I agree that certain colors enhance my appearance but I think I gravitate to colors that calm me and people around me. I want people to see me and not the color first. I am a winter and I wear dark colors and white. No muted colors as they wash me out and give me a fatigued appearance. I colored my hair for twenty years a beautiful auburn that I loved but always felt off and couldn’t figure out why. During Covid I let my gray hair grow and I can’t believe the compliments I get which never happened when it was auburn. I think nature knows best.
I knew three girls in Texas with platinum blonde hair (German Dad, Swedish mom but was 1/8 Cherokee), these girls had black eyes and tan skin from the Cherokee against the platinum hair. They were very beautiful cool winter.
I’d love it if you could do a video showing pictures of people in the different categories and subcategories (doesn’t have to be celebrities). I’d love to understand and see the difference between a cool olive and a warm olive, for example. The softening of colours as your hair colour changes made a lot of sense - I’d love to see a video just on this.
warm olive skin is more common than this video suggests. it's a myth that olives are "usually" cool undertones. olives have a greenish tint to the skin - and is more akin to an "overtone" rather than an undertone. when i shop for face products, I need to look for a greenish yellow tint to the base, to match my warm olive overtones. since green is just yellow and blue mixed together, you can have both cool olives (more blue leaning) and warm olives (more yellow leaning). the actual distribution of warm vs cool olives is likely more even between the two. I've found that people that are straight up cool (not olive at all) often misdiagnose themselves as being olive when in fact, they are just cool, and likely muted as well.
Green is a secondary color with both yellow and blue as you say ,but green is typically a cool color if you chop the color wheel in half, with violet or purple at the top and the line coming down between yellow and true green. Olives aren't all brined pickled green brown - olive oil can range slightly cooler ( not cold) green to golden. Basically it's an overtone that would make you olive/green, you'd still be either yellow or blue based - they're just an interesting layering. Like blue based people with an red overtone.
I am olive and cool and not just muted. My skin looks green or yellow and really unhealthy in warm colours. So when i wear orange or rust i really look like an olive! But in navy or purple the green disappears and my skin looks more tanned and healthy. Olive skin ist yellow skinovertone above blue undertone. The skinovertone can't be greenish above a warm undertone. Impossible. Pigments of the skin can't end up in Green. They are combinations of yellow, red and black pigments. The blue always comes from the undertone. So olive skin is always cool.
I have actually found the opposite most people believe olive skin is cool(I even got in to an argument with a TH-camr before about it). My mom got colour analysed a couple of years back in the makeup course she was doing ( they used drapes and all) the lady said she’s some kind of winter type and gave her a cool toned foundation that made her look boiled. I feel that more happens to the pale olives like me and my mom. I myself been typed as a some kind of Summer type before and it never sat right with me because I’m a warm olive and don’t look that great in grey.
I think a type of orange could be the litmus test. Intense orange, (neon is likely too strong), burnt orange (a dark brick colour) and the pastell - peachy version. If the person needs the yellow undertones - a form of orange will look very good (just make sure not to get a form of orange-pink that can look fairly good on summer types with a tan). If the person has (subtle) cool undertones the orange will not look good. Orange is the warmest colour as it is a mix of yellow and red. So it is also a dead giveaway if a person is cool or not. Of course the right intensity can throw you off, but in sportswear, summer t-shirts there are often different shades of orange (also vintage stuff).
Very interesting and informative. By the way Emma Stone who looks great as a redhead is actually a natural blonde. So perhaps a "natural" hair color doesn't always suit a person?
I'm in my 50's and I know what looks good on me by now. i have always loved the season of autumn and guess what I look great in warm colors. I won't say I am an autumn or spring because I also can wear certain colors like royal blue and red. Bright yellow looks awful and light grey makes me look dead. I think deep down we know what are our best colors when we look in a mirror. Just my opinion.
I'm warm toned and I look great in gold jewelry more than in silver, my veins are green as well, I fall in autumn, I look great in orange, red orange, yellow, yellow green, warmer brown tones.
Two cents in on the hair colour topic. I've never been colour analyzed, but I think I'm a warm undertone. That only became clear after I dyed my hair. My natural hair colour is a cooler blonde (at least I think so, it's been many years). Growing up, I always thought I was cool toned - pale, redness to my skin, the blue vein lie. Once I died my hair, I got so many compliments that it suited me better, and I started styling to suit a warm undertone. It's interesting how one element can open your eyes to what's going on. Unless I'm completely wrong, which wouldn't be the first time! Lol
Yes, always pay attention to those kind of clues. When people start to compliment you lots on a particular colour, there's something to be learnt from that!
You brought up so many valid points! I was diagnosed as a mix of sultry and jewel winter, but my veins look more green than blue and my light olive skin, which can look deceptively warm, actually has a very cool undertone! And yes, we do not shift from warm to cool as we age, but we do shift in our chroma and value.
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Redheads are definitely an interesting type - they are ruddy in complexion often,but I knew one girl with creamy skin color like porcelain. On the other hand I know a ruddy redhead who wears navy a lot - it seems a bit stark - it's so ,so and I think I'm biased because blue and orange are my least favorite compliment combo. She looks horrid in black,and awful in pink. It's hard to imagine them in warm reds either though - I can picture her in turquoise and cream,creamy gold. I'm also curious about native American skin tones.
Redheads can look amazing in the right hue of blue - it just has to match the intensity (or softness) of their colouring. I know a TV anchor woman with really vivid red hair, that looks amazing in (a slightly muddy) peacock blue. But her best blue is leaning more into petroleum blue green.
@@inglishhomeandgarden8386 The blue-green - teal in the U.S. . is called PETROL. I like the channel of Colour Analysis Studio but they got this colour term dead wrong. Petroleum is crude oil. Petrol is the term invented by the fashion industry in the 1950s - 1960s for a blue-green colour (a deep turquoise). I think the word is more used in Europe. Alessandra and Giulia are Italians and not native Englisch speaker so ... they get this wrong.
Thanks for this video! I enjoyed it and it's good to address some of the misinformation that's out there. But wanted to point out that your use of Emma Stone as an example here is off base - she is a natural blond who dyes her hair red. She talks openly about this.
Lots of great information here that I was looking for! I’ve never had my colours done but I believe I was a winter in my youth. (I had very dark hair, very fair, cool skin and bright blue eyes.) Unfortunately my mum often dressed me in yellow and peach as a child, and I myself chose a peach going away dress at my wedding. If I’d had my colours done then, I’m sure there would have been better choices! Over the years my features have definitely muted and my natural hair has changed to white blonde. Would love to have my colours done now but I’ve been suffering ill health and so I fear no colours would look good on me. I definitely believe colour analysis could save a lifetime of buying the wrong clothes, makeup and even hair colour. (I once dyed my hair a warm red and even I, who have not been very perceptive about colours over my life, could see this did nothing at all for me.). Lastly, there are colour trends in makeup, hair and of course, fashion. Sometimes it isn’t easy to find your ideal colours! Thanks for what you do
Thank you for watching and commenting. I do hope your health gets better. Remember that wearing the right colours can not only help you look better but also feel better. It sounds like now you have a good understanding of what you like and what suits you. I agree that a good colour analysis can save a person a lot of time and money over a lifetime!
So interesting Sarah! Are winters always high contrast as I have been told? If a platinum blonde with blue eyes can be a winter, I’m guessing the idea that all winters are high contrast is a myth too?
I thought I couldn’t be anything other than warm because I have a tanned skin colour but now I’ve realised I’m probably cool and that’s why I’m drawn to cool colours and warm colours give me the ick
So agree with everything you said. I am light spring so warm undertone but with porcelain pink tone skin, and I burn in 10 minutes in hot sun. Both gold and silver suit my skin, even the colour analysist said so. Obviously the metalic in silver jewellery gives intensity, I wouldn't wear a dull silver grey metallic dress.
