Thank you for including Olive undertune. I'm a pasty super pale nordic girl with olive undertone. Nothing involving undertones made any sense before i found that out. Makeup and fashion guides for us are rare to find and not all that good. I'm hoping for a video. Much love
thanks again for another great video! ❤ this video was very timely for me. I found several articles about the season analysis and got extremely confused. I am a medium skin with very warm undertones and black hair. I felt like this analysis exclude anybody with darker skin tones. I just love how inclusive and detailed you are. ❤
thank you Justine, as always you have such a clear and concise way of explaining things...I have tries many times but can never truly figure out my season, but I think it's because I cannot truly "see" myself if that makes sense. My first blockage is the undertone...I do not see wether my veins are green or blue, they seem a miday, and I do not see wether silver or gold suits better, I used to wear only silver when younger, now I wear gold as well, but I feel it is more related to age then undertone? I think I am an autumn, as I am drawn to those colors, and I have brown/auburn/chestnut hair and eyes are also chestnut/moss green... Finally I think a deep rich burgundy/bordeaux really suits me and so does a deep rich mossy green...sorry if this was long. Could I be a neutral, or is there some way to overcome my "blindness" in figuring out my tone? merci
Hi Justine! Thanks for the video- in the end when you say "if you find a color that you think looks great on you- try and find why it looks great on you"-can you expand on that please? How can one go about doing that? I am an Olive/ neutral undertone, with black hair and deep brown eyes.. so clearly I need to try something different.
Hawley Rigsby Need to apply that to every part of life really, it's an excellent quote whether discussing your scarf or mental illness etc. Awesome words here.
I don't fit at all. It's so hard finding any kind of makeup that looks nice. Even eyeshadow and lipstick. I stopped buying it. I just mix colors together now and hope I don't look deceased by the time I'm finished. That's the goal lol
When I was in high school, I had a neighbor who was a Color Me Beautiful consultant (I'm not sure if that still exists). Because I took care of her cats, she did my colors for free. There was a group of us and, after, determining whether each of us was warm or cool, she then draped us with large swatches of fabric to determine whether we were Summer or Winter (cool) or Spring or Autumn (warm). I am a natural redhead with deep brown tones in my hair and blue-green eyes and I am an Autumn. I look good in the duskier, classic colors of fall: rust, olive, burnt gold. My mother, also a natural redhead, but with lighter, brighter hair and blue-gray eyes is a Spring. She looks best in brighter warm tones: spring green, marigold, bright orangey coral. Red hair does not turn grey, but sort of pearl colored. At 90 my mother is still a Spring. That doesn't change, although some of the specific colors within the category might become better or worse for you over time. Being draped with fabric was really helpful, and there were a few colors in my Autumn palette that we decided would be better away from the face, as in a sundress with a low neckline. Another thing to keep in mind is that there are warm and cool versions of almost every color: ruby red is cool, tomato red is warm; emerald green is cool, olive green is warm; sky blue is cool, periwinkle blue is warm; lemon yellow is cool, golden yellow is warm. This is a bit different from how many artists think of color. I have noticed that many people are not good at determining which colors look good on them. I was shopping for jackets with a friend who is a Winter (cool, bright, true colors + black, white) with rather sallow olive skin and she tried on a cobalt blue jacket that took my breath away, it was so beautiful on her. She wanted to buy the same jacket in the golden yellow, which only made her look more yellow.
This is the method I prefer and got used to as well. As far as I remember the Chroma was included in the initial four season type analyses (muted and clear). The inclusion of these sub-categories can confuse more than inform. I am what I would call a warm summer, who looks good in mid range summer colours with a slightly brighter hue than the muted ones. I can also get away with some of the cooler Spring and warmer Autumn colours. The very dark burgundies, darker cool blues don't look quite right on me nor does anything with a golden yellow hue to it. This was all covered in the original four seasonal palette, which did also include black women too.
I think I was such a deep Winter in my teens and twenties that I got away with some limited colours from Autumn if they were rich hues. However, now that I’ve aged and my skin and hair textures and vibrancy have altered significantly enough, I’ve shifted into the cool range of Winter... cool enough that it’s halved the winter colours that now compliment me and encompasses quite a lot of cool Summer selections. That shift from prevalent deep toward light has lessened my number of options at the same time as shifting me from all of the complete Winter spectrum with a small sliver of carefully curated Autumn into the lighter half of Winter and a considerable slice of cool Summer. However somehow also including the warm shades of Spring and Autumn if they ride that midline not going on either side of the light deep intersection. Anyone else also experience this?
Thank you Meg for that clear explanation. I used to do people's colours a long time ago - it could have been Colour Me Beautiful, I can't remember. The system you describe is how I learned it as well. There may be a few people who straddle seasons, but most fit into one with this method. As we age and our hair lightens, the colours that look best on us will probably lighten too (eg: from burgundy to bright, clear icy pink or from deep purple to lavender). Eye colour didn't mean so much when I studied and most people of colour were winters. Strong winters were also people who had dark hair and pale skin (think Anne Hathaway as an example).
in my personal experience the vein trick isn't true to reality! i'm olive/yellow/warm toned but my veins look blue purple because my skin is quite pale and translucent in certain areas, like my inner wrists. love this video :)
Yes, me too. My mother used to say I was a warm because I have hazel eyes and light brown hair. But I can wear silver jewelry as well as gold and I look terrific in blue. So, I don't fit into the categories.
The seasonal color system that I am most familiar with (it's called Sci/art) ignores eye color and hair color for the most part. It mostly just focuses on how the skin looks with different colored drapes. And it allows for neutral undertones as well. So if you're interested in this, I recommend just focusing on how your skin reacts to various colors you wear. Do you look sick in warm-toned clothes? Do you lool dead in cool-toned clothes? Etc. (Oh, I mean "you" = the general you, not anyone in particular.)
Jessica Krueger I fully agree with you. One can be a natural blonde Winter, Clear Spring may have naturally dark hair, two ash brown blue eyed ladies looking pretty similar can be two different seasons, so the best way to determine your season would be checking how skin reacts on sets of colours for each season. I had my online analysis done last week and am awaiting a fan for my season so I can swatch my clothes. It’s astonishing how a subtle difference to the hue/chroma/value can make a difference to what your skin looks like...
Hair and eyes can help pick the colors that compliment you the best. In summer, after getting even small tan, my skin gets warm undertones with my veins being clearly green, in any other time of the year I am cool with blue-ish, purple-ish veins, my hair naturally gets lighter from the sun so that I used to be asked at school if I had colored my hair during summer holidays. I am truly either a "Late Spring" or an "Early Summer" and it makes perfect sense because I always gravitated towards both color pallets.
Also, do the test when your hair looks its best (because whenever it was cloudy and i was in secondary wearing a light blue shirt and a navy blazer (school uniform) and my hair needed washing the teachers always said i looked sick (when they otherwise wouldn't, my hair is brown with ginger highlights/ginger mixed in, but when it's greasy it goes dark brown/ almost black in colour)
Out of all the colour analysis people, you just became my favourite. You’re not at all pretentious and you talked about neutral skin. So many act like neutral complexions don’t exist. And when you said not everyone fits into a category - that was brilliant - no other colour analysis person I’ve seen has conceded to that. I have both blue/purple AND green/turquoise veins throughout my body, my natural hair is dark golden blonde/strawberry blonde, and my eyes are a dark turquoise. I look good in both gold and silver (gold just slightly better - due to my hair more than my skin) and my best colours are turquoise, forest green, and tomato red, and salmon. I never had a clue WHAT I was. I assumed I had to be spring or autumn, but my skin never seemed quite “golden” enough. Thank you for saying that we don’t all have to fit perfectly into a category! Lol
I have very similar coloring! But my hair is both golden light brown and ashy dark blonde. My eyes are neither dark nor bright and either blue or green depending upon who you ask (and not quite brown enough to be hazel). My skin is quite pale and I usually use a fair/porcelain cool or neutral foundation.... I also see a golden glow to it depending on lighting... veins can go from turquoise to almost violet. I don't know if silver or gold looks better, but I like to wear bronze or antiqued metals. I like jewel tones and muted colors in the fall and winter. And I like to wear a soft pastels in spring and vivid colors in summer.
Neutrals seem to get bypassed. I agree, I am green/blue veins, but have neutral skin shade and look good in both silver and gold. Not sure which color family I fall into?
Same here - neutral skin, mousy blonde and hazel (orange and green rings) eyes. I look best in khaki, browns and intense reds and teals. No simple boxes for us!
I absolutely love how inclusive Justine always is. ❤️❤️ She's so considerate of all of our different skin tones and body types, and she always embraces nuance and the variations that personal preference can play in fashion choices.
I am both intrigued and befuddled by the method, and think I will just refer to my wardrobe choices as "nuclear winter, " and leave people guessing. : ) Seriously, I will look into seasonal color analysis further; TFP and giving me a head start!
Just a guess: nuclear winter sounds like clear winter (close to spring). It has brighter colors with some (just a hint) of warmth in it. For a long time, I couldn't figure out if I was a clear spring or a clear winter. I am a neutral, so as Justine says, it's more tricky. However, almost all of the clear spring colors suit me (except 1), and I can only wear maybe 1/2 or 2/3 of the winter colors well. So there you go. One season will be better, even for someone who falls a bit in the crack, like me!
Truth Is Beauty is the best website I’ve found for figuring out your seasons. Modern analysts don’t really subscribe to the dominant category method of figuring it out that you explained in this video. Several seasons can cover neutral undertones and oliveness and women of color, as well!
I also heard enough stylists say that "jewel tones work on everyone" and I disagree... Color theory is a quite young science and it will keep evolving - very interesting!!
Well said! My bestie has olive skin, and she's a Dark Autumn. My husband also has olive skin, and he's a winter. Being olive skinned or dark skinned has nothing to do with your season.
Justine Leconte officiel yeah, I’m excited for our understanding of the world of color to grow! for me and for now, nothing beats the 12 Blueprints SciArt systems. there’s a system of 16 seasons that I don’t really like.
Justine, you and your videos are well-deserved to be popular. It is hard to find on youtube - and not just in fashion topic - logical, not overflooded with too much information videos. Also, what I find very valuable, is your voice, the way you talk: it is intelligent, natural, not trying to sell yourself desperatly. Many youtubers (all of them, except a very few) are just simply too much. You watch their videos, because of the information and trying to survive, while you are listening/watching it. In your case, the personality, the well-structured text, the intonation, all works perfectly. Professional.
