on the cusp of cool and warm, so im going to focus on my tertiary feature of dark rather than worry about whether I'm summer or winter. jewel tones and black it is lol!
Wow. Cool. I actually had already guessed my colour season based on the colours I knew from experience suited me best and I was a true autumn. I did your method just now, not knowing anything about it before, and it just confirmed again I am a true autumn! 🙂
I don't really feel like I fit into any of the types because my eyes are dark (and relatively saturated) blue-green, my hair naturally has an ashy base color but naturally turns golden blonde in the sun, and my skin is very very pink. No yellow at all in my skin. So I have characteristics of both spring and summer. I'm not just one undertone. My eyes and hair are just dark enough that I can get away with darker colors, and deep emerald green is my power color. But I'm not muted; I look terrible in muted colors. I'm not 'dark' even though my eyes are dark-ish for my coloring. I do feel like "summer" colors--light and cool--suit me best. Pale blues, cool greens, soft pinks, bright white. Autumn colors in particular make me look very dead. So maybe my coloring is my dominant characteristic. But it's hard to say.
If you're neutral with light eyes & hair like me, we can fall on either side of spring/ summer. However, if your skin is very pink, then you're a summer. HTH! 👍
Pretty sure I’m a bright winter but I’m seeing a color analyst soon, so I’m excited to find out! The primary + secondary explanation was so helpful. This explains why I can pull of dying my hair red and people always think it’s my natural color (which is golden blonde)!
thanks so much, this was so so helpful! for a while i thought i was a true summer, when in fact im actually a soft autumn. the explanation was so nice to follow and i will definitely be keeping up with your other videos from now on :D
You explained this very well and at the end I understood the importance of finding the right sequence for my features. It was easy because when you started talking about the muted tones with the examples I started smiling, that was clearly me.
Color theory is not something you will learn with just one video! Don’t worry, it takes time! I will keep uploading videos about it. Thank you so much for your comment and support❤️
i did a test online and apparently i’m a dark winter. after everything you says, it makes sense. BUT i see myself more warm toned, and my entire life i’ve thought that the dark winter color palette looks awful on me 😭 i’m so confused
When looking at my features, I'm definitely a dark winter. But my partner says I look best in autumn colors and I think I look best in summer colors. I'm probably biased, since I hate like 90% of dark winter and love summer colors. edit: actually, looking at color analysis for awhile now, I think I'm a true winter. I thought dark winter because I immediately see high contrast in my features with dark hair and eyes with pale skin, but I also see brightness, and my skin tone is blatantly, fully cool. So much so that I think the coolness is my most stand out feature, not darkness with contrast. I look like 4:49 middle row, second column. It would also make sense because both dark and bright winter colors suit me decently, but dark autumn colors don't; I just can't wear warm colors. Ultimately I want to get draped one day though. I'm going to stick with the winter color palette in general, because I know for sure I'm winter.
What happens if you have a neutral tone? I know I'm dark (so it's either autumn or winter) because my features contrast with each other a lot, but I don't fit into the cool or warm tones (i feel like I have aspects of both) and the muted or bright. How do I decide which of the 12 seasons I am based on that?
I feel like I’m almost exactly the same!! My hue is a slightly cool-leaning neutral cause I can pull off gold jewellery but prefer silver, value is medium and I’m inbetween soft/muted and bright/clear. Muted colours wash me out but super bright ones can overpower me 😅 idk where that leaves us lol 💀 maybe we just find some staple colours that look good and stick to those hahaha
Thank you very much for this sis 🙏. This field is very vast and the knowledge you provided were of immense help to me. I feel like a professional fashion stylist now. You explained a complex topic really well.
This was a very good video. I've been trying to figure out my season for a long time and feel so in the middle. Based on this video, I am light, muted, and warm. I think I fit more into light Spring or soft Autumn. I'm light but light colors don't look good on me. Makeup counters and salons seem to not be able to decide if I'm more warm or cool. My hair is a sort of medium or dark golden, strawberry blonde but it has a lot of white in it. My skin is yellow in comparison to my husband but still reddish. My eyes change and are some combination of blue, grey, and green but not light. My picture in the icon is almost 10 years old taken in office lighting.
ll keep making videos of each particular season so you can try to fit yourself perfectly in one with no doubts! It's hard to tell from one picture and unless I see you and study your skin tone and color, it's a hard thing to learn! It takes time! Thank you for your comment, it really helps.
So I think my dominant feature is bright but I prefer wearing neutral or deep colours. I think they look better on me idk. I’m either bright spring or bright winter, since I have dark hair/eyes and light skin am I bright winter?
Impressive work. I do not know if you are a professional color analyst or an excellent amateur but keep on!! interesting video though a bit fast for me; I still have no idea what my season is since I have recently turned to white/grey hair and that changes everything. ;))
Hello! If you have changed your hair color it doesn't change your general season it just might add or eliminate certain colors of that season and the same goes for greying hair, you do have to analize what colors go well with you personally one by one, but the general rules will apply for each season! Although I do not work as a color analyst I studied the color seasons in an image consulting certification in Argentina, plus many books that I read of experts in the field. Thank you so much for your comment and feed back! It's a LOT of information, it's really not meant for a short video, it was pretty challenging to summarize it this way, but I wanted to do a general 12 season video. I will probably go into each season with more detail in the near future. Again, I appreciate your comment
I'm dark Autumn, but i really love pastel colour like lavender. I dont know anything about colour theory and all, so i had no idea what looked good and what not
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This was so helpful! I've been struggling to find my season for ages because I have medium contrast and a neutral undertone. The primary/secondary characteristic really helped, and is a great way to explain it.
