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Great question, thanks for asking :) You're right that some degree of shadow shapes the facial contour and bone structure. It's a question of degrees and the person's natural colours. If you imagine the white to black range divided into 10 steps of grays from light to dark, for some folks, level 3 is all the darkness they need to define the jawline and other shapes within the face. Any darker and the effect is too dark and looks severe, or adds age to the neck (as black or any too-dark colour could relative to the person). For others, level 3 doesn't create enough shadow and you have the rounded or double-chin effect, and they need the higher levels of darkness, could be 6 or 9, depending on their own colours.

Glad the video had value for you, thank you :) I've not done a specific video on the topic, but I'm in the process of making an online course that begins with an example current closet. For various reasons, I started with Light summer, though your question may be more about how to get started with a new palette. We all begin with only a few great colours (or in my case, none, not a single one!) I hope to follow with the other Seasons in time.

Thank you, I'm glad you're finding the videos helpful!

It's amazing how colour can surprise us, isn't it? The rich dark gold in Dark Autumn can create similar misgivings and it's usually among the person's best.

The only approval you need is your own :) Your way of wearing colour is very chic, the beauty of Soft Summer is subtle. We are all so much more than one idea, one system, one anything. Wearing colour your way shares more than following one approach that leaves you feeling that you're missing some standard. You're doing fine! Keep learning and looking at things through many lenses :)

You're most welcome, I'm glad you found it helpful!

Sincere thanks :) I look forward to sharing the many ways in which we add colour to our appearance.

Congratulations on learning your Season! True Spring is a glorious collection of colours, I hope you enjoy diving in :)

Glad you enjoy the videos! I enjoy working with mens' colours. I have an impression that information on appearance is scarcer for men, or information based on the man himself rather than status. These seem more evenly spread out for women. Copyright and image availability are limiting in all formats and I'm working on incorporating a section for men in upcoming videos or courses about the Seasons. I appreciate your comment :)

Congratulations,! Great information to have :)

I'm glad you found them helpful!

I'm so glad that you found the video helpful and reflected your colours accurately. I enjoyed your words 'ban myself from olive green', I did the same with black in my early days. It's great to have some easy colours but there comes a point where too easy is not helping any more :) To answer your question, no, I believe that all body and style types are best staying within their palette to achieve their best appearance, because the light-dark range of the palette is already ideally suited to provide the right contrast for the person. Black and white on an Autumn goes too far relative to the colours of the person and looks harsh and aging, without gaining any of the benefits those tones and contrast level have for Winter persons. Although style analysts might disagree, I see colour as taking precedence in terms of which to learn for ourselves first, since colour so profoundly influences how we perceive shape. Personal opinion, a less-than-best style in a gorgeous colour still has flattering qualities, whereas a perfect style in an unflattering colour is harder to appreciate on either level. Thank you for asking this great question!

@@ChristineScaman What you say about the palette having the right contrast level makes a lot of sense. In my 20's I tried to mimic the 'Snow White' look of a winter (I'm a soft dramatic), maybe influenced by my mother and her mom, both dark haired winters. But even still, when I look back the clothes that would get worn over and over and over were in autumn colors. Those colors feel like home and very comforting. My friend however, who also became interested in color analysis a few years back, is a very tall slender dramatic type and a soft summer and she never got comfortable with her palette. Her personal style was quirky and artsy with many black and white contrasting pieces and the soft colors were too big of a change for her. I do think though that the soft palette really lets the delicate nuances of her beauty shine and take center stage. But she looks like a model either way 😄

I agree and thought about what a better title might be. Two criteria for these thumbnails-titles: first, big block letters that people can read easily on their phones since over 50% of people watch on smaller devices. Second, the topic phrased in the words people use most when they ask about it, before they know about colour analysis. All the videos in this "Your Bes..." series run into the same issue, Summers have no true orange, Autumns have teal rather than blue, and I'm not sure how to encompass all 12 Season variations of each colour family in a few words that are legible for everyone. If you have any suggestions, I'd be happy to learn something new and better for future videos. Thank you!