Eloquent and classy as always :) Justine, can you do a second video on taking care of clothes and maybe one on the different types of fabric and their properties? I'm learning to buy quality clothes but then I need to learn how to take care of them also. Love all your vids! :)
I'm still having so much trouble which is why I'm greatful you brought up that this doesn't work for everyone. I have had my hairdresser tell me one time im cool then years later im warm. He told me once I was spring then recently that I was autumn. I feel like I need to learn more about chroma and cool vs neutral vs warm. I do wish that you could get a real go[d assessment from a professional for under $250. I love to sew bags and learning how to sew clothing eventually and very much want to pick the best colors. Thank you for alllllll of your videos as they are truly excellent! I love them. Ive watched many on this but yours is definitely the BEST
I agree that this method has some flaws. As a retired makeup artist I became certified to do colour analysis which involved me personally going thru the process. After 4 hours of observation with masters in this field they determined I was a neutral. Why did it take so long? I have ash blonde hair (level 7) so fairly light. Fair to medium skin tone with freckles, very blue eyes and my veins show a variety of colours: blue, purple, some hints of green as well as yellow. When using colour searches against my bare skin you could see colours both in the warm and cool family looked flattering. Also very light and some shades of deep colours were also very flattering. This created a lot of confusion when the goal was to pigeon hole me into a category! Some people are very obvious and this method works brilliantly for them, however, as you have articulated there are exceptions. To this day I continue to find colours from each of the categories that are very flattering for me, although because I have a capsule wardrobe I stick to more muted and basic tones. I wanted to share this so people who may be watching this video or reading the comments would feel affirmed if they too, find that they don't "fit" into one of these specific categories 👍🏻
I smiled as I read your comment. I brought a color consultant in who taught by seasons/warm/cool etc to my college students in our career development courses. Interestingly she draped each student and we could see how each of the color seasons worked well with just a few outlier colors for many in another season. I was wearing an apricot sweater with a tan blouse with a small print in chocolate brown and teal. I have medium brown hair, hazel green and gold eyes with dark rims and pale neutral skin. Every season had to be tried on me, sometimes multiple times, but it did become apparent that I do look best in cool colors in the summer range--only not the muted ones.. I could pick up a few/ some of the clear colors of spring, the teals of autumns and the mellowed out jewel tones of winter. Its funny but there were colors in each season that looked amazing when draped on me, but what helped decide was that the soft white of summer was truly my best white. The grayed or super light pastels of summer were horrible on me, but the brighter colors were great. I found a "home" in summer and now coordinate, or add in the medium range pure colors from other seasons--like the clear navy of spring. It helped me a lot when the "men's" color me beautiful pallet was published as men require darker colors in their suits and professional wear--the summer men's colors suited me much better than thw women's pallet. So as a tip to anyone struggling--perhaps take a look at the book for men and see if you then find a season that resonates better with your coloring. **And in all fairness, my color consultant was very well trained and she confessed to me later that I was the hardest person she had analyzed in over five years of consulting and was really happy that I was game to keep going as the whole group and she kept evaluating my draping of the various colors/season pallets. We are all individuals. For me, finding makeup can be just as challenging, as so many products just look horrible on me when they are so beautiful in the presentation before application. You are blessed to have your training as a professional makeup artist. :)
Thank you. I read books on this, took every test I could find online, and swore I was a winter. People would see me and blue and say "that really is your color." My friends wanted to get it professionally done as a girls' trip. I was crying on the plane back because I felt so dumb when the expert said 3 out of 5 of us were Autumn. All of us are of different ethnic descent. I am a neutral confirmed by multiple people. Basically, I was told 90% of the things I owned would not work for my skin tone, even my handbags, and shoes. I could see proof that those "wow colors" look good on me but felt like there was more and people couldn't understand my obsession with this. It's like telling someone they have been living their life all wrong when they tried so hard to get it right.
So true. I'm allegedly a "summer", but there are some pinky/peachy colors in my wardrobe that look good on me. As long as its not a straight up orange or yellow, I feel like there is a certain degree of flexibility.
I have one blue and one brown eye which always sabotages these color theory tips for me! For example what eye shadow colour looks best with what eye colour; very unnecessary genetic mutation.
But you are one step closer to being David Bowie than the rest of us (and from your picture, you apparently have red hair? So you're basically Ziggy Stardust!) :D
Everything works with brown so I would do makeup to enhance your blue eye ;) I am between a warm and cool season myself, due to warm brown eyes and cold ash blonde hair. So while neither of the seasons work 100%, I can find several shades within those seasons that work :)
My son has blue eyes and a green "beauty mark" on one of his irises- so it looks like one of his eye is part green, part blue. I think it's so cool when people have heterochromic eyes! Embrace it- it makes you very unique and special. I think bronzes, golds, taupes, rose golds, even plum colors would work for you!
This makes much more sense to me than the basic four seasons approach. I'd love to see color palettes for each of the 12 (yikes, that's kind of a lot).
Hello Justine !!! This was very helpful video.If possible please do a video about overcoat / winter coats . As winter is approaching.. Have a nice day :)
4 years later, your videos are still super helpful to understand so many things! Thank you Justine! P.S. I just loooooove hearing you talk Justine. So healing!
I did a color analysis with drapes, and it worked fantastically. It's more obvious than just looking at skin, hair, and eyes. When you apply the right hue, you immediately see how your eye light up and skin tone looks healthier. I always thought that I am Spring, but it turned out to be I'm more a soft Autumn, and it's been very helpful, also when it comes to not buying colors that definitely do not suit me.
I like Jen Thoden's color method. She is on youtube. She also does cool vs warm, light vs deep, and bright vs soft; but she uses the color wheel in an interesting way, with one muted color wheel, and one bright, pure chroma color wheel. On each wheel there are universal colors from each side of the wheel (cool or warm) that EVERYONE can wear by adjusting the depth and chroma. It makes sense. I am light, cool and bright. But as I have gone grey, I need little bit of contrast. Going grey is a new issue in color analysis, too, as we baby boomers are embracing that. Love your videos, Justine. They are so clear and informative, straight to the point, and always delivered in your charming style. A pleasure to watch. Thank You! :-)
Justine I love the way you share information. You're warm, honest and have a great sense of humor which is quite lovely and engaging. You always make me smile with you and I've learnt so much since I discovered your channel. Thank you so much. Love your smile.
This is funny: my girlfriends were all hyped up for the realease of the Naked Heat palette. I was the only one who wasn't because I know that warm colors, like terracotta, sienna, warm browns in general (that are alle the rage now, especially in eye make up) look awful on me. They wouldn't believe me and kept saying:"You have dark eyes, of course these colours will look good on you!" Long story short, I tried it up and they freaked out like : 😰 "Omg, you were right! Take it off." 😂 And this is how I learned that I am a deep winter.
Keapix Naked 1 is more on the "neutral" side, I believe. I can pull it off quite well and I use it often. The Naked Heat is extremely warm with copper, terracotta and sienna hues and looks really, really bad on my complexion.😅 My favourites are Naked 2 and the Too Faced Chocolate Bon Bons.
I'm feeling with you....I hate warm colors but problem is my skin is light and yellow-neutral combination. I love winter colors but I feel like they are to strong for me and i prefer gold over silver. it's confusing. I think it's good to follow the colors you're naturally attracted to. I would never wear orange tones or olivegreen no matter what others say.
i love the way you commentate welcoming all ideas and interpretations. im not sure how you do it, but i feel acceptance and gratitude radiating from your videos! fashion is about self-love, not self-critique, and you remind me that every time i watch a video.
Justine, I've seen this sort of topic covered by a bunch of people and businesses and feel you did a wonderful job of explaining it so clearly including its limitations. I'll save this as a reference video to show people I want to tell about seasonal colors (which has bought me lots of fun, joy, and deeper self-awareness and self-acceptance to learn about and play with over the years and also helps me understand and appreciate others more too).
After reading up on seasonal color analysis, I finally decided that it was more of a burden than a help and would take the joy out of shopping and planning my wardrobe. None of my "ideal" colors suit my style and taste at all. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this video!
Yeah, I figured the same as well. Especially since I'm a neutral, light olive-skinned girl so most things look good on me, and I've already figured out the few exceptions to this (I look terrible in bubblegum pinks and certain shades of orange and that's about it) just by looking at the mirror and noticing that the color drains me out. And TBH even if a colour does look bad on you, you can just wear it on your bottom part (so not near your face) if you really like it.
This really helped things click for me! I was inspired to go into my bathroom and do some color testing on my arm. I picked a color (pink, first) and swatched all of my pink eyeshadows on my arm...and then picked out the ones that looked good and the ones that looked garish. I did the same with grays, blacks/browns, purples, etc. I realized that I look better in warm colors, jewel tones, browns over blacks, etc. Now I get to take this knowledge and apply it to my wardrobe...and I think I ended up in the 'soft autumn' category. It all makes sense. I appreciate your insight and clarity; thank you so much for making these types of videos and sharing your knowledge with so many people! Have a lovely weekend, Justine. :)
For any of you wondering whether you are just neutral or olive toned or warm toned but somehow it just doesn't tick all the boxes, go watch Audrey Coyne's video on olive skin tones. I struggled for years wondering what I was until I watched her video. I have an olive skin tone btw!🙂
I've been trying to figure this out for YEARS and you finally, literally, broke it down for me in the most perfect way!! I always thought i was a soft summer but I'm a soft autumn!! No wonder why I was never satisfied thank you SOOOO MUCH!!!!
Excellent, thank you! I used to choose summer colors because I thought they were pretty. I was finally determined to be a spring and this allowed me to look more alive and less washed out. I do not believe people gravitate to the right colors. Most people I've talked to think they are winters and often they are not. I still look best in warm clear colors even with lots of white in my hair. I agree with everything you said and I appreciate your presentation which makes it so much easier to understand.
very helpful, Justine, thank you. I would enjoy a series for ladies over 55. I am approaching 70 and I still have my hazel eyes; now that my hair is turning grayer and my skin tone is different, I would love to hear your thoughts on how to best work with the new me!
