I wanted to share: The best TED talk popped up on my TH-cam feed today. It's called "Is the cure for loneliness hiding in your closet?" with Mollie Kaye. It's right along the lines with what we're learning here, about connecting with people through appearance. And the speaker is wearing blue-green! How apropos! Highly recommend! :D
Oh I just saw that talk recently! I absolutely loved it!!! I really admire her and her way of thinking even though it wouldn’t work for me. I stand out naturally and I’m approachable even when I try to be intimidating 🤦🏼♀️ So my needs are a little different 😂
Wow, the content was interesting, but fascinated by your beautiful haircut, glasses, earrings and dress combination. I think this is the best you've ever looked, so put together, so lovely and quite classic but with a slightly sharp, modern edge - I was mesmerized!
Thank you! The planets were aligned or perhaps the 300 moving parts of filming a video. May be years before it happens again :) Glad you enjoyed the video.
As a dark winter, after a very dark and saturated navy blue, a dark and saturated peacock blue-green is tied with a saturated neutral red as my most flattering colour.
Love blue-greens! For the longest time it was my safe go-to colour family. Now I'm exploring new colours and find myself loving bright green and lime. I like the harmony of cyan/blue-green/lime from BW palette. Thanks for the great video! My favourite format. Seeing different ways how we can compare colours is also very helpful. My current struggle is beige. Half of the time I talk myself into harmonizing it with BW colours. I have insane amount of different kindes of beige from very cool greish-greenish cool summer/cool winter all the way to light spring's "cafe au lait". It's a disaster 😅 they all somehow harmonize with bright colours (at least in my eyes) but look hideous with each other. And any beige in big amounts washes me out. But I can't stop buying it. Maybe better distinguishing beige from colour analysis perspective will help to curb this addiction.
The colour sequence you mention with cyan and lime lit up on a screen in my mind when I read your words. My first thought was, "Nike should hire you!" but from there, I could see dresses, bathing suits, prints, socks, it opened a tap of ideas. I understand about beige. Using visual harmony, I couldn't get it in the early days, and even with the colour palette, it wasn't easy. This is why the Neutrals Sets of fabrics were created, they finally solved the problem for me because I knew what I was looking for, I had the answers to the test. Even today, I still couldn't choose neutrals from aesthetic appeal with colours alone, although I could guess at which of the 4 main Seasons. I need the palette. In a way, desaturated SSu neutrals can move into W, same with the grey-greens of Sp, it becomes a question of degrees, but this isn't helpful with decision-making in each situation. (And yes, they wouldn't look so good with each other! ) An easy tip for TW and BW is that there is barely any 'beige', it's more gray than beige, nothing you'd call cafe au lait. One exception for BW, how to describe it...with a green olive, drain out 3/4 of the pigment and make it out of metal, glass, or granite. Still not helpful when facing your closet :)
@@ChristineScaman your understanding of colour speaks to me so much & it’s not abstract at all. Maybe it’s because I graduated in philosophy though. ;)
I thought I was a bright winter for a couple of months, but now I realize that probably can’t be since my eyes are grey blue. I have a cool-neutral undertone and my hair has a cool medium brown colour. This brings me closer to the summer season. I might be one of the exceptions that doesn’t fit neatly into any of the 12 seasonal types. I’ve seen a season named smokey soft winter, maybe that’s my season. I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos, you describe everything in such a beautiful way. I’ve learned a lot about colours and the seasons
I'm happy to know that the videos have helped you, thank you for mentioning it :) The Bright Seasons and Summers are easy enough to confuse. True Winter too, where gray among the eye colours happens fairly often.
I’m so glad you’re taking your time and making this a series! Can’t watch right now, but am looking forward to settling in and watching tomorrow. Maybe re-watching the first one too 😄 More deep dives would be right up my alley!
Thank you for this :) I often think these big colour families for 12 Seasons are too much for viewers, especially when colours look quite similar, which seems more the case with blue green than green or red, although a good opportunity to add tips for sorting them to Season. I so appreciate the vote for this format! I'm thinking of a few narrower, targeted topics to do next so I can post more often.
@@ChristineScamanI think the dress is more of a spring feel instead of autumn because of the turquoise in the dress, autumns can wear turquoise too, don't get me wrong, but, I just think that this dress is not fitting for autumns. This might fit a true autumn, or warm autumn, not dark autumn though.
You are so welcome! I'm glad you enjoy them and appreciate the vote for this format, it helps so much to hear where viewers find value (and also where they don't!)
I feel like blue-green, turquoise and bright teals are colours that express spring influence on bright winter really well, specially when added as accent or adding an accent of the group colour of fuchsia, magenta or bright orchid. I think of a darker blue-green jacket/blazer with a white shirt and a fuchsia tie. True winter versions, however, look frozen and still, much better with black or a dark neutral for a strong expression of presence. I always like to think that although contrast is a staple of winter, the three subgroups have a different kind of contrast. All winters need contrast in value, but bright winter seems to be a little more about hue contrast or benefit more from it in addition to value contrast (perhaps thats a simple way to explain spring influence since springs can take a lot of colours at a time and look fun), while true winter is amazing in those very big light-dark distances, hence black and white seem complete on them. I have not given that much of a thought to dark winter but I guess the value contrast is about having a warmer “dimmer” light in a dark and mysterious background. I don’t know, some colour combinations seem to “belong” more to certain seasons than others even though there are versions of the given colours on every season; they certainly express different things even between sub-seasons, at least in my mind.
1000% agree. I admire how well you expressed so many ideas and images! So right about how bright teal expresses that Spring touch on BW (yellow too, I find). You seem very perceptive about how colours feel to look at (glad we feel the same way!) How TW completes in high value contrast and since colour always adds movement or motion, it can interrupt the stillness (body type depending). I'm with you about DW contrast, standard Winter but more subtle in some way. I don't know the words, something around density comes to mind, the self-sufficiency of strength and wealth (sounds elitist, I don't mean it in a status way, more like a wrought iron lamppost, the colours are rich, you know?)
