How to Find Your Colour Season for BEGINNERS 🎨🤩
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- If you are a beginner to this world of colour seasons and colour analysis, it can be daunting. If you want the ultimate guide to finding your colour season, defining your features and finding your best colours, this video is for you! Learning the principles and the theory behind colour analysis can feel overwhelming and complicated, but this should make finding your colour season EASY! I have tried to view this from the perspective of the beginner, assuming you know absolutely nothing and break down the basics.
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Timestamps:
0:00 the problem with colour seasons
0:27 what are colour seasons?
1:03 define your features
1:26 warm vs cool
4:18 dark vs light
5:02 bright vs soft
7:28 order your features
8:22 find your season
11:01 how do you know if a colour looks good on you?
12:07 what about olive skin?
12:46 should I do draping?
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PSI just want to clarify I did have a slip of the tongue at one point the Autumn category is generally soft not bright!
Quite interesting you are dear..... 😅 Cause i was always confused 🤔 in Bright spring and dark Autumn, now i am more confused 😂😂😂😂😂 Btw Thanks for all your information ❤
I think you're a light spring though, not a summer, just because of your natural hair color
I'm still lost. Completly lost. Maybe the best is to wear nothing 😅. No clothes, no mistakes.
LOL LOL LOL. Well I know for a cat I don't look good in neutral or white. I also find a lot of stars that wear that skin tone on the red carpet look washed out so where are their color stylists?? cos a lot are way off..... lol
😂
such a mood lmaoo
You're one of the only people on UA-cam who makes it easy to understand colours and still explain it in such nuance. I've always had trouble telling warm and cool colours apart and never understood the true meaning of muted colours. The way you explain it and the animations matching it is brilliant. I've been dressing and feeling better because of you tips. Thank You so much and Lots of Love
That is so amazing to hear! Thank you so much for saying that!
@@elliejeanroyden Until this latest video, I didn’t fully understand the “priority” of traits for each season type! I think I’m a Winter, and it’s helpful for me to think in terms of the primary/defining characteristic: Dark vs Cool vs Bright.
I’m not 100% there however because I’m not sure if I correctly identified my defining characteristic: as a neutral-cool tone, am I primarily “Bright” or “Dark”? 👀
Please make more content like this!!
When I worked as a makeup artist I used to fully extend a lipstick bullet in a fushia liptick and a bright orange lipstick and hold then in front of the clients mouth to determine if they were warm or cool. It was quick and easy and allowed me to pick flattering shades of makeup for them.
If they looked better with orange, that meant they were warm toned?
@@chika2724 yes. Even if they wanted a nude, it enabled me to choose a warm nude over a cool nude. So if they suited the orange they needed warm toned colours, and if they suited the fushia cool toned colours.
clever!
What exactly were you looking for when you put it next to their mouth??
Love the part about olives, it's so spot on! Olives can be found in any category from what I've seen yet so many people make videos about colors that suit olive skin best when the determining factors aren't the oliveness and you can't just place them all in the same two categories or so.
They say u are warm always
@@kay6692 nope I'm olive and fair skin grey hazel eye and very dark brown hair .I'm a true winter
@@kay6692I CANNOT wear warm colors I literally look SO green and washed out 😂😭😭
Especially in the sunless Midwest winter
@@kay6692Olives aren't just warm, they can be also cool. It's the common misconception.
I found this to be really hard. I'm totally lost. People have told me I'm a Summer, an Autumn, and a Winter.
I love your videos, all of them! 🔥 Here's an idea: Could you make a series where you compare two similar seasons? For example, Light Summer vs Light Spring, or Dark Winter vs Dark Autumn. We know the key difference is cool vs warm, but what about neutral cool vs neutral warm? Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference. 🤯
I would love to see the difference between soft summer and autumn!
@@yourLittleSinner well, yeah, I just gave examples, but I also consider those two as similar and very very close. 😁
Summer and autumn peoples will have colourings that have more dimension, more richness, while winters and springs will have colouring that have more clarity and saturation.
yes plssss, i’d especially like to see true spring vs true autumn!