I hope this video helps you find the best solutions for your unique style. Many people dress in neutrals and the most recent video on the channel is all about wearing SSu neutrals in apparel and then adding accessories. SSu can have red tones in the hair, in a softer cool-toned red range, in the cinnamon rose, soft wine, or pink sand range most of the time.

@ChristineScaman Thank you so much for the help Christine! I will check out the most recent video. You are so knowledgeable and delightful to listen to!

Yes, you have a lot of options in the yellow range :) I'm glad you've found the videos useful!

I hope your items arrive soon and look forward to hearing your thoughts!

The workout channel I follow (Sydney Cummings Houdyshell) has all her sayings printed on her workout mat. Surely I could put these quotes on something! A sparkly tote bag....

​@@ChristineScaman Great idea...

Very good question. This is an older video and the hair colour video was from the same period, but I've found that hair colour videos are taken more personally than clothing, or as an intentional offence to the person in the video. The same is true of cosmetics. I've taken down all those and focus now on colour in apparel.

@@ChristineScaman thanks for responding! I'm enjoying your videos...

That's a lovely colour and fabric for her. First photo I saw, the colour read as lichen green gray, but once I saw a few more, I was getting it. Different topic but I'm always amazed by how facial expressions change as a person reaches their heights, career, personal, or otherwise. I'm not a style expert as you know, but I found myself a touch distracted by all the fabric folds. The fullness of the features does well with curves and some volume in clothing, but the facial bones seem more squared off next to all those folds. Could just be me though.

@@ChristineScamanhmmmm I think I can see what you’re saying. The volume almost overwhelms her delicate frame? And she really does have a delicate frame. Even in her youth (the Tomb Raider movie for example) she had sharpness in her shoulders and slender arms. I’m not a style expert either, but maybe she’s the kind of person who needs less? Like that saying “before you leave the house take one thing off”? I’m the opposite. If I’m feeling off then I need to add another necklace or two and maybe a scarf 😂 How I’d love to be able to try that dress on just once! I’m so in love with the color 😍

Yes, what you said. There isn't one more thing to take off but a few less folds would be good, especially in fabric of that weight. Kind of a wearing curtains effect at the moment. The swoopy romance of the dress seems good, there's romance in the round, full facial features, but the scale of the person doesn't support that much fabric. Perhaps a slightly larger scale, more curvaceous frame would be good, can't think of anyone just now, well, maybe you :) Colour is gorgeous, I would have loved even more colour pigment to lose the steely effect (photo-dependent), nothing steely about her and that type of sheen in fabric can give that impression. Also darken it a touch and wear the hair up to enhance the romance and remove the blonde hair lying on the dress, they're not great together. Oh so easy to find problems though. Still a spectacular, one-of-a-kind dress that few people could wear as well.

@@ChristineScamanwell, thanks. I certainly have the weighty-ness (as opposed to her floaty-ness) to carry that type of fabric. Yes, the blond was bothering me too, as was the straightness of her hair. Not that curls would work either, but I find loose, beachy cascades to work well on her. Do you think the steeliness comes from the color or the fabric itself? I imagine steel adds its own kind of weight to a look.

Excellent way of saying it, 'steel adds it own weight''. Really good. In the first picture I saw, the steely was what I reacted to or registered first, before the colour or style. The fabric itself is probably fine for her, I could easily picture it in other colours. Once I saw the image in deeper, darker greens, it was lovely. Interesting to see how the light end of that colour family can give a frosty impression, like that pastel-icy span with the lightest colours in the Light Seasons. Actually, that steely effect in the dress would probably happen with matte fabric as well. It relates back to that question of whether a colour can be too soft for SSu. I believe it can or it seems faded, but this is the first time seeing how it can look 'icy' for SSu type of pastels. Really interesting, thank you for sharing the picture (and the conversation) :)

You're finding your essence very quickly. I hear you about our past thoughts being strange or hidden from us. I had blondish reddish highlights for 20 years. Ask me why now, or ask me then, I'd have no idea. I appreciate your story about your house being You, but you not being You. I hear this often. Women dressing husbands in their own colours, or a suitcase under the bed with clothing they couldn't be without but never wear (it's all beautiful), but in the modern world, how could we possibly know? Despite stories to the contrary and the tsunami of media we live with, I'm not convinced anyone has ever known their own most flattering colours. I'm enjoying your transformation!

