I really like that she chose to grow out her natural color. Even though blonde is her color season I felt like there was another color that could work more and this looks great on her and makes her eyes pop so much, plus the shirt
just want to add something about unnatural hair colours!! obviously, choose shades from your colour season, but also i've found that matching the contrast level of your natural hair colour works really well. a dusty rose pink is not onky in my colour season but is also the same contrast level as my natural hair colour, and it looks far more at-home with my features! I tried a dark grey once, which is in my colour palette, but is much darker than my natural hair colour, and so therefore looked a little off
Yes I really want an unnatural colour suggestions video! Can’t find any anywhere. I don’t wanna dye my full hair but I’m an ethereal with low contrast in my features and I wanna know what shades I can do - I’m guessing pastels and warmer shades since I’m a light spring
When I read 'hair for your face',I thought it was going to be about best hair for face shape,which I would have really liked. But I always love your videos and still enjoyed the information given in this one💞
There are a lot of videos that go over that in various ways, so you won’t be out of luck if that’s what you’re looking for! But personally, I never adhered to the hair for your face shape thing, simply because it always pushes you toward an ideal face shape (oval) rather than embracing your natural shape. And I love the square shape face, even though I don’t have it, and I wouldn’t like any advice that says to cover the angles and soften it so it looks less square. You see? What do I know though I’m just saying there’s definitely a lot of vids that do hair for face shape, but unfortunately not that many for color seasons
I think it would be helpful to see celebrities with different essences and haircuts that did & didn't work for them. Also with hair colour & season too.
I’m a deep/dark winter (bordering on autumn but definitely winter) and my hair is brown and naturally has warm reddish highlights - I really like the UA-cam channel Color Class because they explain that not everyone falls neatly into the prescribed catagories
I have greyish hair- it’s white at front, black at bottom back. And pepper through the rest. Plus, it’s curly, making for an interesting look. So yeah, I own it.
I would agree with this 100%!! I think I have Natural, Gamine and Ingenue. I hit all of those key words with my latest haircut and I kid you not- I have not had that many compliments in my LIFE lol. Someone said, “It suits your personality!” And I just about went to heaven 😂😂 Also does anyone else feel their essences match their personality? Just me? Okay haha
YES when I first learned about essences I didn’t care what match my face I just picked the ones that match my personality and surprise surprise later on I’ve started to realize they match my face too
I have naturally medium auburn hair, but am a dark winter. It definitely flatters my skin, and looks good with dark winter coloues, which actually make it look richer and more red. Just a reminder that the natural hair colours that work for a season are different than what will work when done with synthetic dye. Dye pigments can be tweaked, by working with undertones and toners, though. But it would really take someone with an advanced knowledge of colour theory to succcessfuly approximate the look of, say, a natural dark winter auburn on a dark winter with naturally dark brown hair.
This video is such a great guide! I must say the past few months your videos and shorts were so helpful for me! I'm a true autumn, my essences are dramatic and romantic - and I do see your descriptions fit perfectly with what I look best in! ❤️ I look my best when my hair is in its natural brown color with soft highlights - and with my curls I look best with a half up-half down style!
Would you please please please try some spring colors? Maybe light spring?? I would love to see how that looks on you! So many people who think they are summers (especially soft summer) end up being springs, myself included! Or just get professionally analyzed, best things I've invested in!
LOVE your darker hair, Ellie Jean! Beautiful! I've been wanting to try a darker shade as well. I have similar blue eyes, but my natural hair is pretty ashy and blonde.