@@sofiah44 yes! They say "cupper vs gold" and it's easy to understand, but kinda hard to see. 🧐
When I first came across color seasons I was so sure I was a deep autumn, then all sorts of apps and websites told me I’m instead a dark winter. But when I switched out my whole wardrobe with colors that align with each I looked so dull. I always thought Spring colors looked the best on me, when using simple filters. But it always seemed I was too “dark” for the descriptions most people had. Since finding out you can be a WOC and be in anything else but autumn and winter and now with your amazing and easy explanation I’m definitely sure I’m a bright spring. Thank you so much ❤
Apps are wrong. I’ve shared photos without makeup and it typed me as a bright spring and bright winter.. I’m a true summer.
I have been looking into color seasons for at least a year now but I always ended up confused by something pr another. This was the most comprehensive explanation I have found so far and has cleared up some things for me❤
The red-green axis was so helpful!!! I always get confused with my olive skin, but this makes it so much easier.
@jordanfox8027 hey girly, did you land on soft autumn for yourself?
I did!@@stephm1382
I highly recommend watching Merriam Style’s content too! She explains colour analysis (including the red green axis) in the best, most intuitive way that I’ve found on UA-cam, and I find her colour analysis system much more robust than the colour seasons system :)
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All I know for sure after draping is that I’m cool even though many people think I’m warm because they’re looking at my overtone. I love the perspective of looking at olive colouring vs undertone as a an x and y axis! That’s so much easier to explain than to try to describe the difference between overtone vs undertone. I also like that you said that the brain likes harmony. Of course we all can wear whatever colours we desire at the end of the day, but I believe colour does have energy and when it’s in harmony with our natural colouring it just feels right!
I think it would be a cool idea to identify neutral people as Winter or Summer Solstices. Winter solstice (in between fall and winter) if you have Neutral skin tone and dark features. Summer solstice (in between spring and summer) if you have neutral skin tone, and light features. Autumnal equinox (in between summer and fall) and vernal equinox (in between winter and spring.)
My sister who has an olive skin tone originally thought she was an Autumn but realized she didn’t look good in the orange shades of autumn but looks great in certain winter colors but also still great in certain fall colors. She might be like a “winter solstice.” Just a thought.
Isn't the solstice the mid of the season? Afaik, the winter solstice is also called midwinter. I love the idea nevertheless!
@@happytofu5the solstice is the first day of the season, to make it easier. so winter solstice is around dec 21.
so this kinda works as it is the day between the seasons, like a cusp.
The solstice is the longest/shortest day of the yeah though?? So by that logic it would be the opposite
I like this thinking. When I initially did my season I was leaning between soft summer and soft autumn. They are pretty similar but I was stuck between them because I have a more neutral undertone
This is the best video on this topic online. Explains so much. Thank you for giving a complete explanation for soft/bright light/dark and cool/warm. This makes so much more sense and you didn’t need an hour to do it.
Ok seasonal color theory has been a new obsession of mine the past year or so and I've watched and read a lot on it and felt like I had a pretty good handle on it, but this video is amazing!! You are so good at explaining things that seemed so mystifying before! And I love your practical tips for finding out your colors! ❤️❤️❤️
One of the best videos about this topic I've ever watched. Chapeau! I'm also very impressed about the speed of your talking, especially considering the complexity of the explanations.
I’ve been reading so much about this lately and done many tests on myself, yet you are the first one that explains it in a way that I understand. I don’t really have a good feeling for colour hues and feel like I am between several seasons. Kinda medium everything. Medium brown hair, darkish blue eyes with some yellow in the middle, fair skin but not pale. Just realised that I lean more cool and soft but medium dark/light. So believe I’m a true summer but kinda towards the middle of the seasonal circle if that makes sense.
Thank you so much for this video! I've watched your other color videos, but it's like it finally clicked. I'm a dark winter! I love how well you condensed this info. Thank you so much!