@Sarah McLeod Hi Sarah! I've settled on soft Summer/Autumn. From this video, I think my primary feature is my ashiness, and then I have medium contrast and neutral skin tone. So I choose the colours I think suit me from both Summer and Autumn, but I pay more attention to not getting anything too saturated/bright. I find I can wear most blues, and I wear soft purples, pinks, greens, oranges and maroon. With the neutral skin tone I don't worry as much about how warm/cool the colours are. The medium contrast means I can wear more variety of shades (it just depends what look I'm going for). So being primarily ashy, I focus more on choosing a chroma that suits me. This is just my experience, but I really hope it helped!! :)
this video was so interesting and well explained! though i am still not sure what my colour season is. my skin is pale and has pink undertones but my hair has a definite warm undertone and i have freckles (which some say means warm skintone). it also all depends on how the light is sometimes my hair looks cooler and my eyes darker or in direct sunlight my hair looks almost red and my eyes are super light. i'd say my primary characteristic is muted and I wear both really cool bluetones as well as warm browns but generally darker colours 🥴
I have always found it difficult to find my season. I have some pink in my face but that's rosacea and cool toned foundation looks pink on my skin. Indoors my vains look purple but outside in sunlight they're blueish green. My hair color used to be blonde but now it's getting darker. My mom is almost black haired my dad is fully blonde. I'm light skinned with freckles with dark blue eyes that are my dominant feature. I look better in cool toned hair but my natural hair does have a warm tone. I wear gold and silver jewellery depending on the season. It is like nothing really fits. I feel like I am mixture of seasons as I have inherited features of both parents that are clearly from different seasons. 🤷♀️ I watched so many videos but this is very comprehensive. 😊 Hopefully one day I will figure out my season 😅
I'm a mixture too, and since I had IPL done for my rosacea prone skin things have really changed and now browns and olives look great, but I can no longer wear white near my face. And grey looks great when it used to look harsh. I just don't know anymore! It's like I am soft autumn with bright blue eyes :)
An important nuance: most of the ladies one sees as examples of seasons have dyed hair. The seasons with their natural hair colour look way different. An example would be Scarlett Johansson, who is a light spring. Just google young Scarlett Johansson, and you will see how dark her hair is in comparison to her more adult look. Still, she is a warm, light type. I found out experientially that hair colour is the least important feature when determining the season. Skin untertone and whether one is light or dark is the most important.
i have pale skin with yellow undertones that lean much better with neutral (in skin makeup) also only wear silver and prefer it. i also don’t tan and only burns. brown eyes also. what am i if you can answer im confused 🥲
I'll keep making videos of each particular season so you can try to fit yourself perfectly in one with no doubts! Thank you for your comment, it really helps.
Makes sense. Dominant characteristic is on the chroma scale and following the instruction, I next went onto hue which gave me my season. However, the hue is NOT what I notice as being secondary in front of the mirror, it's value
First thing is to determine your undertone (warm vs cool). Drape yourself in: black vs brown, pure white vs off-white, fuschia vs orange. If you look better in black, pure white & fuschia = cool, otherwise = warm.
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What I and everyone has commented on my look notice first is light then bright. But that’s not an option.
So I can’t figure it out… have you thought about receiving photos from someone and telling them what they are for a fee? I would gladly pay 😉
Lol Sàmee
this is the greatest color tutorial of all time and im not kidding
I understand the concept so much better from your video but I've made a mistake somewhere. I thought my primary feature was hue (warm), secondary light, then bright. But I can't find the season that is warm first, light second.
As amazingly as you explain, I still cannot say what type I am.
Don’t worry! It takes time to understand every aspect of color theory. I suggest you start with just temperature (I have a video on skin undertone) to determine if you’re cool or warm and that will help you a lot already when it comes to choosing colors for clothes
There’s also neutral cool and neutral warm skin tones
It took me a while too, I just kept researching picked one, and after a year lol realized I was wrong and found my real one.
Maybe you just go to a consultant and be done with it? Lol
It's done once in a lifetime, so it's worth the investment.
@@MikaelaCarrizo I am dark and warm, so that would make me a dark Autumn.
For those of you confused I watched the video 2x and I think I got it 😉
Basically see what you notice first about yourself. Is it your hair and eyes aka value, or is it the hue AKA warm or cool. Depending on what you notice first your season will vary.
YOUR PRIMARY/ DOMINANT CHARACTERISTIC
+
YOUR SECONDARY CHARACTERISTIC
=
YOUR SEASONAL COLOR
For example:
1: I first noticed that my hair was darker than my skin. Aka I have a dark value. So that is my primary/dominant characteristic.
2: I realized that my skin had warm undertones aka my hue.
3: when I looked at the chart it shows that
DARK +. WARM = DARK Autumn for my seasonal color
I HOPE THIS HELPS ☺️
Brilliant! This is exactly it :) A+ lol
Me too :) I hadn’t liked the Pinterest collages of my color palette so I restarted the entire process again (re-draped more professionally at-home myself), and came back to the same Deep/Dark Autumn result. I gotta make ‘mends with my coloring. I just really prefer saturated, high contrast in lieu of Autumn muted colors. They’re so dull to me 😂😅❤️ *Update, I can do a bit more vivid colors & I feel that’s really what I wanted. :) Deep orange, deep red, and rich brown colors really suit me well.
Uhm, im bright, warm and dark, does that mean im just f***ked? Sorry for asking you, but you understand way quicker than me lol
@@rafioled8997 By the sounds of it so far though, it sounds like you’re a Deep Autumn going into Winter (me too + I relate to the 3 descriptions you gave lol). If your undertone is Warm (wear gold jewelry best) then it’s definitely Autumn.
If it’s silver jewelry that suits you best (brightens your face up and not make it look dull), then you’re a Cool undertone; Deep Winter then.
@@StephanieRZ Thank you so so much, it definetly makes more sense now, and yes definetly a dark /deep autumn then. Youre awesome!