As someone that tends to be a bit more alternative, maybe my absolutely not professional words of advice can help: Winters and springs look the best with all over bright hair colors. By this I mean the pure whites/platinums and any color of the rainbow. Deep winters will be darkest (your dark but bright (clear purples, blues, even emerald greens, keeping the colors on the cool end)), bright winter and bright spring will be your brightest colors (winters emphasizing cool toned colors (cool reds exist, just like cool toned red lipsticks!) and springs being the warm toned colors). Both bright winters and bright springs do platinum well, but winters should tone it cool and springs can keep it a more yellow toned platinum (hope that makes sense?). And then as you go towards light springs they will have your light but bright pinks, even fun light yellows, any warm color really. With summers and autumns there is the "muted" trait to look out for. Because these seasons arent "clear," they tend to look the most odd with pitch black or bright platinum hair. This is where the more muted colors come in. Any greyed out version of the color you want can totally work. The closer the season is to soft summer and soft autumn, the more you have to worry about the "greying out" of the colors. Now, what if youre like me and you don't want freakin grey hair? Sure, no problem. Heck, I even wanted platinum hair but I knew it would look weird with my skin. So, what I did was have them blend platinum white in with my natural hair color. It gives the color a muddled greying effect without it literally greying the color. Summers and autumns need more dimension, basically. They do best with many colors going on at once, whereas winters and springs are more likely to get away with a bright ass blue box dye. Mixing platinum with my natural hair color still looks very bright on me. In fact, it looks like white! Except it's definitely not pure platinum. Its just MY version of platinum, just like a soft summer's "whites" are going to be more muted than the pure bright whites of the bright winters/springs. Summers and autumns do very well with balayage coloring pretty much any color technique that involves layers of different shades blending together. As a soft summer, I dyed the under layer of my hair a muted, darkish, ashy brown recently and literally everyone thought it was black. Point is, we dont have to go as light or dark as a bright winter/spring in order for it to FEEL black or platinum. I don't know why I went on this ramble but I hope it helps? Or maybe I just wanted to share my musings as someone that watches a lot of color season vids
I’ll start by saying how much I appreciate the effort and passion you put into your content, and being part of your group has been incredibly insightful for me. That said, I wanted to share some feedback on this video, as it touches on a broader concern I’ve noticed across some of your content. While the advice in this video is helpful in many ways, I feel it leaned heavily toward Caucasian-centric examples and assumptions about hair. Most of the examples and imagery you’ve included featured Caucasian women and the circular thumbnails of hair colours went with blow-dried, flowy, straight hair, which is often presented as the “default” in these types of discussions. For women with textured, coily, or protective hairstyles, or those who don’t show their hair for religious reasons, the conversation is much more nuanced. These women often face societal biases and increased labour to meet certain beauty standards, which wasn’t addressed in the video. This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed a pattern. Many of your celebrity style analyses also tend to feature predominantly white women, even though there’s a wealth of non-white women who would offer amazing examples of style and essence exploration. While I understand this may not be intentional, it’s noticeable for those of us forced to navigate the world without the benefit of being anywhere near the defaults. Additionally, the seasonal rules around hair colours in this video felt limiting. For example, the idea that winters must have dark hair is a more old-fashioned approach. Modern colour analysis has shown that hair, skin, and eyes don’t always fit these rigid patterns. Francesca Cairns, a colour analyst I’ve followed, has demonstrated this beautifully, showing how someone like Simone Biles, with dark skin and hair, can be a summer. She frequently highlights how seasons aren’t determined solely by traditional colour stereotypes, and I think that kind of perspective would add a lot of depth to your content. I know you encourage us to explore and challenge our inherent biases in areas like body composition and essence, and I’d love to see that same lens applied here. If the goal is to cater to all women, this could be a great opportunity to expand the perspectives and examples you include, spending the time to research how such women have to move through the world, ensuring the advice really does consider all women. I offer this feedback as someone who truly admires your work and believes in its potential to be even more impactful.
I think with bright spring it depends on if you’re more neutral or warm leaning tbh, because I am a very neutral bright spring and orange hair isn’t the best on me tbh. Dark brown (natural) is the best, however.
Ok editing advice here: the list of essences-adjectives in the video should have been said much slower and the words should have stayed longer on screen. I didn't even understand it was an actual list until halfthrough it, they were going so fast I thought it was like a premise for an actual list. You gotta give people time to process what you're saying and let the words leave an imprint on the viewers' mind 😊 I noticed you tend to speak a bit fast in general when listing stuff and to keep words on screen for a short time, maybe you're really fast and it's fine for you but on average words need a longer time to be actually processed by the brain and stick 😊😊 I think it would benefit you a lot
@ that makes sense! I figured I’d let you know just in case because I didn’t know till recently and I’ve been on UA-cam since the very beginning. I have no idea why it took me so long to learn that but yeah 😂.
You have STRONG ingenue Essence. Wavy layers and face framing that accentuate your eyes or land close to your eyes. 👌🏻 Straightish hair does not suit you and youre def cool toned. That recent video you made "gifts theyll actually like or use" with wavy light chocolate hair😯 FLOORED looked soo good.
This is so insightful when you give the keywords for each essence. For me, it's tussled, neat, and volume. I can easily wear my hair straight or scrunched, but I feel much more like myself in the "big" version of my hair. I wonder if it's because my scrunched hair (volume, tussled), which I make more perfect with a curling iron after scrunching (neat), checks all three boxes. My straight hair only checks the neat box and I feel blah. Thanks for this!