It's a curious thing and as Justine has said, it is only a tool for people to experiment with. I am medium skin toned with a yellow undertone (light olive perhaps?), and I have naturally dark brown hair and green/hazel eyes. On paper I should be a version of spring, but true clear/bright winter colours suit me best. I had the "swatch test" done many years ago, and deemed a winter. It has remained accurate in my case. My palette expands and changes when I am tanned, however. I suspect that's the case for many people. We all have worn colours that cause people to compliment how we look in it- go along that vein and ultimately wear what you feel really good in.
Even though I don't follow these colour rules (I generally know what colours suit me) and find it all a bit too complicated to put into practice, I still love to listen to Justine , she has a great way of presenting information!
Olive too ! I never understood why I looked so weird, so out of place, on pictures with other people, until I finally spotted it : my skin is, well, yellowish-green ! Like, very ! It's really weird, haven't seen many people with a similar colour. It's not a question of light or dark (even tanned, I am still green), it's just there. And any shades of pink makes me look like out of a coffin ^^ Good, because I don't like the colour at all. Green is my fav, but dark blue suits my face even more.
All the time whenever I'm shopping, I'm always uncertain about how the color of a piece of clothing makes me look. This explanation of the seasonal color categories really explained it for me, and this inspired me to do further research -- I fall under warm autumn! I feel like everyone could use this advice, especially so that they don't have to constantly ask other people, "Does this color look good on me?" I'm so happy to feel much more confident about the color of a piece of clothing whenever I go shopping now! Thank you, Justine :)
My question is where would olive fit into this? As, when I'm not as tanned, my skin has a more definite grey- green cast to it. My veins lean towards looking blue, but I look better in gold jewelry. Could you please do a video on olive skin tones as the struggle is real to explain it, identify it, and find clothes etc... that look complimentary.
Thank you so much for making this utterly brilliant video Justine! I have been struggling with the whole concept of putting people in analysed colour "boxes" and know so many people who have had their colours "done" that seem even more confused as to what to wear. If it doesn't match their "prescribed" colour swatches they feel they can't wear it! Tone, shade and texture make such a difference to the way colour looks and I believe nothing beats trying colours with an open mind! I have recently been fraught about trying to find out my "season" and your video couldn't have come at a better time!!! Thank you so much.
exactly the reason why I took an Autumn girl without brown eyes: you need to look at the feeling overall (skin + hair + eyes). The girl I picked looks very "warm", typical autumn. But you could have an autumn or a spring with brown eyes. And probably a summer with light brown eyes. And a winter with dark brown eyes ;-)
Justine Leconte officiel Justine, I'm always confused because of hair/eye color assumptions on the 12 season method. I get the undertone. But I never see a model with warm undertones, med brown hair, and greenish eyes. The assumption for green is you either have light skin/dark hair or warm with light hair. Now that I'm salt and pepper none of this works
I am quite new to the season cllour theory (as we call it here, "armocromia", colour harmony) but I was introduced to the 16 seasons model, I myself being a deep winter soft. I previously already had quite a good understanding of colours since I am a long time creative-photographer-digital illustrator so I naturally gravitated towards those which look best on me. One thing that it taught me is that no matter how much you like a particular colour, if it belongs to your opposite season you will look either sick or very sick in it if you use it with no guidance. And the second thing it taught me is no matter what season a particular colour belongs to, if you really like it you can and wil find ways to pull it off ;)
I am old enough to have been paying attention when colour analysis first began and it was life changing for me. I am Snow White colouring with dark hair and white skin, but I used to wear soft colours and even browns. I looked like a sick parrot. My colour palette needs to be very cool, clear and dark [strong]. I look best in white, black and strong jewel colours. My favourite colour is red. True red or blue based cherry red. Never orange red. Wearing the best colours for me literally makes me happy every day. :] The only part of seasonal colour analysis I disagree with is the need to include eye colour. It doesn't apply in my book and just confuses people. I have green eyes which would suggest Spring colours, that look hideous on me.
Strawberry 1 Same here. Except that I've found that dark grey works even better than black as a basic colour for me...never ever colours with a yellowish undertone or pastels, though. It's so ingrained in me by now, the thought almost causes me physical discomfort. Like the thought of wearing something dirty or smelly...funny thing is, most people won't believe me, when I tell them that I usually know if something is going to look good on me without trying it on. Probably because most people aren't such obvious 'types'. I look exactly like that winter lady in the chart - except a little less pretty 😁
I wear the same color palette as you and I love jewel tones like emerald green, true red and dark purple. But the problem is that these colors don't really work together. Do you have any advice on how to combine them into a cohesive wardrobe? Should I just pick one color and combine it with black and white?
Hi sammmy7. I am no expert whatsoever but the way I wear jewel colours is usually one at a time paired with one of my favourite neutral colours. So for example it is very cold day here in Dublin so I am wearing black stockings, a black mermaid skirt with a cobalt/electric blue top. With my cherry liptstick, white skin and dark hair I like the combination. However if I added any more jewel colours I think I would look like a set of traffic lights....hee. But complimentary jewel colours can work as accents to one main one. ie; wearing a red t shirt under my cobalt top as an accent at the neck, or in a necklace. I adore dark purple as well. Gorgeous colour. I often wear it.
Thanks, using complimentary colors as accents is a great idea! That way I can wear two of my favorite colors without getting the "traffic light" effect ;-) Your outfit sounds lovely btw.
Same here. I tend to stick to "winter" colours. Beige makes me look like a biscuit, greige looks good. I look ill in mustard and never wear yellow. I love red but am not confident of choosing the "right" hue. I look great in most pinks but bleah in baby pink. I used to wear a lot of black but prefer navy blue. My favourites are teal, amethyst and plum. I have mid brown hair. Not sure of skin tone but it is quite punky and have very dark brown eyes
Not necessarily. I’m a redhead and I’m neutral. I can wear a lot of different warm/cool tones and silver/gold jewelry. Some very cool colors don’t look good on me at all
@@mariahspapaya Fair, this comment was from 3 years ago haha. I do think redheads can have all sorts of skin undertones thanks to Merriam style's vid on the subject :)
@@mariahspapaya Also I think my comment that most red heads have cooler undertones was due to most of the redheads I know having a very pale, cool toned nordic complexion so I made that assumption. There are of course many different types of redheads out there with different complexions, skin undertone isn't predicated on hair colour
Hi Justine, Thank you for your analysis - you always seem to make very helpful observations. I wanted to share something that happened years ago and has stuck with me since junior high school in NY. Our home economics class taught sewing and all of us girls were required to buy a pattern and made a blouse during class that semester. I was probably one of the few students to actually make a wearable blouse. The sad part for me is the "color" selection process. Prior to being sent home to purchase fabric, we were (publically) draped in swatches, one by one, and good and bad colors were recorded for each student. Unfortunately, our teacher declared that ALL of the swatch colors were bad colors for me. Even white, black and greys were bad for me! I believe I was the only girl with that verdict. I still question my color choices all these 50 years later. I love color. I love black, white, and everything in between. I love how you try to have at least a little something positive to say about all body shapes, all skin tones, all styles, etc. you really do stretch your and our imaginations about possibilities. Thank you for that.
Hi my lovely elegant lady♥️. I have followed your advice and last weekend I have donated dresses and tops that I don't really wear. It was refreshing. Now when I go shopping I have a better idea of what I need and in what colours. I have also checked my shoes and bags. It is more economical and decluttering felt amazing. Thank you for your hard work and great content. May I ask you please to do a completion of before and after ( styling/ organization/ creative projects) I think it will be fun!
I tried to work this out for a while. My veins are blue, I don’t tan well, I have brown eyes, freckles and lightish hair. I thought I was a summer but wasn’t 100%. I paid a small fortune to have a professional colour analysis last year and it turned out that I’m a vibrant autumn! Well worth having it done IMO
Justine, I believe that you'd be interested to learn about the 12 blueprints color system - they're not based on how you look, but what suits you. I look like a deep winter, but bright winter colors suit me the best, for example.
High five! That's literally me :) People always try to force "autumn" on me because of my brown eyes, but classic autumn colors just don't look good on me. If my eyes were blue or grey, I'd be a summer for sure. So, soft autumn it is. :)
Hello! Do you dye your hair? And wich colour? I think I am like you, but every time I dye my hair, I fail. It's turning out golden-orange very shiny who makes me look red or grey/ green who makes me look pale. It's very hard for me to find the balance between them. I would like to be a soft blond, not so warm and yet no so cool.
As a neutral, deep and muted woman I can tell you it was a mission to work out where I fit in! I'm a soft summer deep who can wear some winter colours as well as summer, as long as neither are too bright, light or warm. Good video, thank you.
This is so true!!! I just found what colors make me POP and it has make all the difference. If I’m wearing black or grey the slightest amount of sky or bright baby blue my eyes glow.
Even after taking online tests and staring at old pictures I've never been able to figure out what my pallette is. My hair is naturally strawberry blonde, which the charts always assume pairs with pale blue eyes, but mine are a deep reddish brown. And my skin is cool and pinkish (but part of that is due to a skin disorder!) So I don't seem to fit into any of the normal boxes! I get disheartened trying to figure it all out. All I know is I look like death warmed over in bright red lipstick or barbie pink colors. D:
I love the way you explain this! So helpful. At the end, when you mention that if you know a certain color looks really GREAT on you ... try and go from there to find out why, etc. That is AWESOME advice! I think most everyone has that one or two colors that they feel great wearing and get compliments on as well .... and it just makes sense that would be a clue :) thank you!!
I think it is so hard to figure out if you're cool or warm!! My husband has a distinct reddish undertone, so that's easy. But I feel like I can stare at my veins and still not know if they're blue or green! Usually seasonal color quizzes say I'm a clear winter, which seems right to me. But I wonder if I struggle with cool/warm because I'm kind of close to neutral.
I had my colors done decades ago and have found it really helpful because it is so much easier to mix and match . Yes I have wondered when I found a unique and beautiful piece, but I still go back to my basics.
I shall just refer to my season as Chameleon and end it at that, I normally have colours that I hate against my skin anyway, can't explain it, but I do. The colour thing is so confusing.
Merci, Justine! Incredibly useful advice about color, backed up by solid research. I’ve had trouble with the 4 seasons approach, so the more detailed chart looks like a better system for green-eyed people like me.
I am definitely one of the people this doesn't work for. I have red hair and blue, green and brown eyes(weird I know) with skin that is squarely in the neutral category. I have both purple and green veins on my wrist depending on the amount of tan. Aaaand trying the color match thing for undertone shows either pale orange or grey depending on the light. 🤔 What's a girl to do?
