Thank you for explaining the three types of autumns. I was first told I was a "Bright Spring" - but always found that the majority of the colors felt too bright and daffodil on me. I later was told I was a "Winter" - and the only way that that season worked for me was if I bleached my hair to a platinum blonde and wore a ton of makeup. I have recently been color typed a Soft Autumn - and this has been a confusing color type, because I wear some of the pinks from the Summer Season very well. It didn't dawn on me that Soft Autumn was bridging the gap with the transitional colors from Summer to Autumn, but that makes perfect sense now. It is also hard to find a color palette fan that focuses on Soft Autumn - rather than the general Autumn category. That could make all the difference in the world when shopping for the absolute BEST colors for Autumn. Thank you for clarifying this in your video - This is one of the best descriptions that I have heard as to why there are different groups within the same season. Thank you! I'm going to listen to this over and over, till all of this becomes second nature - making shopping so much easier! Thank you!
I'm so glad you found some answers. For finding a SA palette fan, my supplier is the excellent True Colour International, at truecolour.com.au . The palettes are first rate. Also, if it helps, there are many resources for you to see, read, and learn more. You can find Pinterest boards showing you the actually clothes (search Christine Scaman or 12 Blueprints PCA to find mine). And on my website, there are e-books and fabric sets of neutrals and colours that folks find extremely helpful to move from visualizing their colours to how they might look in various textiles. You're just getting started and about to step into a very beautiful world of your own colours. This path really does unfold as you walk along it.
Christine, thank you so much for this video series and for making it apply to all the seasons, not just Autumn! This has helped me to realize that if I’m a Light Summer, I need to be a Light Summer! Even though I “can” wear all the colors in the Summer palette, how much better to focus on my best colors?! That gives me much better direction. ❤😊 Little by little, this is starting to make more more sense. Much gratitude for your teaching!
Thank you for this. I was just draped as a dark autumn and it shocked me as I love summer colours and dislike mustard, olive, tan, camel, brown. So happy to hear it's more than that!
I'd say that misperception of a Season's colours and how many beautiful looks it can create is the most common reason for doubt. We're often familiar with the stereotypic colours, usually the minority. Pinterest is a great place to find DA looks and to see how clothes would look in stores or online. DA is a phenomenal group of colours, amazing what happens when the palette appears in colours, combinations, textiles, textures, hair, and makeup. Great that you're taking time to learn about it!
Thank you! A Winter series has been requested and I have it in mind. Every Season presents certain unique challenges and Winter possibly more so (I explain why in the reply to Kaspare's comment in Part 4 in this video series). If you had particular questions or topics you would like to see discussed, please share them, it keeps me focussed :)
I'm always happy to answer questions with videos and blog posts. With the current video production schedule, I wouldn't be able to make a series, but I'd be happy to make one video if you could narrow down what aspect of Winter(s) you'd like to see.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much for your response! I completely understand - making these videos must take so much of your time. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I was analysed a true winter a few years back but haven't had the chance to take a style class or learn how to really use my colours in the best way possible. Maybe a True Winter 101, or Do's and Don'ts, True Winter shopping tips?
@@jennah86169 Sounds like you're looking for how to get started with True Winter. A video might be better to refine the look of the Season and separate it from the other Winters in your mind. To start out though, I'd type True Winter into Pinterest, and then True Winter makeup if you wear it, then landscape, then interior decor. The more ways you see it, the better you appreciate how the colours work together. You'll also find an e-book in the shop on my website (12 blueprints.com) that would give you a solid foundation. These might be better ways to step into True Winter's world, look around, and imagine how you might apply it to creating your appearance.