When the pictures change, I can really see the warm and cool tones betrer!! Thank you for making this video ❤ I was very confused on which I was and this really helps! I also love how you share your growth in your style journey. It inspires me to not worry if i change my mind on what looks best on me. Thank you so much!
Believe it or not but I've been going through your videos for this exact purpose😂😂 Thank you so much for the content they really help out a lot ❤
Colour analysis studio channel is the best by far at explaining the colour seasons, with real life examples of finding your season.
Thank you so much for making such a detailed video! As a color-season-analysis enthusiast myself, I appreciate how much you explained all these nuances to these theories for people to understand it's importance.💖💯💫 God darn, THE EDITING IS SUPERB!!!
I've been torn between Dark Winter & Dark Autumn for a long time now and am starting to lean more towards Autumn. I really wanted to be Winter tho :') bc I adore deep jewel tones and really don't like browns, beige, rust, most greens except more dark emerald-y & forest-y tones, hate yellow & orange, the only neutrals I ever wear are black, white & grey ... I'm finding that really I can take a lot of Dark Winter colours anyway tho as long as I don't reach too far into the brightest tones, and stay away from most blues except darker teals, bc my chroma (softness/brightness) & hue (warmth/coolness) are not very significant features for me at all.
I have very dark brown eyes with no flecks of gold or rings around the iris, dark brown hair with both ashy & warm chestnut-y highlights, and light ivory skin with a yellowish overtone that tans & freckles easily in summer. I'm slightly soft but my contrast is high. I find the mish-mash of features a bit confusing ! (Same way I found it confusing figuring out I was a gamine lmao, I seem to be defined by contrast in all spheres !)
Reading your description, I got really hiped I been pretty lost (sometimes I feel color blind), but we have similar colors, the only difference is my skin being greyish. So now I feel more confident that I'm between Dark Winter or Dark Autumn! And I feel you! It's kind of confusing the mishmash!
Same with me but I think I lean a bit more cool, simply because warm red lipstick looks horrible on me and in winter the contrast in my features is more obvious. But I remember another stylist said if I'm the in between of these 2 then that means I can mix and match the colours of the 2 seasons and run with that, like my orange pants looks good on me only when I match it with a pure white/black top, it balances out nicely. But distinctly cool toned or warm toned purples don't look good on me, it needs to be as neutral as possible. Maybe try something similar and see how it goes
You should look into soft winter, it a “new” season in some systems that have an expended version of the 12 seasons system.
@@Raven-Winter thank you for the recommendation, I’ve not heard of that one before ! Will definitely look into it
Oooh I feel you. I have olive skin and I also feel like my most dominant feature is just… darkness and contrast. I can’t pull off a full on black look, but I also can’t really deal with mustard yellow (even though I LOVE it) because it washes me out with my yellow overtone. I just settled with dark something and it really takes off the pressure. Rusts look good on me and I like them, so more of that. Greens are fantastic as well, especially the foresty ones, so I buy a lot of that. Plums are also just beautiful.
And sometimes, I simply buy something because I like it. 😂
So it’s good to know what suits you, but colour seasons are ultimately a spectrum anyway. And sometimes, we simply like something a lot (like me with one of my dresses, that would probably suit a spring a lot better) and we look good in it because it makes us happy and confident. And sometimes, going against type can also be an interesting fashion statement.
Lolol.... I know your intentions are good but I feel you've taken the color season theory and made it even more complicated, lol! This level of understanding color, the subtle values & contrasting hues within that, is knowledge once reserved for artists.
Thank you for talking about the difference between contrast and brightness/softness!! It's an undervalued distinction. I'm high contrast but fairly soft, and warm vs cool is hard to tell; it doesn't seem to make much difference. Any advice?
What helped for me was just wearing some colors and seeing how I looked. For warm/cool, purples and greens were especially helpful, but also gold and silver fabrics, for jewelry I don't think it's enough, but once it's your whole shirt, you start to be able to tell what makes you look awake and alive and what makes you look like a victorian invalid (a look I naturally tend toward).
