THE BEST AND WORST OF BRIGHT WINTER 

I am a bright winter and like Olivia Munn I lived too many years thinking I was a dark autumn because of my slightly olive skin, which is actually neutral cool. I also have hazel eyes which I associated with warmth but in the sun they have a cool green quality. I no longer dye my hair and I only wear bright winter colors because once my eye got used to seeing myself in the right colors I can no longer settle for less. I used to talk myself into the wrong colors but now I know better. In bright winter colors my teeth look whiter, my skin looks clearer, my hair looks darker, the change is incredible. Thanks for the fun video. 🌸

Your idea for a video about why bright seasons get mistaken for muted ones is such a good idea! I do hope you get around to that! I think I notice this most with True Winters - maybe because they're fully cool, often get confused with True Summer.

I think the answer to 'Why do Bright Winters get mistaken for muted?' is that we look pretty good in all the seasons colors. Until you've seen what your best REALLY is, it doesn't click. The bright colors are a bit scary and too attention-grabbing, until you get used to them.

I would love a video on why white bright seasons get confused as muted seasons. I struggle with that with myself as sometimes I feel like I could be a cool summer but I am pretty sure I am a bright winter.

I think you should keep making videos specifically about bright winter, since you ARE one, you can speak to us about it from a deeper lever! :D I recently got analysed as one and am DYING to find all the information about it! I personally don't like pink, I like a punk, edgey, grunge look, so if you would make a video on how to own your bright winter without being feminine, it would be AMAZING! Thank you for this video aswell :)

Oooh yes, please do this for every season/sub-season. I’m actually a bright spring who lived too many years thinking I was a dark/true winter 😱, so I feel kind of better knowing I’m not the only one who got it wrong (though with no stylist to blame). 😂 Thank you for these vids! Xx

I’m Light, Bright and Warm (Spring). I also look serious or severe, when I don’t play up my lightness and brightness! It makes such a huge difference. Whereas some people would feel silly and girlish in my palette, I actually need it to not look pensive, sad, even angry! I have had people ask, “What’s wrong?” when I was in dark colors. In muted colors, I get, “Are you feeling OK?” Whereas, in bright colors, I go to the doctor and they tell me I look fine.

Loved this. And yes! Please do a video on (19:54) - why bright seasons get mistaken for muted seasons.

Just a quick co-sign to your “why do bright winters get matched to muted tones” comment. One of the reasons I got a color analysis done was because I would swing between extremes that broke the rules of any one particular season. I knew I could pull off a bold, saturated tone, but would often swing towards the muted, soft summer/soft autumns colors as well. I have thoughts - looking forward to your perspective!

Thank you so much for this video! I hardly ever see content on bright winters! I don't think we're all that common, so I'm excited to find you and subscribe to your channel! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

After a lot of searching and confusion, the fact that you said that bright winters can have golden brown and not necessarily black or ash brown (like all the one i have watched) helped me a lot💛

You look so vibrant as always! Really love these discussion videos

I am so excited i found you! I was told i was a true summer but i really think i am a bright winter. I need to experiment more to be sure and maybe ill even get a professional analysis done. You are stunning btw!!!

this was such a treat. you are SO good at this. insane eye and your commentary is so articulate and eloquent and funny. amazing presentation, watched every minute! another light bulb moment for me, why highlights NEVER looked good on me! i never knew i could wear fun mu colors or why i always felt like i needed lip color before leaving the house always. ty doll. it feels great knowing my coloring now

This video is so helpful. I would love to see you do more seasons just like this one. Thank you!

I love these examples. It was very clear seeing what worked and didn't on each person. Also, your explanations of what didn't work and why clarified a lot for me. Very informative video! P.S. I was mistaken as an autumn and I am such a bright winter. I would love to see how it gets confused so much!

Great video! Thanks for sharing ❤

Do more of these!!!!! I’M ADDICTED OK!!!!!

Loved this, I’ve been struggling to understand seasonal color analysis and this was incredibly helpful! Would love to see you continue this series 🤞

Loved the video!

Hi Bridget can you please do more of Outfits for Bright winter because we are so rare and i can found no good recommentations exspecially in combination with the actuell trends-a channel only for our type cannot be found

Fabulous video!

Love your content! I am a natural platinum blonde, pale skin with green eyes & think I'm a bright winter because bright jewel tones & a bright pink lip look best on me. It would be awesome if you could do a video like that about blondes as bright winter because I see some people saying blondes cant be a bright winter are more in the spring family, which completely washes me out. Thanks!