It's wonderful to see your confidence returning and to know that you're feeling lighter. Many people dress like a 'fortress' for work, understandable when it's the default look and the colour of many uniforms, but it can feel closed in, perhaps for Springs especially for whom light and lift mean so much. Sounds as though your inner journey to the new version of you will be beautifully mirrored in the outer version :)

Well, thank you yeah, it's very easy when you know the rules it's not very easy to get the rules but once you get them and you start to see how the different Hughes and the tones play with each other it definitely makes shopping and organizing your wardrobe. Much much easier. Well, I can't thank you enough. I've said it before but the way you deliver the content and the details that you provide have made it really nice for me.

Glad I could help. The saying goes, 'know the rules to break the rules' and it's so true. We need to learn the framework but to be effective in the real world, the theory will have to be flexible, and the benefits and usability actually improve. Like substituting ingredients in a recipe or paint colours for a painting and making something even better. Using the resources we have to create the best outcome. I appreciate your encouragement, we think the same way :)

Sincere thanks for sharing that you feel relaxed and able to learn. I understand about urgency in presentation and how we need to feel settled to think for ourselves. I also appreciate the news anchor analogy for the reasons you mention :) I've thought of removing myself from the screen entirely and doing the videos as a voice over or tiny image in a corner but folks have said that seeing me feels as though I'm speaking to them more directly, which is understandable (and feels more personal for me as well. )

@@ChristineScaman oh no the thanks to you is most important because you do make it so very easy for me and it brings a lot of clarity. I appreciate and understand the time it must take you to create all of this content and curate your customized wardrobe recommendations on your Pinterest board as well. Please don't consider removing yourself from the screen entirely or at all, I look at the pauses you take when you are looking, I look at your body language and how you consider things I look at your facial expression when you see the colors and the heavy size of pure joy when you're talking about the light springs, and even though you've already looked at the images before you showed them to us it's really pleasing to see those moments because I feel the same way about the light spring colors and coming from you, who's done all the science and technology behind the coloring and the pallets and, just reconfirm my notion enjoy when I think about those times in my life when I wore those colors. I could go on and on about it bu I think I'll just stop right here and let you know I'm a little bit obsessed at this point. Lol I have created individual boards on my own Pinterest account under an overarching board that I call light spring. I've gathered items for my favorite colors, yellow, salmon, the blue greens, and then the champagne, ginger ale, and then what I'm trying to do is use your links find items that are still available on those sites and curate a wardrobe. Sorry I just went on and on again I'm just so relieved and thank you so very much. Don't forget, we need to see your expressions and your delivery. Please don't change because your instincts are right.

I appreciate your thoughts for helping me find the best way to present the videos, thank you :) It's lovely to hear about you retracing your steps and finding yourself again, like an artist creating a retrospective of who they have been and where they are now. Life is a journey of becoming more and more ourselves, and tests come along to help us switch tracks or stay the course. You redirected in a good way and became more You, which is ultimately the purpose of my work and words.