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much! I guess I have been watching many of your videos and that’s why I get these vibes haha. I was about to edit my comment to write “a dimmer light like a lamppost” haha, exactly my thought! I also think, compared to TW’s sharp contrast, DW is otherwise softened a little by autumn wind.
We could talk for days if we were to meet! As colours change where I live, the wind is also shifting from our summer breezes, more fluttery, to fall's more substantial, dense nature of wind. Comes to mind that I'm really just an observer. Love our mutual lamppost, I was thinking that I recognize more of myself in wrought-iron railings (like metal vines) but that could be body type drifting in :)
Your discussion of “every color in you is one season” was super helpful! Today I also listened to the chrysalis podcast episode two, where y’all said that every color in a person will have the same dimensions. Fascinating!
In the absence of biochemical proof, like with a skin biopsy and colour analyzer, this is just my observation but it makes more sense to me than the opposite. I've never seen a person where every colour in the face, including eyes and hair, doesn't analyze into one Season. Never seen a person with warm greens and cool reds, for example. We all have one blood throughout our body, and I'm pretty sure the other pigments are the same since one set of genetics codes for all of them.
I love it as well and have been surprised by how many people feel the same. Natural lip for each Season, I wonder if I could do that. Soft Autumn is Baton Rouge in the 12 Blueprints group. Soft Summer, maybe Ruby Slippers, some may find it darkish. The Bright Seasons are too variable, you have to try a few on each person. True Summer, True Spring and the Lights, I'd have to think about. Possibly Lola for Light Spring. With the colours in this video, they're a place to start and adjust from there. It's unfortunate that the most individual cosmetic of all is the hardest to test, I wish there were a way around that.
I really appreciate how you are adapting this format of color exploration. It is significantly helpful when you superimpose the different clothing items over a single article of clothing. Since Winters and Summers are often known as being "blue-based," do you think that some variations of blue-greens could be considered neutrals on Winters and Summers given the fact that these colors have plenty of blue in them? In the way that blues are often considered a neutral on a True Summer.
Glad it was helpful! On my end, I appreciate that you mention the aspect of the video you enjoy or find useful. With this colour family, we need a few strategies for choosing our version. Personally, I think a fashion neutral is whatever each person says it is, compared with a colour or palette neutral, which may have a more specific or technical meaning. For me, fashion neutral means wear with anything, the background colour for the more saturated colours. Between personal taste and traditional gray, beige, white, and so on, may be the concept of balance, what the eye and brain look for in compositions, a place to rest and be active, areas of more pigment with less pigment. Whether blue green would work may depend on the Season, the textile, the person's individual colouring. Many might not agree that blue can be a neutral on Summers, but I figure fashion has to work for us. With our recognition of navy in denim and business wear as background colours, I think it qualifies. Blue-green maybe less so. As I look at the items in these two videos, they don't seem less like backgrounds, I have more awareness of them. Sorry for rambling, you asked a great question, I was thinking as I typed :)
Great video. Would you please consider doing a piece on Spring versus Fall neutrals and Summer versus Winter neutrals? I know in general, Summer is lighter than Winter and Spring lighter than Fall, but I can’t for example tell the difference between a Spring and Fall beige. Is there such a thing as a bright neutral?
Glad you enjoyed it :) The video suggestion is great. We looked at Autumn vs Spring in the video, True Autumn Neutrals, but a general look at the 4 main groups would be helpful to many people. Thank you!
Thank you for this second part. As I said in a comment to part 1, I'm a BSP and I often struggle with blues and greens, meaning I love them so much that I try to convince myself that any item I like must belong to BSP 😉 I find it especially difficult with items that are light as there are also lighter colors in BSP. So how do I distinguish them? I've been swatching clothing items with my entire fan spread out, so it was a very helpful tip (from part 1?) to first try with the strip that looks the most like the item, then with 3-4 strips that might be worn in combination with the item, and then with the lipstick colored strips, before doing the entire fan. 😍
Wonderful to hear of your progress, thank you for explaining your new steps. Every time your eyes see your colours in a new way, they learn more. If you've solved the light colours question, that's great. If not quite, keep in mind the brightness idea from the last panel. The flip flops in the Lights and the puffer jacket in the Brights, and the idea that the puffer jacket could hold its energy with the other Bright items (compared with the items placed on the sweater that couldn't in Panel 6), whereas the Light items might appear softer or hard to see with the Bright items in outfits. Yes to convincing ourselves a colour is right just because we love the colour family, been there many times, happy to say it's now in the past (mostly) :)
Ohhhkay. That’s why the mid toned brightish teal cardigan does absolutely nothing for me. Not too many teals in true winter. I’m definitely not bright winter then 😄 With every video I listen to I get another little nugget of info that makes things drop into place for me more and more. 😊
Are you going to do the Olympics like women’s gymnastics. I’m finding my mind analyzing using information in my head. Maybe I’ve watched too many color videos lol. I find myself analyzing all kinds of things lately. It’s fun. I’m just curious as a watch these qualification rounds who is wearing the Leo’s the best and which team has the best overall colors for their team. I watch a few other sports but this is the one that I follow all year long and been a lifelong gymnastics fan.
That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of it. The Olympics will be well over before I'm able to put a video together but I'll keep sporting events in mind. Thank you for the suggestion!
I love these videos! I’m trying to slowly gain this perception of color and I’m going together from you because I don’t feel like I have it naturally. Also, it feels so strange why colors that don’t seem that different from each other, look so different on oneself. Sometimes I struggle to figure out why, but hopefully these videos will help me understand! Thank you!