Christine, thank you for these videos. I was analysed a DA several years ago and love the colours for me. I was wondering though: on the autumn fans we have groups of colours with particular properties. Temperature, saturation, value. I do see colours in , say the DA vicinity but also noticed that some clothing colours are more saturated while still having a dark autumn feel to them as in temperature for example, they could ( with my laymen eyes of course) not be from a more saturated group. These colours confuse me. Is this even possible? What‘s going on with those colours? Thank you. Those are probably colours in the mid value range or else they‘d appear more desaturated just due to the value?🤔
Depending on the colour, there may be different reasons for this. The colour might still be DA, just outside the palette edge, but still good for many DA. Men of darker skin and eye colours in this Season sometimes wear high saturation well, as can younger people or anyone really depending on their colouring. The colour might have moved into Dark Winter, retaining the Autumn feel of that Season at higher saturation. The colour might belong to Bright Winter, which seems odd, though some of the greens and yellows may have an Autumn familiarity, perhaps in a 'jungle' or 'team colours' way, but harmonize far better with BW and can be hugely creative in that Season. At times, I find textiles that don't lend themselves to easy harmony for any group, too saturated in pigment for DA, with too much of an Autumn quality for any Winter. I'm not sure what the last question means. Value and saturation are independent, I know you know this, I'm just trying to put the terms in context of the question...
@@ChristineScaman the last question was probably just my musings😊Thank you for your detailed reply, it is interesting to ponder where some colours might go!
Hello, Christine! Is there any way to wear these beautiful soft light creamy colours (?ivory/peach/oyster) for winter? TW is of the particular interest. DW can step into DA a little bit, but DW palette is the least flattering among winter palettes for me - it looks too dark, heavy and earthy in unpleasant way (DW's reds look like browns on me). Overall DW looks almost like DA on me if someone hasn't seen me in real DA palette (and how heavy and muddy it looks). I have some clothes which combine black and those close to autumnal light soft creamy colours, and in small amounts + black they look quite good on me, but I suppose it is a better match for DW/DA palettes. LSu and SSu have very beautiful rose beige colour, which is obviously too soft. I am obsessed with this kind of soft colours giving boudoir vibes. And want to find something going with TW palette without stepping into icy colours territory. Maybe there is something outside TW standard palette as it is with bright orange or acid yellow-greens? I have a faux fur coat in a very light colour with a rose-apricot hint - lighter than autumn/summer options, softer than icy colours but still bright enough to balance black, and without visible greyish(summer) or yellow(spring) tone. I guess this is the closest I could get to the desirable effect so far.
Impressive observations :) Yes, BW can make TW colour look like Summer and if you're doing the same with DW, you are probably more saturated in your own colours. DA white looks (to me) uncomfortable on TW, boring and heavy. DW's warmer neutrals might have options, but I suspect they'll look green and muddy-ish and maybe more for you if the entire palette is that way. Sounds like you're sure you're not BW, though it doesn't get you much further for beige. Thoughts I had as I read were DW icy beige, but you didn't want icy. LSu rose beige though, if you compared LSu and TW neutrals, they have similarities, with a rose beige that's quite similar, though lighter and less saturated than the Summer version. Third thought was to wear the DA version in small areas, not near the face, but it sounds as though you're looking for a different kind of item. The faux fur coat sounds inspired. I'm not coming up with any better ideas. I do think there's a wearable peach for TSu, not palette-perfect but very attractive, cool, pastel colour. The coat sounds like the TW version of the same with a touch of fantasy that gives more latitude, like neon colours, they don't ask to be taken textbook serious. I wish I had links or examples. No other out of the box are stored in my memory banks at the moment :)
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much! I really appreciate you answer. Your suggestion about DW icy beige is actually an option to explore because DW icy colours do not look icy on me - so there's may be solution for my desire for soft and light colour. And I can recall several clothing pieces from my wardrobe supposedly meeting this criteria. TW wearable peach you've described sounds like my coat, yes :) About LSu and TW rose beige - do you refer to your neutral colour sets or Sci Art palettes? I recently realized that when googling for 12 seasons' palettes you get slightly different versions and lists of colours. And I can't find rose beige in my TW palette. If I knew from the beginning that TW had rose beige there would be no need for out of the box solutions 😆 (As a side note - colours for TSu from your Pinterest board look much more bright and saturated compared to TSu googled palette)
Thank you for explaining the three types of autumns. I was first told I was a "Bright Spring" - but always found that the majority of the colors felt too bright and daffodil on me. I later was told I was a "Winter" - and the only way that that season worked for me was if I bleached my hair to a platinum blonde and wore a ton of makeup. I have recently been color typed a Soft Autumn - and this has been a confusing color type, because I wear some of the pinks from the Summer Season very well. It didn't dawn on me that Soft Autumn was bridging the gap with the transitional colors from Summer to Autumn, but that makes perfect sense now.