Using gold versus silver jewelry is a huge help. I never thought gold liked good on me so I figured I was probably cool toned because silver looked better. I'm a winter... which is cool toned. It helps to narrow down!
Amazing!! I’ve wat chi Ed loads of these type of videos and yours is exceptional. Love the way you break it open!! 👌👌
This just gives more validation to the idea that I'm a dark autumn. I look at myself in the mirror, first things that come to mind: dark features, then yellow-ish skin.
Cool bright colors make me look yellower and even green-ish, but softer warm colors make my skin look nicely warm and golden.
This is one of the most complete videos I've ever seen about color analysis. I appreciate how she went deeper in every aspect of it and it really clarified a LOT about the questions I have about my palette. I'll definitely, review it later and put it to the test. I've tried some other methods, been a cool summer, deep winter and autumn. Good thing is that each new time I review this, I thing I sense like I'm making some progress in my personal style... So, no harm, no foul.
Soft for a winter makes so much sense.
You broke it down so well. Thanks for all the work you do ❤😊
this actually really helped my understand color seasons a lot better
You have worked so hard! I mean, I have learned coloristics for watercolor and it is still very new for me most of the time.
The imagery you use is stunning and I’m here for it! 🤩
Absolutely fantastic especially the exercise sheet. Now I know how to adjust the choices. Thank you!
I could listen to her explain it for hours, the way she talks makes it so interesting :))
I've been trying to find a good way to find the colours that suit me best. I like how you describe everything!! Thank you🤍
Thanks for the best and easiest to understand video on this!
This is the only video that explains seasonal color theory thoroughly and completely. Thank you. ❤
Thanks for the long explanation, that makes it much more clearer. I was hesitating between true winter, bright winter and true summer, but now bright winter seems the more likely. I need to rewatch it later this week, when I won't be severely jetlagged anymore. xD
Thanks to explain olive like this, so simple, so peaceful. I use the 16 seasons system because of I'm in the true cool flow, just between winter and summer. And I'm an olive, not so fair or light, tan in summer, pale and look sick in winter. Thank you for this video 😊
I’m also an olive that tans in summer (a very warm, orange tan naturally) and looks sick in the winter (Kermit the frog chartreuse when pale).. I have no idea how to find a season for myself or if I need to just have two seasons to accommodate this!
@@kelliwalters1728 I'm like you and I'm a bright spring !!
This sounds like me! I use the true winter palette a lot but when it’s too much I play with the cool summer… so I cheat lol
Looking at my hair and eyes actually makes so much sense. I’ve always only looked at my skin and been confused by warm/cool but it’s easier to look at everything as while and determine softness and contrast and darkness and then from there play with warm and cool fabrics to see where I fit
I am 85% sure to be a soft summer. I have tried the recommended colors to compliment my Features and it works well. But I try to use more of the dark colors because I like more edgy clothes.
I have also dyed my hair back to my natural ash blonde but I am not sure about it. It compliments me more but my red hair was more me.
This was SO NEEDED!!! Thank you!
you explained it so well! Thank you
You made it so much easier, it's amazing! Could you explain the 16 subtypes as well?
This was AMAZING thank you
Thanks for the great video! I’m still not sure if I’m a warm spring or warm autumn, but I’ve found color analysis to be super helpful in branching out with my wardrobe and not just wearing black every day.
I figured out I'm a soft summer. It was a toss up between cool summer and soft summer until I was told soft are my primary features but hearing u describe soft summer are soft,cool, dark for a summer def makes it make sense why.
This was really fascinating!
im so confused
Don't worry you will figure out
Same
you are not alone
Just keep going over it again and again and you'll get it hun, you're definitely not alone❤😊
Try lipsticks and see which color is the best and why
this has been my dream job since i was little ! thanks so much for sharing ❤
Very well-explained!!!