You're so eloquent and analytic about this system applied to all skin colors. Loved your input in this! Will be searching what colors a "warm light" suits, hope purple is in there cos its my favorite color.
I had difficulty understanding these color videos.so I went to pinterest. Now I have come back to this video and it all makes sense. Thanks for the guidelines. Your my favorite teacher😊
I really love your videos and respect you, however what was said in this video is totally incorrect and does not represent seasonal color analysis at all. Whoever is interested, find better info elsewhere. In a nutshell: season and subseason are based on the reaction of the skin/face as a whole to colors themselves, not on such a scheme with hair eye colors etc. It's impossible to type a person without draping. The vein/metal test is not correct and not used in typing. E.g. some winters wear gold well. Seasonal analysis allows to type correctly people of all ages and ethnicities in various seasons. E.g. Beyonce is a true spring, Rhianna a soft summer deep. The most recent and common scheme is 16-seasons (although other, less common schemes exist).
there is this: you should judge your season relatively to your ethnicity, instead to comparing with the original benchmarks, which are all white. Here is an article where you see examples (but it is not bullet-proofed by color analysts, so to-be-checked): www.thechicfashionista.com/color-analysis-seasons.html
I was also thinking the same thing since I am almost as dark as Lupita Nyong'o Well, I have just found a similar video by Jen Thoden which also highlights WOC th-cam.com/video/KXYd2NYvKtI/w-d-xo.html
check out 12 Blueprints and Truth Is Beauty! not all WOC are in Dark seasons, though many are (just like many Scandinavian women are Light seasons). Off the top of my head, celeb examples: I think Alicia Keys is a Light Spring, Lupita is a Bright Winter and Rihanna might be one of the Soft seasons. also, many East Asian women are Bright Springs, hence the popularity of peach and coral tones in k-beauty and j-beauty trends.
Absolutely, I'm no expert, but I think cool is like extremely dark skin tone with no reddish or yellow undertones, this would be winter, and if you have a warm skintone, and a wark eye hair color, like light brown, i think you are an autumn, and i think light skin girls with that grayish hair color, very ash color, they are probably one of the other two, it's just about finding your undertone wether it is warm, more red/yellow, or cool more beige or deep brown, cool brown.
Lillian N thanks for this link! Jen Thoden has simplified the colour system to Bright or Soft. I could live with that! I already know that I'm Bright Winter. I remember my mum getting her colours done, when I was a preteen. It explains why my mum and I have never shared clothes. She's a summer and I'm a winter. 😀 People of colour CAN and were analysed with the 4 season system. But a lot of so-called "consultants" were just lazy and thought to just lump all non-white people into the winter category instead of doing the 'work' of draping them with the fabrics. I must admit that the 16 season concept is tricky to pin down, because most folks want to DIY it over the Internet. On the other hand, it is possible via Internet to find a celebrity with same or similar coloring and then go with that.
Hi Justine , I'm new here. I studied colour analysis in 97, I never took it any further but have always enjoyed it. I hadn't realised that the study of it has come so far. Very interesting!
SuseKuss I' I think she talked about it in some video...the one about gold vs silver jewelry maybe? It was 'how to determine skin tone' or something ☺. My guess would be autumn. I do think she wears both gold and silver jewellery, though, so maybe I'm wrong. Artificial lights can be deceiving when trying to determine skin tone.
SuseKuss Yeah, I take the 'autumn back! I looked at other videos of hers and it's just this one where her skin has a yellowish tinge and the hair a reddish sheen. Must be the lighting. She looks much 'cooler' ususally 😁. I have a bad visual memory, so I didn't notice...even her eyecolour is different. It's greenish here and usually it's blue.
I've got lost at some point. I have very fair skin, red hair, and brown eyes.. I thought I might be a summer but then got lost. It would be lovely to see the colour chart. Thank you very much for your posts. Even though I had some theories of what suits me better, your posts provided me an actual framework to my assumptions. Thanks for being so nice!
i find your 'season' changes with the seasons of life. I used to be a winter, it seems very much that i've turned into an autumn. Silver was my color at the time, gold suits me better at this stage. Your skin color changes, too - quite drastically, even if the undertone stays the same. Color me confused ;)
Loufi303 A lot of that has to do with hair color and skin tanning/lightening. You may be a bit darker this summer and therefore change your wardrobe because of a tan for example, so yes, you are absolutely right.
Dillon, I am not talking about skin tanning/lightening and not about hair color (which in my case hasn't changed; and not coloring it). I'm talking about actual permanent change of skin tone when aging. Wait till you get there :p or just observe in people d'un certain age. White people often get 'ruddy' and olive skin, like myself, may get more golden in tone, without tanning. (I've religiously avoided the sun since my early 20s and as religiously applied spf). I used to be close to 'porcelain' - extremely light: always the lightest color foundation. What suits me in terms of color has changed (consistently, regardless of time of year) accordingly: from winter to autumn. I'm not complaining though ;)
that's definitely true, but gold really didn't work for me at all 10, 15 years ago - regardless of fashion (and in hiphop which i was very much into in the 90s, it was all about gold, not silver). Now it looks fab. Moreover, it's just a fact that my skintone has changed. There's no need for me to make these things up lol.
Thanks, Justine. I'm a woman with dark skin tones, black hair and brown eyes (warm undertones) I couldn't find my self in that analysis. Now i wear what i like, exclude black color.
You're the only one I have seen that went beyond the 4 seasons, thank you! I am a summer, cool toned girl (blonde hair with honey brown colored eyes). It makes it complicated because the summer category is for blonde hair, blue eyes.
So glad you made this video. I started showing a lot of interest in this subject about 5 years ago because I was so tired of feeling like I look terrible in everything I wore. But the more I read, the more anxiety I started to feel because I wasn't quite sure of where I was in this system and I didn't particularly like the colors I was supposed to be. In the end, wear what you like and what feels comfortable. And like you said, if you think you look great in something, figure out what it is about that and repeat lol. Thank you Justine! I get so excited when I see you have new videos up 💞
The vast majority of black African/West Indian women, Asian women and Olive skinned women will fall into the Autumn and Winter category. There are a few exceptions, but they are rare
... the footage is color-corrected to make the background look properly white and not grey. So there is a bit of magic of top of the actual picture ;-)
Justine, you're fabulous! Please consider doing a video on what colours are best to wear in pictures. I need a new professional portrait shot. :-) And hello from one who did her colours in the '80s! I'm a cool winter for sure. I recall friends who had trouble fitting into a season though. I'll share your update. Thanks!
Hi Justine, I have taken all your lessons and changed up my whole wardrobe in a matter of months. From my shoes to my hijabs. I taken the classic route but I couldn't manage to keep it minimalist, and I still have way too much black of course! But my wardrobe looks fabulous and is sure to last me a very long time all thanks to you xoxo
Fun! So I was pretty sure I'm a winter, now know I am a cool winter, with medium brown hair (now silver brown) and dark brown eyes. I checked against my wardrobe colour options and it's a complete match, so yay!
Hi everyone! I hope it was useful... Do leave potential questions in the comments below ;-) Take care!
Thank you for including Olive undertune. I'm a pasty super pale nordic girl with olive undertone. Nothing involving undertones made any sense before i found that out. Makeup and fashion guides for us are rare to find and not all that good. I'm hoping for a video. Much love
thanks again for another great video! ❤ this video was very timely for me. I found several articles about the season analysis and got extremely confused. I am a medium skin with very warm undertones and black hair. I felt like this analysis exclude anybody with darker skin tones.
I just love how inclusive and detailed you are. ❤
thank you Justine, as always you have such a clear and concise way of explaining things...I have tries many times but can never truly figure out my season, but I think it's because I cannot truly "see" myself if that makes sense. My first blockage is the undertone...I do not see wether my veins are green or blue, they seem a miday, and I do not see wether silver or gold suits better, I used to wear only silver when younger, now I wear gold as well, but I feel it is more related to age then undertone? I think I am an autumn, as I am drawn to those colors, and I have brown/auburn/chestnut hair and eyes are also chestnut/moss green... Finally I think a deep rich burgundy/bordeaux really suits me and so does a deep rich mossy green...sorry if this was long. Could I be a neutral, or is there some way to overcome my "blindness" in figuring out my tone? merci
Hi Justine! Thanks for the video- in the end when you say "if you find a color that you think looks great on you- try and find why it looks great on you"-can you expand on that please? How can one go about doing that? I am an Olive/ neutral undertone, with black hair and deep brown eyes.. so clearly I need to try something different.
Justine Leconte officiel : I'm wondering - what is your "season"?
"Not everyone fits in a table and that is O. K."
Words to live by.
Hawley Rigsby Need to apply that to every part of life really, it's an excellent quote whether discussing your scarf or mental illness etc. Awesome words here.
I don't fit at all. It's so hard finding any kind of makeup that looks nice. Even eyeshadow and lipstick. I stopped buying it. I just mix colors together now and hope I don't look deceased by the time I'm finished. That's the goal lol
@@melissanichilo8176 idk anything about makeup, but maybe a makeup specialist/going to get it done by a pro would help a lot
When I was in high school, I had a neighbor who was a Color Me Beautiful consultant (I'm not sure if that still exists). Because I took care of her cats, she did my colors for free. There was a group of us and, after, determining whether each of us was warm or cool, she then draped us with large swatches of fabric to determine whether we were Summer or Winter (cool) or Spring or Autumn (warm). I am a natural redhead with deep brown tones in my hair and blue-green eyes and I am an Autumn. I look good in the duskier, classic colors of fall: rust, olive, burnt gold. My mother, also a natural redhead, but with lighter, brighter hair and blue-gray eyes is a Spring. She looks best in brighter warm tones: spring green, marigold, bright orangey coral. Red hair does not turn grey, but sort of pearl colored. At 90 my mother is still a Spring. That doesn't change, although some of the specific colors within the category might become better or worse for you over time. Being draped with fabric was really helpful, and there were a few colors in my Autumn palette that we decided would be better away from the face, as in a sundress with a low neckline. Another thing to keep in mind is that there are warm and cool versions of almost every color: ruby red is cool, tomato red is warm; emerald green is cool, olive green is warm; sky blue is cool, periwinkle blue is warm; lemon yellow is cool, golden yellow is warm. This is a bit different from how many artists think of color. I have noticed that many people are not good at determining which colors look good on them. I was shopping for jackets with a friend who is a Winter (cool, bright, true colors + black, white) with rather sallow olive skin and she tried on a cobalt blue jacket that took my breath away, it was so beautiful on her. She wanted to buy the same jacket in the golden yellow, which only made her look more yellow.