I appreciate that you share your honest experience. Many people learn about their Season, and then struggle to apply the knowledge. I am happy (and admire) that you are reaching out to discuss this; it is not as simple as colour theory or taking a bread making course, buying a cookbook and making beautiful bread (come to think of it, that's not so simple either.) It takes time for anyone to discover their role or purpose. I hope that mine may be helping people with 'how to get started, what matters most, what to do next' in the real world. As it happens, I'm working on a new project, which is exactly what you describe. Online courses are a new learning curve for me and with the limitations of copyright-permitted images sources, I began with Light Summer, thinking that if I could manage a more challenging Season from availability and technical perspectives, the rest should be possible. The images are almost complete, which leaves writing, filming, uploading, which I hope to fulfill within 3-5 weeks. If people find it helpful, I'll keep going :) Well, it may be fair to say that there's another component to your present experience, which is moving from information gathering to action. We can read a hundred books on bread-making but until we buy the yeast and flour and put them in a bowl, nothing will happen except possibly to reinforce a self-image of being stuck. That first loaf may not rise or taste too salted but somehow our fears settle down when we stop thinking and imagining and begin doing. A way of taking back control, I suppose. My belief and value systems say, "I value clear communication with others and myself. What can either one think or feel when their eyes see a false image? How we present is a mirror for our inner selves, like the spaces we create around us. OK, yes, this matters to me. Therefore, what can I do with the resources available to me right now?" Of course, you have your own beliefs and values, but your answers might sound like, "I can wander around a thrift store and let my imagination drift." No pressure to buy anything, no need for anyone's approval. Just exploring the sensation of, "This is me learning about something I care about. All I need is to know I tried." I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I've found that given an action step, the Universe is happy to walk beside you :)

Thank you for this thoughtful and insightful response; I'd say you're The Thinking Woman's Color Analyst! And your writing is so beautiful, it makes Return to Your Natural Colours an unparalleled work on this subject matter, unlike anything else I have read.

I hope you feel empowered to make a move without worrying if it's wrong or right. Even if it's a new bread recipe :)

It sounds as though she's found what she loves and how to combine those colours. That's a great thing to feel well in what we wear :)

My late father was a gifted realistic artist. He had an eye for color and helped my mother to find some of her colors.

I am a True Winter verging on Bright Winter. I can wear some Bright Winter colors. I made up a list of the Bright Winter colors that are best for me.

Yes, he does have beautiful colouring and seems good at choosing colours that enhance him :)

You are so welcome! I'm happy that you're here :)

Sincere thanks for your kind words, I appreciate that you find value in the videos :) You're very perceptive in observing how your colours react to the colours you wear. The answer may be in the degrees of warmth-brightness-darkness. You're already aware of Neutral Seasons, since you mention 'soft Winter', which is not a category in the system I use, I'd guess my closest would be Dark Winter, but I couldn't say with certainty. I agree that the answer seems to figuring out the Summer-Winter answer, and what softens both of those is Autumn in some amount. From your own thinking, you already know this, which leaves the consideration of what 'looks good on me' means, and then observing your reactions to the degrees of warm/bright/dark. I wish I could help move you further down the path (or offer new information) but you may need a structured colour analysis to look at the degrees of colour with specific definitions of 'looks good'. Short answer, I think we'd need to be in the same room :)

Thank you Christine for a very thoughtful and solid answer. I know it's hard to give advice without seeing the person IRL so your "masterful eye" can see what I'm missing! But I think your answer has got me thinking in a bit of a different angle of how to approach this. Once again, I think you're amazing and I so appreciate you taking the time to think about this and respond back! Hope you have a lovely day! ❤​@ChristineScaman

Many thanks :) I hope your new approach helps. New answers come from asking new questions :)

That’s a great question. I would explore other explanations first because there are too many layers that contribute to personality and emotion that are unrelated to colour. I use the Sci\ART system, different from the one you were typed in. The system includes 12 groups. With Spring, we have True Spring, and a Spring with a small proportion of Summer (Light Spring), and a Spring with an influence of Winter (Bright Spring). These blended groups happen with all 4 True Season types and are called Neutral Seasons (for neutral warmth or coolness). With the majority of people in a Neutral Season, perhaps you belong in one of these group, whether Spring, Autumn, or even Summer or Winter. If you suspect something is off, you may be quite right and the best advice I could offer is to be analyzed again. With a thorough analysis, you'll find your Season and the answers to all your questions regarding colour :)

Glad the video was helpful :) Autumn colours offer much to love and admire, they're incredibly beautiful, and even more when they're together with their people!

