I was analysed as a Winter in the 80s. Now I have silver hair and it's been interesting to see how I'm able to wear some different colors than previously--still in the Winter pallete but not the same ones I used to wear. Gray is now one of my best colors whereas it was just okay in the past. It's been fun!
I absolutely love this podcast and grow to love it more with each episode. I've watched all three of tour channels for a while now and was so excited to see you come together for this pod. WOW! LOVE!
I recently had a colour analysis done and I’m a cool winter. Not only did it confirm the colours I naturally gravitated towards but I also discovered I can wear some cool summer colours as well. And even though black is in my palette and I could wear it when I was younger, greys are a better option now as I age. It’s not a rigid system and there is room for flexibility.
I was typed as a spring back in high school many years ago. I have been working on figuring out who I am for the last two years. I did my colors again about a year ago to find I am a warm spring. I have tried to figure out my style essence, but it is so confusing to me. I have managed to figure out some aspects of my core style. I really appreciate this podcast, and I have followed each of you for a while now. Can't wait to see more in this series.
Using Color Me Beautiful guidelines helps your clothes mix and match easily. I have been using it for many years. When I go to my closet and have nothing to wear I know I have to many clothes out of my color pallet. I clean out my closet and then I can always find something to wear.
I have followed your individual channels for years, and I love listening to your podcast. And now I can enjoy watching you while I listen. I learn so much from all three of you. ❤
Great podcast! I love color analysis, i discovered 3 years ago and i wish i knew it before. I am deep autumn and I’m so happy because i always gravitated towards warm hues. An interesting point that you didn’t mention is that it got forgotten i think because of fashion industry, every year they tell us which color is trending and which color we should wear. The thing is maybe it’s the barbie pink and that color doesn’t fit everyone. They are pushing these trendy colors or neutrals so we don’t really know what colors suits us best and continue to buy things that don’t suit us, it’s always about making profit. Thats my thought😅
I love all your podcasts, as someone said - food for thought 🙂 and so much to learn. I like that the discussion is longer and more nuanced than your average TH-cam content. And also every one of you three brings a little different perspective on the topic.
I appreciate Signe commenting on how undertone isnt everything. Deep Autumn is what I learned I am through a color season test and it really hits the nail on the head for what my preferences are. I would have thought though that because I am warm toned that I would be given a warm toned color palette, which I don't like. I do like wine tones. I am considering trying out a yellow shirt and seeing what I think these days though.
When I knew about Color Analysis and found out that I am a True Autumn my whole life make sense. I used to wear neutrals but I felt very restricted and bored. Now I love my earthy, rich, warm and tangy autumn palette!! 🧡💛❤💚🤎
I love how so many women have, like myself benefitted from knowing there colours. It helps so much with minimalism, capsules, travel etc. Caveat: if you love a colour not in your pallette, wesr it in a pattern or away from your face. Not only do I dress from my palette, but I have a smaller curated palette from within that. (Black, Gray, White with all saturated blues, teals, cool greens, plum, and small hints of pink or lime). I am Clear Spring...bright, clear, neutral... though I lean into the cools. I found the same, as my hair got darker, my pallette became cooler.
I had a colour anyalisis done about 20 years ago and a re-do by colour me beautiful students about 7 years ago. It helps me so much in choosing what colours I buy. I find I never love or keep things not in my colour pallet or in my style. I also stick to the eye shadows from Colour me beautiful, they are the only ones I will buy as it makes such a difference to my complexion. I can't really wear black or white so I chose charcoal or cram/off white instead when I can. I'm a soft & warm (used to be light spring). Can't say how good this is, it really really makes a huge difference!
Love listening to you gals, I get so much food for thought from this podcast! Thank you for making it! For me color is really important; there's a few colors that literally give me the creeps and I can't make myself wear them. And then there's the colors that I LOVE. I loved the reframing of how to make a color work even if it's not in your primary palette. I've really struggled with black as I'm really pale, but now I realize I can probably mitigate that by warming up my make-up if I need to wear it. Thanks again!