I love that you use so many different ethnicities in your examples
Thanks a lot! Ur video really helped me❤️
You explain things so well and do it concisely. You’re 100% correct-with the right colors I felt at ease. You confirmed my belief that I’m a soft summer even though I have hazel/brownish eyes. Many websites out there will say only gray/blue/green are soft summers and this is false. I did draping and surprisingly all the “boring “ colors I used to stay away from (except gray and blue) looked best on me. Needless to say I’ve already started my closet overhaul:)
Hii I really love your videos they are really inspiring i learned so much about color seasons, body types and more. Im also a huge fan of ur style roots!! 💗🎀
It all went over my head. I’m so confused 😂
Oh my. Thank goodness I finally know my season. These were the kinds of videos that had me confused for so long. It's so much simpler than this, you don't have to analyze every feature. Actually until you know it can be hard to accurately analyze each feature individually.
I had such a hard time figuring out what I was, but then clicked on your video. We have the same coloring, so that was easy! 😁
Your videos made me realise, I'm probably a bright spring or bright winter. Despite having very fair skin, I seem to have an olive undertone too. I used to be the type of person to mostly wear black & grey because I was scared to wear too much color.
Now I'm becoming more and more confident with brighter colors☺️
Spring is warm winter is cool. Try the gold versus silver jewelry. It will help.
Hi Ellie-Jean!
I have been watching your videos for a few weeks now, I’m so curious and obsessed as a long time fashion addict and somehow who flim flamed around regarding style for so many years, like so many women!
It would be a SIN to not subscribe! Your knowledge and advice is FANTASTIC! So unique! Do you do consultations? To find out your colour and body type? I have struggled with this. I always thought I was a “slim no bust redhead pale pear!” And that was that - oh how wrong! I thought I had it down but boy am I confused!!!
Keep it up! So interestingggggg! X
Thanks Ellie !
This is the most clear and helpful explanation of this concept that I have come across!! Thanks so much for explaining everything so well 🫶
Best, how to video I’ve seen!
THANK YOU SO MUCH😭🙏
Ive been having SUCH a hard time figuring out what season I was, but you made it easy to understand.
Im like 85% sure that I'm a Spring, but I feel like im in between True and Bright Spring. All I know is that I look amazing in a warm light lilac color.
"Slap bang" in the middle- that's so cute! It seems similar to how we say "smack dab" in the middle. I'm going to start using this. :)
Wow, this video is great!
I wrote 4 pages about this, about the explanation and how to identify my features. This is very clear, and now I’ll just need to choose between 3 seasons (soft summer, soft autumn and true autumn, I am definitely on the soft side)
Officially saved this video for helping my friends learn about their colours!
lol this is the best description of color analysis that I've heard. I have some Italian heritage, and I've always heard that olive skinned leaned more cool...but cool colors look terrible on me...so hearing you say that olive isn't really factor in your season is great to hear.
As myself who is learning colour theory for art and graphic design, I love learning this type of stuff as well. It's so hard for me to find what I truly am. I'm a redhead. But, my hair can sometimes look dull light brown. I have medium/dark green, or hazel eyes 🤷🏼♀️...
My face can look yellow, but flushy red so it's hard to tell. I do have cool toned veins but not sure if I also see green veins. I do find that medium to dark blues, all shades of green, some light pinks but mostly dark pinks, crimson red, dark purple, crisp white, all greys, bright darker oranges, bright pale yellow, maroons, mostly darker shades of brown, and of course black, all look good on me. Then, sometimes I can pull off all the pastels shades. No colour really washes me out, yet I don't think I'm a neutral. Not sure, but I think I'm a medium contrast.
Lol! I hope one day, I can go to a colour analyst somewhere here in, Australia.
Your explaination of this is absolutely brilliant. I've been struggling to figure out my colour season for months and this was so helpful. I kept trying to drape colours and getting confused. I'm now certain I'm a soft summer. I have an olive skintone and neutral-cool so I was getting confused by 'autumn' colours that suited me but I'm realising now that the browns and oranges I thought were autumn (because they were soft and dark/medium) were more neutral than warm 😅
Thank you for this I’ve realised I’m a true summer. I have medium brown hair which doesn’t really have any warm tones in it. I’ve pale skin and blue eyes. I’ve always thought a lavender colour looks really nice on me. Glad to see it’s in the summer palette
I always thought I was a spring because I look great in pastels, but I’ve realised I’m actually more of a soft autumn because my eyes are my dominant feature and they’re a dark greyish blue. Looking at my wardrobe I can also see that the colours I naturally lean towards have more grey in them than white. Thank you for this video, it was very informative!