Hi Sarah! This was an awesome video! You explained all the points so well! I had my colors done back in the late 70's and was told I was a spring. Fast forward to earlier this year and I was told I was a warm autumn. I love both palettes and have automatically stuck with the better choices. My fault was buying black...never looked great and I never felt great in it but it's so classic. I've gotten rid of all of my black tops except for my black leather moto jacket and now wear one of my best bright colors under it. I definitely burn in the sun!
Thank you Celia! That sounds about right that your warm colours became more muted over time and I can understand why black didn't feel right. Always trust your gut!
Hello. I am Pakistani and am considered fairer in my ethnicity. I can’t decide upon my undertone. I have light blue or may be green veins. My skin looks redish. And silver suits me more. Infact gold doesn’t suit me. Soft colors suit me more. Blue suits me more in almost any shade. Black and white suits me somehow. Black hairs and light brown eyes . I shine more in soft colors and in few dark colors like blue and emerald green.
I have also seen comments (another video and channel) people talk about the foundation and drawing conclusions from that (I have cool undertones, but warm overtones and wear warm make-up ....) so that is another misconception. I do not wear make-up but allegedly it is hard to get make-up for cool undertones. And the Korean cosmetic brands are better, colour analysis is very popular and the offer make-up and lipstick etc. with the information (cool or cool-nutral). Another thing I read: The blonde seasons (sommer or spring). Or another one: I am blonde so I cannot be .... (but I wear colours that put me into autumn and it confuses the heck out of me).
In my teens, I was categorized as a soft autumn but now later in life and as I've turned grayer, I was catagorized as a deep cool soft winter so I changed my wardrobe to cool colors. I find it confusing. Before I couldn't wear black but now I am told I can. However, I still don't feel I look great with black against my face so maybe I am still a soft autumn. Sometimes autumn colors look off on me though. Can a person be a mix of warm and cool undertones?
I completely agree with the possibility of winter blondes - I am one myself (true or cool winter - different names depending on the system used)! I'm so glad to hear more and more consultants agree. I do however not agree with the winter blondes having to be platina blonde. I'm a trained colour consultant myself (have been for over a decade), and I basically ignore hair colour as the processes behind human colouring is too complex to box someone in (the production and distribution of the different types of melanin in hair, skin and eyes is different and is very complex, with variations due to different genetic, physiological and environmental factors), and natural hair, skin and eye colours are so dimensional (dyed vs natural hair is a good example of this - a dark brown box dye will look SO much more flat and one-dimensional than natural dark brown hair will. The natural dark brown might have very subtle hints of purple, or burgundy, or blue or green, or all of them at once! And natural ash blonde, for example, might have a slight pearly pink tinge, or blueish-green, or ashy grey, while still looking "ash blonde"). For this same reason, I would allow for a redheaded winter or summer. It is rare, even more so than with blonde winters, but rare doesn't mean impossible. Same with someone with very dark features being a light season. I'd rather focus on making the skin shine (after all, skin is more important for health cues) and let the drapes talk - if they suit X palette the best, then it wouldn't make any sense for me to not give them that palette 🙂 I do think the depth of hair compared to skin can be useful in terms of what contrast to wear in outfits (a more medium contrast winter could wear more medium contrast outfits to honour their contrast level, but still wear the winter palette, for example)
I was in my teens when I first got mine done. Got it done again in my twenties to help someone in their training (same results). I have a few grays but not enough to change my season but in a few years I may need to get them redone.
I have a friend that did a in person analysis at a hairsalon, and she can’t really fit into the result🫣 She is strawberry blond with very translucent eyebrows and bright white skin with pink in it. So pink skin and yellowish hair. Brown muted eyes. The hairdresser called her eyes red (?!) but if we look closely they are more like brown towards hazel. She was typed as a autumn but nothing in her features supports those rich, saturated, golden autumn colors. I suspect she might be somewhere in the spring family…? But for people with this translucency to the eyebrows and hair, would you say they always look better with their eyebrows done? Is there a possibility to look your best without filling them in?
I was looking at some photos of my younger years (20s and 30s). It seems that my hair was very dark, and I could wear black clothes and red lipstick. Now I look best in charcoal gray, soft black, and a softer red lipstick. My eyes are a soft medium deep olive green (cool with amber specks). I’m wondering if I was some sort of winter that softened into a slightly soft deep summer palette. I can cross into some deep winter colors. Is this possible?
Absolutely. I often have clients come to me because their colours no longer work for them. Our chroma and value can change over time which might mean a completely different season.
Hi Sarah, I’ve been binge watching your videos because my undertone became more apparent to me when I colored my hair from a medium chestnut brown to platinum blonde. It was so stark that I left it for my Halloween witch costume. LOL Could you talk more about Springs who have are brunettes with green eyes??? Blessings!!! 🤩🤩🤩
In your experience, can a redhead have a cool undertone? My natural color is auburn and I have pinkish skin and very dark brown eyes. I’ve never been professionally analyzed, but all the armchair color experts say I’m autumn. But that palette looks terrible on me! Blues and purples flatter me best. Am I just in denial or can redheads be cool?
I'm not sure where copper sits on the metals - spring or autumn? (Better than rose gold by my taste). I definitely like it in it's original shiny state - but the oxidized look makes me uncertain whether "mint green" is named for mint money,or mint Julep 😅 - I prefer peppermint ice cream colors for myself. I know silver suits me - platinum I don't know,but when it tarnishes I'm not so into it. I was swayed by gold jewelry coming into style about ten years back - maybe because it was more polished and shiny? The jewelry styles can play a heavy influence, sometimes gold is heavy styled as well as colored and I know it doesn't work,but some gold plaiting necklaces or smooth jewelry seems more appealing than something silver so intricate it looks rough in texture. Dainty and/or lightweight is perfect but sometimes I want a more polished soft look as a cool tone. Comments?
They can. I followed this approach for a while and I do ask for a photo of my client's eyes. There's so much more to take into consideration apart from the pattern, it's just one part of a bigger puzzle.
I swear my veins are green, blue and purple, my eyes are amber brown, the hair dark brown, what undertone is that? My best guess is that I am somewhere on the autumn spectrum.
Interesting! I really wish I had seen this video earlier (my mistake) as this is a big question I have, about changing colours with age. I was diagnosed as deep autumn in 90s, had it done since as my colours have changed so much, eyes gone lighter and brighter, hair lighter with colouring. Had colours redone, once as warm spring, once as warm autumn. I thought I would fade to soft autumn, as you suggest here. Is it possible to go warmer with age; left somewhat confused! Do you do online colour analysis, otherwise it a trip to Ireland from the Scottish Highlands at some point!
I have wondered this for a long time and have read differing opinions from professionals in this space. Do you think that a person’s natural hair color always suits them/always matches their season?
The pigments that colour the skin are also at work in the hair and there a certain eye colours that go with gene expression in skin and hair. So the natural hair colour (as long as it is not grey or white) will always be good (or at least O.K.). Colouring the hair might bring improvement (likely more intensity) and no type is limited to one hair colour (like spring and summer are the blonde saisons - I have read that).
Thank you for this. I agree there are some channels spreading incorrect info. I hate the attitude around hair color and color analysis. This channel and colour analysis studio are my absolute favorites. So I’m a soft autumn, as I get older is there any softer/less bright season? Or will I just be more of a soft autumn???😂 I feel like I’m the most muted of all tones. I love the palette and it works 100% for me. Just curious cause I think it’s as muted as possible.