I adore you ladies individually and I absolutely love your podcast. So many good thoughts, I am going through ongoing decluttering and into essentialism and I wanted to do it mindfully and with more intention. I found your channels very helpful in my own journey. Thank you ❤️🫶#truegirlpower
I had my colors done decades ago, I received a book with so many colors in it that it didn't really help! I guess I needed the next step, "pick 4" or something... 😆
I love these podcasts, I love this topic, I love wearing colour! I think making some sort of plan concerning colour choices is a good way of being sustainable because it can increase the length of time you feel happy with the items and reduce overconsumption: if it’s not part of the palette, there’s less temptation to buy it. For me personally, True Summer / cool-medium-medium works really well: it gives me lots of options but stays far away from warm tones which look appalling on me. But I think it’s equally valid if someone only chooses neutrals, or focuses on blue and orange, or whatever 🙂
I agree actually. I hung onto a cute shirt my mom gave me for too long, but never wore it because even though I LOVED the cut and style, the color was wrong. It was sort of close to a color that looks good on me, but not really. I think it had too much orange in it. Anyway, I decided I like peasant tops in more flattering colors.
I’ve had two color analyses. Both times the analyzer struggled to determine whether I was cool or warm toned and ultimately decided on warm. I think I am very neutral and perhaps lean a little warm. I am definitely light. I feel like I sit right in the middle of soft and clear. I don’t think I have a season and can get confused about my palette.
My mom had the '80s Color Me Beautiful book too!! I loved that book, it was so much fun.... even though I was disappointed to discover that I was a solid Spring. I wanted black. I hated pastels. Still do 😆 (that blue looks amazing on you, though 😉) Thankfully, color analysis has broadened my options since then and I feel way more comfortable in the deeper "spring" colors, like navy and cognac. This is a neat series! Thanks ❤
I had a Color Me Beautiful analysis 40 years ago. It was very helpful and I still follow my Summer palette (they didn’t have the twelve subtypes then, only the four seasons). I ended up dropping the purples and grays, though, they felt drab on me and the purples are difficult to style. It’s a great starting point for those who have no idea which colors suit them best, then the palette can be tweaked according to personal preferences. I wish I had the original book from my analysis, but it seems to have been lost in my many moves.
I took a color analysis test years ago and I think I got Deep Autumn. The color palette is what I prefer, besides yellow which I normally avoid. I love jewel tones, black and charcoal grey. So, my taste is in alignment with at least that color analysis test. Idk how changing my hair to a deep purple would shake things up, but I still like the same clothes on me and I still use the same tones that I was before when doing my eyeshadow.
I think one big reason that color analysis fell out of favor was the influence of 90s fashion, it was nearly all black and other dark neutrals. I’m one of those who looks terrible in black, so if I must wear it, I add something white, light or metallic near my face. Often this is a scarf in summer, or a white shirt in winter, or it could be bright jewelry, mother-of-pearl works well on me. Even a white blazer really helps, and adding a little white to a black outfit is suitable for funerals, two of which I attended this last year.
Really enjoyed the podcast. I have always wondered with the tonal system of color analysis where people who are medium fit in? I have always struggled to find the right colours because neither very deep nor light/pastel colours work for me and similarly I need colours that are not too muted and not too bright. I find the 12 seasons colour system to be more flexible on that front .
This was very interesting. I have been doing color me beautiful since the 1980s. There was only Spring Summer Fall and Winter. Then years later the 4 seasons had a break down into 3 categories. Sounds like there is a new way to get our colors. Are all 3 of you in Canada?
Fellow viewer AlexLouiseWest makes a good point, below, that having a color palette adds to wardrobe sustainability. By purchasing from our palettes, know there is nothing in our closets in colors that look bad on us, for one thing. I resent the current pressure from the fashion industry to buy super-bright and warm colors this year. There are few choices available in my Soft, Light, Cool palette. The fashion industry creates the majority of trends deliberately to get us to buy more cheap-to-manufacture, trendy items. Very few trends are bottom-up, that is from consumers to brands and designers. This year, there’s a big push to get us to accept dirt-cheap polyester clothes by insisting that sheers, mesh, etc. in these fabrics are “stylish”. They’re certainly not sustainable and will date super-quickly, as will the hideous embellishment trend, another way for them to utilize plastics. Not only do I buy only in my colors and style, I only buy top-quality, sustainable, biodegradable fabrics and materials.
I found my virtual colour consult with Signe to be a great start. That combined with the slow fashion principles I've learned about from all of you has prompted me to really consider what I add to my wardrobe. I think the only thing I've added in the past few months was four of the same white cropped tank top...two that will stay white and two to dye in colours that flatter me. Someone in my online sewing group mentioned a colour typing system similar to CMB's organic approach. You start by finding your neutrals using the lightest and darkest colours in your eyes which is the main feature I try to work with anyway. Second is to find your red. I think this is a fabulous suggestion, and it's something I've struggled with for years. I can't say I identify with the reds in my Clear swatch book. I'm wondering if you have any tips on how to zero in on a great shade without having to purchase and get rid of the duds? That seems counter intuitive to my new slow fashion values.