It's nice to know that a lot of us naturally gravitate towards the colours that suits us. No one wants to look ghastly. I remember, when I met one of my teachers in middle school, she talked about the four season theory, and pointed to me as example of a true winter. I wasn't paying attention back then, and was confused because I am born in winter lol, and didn't catch the drift of the conversation. (I was wearing head to toe in navy)
Amaaazing! I always say that, people have a natural instinct on what colors suit them best. If you have doubts if you're warm/cool I always suggest to look at the colors you have in your closet. What clothes do you wear the most? What clothes don't you wear ever? I am a dark winter myself, I remember buying a yellow sweater once, I really love the color yellow, but for "some reason" I never wore it, everytime I put it on I would take it off and put something else on last minute. The same happened with a gorgeous little yellow dress I got, I never wore it, not even once! A few years later, learning about color theory I realized that of course I didn't like "something" about those items. It was the color all along!!
Navy is one of my favorite colors to wear as a dark winter! If you're a true winter, navy is amazing too. Also try french blue, emerald green and hot pink :)
Although, I noticed that I didn't naturally gravitate towards wearing my true colors until I was out of my teens Or I at least disregarded that instinct, by wearing the colors that were in style during my teens. Well, that was the eighties and of course NEON was the dominate IN color then. At least army green was also in, which suited me better.
This is true
@@MikaelaCarrizo Winters can wear sunflower yellow, right? Even when I was porcelain white with black hair I could still pull off gold and black hair jewelry and a darker more mature sunflower yellow dress- only yellow I can pull without looking washed out xD
Some winters can wear sunflower yellow, @margaritanoir. I am a clear bright winter so the only yellows I can wear are citron-acid yellow and neon yellow. Sunflower yellow is too gold-yellow for me, and makes me appear sallow and ill.
Timestamps if you need to watch more than once like me:
What is seasonal color analysis? 0:00-2:09
Which color season are you? 2:10-2:48
(Chart of 12 seasons characteristics 2:21)
What is your dominant characteristic? 2:49-10:31
*Hue* 3:10
Warm primary characteristic 3:27
Cool primary characteristic 4:39
*Value/depth* 5:38
Light primary characteristic 5:50
Dark primary characteristic 6:50
*Chroma* 8:03
Muted primary characteristic 8:24
Bright primary characteristic 9:35
Color analysis wheels/swatches/gradients and more analysis detail 10:32-11:20
@Mikaela carrizo skin undertone video suggestion 11:21
Putting everything together and finding your color season 12:00
Spring 12:10
Summer 12:30
Autumn 12:50
Winter 13:08
Outro 13:33
awesome!!
Hue/Temperature: 3:10
Hue (dominant warm): 3:29
Hue (dominant cool): 4:40
Value/Depth: 5:38
Value (dominant light): 5:50
Value (dominant dark): 6:51
Chroma/Clarity: 8:04
Chroma (dominant muted): 8:25
Chroma (dominant bright): 9:37
Given your dominant charc, which is secondary?: 10:58
The math: 12:00
Your colour palette: 0:12
This was such a well presented video, thank you! Hope the timestamps help others :)
Thank you!!
Thank you!
I swear I must be SO neutral that I can't make up my mind what is even dominant about my face. At first I thought I must be bright, but then I thought maybe I was desaturated.... I can't even decide if my eyes are blue or green and whether my hair is golden brown or dark ash blonde. I always thought I was cool toned and joked about being pasty white, but I know I'm not literally the color of milk. I can wear bright summery colors (cool pink and orange) but I also like wearing warmer muted tones (pumpkin orange and teal) and soft pastels (although I think beige and white washes me out). Also fashion can be subjective enough that I can't always tell the difference between "looking washed out" and "serving a look"... Anyway it messes with my head sometimes.
Last week, I finally bought a silver scarf and a gold scarf from amazon. My daughter draped me and she said that while the silver looked okay, the gold made my skin glow and enhanced my eyes. So I think I'm neutral leaning warm and that I'm a Bright Spring. I have dark hair, light green hazel eyes, and fair skin. Was surprised to find that although rarer, there are dark haired Bright Springs.
Maybe a tip (looking back it would have helped me). Take a look at the colors in your closet (or only the ones you wear/look good on you) and then choose one of the seasonal color analysis palettes that corresponds the best with it. In my case looking back I had my personal colors laying in my closet and was struggling while I didn’t have to. I also did this for my sister and that also was correct for her. (Im a soft autumn and my sister is a light summer)
@Cuzthisgirljustfell most of the seasons have a lot of color in their palettes but it’s for instance for soft autumn a muted warm version of the colors etc. I would say look up the palettes of both those seasons and ask yourself which of the palettes look better on you based on the colors in it if you can’t choose ask a good friend or family member or multiple ones
Yes to me that is the best way to confirm what colour you are. This video made me think I may be bright spring, but then I looked up the colour pallete and half those colours look awful on me. Especially colours like royal or navy blue.
Yes I did that before to confirm my pallette and also did the method in the video just now confirming I am a true autumn. Actually I would amend you comment to specify that you should only look at items in your closet that you feel amazing in and think back to items that got you compliments.
I'm a fair olive soft summer(asian) with very deep hair. If I wear dark colors, it makes me look tired and sick. So I have to dye my hair soft brown black for that matter. Rosy mauves with medium saturation are my best colors for blush or lips. Cool colors mixed with light gray suit me best(seafoam, powder blue, lilac)!
Wow. I’ve never seen someone explain this so well! I think people struggle finding their season because they like a certain color/ colors and it influences what they think they are. (For instance if you love gold jewelry but you are actually cool toned..) I’ve always been so confused but thanks to this video I’ve figured out I am a soft Autumn. Thanks! 💕
this is so interesting. i identified with dark autumn right away and thats what i ended up with at the end of the video. dark, saturated jewel tones have always suited me best.
This video is soo helpful. My slow brain made me watch this almost 5 times and I am so glad I did. I used to identify as having olive but warmish undertone and today I figured out I am Dark Autumn. This video makes so much sense and now I can embrace myself without much trial and error. Thank you so much for making this video in such a detail.