Thank you for watching and commenting! No, you can't get much softer than the soft seasons so you are going to be able to use your palette for life! Lucky you! :)
This was so interesting. Thank you. Did you know that Dita Von Teese is natural blond? :) Also, it would be lovely if you could give us your take on often controversial celebrity color analysis - are Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchette - Spring or Summer? And one personal question, if I may - why rosy tones suits me better than pink ones (rosy pink vs. blue pink), although I'm very cool (I'm very fail with light skin and darker blue eyes with greyish tones and navy halo)? Even MUAs agree that rosy looks better than pink on me. XO
@@SueRosalie yeah, she is so many times typed still as a winter by so many stylists, but there are few pictures of her without makeup and the black hair are too much for her. I did quite an extensive research some time ago in order to find some more pictures of her and find out what season she is and I think she is most likely some summer or she could be bright spring because her natural hair seems to be warm vut also there are bot many pictures of her, I still feel like evn though she wears so much makeup her undertones are overall cool. From my own experience there is very fine line for example between cool summer and winter so if someone wears a lot of makeup, plus hair plus styling it is almost impossible to tell that they are not a winter. And Ditta almost never goes out of that in any different colouring or styling or no makeup so there is very little to compare it with
@@SueRosalie @SueRosalie Rose pink is not blue based pink. It has peachy quality to it, i.e. slight orange/salmon tone which is different than blue based pink one. I'm not sure natural redheads are always warm season. It's not about overtone (skin tone) but undertone that can be very much cool or olive (according to many color analysts olive can have both cool and warm quality to it, just like green color itself). Hair dye and make up can impact a season greatly, IMHO, in a sense that person can pull off different seasons with more or less success. Thus Dita can pass as winter her entire life being a summer. Make up and hair dye being just one part of it - sister season being another component. Dita is probably Cool Summer which make it possible for her to wear part of Cool Winter palette with success - which she does. Light Summer can borrow some colors from Light Spring which explains why Nicole and Cate are confusing and professional MUAs usually do cool toned make up on both of them and they both look their best in cool toned outfits. I can borrow colors from both Spring and Winter. I am both very light and very cool Summer.
I have a question about changing coloring through the seasons. My hair naturally grows in medium brown but I get blonde highlights in the summer, I have olive skin that looks very cool and I never get too pale but over all I am more tan and blonde in the summer. Can your season change seasonally? I feel like you would say no...
Good question! Without having seen examples of this from you I would doubt that you would change season so dramatically. I imagine that you might dip into another sub season of the same season if anything.
Is it possible to have a cool undertone but look better in warmer colours? I have red hair, green eyes and dark brows + lashes, but my skin is extremely pale and leans cool. I find gold jewellery looks better closer to my hair. Most cool colours don't suit me. It's very confusing 😂
@sarahryanthestylecoach no idea 😂 I guess my veins run blue. And maybe cause I'm so pale I just assumed. But I look meh in cool makeup like pinks and taupes and cool undertoned foundation often brings out the redness in my skin 🤷🏼♀️
I think true autumn means you can pull off all autumn colors (or most) but you can’t borrow from the other seasons. Edited to add you can probably do some spring! Cause it’s warm.
Yes, Ash is correct in her comments that True Autumn means that you can wear any of the Autumn sub-seasons well but it does mean that you wear this season best and you are recommended not to borrow from other seasons :)
@helen - I agree with @ash that you can also wear spring (maybe warm spring) during special occasions. I sometimes wear spring versions of red and yellow when I want to be extra bold (red) or happy (yellow).
I'm glad you asked, because one time I was shopping for a hairdye at a beauty store and I mentioned that my natural colour was brown and she replied "that doesn't suit you". That left me puzzled because, like, it's my natural colour! But I've always wondered if there was any basis to her comment.
Definitely. I cut my hair short and started to grow out my natural hair color (an ashy, nondescript light to medium brown) for a bit, when we were all stuck in lockdown anyway. Thinking, I might go with just highlights or lowlights or something, after a decade of dying my hair a 'soft black'. Dropped that idea really fast. I'm a 'high-contrast' person. My light skin, blue eyes and raven hair look amazing together. Light brown hair makes me look totally nondescript and boring, irrespective of the hairstyle itself. I immediately felt so much more myself again, after dying my hair back to it's old color.
I think so! I know some people who I think their dyed hair looks better. Also in Korean color analysis I have seen them match drapes to find their best haircolor and they say they can be different than their natural haircolor.
@@pmw3839 Right and yet they are still all in different seasons. I didn't mean they were draping Koreans though, I meant the Koreans were draping their clients, it's very popular over there, and a lot more in depth than other ones I've seen.
I’m a cool, medium/soft winter. My natural hair color is medium ash brown and I’ve been getting light ash blond highlights to camouflage the few grays I have at the hairline. I feel drab, but golden highlight have looked too orange in the past and that’s why I switched to ash highlights. Is there a better color for me as a senior lady who does not have much gray hair yet?
I guess you can act on the assumption that your natural hair is a good fit (and the highlights to camouflage and create visual interest must be ashy). The same melanin (dark brown and yellow) colours hair and skin, so how that genetic information is expressed in a person is always a good match for their type (the proportional intensity, the shade). Same with eye colour (and if you consider visual impact they are only a small part of the face so you could wear coloured lenses that are completely out of your palette and you would be O.K.). I guess you should just embrace your hair, camouflage gray with ashy highlights - and play around with colour for textiles - not the hair. If anything going a bit darker could work. Could you try on wigs to see the effect or try non-permanent dyes ? I am a summer (with some ventures into intense winter colours if the mood strikes me, the intense contrasts can do something for me although I need to pay more attention to hair and eye make-up. I often do not wear anyt make-up, not even mascara). I have ashy lightbrown hair (the saving grace is that it is naturally wavy and looks voluminous). The word non-descript or "mousy" comes to mind (even though mice are grey). Red tones do not suit me (of course I tried this, I admire true gingers), I cannot go blonde (my hair is dry, bleaching would break it and likely it would not look good anyway). I am afraid that going darker would be too intense, so I never tried that either (but I remember one carneval so maybe going a bit darker could be O.K. but chances are that the first experiments with real permanent dye would not turn out right, and I do not want to experiment around to find the right brown that is not reddish or too dark) My natural hair colour does nothing for me - but it also does not take away. My natural colouring (face, hair) is very soft (bland), little contrast. A bit grey in the skin complexion (so textile colours with a yellow hue are a no go. Cream, beige, peach, orange, green with a lot of yellow in it .... they vary from "not good" to "terrible"). If I want to "borrow" colour to enhance my face, and make it look more lively, I have to do it with the colours of garments that I wear, not with hair. The benefit of my hair is that the hairstyle can be flattering - but not the colour (hair colour has no impact, neither positiv nor negativ). In the book Colour Me Beautiful the author wrote that the summer types often have the ashy hair colours (in most cases either blonde or brown) and that they are the ones that are notoriously unhappy with their hair colour and constantly try to pep up their colour. Typically they go wrong, they should not do that. They should embrace the soft hair colour, it fits the type. Which is also muted, soft, gentle. As a medium soft winter with ash brown hair that may be good advice for you as well. Except for cautiously going a bit darker you are likely also stuck with your natural hair colour ;) Take hearth and compensate with textile colours ;)
What Im confused about is if you can change from winter to summer with gray hair with age like you gave the Andie Mcdowell example, how come it is not possible to go from summer to winter by dying softer hair to darker you know like vica versa..or from winter to summer by dying your hair grey.... what makes the natural greying process work differently than dying your hair ?...if Andie died her hair back to her younger darker colour would she be winter again?
Great question. Our hair is not the only thing that loses its intensity although it might be the most dramatic change that we see. Our skin itself can lose its glow and vibrancy over time as can our eyes. So while you can dye your hair it is not so easy to bring the intensity back to the skin and eyes. Thank you for your comment and for watching.
@@sarahryanthestylecoach Yes, this is what I was thinking, so probably even if someone grey dies their hair back, it would be possible that it doesn't really match the rest of the fading features as well as when they were younger right?