I'm sure that some people have naturally better colour perception but any that I have, I got from practice, meaning most anyone can do it. Your approach of watching the videos is the right one, we're so connected with colour that we absorb it just by being around it. Viewers often play the videos a few times in a relaxed way and see more with each watching. There's a colour interaction called simultaneous contrast, where one colour affects how we see another when they're close enough together, which may explain part of how colours may change when we wear them. It's easy to underestimate how profoundly colours reflect light, both our own and the colours we wear. When the energy waves are out of sync, our eyes see disharmony or it doesn't feel good or right to look at. And more amazing, colour doesn't exist except in our minds. Things emit energy waves that react with our eyes in a way that an image forms in our brain. And the intricacy and detail of it, picture the leaf of a fern, every tiny part and our eyes distinguish all these energy waves. The whole topic is addictive :)
Haha, addictive is a great word for it! I went down the rabbit hole for a couple hours after watching! It’s hard for me not to every time I delve in! Do you believe that personality and the colors that look good on us are linked? I think I remember reading you mention something but can’t remember for sure…
Yes, to a point. Maybe the genes that determine our colouring have links to those that determine the Nature aspect of personality (vs. nurture), or they can be inherited on the same chromosomes. We know patterns like spunky redheads (Anne of Green Gables, for example), but these are loose, random, and unpredictable. Like MBTI or similar tests, there may be some relationships sometimes with colouring. Now there's a rabbit hole for you, personality tests. I love them actually :)
The sweater that we were trying to decide if it was true summer or light summer, can we please please have more info on the concept of the colors blending in being the wrong thing? I am confused but intrigued as to that. I thought it blending in meant harmonizing. More please :)
I'm either bright or true spring and find blue greens especially difficult. Most are desaturated aquas or teals that look heavy, dirty, faded and grey on my skin. I look for juicy bright electric neon tropical warm blue greens with shiny light emitting finishes.
You have good guidelines for shopping. TSp blue green often surprises me with how green it is. I agree about BSp, you'd think it would be easy and plentiful but actually not, same with BW in the light and medium ranges. All 3 Seasons are particular with this colour and spectacular when it's right. Depending on where you live, this might be one of those colours you find more easily in the warmer months. I think I'd have to go to Florida or Mexico :)
I love teal, but as a spring I look better in turquoise. I find it pretty easy to spot which is good! I find it interesting that you say everyone’s natural colouring will fall into one season, when I was draped my analyst told me I have autumn coloured eyes but spring skin. My eyes look amazingly green next to olive, but my skin looks dull. Whereas in bright leaf green my skin looks healthy but my eyes aren’t so attention grabbing. I wonder what season you would put me in?
Having colours we can spot from the beginning is like a gift, the encouragement to have patience, practice with our palette, and find the rest of them. It sounds as though your analysis result is a question of interpretation rather than observation. Colour analysis systems vary with both of these, although I can promise that together, we'd find your one Season and explain the apparent contradictions. If your instinct is towards Spring, that may be a good place to be. Healthy skin is always good!
@@ChristineScaman thank you, I appreciate your reply! I think the system I was analysed by is a bit more limited than yours, it was House of Colour which is really a 4 season system with 4 subseasons within each. I was given the subseason “blue spring” which is the coolest spring subseason and closest to winter, but not the brightest which is “paintbox spring”. I saw the effect the drapes had on my skin and it was obvious that spring was better, but autumn brought out the different colours in my hazel eyes. I was told not to focus on my eyes because they aren’t as important. I’m considering getting another analysis in a 12 season system because I feel kind of disconnected to a lot of my blue spring colours. Healthy looking skin is great but I would like to know how to create a look of total harmony
Hi Christine, I’ve been listening to the chrysalis podcasts and recently heard the one about hair color and dying one’s brows. What color brow dye would you recommend for a light summer? My brows are blonde and sparse. I don’t know if I have enough hair for dying them to work, but I sure am tired of all the hassle I have to go through every day to make them visible to the naked eye, so I’m willing to give dying them a shot! Oh, PS, I am 58 and my hair is light brown with silver hairs here and there. Natural color. I don’t have an objective enough opinion to be able to say what other colors are in it, but one person recently said I had cinnamon reddish highlights. I was blonde as a child.
Honestly, I'd continue the hassle of drawing them in. The beautiful thing about makeup is that you can wash it off and change it immediately if better information comes along. Your natural hair colour sounds gorgeous and the odds of brow dye matching it seamlessly are low, and then you're stuck till they grow out, a situation I've seen often enough. Having the right brow colour is so important to the overall impression and if you have a powder that works, it's a zero-risk solution. I do the same myself, same product as the eyeshadow contour. We all have our hassles but sometimes, they're our safest and most flattering choice :)
@@ChristineScaman thank you for your thoughts! I have only colored my hair all over once in my life, and I’ve only had it highlighted a time or two. Even before I had my color analysis, I came to the conclusion it wasn’t worth it because I hated having to sit still in a chair so long! Lol Now that I know about natural color, I wouldn’t dream of coloring my head now, even if I turn gray tomorrow. :-). So I would probably be disappointed with brow dye as well, and it looks like the colors of brow eye are quite limited. I haven’t found brow products that I like yet, but I’ll keep searching.
@@ChristineScaman I found a company that offers build-your-own powder shadow eyebrow palettes! I ordered platinum, ash, ash brown, medium ash brown, and cinnamon. It's so hard to tell online what the colors will look like in person, so I hope I did okay. (Blonde looked tempting, but blonde almost always means too yellow/orange for cool-toned people.) I'm looking forward to playing with it and seeing how it works out! PSA: The company is Sydney Grace, and they are having a Chrismas in July sale right now (through August 8, 2024). They also have four brand new, beautiful, season-themed eyeshadow palettes (don't know why any of us around here would be interested in that! 😉)
I looked them up, they look wonderful! It will be interesting to hear your thoughts. Sometimes, these smaller companies have beautiful pigments at a fraction of the price you'd pay for that quality in mainstream. They're also able to control their sourcing and distribution so they can be truly cruelty-free. Great find, thank you!