I keep getting deep winter but white looks off on me and saturated black looks overwhelming. I look better in like faded black… My veins look more green, sometimes teal. I feel I’m more warm as peach is one of my best blushes…and like terracotta red… ugh so confused …
Thank you so mutch. I have dark brown hair, that starts to turn grey und deep brown eyes. I allways thought, that I would be a typical autumn- type. Recently I fiindet out, that my skin tends to be olive. What are the best colors for olive skin-toned people? Sorry for my english, it's not the best.
I also have brown hair, brown eyes and olive skin, always felt that cool tones were more suitable for me. When I was younger I've dreamt to be Winter, more latin type, but I'm not. So I guess I should be Summer, but I really can't see myself in that 4 seasons type analysis because Summers are always pictured as brown hair -blue eyes - cool skin (but not olive). So I feel you - it's often a problem to guess on your own which type you are.
Color analyses données many years ago. Cool tones....I am a summer. It does work very well for me. I have gray hair. Unfortunately, besides neutrals, my colors do not seem to make a hit in the popular fashion.
The lighting on Alyssa really washes her out. She usually looks very warm toned and great in gold jewelry. I would guess autumn deep in traditional analysis.
What Xtina was advising at 38" about including bold and clear colour by starting with T-shirts and basics is so wrong according to Amy Smilovic's advice that bold colours should be worn in icky, glossy or nubby materials. Regular T-shirts are not made of such materials. That means wearing a red cotton T-shirt will make you look soo basic.
Alyssa is definitely a Dark Winter. Dark,cool,saturated colors would look fantastic on her.
Now we have to see Alyssa's color analysis 😊
I was analysed as a Winter in the 80s. Now I have silver hair and it's been interesting to see how I'm able to wear some different colors than previously--still in the Winter pallete but not the same ones I used to wear. Gray is now one of my best colors whereas it was just okay in the past. It's been fun!
I absolutely love this podcast and grow to love it more with each episode. I've watched all three of tour channels for a while now and was so excited to see you come together for this pod. WOW! LOVE!
This soft summer thinks that knowing your best colours is a great help when putting a capsule wardrobe together.
I recently had a colour analysis done and I’m a cool winter. Not only did it confirm the colours I naturally gravitated towards but I also discovered I can wear some cool summer colours as well. And even though black is in my palette and I could wear it when I was younger, greys are a better option now as I age. It’s not a rigid system and there is room for flexibility.
I was typed as a spring back in high school many years ago. I have been working on figuring out who I am for the last two years. I did my colors again about a year ago to find I am a warm spring. I have tried to figure out my style essence, but it is so confusing to me. I have managed to figure out some aspects of my core style. I really appreciate this podcast, and I have followed each of you for a while now. Can't wait to see more in this series.
Using Color Me Beautiful guidelines helps your clothes mix and match easily. I have been using it for many years. When I go to my closet and have nothing to wear I know I have to many clothes out of my color pallet. I clean out my closet and then I can always find something to wear.
I have followed your individual channels for years, and I love listening to your podcast. And now I can enjoy watching you while I listen. I learn so much from all three of you. ❤
Great podcast! I love color analysis, i discovered 3 years ago and i wish i knew it before. I am deep autumn and I’m so happy because i always gravitated towards warm hues. An interesting point that you didn’t mention is that it got forgotten i think because of fashion industry, every year they tell us which color is trending and which color we should wear. The thing is maybe it’s the barbie pink and that color doesn’t fit everyone. They are pushing these trendy colors or neutrals so we don’t really know what colors suits us best and continue to buy things that don’t suit us, it’s always about making profit. Thats my thought😅
I love all your podcasts, as someone said - food for thought 🙂 and so much to learn. I like that the discussion is longer and more nuanced than your average TH-cam content. And also every one of you three brings a little different perspective on the topic.
I appreciate Signe commenting on how undertone isnt everything. Deep Autumn is what I learned I am through a color season test and it really hits the nail on the head for what my preferences are.