It is also hard to find a color palette fan that focuses on Soft Autumn - rather than the general Autumn category.
That could make all the difference in the world when shopping for the absolute BEST colors for Autumn.
Thank you for clarifying this in your video -
This is one of the best descriptions that I have heard as to why there are different groups within the same season.
Thank you!
I'm going to listen to this over and over, till all of this becomes second nature - making shopping so much easier!
Thank you!
I'm so glad you found some answers. For finding a SA palette fan, my supplier is the excellent True Colour International, at truecolour.com.au . The palettes are first rate.
Also, if it helps, there are many resources for you to see, read, and learn more. You can find Pinterest boards showing you the actually clothes (search Christine Scaman or 12 Blueprints PCA to find mine). And on my website, there are e-books and fabric sets of neutrals and colours that folks find extremely helpful to move from visualizing their colours to how they might look in various textiles. You're just getting started and about to step into a very beautiful world of your own colours. This path really does unfold as you walk along it.
Christine, thank you so much for this video series and for making it apply to all the seasons, not just Autumn! This has helped me to realize that if I’m a Light Summer, I need to be a Light Summer! Even though I “can” wear all the colors in the Summer palette, how much better to focus on my best colors?! That gives me much better direction. ❤😊 Little by little, this is starting to make more more sense. Much gratitude for your teaching!
You are so welcome! It's an important moment when a big piece of the puzzle of understanding ourselves arrives.
Thank you for this. I was just draped as a dark autumn and it shocked me as I love summer colours and dislike mustard, olive, tan, camel, brown. So happy to hear it's more than that!
I'd say that misperception of a Season's colours and how many beautiful looks it can create is the most common reason for doubt. We're often familiar with the stereotypic colours, usually the minority. Pinterest is a great place to find DA looks and to see how clothes would look in stores or online. DA is a phenomenal group of colours, amazing what happens when the palette appears in colours, combinations, textiles, textures, hair, and makeup. Great that you're taking time to learn about it!
So nice! Please, please, please do a similar series on winter ❄️
Thank you! A Winter series has been requested and I have it in mind. Every Season presents certain unique challenges and Winter possibly more so (I explain why in the reply to Kaspare's comment in Part 4 in this video series). If you had particular questions or topics you would like to see discussed, please share them, it keeps me focussed :)
Wonderful Christine, so thrilling.
So helpful! would you be able to do a series like this on other seasons (winter in particular ☺️)?
I'm always happy to answer questions with videos and blog posts. With the current video production schedule, I wouldn't be able to make a series, but I'd be happy to make one video if you could narrow down what aspect of Winter(s) you'd like to see.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much for your response! I completely understand - making these videos must take so much of your time. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us! I was analysed a true winter a few years back but haven't had the chance to take a style class or learn how to really use my colours in the best way possible. Maybe a True Winter 101, or Do's and Don'ts, True Winter shopping tips?
@@jennah86169 Sounds like you're looking for how to get started with True Winter. A video might be better to refine the look of the Season and separate it from the other Winters in your mind. To start out though, I'd type True Winter into Pinterest, and then True Winter makeup if you wear it, then landscape, then interior decor. The more ways you see it, the better you appreciate how the colours work together. You'll also find an e-book in the shop on my website (12 blueprints.com) that would give you a solid foundation. These might be better ways to step into True Winter's world, look around, and imagine how you might apply it to creating your appearance.
omg just foudn the blogpost. that is soooo helpful. Thank you!!!!
Glad it was helpful. Please ask if you have questions, it's how we all learn.