@@ChristineScaman That was so kind of you to check it out! I received the brow palette today and tried it out, and upon first impression, I think this is going to work great! Much better than any of the brow pencils or tinted brow gels that I've tried so far that make me look like I stuck a couple caterpillars on my forehead! Having the five colors of powder allows you to create a really dimensional look, and does allow a lot of control. Platinum and cinnamon layered together?! Get outta town! I also got the Western Summer and Northern Winter eyeshadow palettes, and they are beautiful as well (I'd never tried this brand before). They have the option with their eyeshadow palettes of choosing the light or the deep version. I'm impressed!
About lipsticks. I've been draped as LSu and some of the lighter TSu drapes seemed okay. I've been using 'Flowergirl' shade from your lipsticks but sometimes, especially if I don't just dab it on lightly, it seems too candy or warm for me. I'm 47. So does this mean I'm getting less saturated? I have lost pigment in my hair on my temples. 'Come dancing' doesn't have that effect. So if it does mean that, should I look for colours in eg. Soft Summer?
A great question. I don't have the belief that we change Seasons with time but I appreciate that colours may react differently, or we feel differently about them. Lipstick being the most particular of all items, I couldn't come to any conclusions about Season based on that item alone, especially if it's only one colour. If I consistently found blush to become too warm or bright, I might consider that the person's colours have changed but I've never known that to happen (I think of cheek colour as a better indicator of natural reds than lip colour.) We do lose feature definition with time as lines and edges soften, and perhaps our colours soften but it's a matter of degrees, not nearly enough to change Season. Also, to change Season, we'd have to change in the other two dimensions. To become a SSu, you'd have to darken, which doesn't appear to happen. I meet many LSu people in their later years and SSu colours are exactly as non-harmonious as they would have been earlier on, with the note that in youth, non-harmony is more manageable (looking for a word to say we can get away with it, but in an analysis, we couldn't). LSu colours are exactly as harmonious as in younger clients, perhaps more so in mature people in that more feature definition is returned. Restoring this softening of shape in features is one of makeup's biggest jobs over time, along with adding back vitality and vibrance to the impression. An interesting point you make that I've thought about it, if melanin in hair disappears, as though the genes that code for hair colour are gradually turned off, does melanin in skin do the same? I have no proof that skin and hair would behave the same way and see no evidence to support it, and we have other pigments that are only in skin that appear to remain the same, sorry to be technical and vague at the same time, but these are the things I think about. Or we both think about :)
I see a lot of people who have a yellow-orange color in their hands, despite the absence of any diseases and the absence of any cosmetics, even though this yellow color does not appear on the appearance of their face. Do hands have the same color season as the face in general?
I think they must, though I've wondered the same about areas of higher pigmentation in the face or seemingly different colour of face and neck. I'm sure we have the same red in all body parts since we have the same blood in hands, face, suntans, and so on. Our other pigments, melanin and carotene, may increase in quantity or concentration in a particular area, but I'm not convinced they change in colour. Melanin seems especially variable but to change colour, would the genes have to actually mutate? I don't know the answer but it seems unlikely somehow. You ask a great questions and I don't have biochemical proof, but from observation, all parts of faces, at all ages, with or without suntans, analyze into the same Season. Of course, how things look and how they are can be quite different, flat earth, one example, but it's where my thinking is so far :)
I'm not aware of such a place, either online or a certain brand. I add items from current retail to my Pinterest boards a few times per year (summer casual most recently). You'll find a link to those boards in the description boxes for the videos.
I understand how a colour with so many versions can be challenging, a menu with fewer choices is actually simpler. It's a cooperative colour though, happy to work with a group, and in combinations, choices for any of the 3 Summers within the TSu light-dark range could work fine.
There is a kind of blue that doesn't contain any red. It gives me an unhealthy yellow or yellow orange color to my skin that I hate. I am not talking about teal blue which I believe I could wear. Blues with red in it I can wear too.It is this blue in the picture.The family of this sort of blue. I have analysed this sort of blue and it doesn't contain red. Teal blue is not the same family.I believe I can wear teal.
I wonder if it's because there's warmth in your natural colours. I can have a similar effect of appearing yellow or orange in colours that are too cool (or too soft) because they cannot complete the harmony with my own colours.
Love to start my morning with a giggle “it’s like having 12 children, getting their names mixed up”😂
Remember that show "19 Kids and Counting"? All their names started with J. This often feels about the same :)
@@ChristineScaman I do remember it! Too funny.😂
I wanted to share: The best TED talk popped up on my TH-cam feed today. It's called "Is the cure for loneliness hiding in your closet?" with Mollie Kaye. It's right along the lines with what we're learning here, about connecting with people through appearance. And the speaker is wearing blue-green! How apropos! Highly recommend! :D
Thank you! I look forward to watching it :)
I loved it!! Brilliant talk, thank you for recommending it!
@@ChristineScaman you’re so welcome! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Oh I just saw that talk recently! I absolutely loved it!!! I really admire her and her way of thinking even though it wouldn’t work for me. I stand out naturally and I’m approachable even when I try to be intimidating 🤦🏼♀️ So my needs are a little different 😂
Wow, the content was interesting, but fascinated by your beautiful haircut, glasses, earrings and dress combination. I think this is the best you've ever looked, so put together, so lovely and quite classic but with a slightly sharp, modern edge - I was mesmerized!
Thank you! The planets were aligned or perhaps the 300 moving parts of filming a video. May be years before it happens again :) Glad you enjoyed the video.
