Hi, welcome to a video about the basics of choosing neutrals, beginning with Summer and Winter. For cool Seasons, wardrobe and cosmetic neutral often means gray, possibly the most unlimited colour tone of all. I hope this video offers you a few ways of approaching grays and making confident choices. I look forward to your brilliant questions and comments :)
Watched this for a second time & lots of info to digest. Forgot to mention how beautiful your makeup and hair looks in this video Christine. Looking forward to twice a month videos 😊
Hopefully you'll see new things with each watching :) I dedicated a lot of outdoor time this summer and got lots of behind the scenes work done, hoping to be a little closer to my dream of posting a video twice a month!
I really appreciate the communication behind this subject! Thank you for explaining & expressing in a way I can apply this to my wardrobe & home decorating.
Thank you Christine! This color system is the consistently accurate in my opinion. You are also such a wonderful teacher. Neutrals are deceptively difficult. As a BW, I have the neutral fabric swatches in both BW and TW, which I can cheat with.
Thank you, it means so much to know that the presentation is useful and helpful :) Having the fabrics speeds progress, I agree. Great to have the neighbour Seasons, hopefully you have a sense of what they have in common. My general feeling between TW and BW is that in the everyday world of changing light, the rest of the outfit, and the cosmetic colours, how much difference can the nuances possibly make? With Summer having more pigment, the differences may be more visible, and DW wouldn't cooperate as well with its Autumn component, but TW and BW? Not different enough to matter, I don't think, except possibly for white.
I love how you talk about color. The words you use are so evocative. For me, that flutter-neck blouse has a downy quality to it. It’s like kitten fur, or gosling feathers. Maybe I could see a storm cloud at sunset. I 100% see summer in that top, particularly with a medium-dark very muted plum or rose color. I’m a Winter and in general I find gray really challenging to wear. If it’s dark enough (practically black) I do okay. But I just look blah if a visibly gray color gets anywhere near my face. The only thing worse on me is brown. I think my theme is that I need vibrant colors that are a little on the dark side but not so dark they begin to lose intensity. I’ve pretty much committed to black and navy.
I love the gosling feather analogy for that top. First time I could see it as something recognizable. I was trying to ignore the fabric, wondering if that was confusing the interpretation of the colour, but in this context, it works, along with the pairing with muted plum. Thank you for sharing the vision :) Agree that gray is challenging. I returned or donated quite a few items before solving gray. I'm not sure how long it would have taken if I didn't have enough fabric colours to bring pieces with me shopping. Nowadays, I like gray depending on context. Eyeshadow, athletic wear, sweaters, easy. Shirts, summer skirts, pants, I'm like you, darker is better. Iron gray and charcoal are a good alternative for black though, along with navy and dark greens.
Very good explanation Christine. I love your broad approach to the subject of colour and references outside the “colour comparison”. I am a Dark Winter myself, but my colouring can be often mistaken for belonging to the Autumn family, with brown eyes, warm overtone but cool undertone, and salt and pepper hair now. I had struggled with neutrals my whole life, but I have been pretty good at identifying core colours. I have purchased your “neutral fabric swatches” and they have been a game changer with helping me to pick the right neutral. I have to say that light neutrals are still tricky, since “flat or fresh white” does not look good me. It looks very separate, and of course warm cream makes me look more yellow. I really like to have some light neutrals as a layering pieces, especially in colder season. I also noticed that light heather grey is “too busy”, as my complexion is already layered with different tones. I look nice in solid, warmer light grey, like a “satin grey”. But light heathered grey tee or a wool sweater is not a good option. In darker neutrals these differences are negligible.
Glad you found it helpful, thank you :) I have exactly the same thoughts regarding neutrals for myself as you have. You'll know from your Neutrals Set that some have slight warmth and they add richness that the iron grays may not, although these work well together in clothing and eyeshadow designs. Lighter neutrals can be harder to find for DW but white isn't and I like it as a layering item. Your expression of 'too busy' for light heather gray is interesting, a nice way of saying that something's off, like pieces of different puzzles although not obviously clashing. Yes to darkness helps normalize neutrals for W, which makes sense and works in practice. You have a good understanding of how to enhance your colouring!
@@ChristineScaman thank you Christine for your tips. I think I recognize the white tee you are wearing in the video. You look very nice in it. It looks like a Lululemon white tee. It has a slight colour texture with a very light grey and thin horizontal stripes, but from the distance looks just white. I have a couple of them, bc they work so good for me. Even before I had my colours done, I felt good in this “white”. I call it a “non-flat white” lol. Looking forward to your future videos.
Yes, that's the top! Lulu clothes often suit my shape and lifestyle and I'd been looking for a white that didn't look so bright on video, as my other white tops do. This one seems to work. I don't think it's as bright in person? 'Flat white' is a perfect description. The tiny very light gray stripes and dots soften it just enough.