@@magicxspace5406 there's a vlogger, I think it's "My over 50 fashion life" - she was a true autumn before (I think). She's gone grey and she was analyzed again. Her primary feature now was determined to be "soft", so she can wear soft autumn & soft summer. I think if she dyed her hair darker again, the rest of her features would still be soft & she wouldn't revert to true autumn. This reinforces what Sarah has said. (I suggest to watch her vids too - she gives good fashion advice).
Can you be a spring with level 6 ash brown hair? Got colour typed years ago as clear spring, more recently told by my hairdresser that if she was to reproduce my colour she’d be using level 6 ash brown. In sunlight I see copper in my hair,and have found a red hair, but she says my hair reflects blue (in her professional terminology). I’m also not sure that I can cope with the brightness of spring colours, but I may also be mistaking winter bright colour for spring bright. Confused.Cath
@cathwalsh9921 I'm a Spring with level 6 ash hair. In the sun it looks translucent gold, no red anywhere. Hair for Spring isn't an issue as Spring has the widest hair color of ALL shades from platinum blonde to red to ash brown to pure black. My sister is clear spring with intense lime green eyes and was strawberry golden blonde till 30, naturally deepening to black with a deep red undertone in the sun by 35. To consider spring, you just need to have a warm skin tone and suit clear light bright colors (eg medium to high intensity, of light to medium depth).
@@tomjones2157 thank you for that info. Very useful. I took a picture in the shade but with the sun off to the left of me a bit before 2pm yesterday. I look orange and my hair looks very warm. Eyes looked a piercing blue with a touch of yellow tint and an amber patch. Turned in to face the shade and I looked really cool with ash hair and grey eyes! 😄 I think that’s why I’d have a hard time having my colours done online. My highlights are copper, and I have found copper and blonde strands in my hair. Not loads of them, though.
@@cathwalsh9921 Try to use an overcast day and match garments to your skin. If you suspect you are spring that you should be able to wear orange. (which is very warm it is a mix of yellow and red). If orange (or a softer tone like peach if you need less intensity) looks good you are NOT a cool type. And you could try out beige versus bright white. again the beige should look better on you.
i have a question, you're winter, right? sometimes u wear bright winter colors, like magenta and acidic yellow, today u wear something i would consider summer color - light, muted purple. so the leap is HUGE. so i wonder, what is dictating your choices? you dont follow your season blidnly?
I thought that too. I thought to myself, is this color available in winter palette 🤔 But it looks nice with her complexion and dark hair, it doesn't stand out or do anything bad for her🤷🏻♀️
@@patleits4846 lol, it IS muted. go open photoshop, take the color sample and u'll see the color is far more to the left (muted) than to the right (intense) and its light too. and summer's main characteristics are cool light and muted colors, while winter is cool dark and bright. so this color fits perfectly into summer category. light summer, i'd say.
I think she might be a cool winter, so that would make cool summer her sisterseason, where this sweater is then borrowed from. Just my guess. I really like this sweater on her🤓💜
Hmmmm. So maybe I am a blonde in a winter season. I had a professional analysis done years ago and I was typed as a summer. This is before the new 12, 16, 22 etc season breakdowns. My mom bought the Carole Jackson book in the 80’s and I absolutely fit into NONE of the seasons. My mom says I’m a chameleon. 😂 I wore hot pink for one senior picture and off white for the other and I clearly have golden blonde hair in the picture. The pink looked amazing on me. I wear very bright blush that when you see it in the container you would swear I’ll look like a clown but it looks natural on me. I’m now graying and my “gray” is like a yellow platinum gray but with a streak of dark blonde at the widow’s peak. Color changing eyes from gray-blue to grey-green with faded yellow central hemochromia. My eyes used to be brighter than they are now. I am much more saturated than people realize until I actually wear the make-up.
@@kellydecamp3656 Although possible, the cooler, darker colors of Winter look slightly better than the warmer, lighter Spring colors. I have compared my senior picture where I am wearing a bright pink blouse to both palettes and it aligns more with Winter. I wear purple much better than orange. My friend and I remember me having golden hair and that is reflected in my senior picture. My mom says I had ashy hair and that the lighting is wrong in my senior picture. If I color my hair and I’m not careful, my hair goes red. As I have grown older (56), my hair definitely has an ashy tone to it where it isn’t graying.
@brizaksmommy you could be winter or bright spring who can wear some winter. I'm a spring and wear the lighter winter purples better than orange, and have naturally ash brown hair, blue eyes with a strong yellow sunburst ring around the iris. My Gran is bright spring and has platinum pure silvery white hair, very dark bright warm blue eyes and very pale yellow skin. She also suits light bright purples, from both spring and winter palette and is too pale for most oranges as they lean a bit too strongly warm or dark.
I went another professional this year who was new to doing this. She thought Spring or Winter but didn’t want to say for sure. I had to go back to have senior analyst have a look at me and she said Summer. You know what? I’m just gonna wear whatever I feel like for that day. My mom says I’m a chameleon and not part of one group exclusively and I think she’s correct.
The problem with the OLD pictures is that the colours can be slightly changed compared to how you really looked. And you are not easy to determine, the differences must be subtle, so it can be only done in person, with drapes, no make-up, hair covered with a scarf ! and good day light (but indirect light, not in the sun, not in the shadow, a big window on an overcast day would be ideal).
Love this video! 😍🩷🥰 I also wish I had my colors done earlier😩 I was told all my life that I must be an autumn (because I am olive toned) and it turned out after a professional analysis that I am a cool winter. So my sisterpalette is cool summer! Heeeey😂 no warmth AT ALL😂😂 I LOVE my new palette, just wish I had not spent so many years in autumn colors. Once you see it you can’t really un-see it🤓🩷
I agree that certain colors enhance my appearance but I think I gravitate to colors that calm me and people around me. I want people to see me and not the color first. I am a winter and I wear dark colors and white. No muted colors as they wash me out and give me a fatigued appearance.
I colored my hair for twenty years a beautiful auburn that I loved but always felt off and couldn’t figure out why. During Covid I let my gray hair grow and I can’t believe the compliments I get which never happened when it was auburn. I think nature knows best.
I knew three girls in Texas with platinum blonde hair (German Dad, Swedish mom but was 1/8 Cherokee), these girls had black eyes and tan skin from the Cherokee against the platinum hair. They were very beautiful cool winter.
:) Great to hear more examples of blonde Winters! Thanks for sharing!
I’d love it if you could do a video showing pictures of people in the different categories and subcategories (doesn’t have to be celebrities). I’d love to understand and see the difference between a cool olive and a warm olive, for example.
The softening of colours as your hair colour changes made a lot of sense - I’d love to see a video just on this.
That's a great suggestion. The problem there is having access to pictures of people that are not copyrighted. It would be a great video though!
I am a winter I look good in jewel tones But i look really good in dark brown, olive green and that fall mustard yellow
Lovely! ☺️
warm olive skin is more common than this video suggests. it's a myth that olives are "usually" cool undertones. olives have a greenish tint to the skin - and is more akin to an "overtone" rather than an undertone. when i shop for face products, I need to look for a greenish yellow tint to the base, to match my warm olive overtones. since green is just yellow and blue mixed together, you can have both cool olives (more blue leaning) and warm olives (more yellow leaning). the actual distribution of warm vs cool olives is likely more even between the two. I've found that people that are straight up cool (not olive at all) often misdiagnose themselves as being olive when in fact, they are just cool, and likely muted as well.
@@SueRosalie thats literally not true at all. olive skin can belong to any season; warm green and cool green skin are both under the olive umbrella.
Green is a secondary color with both yellow and blue as you say ,but green is typically a cool color if you chop the color wheel in half, with violet or purple at the top and the line coming down between yellow and true green.