I was hoping you'd make this one for winters! :) Love blue green.
Enjoy! A favourite of mine as well in all 12 groups.
As a dark winter, after a very dark and saturated navy blue, a dark and saturated peacock blue-green is tied with a saturated neutral red as my most flattering colour.
Yes, I find the same. The peacock blue DW-version, the red, and for me, I'd add periwinkle blue violet.
@@ChristineScamanthe green blue in dark autumns is too blue to me, it could be greener.
That's just me though.
I'm not the color analyst.
Your passion for this subject is infectious! Another nice video. 🙂
Thank you!
Love blue-greens! For the longest time it was my safe go-to colour family. Now I'm exploring new colours and find myself loving bright green and lime. I like the harmony of cyan/blue-green/lime from BW palette.
Thanks for the great video! My favourite format. Seeing different ways how we can compare colours is also very helpful.
My current struggle is beige. Half of the time I talk myself into harmonizing it with BW colours. I have insane amount of different kindes of beige from very cool greish-greenish cool summer/cool winter all the way to light spring's "cafe au lait". It's a disaster 😅 they all somehow harmonize with bright colours (at least in my eyes) but look hideous with each other. And any beige in big amounts washes me out. But I can't stop buying it. Maybe better distinguishing beige from colour analysis perspective will help to curb this addiction.
The colour sequence you mention with cyan and lime lit up on a screen in my mind when I read your words. My first thought was, "Nike should hire you!" but from there, I could see dresses, bathing suits, prints, socks, it opened a tap of ideas.
I understand about beige. Using visual harmony, I couldn't get it in the early days, and even with the colour palette, it wasn't easy. This is why the Neutrals Sets of fabrics were created, they finally solved the problem for me because I knew what I was looking for, I had the answers to the test. Even today, I still couldn't choose neutrals from aesthetic appeal with colours alone, although I could guess at which of the 4 main Seasons. I need the palette.
In a way, desaturated SSu neutrals can move into W, same with the grey-greens of Sp, it becomes a question of degrees, but this isn't helpful with decision-making in each situation. (And yes, they wouldn't look so good with each other! ) An easy tip for TW and BW is that there is barely any 'beige', it's more gray than beige, nothing you'd call cafe au lait. One exception for BW, how to describe it...with a green olive, drain out 3/4 of the pigment and make it out of metal, glass, or granite. Still not helpful when facing your closet :)
I love the part about Spring light going outwards and being like a sunny day and also about highlights and lowlights. Thank you!
Glad it helped, sometimes the most abstract tips come in handy!
@@ChristineScaman your understanding of colour speaks to me so much & it’s not abstract at all. Maybe it’s because I graduated in philosophy though. ;)
I thought I was a bright winter for a couple of months, but now I realize that probably can’t be since my eyes are grey blue. I have a cool-neutral undertone and my hair has a cool medium brown colour. This brings me closer to the summer season. I might be one of the exceptions that doesn’t fit neatly into any of the 12 seasonal types. I’ve seen a season named smokey soft winter, maybe that’s my season.
I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos, you describe everything in such a beautiful way. I’ve learned a lot about colours and the seasons
I'm happy to know that the videos have helped you, thank you for mentioning it :) The Bright Seasons and Summers are easy enough to confuse. True Winter too, where gray among the eye colours happens fairly often.
I’m so glad you’re taking your time and making this a series! Can’t watch right now, but am looking forward to settling in and watching tomorrow. Maybe re-watching the first one too 😄 More deep dives would be right up my alley!
Thank you for this :) I often think these big colour families for 12 Seasons are too much for viewers, especially when colours look quite similar, which seems more the case with blue green than green or red, although a good opportunity to add tips for sorting them to Season. I so appreciate the vote for this format! I'm thinking of a few narrower, targeted topics to do next so I can post more often.
@@ChristineScamanI think the dress is more of a spring feel instead of autumn because of the turquoise in the dress, autumns can wear turquoise too, don't get me wrong, but, I just think that this dress is not fitting for autumns. This might fit a true autumn, or warm autumn, not dark autumn though.
Terry is a genius!
It's true, her instincts with colour are amazing!
You are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing
Especially those arms💪🏻!
Thank you :) Credit to my workout partner, I follow Sydney Cummings Houdyshell on TH-cam. Every day, Sydney shows up and there I am.
@@ChristineScaman even without the workout, just you, your essence is beautiful! I truly mean it, God bless xx
Lovely of you to say, thank you :)
Love these types of videos. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us. I have learnt so much from your indepth explanations.
You are so welcome! I'm glad you enjoy them and appreciate the vote for this format, it helps so much to hear where viewers find value (and also where they don't!)
I feel like blue-green, turquoise and bright teals are colours that express spring influence on bright winter really well, specially when added as accent or adding an accent of the group colour of fuchsia, magenta or bright orchid. I think of a darker blue-green jacket/blazer with a white shirt and a fuchsia tie.
True winter versions, however, look frozen and still, much better with black or a dark neutral for a strong expression of presence.
I always like to think that although contrast is a staple of winter, the three subgroups have a different kind of contrast. All winters need contrast in value, but bright winter seems to be a little more about hue contrast or benefit more from it in addition to value contrast (perhaps thats a simple way to explain spring influence since springs can take a lot of colours at a time and look fun), while true winter is amazing in those very big light-dark distances, hence black and white seem complete on them. I have not given that much of a thought to dark winter but I guess the value contrast is about having a warmer “dimmer” light in a dark and mysterious background.
I don’t know, some colour combinations seem to “belong” more to certain seasons than others even though there are versions of the given colours on every season; they certainly express different things even between sub-seasons, at least in my mind.