Hello there again! Answering back to you from our last interaction, I guess we could indeed talk for days haha. There are many winter colours I have yet to find, grey included. Charcoal and close-to-white greys are hard to get. Though, I guess as black and white are a comfort zone for winters, spotting those shades of grey are a weak spot for winter people perhaps. However they have this quality of clarity to them, charcoal has to be dark but not black, while silver has to be luminous but not white. There’s this moonlight quality to the winter gray scale, as if you could find it in a pitch black sky with a full moon; winter greys are where the moon ends and moonlight meets the black sky, in the craters of the moon itself and sometimes on the reflections of the clouds during the same night. Summer greys on the other hand feel more like the clouds of a storm that can happen at different moments of the day; you know, sometimes depending on the daylight and other factors, clouds are a bit more pigmented than plain grey.
Where the moon ends...and meets black sky. Fantastic visual for a gray scale! I agree about clouds being a source of Summer colours, there's often an element of colour and mist. I think of Bright Winter white as cloud, but it would be the top side with the sun shining on it :) Clouds never really look metallic though, possibly another reason why they suit Summer imagery so well.
I loved this post so much. I have been analyzed as a Summer, but not taught about the sub seasons. For the longest time I thought I was a soft summer but every time I wore the more muted colors I felt gray and looked tired. So I thought I was typed wrongly and I tried Winter, saturated black was too harsh on me, then it became obvious to me that I was and am a cool summer. Seeing the neutral colors beside each other was a huge aha moment. Nice to have it right, though there are a lot of color mistakes in my closet. Yes, very much a learning process but kind of fun at the same time.❤
It is fun and quite satisfying to visit a new way of seeing the world, I find :) I'm glad that your deductive process brought you back to your colour home. True Summer has many neutral tones, and they can look so similar in the palettes but in combinations, they're like related notes on a musical scale that sweep us along in a lovely experience.
Christine-I understand the colors in you don’t change but, as I really age, the intensity in skin, eye color, and hair color changes so would that change me from a winter to a summer?
I've never known that to happen, although I have only observation and experience rather than biological proof. I meet many people over 50 who look very different from their 30 year old photo, but I'm sure that they would analyze into the same Season. Many of us might use our colours differently, for example, in cosmetics, my eye makeup is the same, blush the same, but for lip colour, I've moved to a more medium tone (that might have looked better all along :) ) If I wear Soft Summer colours, they are as pale, gray, or incongruent as they've always been. I can't imagine how we'd get warmer or darker over the years so besides TSu, there's no other choice for a TW (I"m not sure of your exact Season). There may be crossover colours in Summer (as mentioned in the video) that might work, but with clients, too many Su adjustments often shift their appearance to looking even more blended or softened, rather than defined and vibrant, because they are still Winter.
Hi Christine, about the black dye... I have recently been machine dying old items to better match my season, and i noticed that the black Dylon dye contains Reactive Yellow as well as the obvious Reactive Black. Perhaps this may help to explain what you had been wondering about?
Interesting that the yellow component appears in dye as well. So this is a real thing! I've see the yellow-green in palettes and fabrics and thought it was come kind of complimentary colour effect between red and green. Even in black, True Winter black is greenish relative to the other Winters. I hope to know the reason one day. Thank you for the insight!
I find it so interesting that you say that winters often have yellow in their eyes. My eyes really look yellow, in top of blue wirh a dark limbal ring. Some people say they look green. I am sure I'm a cool winter, but have been confused by thw yellow in my eyes. I have sometimes said "it's a cool yellow" which I think is true, hence them looking greeny, but was worried I'm kidding myself.
Also, great video. I love mid-range grey but sometimes wonder if it's more of a summer grey. Now I know just to ask "Will this go with my favourite black jeans"😊
Cool Seasons, including the True Seasons, often have yellow in the eyes. It doesn't really look cool, since lemon yellow might be an odd colour to recognize in an eye, and it's mixed and layered with other colours in the iris in the same way as in skin. I do find that the colours in eyes, whatever the Season, maintain the saturation of the Season though, for example Autumn and Spring can have similar versions of a colour but Sp is brighter. True Summer can also have yellow in the eyes, often in eyes that might be described as gray green. Glad that you found the video helpful, thank you for mentioning it :) I agree that mid-range Winter grays are harder to find. I use the tungsten-silver-lead imagery, possibly easier for Dark Winter, although gemstones might work well for the other two Winters.
I am a bright winter with light green eyes that have a cool dark yellow ring around the pupil that bleeds into the green of my eyes. It gives my eyes a cat like darker yellow appearance in most lighting but in the sun they are obviously a light cool green. for a long time I thought green and yellow could only be warm but now I know that’s incorrect. I’ve started noticing yellow in eyes more often and it’s usually in people I suspect could be a winter. I guess this long reply is to say, don’t rule out winter! I feel more confident than I ever have about my uniquely colored eyes. Wearing my colors has helped me to appreciate how they glow.