Olives aren't all brined pickled green brown - olive oil can range slightly cooler ( not cold) green to golden.
Basically it's an overtone that would make you olive/green, you'd still be either yellow or blue based - they're just an interesting layering. Like blue based people with an red overtone.
I am olive and cool and not just muted. My skin looks green or yellow and really unhealthy in warm colours. So when i wear orange or rust i really look like an olive! But in navy or purple the green disappears and my skin looks more tanned and healthy. Olive skin ist yellow skinovertone above blue undertone. The skinovertone can't be greenish above a warm undertone. Impossible. Pigments of the skin can't end up in Green. They are combinations of yellow, red and black pigments. The blue always comes from the undertone. So olive skin is always cool.
Olive is an overtone not an undertone.
I have actually found the opposite most people believe olive skin is cool(I even got in to an argument with a TH-camr before about it). My mom got colour analysed a couple of years back in the makeup course she was doing ( they used drapes and all) the lady said she’s some kind of winter type and gave her a cool toned foundation that made her look boiled. I feel that more happens to the pale olives like me and my mom. I myself been typed as a some kind of Summer type before and it never sat right with me because I’m a warm olive and don’t look that great in grey.
I agree! We know what colors make us look dead already. Lol!
I think a type of orange could be the litmus test. Intense orange, (neon is likely too strong), burnt orange (a dark brick colour) and the pastell - peachy version. If the person needs the yellow undertones - a form of orange will look very good (just make sure not to get a form of orange-pink that can look fairly good on summer types with a tan).
If the person has (subtle) cool undertones the orange will not look good.
Orange is the warmest colour as it is a mix of yellow and red. So it is also a dead giveaway if a person is cool or not. Of course the right intensity can throw you off, but in sportswear, summer t-shirts there are often different shades of orange (also vintage stuff).
Very interesting and informative. By the way Emma Stone who looks great as a redhead is actually a natural blonde. So perhaps a "natural" hair color doesn't always suit a person?
She probably just has a different hair tone even when blonde, not like in the picture
I'm in my 50's and I know what looks good on me by now. i have always loved the season of autumn and guess what I look great in warm colors. I won't say I am an autumn or spring because I also can wear certain colors like royal blue and red. Bright yellow looks awful and light grey makes me look dead. I think deep down we know what are our best colors when we look in a mirror. Just my opinion.
I'm warm toned and I look great in gold jewelry more than in silver, my veins are green as well, I fall in autumn, I look great in orange, red orange, yellow, yellow green, warmer brown tones.
Love that!
Two cents in on the hair colour topic. I've never been colour analyzed, but I think I'm a warm undertone. That only became clear after I dyed my hair. My natural hair colour is a cooler blonde (at least I think so, it's been many years). Growing up, I always thought I was cool toned - pale, redness to my skin, the blue vein lie. Once I died my hair, I got so many compliments that it suited me better, and I started styling to suit a warm undertone. It's interesting how one element can open your eyes to what's going on. Unless I'm completely wrong, which wouldn't be the first time! Lol
Yes, always pay attention to those kind of clues. When people start to compliment you lots on a particular colour, there's something to be learnt from that!
You brought up so many valid points! I was diagnosed as a mix of sultry and jewel winter, but my veins look more green than blue and my light olive skin, which can look deceptively warm, actually has a very cool undertone! And yes, we do not shift from warm to cool as we age, but we do shift in our chroma and value.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked it! :)
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Redheads are definitely an interesting type - they are ruddy in complexion often,but I knew one girl with creamy skin color like porcelain. On the other hand I know a ruddy redhead who wears navy a lot - it seems a bit stark - it's so ,so and I think I'm biased because blue and orange are my least favorite compliment combo. She looks horrid in black,and awful in pink.
It's hard to imagine them in warm reds either though - I can picture her in turquoise and cream,creamy gold.
I'm also curious about native American skin tones.
Redheads can look amazing in the right hue of blue - it just has to match the intensity (or softness) of their colouring.
I know a TV anchor woman with really vivid red hair, that looks amazing in (a slightly muddy) peacock blue.
But her best blue is leaning more into petroleum blue green.
@@inglishhomeandgarden8386 Those are fall blues though, right?
@@inglishhomeandgarden8386 The blue-green - teal in the U.S. . is called PETROL. I like the channel of Colour Analysis Studio but they got this colour term dead wrong. Petroleum is crude oil. Petrol is the term invented by the fashion industry in the 1950s - 1960s for a blue-green colour (a deep turquoise). I think the word is more used in Europe. Alessandra and Giulia are Italians and not native Englisch speaker so ... they get this wrong.
Thanks for this video! I enjoyed it and it's good to address some of the misinformation that's out there. But wanted to point out that your use of Emma Stone as an example here is off base - she is a natural blond who dyes her hair red. She talks openly about this.
Good point! I can see how a strawberry blonde would be great on her but some of the blondes I've seen feel out of place and slightly ghostly. :)
Lots of great information here that I was looking for! I’ve never had my colours done but I believe I was a winter in my youth. (I had very dark hair, very fair, cool skin and bright blue eyes.) Unfortunately my mum often dressed me in yellow and peach as a child, and I myself chose a peach going away dress at my wedding. If I’d had my colours done then, I’m sure there would have been better choices! Over the years my features have definitely muted and my natural hair has changed to white blonde. Would love to have my colours done now but I’ve been suffering ill health and so I fear no colours would look good on me. I definitely believe colour analysis could save a lifetime of buying the wrong clothes, makeup and even hair colour. (I once dyed my hair a warm red and even I, who have not been very perceptive about colours over my life, could see this did nothing at all for me.). Lastly, there are colour trends in makeup, hair and of course, fashion. Sometimes it isn’t easy to find your ideal colours! Thanks for what you do
Thank you for watching and commenting. I do hope your health gets better. Remember that wearing the right colours can not only help you look better but also feel better. It sounds like now you have a good understanding of what you like and what suits you. I agree that a good colour analysis can save a person a lot of time and money over a lifetime!
So interesting Sarah! Are winters always high contrast as I have been told? If a platinum blonde with blue eyes can be a winter, I’m guessing the idea that all winters are high contrast is a myth too?
Not always, I have found.
I thought I couldn’t be anything other than warm because I have a tanned skin colour but now I’ve realised I’m probably cool and that’s why I’m drawn to cool colours and warm colours give me the ick
Yes, one of the myths out there! Trust your gut!
So agree with everything you said. I am light spring so warm undertone but with porcelain pink tone skin, and I burn in 10 minutes in hot sun. Both gold and silver suit my skin, even the colour analysist said so. Obviously the metalic in silver jewellery gives intensity, I wouldn't wear a dull silver grey metallic dress.
Hi Sarah! This was an awesome video! You explained all the points so well! I had my colors done back in the late 70's and was told I was a spring. Fast forward to earlier this year and I was told I was a warm autumn. I love both palettes and have automatically stuck with the better choices. My fault was buying black...never looked great and I never felt great in it but it's so classic. I've gotten rid of all of my black tops except for my black leather moto jacket and now wear one of my best bright colors under it. I definitely burn in the sun!
Thank you Celia! That sounds about right that your warm colours became more muted over time and I can understand why black didn't feel right. Always trust your gut!
Hello. I am Pakistani and am considered fairer in my ethnicity. I can’t decide upon my undertone. I have light blue or may be green veins. My skin looks redish. And silver suits me more. Infact gold doesn’t suit me. Soft colors suit me more. Blue suits me more in almost any shade. Black and white suits me somehow. Black hairs and light brown eyes . I shine more in soft colors and in few dark colors like blue and emerald green.
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Very interesting 👍
Glad you found it interesting! ☺️💕
Great advice. Thank you.