Also those of you who think they have olive undertone , i guess you also have Chroma in tertiary and somewhere around in the middle (medium/neutral) range.
the amount of videos I've watched about color analysis and this is the FIRST one that's made me have even a little bit of understanding 😭😭😭 thank you so much for your explanations
I’ve always thought this color system was a bit Eurocentric, especially once you get to the eye color chart. Asians have a different analysis system that uses the PCCS color chart that’s more inclusive of everyone, including POC.
I agree with you! It’s hard because with POC and asian ethnicity the features will always be dark hair. So in those cases 12 seasons still applies, but we have to sometimes ignore the CONTRAST and focus on the VALUE. So if your features are dark compared to people from your ethnicity.
12 season still works for POC and asians BUT features will change slightly (especially with hair color) although the over all appearance will be true to the season coloring. This is because this theory is based on natural colors and made up categories. It’s based on the depiction of each season’s natural colors in nature at a certain time during the seasons changes. You will be surprised how much of our colors are due to the environments and natural surroundings that we come from.
@@MikaelaCarrizo So what you mean is asians like me, emphasize and add color value on our facial features. Example for me, my black hair and eyes stands out but except for my eyebrows so I will focus on putting value on my brows to make it as my primary color. My secondary is my undertone. Is it possible to combine the (primary) Value with chroma?
I mean caucasians just have more colors, others usually have dark hair and dark eyes and variation is more in skin tone/undertones.
Crazy how so many of us are still lost lol
Hi, thank you for explaining it well. Also, gracias for saying "light or dark for your ethnicity". I'm medium toned for my ethnicity, so that's not my primary characteristic (am a POC). I was confused between DA or TA. Now, I know I'm a TA: warm, dark, muted. 😊
Perfect video. No notes. You easily broke down something I've been trying to figure out for years. Thank you!
Learning that chroma is a thing has literally changed my life. I could NEVER figure out of I was cool or warm. Turns out I'm BRIGHT. I kinda hover right in the middle of bright winter and bright spring. Turns out that I can wear both warm and cool colors, gold and silver...its the hue that matters to me. I look ghastly in light colors, no matter what color I choose. This was a big issue growing up because my sister is a light summer and my mom dressed us in pastels constantly lol
Me too. None of these hard categories work for me. I can wear super bright colors like bright green. My mom tried to put me in pastels. I think of us as when winter is passing and bright flowers are coming out of the snow.
@@wednesdayschild3627oooh I LOVE that thought!
I'm a deep winter but I can do easily lend into deep autumn! As long as I keep the depth, the undertone isn't as important
The exact colors on a dark winter pallete were the ones people often commented me on when I would wear them, like they suit me really good and so on. Now I get it why because thanks to you, I see by my characteristics I'm a dark winter! Seemed complicated but you've explained it so good! Great job 🫶
Same with me and dark autumn. No wonder I’ve gravitated to jewel tones my whole life.
This helped so much! I knew I was a summer but didn't know what kind of summer. Now I I know my dominant characteristic is muted! So I'm definitely a soft summer.
One of the best videos about color analysis and seasonality! Informative, structured and clear. Thank you so much Mikaela ❤
I so appreciate learning about the three different aspects, rather than just warm/cool or light/dark. My #1 priority for many years when looking for clothes is to choose muted colors. It makes so much sense that this could be a dominant feature. I’ve been wavering between Autumn and Spring for years, but don’t look good in pastels. Soft Autumn make SO much sense!!! Thanks!!
Hi, I’m just curious about your findings? 🤔
How is it that you’re a soft autumn if you don’t look good in pastels?
Pastels (warm) are literally perfect for Soft Autumns and by definition, they are: “muted” 🤷🏻♀️
You did a wonderful job explaining this. I somehow am now able to see colours better. Also helps that I paint occasionally- I mix grey for muted colours, and add white to get lighter colours. You are such a great educator ❤
Thanks that was so helpful. I took a selfie in natural light too get a better idea of what stood out most. Then I looked at the photo in black and white to check. All this time I thought I was a warm autumn but taking in your tips I now think I’m a bright spring! So happy as I love these colours. 😊
This is the absolute BEST break down of the concept that I've seem and has really helped me really have a better idea of what should look for while purchasing new garments & elevate my style. Thanks a bunch!
I read about everything online but I'm glad I stumbled upon this video because now I understand it more clearly. Well explained!
Thank you for an excellent video. I'm just now getting into color palettes and seasons and it is a lot of information! I often find myself overwhelmed and a little frustrated midway through a color analysis video but you did a really fantastic job of explaining each characteristic. It was information and helpful. Thanks again!
You are so welcome!
The thing is, skin color tans especially for fair to tan brown skin, which means we'll get darker or warmer. I'm currently tanned, as I used to be neutral to warm undertone and light medium in skin. Now there's more yellow and peach in my tan skin. So I guess we'll have to adapt with the chart.
Yes, when you tan you can add some colors into your pallet but in general they stay the same. It does not mean that you become warm though, it just means you can tolerate different tones
Muted may become bright, light may become dark... But warm and cool won't change.
I’ve been researching this for months and this is easily the clearest and best explanation I have EVER heard. Thank you! I’m still confused but now I understand why 😅
Thank you! It must have been a ton of work to make this video but the breakdown and explanation of each category, all your examples, and detailed characteristics made all the difference. Well done and again thanks.
This is one of the best explanations. My issue is I have no idea my natural haircolor til now. I dyed from 18. I'm 62 now and a gunmetal gray. When I use to sun bathe Id burn then the next day I would be tan. That is suppose to be a sign of warmth. I think I'm a true summer and can get away with a few winter and autumn colors. I absolutely love the yellow green color but I look terrible in it. 😊
If you keep making these video analysis you will blow up on TH-cam. The algorithm loves this type of content
Thank you sooo much! I will keep uploading videos soon my laptop broke and I was saving for a new one that can render videos faster and well! So I can edit smoothly. I will keep posting in May ❤️ I have had a hard time not being able to post 🥲
Thank you so much :)
@Mikaela Carrizo thank you so much 💖. I’m excited for the new uploads
Just when I thought I had it down, I decided to embrace my gray hair. Now I’m not sure of anything, lol! True winter before to....who knows?!