It’s lovely to hear about your experience and to know that the videos are helping you, thank you :)

@@ChristineScaman Hi Christine, it's lovely to have found your videos, thank you :)

Wonderful stories, thank you! Over the years, I've met quite a few people who, upon learning their Season, share similar experiences of that item they've kept over the years and find out it was perfect all along. There can be an intuitive component to Season before , or a dawning of recognition after. You were the first, I was the second :) Either way, we got there.

Congratulations of finding your answer! I was of a similar age and it reframed the rest of my life :) There are no videos on the channel on the topic of silver hair, or almost any hair since it is so diverse within any Season. My best advice would be for you to read the E-book (link in video Description box), where you'll find all these topics addressed. I am not a believer that hair colour cools, it simply loses the melanin it once had. It becomes a neutral tone from our same palette and looks beautiful. To keep the colour energy high over the presentation, we add more colour in apparel (all discussed in E-book :) )

@ oh that’s a super reply, thank you. As a natural strawberry blonde, I would like to stay natural and see what happens! I will check out the book! X

Might it be that you're expecting more of yourself than anyone can accomplish on their own unless they happen to be colour classification experts? We all need help with 'what goes with what'. Since you know you're True Spring, why not invest in a colour palette and the E-book for your Season (links in Description Box for the video)? Take some time to look through the palette as you read the book. Within the same Season, palette colours are pre-measured to be harmonious and how you combine them is entirely your preference. I think about what I would like if a woman at a meeting were wearing it, since we're not objective enough about ourselves. Feeling a little lost just means that you need another resource and fortunately, there are some great ones :) (PS: there are no silly questions. If you're unsure, so are thousands of other people. Good on you to step forward and ask.)

@ THANKYOU so much Christine.

Yes, NT and NF sometimes come out 60-40 (I've taken many personality tests, love all the approaches) but NT always wins. I'm happy to know that the content has value for you, thank you for mentioning that. More content for men would be so good but I've tried a few times and the obstacle is finding enough examples without copyright restrictions. I hope to do a True Summer video or video series soon, once I complete another project in a month or so. In the meantime, I hope there are many people like you who can apply the colour discussion in the videos to their style preferences. Thank you for being here :)

I can never know Season from images or photographs but I'd agree with you about soft colours suiting her well. Maybe she has some influence from Summer and softened silver colour and shine would be better.

@ChristineScaman True muted then?She may wear nacre pink or blue, but metal-wise, she looks better in warm yellow or rose gold clearly. I struggle to see how she can be Summer if she cannot wear silver? She is muted and light and clearly has golden undertone to her. She is not a Spring, could she be a Light Autumn?

It may be that we follow different systems of colour analysis. I'm not sure how True Muted would translate into the terms I use (I'm thinking Soft Summer?), and Light Autumn sounds like Soft Autumn. Colours in metals are like colours in fabrics or cosmetics in that there are many versions, meaning many reds, greens, or silvers. For the 2 Soft Seasons, you could have a slightly warmed silver with a brushed surface to create a softer (grayer) highlight, compared with a smooth shine that makes a sharp white reflection for brighter Seasons. There's a video on the channel, "Your Best Silver", that would show lots of examples for the 12 Seasons. I'm not one to use the term undertone because it's never clear what it is. If the warm tone in the skin is visible on the surface, then it would be an overtone. It would be factored into choosing foundation but not in identifying Season. Our Season is based on how our colours react to the colours we wear rather than in how we look. A True Summer or True Winter can have yellow on the surface but when they wear any warmth in colour, detracting effects happen. This is why it's hard to tell Season from pictures, or just looking at people without any kind of testing of colours. I'm thinking a Soft Season for her, which seems to agree with your thoughts.