1000% agree. I admire how well you expressed so many ideas and images! So right about how bright teal expresses that Spring touch on BW (yellow too, I find). You seem very perceptive about how colours feel to look at (glad we feel the same way!) How TW completes in high value contrast and since colour always adds movement or motion, it can interrupt the stillness (body type depending). I'm with you about DW contrast, standard Winter but more subtle in some way. I don't know the words, something around density comes to mind, the self-sufficiency of strength and wealth (sounds elitist, I don't mean it in a status way, more like a wrought iron lamppost, the colours are rich, you know?)
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much! I guess I have been watching many of your videos and that’s why I get these vibes haha.
I was about to edit my comment to write “a dimmer light like a lamppost” haha, exactly my thought! I also think, compared to TW’s sharp contrast, DW is otherwise softened a little by autumn wind.
We could talk for days if we were to meet! As colours change where I live, the wind is also shifting from our summer breezes, more fluttery, to fall's more substantial, dense nature of wind. Comes to mind that I'm really just an observer.
Love our mutual lamppost, I was thinking that I recognize more of myself in wrought-iron railings (like metal vines) but that could be body type drifting in :)
Your discussion of “every color in you is one season” was super helpful! Today I also listened to the chrysalis podcast episode two, where y’all said that every color in a person will have the same dimensions. Fascinating!
In the absence of biochemical proof, like with a skin biopsy and colour analyzer, this is just my observation but it makes more sense to me than the opposite. I've never seen a person where every colour in the face, including eyes and hair, doesn't analyze into one Season. Never seen a person with warm greens and cool reds, for example. We all have one blood throughout our body, and I'm pretty sure the other pigments are the same since one set of genetics codes for all of them.
Oh I love this series! Helps me train my eye 😍 thank you 🫶🏼
You're most welcome, glad you enjoy it!
Yeah ! One of my favorite colour
Teal is my favorite color to wear! I would love to see the natural lip color suggestions for all the seasons.
I love it as well and have been surprised by how many people feel the same. Natural lip for each Season, I wonder if I could do that. Soft Autumn is Baton Rouge in the 12 Blueprints group. Soft Summer, maybe Ruby Slippers, some may find it darkish. The Bright Seasons are too variable, you have to try a few on each person. True Summer, True Spring and the Lights, I'd have to think about. Possibly Lola for Light Spring. With the colours in this video, they're a place to start and adjust from there. It's unfortunate that the most individual cosmetic of all is the hardest to test, I wish there were a way around that.
Thank you!
I really appreciate how you are adapting this format of color exploration. It is significantly helpful when you superimpose the different clothing items over a single article of clothing. Since Winters and Summers are often known as being "blue-based," do you think that some variations of blue-greens could be considered neutrals on Winters and Summers given the fact that these colors have plenty of blue in them? In the way that blues are often considered a neutral on a True Summer.
Glad it was helpful! On my end, I appreciate that you mention the aspect of the video you enjoy or find useful. With this colour family, we need a few strategies for choosing our version. Personally, I think a fashion neutral is whatever each person says it is, compared with a colour or palette neutral, which may have a more specific or technical meaning. For me, fashion neutral means wear with anything, the background colour for the more saturated colours. Between personal taste and traditional gray, beige, white, and so on, may be the concept of balance, what the eye and brain look for in compositions, a place to rest and be active, areas of more pigment with less pigment. Whether blue green would work may depend on the Season, the textile, the person's individual colouring. Many might not agree that blue can be a neutral on Summers, but I figure fashion has to work for us. With our recognition of navy in denim and business wear as background colours, I think it qualifies. Blue-green maybe less so. As I look at the items in these two videos, they don't seem less like backgrounds, I have more awareness of them. Sorry for rambling, you asked a great question, I was thinking as I typed :)
You look very elegant 🤩
Oh thank you! Kind of you to say :)
Great video. Would you please consider doing a piece on Spring versus Fall neutrals and Summer versus Winter neutrals? I know in general, Summer is lighter than Winter and Spring lighter than Fall, but I can’t for example tell the difference between a Spring and Fall beige. Is there such a thing as a bright neutral?
Glad you enjoyed it :) The video suggestion is great. We looked at Autumn vs Spring in the video, True Autumn Neutrals, but a general look at the 4 main groups would be helpful to many people. Thank you!
Thank you for this second part. As I said in a comment to part 1, I'm a BSP and I often struggle with blues and greens, meaning I love them so much that I try to convince myself that any item I like must belong to BSP 😉 I find it especially difficult with items that are light as there are also lighter colors in BSP. So how do I distinguish them?
I've been swatching clothing items with my entire fan spread out, so it was a very helpful tip (from part 1?) to first try with the strip that looks the most like the item, then with 3-4 strips that might be worn in combination with the item, and then with the lipstick colored strips, before doing the entire fan. 😍
Wonderful to hear of your progress, thank you for explaining your new steps. Every time your eyes see your colours in a new way, they learn more. If you've solved the light colours question, that's great. If not quite, keep in mind the brightness idea from the last panel. The flip flops in the Lights and the puffer jacket in the Brights, and the idea that the puffer jacket could hold its energy with the other Bright items (compared with the items placed on the sweater that couldn't in Panel 6), whereas the Light items might appear softer or hard to see with the Bright items in outfits.
Yes to convincing ourselves a colour is right just because we love the colour family, been there many times, happy to say it's now in the past (mostly) :)
Ohhhkay. That’s why the mid toned brightish teal cardigan does absolutely nothing for me. Not too many teals in true winter. I’m definitely not bright winter then 😄 With every video I listen to I get another little nugget of info that makes things drop into place for me more and more.
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Great to hear that the videos help to add building blocks to your understanding. I might not rule out a Season based on them though :)
Love this! These spring colors are what I have for most of my wardrobe.
They're beautiful colours :) Glad you enjoyed the video!