I can recall having colour seasons explained to me back in the 80's.... I knew I was a winter but the dark winter just washed me out, and found I was more of a neutral because I was able to wear some gold. and of course because I was able to accessorize with gold, others assumed that I was an autumn. It's nice to see that you are verifying what I find works very well for me, and so thanks 😁

Please do a video on why bright seasons get confused with soft seasons!!!!

This was such a helpful video!

This was so fun to watch and really see the difference the colors you wear can make! I have no idea what season I am but would love to see more of these

Love your video. So well thought out and explained.

Hi Bridget! So glad you made another video. What a great analysis! I wish I knew for certain what season I am, but I do suspect I'm dark winter. Anyway, looking forward to your next video, even if it comes in like, a year lol

I’d love a similar format for cool summer.

I wondered so much why I looked my best in fuscia

Great video! More on bright winter ❤️

I have grey hazel eyes and light/tan olive skin with very dark brown hair look black with natural red highlight and the sun and for years i though i was a dark autumn. well at least it fitted my teen alternative style at the time of wanting to look more vampy...

That beautiful high contrast from 9:10 then the switch to that muted 9:22 I literally thought she died 😭

I think I’m a bright winter who has been blonding myself into washed out territory.

I'm living for that purple dress Megan Fox was wearing! love it! I do wish she wasn't used so so much as an example bc as you said she's the poster child and now you can't find anything online but her and Zoey Deschanel for bright winter lol.

I was jumping around from summer to to winter, eventually settled on true winter after getting the vampy look from deep winter. But now I’m looking and thinking, I could definitely go a little brighter than the true winter recs? I thought bright winter would be very hard to pull off, but the more I look at it, the more I’m like…no, I definitely already wear this and it looks good. But maybe I’m overwhelmed and just don’t know? Edit: I was not overwhelmed loool I have now determined I’m likely bw. I have silver black hair and actually black eyebrows but thought maybe with my not light skin I didn’t have enough contrast? I was wrong. Interestingly enough, jet black black hair is a little bit too dark for me, which makes sense. A soft black or almost black espresso is better. I think that’s what cemented bright VS any other winter for me.

I just knew that i looked good in jade and (most of) blues clothes, and coral blush, so with that i tried to find out my color palette and turns out I'm a bright winter, so now im trying to look what else looks good on me

Hello and thanks for the great video! I just subscribed. It really helps to have so many celebrity comparisons. As you may see from my thumbnail, I am a bright winter too, and I have pink undertones and very dark hair with blue-grey ringed, grey-brown eyes. Even though I am a woman of color, I have a lot in common with my white sisters in this season.

I am not sure about my season so far i have gotten soft summer, soft autumn, deep winter and cool winter. Tbh i think im more likely to be a soft summer but i can pull of dark lip colors really well, but also bc i have a fair skin every lipstick color looks darker than it should be. I get compliments every time i wear a deep pink or mauves.

Hey Bridget! Could you please make a similar video about deep winters ! I adore your content about the colour seasons! Thanks! :)

WOW

Katy Perry has natural blonde hair,. I wonder if she uses makeup to adjust to black hair. That is dyed

As a bright winter idk why but a rich dark grey looks waaay better than black. I’ve got pale skin with an olive undertone and it’s so hard to find any neutral colors that work well on me. I think khaki looks good but it’s warm so I don’t know why. I feel like cool beige should look good because it’s cool but it’s literally the worst color on me. I guess just not vibrant enough.

I'm starting to wonder if there's any chance I could be a bright winter with my white skin, natural light brown hair, hazel eyes, and medium contrast. I know it wouldnt be typical, but I am pretty sure light and muted colors gray me out, dark colors steal color from my face, and I think I get the muddy "orange effect" with warm colors despite how much I adore the spring colors. Nothing seems to brighten/light up my face the way the right colors should, and in all photos it looks like my face is in shadow compared to others'. I have tried colors from the other 3 seasons but after about 6 of months in each of them I feel like something is wrong and shift my suspected palette. It's so hard.

Love your video, where did you get the swatches?

Can I be a natural mousy brown w golden brown eyes & still be a winter? I always thought I was a summer! I prefer silver and I think I have cool undertones, but I also tan easily. Any thoughts I’d love to hear opinions.

Subbed!

Do you have any advice on what colors a bright winter could wear to a wedding, like something that would still be suitable for a bright winter, but on the more conservative side?