That was very helpful!!! Found I was neutral for cool/warm and light/dark but very strong with muted colors as opposed to bright. Tjanks
Looking at your natural hair and the intensity of your lips against your skin tone make me think you are closer to true summer. Thank you-this is a great explanation of the nuances of c analysis!
Omg I thought I was deep autumn for the longest time but I never understood why none of the autumns really fit me until you explained the contrast bit. I had a whole new outlook and high contrast seems to be a more defining feature for me due to my relatively light skin, dark hair, and dark but bright eyes. I discovered I’m actually a bright spring! That palette is so harmonious with my features that I feel like I don’t need to keep questioning my colour season! I’m extra happy cuz those are the colours I naturally gravitate towards too. ❤
Best explanation ever🎉
Great video, one of the most clear and comprehensive on this topic! Heres a question though, how much do our prefrences "matter" or influence in our seasonal palette? The characteristics describing bright spring fit me better, but I tend to like sort of less saturated colors, if that makes sense 😅
I knew I was a winter but I couldn't figure out if I was dark or true, I followed your worksheet and definitely feel more confident I'm a true winter! I was leaning that way based on how i looked in a tikTok filter, but I thought I had to be dark because I have brown eyes. This definitely helped me clarify! Thanks so much!
Thank you for your content! Could you maybe make a video per each season together with practical examples for do's and dont's? Its content idea source for weeks 😊
I think there are two ways of accessing the seasons: you can either look at the features of your body, or at the features of specific colours and how they make your skin/face look against it.
My features will put me somewhere is the summer camp: ashy darker blond hair, dark grey-blue eyes with green/hazel central heterochromia, pale and muted skin tone, moderate to low contrast. But I look absolutely terrible in the Summer colours, and cool pastels are the absolute worst. I am also slightly warm olive, and the green DOES impact my colouring.
So, instead of judging my features, I judged different colours against my skin and decided based on that. I tried clear white and cream white, clear black and charcoal black, light warm grey and light cool grey, light blue and navy, royal blue and petrol, and a few more colour combinations in cool/warm, clear/muted, and light/dark combinations. It turns out I looked better in whichever piece was darker, then among darker clothes I looked better in the muted ones, and the slightly warmer ones, but not the warmest. This way I figured I am dark, muted, and warm, so I am a dark autumn. And if you look at my closet, it is clearly a dark autumn collection, so it checks.
I still feel like it’s difficult for me to tell wether or not I’m dark winter or dark autumn. I actually have pale olive skin with a yellow overtone (which makes yellow difficult to wear), but I also often feel more comfortable with brown or not everything in black, sometimes pure black is overwhelming for my features.
So I just settled with dark something and I feel like this is good enough for me. Even colour seasons are on a spectrum. I look for what works for me, and sometimes, I just don’t bother and wear something because it makes me happy.
Also: it’s kinda hard to tell with seasons sometimes because so often, we see people with dyed hair as examples for certain seasons…
This is so helpful! I’m a lot clearer than I was but I’m still torn between bright winter and bright spring!
I’ve never thought of chocolate brown as cool! This is good to know and why I think it looks decent with my skin, I associated with warm and warm colors don’t always suit me
Endless resources about this, but this is a very clear and concise video. Great explanation. Wish there were more darker skin tone examples available online.
Ok but like, where is the button to like this video 100 times over? It’s so well done and helpful! I know what colors look best on me, but I could never decide what they each meant because they are not the usual colors. Like lime green! Plus I have an olive undertone with fair skin and that just throws a whole other element into the mix, but this video was incredibly insightful.