Glad you like it Judy! Thanks for watching :)
I have also seen comments (another video and channel) people talk about the foundation and drawing conclusions from that (I have cool undertones, but warm overtones and wear warm make-up ....) so that is another misconception. I do not wear make-up but allegedly it is hard to get make-up for cool undertones. And the Korean cosmetic brands are better, colour analysis is very popular and the offer make-up and lipstick etc. with the information (cool or cool-nutral).
Another thing I read: The blonde seasons (sommer or spring). Or another one: I am blonde so I cannot be .... (but I wear colours that put me into autumn and it confuses the heck out of me).
Yes I don't type people based on their features alone, I always let the coloured drapes do the talking!
In my teens, I was categorized as a soft autumn but now later in life and as I've turned grayer, I was catagorized as a deep cool soft winter
so I changed my wardrobe to cool colors. I find it confusing. Before I couldn't wear black but now I am told I can. However, I still don't feel I look great with black against my face so maybe I am still a soft autumn. Sometimes autumn colors look off on me though. Can a person be a mix of warm and cool undertones?
My mom
Has blonde hair gray blue eyes Pink in her skin tone She is a spring I am a deep winter I have a cousin who is warm toned olive skin tone
So different! So nice!
I completely agree with the possibility of winter blondes - I am one myself (true or cool winter - different names depending on the system used)! I'm so glad to hear more and more consultants agree. I do however not agree with the winter blondes having to be platina blonde. I'm a trained colour consultant myself (have been for over a decade), and I basically ignore hair colour as the processes behind human colouring is too complex to box someone in (the production and distribution of the different types of melanin in hair, skin and eyes is different and is very complex, with variations due to different genetic, physiological and environmental factors), and natural hair, skin and eye colours are so dimensional (dyed vs natural hair is a good example of this - a dark brown box dye will look SO much more flat and one-dimensional than natural dark brown hair will. The natural dark brown might have very subtle hints of purple, or burgundy, or blue or green, or all of them at once! And natural ash blonde, for example, might have a slight pearly pink tinge, or blueish-green, or ashy grey, while still looking "ash blonde").
For this same reason, I would allow for a redheaded winter or summer. It is rare, even more so than with blonde winters, but rare doesn't mean impossible. Same with someone with very dark features being a light season. I'd rather focus on making the skin shine (after all, skin is more important for health cues) and let the drapes talk - if they suit X palette the best, then it wouldn't make any sense for me to not give them that palette 🙂
I do think the depth of hair compared to skin can be useful in terms of what contrast to wear in outfits (a more medium contrast winter could wear more medium contrast outfits to honour their contrast level, but still wear the winter palette, for example)
I was in my teens when I first got mine done. Got it done again in my twenties to help someone in their training (same results). I have a few grays but not enough to change my season but in a few years I may need to get them redone.
Yes, perhaps so. Maybe when you start to have more grey than your original colour it could be a good time to get another analysis.
@@sarahryanthestylecoachthere are warm olives too, not ALL olives are cool. There are different types of olives.
@@sarahryanthestylecoachBesides, olive is a skin tone, not an undertone.
I have a friend that did a in person analysis at a hairsalon, and she can’t really fit into the result🫣
She is strawberry blond with very translucent eyebrows and bright white skin with pink in it. So pink skin and yellowish hair. Brown muted eyes. The hairdresser called her eyes red (?!) but if we look closely they are more like brown towards hazel.
She was typed as a autumn but nothing in her features supports those rich, saturated, golden autumn colors. I suspect she might be somewhere in the spring family…?
But for people with this translucency to the eyebrows and hair, would you say they always look better with their eyebrows done? Is there a possibility to look your best without filling them in?
My mom is a winter and she never burns
I was looking at some photos of my younger years (20s and 30s). It seems that my hair was very dark, and I could wear black clothes and red lipstick. Now I look best in charcoal gray, soft black, and a softer red lipstick. My eyes are a soft medium deep olive green (cool with amber specks). I’m wondering if I was some sort of winter that softened into a slightly soft deep summer palette. I can cross into some deep winter colors. Is this possible?
Absolutely. I often have clients come to me because their colours no longer work for them. Our chroma and value can change over time which might mean a completely different season.
Hi Sarah, I’ve been binge watching your videos because my undertone became more apparent to me when I colored my hair from a medium chestnut brown to platinum blonde. It was so stark that I left it for my Halloween witch costume. LOL
Could you talk more about Springs who have are brunettes with green eyes???
Blessings!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Sure! Is there anything specific you would like to know? Thanks for watching!
In your experience, can a redhead have a cool undertone? My natural color is auburn and I have pinkish skin and very dark brown eyes. I’ve never been professionally analyzed, but all the armchair color experts say I’m autumn. But that palette looks terrible on me! Blues and purples flatter me best. Am I just in denial or can redheads be cool?
Yes redheads can be cool! It's not that common in my experience but it is possible :)
I'm not sure where copper sits on the metals - spring or autumn?
(Better than rose gold by my taste).
I definitely like it in it's original shiny state - but the oxidized look makes me uncertain whether "mint green" is named for mint money,or mint Julep 😅 - I prefer peppermint ice cream colors for myself.
I know silver suits me - platinum I don't know,but when it tarnishes I'm not so into it. I was swayed by gold jewelry coming into style about ten years back - maybe because it was more polished and shiny?
The jewelry styles can play a heavy influence, sometimes gold is heavy styled as well as colored and I know it doesn't work,but some gold plaiting necklaces or smooth jewelry seems more appealing than something silver so intricate it looks rough in texture. Dainty and/or lightweight is perfect but sometimes I want a more polished soft look as a cool tone. Comments?
Copper is definitely autumn.
What about eye patterns? I’ve seen videos saying the patterns in your eyes can give major hints to your color season.
They can. I followed this approach for a while and I do ask for a photo of my client's eyes. There's so much more to take into consideration apart from the pattern, it's just one part of a bigger puzzle.
This lip color is gorgeous, is it pink or salmon?
Definitely pink, salmon looks awful on me :)
Thanks for the vid - lots of great info! Would love to see more analysis vids on your channel. Hope you can analyze POC! Cheers. 🥂 💐
Sure thing! Not too many people willing to be on TH-cam though!! ;)
@@sarahryanthestylecoach yes, I understand. Even I wouldn't want to be on YT that way! Cheers. 😅
I swear my veins are green, blue and purple, my eyes are amber brown, the hair dark brown, what undertone is that? My best guess is that I am somewhere on the autumn spectrum.
I would have to drape you to tell for sure :)
Interesting! I really wish I had seen this video earlier (my mistake) as this is a big question I have, about changing colours with age. I was diagnosed as deep autumn in 90s, had it done since as my colours have changed so much, eyes gone lighter and brighter, hair lighter with colouring. Had colours redone, once as warm spring, once as warm autumn. I thought I would fade to soft autumn, as you suggest here. Is it possible to go warmer with age; left somewhat confused! Do you do online colour analysis, otherwise it a trip to Ireland from the Scottish Highlands at some point!
Hi Trisha. Yes I do online consultations. About 80% of my clients are internationally based.
A lot of red head get burnt easy A lot are warm and springs
True!
Great video, I really would want you to do my colors - unfortunatly I m quite far away 😢
I’ve worked with people all over the world online! It is absolutely possible! 💯☺️
@@sarahryanthestylecoach How would online work? And how much would it be?
I have wondered this for a long time and have read differing opinions from professionals in this space. Do you think that a person’s natural hair color always suits them/always matches their season?
I believe that nature doesn't make mistakes :)
The pigments that colour the skin are also at work in the hair and there a certain eye colours that go with gene expression in skin and hair. So the natural hair colour (as long as it is not grey or white) will always be good (or at least O.K.). Colouring the hair might bring improvement (likely more intensity) and no type is limited to one hair colour (like spring and summer are the blonde saisons - I have read that).