I'm a bright spring who has tried all sorts of colours in the pink, red and orange side of the colour wheel. After so much testing and tweaking formulas, I've found my best colour is definitely a rich, deep yet vibrant blood red (more orange undertone rather than pink). Too pink looks off but too too orange doesn't look right either.
i have dark(ish) brown hair that i feel skews neutral to cool but im warm so i used to have fun dying my hair bright orange. i've learned more about contrast now and have gone back to dark but i miss it sometimes
I'm not a ginger, but my mom is, and I think it's generally quite neutral, in the US at least? I thin you can also say red, but if you want to distinguish from like a more auburn red, you could always say copper!
I have brassy red hair, I guess strawberry blonde or auburn? I always feel like my hair and skin color are opposite when it comes to color analysis. Warm hair and cool skin 😅 Tbh I feel like I look good in all seasons usually true autumn, true or bright spring, and true summer, bright winter. Yet never the muted or dark parts of seasons.
This reminds me of myself as a bright spring with red hair! I happily wore some colours from all seasons except soft summer, sadly my worst palette 😭 Despite being a spring I think I got away with some more dark colours than you because I have some darker features? But my skin’s warm and it sounds like you can wear some more cool colours than me. Tbh I thought most seasons were pretty good until I had my best colours to compare them with! So maybe you’re a bright season too??
Your blonde hair was very light, and there was little contrast with your face. I enjoyed watching your eyes pop as your darker hair came in. But lately, I've been finding the greater amount of contrast between your hair/clothes and your face too harsh for you. I don’t whether you'd actually darkened your hair, but something felt off. My immediate reaction to seeing you in this video was, "Look at her eyes!" If this is you trying Soft Summer, massive thumbs up! Whatever you've done with your hair in this one, keep doing it! And the top is stunning!
My 3 words are volume, tussled, and neat. I have no idea how to be neat but tussled haha 😂 But I am figuring it out and feel closer to what feels right.
I am ~pretty sure~ that I am a bright spring. As a teenager/early 20s I dyed my hair literally neon orange. Now I stay really vibrant shades of copper, strawberry blonde, or auburn. I also like to do a really cool bright blonde color block. My hang up is that I WAS strawberry blonde as a child but as I get older my natural hair color is quite dark now….so I’m just going off what I know from when my hair was different. But I appreciate the validation in my choices 😂. I would love a more in depth video with photos of hair cuts. I feel that part went on way too quickly! I really struggle to understand my essences!
My two primary essences are gamine and classic. I definitely have noticed that I struggle to find haircuts that balance tousled vs. neat. Too tousled and I look like a mess, to neat and I look constrained. I need ideas. I know it would also help if I figured out my third essence. I think it might be ingenue?
i just have sooo much trouble finding my color season. i've always thought i was a winter, probably a dark winter since i have that ashy undertone. however i feel like some colors in the dark winter palette look off on me, for instance i look weird in a plain white top... and i recently got a balayage and i got so many compliments about how i looked better with my hair like that than with my natural dark brown. i know find your season it's a journey but damn it's been a struggle hahaha
I need help with a question about hair color !!!! I'm a soft summer, but my natural hair is black, and I have dark brown eyes and white skin, which makes me look like a winter, soft summer colors suit me, but I’m worried dyeing my hair a softer, muted color will clash with my bright natural features winter colors don’t suit me either Does anyone have suggestions for a hair color that works for my combination ?
I think you should reconsider if you are a soft summer and not a dark or bright winter since some colors recommended for winters can be similar to the summer palette like the most light ones
I’m very torn between thinking I’m a dark Autumn or a soft Autumn as colours in both seasons can really look good on me. Skin colour I’m definitely more neutral with some warmth. I recently dyed my hair back to natural - deep auburn/chestnut - and I think it works with my pale skin and hazel/golden eyes without washing me out, but I know a more golden brown/blonde colour closer to my eye colour looks good too. So do I go for the contrast or the similarity?
I waa a True Summer with dark chocolate brown hair. I grew out my grey and now my natural hair colour is a mix of blondes and, especially around my face, silver. What is my colour season now?
Your natural colour IS always the best and most harmonious, nature cannot be improved upon (IF you want to have a natural beauty kind of look. Dita Von Teese looks amazing with her black hair but that's a very specific vibe.) Your season also dictates what artificial colours will suit, it's not necessarily about being led by your natural colour. I'm a Bright Winter with very light brown/dark blonde hair but I can absolutely pull off blue-black because of my season and my level of contrast. I could pull off white blonde too, with enough makeup. It's the extremes that suit, even though my natural shade is very moderate.
Hey Ellie I was wondering if it’s okay to just have two essences? Because I know I have ethereal as my main and romantic as my second, and I’ve worked out that classic might be my third, but if it is it’s like 2%, because my face isn’t that symmetrical and I look boring or restricted in classic essence clothes. Can some people just have 2, if they have those 2 in high amounts?