Christine, thank you for these videos. I was analysed a DA several years ago and love the colours for me. I was wondering though: on the autumn fans we have groups of colours with particular properties. Temperature, saturation, value. I do see colours in , say the DA vicinity but also noticed that some clothing colours are more saturated while still having a dark autumn feel to them as in temperature for example, they could ( with my laymen eyes of course) not be from a more saturated group. These colours confuse me. Is this even possible? What‘s going on with those colours? Thank you. Those are probably colours in the mid value range or else they‘d appear more desaturated just due to the value?🤔
Depending on the colour, there may be different reasons for this. The colour might still be DA, just outside the palette edge, but still good for many DA. Men of darker skin and eye colours in this Season sometimes wear high saturation well, as can younger people or anyone really depending on their colouring. The colour might have moved into Dark Winter, retaining the Autumn feel of that Season at higher saturation. The colour might belong to Bright Winter, which seems odd, though some of the greens and yellows may have an Autumn familiarity, perhaps in a 'jungle' or 'team colours' way, but harmonize far better with BW and can be hugely creative in that Season. At times, I find textiles that don't lend themselves to easy harmony for any group, too saturated in pigment for DA, with too much of an Autumn quality for any Winter. I'm not sure what the last question means. Value and saturation are independent, I know you know this, I'm just trying to put the terms in context of the question...
@@ChristineScaman the last question was probably just my musings😊Thank you for your detailed reply, it is interesting to ponder where some colours might go!
Did you do a true spring, that would be so helpful
I haven't looked at the other Seasons in this format. Spring would lend itself well actually. I will definitely keep it in mind :)
Hello, Christine! Is there any way to wear these beautiful soft light creamy colours (?ivory/peach/oyster) for winter? TW is of the particular interest. DW can step into DA a little bit, but DW palette is the least flattering among winter palettes for me - it looks too dark, heavy and earthy in unpleasant way (DW's reds look like browns on me). Overall DW looks almost like DA on me if someone hasn't seen me in real DA palette (and how heavy and muddy it looks).
I have some clothes which combine black and those close to autumnal light soft creamy colours, and in small amounts + black they look quite good on me, but I suppose it is a better match for DW/DA palettes.
LSu and SSu have very beautiful rose beige colour, which is obviously too soft.
I am obsessed with this kind of soft colours giving boudoir vibes. And want to find something going with TW palette without stepping into icy colours territory. Maybe there is something outside TW standard palette as it is with bright orange or acid yellow-greens? I have a faux fur coat in a very light colour with a rose-apricot hint - lighter than autumn/summer options, softer than icy colours but still bright enough to balance black, and without visible greyish(summer) or yellow(spring) tone. I guess this is the closest I could get to the desirable effect so far.
Impressive observations :) Yes, BW can make TW colour look like Summer and if you're doing the same with DW, you are probably more saturated in your own colours. DA white looks (to me) uncomfortable on TW, boring and heavy. DW's warmer neutrals might have options, but I suspect they'll look green and muddy-ish and maybe more for you if the entire palette is that way. Sounds like you're sure you're not BW, though it doesn't get you much further for beige.
Thoughts I had as I read were DW icy beige, but you didn't want icy. LSu rose beige though, if you compared LSu and TW neutrals, they have similarities, with a rose beige that's quite similar, though lighter and less saturated than the Summer version. Third thought was to wear the DA version in small areas, not near the face, but it sounds as though you're looking for a different kind of item.
The faux fur coat sounds inspired. I'm not coming up with any better ideas. I do think there's a wearable peach for TSu, not palette-perfect but very attractive, cool, pastel colour. The coat sounds like the TW version of the same with a touch of fantasy that gives more latitude, like neon colours, they don't ask to be taken textbook serious. I wish I had links or examples. No other out of the box are stored in my memory banks at the moment :)
@@ChristineScaman Thank you so much! I really appreciate you answer.
Your suggestion about DW icy beige is actually an option to explore because DW icy colours do not look icy on me - so there's may be solution for my desire for soft and light colour. And I can recall several clothing pieces from my wardrobe supposedly meeting this criteria.
TW wearable peach you've described sounds like my coat, yes :)
About LSu and TW rose beige - do you refer to your neutral colour sets or Sci Art palettes? I recently realized that when googling for 12 seasons' palettes you get slightly different versions and lists of colours. And I can't find rose beige in my TW palette. If I knew from the beginning that TW had rose beige there would be no need for out of the box solutions 😆
(As a side note - colours for TSu from your Pinterest board look much more bright and saturated compared to TSu googled palette)
cut out the first 4 minutes of this video and it’d be gold
Agreed!