This is the method I prefer and got used to as well. As far as I remember the Chroma was included in the initial four season type analyses (muted and clear). The inclusion of these sub-categories can confuse more than inform. I am what I would call a warm summer, who looks good in mid range summer colours with a slightly brighter hue than the muted ones. I can also get away with some of the cooler Spring and warmer Autumn colours. The very dark burgundies, darker cool blues don't look quite right on me nor does anything with a golden yellow hue to it. This was all covered in the original four seasonal palette, which did also include black women too.
I think I was such a deep Winter in my teens and twenties that I got away with some limited colours from Autumn if they were rich hues. However, now that I’ve aged and my skin and hair textures and vibrancy have altered significantly enough, I’ve shifted into the cool range of Winter... cool enough that it’s halved the winter colours that now compliment me and encompasses quite a lot of cool Summer selections. That shift from prevalent deep toward light has lessened my number of options at the same time as shifting me from all of the complete Winter spectrum with a small sliver of carefully curated Autumn into the lighter half of Winter and a considerable slice of cool Summer. However somehow also including the warm shades of Spring and Autumn if they ride that midline not going on either side of the light deep intersection. Anyone else also experience this?
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Thank you Meg for that clear explanation. I used to do people's colours a long time ago - it could have been Colour Me Beautiful, I can't remember. The system you describe is how I learned it as well. There may be a few people who straddle seasons, but most fit into one with this method. As we age and our hair lightens, the colours that look best on us will probably lighten too (eg: from burgundy to bright, clear icy pink or from deep purple to lavender). Eye colour didn't mean so much when I studied and most people of colour were winters. Strong winters were also people who had dark hair and pale skin (think Anne Hathaway as an example).
Great explainer!
in my personal experience the vein trick isn't true to reality! i'm olive/yellow/warm toned but my veins look blue purple because my skin is quite pale and translucent in certain areas, like my inner wrists. love this video :)
And my veins are different colors depending on where on my wrist I am looking...
I agree with you. Funnily enough on my inner wrist there are a blue and green one next to each other.
yeah, same. i found the white paper test and the silver vs. gold test that Justine talks about in her undertone video to be helpful, though!
Yes, me too. My mother used to say I was a warm because I have hazel eyes and light brown hair. But I can wear silver jewelry as well as gold and I look terrific in blue. So, I don't fit into the categories.
SL Barbieri, you would be summer then.
The seasonal color system that I am most familiar with (it's called Sci/art) ignores eye color and hair color for the most part. It mostly just focuses on how the skin looks with different colored drapes. And it allows for neutral undertones as well.
So if you're interested in this, I recommend just focusing on how your skin reacts to various colors you wear. Do you look sick in warm-toned clothes? Do you lool dead in cool-toned clothes? Etc.
(Oh, I mean "you" = the general you, not anyone in particular.)
Jessica Krueger I fully agree with you. One can be a natural blonde Winter, Clear Spring may have naturally dark hair, two ash brown blue eyed ladies looking pretty similar can be two different seasons, so the best way to determine your season would be checking how skin reacts on sets of colours for each season. I had my online analysis done last week and am awaiting a fan for my season so I can swatch my clothes. It’s astonishing how a subtle difference to the hue/chroma/value can make a difference to what your skin looks like...
Hair and eyes can help pick the colors that compliment you the best. In summer, after getting even small tan, my skin gets warm undertones with my veins being clearly green, in any other time of the year I am cool with blue-ish, purple-ish veins, my hair naturally gets lighter from the sun so that I used to be asked at school if I had colored my hair during summer holidays. I am truly either a "Late Spring" or an "Early Summer" and it makes perfect sense because I always gravitated towards both color pallets.
Strong agree
Totally agreed
Also, do the test when your hair looks its best (because whenever it was cloudy and i was in secondary wearing a light blue shirt and a navy blazer (school uniform) and my hair needed washing the teachers always said i looked sick (when they otherwise wouldn't, my hair is brown with ginger highlights/ginger mixed in, but when it's greasy it goes dark brown/ almost black in colour)
Out of all the colour analysis people, you just became my favourite. You’re not at all pretentious and you talked about neutral skin. So many act like neutral complexions don’t exist. And when you said not everyone fits into a category - that was brilliant - no other colour analysis person I’ve seen has conceded to that.
I have both blue/purple AND green/turquoise veins throughout my body, my natural hair is dark golden blonde/strawberry blonde, and my eyes are a dark turquoise. I look good in both gold and silver (gold just slightly better - due to my hair more than my skin) and my best colours are turquoise, forest green, and tomato red, and salmon. I never had a clue WHAT I was. I assumed I had to be spring or autumn, but my skin never seemed quite “golden” enough. Thank you for saying that we don’t all have to fit perfectly into a category! Lol
I have very similar coloring! But my hair is both golden light brown and ashy dark blonde. My eyes are neither dark nor bright and either blue or green depending upon who you ask (and not quite brown enough to be hazel). My skin is quite pale and I usually use a fair/porcelain cool or neutral foundation.... I also see a golden glow to it depending on lighting... veins can go from turquoise to almost violet. I don't know if silver or gold looks better, but I like to wear bronze or antiqued metals. I like jewel tones and muted colors in the fall and winter. And I like to wear a soft pastels in spring and vivid colors in summer.
I have been struggling with the same thing! I am very neutral and it’s so hard to figure out my season
Neutrals seem to get bypassed. I agree, I am green/blue veins, but have neutral skin shade and look good in both silver and gold. Not sure which color family I fall into?
Same here - neutral skin, mousy blonde and hazel (orange and green rings) eyes. I look best in khaki, browns and intense reds and teals. No simple boxes for us!
I absolutely love how inclusive Justine always is. ❤️❤️ She's so considerate of all of our different skin tones and body types, and she always embraces nuance and the variations that personal preference can play in fashion choices.
I love hearing about seasons. I just gravitate naturally to the colors that look good on me.
I like your technique. I don’t have time to figure out color analysis. 🤣
I am both intrigued and befuddled by the method, and think I will just refer to my wardrobe choices as "nuclear winter, " and leave people guessing. : ) Seriously, I will look into seasonal color analysis further; TFP and giving me a head start!
tamcon72 Love the "nuclear winter" idea, ignoring thermonuclear apocalypse it sounds like a good name for a fashion set. Might have to steal it...
Be my guest, Dillon; we live in dire times and must take our funnin' where we can . . .
Just a guess: nuclear winter sounds like clear winter (close to spring). It has brighter colors with some (just a hint) of warmth in it.
For a long time, I couldn't figure out if I was a clear spring or a clear winter. I am a neutral, so as Justine says, it's more tricky. However, almost all of the clear spring colors suit me (except 1), and I can only wear maybe 1/2 or 2/3 of the winter colors well. So there you go. One season will be better, even for someone who falls a bit in the crack, like me!
Your Wednesday videos are like getting a present in the middle of each week. Merci, Justine. :)
thanks!
Truth Is Beauty is the best website I’ve found for figuring out your seasons. Modern analysts don’t really subscribe to the dominant category method of figuring it out that you explained in this video. Several seasons can cover neutral undertones and oliveness and women of color, as well!
I also heard enough stylists say that "jewel tones work on everyone" and I disagree... Color theory is a quite young science and it will keep evolving - very interesting!!
Well said! My bestie has olive skin, and she's a Dark Autumn. My husband also has olive skin, and he's a winter. Being olive skinned or dark skinned has nothing to do with your season.
Justine Leconte officiel yeah, I’m excited for our understanding of the world of color to grow! for me and for now, nothing beats the 12 Blueprints SciArt systems. there’s a system of 16 seasons that I don’t really like.
Justine, you and your videos are well-deserved to be popular. It is hard to find on youtube - and not just in fashion topic - logical, not overflooded with too much information videos. Also, what I find very valuable, is your voice, the way you talk: it is intelligent, natural, not trying to sell yourself desperatly. Many youtubers (all of them, except a very few) are just simply too much. You watch their videos, because of the information and trying to survive, while you are listening/watching it. In your case, the personality, the well-structured text, the intonation, all works perfectly. Professional.
Eloquent and classy as always :) Justine, can you do a second video on taking care of clothes and maybe one on the different types of fabric and their properties? I'm learning to buy quality clothes but then I need to learn how to take care of them also. Love all your vids! :)
I'm still having so much trouble which is why I'm greatful you brought up that this doesn't work for everyone. I have had my hairdresser tell me one time im cool then years later im warm. He told me once I was spring then recently that I was autumn. I feel like I need to learn more about chroma and cool vs neutral vs warm. I do wish that you could get a real go[d assessment from a professional for under $250. I love to sew bags and learning how to sew clothing eventually and very much want to pick the best colors. Thank you for alllllll of your videos as they are truly excellent! I love them. Ive watched many on this but yours is definitely the BEST
I've seen in another vid that they did a House of Color analysis for $200 (usd). You may have a HOC analyst near you - just search/ Google.
I agree that this method has some flaws. As a retired makeup artist I became certified to do colour analysis which involved me personally going thru the process. After 4 hours of observation with masters in this field they determined I was a neutral. Why did it take so long? I have ash blonde hair (level 7) so fairly light. Fair to medium skin tone with freckles, very blue eyes and my veins show a variety of colours: blue, purple, some hints of green as well as yellow. When using colour searches against my bare skin you could see colours both in the warm and cool family looked flattering. Also very light and some shades of deep colours were also very flattering. This created a lot of confusion when the goal was to pigeon hole me into a category! Some people are very obvious and this method works brilliantly for them, however, as you have articulated there are exceptions. To this day I continue to find colours from each of the categories that are very flattering for me, although because I have a capsule wardrobe I stick to more muted and basic tones. I wanted to share this so people who may be watching this video or reading the comments would feel affirmed if they too, find that they don't "fit" into one of these specific categories 👍🏻
I am neutral as well. I am somewhere between soft summer and soft autumn and I borrow colors from both seasons :)
I smiled as I read your comment. I brought a color consultant in who taught by seasons/warm/cool etc to my college students in our career development courses. Interestingly she draped each student and we could see how each of the color seasons worked well with just a few outlier colors for many in another season. I was wearing an apricot sweater with a tan blouse with a small print in chocolate brown and teal. I have medium brown hair, hazel green and gold eyes with dark rims and pale neutral skin. Every season had to be tried on me, sometimes multiple times, but it did become apparent that I do look best in cool colors in the summer range--only not the muted ones.. I could pick up a few/ some of the clear colors of spring, the teals of autumns and the mellowed out jewel tones of winter. Its funny but there were colors in each season that looked amazing when draped on me, but what helped decide was that the soft white of summer was truly my best white. The grayed or super light pastels of summer were horrible on me, but the brighter colors were great. I found a "home" in summer and now coordinate, or add in the medium range pure colors from other seasons--like the clear navy of spring. It helped me a lot when the "men's" color me beautiful pallet was published as men require darker colors in their suits and professional wear--the summer men's colors suited me much better than thw women's pallet. So as a tip to anyone struggling--perhaps take a look at the book for men and see if you then find a season that resonates better with your coloring.
