Why do BRIGHT seasons get mistyped as MUTED or SOFT seasons? 

@@marialwable ahh thank you!! I love this top so much! Greens can be tough but this one feels spot on 🤩

Yes! As a toddler, I had blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin , but with time, my coloring ended up looking like the Welsh twins (level 3 or 4 hair, very dark brows and dark and striking brown eyes and very white sclerae.

Judging by your pic I would say you look like a sort of Spring. The bright pink lipstick is drawing too much attention. Your natural coloring isnt what a Winter looks like (which would be more like Snow White) and you are very lucky. I could recommend Carol Brailey's videos to you. She offers color analysis services too but personally I am just a viewer. It took me a year of watching and testing colors on me to discover that I am actually a Bright Winter and not a Summer which were my most common colors to wear. However what makes us shine shouldnt draw attention away from us but be in harmony with our looks. I was never brave enough to wear bright colors but once I decided to look at myself objectively I understood muted things didnt match my high contrast features..

Your comment just reminded me of a quote someone recently mentioned from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Someone tells Midge that she looks like either Vermeer painted her or she swelled a light bulb, and that person told me that’s why my skin tone is like (in the nicest way). I have no idea what season Rachel Brosnahan would be, but I think of this quote now for bright winters. We could have been painted by Vermeer!

this is what im figuring out as well, i look fine in soft colours but not good. It's a bit like it makes me look calm to the point of tired which is what i feel like most of the time anyway. But brighter colours (not sure how bright exactly, just not soft) look much better on me and actually also make me feel more awake/alive

@@NorthLakePark I believe she is a bright winter! I talk about her in my Best and Worst of Bright Winter video!

I'm a true winter, and I don't think I look bad in the wrong colors, that's why I wore them for years😅. But comparing with my colors... wow! I look way better in a vivid blue or an emerald green. My skin looks brighter, clearer.

Glad I could help!! 😊

That happens to my undereye area. Drab greens and browns make my the shadows under my eyes really stand out while hot pink erases them. Figuring that out was my ah ha to knowing I was BW

@@LaurenCarman I'll keep an eye out if that happens to me, too. 😉

@@LaurenCarman I get a telltale blue/purple shadow on the bridge of my nose in some of my worst colors

I used to wear a lipstick called Siren, which was my brightest Cool Summer pink. A Bright Winter friend really liked it and bought some. She was darker skinned than I and it looked very soft on her.

@@lilibetp I think lipsticks are one of the most fascinating ways of demonstrating seasonal colours!

Thank you!!

It’s up next!

I feel the same about some of the darker summer colors, they are pretty good but no comparison to what the bright colors do!

AND I’m looking for your next videos definitely!! (But I already got rid of almost all true and brigh winter coloured clothes 😅)

It’s possible that you lean a little warmer in your season. There will be some colors that you end up preferring over others with time so it’s good that you’ve eliminated a few things!

I think Everyone's Heroine is TW, as it is darker and more blue. I am a bright winter, and Candy Yum Yum and Everyone's Heroine are too much on me.

@@emilyanne1426 That’s amazing!! So glad to hear you found your bright spring colors!

Greens are tricky and yes that bright green would be way too bright on a true winter. I love the pine greens you all have in your palette though! They’re so sophisticated 😍

@@tequilamockingbird4989 well the feeling is mutual! My soul is so deep winter- I love dark velvets and antique looking jewelry which looks amazing on DW. Also amazing user name btw

@@suburbanwreck oh goodness, I believe I have a bone to pick with House of Color…

Absolutely! I don’t know why I didn’t think to do videos for the neutrals based on their qualifiers (bright, dark, light, soft) but I will certainly do that!

Oh that's interesting.

I'm a Bright Winter man with hair color level 4 and dark yet striking brown eyes.

@@anna-cvanderwal7705 my hot take is that bright seasons aren’t actually that rare 👀

@@magdam8290 maybe I’ll do a video on her specifically

Oh thank you!

@@NorthLakePark oh my gosh that makes me so happy to hear!! Keep shining on in your brightness!!

