The sister season thing is really great. I'm very confident I'm a winter, but I've been torn for a while between dark winter and true winter. When I look at the dark autumn sister palette, most of those colors look horrible on me, way too warm, way too muted. So checking the true summer palette instead, and while I still don't do well with some of the more muted colors, there's a lot more in the summer palette that I could wear than the autumn palette. So, it seems like my dominant characteristic is cool, and I'm a true winter! 🎉
*Soft Autumn/Muted* . Watching MANY color analysis videos over the past few years has definitely helped me hone in on a palette. I steer clear of high contrast black and white and gravitate towards Navy, Chocolate Brown and Ivory. Muted colors generally suit me best with exception of an orangey/yellow that is just too warm and makes me look sick. I feel I gravitate towards the cooler side of neutrals, and I favor my earthy muted palette of denim, brown, khaki, olive and ivory. My Soft Natural aesthetic craves texture and comfy fabrics.
I’m fairly close to neutral. Ive had my colours done a few times and have gotten different results every time because the person doing the analysis would say something about my hair having warm tones in it (even though it also has black and ashy tones in it), or that my eyes are hazel (even though they still skew blue, especially the dark blue ring around my iris), and while my skin has that pinky flush to it, it also has a discernible yellow undertone. My veins are even nearly 50/50 green and blue. I look great in both gold and silver - so long as it’s bright 😉. But for ages the idea of “neutral” in colour seasons was basically denied as an option. Poor olive skin tones just had no luck whatsoever. What I’ve learned is that (as another commenter observed) the brightness of the colour matters most for me. I can do bright spring or bright winter colours so long as there is no hint of being muted. Both the bright spring and bright winter palettes have options that have grey in the undertones. Any grey in the mix and it all goes horribly wrong for me. Also, I’ve noticed that the warmth in any colour has to be dominantly yellow. If it veers towards orange, it’s a no. The vector of green and blue is the sweet spot for me so long as it’s bright. Ochre works well because of that olive undertone (so it’s basically yellow + blue and yellow) which sits like a neutral on my skin. Jewel tones work well, again because they tend to be fairly neutral being neither overly warm or cool but are not muted by grey so they tend to lean towards bright or saturated. Greys have to be either charcoal with a hint of chocolate brown or silvery. Basically, anything muted by grey or that strays too far away from yellow or blue is just not great on me. Pinks, even warmer ones (like corals), are great as long as they are not muted or lean too close to an orange undertone (like peach) but reds are basically a no go unless it’s just past the boundary from pink or purple. And most purples don’t work for me because they have too much red. I thought I might have been an olive skin tone for a while because of this oddness (within the colour seasons theory) for a while until I figured out it’s the brightness and the blue-yellow relationship that matters the most for me. Even foundations gave me no end of grief because finding a true neutral used to be all but impossible. Thankfully that has changed. So, basically, I’m agreeing with your advice about sister seasons. It was figuring out why simply saying “cool and bright” or “warm and bright” didn’t work for me, which I only saw by studying the two palettes and saw where the intersections between them that worked for me were.
True Autumn , dark autumn colours look great on me as well. Digital swatching and watching many many many videos from professionals over time along with trial and error got me to that conclusion.
Bright Winter I think! I look best in bright colors, because they contrast with my dark skin. 😍 My sister season is also a hit when it comes to wearing those colors too! In clothing & makeup! I have neutral skin. But I can handle slight coolness and warmth, but very muted colors make me look dull. Extremely warm colors look pretty good. Very cool colors that are bright look awesome!
Thank you so much for your video! It was so helpful. I joined a color analysis Facebook group and posted some draping. Many if not all those who responded pointed out I did better with cool tone colors (I always thought I was warm toned 😅. Black and white actually looked nice against my face. So I knew thanks to everyone comments that I was a winter. Your video helped me understand why. I still didn't know which subgroup. But your tricks really worked, especially testing the color sisters trick. I am pretty sure I'm a true winter since I did better with the cool colors of true summer over the bright colors of bright spring. I signed up for your 12 Competencies course and started the journal portion exploring colors. Thank you so much.
I’m a bright spring and I enjoy using colors from bright winter! Most of my shirts are a saturated, mid-tone bright spring or winter color. I skip a couple of bright winter shades - periwinkle isn’t so great, neither are cool toned neons - but other than those, the bright winter colors look nice on me. Ultimately the brightness matters more than the undertone.
Im dark winter ❄️ deep colors look great on me and bright colors look awful on me and i have a neutral to cool undertone and i love using the colors of my sister season dark autumn🍁
Light-more spring than summer but more soft than bright so I wear some of both light seasons. This, after two color analyses (and much self-study) all of which took some time as I am quite neutral.
This was a helpful video. I just always imagined I was a dark autumn because I have dark hair and light-ish skin. Similar in colouring and features to Sofia Vergara and she's been said to be a dark autumn. But I'm now secong guessing and think I will go explore sister seasons too. One thing that has always bothered me with self determined dark autumn type is that I don't suit the colour orange; not darker orange not bright nor light.
What about medium? I can't do very light, very dark, very warm , very cold, very bright, very muted. I am neutral to slightly warm, slightly soft but not muted, neither light nor dark.
Dark Autumn. I can carry black without too much effort, but when I borrow from (say) Dark Winter, one of the best colors I've found to work on me is midnight blue. Similarly I wouldn't have suspected that I could do justice to royal purple, but it appears my coloring is vivid enough that it wouldn't look out of place.
@@alyssarudman Thank you! I got general swatches for Autumn as a child, but it wasn't until recently that I pinned down which subtype brought out my best looks. (I've also been swiping recs for jewelry and fashion prints from DW--come to find out Art Deco marcasite pieces and marble print suit me just dandy.)