I would have thought though that because I am warm toned that I would be given a warm toned color palette, which I don't like. I do like wine tones. I am considering trying out a yellow shirt and seeing what I think these days though.
When I knew about Color Analysis and found out that I am a True Autumn my whole life make sense. I used to wear neutrals but I felt very restricted and bored. Now I love my earthy, rich, warm and tangy autumn palette!! 🧡💛❤💚🤎
I love how so many women have, like myself benefitted from knowing there colours. It helps so much with minimalism, capsules, travel etc. Caveat: if you love a colour not in your pallette, wesr it in a pattern or away from your face.
Not only do I dress from my palette, but I have a smaller curated palette from within that. (Black, Gray, White with all saturated blues, teals, cool greens, plum, and small hints of pink or lime). I am Clear Spring...bright, clear, neutral... though I lean into the cools.
I found the same, as my hair got darker, my pallette became cooler.
I had a colour anyalisis done about 20 years ago and a re-do by colour me beautiful students about 7 years ago. It helps me so much in choosing what colours I buy. I find I never love or keep things not in my colour pallet or in my style. I also stick to the eye shadows from Colour me beautiful, they are the only ones I will buy as it makes such a difference to my complexion. I can't really wear black or white so I chose charcoal or cram/off white instead when I can. I'm a soft & warm (used to be light spring). Can't say how good this is, it really really makes a huge difference!
Such a well rounded & nuanced discussion of this topic 😊 Would be so interested to hear about the psychology of colour.
❤❤❤ all three of you
Loved this episode. You guys just keep getting better. Added to your individual YT channels this has become my weekly fix.
Love listening to you gals, I get so much food for thought from this podcast! Thank you for making it! For me color is really important; there's a few colors that literally give me the creeps and I can't make myself wear them. And then there's the colors that I LOVE. I loved the reframing of how to make a color work even if it's not in your primary palette. I've really struggled with black as I'm really pale, but now I realize I can probably mitigate that by warming up my make-up if I need to wear it. Thanks again!
I adore you ladies individually and I absolutely love your podcast. So many good thoughts, I am going through ongoing decluttering and into essentialism and I wanted to do it mindfully and with more intention. I found your channels very helpful in my own journey. Thank you ❤️🫶#truegirlpower
Enjoyed seeing it.
I had my colors done decades ago, I received a book with so many colors in it that it didn't really help! I guess I needed the next step, "pick 4" or something... 😆
I love these podcasts, I love this topic, I love wearing colour!
I think making some sort of plan concerning colour choices is a good way of being sustainable because it can increase the length of time you feel happy with the items and reduce overconsumption: if it’s not part of the palette, there’s less temptation to buy it.
For me personally, True Summer / cool-medium-medium works really well: it gives me lots of options but stays far away from warm tones which look appalling on me. But I think it’s equally valid if someone only chooses neutrals, or focuses on blue and orange, or whatever 🙂
Yes! Great point about a colour palette guiding more conscious decisions. Thank you for sharing! xx
I agree actually. I hung onto a cute shirt my mom gave me for too long, but never wore it because even though I LOVED the cut and style, the color was wrong. It was sort of close to a color that looks good on me, but not really. I think it had too much orange in it. Anyway, I decided I like peasant tops in more flattering colors.
I’ve had two color analyses. Both times the analyzer struggled to determine whether I was cool or warm toned and ultimately decided on warm. I think I am very neutral and perhaps lean a little warm. I am definitely light. I feel like I sit right in the middle of soft and clear. I don’t think I have a season and can get confused about my palette.
My mom had the '80s Color Me Beautiful book too!! I loved that book, it was so much fun.... even though I was disappointed to discover that I was a solid Spring. I wanted black. I hated pastels. Still do 😆 (that blue looks amazing on you, though 😉)
Thankfully, color analysis has broadened my options since then and I feel way more comfortable in the deeper "spring" colors, like navy and cognac.
This is a neat series! Thanks ❤
I had a Color Me Beautiful analysis 40 years ago. It was very helpful and I still follow my Summer palette (they didn’t have the twelve subtypes then, only the four seasons). I ended up dropping the purples and grays, though, they felt drab on me and the purples are difficult to style. It’s a great starting point for those who have no idea which colors suit them best, then the palette can be tweaked according to personal preferences. I wish I had the original book from my analysis, but it seems to have been lost in my many moves.