I'm pleasantly surprised to hear Carol Jackson mentioned. I'd been pointed in the direction of some articles inspired by her. It's great to see it in video form 💜
thank you sooo much for this! it's crazy how I used to wear so much black because I thought it was a color for everyone and was "classic"/you couldn't go wrong with it. same with white. but I realized I looked so drab in both black & white (stark white) and just couldn't figure out why....now I know they definitely doesn't fit my colour season (light spring) at all!
This is really good and well explained :) I often find (when I drape to test colors) that if I look at my face and are drawn to the face in one color it's a good match, but if I look down on the fabric it's not so good and I look a bit ill it's the wrong one. Like for example in this video, I only look at your face and not your shirt so it feels right. When WE wear the outfit and not the other way around.
Omg thank you I've been wondering why I look off sometimes, especially in clothes I have to choose from where I work (caucasian demographic, very cool tone) at first I thought I was a dark winter but after doing the drape test with blocks on my phone I realised I'm a dark autumn 😮 wouldn't have thought so based on your images but it makes sense. My skin tone is quite neutral but fair, so I've got high contrast with my dark hair, and certain colours from the dark winter just made me look sick or unnatural compared to the warm counterparts lol and interestingly, some cool colours I thought looked good on me were still dark winter. But, they did make me look more pale. Maybe it works for me because of the contrast between my skin and hair? Interesting stuff! I feel more confident trying out colours I haven't before now.
I was so confused about this topic, and you helped me so much. Now I know that im dark winter. Thanks for your good explanation.
Ellie- could you please do a video on soft natural sleeves?! My biggest struggle
I’m a soft summer which is kind of interesting to me. I tend to gravitate towards muddier colors, but I also love how striking I look in black even though it’s not my color.
Thank you. You went so fast I’ll have to watch a couple more times. I do like being able to drape the colors around my face. I think that would help me the most. I was born with a blonde hair, but I dye my hair black so I can see where I could get mixed up in my colors season.thank you you covered quite a bit of information that I needed. JJ.
This video is so informative. I do believe that i am a soft autumn girly but i still find it hard to figure this out.
Do you mean to say Autumn is Warm Soft and Dark? In your video, you said Autumn is Warm Bright Dark. Which is not what shown in the Season wheel . And the only main season you mentioned soft is Summer (shouldn't there be 2, which are Summer and Autumn?) . Still found your video helpful but just want to check that is all. Thank you so much .
Could you also do a video telling your thoughts on the color breeze system?:) I’ve been looking into it and I’m super intrigued and would love to know your thoughts 🥰
Hi Ellie, please make more videos about this topic. I find it so confusing 😅. I kinda look like you but have a bit lower of a contrast than you. My eyes are not as bright, my eyebrows are much darker and my hair is a dirty blond. I think I may be a soft summer? Anyways, loved the video❤️
There is a 16 colour season system also, that includes deep summer and soft winter. 😇
I appreciate you acknowledging that you actually might be a True Summer! I have thought for a while your dominant feature is Cool, not Light :) I think dyed hair can be confusing!
I'm definitely one of the summers. I just don't know which one. I have an English rose complexion; very fair, cool toned and pink undertones (my cheeks are always flushed), my natural hair is a dark ash blonde (level 7 according to hairstylists), my eyes are very light blue, my lips are quite pale and my features are generally low contrast even though my eyes tend to pop, so I'd say I'm on the softer end or neutral between bright and soft.
When my natural hair is grown out fully, I find I tend to suit truer blues and medium tone cool blush pinks and true purples. When my hair is highlighted I suit cornflower blue, pastel pinks, lilacs and muted colours. When I'm more tanned in summer, I suit brighter cool corals and bright emerald green. The colours that suit me least are mustard yellow, rusty orange, cream (yellow white), olive green and fire engine red.
I'm aware of what suits me, I just find that I vary between the summers and have no idea which one is me. My instinct tells me I'm between a true and light summer, but then I see colour palettes for soft summers and realise I'm like that too?