@@mianagouveia6511 You having wavy hair may give you more volume and movement to your hair. Wispy hair has a lot of movement. I woundnt worry about it.
As a ginger, I think it’s charming but people have made it a dirty word. I went to school with a natural strawberry blonde and I had auburn hair bleached by the southern UK sun so it had all the ginger highlights out all year long. I only learned I wasn’t that ginger all the time by moving to the Midlands where the sky is cloudier than Mordor. I’m covered in freckles but people would say to my face I was lying about my hair colour because it’s much darker without the sun. Hair is weird, I really struggle with a hair colour to match my face and personality, as everything about me doesn’t give the “natural hair” vibe. Like you say, it makes up a huge part of your outfit, it’s basically a hat you never take off so it has to go with everything.
Same, girl. I suspect that I'm probably some kind of summer but dye my hair a vibrant deep red (My natural color is like Ellie Jeans just a bit lighter). It raises my contrast level quite a bit so I feel like I look better in winter colors.🤷♀️
@@elliejeanroyden she has the best advice - I have just started a new routine using her tips, I can’t wait to see results - your hair is looking amazing ❤ And you’ve inspired me to stop bleach my hair xxxx
i have a question. i have not yet found my color season, but i do know one of my main features is cool. i have mousy blonde hair and dark brown eyes and fair skin. a lot of people have told me ginger hair would suit me amazingly. and i have no idea how that would work, considering that ginger hair is for warm seasons and i am a cool season. does anyone have any idea?
Maybe you are an autumn. I have similar features and typed myself as a summer but ellie than typed me as autumn and it makes so much sense. I now also have ginger/copper hair and I have never gotten so many compliments :)
But are you actually tempted to go ginger? I mean, maybe "a lot of people" are making an assumption based on your fair skin, but don't really understand warm vs cool, and maybe you wouldn't be happy with ginger red hair. If you are tempted and want to try it out anyway, that's fine. I think anybody can do whatever they want with their hair. I tried going red once (I am a cool-toned brunette) and did not stick with it at all. I find I don't like warm shades, even warm browns, on me. If you know you are a cool and you wish to color your hair and you also wish to flatter your skin tone, maybe try an ash brown or an ash blonde, depending on whether you would like to go lighter or darker. For darker, there is a shade called mushroom brown that was very popular a few years ago that I personally thought was gorgeous. For lighter, take a look at Naturtint's ash blonde (8A). I think that's a lovely color. (Not an ad--I just picked them because they are ammonia-free and that leaves your hair softer than if the coloring contains ammonia)
@@jenniferrodriguez8866 To be honest, yes, i have been wanting to go ginger for such a long time now. I am scared that it will look awful, but i do want to try it. I even asked my hair stylist about it and she told me it would look great. Thank you so much for your advice! I will look into the colors you told me and consult myself with my hairstylist to see which one would be the best
@ariahym Great! Let us know how it goes! A good colorist should help. If you do go red, it might not be an ideal or most harmonious color, but it could still look really nice! And it depends on your essence too (maybe you can pull off the color because of your personality), and getting the right shade, and if it's a natural- looking or artificial- looking red. Personally I can't take bright colors--I like them on things and on other people, but they overpower my features and coloring. I look better in softer, darker colors. the brightness or softness of your coloring may make a difference there too. I don't want to talk anyone out of doing something they want to do, esp if doesn't hurt anyone, and I have always been all for experimenting with your own hair. And I did a lot of that when I was younger. Now I care more and understand more about what is more flattering for me, and do choose that when I can. But I also choose at times to wear colors that I know are not flattering but are just what Ireally like. And I don't care that it's not flattering, because I like looking at the color. If I can do that with knowledge/ intention/ acceptance, I am happy with my choice. So whatever you end up choosing, I hope it turns out great and you enjoy it!
@@jenniferrodriguez8866 i really hope i can pull it off. i was thinking about a ginger color - that way it looks more natural. i plan on dying it in june. hopefully i won't abandon the idea and go through it. i will keep you updated - thank you so much!
I used to be into your content but this is such a bullshit video. Youre not talking about how to figure out our own thing anymore, youre just trying to be an influencer w all this brand deal bs and look at how pretty i am. Also you are not even slightly ethereal.
Light spring barely got a footnote 😭I want unconventional hair colors for light spring please.. I didn’t even see it up on the screen which colors you suggested for light spring..
How I know I'm a winter My best hair colors are dark cool toned browns, dark plum/ wine reds, and black. Blonde/ highlights/ warm tones look awful on me
Idk really if you're at the point in your hair journey to be giving this direction. Your hair is so healthy and full and shiny. But your hair color and styles feel more like a costume now than at any time before.