I recognize your eye colour patterns for BW, the 'yellow bleeding out into the iris' sounds like the touch of Spring. To add to the beliefs I've adjusted over the years, orange can also be found in the eyes of cool-tone people. It's not prominent and often more of a red-orange or yellow-orange. The brightness level varies and the area may be tiny. Cool-neutral Summer eyes can have the same yellows and oranges. I enjoy the feeling of replacing or upgrading my previous beliefs, like walking along a path and watching the changing landscape :)
This was a super helpful video! Regarding your question about that last slide with the color strips lying on top of the fabric, yes, I saw what you were talking about and it was very, very helpful! On slide eight, regarding the ruffly neck top that was a weird color: I think the cowl neck top to the left of it was throwing the color off. I would take the top in question out of that configuration and look at it next to some other things. Hope that helps!
Thank you! For both comments! I'm happy to know that you could see the colour palettes on the fabric. You can see how shiny that fabric is in the lower corners of the picture, it's almost hard to look at, but so many colours can succeed depending on application or placement. These fabrics rarely make their way into fabric kits to leave room for the more general-use colours but they can add interest and personality in small areas. If it were less shiny, I could easily see a trench coat, would be great actually. Good idea about the ruffle neck blouse and the top next to it throwing it off. I agree that we'd have to have it on its own (on the neutral gray tablecloth!) and try some combinations.
@@ChristineScaman that fabric is a beautiful color, though! Like you said, it would be great as jewelry. I also wanted to mention that showing the color pickers was really helpful too, a lightbulb moment for me, actually! I thought, aw, now I know what she means when she says what color is the gray coming from!!
This is wonderful to read, thank you! Light bulb moments are so clarifying, as if we take a big jump forward into a clearer day. I appreciate the feedback!
You gave excellent information, although I will have to listen a couple of times because I’m not good with colors, I wonder if you could advise me on one thing, I was typed as a deep winter 30 years ago, now I have natural silver hair though so how does that change things? I guess I’m no longer high contrast, still have dark eyes and fair skin. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Glad it was helpful! With dark eyes and fair skin, your contrast is still high. I think of actors like Richard Gere, with the dark eyes and silver hair, a different kind of impact than his early days, although still wears Winter best. My opinion, when hair silvers, a colour in our overall impression changes to a neutral tone (in the same Season) and to restore the overall energy, it looks great to add more colour in appearance, even if it's the previous hair colour or another neutral. Our features may soften and give a blended effect, but softening our colours usually adds to the blended or blur effect. We need our own colours to return definition to shapes in the facial features. Silver hair in Winters is often impacting in its own way, a new kind of contrast, that looks terrific when repeated in appearance. How much things change in the wardrobe depends on personal preference, with options for neutrals such as matte fabrics, charcoal or navy rather than black, lighter colours in the upper half, or lower or open necklines when wearing black. One of the most important improvements is re-dedicating ourselves to wearing colour. It adds energy and is the most rejuvenating thing we can do.
I'd help if I could but I didn't even know Nivea made cosmetics. I live in a small place with limited access to cosmetic brands and couldn't test it for you.
Your teaching style is, without a doubt, the best on this platform! After each video, I have a better understanding and I look forward to the next lesson. As a winter with salt and pepper hair, colors feel different to me than when I was a dark brunette. I find I have become more picky when I go shopping, definitely want the most flattering addition to my wardrobe ❤
I so appreciate your words and also knowing that you're able to apply the information effectively in your own life. Understanding the Why helps, thank you for mentioning it. That may be generally true with women in any subject, compared with men who are often more comfortable winging it. Once we understand the subject, we use information better and take more successful risks (or at least I'm that way). I see this as a good thing :) And like you, why would I wear less flattering colours or neutrals when I understand how to choose the flattering ones?
As, a grey-loving Winter, this was great!! I wish you had also touched on beige though! That is particularly tough for cool seasons. Or, I don't know, Summer seems to have many beige tones in their palette -- I find it difficult to see which ones really work as a TW though. Also, I totally get what you mean with green-yellow tones in Winter people! I even see a very slight yellow/green cast in the highlights of your hair in this video! I also have yellow specks in my green eyes that threw off my analyst a bit; she had me close my eyes when comparing autumn/winter greens in order to focus just on the skin. 😄
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! You're so right about beige for cool Seasons, Su and W, both True and Neutral Seasons. It does exist and is not always intuitive or predictable. The request for this video was the basics of the 4 main Seasons and I try to limit the time to 30 minutes so we stayed with gray, although I so agree that the topic of neutrals without beige is incomplete. Beige for the Cool Seasons is an excellent topic suggestion that I've added to the list. I appreciate that you recognize the yellow and green in Winter people, in skin, hair, and eyes. My hair is definitely greenish, possibly an Autumn contribution, good eye to notice it! The question about yellow in Winters isn't whether it's there (it often is), the question is how saturated it is. In skin, eyes, or hair, I doubt we can know the actual warmth of the single or many yellows, but we can compare saturation, especially in eyes. Many W have yellow in the eyes in a more saturated version than the A colours. Well done for your analyst to suggest you close your eyes, sounds as though they know what they're looking for :)
You have such a great way with words, you are so descriptive and thoughtful in your videos! I hope at some point you'll do a deep dive on summers, I am a true summer and was a bit dismayed when I was analyzed as it so often feels that summer colors can be a bit drab.