Actually, maybe I was a Dark Winter before. And now I’m...a summer? I don’t know anymore now that I’ve lost all my contrast with my salt and pepper hair with mostly salt around my face. I think a video explaining how or if things change with a change in hair color would be helpful for anyone embracing a new hair color, especially if that change comes from changing value from bleaching or saturation from embracing grays.
Thank you for such a thorough explanation about the three main elements and how their order of impact is important. I wasn’t sure what type of Winter I am- even though I assumed Dark- and you just helped me confirm that my instincts were correct :-)
It’s my pleasure!
I’m so glad this video was useful to you :)
Let me know what videos you would like to see next!
This video is amazing, I can tell how much effort you have put into this, thank you so much 💗
You explained this concept so well! This is the first time I’m actually understanding it. Just wonderful, thank you so much for making this ❤️
You're so welcome!
I finally understand colour analysis 😭 Thank you! You did a great job at explaining it plainly.
This is the best explanation of how to determine a person's set of seasonal colors I've encountered - thanks so much!
Thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️
Such a great explanation which is a huge help when talking about this with others! Still not sure about my self though…I’m light and muted with neutral skin, warm eyes and cool hair…so whatever season that is…maybe spring on Neptune 😂
Same. 😂
Same! My hair skews more warm as well though as it picks up a lot of red in light. I’ve found I can borrow some colors from soft autumn as well as using “my” soft summer colors. As long as I stay away from the extreme ends of the color spectrum those seasons colors look good on me. For example I can wear an olive green, but not anything near yellow or orange in autumn colors.
Yeah I hear you. I think many of us who are fair can fall on either side of spring/summer. I was usually told I was a "spring" & the "warm spring" colors do look best on me. But if I get my makeup done the MUA will say I'm neutral without any strong undertones. It's 50/50 coinflip whether they use warm or cool shades. If I didn't highlight my hair or go in the sunshine, I might look like that "light summer" lady.
I just left a comment on this! And especially since this video explains it so well I thought I would finally nail it as to what I am just not to find my combination on the chart :/ I don't know if this applies to any of you, but I perceive the summers suit me best, but not completely, and the autumn and spring (in that order) though no too much either (mainly I need them to be slightly to middle of the range muted, warm-ish colors and pretty much indifferent to gold and silver)
This whole time I’ve been struggling to find out what I am but it turns out I’m a bright spring! Finally!!
Primary characteristic - bright
Secondary characteristic - warm
This was an amazing breakdown. Thank you so much!! 🫶🏽
Wonderful!
One of the most thorough breakdowns of the subject on TH-cam! Thank you 🙏
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for your comment!
oh my god, it's been a long, road with this and this video literally helped me finally crack it. i always knew I was in the autumn family, but i never quite fit what i was looking at. phew. soft autumn!!
Thank you this is a video that confirmed a lot for me. I always knew that I looked better in bright colors but wasn’t sure where I fell on the scale. I believe I am a true spring or bright spring as colors such as pinks, yellow, orange, bright green‘s, bright blue‘s, certain shades of white/cream and true red look great on me, but certain shades of tan, gray/silver and black make me look dreary. It took me a long time to realize this however being from the metro NY area everyone gravitates towards black and gray scale except in summer.
I'm so glad that this video was useful for you. A lot of the colorful bright seasons like how they dress better in summer/spring than in winter haha! Right now we are seeing a colorful trend so I suggest you snatch up some colorful items for winter
Hey! Thank you so much for posting this video, your advice has spread like wildfire amongst my family and friends. I have always really struggled with picking out the right colour for myself as I personally prefer pale colours,.. but, ever since finding out that I am a deep winter, my confidence and happiness has really grown! I always thought there was something wrong with me as I felt like no clothes ever made me look good. This is all changed now! As someone with AuDHD, a lack of structure and certainty really impacts me, so now instead of dreading going shopping, I actually find it a very pleasant experience as I have my set colours that I can confidently choose and feel relaxed in. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thank you for this video! I watched it all, and thus far I know i might be a Dark Autumn, but i can still carry all the colors in Bright spring, and true spring. So this has helped to clarify that im not cool toned, or muted. still a little confused, but happier, that i can see a clearer scope of the colors that suit me best. Thanks again!
Glad it was helpful!
Same here i am warm, dark and bright characteristics...so i should either be DA, BS or TS. But still cannot figure out which of those characteristics are dominant. TS seems a bit off for some reason. I can pull off colours in both DA and BS palette, i think...
Best colour analysis explanation I've ever had the pleasure to listen to !
Thank you !
This was a great video. I’m a true spring. I have a lot of yellow in my skin and look amazing in orange, teal, emerald- all jewel tones. I hate the way I look in white or pastels, for neutral colors I go black, grey or navy or olive, but not close to the face.
Spring can be only a person with light eyes, white skin and blond or brown hair.
@@tigroussibirak8006 thank you.
all this time i thought i was a dark winter, and no, i'm a bright winter - the chroma is my dominant feature, followed by hue. thanks so much for this video!
As a strawberry blonde with blue eyes I always thought I was a cool undertone. But I think I'm warm undertone. I asked on reddit and got so many different things that it confuses me soo much. I think it's either in autumn or in spring. But I have no idea what my primary and secondary characteristics are.
Thank you for making the video! I can definitely use this to help me discover my season and finally buy the good clothings for my capsule wardrobe.
So happy you liked it! I will keep uploading more informational videos so you can nail your colors down for your capsule wardrobe
@@MikaelaCarrizo it's very clear how you explain it! The only problem with me is I have no idea how you determine or recognise the primary characteristic in someone's picture.