@@ChristineScaman you were right. I just read Gillian's natural hair colour is brown, and that she coloured her hair red in X Files. She did look natural though. With brown hair she does look Soft Summer. She has golden overtones, undertones are cool. All was hidden by her make up, orangy lipstick from the 90s. She leans towards Soft Autumn with red hair but is a definite Summer with brown hair. I notice she does not wear warm hair too well, aside from her red x files period. She is a bit of a chameleon, though. :)

Sounds reasonable to me :) I find Soft Seasons often this way, maybe why so many models have this type of colouring.

Thank you!

Hi :) I expect that you could be a Winter, or a few other Seasons as well. Hair and eye colours are so variable among members of the same or different Seasons that they' don't serve as reliable indicators to rule Seasons in or out, but it's definitely possible. Thank you for the reminder about the award shows, I'll be sure to look up the dates. I normally do Met Gala and Cannes but I'll make a point of looking at the Globes and Oscars.

You’ve done a beautiful job of finding what works, and it's a pleasure to hear how it feels on you. Thank you for sharing your experiences :)

Wonderful thoughts, Mandy, and sincere thanks for your insights. I value honesty above all and wouldn't find even a whisper of negativity in your words. I keep my ego on a starvation diet and appreciate that truthful feedback is the best help anyone could offer. How people choose to frame their thoughts is never my concern, my job is to find the value. Your frame is as constructive as it could possibly be :) You've found great ways of wearing your palette to express your true self, which is really the whole idea. You understand the system well enough to take it from there and find your best self-expression, now and in the days ahead. That's what I wish for everyone, to find their favourites and create wardrobes that are unique to them among all the people in their Season. I actually thought of you with the faux fur coat even though we've never met :) I think of SSu as one of the bigger continents in the world of colour spaces, with that soft pine green looking fantastic on every person, though the pictures can be hard to find. I loved hearing that the gray dress outfit wasn't too many colours, and I can picture the unifying effect of an item with several of the colours together. The SSu who resembles Autumn may be the person who looks better in more colours, as Autumns do, because there are more distinct colours visible in the surface colours. I hear you about taupe and gray. This video began as a request for neutrals-based outfits, which I found so interesting, and maybe that person (I don't think it was you?) encountered the same situation, as I did in the planning stages. In seeing the neutrals together, the look needed one or more kinds of visual movement to energize it. Colour, contrast, style elements, but maybe this is true for all Seasons. Without colours and shapes to make the story, fog is evocative but still fog. Gorgeous around eyes with the eye colour to complete the effect on a small scale but over a whole person, the fog could really use a forest or a lake, like your imaginary landscape. For combining warm and cool, thoughts might be to bring the edges closer, like neutral red with warm red. When colours are close together, the differences seem enlarged and the warm looks warmer and the cool, cooler. The same effect happens within the natural colours of the face. People have coppery tones in cheeks and plum lips and think the warm/cool of those colours is more extreme than it really is. If you see those in your own colours, they can serve as outfit ideas. Along the same lines, combining analogous colours creates an internal order without seeming confusing. Third, make one of the colours a neutral, like warmer taupe with a cooler colour. Last, spread out other kinds of contrast, like light cool beige with tan rose, or neutral dark brown with cool pink. Thanks so much for sharing your experiences, they help all of us expand our visions :)

​@@ChristineScaman Wow, I'm honored that you even remember me, let alone enough to know I'd love that coat 😄 Thanks for seeing me! And I'm hopeful that we will meet in person someday. Neither my husband nor I have ever been to Canada, so that would make the perfect trip. "Fog is evocative but still fog." You have such a great way with word pictures. That's exactly how SSu neutrals can feel. Especially if the outfit is only blue and grey. It feels like fog. Where is the rest of the landscape? Is the fog in a meadow? A forest? By a lake? In a garden? (I like the idea of a garden, because flowers add more colors. 😊) I love the idea of bringing the warm/cool edges together. The differences really are maximized when they're close together. I've definitely found this effect in my own coloring. My hair can look almost purple at the roots and almost copper at the ends (I don't color it). My eyes look like a mix of copper and green. The reds in my face (cheeks, nose, and even blemishes) are a neutral red, while my lips and scars tend to lean more mauve taupe. Thank you for the inspiration of using the colors in my own face as inspiration. These are lessons I know, but need reminded of every now and then 😂