I thought you looked lovely as a blond, I would have never guessed it was not natural. Why do you blow dry your hair in front of your wardrobe, where are the doors?
Who told you that?! I think the color that your hair naturally greys to looks great on most people! Every season has colors on the lighter end of the spectrum, for example dark winters still have cool, icy colors that flatter them.
@@TheJoker718 Meh Ellie-Jean never ever talks about grey/silver. The only time she referred to it kind of accidentally in this video was for light summers. So I suppose we infer that we just stay the same season as we were in our youth? Back in my youth we didn't have bright/cool/dark, we only had the 4 seasons so idk about that.
Everyone can and should wear their natural grey/silver/white hair! Aging slides you softer, lighter, and/or cooler. So it really depends on where you start. If you start out as a light spring, you'll probably go to light summer as you age. Whereas if you start off as a true autumn, you might move to a soft autumn. A bright winter might move to a dark or true winter. Also the way your hair goes grey will be totally unique. Soft seasons tend to get grey sprinkled in all over which might contribute more to softness, whereas a lot of winters get intense streaks which contributes to their overall contrast level. Hope this helps!
@@margaretkobel2910 Intense streaks, yes that helps! I think I was a bright winter and I intuited there would be some shift as we greyed somehow, but I never could find how the shift should go. Thank you!
Love this but would have loved to learn what cuts and shapes work well for different essences and (especially) face shapes!
I was also going to say this
Yes!
exactly what i was expecting from this video
Me too I would love to know how I would combine romantic and ingenue
Yessss- like more specific within each word/essence would be helpful.
First of all: your eyes with that colour. Omg.
I really like that she chose to grow out her natural color. Even though blonde is her color season I felt like there was another color that could work more and this looks great on her and makes her eyes pop so much, plus the shirt
just want to add something about unnatural hair colours!! obviously, choose shades from your colour season, but also i've found that matching the contrast level of your natural hair colour works really well. a dusty rose pink is not onky in my colour season but is also the same contrast level as my natural hair colour, and it looks far more at-home with my features! I tried a dark grey once, which is in my colour palette, but is much darker than my natural hair colour, and so therefore looked a little off
Yes I really want an unnatural colour suggestions video! Can’t find any anywhere. I don’t wanna dye my full hair but I’m an ethereal with low contrast in my features and I wanna know what shades I can do - I’m guessing pastels and warmer shades since I’m a light spring
"Look at this top! I look awesome" Girl I can't wait to have confidence like that hahaha
When I read 'hair for your face',I thought it was going to be about best hair for face shape,which I would have really liked. But I always love your videos and still enjoyed the information given in this one💞
There are a lot of videos that go over that in various ways, so you won’t be out of luck if that’s what you’re looking for! But personally, I never adhered to the hair for your face shape thing, simply because it always pushes you toward an ideal face shape (oval) rather than embracing your natural shape. And I love the square shape face, even though I don’t have it, and I wouldn’t like any advice that says to cover the angles and soften it so it looks less square. You see? What do I know though I’m just saying there’s definitely a lot of vids that do hair for face shape, but unfortunately not that many for color seasons
Dramatic:sleek
Natural:volume
Gamine :tussle
Classic:neat
Ingenue:wispy
Romantic:curly
Ethereal: flowy
I think it would be helpful to see celebrities with different essences and haircuts that did & didn't work for them. Also with hair colour & season too.
I’m a deep/dark winter (bordering on autumn but definitely winter) and my hair is brown and naturally has warm reddish highlights - I really like the UA-cam channel Color Class because they explain that not everyone falls neatly into the prescribed catagories
My hair is the same color as yours and I was professionally analyzed as a spring and it has changed my life
I have greyish hair- it’s white at front, black at bottom back. And pepper through the rest. Plus, it’s curly, making for an interesting look. So yeah, I own it.
I would agree with this 100%!! I think I have Natural, Gamine and Ingenue. I hit all of those key words with my latest haircut and I kid you not- I have not had that many compliments in my LIFE lol. Someone said, “It suits your personality!” And I just about went to heaven 😂😂 Also does anyone else feel their essences match their personality? Just me? Okay haha
YES when I first learned about essences I didn’t care what match my face I just picked the ones that match my personality and surprise surprise later on I’ve started to realize they match my face too
Ever since you changed your hair color your eyes POP!
I have naturally medium auburn hair, but am a dark winter. It definitely flatters my skin, and looks good with dark winter coloues, which actually make it look richer and more red. Just a reminder that the natural hair colours that work for a season are different than what will work when done with synthetic dye. Dye pigments can be tweaked, by working with undertones and toners, though. But it would really take someone with an advanced knowledge of colour theory to succcessfuly approximate the look of, say, a natural dark winter auburn on a dark winter with naturally dark brown hair.