There is definitely more to someone's colour season than their colouring alone. I'll give you my thoughts on it because there are a few things that I never see anyone talk about, but that I've noticed definitely contribute to our colour seasons. Just a preface so you understand where I'm coming from, I've always been an artist so a lot of these things about colour, tints, tones, shades and contrasts are quite intuitive to me. [warning - this turned out to be very long!] When I first heard about colour season analysis, I could never type myself from those quizzes because they rely solely on asking about the colouring of your hair, skin and eyes. I mean those are the most obvious places to ask about your colouring, right? Then in the end you come to a conclusion based on how different those colours are from each other and where they fall on the cool-neutral-warm spectrum. However, this is an incomplete picture. Two people with identical colouring in their hair, skin and eyes could actually come out with different contrasts because of the rest of their features. I'll explain how it works. Contrast by definition, is the difference between at least two things. Therefore it might seem obvious to compare the different colours of our features, but that's only part of the picture. Think of where on the face features naturally have an opportunity to contrast - the eyebrows and lips and to a lesser extent our irises against our scleras (white of eyes). Eyebrows contrast against our skin, but it isn't only their colour that is providing the contrast, it is also the thickness of the strands of hair and the density of the brows. Two people could have black eyebrows and identical skin colour, but the person with thick strands and high density is going to have a greater contrast than the person with finer, wispy strands and sparse hairs that allows more of their skin the show through. (This is quite easily understood from sketching and shading - if you only have one pencil for shading, you can get different depths of shades by controlling how much of the paper is allowed to show through.) We are finely tuned to this - probably one of the easiest ways to look like a different person is to change the contrast of your brows dramatically. Then there's lips. Lips are different from the rest of the skin on your face, but a lot of colour analysis doesn't treat them separately. Some people's lip colour blends quite well with the skin on their faces, so they'll have a lower contrast in that area and probably look great with light nude lips, while other people have a dramatic difference between their lips and face (and everything in between). So if we go back to the two people in my eyebrow example, say the first person with the courser, denser brows also had the darker lips, while the second person with finer, sparser brows also had lighter lips that blended with their skin, then those two people would be different seasons, the first one either a bright or deep season, the second one soft or light. Finally there's the irises. It isn't only the iris colour itself but also the ring around them that adds contrast to the features. Again you could have two people with identical iris colours, but have different contrasts against the sclera for two reasons - first the colour of the sclerae could be different (remember there are different shades of white, just like with teeth - it's best to match teeth with eyes when whitening) and secondly is the depth of the colour of the outer ring. All three of these features affect our contrast in important ways that aren't simply the hair, skin and eye colour. I eventually figured out my season by simply looking at the palettes for each season and evaluating which one had colours that worked well for me. Turns out I'm bright winter. Looking at the palette made it so obvious. With my warm brown hair and eyes, you couldn't come to this conclusion from the quizzes - no not even bright spring with that warmth, my skin is quite cool-toned, blue veins. The thing is, I discovered it a bit late because by that point, I already knew which colours looked best on me. Kind of nice to have a name for reference though. This is why draping seems to get the most accurate results for people, because it seems like nobody understands all of the factors that contribute to contrast beyond how the colours interact with each other. Overall, I think the missing pieces to the puzzle of contrast is to consider eyebrows separately from hair and lips as separate from skin. Actually, you could ignore the hair on your scalp altogether, since as humans we are highly tuned to faces and that's where we look for harmony (to test this, you could look at how bald men can show different contrasts and how women who wear hijab definitely have colours that look better and worse on them despite not showing hair). Wow I got carried away! Does any of this make sense to you? I'd really like to hear your thoughts on my ideas, if you're willing to share them.

@Chrysaetos3 Yes, I think you make very good points. My eyebrows aren't sparse but the individual hairs are very fine. It has the effect of making them appear lighter than they are. I notice that the way my hair and skin reflect light is more like a pearl. It sort of semi-absorbs it, whereas people who are bright seem to reflect more.

@@helenfitch6590 Oh I like your point about the skin and hair texture too! I actually already use that to determine the best-looking texture of fabrics and makeup to wear as well, but I didn't connect that part to seasons. I bet you would look lovely in pearls. On the other hand, while I've always loved the idea of them, I think bright, shiny metals look so much better on me because it reflects the natural sheen in my skin and hair.

I believe this one was raspberry rush by L’oreal* with summer fruit lip gloss by NYX on top. I originally said Revlon but it’s not Revlon!

You sound so much like a bright winter! You’re probably correct there. It’s hard to adopt those colors when what’s on trend is usually softer or earthier colors. Marketing plays such a big role in what colors we gravitate towards.

@@BridgetCappel truly! Like please give even an icy shade in this sea of dusty colours! 😂

I believe Kim is a Dark Winter! I’m talking about her in my next video 👀

If you wear black well and soft colors mute you, you may be some kind of winter. It’s very likely!