Are you going to do the Olympics like women’s gymnastics. I’m finding my mind analyzing using information in my head. Maybe I’ve watched too many color videos lol. I find myself analyzing all kinds of things lately. It’s fun. I’m just curious as a watch these qualification rounds who is wearing the Leo’s the best and which team has the best overall colors for their team. I watch a few other sports but this is the one that I follow all year long and been a lifelong gymnastics fan.
That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of it. The Olympics will be well over before I'm able to put a video together but I'll keep sporting events in mind. Thank you for the suggestion!
Always enjoy your videos
Thank you, I'm happy to know that!
I love these videos! I’m trying to slowly gain this perception of color and I’m going together from you because I don’t feel like I have it naturally.
Also, it feels so strange why colors that don’t seem that different from each other, look so different on oneself. Sometimes I struggle to figure out why, but hopefully these videos will help me understand! Thank you!
I'm sure that some people have naturally better colour perception but any that I have, I got from practice, meaning most anyone can do it. Your approach of watching the videos is the right one, we're so connected with colour that we absorb it just by being around it. Viewers often play the videos a few times in a relaxed way and see more with each watching.
There's a colour interaction called simultaneous contrast, where one colour affects how we see another when they're close enough together, which may explain part of how colours may change when we wear them. It's easy to underestimate how profoundly colours reflect light, both our own and the colours we wear. When the energy waves are out of sync, our eyes see disharmony or it doesn't feel good or right to look at.
And more amazing, colour doesn't exist except in our minds. Things emit energy waves that react with our eyes in a way that an image forms in our brain. And the intricacy and detail of it, picture the leaf of a fern, every tiny part and our eyes distinguish all these energy waves. The whole topic is addictive :)
Haha, addictive is a great word for it! I went down the rabbit hole for a couple hours after watching! It’s hard for me not to every time I delve in! Do you believe that personality and the colors that look good on us are linked? I think I remember reading you mention something but can’t remember for sure…
Yes, to a point. Maybe the genes that determine our colouring have links to those that determine the Nature aspect of personality (vs. nurture), or they can be inherited on the same chromosomes. We know patterns like spunky redheads (Anne of Green Gables, for example), but these are loose, random, and unpredictable. Like MBTI or similar tests, there may be some relationships sometimes with colouring. Now there's a rabbit hole for you, personality tests. I love them actually :)
The sweater that we were trying to decide if it was true summer or light summer, can we please please have more info on the concept of the colors blending in being the wrong thing? I am confused but intrigued as to that. I thought it blending in meant harmonizing. More please :)
Same here. I'm interested to learn more about this!
A great question, I'd be happy to talk about this some more. I'll give some thought into how to organize it.
I'm either bright or true spring and find blue greens especially difficult. Most are desaturated aquas or teals that look heavy, dirty, faded and grey on my skin. I look for juicy bright electric neon tropical warm blue greens with shiny light emitting finishes.
You have good guidelines for shopping. TSp blue green often surprises me with how green it is. I agree about BSp, you'd think it would be easy and plentiful but actually not, same with BW in the light and medium ranges. All 3 Seasons are particular with this colour and spectacular when it's right. Depending on where you live, this might be one of those colours you find more easily in the warmer months. I think I'd have to go to Florida or Mexico :)
I love teal, but as a spring I look better in turquoise. I find it pretty easy to spot which is good!
I find it interesting that you say everyone’s natural colouring will fall into one season, when I was draped my analyst told me I have autumn coloured eyes but spring skin. My eyes look amazingly green next to olive, but my skin looks dull. Whereas in bright leaf green my skin looks healthy but my eyes aren’t so attention grabbing. I wonder what season you would put me in?
Having colours we can spot from the beginning is like a gift, the encouragement to have patience, practice with our palette, and find the rest of them. It sounds as though your analysis result is a question of interpretation rather than observation. Colour analysis systems vary with both of these, although I can promise that together, we'd find your one Season and explain the apparent contradictions. If your instinct is towards Spring, that may be a good place to be. Healthy skin is always good!
@@ChristineScaman thank you, I appreciate your reply! I think the system I was analysed by is a bit more limited than yours, it was House of Colour which is really a 4 season system with 4 subseasons within each. I was given the subseason “blue spring” which is the coolest spring subseason and closest to winter, but not the brightest which is “paintbox spring”. I saw the effect the drapes had on my skin and it was obvious that spring was better, but autumn brought out the different colours in my hazel eyes. I was told not to focus on my eyes because they aren’t as important. I’m considering getting another analysis in a 12 season system because I feel kind of disconnected to a lot of my blue spring colours. Healthy looking skin is great but I would like to know how to create a look of total harmony
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Hi Christine, I’ve been listening to the chrysalis podcasts and recently heard the one about hair color and dying one’s brows. What color brow dye would you recommend for a light summer? My brows are blonde and sparse. I don’t know if I have enough hair for dying them to work, but I sure am tired of all the hassle I have to go through every day to make them visible to the naked eye, so I’m willing to give dying them a shot!
Oh, PS, I am 58 and my hair is light brown with silver hairs here and there. Natural color. I don’t have an objective enough opinion to be able to say what other colors are in it, but one person recently said I had cinnamon reddish highlights. I was blonde as a child.
Honestly, I'd continue the hassle of drawing them in. The beautiful thing about makeup is that you can wash it off and change it immediately if better information comes along. Your natural hair colour sounds gorgeous and the odds of brow dye matching it seamlessly are low, and then you're stuck till they grow out, a situation I've seen often enough. Having the right brow colour is so important to the overall impression and if you have a powder that works, it's a zero-risk solution. I do the same myself, same product as the eyeshadow contour. We all have our hassles but sometimes, they're our safest and most flattering choice :)
@@ChristineScaman thank you for your thoughts! I have only colored my hair all over once in my life, and I’ve only had it highlighted a time or two. Even before I had my color analysis, I came to the conclusion it wasn’t worth it because I hated having to sit still in a chair so long! Lol Now that I know about natural color, I wouldn’t dream of coloring my head now, even if I turn gray tomorrow. :-). So I would probably be disappointed with brow dye as well, and it looks like the colors of brow eye are quite limited. I haven’t found brow products that I like yet, but I’ll keep searching.