You have an amazing insight into your own colours! Very nuanced and you do a great job of describing the colour you see as it appears in the palette rather than understanding it only as it appears (hopefully you know what I mean by that, like your lips are 'mauve taupe' ). SSu often have copper tones in eyes or hair that seem to have no counterpart in the palette, but they can be interesting within appearance, like a small copper detail in a sage green scarf. I loved, 'where is the rest of landscape?' I agree. Where is the rest of the story? Which doesn't have to be colour, like the light the dark gradient outfit at the beginning. Thank you for the conversation :)

Well done :) How we appear may tell others about our age, and even more about our beliefs. Not just the beliefs others may think we hold about ourselves and how the world works, but those of the person in the mirror. Now you can get to know the woman who is learning the confidence that comes of being her true self, expressing her own value system. Big shoes to fill and you're ready to do it. Wishing you a year of discovering many new strengths!

Do you mean it's hard to find purples that work for TSp? It took me a long time to recognize them in fabrics. They had similarities to TW and BW but were either too 'tropical blooms' or had too much blue in them for the other colours. I now try all red-purple fabrics with the Spring palettes to see what happens. Winter colours look bluer than before with no lift whatsoever, whereas these Sp purples remain the same or better with other Spring colours, they don't change each other. True that in stores and on websites, they're hard to find. Every Season has a few of those colours.

@ I’ll try them Christine. Thanks. I’m only just noticing that I am drawn to bright winter yellow and bright spring yellow. I’ve only just noticed the red purples. I’ll try to find one as I LOVE it but have wasted a good bit if money trying 😩

The limitation is not yours, but with the descriptive ability of words when it comes to colour. Another limitation lies with my own understanding of why each colour behaves as it does in each Season. Each colour has its own behaviour within the spectrum, its own chemistry when combined as pigments, and visual harmony is not always predictable with a single set of rules that applies to every colour. Experience has given me trust in the designer of the palettes in this system (Sci\ART) without always understanding the Why. Then I'm like you, a person trying to see the palette colours and relationships as clearly as I can to make a wardrobe. I'm more effective and relaxed when I release the desire (that I also have) to explain why colour is the way it is. I look at the palettes and think, "OK, that's just how colour is." Maybe everyone working with colour, including you and I, accepts 'how colour is'. Red brown could include chestnut, dark rust, bright rust, dark cider, maple syrup, and thousands of variations in wood, plants, foods, and so on. Variations of any of them could belong with certain Seasons, and not necessarily warm groups. You're thinking the right way when you include saturation in your description of colour, and the ultimate colour guide will be your colour palette, which factors in all 3 colour dimensions. If you're working your way to your Season with your own experimentation (if that's what you meant by 'on the right track'), it sounds as though you've found high saturation better for you and your colour combinations sound balanced. The colours you mention sound more like the Spring-influenced side than Autumn, possibly Spring with an infusion of Winter, although Dark Winter could be described with your words depending on the colour and the speaker.

Christine that has reassured me no end. Yes I was (believe it or not) a Carol Jackson color me beautiful agent in 1983! I was able to see the basic seasons with reasonable confidence but as time has gone by and I’ve had more money to increase my purchasing power the nuances kept letting me down and I really couldn’t see THE RULES! I Do LOVE a rule 🤣. I am growing in confidence with your support and feel like at last I am going to start the new year with a much more flattering coloured wardrobe and perhaps more money left in the bank so I’m truly grateful for your taking the time and thought to respond so comprehensively. All the very best. ❤

I'm happy I could help, even if the answer sounded like, "Don't know, don't need to know." :) About many things, I ask myself, 'Why do we think what we think?" Keep asking your great questions so that we can find what was true within The Rules and release any rigidity that doesn't help us explore and find new perspectives.