Have you looked into soft Autumn? It shares with Summer so I feel like it fits neutral blondes a lot.
She didn't talk about neutral coloring and you may fall in that categories.
@@LottieSue that's true, but I'm very sure I don't have olive skin. I often burn, last few years I tan a bit after I burn.
one of the best explanations of this subject i have found so far ...
Damn I think I finally figured my season out. I'm definitely with dark autumn/winter. I'm pretty sure my skin tone is neutral (pale olive, in summer a bit more warm, in winter more cool) and I've been gravitating towards both color palettes for a while. I can also wear some colors of muted autumn as well. Nice :D Those standard 4 season charts always confused me, because my skin is neutral and I couldn't figure out for the life of me where I'd fall there.
Hey!! You should watch my new video if you have time, I show a test for you to realize if you’re cold or warm undertone and I think it will be super helpful!
this pretty much describes me so im curious as to which one you settled on lol
@@LibertyIndiaRose I don't think I've really settled on one of the two (it's okay to not fit a box imo). But I've figured out that colors that are just slightly muted look better on me than very bright ones (for example a very dark brown/grey instead of black (at least around and on my face)). And also I mostly wear colors that are not extremly warm or cool. Like greens and purples or yellow. All of those are in between because if you add the tiniest amounts of cyan/blue or magenta/red respectively it changes to warm or cool tones. And all of those look good on me.
The only one that looks really bad on me is orange for some reason (and I'm personally not a big fan of blue). So maybe that makes me more of a dark autumn? Still not sure cause I can definitely wear silver jewerly and certain blues or cool toned purples.
But I'm fine with it, I mostly wear black, brown, grey, and green anyway. And for makeup a muted dark purple really brings out the green in my hazel eyes so I love that (you could try playing with contrast, like if you prefer high or low contrasting features on you or like somewhere in the middle).
It's like a super power tbh cause I've dyed my hair every color of the rainbow and almost none looked bad (others even said that the ones I hated were totally fine) which is lucky :)
I hope you figure your season out though! But I think it's totally fine to just take parts of seasons and look what works for you. Imo it also makes a huge different where on your body you wear which color. Like some I only like on my nails, some only as hair color, some for clothing and some I just avoid. (Sorry for the lengthy reply)
@@erdbar718 I found a fantastic tip accidentally because i didn't sleep that well last night and when i looked into my face in the morning in natural light i saw purple and blue under and around my eyes which is apparently a cool toned thing, so dark winter it is for me! now that i'm thinking about it, it very much makes sense as to why I never really thought my highlights suited me, because they're warm
@@LibertyIndiaRose That's pretty cool! My blood vessels are unfortunaly blue in some spots and turquoise in others so I remain confused.
Also from your profil pic it looks like you have red hair - I'm sure that must look pretty amazing on you being a dark winter
I've had a lot of people explain this, but you provided so many examples and tips that I've got it figured out. Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful!
Saving this to watch until I get it right. Love how you consider eye color. So excited. Thanks
You are so welcome!
No, because I'm pale and I have natural light blonde hair, but I can't be light just because I have dark brown eyes? Come on... These colour pallettes never help me get into a category since they always put blonde hair with blue/green eyes.
thank you! this is the best explanation of this I've seen. so many others are so confusing and poorly laid out.
I'm definitely a bright spring! Thanks so much for the in depth video!!
You have the best video on this topic. Thank u for explaining everything clearly.
Other vids only have the outdated 4 seasons; explain stuff well, but then the examples don't actually match what they explained; or they don't have enough diverse examples of ppl in photos.
I feel like I'm somewhere between soft autumn and true spring, which are incredibly contradictory it seems, but at least it's a start!!
I will make comparison videos soon! Thanks for commenting :D
This is the best video I've found on trying to work out your colours, thanks for this as it's finally got me to understand which I am! Thank you
Thanks for making this video and explaining the definitions of each seasons, and I found out that I'm leaning towards Dark Winter-Dark Autumn vice versa as my primary characteristic is my dark hair and I appear a bit muted but not too much, but I can't even tell my hue because I'm more neutral and my skintone is medium.
It sounds like you may be neutral warm, or a light autumn.
I’m the same in my case it depends on my skin color depending in the season. In winter I’m more pale and can use winter colors with more ease. People say it doesn’t matter but of course it does because tan decreases contrast and some of us get a golden tone with sun. People have told me I look amazing in warm intense colors and also in black and deep blue. For me contrast is king, I know I look awful in pastels though. I’m mixed race and I think this rigid systems crash with people like us
Thank you for this video! I've watched a bunch of videos trying to explain the seasons, but this one really helped me understand the underlying principles in such a simple and straightforward way. I'm definitely either a bright winter or a bright spring
If you're taking requests, I wondering if you could talk about how changing your hair colour can affect your colour season? Like in my case, I'm naturally pale, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. Which made me automatically think bright winter... (I tend to favour silver jewellery tho my skin is pretty neutral.) But I've always natural had caramel hightlighs in the summer, and often in photos there'd appear to be a reddish tint to my hair. I've been dying my hair red for a while now, and it really adds life to my features and flatters me - much more than my natural brown does imo. So I'm really confused😂 Am I just deluding myself about not being a bright winter, or could I be a bright spring (or somewhere in the middle between bright winter and bright spring)?
This is GREAT!!! It helps me understand why I feel so great in highly saturated colors, jewel tones, and pastels but terrible in gray and earth tones. Im struggling to choose my secondary characteristic. My primary is definitely bright, but I'm not sure if I'm cool or warm. I feel like I'm neither cool nor warm, but rather neutral. Unfortunately, there isn't a category for those who are neutral. Does that mean I can fall in either bright spring or bright winter?