Summers are very much on the list. I'm hoping to move through a few videos on neutral tones first, especially since they figure so beautifully in Summer wardrobes and can be challenging to understand. Once we have this baseline, we can start building colour combinations :)
We'll get there :) It helps bring videos together when I begin with viewer questions. The only specific one so far is making outfits with and accessorizing SSu neutrals. If you had any questions to add, I'd be happy to try and answer them in the video.
@@ChristineScaman I like the idea of exploring the Soft seasons in different styles such as modern, casual, eccentric, glamorous, etc. Because from what I've personally observed, it seems that many people fear that they'll appear uninspired and old-fashioned if they learn that they are a Soft season.
Very good suggestions, thank you :) I do agree that the Soft palettes as technical strips of swatches can seem less vibrant, although they come together in the most fabulous combinations. I like the idea of different styles. Although I'm not a style expert, I think I could work with the terms you mention since they're more effects or impressions than strict style categories.
Oh man this video came at the perfect time! I have been really drawn to neutrals for Autumn and being a Summer it can be so hard to find the right ones. A great reminder about yellow in the skin or brown eyes not necessarily meaning warm seasons. I think that assumption hurts a lot of people DIY-ing their colors. I have considered whether a color "fits" within the context of a palette but I never thought about seeing the steps of a strip and viewing the comparison color in terms of seeing vs disappearing.
What a good subject to explore. I have no idea which neutrals work for me (although I believe Autumn neutrals are my worst) so I will find this series very informative. I need to have a color analysis soon but Sci/Art analysts are always quite distant from my location. Here's to the hope that Sci/Art analysts will grow in number! There are actually two TCI analysts that are a reasonable distance from my location. Perhaps I should schedule an analysis with them since Sci/Art analysts often recommend their fans? But someday I do plan on visiting a Sci/Art analyst.
Neutrals are so important and I'm happy that viewers can see the differences with video. I'd encourage you to schedule that TCI analysis. TCI is very much Sci\ART-based, just as much as we are. The founder, Amelia Butler, was a dedicated student of Kathryn Kalisz for many years prior to Kathryn's passing.
That flutter neck blouse that was puzzling to you, in the image of "4 Season Neutrals & Other Grays" ... perhaps this is weird, but I can see it harmonizing with Bright Spring colours. I can see it fitting into an Art Deco colour scheme, with, say, a Bright Spring emerald green and a coral. Or perhaps with a warm cobalt blue, or even with a luminous warm yellow and a touch of violet. That grey-brown has a clear quality, with a lightweight sunshine yellow tinge, but it has a touch of seriousness that speaks to a Winter influence.
So interesting! I had the same thoughts about warmth and Winter combined and didn't see it for the Dark Seasons. Since I'm currently working on the Warm Seasons video, I pulled it into one of the images and it worked better than I expected. Comments from viewers also helped me recognize that it's a colour that makes more sense in groups or combinations than in a large single area. I so respect when clothes are offered in uncommon colours that I would love someone to wear it well! One of the light, warm BSp grays is a wonderful suggestion, thank you!
For that greenish grey that resembles the color of an elephant… think where you’d see the elephant in nature and the colors surrounding it. That could help with its placement.
I tried your idea and figured it out! Even if the colour were made in leather, I couldn't get it, plus elephants are grayer. I thought the colour had enough pigment to be a Summer or Soft or some sort and left it at that. A viewer mentioned goslings and that was the nearest I got to a place in Nature. I walk on the beach most days and noticed the little sand piper birds we have here and there was the colour, among their feathers, or something close. I've realized that was felt confusing about the colour was seeing it as a single solid colour, which is not how it would appear in the natural world (or not the one I'm familiar with). Like the many tones in natural hair colour, especially for the Summers and Softs, we normally see them in a multi-tonal group. I feel much better, thank you for your help :)
Gray is not only one of my best colors or nuetrals, I look really classy if it's like sweater or something with texture it really looks good.😊 white is real tricky.
It's so true, gray can be as functional as it can be elegant and sophisticated. Fabric choice and the right gray for the right person make all the difference. Yes about white needing a little more planning :)
Hi, welcome to a video about the basics of choosing neutrals, beginning with Summer and Winter. For cool Seasons, wardrobe and cosmetic neutral often means gray, possibly the most unlimited colour tone of all. I hope this video offers you a few ways of approaching grays and making confident choices. I look forward to your brilliant questions and comments :)
Watched this for a second time & lots of info to digest. Forgot to mention how beautiful your makeup and hair looks in this video Christine. Looking forward to twice a month videos 😊
Thank you so much 🙂 I appreciate your kind words! Twice a month may mean a new system or shorter topics, but it's a winter commitment.
I’ve missed you Christine & as per my normal, I have to watch this video again to grasp everything. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Hopefully you'll see new things with each watching :) I dedicated a lot of outdoor time this summer and got lots of behind the scenes work done, hoping to be a little closer to my dream of posting a video twice a month!