Your hair looks sooo great this colour 😍
This video is such a great guide!
I must say the past few months your videos and shorts were so helpful for me! I'm a true autumn, my essences are dramatic and romantic - and I do see your descriptions fit perfectly with what I look best in! ❤️
I look my best when my hair is in its natural brown color with soft highlights - and with my curls I look best with a half up-half down style!
Would you please please please try some spring colors? Maybe light spring?? I would love to see how that looks on you! So many people who think they are summers (especially soft summer) end up being springs, myself included! Or just get professionally analyzed, best things I've invested in!
I agree, you are a soft summer! Your hair and the colour of clothes in recent videos really bring out your natural beauty and make your eyes pop!
LOVE your darker hair, Ellie Jean! Beautiful! I've been wanting to try a darker shade as well. I have similar blue eyes, but my natural hair is pretty ashy and blonde.
As someone that tends to be a bit more alternative, maybe my absolutely not professional words of advice can help:
Winters and springs look the best with all over bright hair colors. By this I mean the pure whites/platinums and any color of the rainbow. Deep winters will be darkest (your dark but bright (clear purples, blues, even emerald greens, keeping the colors on the cool end)), bright winter and bright spring will be your brightest colors (winters emphasizing cool toned colors (cool reds exist, just like cool toned red lipsticks!) and springs being the warm toned colors). Both bright winters and bright springs do platinum well, but winters should tone it cool and springs can keep it a more yellow toned platinum (hope that makes sense?). And then as you go towards light springs they will have your light but bright pinks, even fun light yellows, any warm color really.
With summers and autumns there is the "muted" trait to look out for. Because these seasons arent "clear," they tend to look the most odd with pitch black or bright platinum hair. This is where the more muted colors come in. Any greyed out version of the color you want can totally work. The closer the season is to soft summer and soft autumn, the more you have to worry about the "greying out" of the colors. Now, what if youre like me and you don't want freakin grey hair? Sure, no problem. Heck, I even wanted platinum hair but I knew it would look weird with my skin. So, what I did was have them blend platinum white in with my natural hair color. It gives the color a muddled greying effect without it literally greying the color. Summers and autumns need more dimension, basically. They do best with many colors going on at once, whereas winters and springs are more likely to get away with a bright ass blue box dye. Mixing platinum with my natural hair color still looks very bright on me. In fact, it looks like white! Except it's definitely not pure platinum. Its just MY version of platinum, just like a soft summer's "whites" are going to be more muted than the pure bright whites of the bright winters/springs. Summers and autumns do very well with balayage coloring pretty much any color technique that involves layers of different shades blending together.
As a soft summer, I dyed the under layer of my hair a muted, darkish, ashy brown recently and literally everyone thought it was black. Point is, we dont have to go as light or dark as a bright winter/spring in order for it to FEEL black or platinum.
I don't know why I went on this ramble but I hope it helps? Or maybe I just wanted to share my musings as someone that watches a lot of color season vids
Your current hair suits you so well! Everything balances and you look gorgeous xx
Love your natural colour! It’s still light but in a way that makes you shine
I love your hair in this video, it accentuates the beauty in your face so well!
You glowed up so much with your natural hair color!!!
The topic HAIR is so underrated
I too am a soft summer, gamine & love that I will use your hair color & the word wispy when I see my stylist next week!
I’ll start by saying how much I appreciate the effort and passion you put into your content, and being part of your group has been incredibly insightful for me. That said, I wanted to share some feedback on this video, as it touches on a broader concern I’ve noticed across some of your content.
While the advice in this video is helpful in many ways, I feel it leaned heavily toward Caucasian-centric examples and assumptions about hair. Most of the examples and imagery you’ve included featured Caucasian women and the circular thumbnails of hair colours went with blow-dried, flowy, straight hair, which is often presented as the “default” in these types of discussions. For women with textured, coily, or protective hairstyles, or those who don’t show their hair for religious reasons, the conversation is much more nuanced. These women often face societal biases and increased labour to meet certain beauty standards, which wasn’t addressed in the video.
This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed a pattern. Many of your celebrity style analyses also tend to feature predominantly white women, even though there’s a wealth of non-white women who would offer amazing examples of style and essence exploration. While I understand this may not be intentional, it’s noticeable for those of us forced to navigate the world without the benefit of being anywhere near the defaults.