I just commented this to someone else, but I’m the same (except opposite 😂). I’m definitely muted, but more neutral in coloring, cooler skin but warmer eyes and hair especially in brighter light. I can use some colors from soft summer and soft autumn. So it’s a good bet you can also borrow colors between seasons!
Hi, same here, in thst my primary I feel is definitely bright also but I'm neither strongly cool nor warm but somewhere in between. Although I would say possibly a little more on the warmer side as my skin is a bit sallow & I do tan. Silver jewellery looks better on me than gold though, and I look better in ivory & winter white than pure white. Seems like I can wear some of the clearer winter colours and some of the clearer spring colours, but none that are too cool nor too warm in value I feel..
same boat. my dominant is definitely bright but my shade of olive skin is right on the cusp of cool and warm, so im going to focus on my tertiary feature of dark rather than worry about whether I'm summer or winter. jewel tones and black it is lol!
I think this is the best explanation on youtube
Amazing video! Please upload more 🥰 I even took notes 📝
Hi! Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed and it's a great motivation that you enjoyed it. I am working on some more videos coming up soon!
Wow. Cool. I actually had already guessed my colour season based on the colours I knew from experience suited me best and I was a true autumn. I did your method just now, not knowing anything about it before, and it just confirmed again I am a true autumn! 🙂
I don't really feel like I fit into any of the types because my eyes are dark (and relatively saturated) blue-green, my hair naturally has an ashy base color but naturally turns golden blonde in the sun, and my skin is very very pink. No yellow at all in my skin. So I have characteristics of both spring and summer. I'm not just one undertone. My eyes and hair are just dark enough that I can get away with darker colors, and deep emerald green is my power color. But I'm not muted; I look terrible in muted colors. I'm not 'dark' even though my eyes are dark-ish for my coloring. I do feel like "summer" colors--light and cool--suit me best. Pale blues, cool greens, soft pinks, bright white. Autumn colors in particular make me look very dead. So maybe my coloring is my dominant characteristic. But it's hard to say.
If you're neutral with light eyes & hair like me, we can fall on either side of spring/ summer. However, if your skin is very pink, then you're a summer. HTH! 👍
Pretty sure I’m a bright winter but I’m seeing a color analyst soon, so I’m excited to find out! The primary + secondary explanation was so helpful. This explains why I can pull of dying my hair red and people always think it’s my natural color (which is golden blonde)!
Can you make an update
thanks so much, this was so so helpful! for a while i thought i was a true summer, when in fact im actually a soft autumn. the explanation was so nice to follow and i will definitely be keeping up with your other videos from now on :D
Finally someone who talks about it! Tradicional 4 season method (basic) is not enough...
Wow that’s really helped me with all these pictures and examples, thank you🙌🏻❤️
You explained this very well and at the end I understood the importance of finding the right sequence for my features. It was easy because when you started talking about the muted tones with the examples I started smiling, that was clearly me.
I feel like I’m in the middle for literally all of these categories 😫😂
Your videos are so helpful and informative! Thank you for sharing!
Soft summer or soft autumn.... Thank you so much for your broad and nice explanation ... But still I am confused 😒
Color theory is not something you will learn with just one video! Don’t worry, it takes time! I will keep uploading videos about it. Thank you so much for your comment and support❤️
Mikaela, you are seriously the best! You really know your stuff!
i did a test online and apparently i’m a dark winter. after everything you says, it makes sense. BUT i see myself more warm toned, and my entire life i’ve thought that the dark winter color palette looks awful on me 😭 i’m so confused
Dark autumn
When looking at my features, I'm definitely a dark winter. But my partner says I look best in autumn colors and I think I look best in summer colors. I'm probably biased, since I hate like 90% of dark winter and love summer colors.
edit: actually, looking at color analysis for awhile now, I think I'm a true winter. I thought dark winter because I immediately see high contrast in my features with dark hair and eyes with pale skin, but I also see brightness, and my skin tone is blatantly, fully cool. So much so that I think the coolness is my most stand out feature, not darkness with contrast. I look like 4:49 middle row, second column.
It would also make sense because both dark and bright winter colors suit me decently, but dark autumn colors don't; I just can't wear warm colors. Ultimately I want to get draped one day though. I'm going to stick with the winter color palette in general, because I know for sure I'm winter.
What happens if you have a neutral tone? I know I'm dark (so it's either autumn or winter) because my features contrast with each other a lot, but I don't fit into the cool or warm tones (i feel like I have aspects of both) and the muted or bright. How do I decide which of the 12 seasons I am based on that?
I feel like I’m almost exactly the same!! My hue is a slightly cool-leaning neutral cause I can pull off gold jewellery but prefer silver, value is medium and I’m inbetween soft/muted and bright/clear. Muted colours wash me out but super bright ones can overpower me 😅 idk where that leaves us lol 💀 maybe we just find some staple colours that look good and stick to those hahaha
I am either dark winter or dark autumn! Will be watching your skin undertone video next
A lot of information, I'll have to take notes xD But very useful indeed! Liked a lot, as your other videos. Keep it up Mika!!! :)
Hi Lucia! Thank you! Yes, it's a loooot haha, definitely takes a bit of time to understand and practice! Thank you very much for your support
Thank you very much for this sis 🙏. This field is very vast and the knowledge you provided were of immense help to me. I feel like a professional fashion stylist now. You explained a complex topic really well.
This was a very good video. I've been trying to figure out my season for a long time and feel so in the middle. Based on this video, I am light, muted, and warm. I think I fit more into light Spring or soft Autumn. I'm light but light colors don't look good on me. Makeup counters and salons seem to not be able to decide if I'm more warm or cool. My hair is a sort of medium or dark golden, strawberry blonde but it has a lot of white in it. My skin is yellow in comparison to my husband but still reddish. My eyes change and are some combination of blue, grey, and green but not light. My picture in the icon is almost 10 years old taken in office lighting.
ll keep making videos of each particular season so you can try to fit yourself perfectly in one with no doubts! It's hard to tell from one picture and unless I see you and study your skin tone and color, it's a hard thing to learn! It takes time! Thank you for your comment, it really helps.