@@ChristineScaman I found a company that offers build-your-own powder shadow eyebrow palettes! I ordered platinum, ash, ash brown, medium ash brown, and cinnamon. It's so hard to tell online what the colors will look like in person, so I hope I did okay. (Blonde looked tempting, but blonde almost always means too yellow/orange for cool-toned people.) I'm looking forward to playing with it and seeing how it works out!
PSA: The company is Sydney Grace, and they are having a Chrismas in July sale right now (through August 8, 2024). They also have four brand new, beautiful, season-themed eyeshadow palettes (don't know why any of us around here would be interested in that! 😉)
I looked them up, they look wonderful! It will be interesting to hear your thoughts. Sometimes, these smaller companies have beautiful pigments at a fraction of the price you'd pay for that quality in mainstream. They're also able to control their sourcing and distribution so they can be truly cruelty-free. Great find, thank you!
@@ChristineScaman That was so kind of you to check it out! I received the brow palette today and tried it out, and upon first impression, I think this is going to work great! Much better than any of the brow pencils or tinted brow gels that I've tried so far that make me look like I stuck a couple caterpillars on my forehead! Having the five colors of powder allows you to create a really dimensional look, and does allow a lot of control. Platinum and cinnamon layered together?! Get outta town!
I also got the Western Summer and Northern Winter eyeshadow palettes, and they are beautiful as well (I'd never tried this brand before). They have the option with their eyeshadow palettes of choosing the light or the deep version. I'm impressed!
About lipsticks. I've been draped as LSu and some of the lighter TSu drapes seemed okay. I've been using 'Flowergirl' shade from your lipsticks but sometimes, especially if I don't just dab it on lightly, it seems too candy or warm for me. I'm 47. So does this mean I'm getting less saturated? I have lost pigment in my hair on my temples. 'Come dancing' doesn't have that effect. So if it does mean that, should I look for colours in eg. Soft Summer?
A great question. I don't have the belief that we change Seasons with time but I appreciate that colours may react differently, or we feel differently about them. Lipstick being the most particular of all items, I couldn't come to any conclusions about Season based on that item alone, especially if it's only one colour. If I consistently found blush to become too warm or bright, I might consider that the person's colours have changed but I've never known that to happen (I think of cheek colour as a better indicator of natural reds than lip colour.)
We do lose feature definition with time as lines and edges soften, and perhaps our colours soften but it's a matter of degrees, not nearly enough to change Season. Also, to change Season, we'd have to change in the other two dimensions. To become a SSu, you'd have to darken, which doesn't appear to happen. I meet many LSu people in their later years and SSu colours are exactly as non-harmonious as they would have been earlier on, with the note that in youth, non-harmony is more manageable (looking for a word to say we can get away with it, but in an analysis, we couldn't). LSu colours are exactly as harmonious as in younger clients, perhaps more so in mature people in that more feature definition is returned. Restoring this softening of shape in features is one of makeup's biggest jobs over time, along with adding back vitality and vibrance to the impression.
An interesting point you make that I've thought about it, if melanin in hair disappears, as though the genes that code for hair colour are gradually turned off, does melanin in skin do the same? I have no proof that skin and hair would behave the same way and see no evidence to support it, and we have other pigments that are only in skin that appear to remain the same, sorry to be technical and vague at the same time, but these are the things I think about. Or we both think about :)
@@ChristineScaman Thank you for a thoughtful answer!
I see a lot of people who have a yellow-orange color in their hands, despite the absence of any diseases and the absence of any cosmetics, even though this yellow color does not appear on the appearance of their face.
Do hands have the same color season as the face in general?
I think they must, though I've wondered the same about areas of higher pigmentation in the face or seemingly different colour of face and neck. I'm sure we have the same red in all body parts since we have the same blood in hands, face, suntans, and so on. Our other pigments, melanin and carotene, may increase in quantity or concentration in a particular area, but I'm not convinced they change in colour. Melanin seems especially variable but to change colour, would the genes have to actually mutate? I don't know the answer but it seems unlikely somehow. You ask a great questions and I don't have biochemical proof, but from observation, all parts of faces, at all ages, with or without suntans, analyze into the same Season. Of course, how things look and how they are can be quite different, flat earth, one example, but it's where my thinking is so far :)
How can i find clothing curated for bright winter?
I'm not aware of such a place, either online or a certain brand. I add items from current retail to my Pinterest boards a few times per year (summer casual most recently). You'll find a link to those boards in the description boxes for the videos.
As a true summer, I decided that greens are not for me. I find it super hard to spot those blue greens from my palette.
I understand how a colour with so many versions can be challenging, a menu with fewer choices is actually simpler. It's a cooperative colour though, happy to work with a group, and in combinations, choices for any of the 3 Summers within the TSu light-dark range could work fine.
There is a kind of blue that doesn't contain any red. It gives me an unhealthy yellow or yellow orange color to my skin that I hate. I am not talking about teal blue which I believe I could wear. Blues with red in it I can wear too.It is this blue in the picture.The family of this sort of blue. I have analysed this sort of blue and it doesn't contain red. Teal blue is not the same family.I believe I can wear teal.
I wonder if it's because there's warmth in your natural colours. I can have a similar effect of appearing yellow or orange in colours that are too cool (or too soft) because they cannot complete the harmony with my own colours.
@@ChristineScaman they can not complete the harmony indeed. I will avoid those green blues. It is not for me. Indigo blue and lilacs are my blues.