@@ChristineScaman 🤣autistic obsessive rule lover 😘

Your observations sound exactly right, that's how those colours and Seasons work together :)

You're most welcome, I hope the video had practical value for you in combining neutrals into outfits. You ask excellent questions regarding the palettes, although I'm not able to speak on behalf of the NDU designers. The neutrals are in the first 2 or 3 strips for all Seasons, which may follow the tradition of the original Sci\ART fans designed by the founder of this system (the brilliant Kathryn Kalisz, now deceased). As you say, SSu is a cool-neutral group and warmth is expected in colours and neutrals. I hear that you also know that warm and cool are relative terms. SSu's warmer neutrals are still cooler than Soft Autumn's tones. Especially in the softer saturation Seasons, there are so many steps between colour tones from which a palette designer selects for a particular Season palette. Which they choose may be related to their experience with how clients have interpreted the Season over the years, or their personal preferences, or possibly other factors. I doubt that any two analysts working within the same colour system would create identical palettes, and nor should they, just as two SSu persons with the same palette would create very different closets. Actually, I'd agree with presenting warmer colours in SSu neutrals than have appeared in previous palettes, using more of the wide space between SSu and SA to expand the warm neutral range of SSu. In working with the palettes and fabrics, I could say that I've expanded my sense of the warmer territory of all four cool-neutral Seasons. It's important to see ourselves as individuals within a Season, meaning that for some SSu, the warm side will be ideal and for others, too warm. It may also take time to recognize these colours in fabrics (it helps me to look for the faintest pink tones, they don't appear in SA and are much more visible in True Summer). These are adjustments we make over time and help us see the palette as a flexible guide with limitless options for wearing it as we prefer. Please keep asking your wonderful questions, they are how the system improves and serves more people better. For your best answer, don't hesitate to email the people at NDU, I expect that they'd be happy to help :)

Great observations! A Spring Season seems like a possibility. The system I use (Sci\ART) has 3 types of Springs, and the nearest to Warm Spring may be our True Spring, though I couldn't say whether the colour palettes are the same or not. How we look at ourselves is different from the observations a colour analysis gathers to make Season decisions but your perceptions sound consistent with some king of Spring. I'm not able to speak to the influence of diet on Season, as I have no database or wide experience to draw any conclusions. Maybe it's like suntans, where we might increase the melanin quantity in our skin, or anemia, where the quantity of hemoglobin is less, or perhaps pregnancy may be an example of more hemoglobin as blood volume increases, but what's there is still our melanin and hemoglobin and would react to colour the same way. Carotene is the other pigment that creates skin tone and possibly diet may influence the quantity without changing the colour. Of course, this is just my speculation, with no scientific basis that I know of :)

@ THANKYOU for responding Christine. And happy new year! Kind of you. As a nurse we see kids going very yellow if they have a diet rich in sweet potato greens and carrot. And we do look good in bright colours if we have a tan so I just thought… maybe. But I’ve ALWAYS been very yellow. Perhaps it’s rust from our British rain 🤣. As a child in hospital in Feb (winter) I was asked repeatedly by nurses and drs where I’d been on holiday as my abdomen was so ‘tanned’ looking but very warm blond hair.

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy the videos :) That's an inspiring idea and it would be fun to explore with a variety of outfits. The styles you mention would present an interesting challenge!

Of course! Thank you for keep creating these videos. As a young dark winter who likes to have fun with clothing, it’d be so interesting to see ways to play with a dark palette we have!

I hope the video was helpful and inspiring. The first step can feel challenging but there's no single right way to begin. Seeing our current wardrobe with new knowledge and using it to practice with our colour palette may be a good entry point. You're on the path of making all your future colour choices the most flattering they can be.

It sounds as though you are very aware of what works for you, and I’m always interested to hear how people adapt their colours! From your description, the light cool colours would seem lovely for you. You may already be making the distinction between icy and pastel colour, both beautiful with silver hair for different groups (Winter and Summer).