**And in all fairness, my color consultant was very well trained and she confessed to me later that I was the hardest person she had analyzed in over five years of consulting and was really happy that I was game to keep going as the whole group and she kept evaluating my draping of the various colors/season pallets. We are all individuals. For me, finding makeup can be just as challenging, as so many products just look horrible on me when they are so beautiful in the presentation before application. You are blessed to have your training as a professional makeup artist. :)
You sound like a light summer to me
Thank you. I read books on this, took every test I could find online, and swore I was a winter. People would see me and blue and say "that really is your color." My friends wanted to get it professionally done as a girls' trip. I was crying on the plane back because I felt so dumb when the expert said 3 out of 5 of us were Autumn. All of us are of different ethnic descent. I am a neutral confirmed by multiple people. Basically, I was told 90% of the things I owned would not work for my skin tone, even my handbags, and shoes. I could see proof that those "wow colors" look good on me but felt like there was more and people couldn't understand my obsession with this. It's like telling someone they have been living their life all wrong when they tried so hard to get it right.
So true. I'm allegedly a "summer", but there are some pinky/peachy colors in my wardrobe that look good on me. As long as its not a straight up orange or yellow, I feel like there is a certain degree of flexibility.
This channel is simply brilliant.You are one of the wisest youtubers that there is!
I have one blue and one brown eye which always sabotages these color theory tips for me! For example what eye shadow colour looks best with what eye colour; very unnecessary genetic mutation.
But you are one step closer to being David Bowie than the rest of us (and from your picture, you apparently have red hair? So you're basically Ziggy Stardust!) :D
Everything works with brown so I would do makeup to enhance your blue eye ;) I am between a warm and cool season myself, due to warm brown eyes and cold ash blonde hair. So while neither of the seasons work 100%, I can find several shades within those seasons that work :)
Marie Bach That actually does make me feel better (alien squad represent!)
don't say that, heterochromia is such a beautiful feature to have, it gives that something special and magical about someone's appearance
My son has blue eyes and a green "beauty mark" on one of his irises- so it looks like one of his eye is part green, part blue. I think it's so cool when people have heterochromic eyes! Embrace it- it makes you very unique and special. I think bronzes, golds, taupes, rose golds, even plum colors would work for you!
This makes much more sense to me than the basic four seasons approach. I'd love to see color palettes for each of the 12 (yikes, that's kind of a lot).
fighting blind Check out the website 12blueprints.com ! She has a lot of good info on there!
I do Color Alliance 372 color combinations
Hello Justine !!! This was very helpful video.If possible please do a video about overcoat / winter coats . As winter is approaching.. Have a nice day :)
4 years later, your videos are still super helpful to understand so many things! Thank you Justine!
P.S. I just loooooove hearing you talk Justine. So healing!
I did a color analysis with drapes, and it worked fantastically. It's more obvious than just looking at skin, hair, and eyes. When you apply the right hue, you immediately see how your eye light up and skin tone looks healthier. I always thought that I am Spring, but it turned out to be I'm more a soft Autumn, and it's been very helpful, also when it comes to not buying colors that definitely do not suit me.
I like Jen Thoden's color method. She is on youtube. She also does cool vs warm, light vs deep, and bright vs soft; but she uses the color wheel in an interesting way, with one muted color wheel, and one bright, pure chroma color wheel. On each wheel there are universal colors from each side of the wheel (cool or warm) that EVERYONE can wear by adjusting the depth and chroma. It makes sense. I am light, cool and bright. But as I have gone grey, I need little bit of contrast. Going grey is a new issue in color analysis, too, as we baby boomers are embracing that. Love your videos, Justine. They are so clear and informative, straight to the point, and always delivered in your charming style. A pleasure to watch. Thank You! :-)
Have been going through some tough period but your videos brighten my day a little :)
Justine I love the way you share information. You're warm, honest and have a great sense of humor which is quite lovely and engaging. You always make me smile with you and I've learnt so much since I discovered your channel. Thank you so much. Love your smile.
This is funny: my girlfriends were all hyped up for the realease of the Naked Heat palette. I was the only one who wasn't because I know that warm colors, like terracotta, sienna, warm browns in general (that are alle the rage now, especially in eye make up) look awful on me. They wouldn't believe me and kept saying:"You have dark eyes, of course these colours will look good on you!" Long story short, I tried it up and they freaked out like : 😰 "Omg, you were right! Take it off." 😂 And this is how I learned that I am a deep winter.
+Chiara Toscano hahaha good for you that you know exactly what works and what doesn't! 👏
Naked 1 is supposedly warm, and Naked 2 cool. I love Naked 1 and Heat!
Keapix Naked 1 is more on the "neutral" side, I believe. I can pull it off quite well and I use it often. The Naked Heat is extremely warm with copper, terracotta and sienna hues and looks really, really bad on my complexion.😅 My favourites are Naked 2 and the Too Faced Chocolate Bon Bons.
I'm feeling with you....I hate warm colors but problem is my skin is light and yellow-neutral combination. I love winter colors but I feel like they are to strong for me and i prefer gold over silver. it's confusing. I think it's good to follow the colors you're naturally attracted to. I would never wear orange tones or olivegreen no matter what others say.
Liloua exactly my case! 👌🏽
i love the way you commentate welcoming all ideas and interpretations. im not sure how you do it, but i feel acceptance and gratitude radiating from your videos! fashion is about self-love, not self-critique, and you remind me that every time i watch a video.
Okay I'm lost haha 😫
Salt&Lemon th-cam.com/video/kNhji-t-84o/w-d-xo.html
Jajajaja sameee xD
This might help a little, it can be confusing at first! th-cam.com/video/HUq5sQYF64o/w-d-xo.html
Same here.
Same
Justine, I've seen this sort of topic covered by a bunch of people and businesses and feel you did a wonderful job of explaining it so clearly including its limitations. I'll save this as a reference video to show people I want to tell about seasonal colors (which has bought me lots of fun, joy, and deeper self-awareness and self-acceptance to learn about and play with over the years and also helps me understand and appreciate others more too).
After reading up on seasonal color analysis, I finally decided that it was more of a burden than a help and would take the joy out of shopping and planning my wardrobe. None of my "ideal" colors suit my style and taste at all. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this video!
Yeah, I figured the same as well. Especially since I'm a neutral, light olive-skinned girl so most things look good on me, and I've already figured out the few exceptions to this (I look terrible in bubblegum pinks and certain shades of orange and that's about it) just by looking at the mirror and noticing that the color drains me out.
And TBH even if a colour does look bad on you, you can just wear it on your bottom part (so not near your face) if you really like it.
This really helped things click for me! I was inspired to go into my bathroom and do some color testing on my arm. I picked a color (pink, first) and swatched all of my pink eyeshadows on my arm...and then picked out the ones that looked good and the ones that looked garish. I did the same with grays, blacks/browns, purples, etc. I realized that I look better in warm colors, jewel tones, browns over blacks, etc. Now I get to take this knowledge and apply it to my wardrobe...and I think I ended up in the 'soft autumn' category. It all makes sense. I appreciate your insight and clarity; thank you so much for making these types of videos and sharing your knowledge with so many people! Have a lovely weekend, Justine. :)
For any of you wondering whether you are just neutral or olive toned or warm toned but somehow it just doesn't tick all the boxes, go watch Audrey Coyne's video on olive skin tones. I struggled for years wondering what I was until I watched her video. I have an olive skin tone btw!🙂
I've been trying to figure this out for YEARS and you finally, literally, broke it down for me in the most perfect way!! I always thought i was a soft summer but I'm a soft autumn!! No wonder why I was never satisfied thank you SOOOO MUCH!!!!
Wow! I had never heard of this before this video. Thank you. Very clearly explained, makes me want to learn more.
Excellent, thank you! I used to choose summer colors because I thought they were pretty. I was finally determined to be a spring and this allowed me to look more alive and less washed out. I do not believe people gravitate to the right colors. Most people I've talked to think they are winters and often they are not. I still look best in warm clear colors even with lots of white in my hair. I agree with everything you said and I appreciate your presentation which makes it so much easier to understand.
Have to watch it as soon as I got the notification!!
I have never understood the seasonal color palette. Now I do!! Thank you Justine.
very helpful, Justine, thank you. I would enjoy a series for ladies over 55. I am approaching 70 and I still have my hazel eyes; now that my hair is turning grayer and my skin tone is different, I would love to hear your thoughts on how to best work with the new me!
Really liked your relaxed and natural vibe! You seem like a verly likeable person, thank you for the video.
It's a curious thing and as Justine has said, it is only a tool for people to experiment with. I am medium skin toned with a yellow undertone (light olive perhaps?), and I have naturally dark brown hair and green/hazel eyes. On paper I should be a version of spring, but true clear/bright winter colours suit me best. I had the "swatch test" done many years ago, and deemed a winter. It has remained accurate in my case. My palette expands and changes when I am tanned, however. I suspect that's the case for many people. We all have worn colours that cause people to compliment how we look in it- go along that vein and ultimately wear what you feel really good in.
Even though I don't follow these colour rules (I generally know what colours suit me) and find it all a bit too complicated to put into practice, I still love to listen to Justine , she has a great way of presenting information!
OLIVE UNDERTONES UNITE!! :*
judging by your (very small) profile picture, I'd say you are rather cool. Does that help?
I have dark brown eyes and hair, but olive skin. I am a dark autumn?