Thank you for this. I agree there are some channels spreading incorrect info. I hate the attitude around hair color and color analysis. This channel and colour analysis studio are my absolute favorites.
So I’m a soft autumn, as I get older is there any softer/less bright season? Or will I just be more of a soft autumn???😂 I feel like I’m the most muted of all tones. I love the palette and it works 100% for me. Just curious cause I think it’s as muted as possible.
Thank you for watching and commenting! No, you can't get much softer than the soft seasons so you are going to be able to use your palette for life! Lucky you! :)
This was so interesting. Thank you. Did you know that Dita Von Teese is natural blond? :) Also, it would be lovely if you could give us your take on often controversial celebrity color analysis - are Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchette - Spring or Summer? And one personal question, if I may - why rosy tones suits me better than pink ones (rosy pink vs. blue pink), although I'm very cool (I'm very fail with light skin and darker blue eyes with greyish tones and navy halo)? Even MUAs agree that rosy looks better than pink on me. XO
@@SueRosalie yeah, she is so many times typed still as a winter by so many stylists, but there are few pictures of her without makeup and the black hair are too much for her. I did quite an extensive research some time ago in order to find some more pictures of her and find out what season she is and I think she is most likely some summer or she could be bright spring because her natural hair seems to be warm vut also there are bot many pictures of her, I still feel like evn though she wears so much makeup her undertones are overall cool. From my own experience there is very fine line for example between cool summer and winter so if someone wears a lot of makeup, plus hair plus styling it is almost impossible to tell that they are not a winter. And Ditta almost never goes out of that in any different colouring or styling or no makeup so there is very little to compare it with
@@SueRosalie @SueRosalie Rose pink is not blue based pink. It has peachy quality to it, i.e. slight orange/salmon tone which is different than blue based pink one.
I'm not sure natural redheads are always warm season. It's not about overtone (skin tone) but undertone that can be very much cool or olive (according to many color analysts olive can have both cool and warm quality to it, just like green color itself).
Hair dye and make up can impact a season greatly, IMHO, in a sense that person can pull off different seasons with more or less success. Thus Dita can pass as winter her entire life being a summer. Make up and hair dye being just one part of it - sister season being another component. Dita is probably Cool Summer which make it possible for her to wear part of Cool Winter palette with success - which she does. Light Summer can borrow some colors from Light Spring which explains why Nicole and Cate are confusing and professional MUAs usually do cool toned make up on both of them and they both look their best in cool toned outfits.
I can borrow colors from both Spring and Winter. I am both very light and very cool Summer.
I have a question about changing coloring through the seasons. My hair naturally grows in medium brown but I get blonde highlights in the summer, I have olive skin that looks very cool and I never get too pale but over all I am more tan and blonde in the summer. Can your season change seasonally? I feel like you would say no...
Good question! Without having seen examples of this from you I would doubt that you would change season so dramatically. I imagine that you might dip into another sub season of the same season if anything.
Is it possible to have a cool undertone but look better in warmer colours? I have red hair, green eyes and dark brows + lashes, but my skin is extremely pale and leans cool. I find gold jewellery looks better closer to my hair. Most cool colours don't suit me. It's very confusing 😂
May I ask, what makes you think you have cool undertones?
@sarahryanthestylecoach no idea 😂 I guess my veins run blue. And maybe cause I'm so pale I just assumed. But I look meh in cool makeup like pinks and taupes and cool undertoned foundation often brings out the redness in my skin 🤷🏼♀️
I very much enjoy and appreciate your videos due to the valuable information that you provide! What is a sister season for a True Autumn?
I think true autumn means you can pull off all autumn colors (or most) but you can’t borrow from the other seasons.
Edited to add you can probably do some spring! Cause it’s warm.
Yes, Ash is correct in her comments that True Autumn means that you can wear any of the Autumn sub-seasons well but it does mean that you wear this season best and you are recommended not to borrow from other seasons :)
@helen - I agree with @ash that you can also wear spring (maybe warm spring) during special occasions. I sometimes wear spring versions of red and yellow when I want to be extra bold (red) or happy (yellow).
This spring is a red head who burns just looking at the sun!
Yep I know a few of them! 😀
Is it possible for your natural hair colour to not be flattering?
I'm glad you asked, because one time I was shopping for a hairdye at a beauty store and I mentioned that my natural colour was brown and she replied "that doesn't suit you". That left me puzzled because, like, it's my natural colour! But I've always wondered if there was any basis to her comment.
Definitely. I cut my hair short and started to grow out my natural hair color (an ashy, nondescript light to medium brown) for a bit, when we were all stuck in lockdown anyway. Thinking, I might go with just highlights or lowlights or something, after a decade of dying my hair a 'soft black'. Dropped that idea really fast.
I'm a 'high-contrast' person. My light skin, blue eyes and raven hair look amazing together. Light brown hair makes me look totally nondescript and boring, irrespective of the hairstyle itself. I immediately felt so much more myself again, after dying my hair back to it's old color.
I think so! I know some people who I think their dyed hair looks better.
Also in Korean color analysis I have seen them match drapes to find their best haircolor and they say they can be different than their natural haircolor.
@@Dani-lc9hq Natural for Koreans is surely jet black.
@@pmw3839 Right and yet they are still all in different seasons.
I didn't mean they were draping Koreans though, I meant the Koreans were draping their clients, it's very popular over there, and a lot more in depth than other ones I've seen.
I’m a cool, medium/soft winter. My natural hair color is medium ash brown and I’ve been getting light ash blond highlights to camouflage the few grays I have at the hairline. I feel drab, but golden highlight have looked too orange in the past and that’s why I switched to ash highlights. Is there a better color for me as a senior lady who does not have much gray hair yet?
OOPS! I forgot to mention I’m light/medium OLIVE skin tone. Paler in winter and golden when tan.
I wouldn't like to say without having analysed you myself. If you would like, we can organise an online consultation. :)
I guess you can act on the assumption that your natural hair is a good fit (and the highlights to camouflage and create visual interest must be ashy). The same melanin (dark brown and yellow) colours hair and skin, so how that genetic information is expressed in a person is always a good match for their type (the proportional intensity, the shade). Same with eye colour (and if you consider visual impact they are only a small part of the face so you could wear coloured lenses that are completely out of your palette and you would be O.K.).
I guess you should just embrace your hair, camouflage gray with ashy highlights - and play around with colour for textiles - not the hair. If anything going a bit darker could work. Could you try on wigs to see the effect or try non-permanent dyes ?
I am a summer (with some ventures into intense winter colours if the mood strikes me, the intense contrasts can do something for me although I need to pay more attention to hair and eye make-up. I often do not wear anyt make-up, not even mascara).
I have ashy lightbrown hair (the saving grace is that it is naturally wavy and looks voluminous). The word non-descript or "mousy" comes to mind (even though mice are grey). Red tones do not suit me (of course I tried this, I admire true gingers), I cannot go blonde (my hair is dry, bleaching would break it and likely it would not look good anyway).
I am afraid that going darker would be too intense, so I never tried that either (but I remember one carneval so maybe going a bit darker could be O.K. but chances are that the first experiments with real permanent dye would not turn out right, and I do not want to experiment around to find the right brown that is not reddish or too dark)
My natural hair colour does nothing for me - but it also does not take away.
My natural colouring (face, hair) is very soft (bland), little contrast. A bit grey in the skin complexion (so textile colours with a yellow hue are a no go. Cream, beige, peach, orange, green with a lot of yellow in it .... they vary from "not good" to "terrible").
If I want to "borrow" colour to enhance my face, and make it look more lively, I have to do it with the colours of garments that I wear, not with hair.
The benefit of my hair is that the hairstyle can be flattering - but not the colour (hair colour has no impact, neither positiv nor negativ).