Glad I am not the only one. LOL
I really appreciate the communication behind this subject! Thank you for explaining & expressing in a way I can apply this to my wardrobe & home decorating.
You're most welcome. I'm happy to know that you will be able to apply the information in your choices, thank you for mentioning it :)
Thank you Christine! This color system is the consistently accurate in my opinion. You are also such a wonderful teacher.
Neutrals are deceptively difficult. As a BW, I have the neutral fabric swatches in both BW and TW, which I can cheat with.
Thank you, it means so much to know that the presentation is useful and helpful :)
Having the fabrics speeds progress, I agree. Great to have the neighbour Seasons, hopefully you have a sense of what they have in common. My general feeling between TW and BW is that in the everyday world of changing light, the rest of the outfit, and the cosmetic colours, how much difference can the nuances possibly make? With Summer having more pigment, the differences may be more visible, and DW wouldn't cooperate as well with its Autumn component, but TW and BW? Not different enough to matter, I don't think, except possibly for white.
I love how you talk about color. The words you use are so evocative. For me, that flutter-neck blouse has a downy quality to it. It’s like kitten fur, or gosling feathers. Maybe I could see a storm cloud at sunset. I 100% see summer in that top, particularly with a medium-dark very muted plum or rose color.
I’m a Winter and in general I find gray really challenging to wear. If it’s dark enough (practically black) I do okay. But I just look blah if a visibly gray color gets anywhere near my face. The only thing worse on me is brown.
I think my theme is that I need vibrant colors that are a little on the dark side but not so dark they begin to lose intensity. I’ve pretty much committed to black and navy.
I love the gosling feather analogy for that top. First time I could see it as something recognizable. I was trying to ignore the fabric, wondering if that was confusing the interpretation of the colour, but in this context, it works, along with the pairing with muted plum. Thank you for sharing the vision :)
Agree that gray is challenging. I returned or donated quite a few items before solving gray. I'm not sure how long it would have taken if I didn't have enough fabric colours to bring pieces with me shopping. Nowadays, I like gray depending on context. Eyeshadow, athletic wear, sweaters, easy. Shirts, summer skirts, pants, I'm like you, darker is better. Iron gray and charcoal are a good alternative for black though, along with navy and dark greens.
Very good explanation Christine. I love your broad approach to the subject of colour and references outside the “colour comparison”. I am a Dark Winter myself, but my colouring can be often mistaken for belonging to the Autumn family, with brown eyes, warm overtone but cool undertone, and salt and pepper hair now. I had struggled with neutrals my whole life, but I have been pretty good at identifying core colours. I have purchased your “neutral fabric swatches” and they have been a game changer with helping me to pick the right neutral. I have to say that light neutrals are still tricky, since “flat or fresh white” does not look good me. It looks very separate, and of course warm cream makes me look more yellow. I really like to have some light neutrals as a layering pieces, especially in colder season. I also noticed that light heather grey is “too busy”, as my complexion is already layered with different tones. I look nice in solid, warmer light grey, like a “satin grey”. But light heathered grey tee or a wool sweater is not a good option. In darker neutrals these differences are negligible.
Glad you found it helpful, thank you :) I have exactly the same thoughts regarding neutrals for myself as you have. You'll know from your Neutrals Set that some have slight warmth and they add richness that the iron grays may not, although these work well together in clothing and eyeshadow designs. Lighter neutrals can be harder to find for DW but white isn't and I like it as a layering item. Your expression of 'too busy' for light heather gray is interesting, a nice way of saying that something's off, like pieces of different puzzles although not obviously clashing. Yes to darkness helps normalize neutrals for W, which makes sense and works in practice. You have a good understanding of how to enhance your colouring!
@@ChristineScaman thank you Christine for your tips. I think I recognize the white tee you are wearing in the video. You look very nice in it. It looks like a Lululemon white tee. It has a slight colour texture with a very light grey and thin horizontal stripes, but from the distance looks just white. I have a couple of them, bc they work so good for me. Even before I had my colours done, I felt good in this “white”. I call it a “non-flat white” lol. Looking forward to your future videos.
Yes, that's the top! Lulu clothes often suit my shape and lifestyle and I'd been looking for a white that didn't look so bright on video, as my other white tops do. This one seems to work. I don't think it's as bright in person? 'Flat white' is a perfect description. The tiny very light gray stripes and dots soften it just enough.
Hello there again!
Answering back to you from our last interaction, I guess we could indeed talk for days haha.
There are many winter colours I have yet to find, grey included. Charcoal and close-to-white greys are hard to get.
Though, I guess as black and white are a comfort zone for winters, spotting those shades of grey are a weak spot for winter people perhaps. However they have this quality of clarity to them, charcoal has to be dark but not black, while silver has to be luminous but not white. There’s this moonlight quality to the winter gray scale, as if you could find it in a pitch black sky with a full moon; winter greys are where the moon ends and moonlight meets the black sky, in the craters of the moon itself and sometimes on the reflections of the clouds during the same night.