Am Olive too! Chinese with olive skin, can look very green or ashy at times. There just isn't much information for olive tones out there :(
I feel I'm pale olive. The color of my veins are both greenish and some deep purple. I'm confused XD
Olive too ! I never understood why I looked so weird, so out of place, on pictures with other people, until I finally spotted it : my skin is, well, yellowish-green ! Like, very ! It's really weird, haven't seen many people with a similar colour. It's not a question of light or dark (even tanned, I am still green), it's just there. And any shades of pink makes me look like out of a coffin ^^ Good, because I don't like the colour at all. Green is my fav, but dark blue suits my face even more.
All the time whenever I'm shopping, I'm always uncertain about how the color of a piece of clothing makes me look. This explanation of the seasonal color categories really explained it for me, and this inspired me to do further research -- I fall under warm autumn! I feel like everyone could use this advice, especially so that they don't have to constantly ask other people, "Does this color look good on me?"
I'm so happy to feel much more confident about the color of a piece of clothing whenever I go shopping now! Thank you, Justine :)
My question is where would olive fit into this? As, when I'm not as tanned, my skin has a more definite grey- green cast to it. My veins lean towards looking blue, but I look better in gold jewelry.
Could you please do a video on olive skin tones as the struggle is real to explain it, identify it, and find clothes etc... that look complimentary.
yubbadubbadubba yubbadubbadubba. Olive skin is mostly cool, so you may be winter
Thank you so much for making this utterly brilliant video Justine! I have been struggling with the whole concept of putting people in analysed colour "boxes" and know so many people who have had their colours "done" that seem even more confused as to what to wear. If it doesn't match their "prescribed" colour swatches they feel they can't wear it! Tone, shade and texture make such a difference to the way colour looks and I believe nothing beats trying colours with an open mind! I have recently been fraught about trying to find out my "season" and your video couldn't have come at a better time!!! Thank you so much.
None of the models of the 4 seasons chart are brown eyed! I was expecting at least autumn be brown eyed!
exactly the reason why I took an Autumn girl without brown eyes: you need to look at the feeling overall (skin + hair + eyes). The girl I picked looks very "warm", typical autumn. But you could have an autumn or a spring with brown eyes. And probably a summer with light brown eyes. And a winter with dark brown eyes ;-)
Any season can have brown eyes. Justine is right, you have to take all the factors when deciding what season a person is
Justine Leconte officiel Justine, I'm always confused because of hair/eye color assumptions on the 12 season method. I get the undertone. But I never see a model with warm undertones, med brown hair, and greenish eyes. The assumption for green is you either have light skin/dark hair or warm with light hair. Now that I'm salt and pepper none of this works
@@ninatinks well, my mom has medium brown hair, warm undertone and guess what? Green eyes :)
I am quite new to the season cllour theory (as we call it here, "armocromia", colour harmony) but I was introduced to the 16 seasons model, I myself being a deep winter soft. I previously already had quite a good understanding of colours since I am a long time creative-photographer-digital illustrator so I naturally gravitated towards those which look best on me.
One thing that it taught me is that no matter how much you like a particular colour, if it belongs to your opposite season you will look either sick or very sick in it if you use it with no guidance. And the second thing it taught me is no matter what season a particular colour belongs to, if you really like it you can and wil find ways to pull it off ;)
I am old enough to have been paying attention when colour analysis first began and it was life changing for me. I am Snow White colouring with dark hair and white skin, but I used to wear soft colours and even browns. I looked like a sick parrot. My colour palette needs to be very cool, clear and dark [strong]. I look best in white, black and strong jewel colours. My favourite colour is red. True red or blue based cherry red. Never orange red. Wearing the best colours for me literally makes me happy every day. :] The only part of seasonal colour analysis I disagree with is the need to include eye colour. It doesn't apply in my book and just confuses people. I have green eyes which would suggest Spring colours, that look hideous on me.
Strawberry 1 Same here. Except that I've found that dark grey works even better than black as a basic colour for me...never ever colours with a yellowish undertone or pastels, though. It's so ingrained in me by now, the thought almost causes me physical discomfort. Like the thought of wearing something dirty or smelly...funny thing is, most people won't believe me, when I tell them that I usually know if something is going to look good on me without trying it on. Probably because most people aren't such obvious 'types'. I look exactly like that winter lady in the chart - except a little less pretty 😁
I wear the same color palette as you and I love jewel tones like emerald green, true red and dark purple. But the problem is that these colors don't really work together. Do you have any advice on how to combine them into a cohesive wardrobe? Should I just pick one color and combine it with black and white?
Hi sammmy7. I am no expert whatsoever but the way I wear jewel colours is usually one at a time paired with one of my favourite neutral colours. So for example it is very cold day here in Dublin so I am wearing black stockings, a black mermaid skirt with a cobalt/electric blue top. With my cherry liptstick, white skin and dark hair I like the combination. However if I added any more jewel colours I think I would look like a set of traffic lights....hee. But complimentary jewel colours can work as accents to one main one. ie; wearing a red t shirt under my cobalt top as an accent at the neck, or in a necklace. I adore dark purple as well. Gorgeous colour. I often wear it.
Thanks, using complimentary colors as accents is a great idea! That way I can wear two of my favorite colors without getting the "traffic light" effect ;-) Your outfit sounds lovely btw.
Same here. I tend to stick to "winter" colours. Beige makes me look like a biscuit, greige looks good. I look ill in mustard and never wear yellow. I love red but am not confident of choosing the "right" hue. I look great in most pinks but bleah in baby pink. I used to wear a lot of black but prefer navy blue. My favourites are teal, amethyst and plum. I have mid brown hair. Not sure of skin tone but it is quite punky and have very dark brown eyes
You look lovely, Justine! Red really makes the green in your eyes stand out!
Another issue I see is that red hair only falls under spring or autumn in this model, however most redheads I know have cooler undertones
Not necessarily. I’m a redhead and I’m neutral. I can wear a lot of different warm/cool tones and silver/gold jewelry. Some very cool colors don’t look good on me at all
@@mariahspapaya Fair, this comment was from 3 years ago haha. I do think redheads can have all sorts of skin undertones thanks to Merriam style's vid on the subject :)
@@mariahspapaya Also I think my comment that most red heads have cooler undertones was due to most of the redheads I know having a very pale, cool toned nordic complexion so I made that assumption. There are of course many different types of redheads out there with different complexions, skin undertone isn't predicated on hair colour
Hi Justine, Thank you for your analysis - you always seem to make very helpful observations. I wanted to share something that happened years ago and has stuck with me since junior high school in NY. Our home economics class taught sewing and all of us girls were required to buy a pattern and made a blouse during class that semester. I was probably one of the few students to actually make a wearable blouse. The sad part for me is the "color" selection process. Prior to being sent home to purchase fabric, we were (publically) draped in swatches, one by one, and good and bad colors were recorded for each student. Unfortunately, our teacher declared that ALL of the swatch colors were bad colors for me. Even white, black and greys were bad for me! I believe I was the only girl with that verdict. I still question my color choices all these 50 years later. I love color. I love black, white, and everything in between. I love how you try to have at least a little something positive to say about all body shapes, all skin tones, all styles, etc. you really do stretch your and our imaginations about possibilities. Thank you for that.
It's a very clear and concise explanation. But i'm still lost 😔
Thank you for acknowledging grey or white hair and how that changes the way colors work on us over time.
Hi my lovely elegant lady♥️. I have followed your advice and last weekend I have donated dresses and tops that I don't really wear. It was refreshing. Now when I go shopping I have a better idea of what I need and in what colours. I have also checked my shoes and bags. It is more economical and decluttering felt amazing. Thank you for your hard work and great content. May I ask you please to do a completion of before and after ( styling/ organization/ creative projects) I think it will be fun!
Competition ..typo
Do you watch Ana Bay?
I tried to work this out for a while. My veins are blue, I don’t tan well, I have brown eyes, freckles and lightish hair. I thought I was a summer but wasn’t 100%. I paid a small fortune to have a professional colour analysis last year and it turned out that I’m a vibrant autumn! Well worth having it done IMO
Justine, I believe that you'd be interested to learn about the 12 blueprints color system - they're not based on how you look, but what suits you. I look like a deep winter, but bright winter colors suit me the best, for example.
I love your videos on color analysis!
This video is really informative. But it got me confused even more :(
My vein is green so guess warm. Thanks Justine, your narratives are a pleasure to watch :)
I am a soft autumn leaning into soft summer :) I have ash blonde hair with golden highlights, warm brown eyes and neutral skin.
eizhowa I'm a Soft Summer leaning warm. I have hazel eyes and medium-dark brown hair 😊
High five! That's literally me :) People always try to force "autumn" on me because of my brown eyes, but classic autumn colors just don't look good on me. If my eyes were blue or grey, I'd be a summer for sure. So, soft autumn it is. :)
Hello! Do you dye your hair? And wich colour? I think I am like you, but every time I dye my hair, I fail. It's turning out golden-orange very shiny who makes me look red or grey/ green who makes me look pale. It's very hard for me to find the balance between them. I would like to be a soft blond, not so warm and yet no so cool.
As a neutral, deep and muted woman I can tell you it was a mission to work out where I fit in! I'm a soft summer deep who can wear some winter colours as well as summer, as long as neither are too bright, light or warm. Good video, thank you.
Justine, you are so beautiful! You look like a gorgeous elf girl! You could be a character from The Lord of the Rings :)
funny you say that: some of my friends used to call me Arwen ;-)
That nickname suits you perfectly :)
I often thought thre same. She has this elven like essence. So awesome.
This is so true!!!
I just found what colors make me POP and it has make all the difference.
If I’m wearing black or grey the slightest amount of sky or bright baby blue my eyes glow.
Even after taking online tests and staring at old pictures I've never been able to figure out what my pallette is. My hair is naturally strawberry blonde, which the charts always assume pairs with pale blue eyes, but mine are a deep reddish brown. And my skin is cool and pinkish (but part of that is due to a skin disorder!) So I don't seem to fit into any of the normal boxes! I get disheartened trying to figure it all out. All I know is I look like death warmed over in bright red lipstick or barbie pink colors. D:
I love the way you explain this! So helpful. At the end, when you mention that if you know a certain color looks really GREAT on you ... try and go from there to find out why, etc. That is AWESOME advice! I think most everyone has that one or two colors that they feel great wearing and get compliments on as well .... and it just makes sense that would be a clue :) thank you!!