You’re welcome 😊

Yes! It happens quite a bit! 😊

Yes absolutely! Your season doesn’t change as you age though you may prefer lighter or darker colors in your palette over time. Actually a persons natural gray hair is the most harmonious hair color for them! I’d love to see more women embrace their natural gray instead of doing artificial yellow blonde highlights. I don’t think they realize how beautiful they will look with their natural hair and their best colors.

I think a lot of other color analysts argue that your coloring softens with age; however I see so many older women with bright white hair that suits them. I am an older bright spring with naturally bright cream hair. My hair enters the room before I do.

@@monicawall778 Looking at Jamie Lee Curtis, I think she is still firmly a true winter even with her gray hair. I think to wear softer colors would be a mistake and make her look less vibrant than she is. It is an interesting concept to ponder though- maybe an aging/graying and color analysis video needs to be in the works!

@@kraz11funk5 I’m going to do a BW vs TW and BW vs DW video with makeup and drapes soon that should be helpful!

Thanks for the feedback!

I completely disagree I think it looks great

@@chandraadam3656 you might be a true or dark winter if saturation works on you but bright lipsticks are too bright. It would be tough for a bright winter to pull off blue/black hair without getting washed out, but a true or dark winter could probably wear it really well!

@@BridgetCappel that makes total sense that’s it’s the saturation not the brightness that looks good.

@@anir8023 yes they can- my eyes are steely blue/teal with a little gray. They look much for vibrant and blue when I wear the best colors for me.

@@BridgetCappel oh yes mine change colour depending on colours I wear ! Sowmtimes more blue sometimes more green ! Thank you !

@@emm-w9u that would be interesting to know- I know a bright spring who was nearly mistyped as an autumn because she could handle the warmth of the colors well. She looked beautiful in autumn but absolutely stunning and undeniable as a bright spring.

I'm middle eastern and I also had people insisting I'm deep autumn or winter. Turns out I'm a bright winter too.

@@ma.3934 Did you instinctively have a feeling that you were a winter, or did you think you were an autumn? Every time I tried autumn colors, I would think if this is how people think I look my best, then I must be really unattractive 😆

@@weewooweewoo906 she’s definitely soft imo. I’ll use her as an example when I do my Best and Worst of Soft Summer. They dress her as a winter a lot but it is really stark and overwhelming on her. Bright red lipstick stands out from her face but she glows with a nude lip wearing gray or beige. And soft summers are notorious for being dressed as all the other seasons as some point, they often try a bunch of different hair colors too.

@@DhkniDhkni-go1qz Possibly- Dark Autumn and Bright Spring can also pull off black and not look too overwhelmed. But winters all have back in their palate and will wear it the best compared to the other seasons.

​@@BridgetCappel‏‪so if only bright spring and dark autumn also look good in black so im definitely a winter,but how i can know my sup season

Yes absolutely!

@@shelleymusleh439 No, though I did talk about the crossover. I did mean bright seasons mistaken for muted seasons. I talk about how I mistook myself for muted before I was professionally draped because the description and stereotypes of bright seasons threw me off. I also talk about how bright seasons will look fine or just ok in a softer season which is why we may not intuit their full potential for color as a bright. Also the misconception that muted or soft seasons should look muted or soft in their best colors which is not true. Bright seasons will look muted or soft in colors that are not bright enough for them hence the mistyping from folks that misunderstand color harmony.

@@BridgetCappel but in the photo and the beginning you are talking all about a bunch of soft season people who were previously mistaken as bright.

@@shelleymusleh439 Not exactly- those celebrities were not mistaken as bright- I’m showing how the soft season celebrities look vibrant and glowing- not soft and muted- in their own soft colors. I’m trying to demonstrate that any person in good color harmony, in their own season’s colors, will appear vibrant and striking on their own, as a bright in bright colors will look. By contrast, a bright in soft muted colors will appear muted and softened- not what we want in good color harmony. So the point is “muted” is a good term to describe certain colors, but “muted” is not what we should expect to label someone’s appearance in the correct coloration for them. If they look muted or sunken or softened, something is off and we should re-examine the color analysis.

@@BridgetCappel yes I understand! And agree but I think I’m trying to point out that you’re title, pictures, and intro may be confusing to most people.

@@shelleymusleh439 ok thanks for the feedback!