Summer greys on the other hand feel more like the clouds of a storm that can happen at different moments of the day; you know, sometimes depending on the daylight and other factors, clouds are a bit more pigmented than plain grey.
Where the moon ends...and meets black sky. Fantastic visual for a gray scale! I agree about clouds being a source of Summer colours, there's often an element of colour and mist. I think of Bright Winter white as cloud, but it would be the top side with the sun shining on it :) Clouds never really look metallic though, possibly another reason why they suit Summer imagery so well.
Just starting the video but I had to say your hair and makeup could not get more flattering on you. Beautiful
My thoughts exactly! Christine, you have never looked more lovely!
Thank you so much, you're very kind to mention it :) It is amazing what a haircut, light, and a good camera can do!
Many thanks, I appreciate it :)
Yay! You’re back!
Yes, with a list of video topics I'm looking forward to making!
I loved this post so much. I have been analyzed as a Summer, but not taught about the sub seasons. For the longest time I thought I was a soft summer but every time I wore the more muted colors I felt gray and looked tired. So I thought I was typed wrongly and I tried Winter, saturated black was too harsh on me, then it became obvious to me that I was and am a cool summer. Seeing the neutral colors beside each other was a huge aha moment. Nice to have it right, though there are a lot of color mistakes in my closet. Yes, very much a learning process but kind of fun at the same time.❤
It is fun and quite satisfying to visit a new way of seeing the world, I find :) I'm glad that your deductive process brought you back to your colour home. True Summer has many neutral tones, and they can look so similar in the palettes but in combinations, they're like related notes on a musical scale that sweep us along in a lovely experience.
Christine-I understand the colors in you don’t change but, as I really age, the intensity in skin, eye color, and hair color changes so would that change me from a winter to a summer?
I've never known that to happen, although I have only observation and experience rather than biological proof. I meet many people over 50 who look very different from their 30 year old photo, but I'm sure that they would analyze into the same Season. Many of us might use our colours differently, for example, in cosmetics, my eye makeup is the same, blush the same, but for lip colour, I've moved to a more medium tone (that might have looked better all along :) ) If I wear Soft Summer colours, they are as pale, gray, or incongruent as they've always been. I can't imagine how we'd get warmer or darker over the years so besides TSu, there's no other choice for a TW (I"m not sure of your exact Season). There may be crossover colours in Summer (as mentioned in the video) that might work, but with clients, too many Su adjustments often shift their appearance to looking even more blended or softened, rather than defined and vibrant, because they are still Winter.
Oh joy joy joy a video by you 🎉 🥳
Glad you're here to enjoy it! And hopefully posting more often now that winter is on the way :)
Hi Christine, about the black dye... I have recently been machine dying old items to better match my season, and i noticed that the black Dylon dye contains Reactive Yellow as well as the obvious Reactive Black. Perhaps this may help to explain what you had been wondering about?
Interesting that the yellow component appears in dye as well. So this is a real thing! I've see the yellow-green in palettes and fabrics and thought it was come kind of complimentary colour effect between red and green. Even in black, True Winter black is greenish relative to the other Winters. I hope to know the reason one day. Thank you for the insight!
I find it so interesting that you say that winters often have yellow in their eyes. My eyes really look yellow, in top of blue wirh a dark limbal ring. Some people say they look green.
I am sure I'm a cool winter, but have been confused by thw yellow in my eyes. I have sometimes said "it's a cool yellow" which I think is true, hence them looking greeny, but was worried I'm kidding myself.
Also, great video. I love mid-range grey but sometimes wonder if it's more of a summer grey. Now I know just to ask "Will this go with my favourite black jeans"😊
Cool Seasons, including the True Seasons, often have yellow in the eyes. It doesn't really look cool, since lemon yellow might be an odd colour to recognize in an eye, and it's mixed and layered with other colours in the iris in the same way as in skin. I do find that the colours in eyes, whatever the Season, maintain the saturation of the Season though, for example Autumn and Spring can have similar versions of a colour but Sp is brighter. True Summer can also have yellow in the eyes, often in eyes that might be described as gray green.
Glad that you found the video helpful, thank you for mentioning it :) I agree that mid-range Winter grays are harder to find. I use the tungsten-silver-lead imagery, possibly easier for Dark Winter, although gemstones might work well for the other two Winters.
I am a bright winter with light green eyes that have a cool dark yellow ring around the pupil that bleeds into the green of my eyes. It gives my eyes a cat like darker yellow appearance in most lighting but in the sun they are obviously a light cool green. for a long time I thought green and yellow could only be warm but now I know that’s incorrect. I’ve started noticing yellow in eyes more often and it’s usually in people I suspect could be a winter. I guess this long reply is to say, don’t rule out winter! I feel more confident than I ever have about my uniquely colored eyes. Wearing my colors has helped me to appreciate how they glow.