I think it is so hard to figure out if you're cool or warm!! My husband has a distinct reddish undertone, so that's easy. But I feel like I can stare at my veins and still not know if they're blue or green! Usually seasonal color quizzes say I'm a clear winter, which seems right to me. But I wonder if I struggle with cool/warm because I'm kind of close to neutral.
I think neutral is actually an option, and you are lucky! Versatile!
I had my colors done decades ago and have found it really helpful because it is so much easier to mix and match . Yes I have wondered when I found a unique and beautiful piece, but I still go back to my basics.
I shall just refer to my season as Chameleon and end it at that, I normally have colours that I hate against my skin anyway, can't explain it, but I do. The colour thing is so confusing.
Merci, Justine! Incredibly useful advice about color, backed up by solid research. I’ve had trouble with the 4 seasons approach, so the more detailed chart looks like a better system for green-eyed people like me.
glad you found the more detailed version... more helpful ;-) Usually , it gets confusing...
I am definitely one of the people this doesn't work for. I have red hair and blue, green and brown eyes(weird I know) with skin that is squarely in the neutral category. I have both purple and green veins on my wrist depending on the amount of tan. Aaaand trying the color match thing for undertone shows either pale orange or grey depending on the light. 🤔 What's a girl to do?
Not to care much for theories and wear what one enjoys.
Maria Nunes Amen to that, lol!
You are a spring
danielle ramseyer I say add a few more colours and complete the rainbow 🌈
Maria Saadeh 😂 thats no joke!
You're so eloquent and analytic about this system applied to all skin colors. Loved your input in this!
Will be searching what colors a "warm light" suits, hope purple is in there cos its my favorite color.
Hi Justine! Wich season are you?
Thank you so much for your videos! They are really helpful!
Greetings from München :)
I had difficulty understanding these color videos.so I went to pinterest. Now I have come back to this video and it all makes sense. Thanks for the guidelines. Your my favorite teacher😊
I remember this was really big in the late 80s. They always said I was a spring but I wear a lot of cool colors too. I'm a hybrid! 😂
Maybe you're a Light Spring.. They can mostly wear warm spring color, but also a bit of summer colors, those who are warmer.
Jenny That's what I thought too. But people always want to think they are more special than everyone else and can't be categorized.
Thanks for explaining this in such a clear, concise way that actually makes sense! 😊
I really love your videos and respect you, however what was said in this video is totally incorrect and does not represent seasonal color analysis at all. Whoever is interested, find better info elsewhere. In a nutshell: season and subseason are based on the reaction of the skin/face as a whole to colors themselves, not on such a scheme with hair eye colors etc. It's impossible to type a person without draping. The vein/metal test is not correct and not used in typing. E.g. some winters wear gold well. Seasonal analysis allows to type correctly people of all ages and ethnicities in various seasons. E.g. Beyonce is a true spring, Rhianna a soft summer deep. The most recent and common scheme is 16-seasons (although other, less common schemes exist).
I'm confused
I am a clear winter. I love most of the palette but not hot pink. Blue skin so cool. Always look odd in gold. Very helpful video.
Is there any colour analysis for WOC?
there is this: you should judge your season relatively to your ethnicity, instead to comparing with the original benchmarks, which are all white. Here is an article where you see examples (but it is not bullet-proofed by color analysts, so to-be-checked): www.thechicfashionista.com/color-analysis-seasons.html
I was also thinking the same thing since I am almost as dark as Lupita Nyong'o Well, I have just found a similar video by Jen Thoden which also highlights WOC
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check out 12 Blueprints and Truth Is Beauty! not all WOC are in Dark seasons, though many are (just like many Scandinavian women are Light seasons). Off the top of my head, celeb examples: I think Alicia Keys is a Light Spring, Lupita is a Bright Winter and Rihanna might be one of the Soft seasons. also, many East Asian women are Bright Springs, hence the popularity of peach and coral tones in k-beauty and j-beauty trends.
Absolutely, I'm no expert, but I think cool is like extremely dark skin tone with no reddish or yellow undertones, this would be winter, and if you have a warm skintone, and a wark eye hair color, like light brown, i think you are an autumn, and i think light skin girls with that grayish hair color, very ash color, they are probably one of the other two, it's just about finding your undertone wether it is warm, more red/yellow, or cool more beige or deep brown, cool brown.
Lillian N thanks for this link! Jen Thoden has simplified the colour system to Bright or Soft. I could live with that! I already know that I'm Bright Winter.
I remember my mum getting her colours done, when I was a preteen. It explains why my mum and I have never shared clothes. She's a summer and I'm a winter. 😀 People of colour CAN and were analysed with the 4 season system. But a lot of so-called "consultants" were just lazy and thought to just lump all non-white people into the winter category instead of doing the 'work' of draping them with the fabrics.
I must admit that the 16 season concept is tricky to pin down, because most folks want to DIY it over the Internet. On the other hand, it is possible via Internet to find a celebrity with same or similar coloring and then go with that.
Hi Justine , I'm new here. I studied colour analysis in 97, I never took it any further but have always enjoyed it. I hadn't realised that the study of it has come so far. Very interesting!
What's your season btw, Justine? I have always wondered :)
SuseKuss I' I think she talked about it in some video...the one about gold vs silver jewelry maybe? It was 'how to determine skin tone' or something ☺. My guess would be autumn. I do think she wears both gold and silver jewellery, though, so maybe I'm wrong. Artificial lights can be deceiving when trying to determine skin tone.
SuseKuss, in this video she looks like an autumn to me. That dark red shirt makes her skin look healthy and her green eyes pop!
Rara Avis yes, I think she said she has a cool undertone, so I would guess summer. Still, many times she dresses like a winter type, so I don't know.
I guess winter ?..
SuseKuss Yeah, I take the 'autumn back! I looked at other videos of hers and it's just this one where her skin has a yellowish tinge and the hair a reddish sheen. Must be the lighting. She looks much 'cooler' ususally 😁. I have a bad visual memory, so I didn't notice...even her eyecolour is different. It's greenish here and usually it's blue.
I've got lost at some point. I have very fair skin, red hair, and brown eyes.. I thought I might be a summer but then got lost. It would be lovely to see the colour chart. Thank you very much for your posts. Even though I had some theories of what suits me better, your posts provided me an actual framework to my assumptions. Thanks for being so nice!
Yaaaaaas... Im Autumn
easy, lucky you!
wow this is the best video i have ever watched about this stuff. you did a great job breaking it down!
i find your 'season' changes with the seasons of life. I used to be a winter, it seems very much that i've turned into an autumn. Silver was my color at the time, gold suits me better at this stage. Your skin color changes, too - quite drastically, even if the undertone stays the same. Color me confused ;)
Loufi303 A lot of that has to do with hair color and skin tanning/lightening. You may be a bit darker this summer and therefore change your wardrobe because of a tan for example, so yes, you are absolutely right.
Dillon, I am not talking about skin tanning/lightening and not about hair color (which in my case hasn't changed; and not coloring it). I'm talking about actual permanent change of skin tone when aging. Wait till you get there :p or just observe in people d'un certain age. White people often get 'ruddy' and olive skin, like myself, may get more golden in tone, without tanning. (I've religiously avoided the sun since my early 20s and as religiously applied spf). I used to be close to 'porcelain' - extremely light: always the lightest color foundation. What suits me in terms of color has changed (consistently, regardless of time of year) accordingly: from winter to autumn. I'm not complaining though ;)
It's true that the undertone often gets warmer when you get older.
Loufi303 | Maybe your taste has just changed. Gold is also more fashionable now.
that's definitely true, but gold really didn't work for me at all 10, 15 years ago - regardless of fashion (and in hiphop which i was very much into in the 90s, it was all about gold, not silver). Now it looks fab. Moreover, it's just a fact that my skintone has changed. There's no need for me to make these things up lol.
This is the best explanation I've listened to about color theory ever - cleared a lot of confusion up for me. Thank you!
Well, I'm smack dab neutral, so that's PR etty much not applying for me lol
Thanks, Justine. I'm a woman with dark skin tones, black hair and brown eyes (warm undertones) I couldn't find my self in that analysis. Now i wear what i like, exclude black color.
So this sounds crazy, but I swear my veins look blue purple and green.
You're the only one I have seen that went beyond the 4 seasons, thank you! I am a summer, cool toned girl (blonde hair with honey brown colored eyes). It makes it complicated because the summer category is for blonde hair, blue eyes.
Concerning grey hair. Color analysts nowadays teach all seasons become grey different ways.
So glad you made this video. I started showing a lot of interest in this subject about 5 years ago because I was so tired of feeling like I look terrible in everything I wore. But the more I read, the more anxiety I started to feel because I wasn't quite sure of where I was in this system and I didn't particularly like the colors I was supposed to be. In the end, wear what you like and what feels comfortable. And like you said, if you think you look great in something, figure out what it is about that and repeat lol. Thank you Justine! I get so excited when I see you have new videos up 💞
All these examples are VERY white.
Good point.
The vast majority of black African/West Indian women, Asian women and Olive skinned women will fall into the Autumn and Winter category. There are a few exceptions, but they are rare
The color of your shirt makes your eyes look incredible!
... the footage is color-corrected to make the background look properly white and not grey. So there is a bit of magic of top of the actual picture ;-)
Justine, you're fabulous! Please consider doing a video on what colours are best to wear in pictures. I need a new professional portrait shot. :-) And hello from one who did her colours in the '80s! I'm a cool winter for sure. I recall friends who had trouble fitting into a season though. I'll share your update. Thanks!
I am a deep autumn. I knew that before watching this video today. But I wanted to listen to you explaining this.
That lipstick is fabulous! You look exceptionally beautiful in this video.
+Michele Lupe-Bowe thanks!!
Hi Justine, I have taken all your lessons and changed up my whole wardrobe in a matter of months. From my shoes to my hijabs. I taken the classic route but I couldn't manage to keep it minimalist, and I still have way too much black of course! But my wardrobe looks fabulous and is sure to last me a very long time all thanks to you xoxo
You’re such a thorough teacher - this is very informative!
Fun! So I was pretty sure I'm a winter, now know I am a cool winter, with medium brown hair (now silver brown) and dark brown eyes. I checked against my wardrobe colour options and it's a complete match, so yay!
Using your Parisian minimalistic style for designing my new place!! Thanks for the inspiration!! Xx