Additionally, the seasonal rules around hair colours in this video felt limiting. For example, the idea that winters must have dark hair is a more old-fashioned approach. Modern colour analysis has shown that hair, skin, and eyes don’t always fit these rigid patterns. Francesca Cairns, a colour analyst I’ve followed, has demonstrated this beautifully, showing how someone like Simone Biles, with dark skin and hair, can be a summer. She frequently highlights how seasons aren’t determined solely by traditional colour stereotypes, and I think that kind of perspective would add a lot of depth to your content.
I know you encourage us to explore and challenge our inherent biases in areas like body composition and essence, and I’d love to see that same lens applied here. If the goal is to cater to all women, this could be a great opportunity to expand the perspectives and examples you include, spending the time to research how such women have to move through the world, ensuring the advice really does consider all women.
I offer this feedback as someone who truly admires your work and believes in its potential to be even more impactful.
Agreed.🤍 I hope she reads your comment and takes it into account.
@scoopmaloop3203 thanks for your support 🫂
UGH I LOVED THIS COMMENT, YES!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
@@scoopmaloop3203 thank you for your support 🙏🏽
@@tartancarrot I’m glad it resonated with others, even if it’s not the default, popular opinion 🙏🏽
I kid you not when I say this is the video I've been waiting for
You’re stunning! Thanks for sharing ☺️
I’ve love your videos for years! This is a great addition.
I think with bright spring it depends on if you’re more neutral or warm leaning tbh, because I am a very neutral bright spring and orange hair isn’t the best on me tbh. Dark brown (natural) is the best, however.
Lovely EJ, you remind me so much of Princess Kate with your new hair! So fitting and stunning 😭😭🥰🥰
Ok editing advice here: the list of essences-adjectives in the video should have been said much slower and the words should have stayed longer on screen. I didn't even understand it was an actual list until halfthrough it, they were going so fast I thought it was like a premise for an actual list. You gotta give people time to process what you're saying and let the words leave an imprint on the viewers' mind 😊
I noticed you tend to speak a bit fast in general when listing stuff and to keep words on screen for a short time, maybe you're really fast and it's fine for you but on average words need a longer time to be actually processed by the brain and stick 😊😊 I think it would benefit you a lot
You can slow the video down. Theres an option at the top to make videos faster or slower so you can have the time to process all of it. 😊
@glowyaf Yes I know, I just thought it would be useful for her to know how some parts of her videos come across
@ that makes sense! I figured I’d let you know just in case because I didn’t know till recently and I’ve been on UA-cam since the very beginning. I have no idea why it took me so long to learn that but yeah 😂.
You have STRONG ingenue Essence. Wavy layers and face framing that accentuate your eyes or land close to your eyes. 👌🏻 Straightish hair does not suit you and youre def cool toned. That recent video you made "gifts theyll actually like or use" with wavy light chocolate hair😯 FLOORED looked soo good.
This is so insightful when you give the keywords for each essence. For me, it's tussled, neat, and volume. I can easily wear my hair straight or scrunched, but I feel much more like myself in the "big" version of my hair. I wonder if it's because my scrunched hair (volume, tussled), which I make more perfect with a curling iron after scrunching (neat), checks all three boxes. My straight hair only checks the neat box and I feel blah.
Thanks for this!
Oo, I'm a spring, and tousled, curly, and wispy are mine (but a little bit neat, not natural), a challenge of a mix, lol)!
I'm a bright spring who has tried all sorts of colours in the pink, red and orange side of the colour wheel. After so much testing and tweaking formulas, I've found my best colour is definitely a rich, deep yet vibrant blood red (more orange undertone rather than pink). Too pink looks off but too too orange doesn't look right either.
I love that darker hair colour on you.
i have dark(ish) brown hair that i feel skews neutral to cool but im warm so i used to have fun dying my hair bright orange. i've learned more about contrast now and have gone back to dark but i miss it sometimes
I ordered your book 📖! Can’t wait to read it.
I'm not a ginger, but my mom is, and I think it's generally quite neutral, in the US at least? I thin you can also say red, but if you want to distinguish from like a more auburn red, you could always say copper!
yayy, i found out my hair is literally right for my season and essences; im so happy lol
I have brassy red hair, I guess strawberry blonde or auburn? I always feel like my hair and skin color are opposite when it comes to color analysis. Warm hair and cool skin 😅 Tbh I feel like I look good in all seasons usually true autumn, true or bright spring, and true summer, bright winter. Yet never the muted or dark parts of seasons.
This reminds me of myself as a bright spring with red hair! I happily wore some colours from all seasons except soft summer, sadly my worst palette 😭 Despite being a spring I think I got away with some more dark colours than you because I have some darker features? But my skin’s warm and it sounds like you can wear some more cool colours than me. Tbh I thought most seasons were pretty good until I had my best colours to compare them with! So maybe you’re a bright season too??