I recognize your eye colour patterns for BW, the 'yellow bleeding out into the iris' sounds like the touch of Spring. To add to the beliefs I've adjusted over the years, orange can also be found in the eyes of cool-tone people. It's not prominent and often more of a red-orange or yellow-orange. The brightness level varies and the area may be tiny. Cool-neutral Summer eyes can have the same yellows and oranges. I enjoy the feeling of replacing or upgrading my previous beliefs, like walking along a path and watching the changing landscape :)
@jk-ml7dv I like to joke that my cat inherited her eyes from me, because she also has greeny-yellow eyes.
This was a super helpful video! Regarding your question about that last slide with the color strips lying on top of the fabric, yes, I saw what you were talking about and it was very, very helpful!
On slide eight, regarding the ruffly neck top that was a weird color: I think the cowl neck top to the left of it was throwing the color off. I would take the top in question out of that configuration and look at it next to some other things. Hope that helps!
Thank you! For both comments! I'm happy to know that you could see the colour palettes on the fabric. You can see how shiny that fabric is in the lower corners of the picture, it's almost hard to look at, but so many colours can succeed depending on application or placement. These fabrics rarely make their way into fabric kits to leave room for the more general-use colours but they can add interest and personality in small areas. If it were less shiny, I could easily see a trench coat, would be great actually.
Good idea about the ruffle neck blouse and the top next to it throwing it off. I agree that we'd have to have it on its own (on the neutral gray tablecloth!) and try some combinations.
@@ChristineScaman that fabric is a beautiful color, though! Like you said, it would be great as jewelry.
I also wanted to mention that showing the color pickers was really helpful too, a lightbulb moment for me, actually! I thought, aw, now I know what she means when she says what color is the gray coming from!!
This is wonderful to read, thank you! Light bulb moments are so clarifying, as if we take a big jump forward into a clearer day. I appreciate the feedback!
You gave excellent information, although I will have to listen a couple of times because I’m not good with colors, I wonder if you could advise me on one thing, I was typed as a deep winter 30 years ago, now I have natural silver hair though so how does that change things? I guess I’m no longer high contrast, still have dark eyes and fair skin. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Glad it was helpful! With dark eyes and fair skin, your contrast is still high. I think of actors like Richard Gere, with the dark eyes and silver hair, a different kind of impact than his early days, although still wears Winter best. My opinion, when hair silvers, a colour in our overall impression changes to a neutral tone (in the same Season) and to restore the overall energy, it looks great to add more colour in appearance, even if it's the previous hair colour or another neutral. Our features may soften and give a blended effect, but softening our colours usually adds to the blended or blur effect. We need our own colours to return definition to shapes in the facial features. Silver hair in Winters is often impacting in its own way, a new kind of contrast, that looks terrific when repeated in appearance.
How much things change in the wardrobe depends on personal preference, with options for neutrals such as matte fabrics, charcoal or navy rather than black, lighter colours in the upper half, or lower or open necklines when wearing black. One of the most important improvements is re-dedicating ourselves to wearing colour. It adds energy and is the most rejuvenating thing we can do.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much for your response it’s incredibly helpful ❤️
Dear Christine! Please, help me with choosing a lipstick - is Nivea Blackberry a shade for Dark Winters or Soft Summers?
I'd help if I could but I didn't even know Nivea made cosmetics. I live in a small place with limited access to cosmetic brands and couldn't test it for you.
Your teaching style is, without a doubt, the best on this platform! After each video, I have a better understanding and I look forward to the next lesson. As a winter with salt and pepper hair, colors feel different to me than when I was a dark brunette. I find I have become more picky when I go shopping, definitely want the most flattering addition to my wardrobe ❤
I so appreciate your words and also knowing that you're able to apply the information effectively in your own life. Understanding the Why helps, thank you for mentioning it. That may be generally true with women in any subject, compared with men who are often more comfortable winging it. Once we understand the subject, we use information better and take more successful risks (or at least I'm that way). I see this as a good thing :) And like you, why would I wear less flattering colours or neutrals when I understand how to choose the flattering ones?
As, a grey-loving Winter, this was great!! I wish you had also touched on beige though! That is particularly tough for cool seasons. Or, I don't know, Summer seems to have many beige tones in their palette -- I find it difficult to see which ones really work as a TW though.
Also, I totally get what you mean with green-yellow tones in Winter people! I even see a very slight yellow/green cast in the highlights of your hair in this video! I also have yellow specks in my green eyes that threw off my analyst a bit; she had me close my eyes when comparing autumn/winter greens in order to focus just on the skin. 😄
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! You're so right about beige for cool Seasons, Su and W, both True and Neutral Seasons. It does exist and is not always intuitive or predictable. The request for this video was the basics of the 4 main Seasons and I try to limit the time to 30 minutes so we stayed with gray, although I so agree that the topic of neutrals without beige is incomplete. Beige for the Cool Seasons is an excellent topic suggestion that I've added to the list.