@@MikaelaCarrizo amazing! I already click on the bell to watch asap.
So I think my dominant feature is bright but I prefer wearing neutral or deep colours. I think they look better on me idk. I’m either bright spring or bright winter, since I have dark hair/eyes and light skin am I bright winter?
Impressive work. I do not know if you are a professional color analyst or an excellent amateur but keep on!! interesting video though a bit fast for me; I still have no idea what my season is since I have recently turned to white/grey hair and that changes everything. ;))
Hello! If you have changed your hair color it doesn't change your general season it just might add or eliminate certain colors of that season and the same goes for greying hair, you do have to analize what colors go well with you personally one by one, but the general rules will apply for each season!
Although I do not work as a color analyst I studied the color seasons in an image consulting certification in Argentina, plus many books that I read of experts in the field.
Thank you so much for your comment and feed back! It's a LOT of information, it's really not meant for a short video, it was pretty challenging to summarize it this way, but I wanted to do a general 12 season video. I will probably go into each season with more detail in the near future.
Again, I appreciate your comment
I'm dark Autumn, but i really love pastel colour like lavender. I dont know anything about colour theory and all, so i had no idea what looked good and what not
in this video, about 1:24 seconds in you see a very beautiful woman on the left. i believe she is Cato Van Ee and is a super model. we i was about 5 i did a modelling shoot for a brand called Boden and i had a fake model mum, dad and twin brother; Cato being my modelling mum!! also congratulations to her because she just recently gave birth to a very beautiful baby girl named Eleanor!!! :))
I've watched sooo many color analysis videos. This is THE BEST by far.
This actually helped a lot, thanks for the detail!
This was so helpful! I've been struggling to find my season for ages because I have medium contrast and a neutral undertone. The primary/secondary characteristic really helped, and is a great way to explain it.
Please tell me what you decided on bc I am like in the middle on everything so this is hard
@Sarah McLeod Hi Sarah! I've settled on soft Summer/Autumn. From this video, I think my primary feature is my ashiness, and then I have medium contrast and neutral skin tone. So I choose the colours I think suit me from both Summer and Autumn, but I pay more attention to not getting anything too saturated/bright. I find I can wear most blues, and I wear soft purples, pinks, greens, oranges and maroon. With the neutral skin tone I don't worry as much about how warm/cool the colours are. The medium contrast means I can wear more variety of shades (it just depends what look I'm going for). So being primarily ashy, I focus more on choosing a chroma that suits me. This is just my experience, but I really hope it helped!! :)
this video was so interesting and well explained! though i am still not sure what my colour season is. my skin is pale and has pink undertones but my hair has a definite warm undertone and i have freckles (which some say means warm skintone). it also all depends on how the light is sometimes my hair looks cooler and my eyes darker or in direct sunlight my hair looks almost red and my eyes are super light. i'd say my primary characteristic is muted and I wear both really cool bluetones as well as warm browns but generally darker colours 🥴
Best video I’ve seen on this subject. Well done!!
Well explained, though I think my promem is that I actually don't fit perfectly to any of the 12 seasons. I'm somewhere in between🤷♀️
There is actually a 16 season color wheel, you could fit into the 4 remaining ones. I'll make a video of that soon!
I have always found it difficult to find my season. I have some pink in my face but that's rosacea and cool toned foundation looks pink on my skin. Indoors my vains look purple but outside in sunlight they're blueish green. My hair color used to be blonde but now it's getting darker. My mom is almost black haired my dad is fully blonde. I'm light skinned with freckles with dark blue eyes that are my dominant feature. I look better in cool toned hair but my natural hair does have a warm tone. I wear gold and silver jewellery depending on the season. It is like nothing really fits. I feel like I am mixture of seasons as I have inherited features of both parents that are clearly from different seasons. 🤷♀️
I watched so many videos but this is very comprehensive. 😊 Hopefully one day I will figure out my season 😅
I'm a mixture too, and since I had IPL done for my rosacea prone skin things have really changed and now browns and olives look great, but I can no longer wear white near my face. And grey looks great when it used to look harsh. I just don't know anymore! It's like I am soft autumn with bright blue eyes :)
By far the BESSSST video on this Ive seen I FINALLY PLACED MYSELF WOOP!! dark autumn! :)
An important nuance: most of the ladies one sees as examples of seasons have dyed hair. The seasons with their natural hair colour look way different. An example would be Scarlett Johansson, who is a light spring. Just google young Scarlett Johansson, and you will see how dark her hair is in comparison to her more adult look. Still, she is a warm, light type. I found out experientially that hair colour is the least important feature when determining the season. Skin untertone and whether one is light or dark is the most important.
i have pale skin with yellow undertones that lean much better with neutral (in skin makeup) also only wear silver and prefer it. i also don’t tan and only burns. brown eyes also.
what am i if you can answer im confused 🥲
Nice analysis. What if you have brighter skin and muted hair?
For me, I feel like I am dark, warm and muted, so I always feel between autumn dark and autumn muted
I'll keep making videos of each particular season so you can try to fit yourself perfectly in one with no doubts! Thank you for your comment, it really helps.
same!!
Makes sense. Dominant characteristic is on the chroma scale and following the instruction, I next went onto hue which gave me my season.
However, the hue is NOT what I notice as being secondary in front of the mirror, it's value
This did nothing. Except further my identity crisis.
Me too. Absolutely disappointing.
First thing is to determine your undertone (warm vs cool). Drape yourself in: black vs brown, pure white vs off-white, fuschia vs orange. If you look better in black, pure white & fuschia = cool, otherwise = warm.
Such a loser comment
I have watched videos and read articles and yours finally made me understand this system.
Thank you! I'm happy they helped!
Warm~light~ but I can"’t identify if I am muted or bright
See a color consultant. You can't do this based on a video.