🎉the only celb😂 you miss was the Queen herself in my opinion

Ok I’m totally confused. I know I’m a winter. But don’t know if I’m a true or bright. My skin is pink cool undertone and fair, my natural hair is dark brown almost black, but my eyes are hazel green (the green is like an olive green and changes to brown depending on what I wear) and have a line around them. But not blue or emerald green eyes. I look best in bright fuchsia, royal purple, cobalt blue, red, emerald green. Although a different look that I rarely do I can also get away with a rich olive green, which brings out my eyes though not the best on my skin. And though not impactful I can wear very icy light blue and lilac. What do you think? Anyone else have this issue?

The images of Megan Fox at 1:48 exemplify (to me) how going against seasonal color theory can be used to create a specific effect. In these photos, Megan looks sort of like she's going for a lowkey goth look. You say the colors look like they're "sucking the life out of her," which, if she wanted to dress as a vampire, would be perfect. 9:20 Oh my gosh, that is legit a vampiric goth look on Katy Perry! She looks like she was dressed by the author of My Immortal. ...Okay, maybe not, or else the outfit would be more intricate.

Hi Bridget, what lip color are you wearing in this video?

I have brown eyes and light brown to medium hair lìght skin. Irish & french. Don't know if I'm winter.(?)

It was the brightness factor that was the missing piece for me figuring out why certain colours worked or didn’t work. I think we have skin, eyes, and hair that reflects a lot of light and if what we wear doesn’t have that quality to it, it can’t keep up with us. It doesn’t have enough energy for us. I can wear gold if it’s shiny. Even dull silvers don’t do it for me. I can dip into Bright Spring colours because of that brightness factor as long as it isn’t too warm. I think bright winters have just that bit more reflective quality than bright springs. The warmth in the spring seems to absorb more light which I think we can pull off if we wear the right accessories and makeup. I even started wearing the bright pink lipsticks I always gravitated to on my cheeks and eyes because the makeup colours out there all tend to be warmer or muted and it’s hard to find something with enough punch to it. On someone else that would look garish or clownish, but on me, it’s perfectly harmonious and my skin just glows. I prefer patent leathers for the same reason. That shine is everything. The best blacks and whites I have in my wardrobe are all ones that are made of materials that reflect more light. I can wear grey as long as it’s more silvery. Before I figured this out, I thought I must be some kind of neutral because nothing on either side of the spectrum of warm or cool really did it. Once I went bright, it all fell into place and I finally felt like *me* . I have a coral/salmon pink dress that isn’t my best colour, BUT because it’s a poplin cotton, it reflects more light. It has a slight sheen to it, and with the right accessories and makeup, it works. No wonder my mother always called me a magpie, attracted to anything that shines and sparkles 😂 This was so much fun. The contrast between their wrong colours and their best colours is STARTLING. It removes all doubt as to what their colour season is. I think we are the most mistyped seasons out there (both bright winter and bright spring) because so much of what the rubric for typing dictates distracts the people doing the typing (even if we are doing it ourselves). If you have red in your hair, a speck of gold in your blue eyes, if gold doesn’t look horrible on you, etc., you’re put into some kind of spring or autumn. If you have a lot of contrast or no obvious warmth, into winter or summer you go. That brightness factor is so often the last detail anyone clues into. So, if you’ve been typed and you can’t figure out why it is still disappointing, try amping up that brightness. You’ll see very quickly if it’s the missing piece or not.

Interesting. I didn't think as a WoC I could even BE a Bright Winter. 🎉🎉🎉

Hi you are so pretty, id love to see you in red hair 😍

You are definitely BW! What were they on about? Your look is perfection, today!

Can cool/true winters wear deep purple lip colors?

So I was classified burnished/Jewel, what does that mean?

I don’t know if I’m a true or bright winter but all I know is that nudes/beiges are my worst colors. Soft autumn colors are my worst. I look amazing in black tho. Also,I can’t pull off extremely dark lipsticks either.

I’m pretty sure I’m a bright winter, BUT I love kind of rose coral lipstick on me and peachy/rosie blush… more than just cold pink tones. I wonder why. Thank u for the video, looking forward to more bright winter related videos.

Is Lynda Carter Bright Winter?

I think Katy Perry might be bright spring because she a natural dirty blonde hair

Where are the bright winter MUA on RU-vid???

Still cant figure out whether m a bright winter or a deep winter 😅

Bright winter here 👋

i think katy is a bright spring not winter

There’s a system that says your colors are your body colors, but they don’t look that great.

You forgot Alexis Bledel and Zooey Deschanel (but then Katy and Zooey are basically twins,so 😅)

Hi! Do you have instagram.. Id love a consultation..

Sofie Ellis Baxter is not a Winterwoman.

Can hardly hear this video.

If you listen back to this video you might like realise like how many like times you use the word like. Makes it really hard to listen to. Just a suggestion.