I took a color analysis test years ago and I think I got Deep Autumn. The color palette is what I prefer, besides yellow which I normally avoid. I love jewel tones, black and charcoal grey. So, my taste is in alignment with at least that color analysis test. Idk how changing my hair to a deep purple would shake things up, but I still like the same clothes on me and I still use the same tones that I was before when doing my eyeshadow.
I think one big reason that color analysis fell out of favor was the influence of 90s fashion, it was nearly all black and other dark neutrals. I’m one of those who looks terrible in black, so if I must wear it, I add something white, light or metallic near my face. Often this is a scarf in summer, or a white shirt in winter, or it could be bright jewelry, mother-of-pearl works well on me. Even a white blazer really helps, and adding a little white to a black outfit is suitable for funerals, two of which I attended this last year.
Really enjoyed the podcast. I have always wondered with the tonal system of color analysis where people who are medium fit in? I have always struggled to find the right colours because neither very deep nor light/pastel colours work for me and similarly I need colours that are not too muted and not too bright. I find the 12 seasons colour system to be more flexible on that front .
Yes, I know what you mean.
Loved it!
This was very interesting. I have been doing color me beautiful since the 1980s. There was only Spring Summer Fall and Winter. Then years later the 4 seasons had a break down into 3 categories. Sounds like there is a new way to get our colors. Are all 3 of you in Canada?
Fellow viewer AlexLouiseWest makes a good point, below, that having a color palette adds to wardrobe sustainability. By purchasing from our palettes, know there is nothing in our closets in colors that look bad on us, for one thing. I resent the current pressure from the fashion industry to buy super-bright and warm colors this year. There are few choices available in my Soft, Light, Cool palette. The fashion industry creates the majority of trends deliberately to get us to buy more cheap-to-manufacture, trendy items. Very few trends are bottom-up, that is from consumers to brands and designers. This year, there’s a big push to get us to accept dirt-cheap polyester clothes by insisting that sheers, mesh, etc. in these fabrics are “stylish”. They’re certainly not sustainable and will date super-quickly, as will the hideous embellishment trend, another way for them to utilize plastics. Not only do I buy only in my colors and style, I only buy top-quality, sustainable, biodegradable fabrics and materials.
I found my virtual colour consult with Signe to be a great start. That combined with the slow fashion principles I've learned about from all of you has prompted me to really consider what I add to my wardrobe. I think the only thing I've added in the past few months was four of the same white cropped tank top...two that will stay white and two to dye in colours that flatter me.
Someone in my online sewing group mentioned a colour typing system similar to CMB's organic approach. You start by finding your neutrals using the lightest and darkest colours in your eyes which is the main feature I try to work with anyway.
Second is to find your red. I think this is a fabulous suggestion, and it's something I've struggled with for years. I can't say I identify with the reds in my Clear swatch book. I'm wondering if you have any tips on how to zero in on a great shade without having to purchase and get rid of the duds? That seems counter intuitive to my new slow fashion values.
I keep getting deep winter but white looks off on me and saturated black looks overwhelming. I look better in like faded black… My veins look more green, sometimes teal. I feel I’m more warm as peach is one of my best blushes…and like terracotta red… ugh so confused …
With color analysis, are low, medium and high contrast relevant?
Thank you so mutch. I have dark brown hair, that starts to turn grey und deep brown eyes. I allways thought, that I would be a typical autumn- type. Recently I fiindet out, that my skin tends to be olive. What are the best colors for olive skin-toned people? Sorry for my english, it's not the best.
I also have brown hair, brown eyes and olive skin, always felt that cool tones were more suitable for me. When I was younger I've dreamt to be Winter, more latin type, but I'm not. So I guess I should be Summer, but I really can't see myself in that 4 seasons type analysis because Summers are always pictured as brown hair -blue eyes - cool skin (but not olive). So I feel you - it's often a problem to guess on your own which type you are.
Color analyses données many years ago.
Cool tones....I am a summer.
It does work very well for me. I have gray hair. Unfortunately, besides neutrals, my colors do not seem to make a hit in the popular fashion.
Alyssa looks like a winter
The lighting on Alyssa really washes her out. She usually looks very warm toned and great in gold jewelry. I would guess autumn deep in traditional analysis.
What Xtina was advising at 38" about including bold and clear colour by starting with T-shirts and basics is so wrong according to Amy Smilovic's advice that bold colours should be worn in icky, glossy or nubby materials. Regular T-shirts are not made of such materials. That means wearing a red cotton T-shirt will make you look soo basic.