In the book Colour Me Beautiful the author wrote that the summer types often have the ashy hair colours (in most cases either blonde or brown) and that they are the ones that are notoriously unhappy with their hair colour and constantly try to pep up their colour. Typically they go wrong, they should not do that. They should embrace the soft hair colour, it fits the type. Which is also muted, soft, gentle. As a medium soft winter with ash brown hair that may be good advice for you as well.
Except for cautiously going a bit darker you are likely also stuck with your natural hair colour ;) Take hearth and compensate with textile colours ;)
What Im confused about is if you can change from winter to summer with gray hair with age like you gave the Andie Mcdowell example, how come it is not possible to go from summer to winter by dying softer hair to darker you know like vica versa..or from winter to summer by dying your hair grey.... what makes the natural greying process work differently than dying your hair ?...if Andie died her hair back to her younger darker colour would she be winter again?
Great question. Our hair is not the only thing that loses its intensity although it might be the most dramatic change that we see. Our skin itself can lose its glow and vibrancy over time as can our eyes. So while you can dye your hair it is not so easy to bring the intensity back to the skin and eyes. Thank you for your comment and for watching.
@@sarahryanthestylecoach Yes, this is what I was thinking, so probably even if someone grey dies their hair back, it would be possible that it doesn't really match the rest of the fading features as well as when they were younger right?
@@magicxspace5406 That's exactly it :)
@@magicxspace5406 there's a vlogger, I think it's "My over 50 fashion life" - she was a true autumn before (I think). She's gone grey and she was analyzed again. Her primary feature now was determined to be "soft", so she can wear soft autumn & soft summer. I think if she dyed her hair darker again, the rest of her features would still be soft & she wouldn't revert to true autumn. This reinforces what Sarah has said. (I suggest to watch her vids too - she gives good fashion advice).
Can you be a spring with level 6 ash brown hair? Got colour typed years ago as clear spring, more recently told by my hairdresser that if she was to reproduce my colour she’d be using level 6 ash brown. In sunlight I see copper in my hair,and have found a red hair, but she says my hair reflects blue (in her professional terminology).
I’m also not sure that I can cope with the brightness of spring colours, but I may also be mistaking winter bright colour for spring bright. Confused.Cath
@cathwalsh9921 I'm a Spring with level 6 ash hair. In the sun it looks translucent gold, no red anywhere. Hair for Spring isn't an issue as Spring has the widest hair color of ALL shades from platinum blonde to red to ash brown to pure black. My sister is clear spring with intense lime green eyes and was strawberry golden blonde till 30, naturally deepening to black with a deep red undertone in the sun by 35. To consider spring, you just need to have a warm skin tone and suit clear light bright colors (eg medium to high intensity, of light to medium depth).
@@tomjones2157 thank you for that info. Very useful. I took a picture in the shade but with the sun off to the left of me a bit before 2pm yesterday. I look orange and my hair looks very warm. Eyes looked a piercing blue with a touch of yellow tint and an amber patch. Turned in to face the shade and I looked really cool with ash hair and grey eyes! 😄 I think that’s why I’d have a hard time having my colours done online. My highlights are copper, and I have found copper and blonde strands in my hair. Not loads of them, though.
@@tomjones2157 your sisters colours sounds so striking, lime green eyes!
@@cathwalsh9921 Try to use an overcast day and match garments to your skin. If you suspect you are spring that you should be able to wear orange. (which is very warm it is a mix of yellow and red). If orange (or a softer tone like peach if you need less intensity) looks good you are NOT a cool type. And you could try out beige versus bright white. again the beige should look better on you.
I can’t figure out me or my husband or children arrgh
I love you, but Emma Stone is a natural blonde! She died her hair red to change up her look.
i have a question, you're winter, right? sometimes u wear bright winter colors, like magenta and acidic yellow, today u wear something i would consider summer color - light, muted purple. so the leap is HUGE. so i wonder, what is dictating your choices? you dont follow your season blidnly?
I thought that too.
I thought to myself, is this color available in winter palette 🤔
But it looks nice with her complexion and dark hair, it doesn't stand out or do anything bad for her🤷🏻♀️
the purple is light, yes, but it's not really muted. summer pastels have a misty quality to them. winter pastels are clear, bright, icy
@@patleits4846 lol, it IS muted. go open photoshop, take the color sample and u'll see the color is far more to the left (muted) than to the right (intense) and its light too. and summer's main characteristics are cool light and muted colors, while winter is cool dark and bright. so this color fits perfectly into summer category. light summer, i'd say.
@@SueRosalie nobody denies that the color is cool. but summer is cool season too. and this color is typical light summer color.
I think she might be a cool winter, so that would make cool summer her sisterseason, where this sweater is then borrowed from.
Just my guess.
I really like this sweater on her🤓💜
I burn in seconds and I am a warm spring.
A perfect example :) Thanks Mary
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Hmmmm. So maybe I am a blonde in a winter season. I had a professional analysis done years ago and I was typed as a summer. This is before the new 12, 16, 22 etc season breakdowns. My mom bought the Carole Jackson book in the 80’s and I absolutely fit into NONE of the seasons. My mom says I’m a chameleon. 😂 I wore hot pink for one senior picture and off white for the other and I clearly have golden blonde hair in the picture. The pink looked amazing on me. I wear very bright blush that when you see it in the container you would swear I’ll look like a clown but it looks natural on me. I’m now graying and my “gray” is like a yellow platinum gray but with a streak of dark blonde at the widow’s peak. Color changing eyes from gray-blue to grey-green with faded yellow central hemochromia. My eyes used to be brighter than they are now. I am much more saturated than people realize until I actually wear the make-up.
Could you be a bright spring? With the brightness and the gold blonde hair. Good sites about the seasons are Concept Wardrobe and Gabrielle Arruda.
@@kellydecamp3656 Although possible, the cooler, darker colors of Winter look slightly better than the warmer, lighter Spring colors. I have compared my senior picture where I am wearing a bright pink blouse to both palettes and it aligns more with Winter. I wear purple much better than orange. My friend and I remember me having golden hair and that is reflected in my senior picture. My mom says I had ashy hair and that the lighting is wrong in my senior picture. If I color my hair and I’m not careful, my hair goes red. As I have grown older (56), my hair definitely has an ashy tone to it where it isn’t graying.
@brizaksmommy you could be winter or bright spring who can wear some winter. I'm a spring and wear the lighter winter purples better than orange, and have naturally ash brown hair, blue eyes with a strong yellow sunburst ring around the iris. My Gran is bright spring and has platinum pure silvery white hair, very dark bright warm blue eyes and very pale yellow skin. She also suits light bright purples, from both spring and winter palette and is too pale
for most oranges as they lean a bit too strongly warm or dark.
I went another professional this year who was new to doing this. She thought Spring or Winter but didn’t want to say for sure. I had to go back to have senior analyst have a look at me and she said Summer.
You know what? I’m just gonna wear whatever I feel like for that day. My mom says I’m a chameleon and not part of one group exclusively and I think she’s correct.
The problem with the OLD pictures is that the colours can be slightly changed compared to how you really looked. And you are not easy to determine, the differences must be subtle, so it can be only done in person, with drapes, no make-up, hair covered with a scarf ! and good day light (but indirect light, not in the sun, not in the shadow, a big window on an overcast day would be ideal).
Love this video! 😍🩷🥰
I also wish I had my colors done earlier😩 I was told all my life that I must be an autumn (because I am olive toned) and it turned out after a professional analysis that I am a cool winter.
So my sisterpalette is cool summer! Heeeey😂 no warmth AT ALL😂😂
I LOVE my new palette, just wish I had not spent so many years in autumn colors. Once you see it you can’t really un-see it🤓🩷
So true! My Mum was typed as an Autumn (before I studied colour) and I knew it wasn't right. Winter is so much better on her!