I appreciate that you recognize the yellow and green in Winter people, in skin, hair, and eyes. My hair is definitely greenish, possibly an Autumn contribution, good eye to notice it! The question about yellow in Winters isn't whether it's there (it often is), the question is how saturated it is. In skin, eyes, or hair, I doubt we can know the actual warmth of the single or many yellows, but we can compare saturation, especially in eyes. Many W have yellow in the eyes in a more saturated version than the A colours. Well done for your analyst to suggest you close your eyes, sounds as though they know what they're looking for :)
You have such a great way with words, you are so descriptive and thoughtful in your videos! I hope at some point you'll do a deep dive on summers, I am a true summer and was a bit dismayed when I was analyzed as it so often feels that summer colors can be a bit drab.
Summers are very much on the list. I'm hoping to move through a few videos on neutral tones first, especially since they figure so beautifully in Summer wardrobes and can be challenging to understand. Once we have this baseline, we can start building colour combinations :)
I can’t wait until you talk about the Soft seasons.
We'll get there :) It helps bring videos together when I begin with viewer questions. The only specific one so far is making outfits with and accessorizing SSu neutrals. If you had any questions to add, I'd be happy to try and answer them in the video.
@@ChristineScaman I like the idea of exploring the Soft seasons in different styles such as modern, casual, eccentric, glamorous, etc. Because from what I've personally observed, it seems that many people fear that they'll appear uninspired and old-fashioned if they learn that they are a Soft season.
Very good suggestions, thank you :) I do agree that the Soft palettes as technical strips of swatches can seem less vibrant, although they come together in the most fabulous combinations. I like the idea of different styles. Although I'm not a style expert, I think I could work with the terms you mention since they're more effects or impressions than strict style categories.
Can you give me recommendation for lipstick shades for dark winter color season
I wish I could but I don't test cosmetics for the Seasons.
Oh man this video came at the perfect time! I have been really drawn to neutrals for Autumn and being a Summer it can be so hard to find the right ones.
A great reminder about yellow in the skin or brown eyes not necessarily meaning warm seasons. I think that assumption hurts a lot of people DIY-ing their colors. I have considered whether a color "fits" within the context of a palette but I never thought about seeing the steps of a strip and viewing the comparison color in terms of seeing vs disappearing.
I'm so glad you found new answers and ways of building on what you already know :) A new lens is like a cleaner windshield, makes for a good day!
What a good subject to explore. I have no idea which neutrals work for me (although I believe Autumn neutrals are my worst) so I will find this series very informative. I need to have a color analysis soon but Sci/Art analysts are always quite distant from my location. Here's to the hope that Sci/Art analysts will grow in number! There are actually two TCI analysts that are a reasonable distance from my location. Perhaps I should schedule an analysis with them since Sci/Art analysts often recommend their fans? But someday I do plan on visiting a Sci/Art analyst.
Neutrals are so important and I'm happy that viewers can see the differences with video. I'd encourage you to schedule that TCI analysis. TCI is very much Sci\ART-based, just as much as we are. The founder, Amelia Butler, was a dedicated student of Kathryn Kalisz for many years prior to Kathryn's passing.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you for that information. I definitely look forward to scheduling an analysis with one of the TCI analysts.
That flutter neck blouse that was puzzling to you, in the image of "4 Season Neutrals & Other Grays" ... perhaps this is weird, but I can see it harmonizing with Bright Spring colours. I can see it fitting into an Art Deco colour scheme, with, say, a Bright Spring emerald green and a coral. Or perhaps with a warm cobalt blue, or even with a luminous warm yellow and a touch of violet. That grey-brown has a clear quality, with a lightweight sunshine yellow tinge, but it has a touch of seriousness that speaks to a Winter influence.
So interesting! I had the same thoughts about warmth and Winter combined and didn't see it for the Dark Seasons. Since I'm currently working on the Warm Seasons video, I pulled it into one of the images and it worked better than I expected. Comments from viewers also helped me recognize that it's a colour that makes more sense in groups or combinations than in a large single area. I so respect when clothes are offered in uncommon colours that I would love someone to wear it well! One of the light, warm BSp grays is a wonderful suggestion, thank you!
For that greenish grey that resembles the color of an elephant… think where you’d see the elephant in nature and the colors surrounding it. That could help with its placement.
I tried your idea and figured it out! Even if the colour were made in leather, I couldn't get it, plus elephants are grayer. I thought the colour had enough pigment to be a Summer or Soft or some sort and left it at that. A viewer mentioned goslings and that was the nearest I got to a place in Nature. I walk on the beach most days and noticed the little sand piper birds we have here and there was the colour, among their feathers, or something close. I've realized that was felt confusing about the colour was seeing it as a single solid colour, which is not how it would appear in the natural world (or not the one I'm familiar with). Like the many tones in natural hair colour, especially for the Summers and Softs, we normally see them in a multi-tonal group. I feel much better, thank you for your help :)
I loved this one very very much 😍
So happy you're here :)
Great video! Thank you!
You are welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
Gray is not only one of my best colors or nuetrals, I look really classy if it's like sweater or something with texture it really looks good.😊 white is real tricky.
It's so true, gray can be as functional as it can be elegant and sophisticated. Fabric choice and the right gray for the right person make all the difference. Yes about white needing a little more planning :)