Your blonde hair was very light, and there was little contrast with your face. I enjoyed watching your eyes pop as your darker hair came in.
But lately, I've been finding the greater amount of contrast between your hair/clothes and your face too harsh for you. I don’t whether you'd actually darkened your hair, but something felt off.
My immediate reaction to seeing you in this video was, "Look at her eyes!" If this is you trying Soft Summer, massive thumbs up! Whatever you've done with your hair in this one, keep doing it! And the top is stunning!
I would love to see a fashion colour version of this too 😊
7:04 the one word idea was so helpful! Thank you ❤
My 3 words are volume, tussled, and neat. I have no idea how to be neat but tussled haha 😂 But I am figuring it out and feel closer to what feels right.
could you give exemples of cuts according to face types/essences with short hair ?
I am ~pretty sure~ that I am a bright spring. As a teenager/early 20s I dyed my hair literally neon orange. Now I stay really vibrant shades of copper, strawberry blonde, or auburn. I also like to do a really cool bright blonde color block. My hang up is that I WAS strawberry blonde as a child but as I get older my natural hair color is quite dark now….so I’m just going off what I know from when my hair was different. But I appreciate the validation in my choices 😂. I would love a more in depth video with photos of hair cuts. I feel that part went on way too quickly! I really struggle to understand my essences!
As a hijabi, no matter if you cover it up in public, it really still makes a huge difference to style your hair in a way that suits you personally
My two primary essences are gamine and classic. I definitely have noticed that I struggle to find haircuts that balance tousled vs. neat. Too tousled and I look like a mess, to neat and I look constrained. I need ideas. I know it would also help if I figured out my third essence. I think it might be ingenue?
I think Audrey Hepburn had some really cool haircuts that balanced that classic and gamine vibe. Maybe that could be inspo?
i just have sooo much trouble finding my color season. i've always thought i was a winter, probably a dark winter since i have that ashy undertone. however i feel like some colors in the dark winter palette look off on me, for instance i look weird in a plain white top... and i recently got a balayage and i got so many compliments about how i looked better with my hair like that than with my natural dark brown. i know find your season it's a journey but damn it's been a struggle hahaha
I think you mean tousled rather than tussled...
I have sunshine yellow fashion colour hair and I have never been complemented more
I need help with a question about hair color !!!!
I'm a soft summer, but my natural hair is black, and I have dark brown eyes and white skin, which makes me look like a winter, soft summer colors suit me, but I’m worried dyeing my hair a softer, muted color will clash with my bright natural features winter colors don’t suit me either
Does anyone have suggestions for a hair color that works for my combination ?
I think you should reconsider if you are a soft summer and not a dark or bright winter since some colors recommended for winters can be similar to the summer palette like the most light ones
You have too high of a contrast to be soft summer. I'm soft summer and all my colors blend one into another, nothing is standing out that much
@@Ana-pj1gf guys i found it m a soft summer deep
I’m very torn between thinking I’m a dark Autumn or a soft Autumn as colours in both seasons can really look good on me. Skin colour I’m definitely more neutral with some warmth.
I recently dyed my hair back to natural - deep auburn/chestnut - and I think it works with my pale skin and hazel/golden eyes without washing me out, but I know a more golden brown/blonde colour closer to my eye colour looks good too. So do I go for the contrast or the similarity?
I waa a True Summer with dark chocolate brown hair. I grew out my grey and now my natural hair colour is a mix of blondes and, especially around my face, silver. What is my colour season now?
the same
Your natural colour IS always the best and most harmonious, nature cannot be improved upon (IF you want to have a natural beauty kind of look. Dita Von Teese looks amazing with her black hair but that's a very specific vibe.) Your season also dictates what artificial colours will suit, it's not necessarily about being led by your natural colour. I'm a Bright Winter with very light brown/dark blonde hair but I can absolutely pull off blue-black because of my season and my level of contrast. I could pull off white blonde too, with enough makeup. It's the extremes that suit, even though my natural shade is very moderate.
Hey Ellie I was wondering if it’s okay to just have two essences? Because I know I have ethereal as my main and romantic as my second, and I’ve worked out that classic might be my third, but if it is it’s like 2%, because my face isn’t that symmetrical and I look boring or restricted in classic essence clothes. Can some people just have 2, if they have those 2 in high amounts?
what is wispy hair?
Feathery if that that’s sense. And it’s a bit thinner in texture
@Incityandinforest well im ingenue and have thick hair and it's wavy so I think im just going to maintain it as is... thanks for the explanation
@@mianagouveia6511 You having wavy hair may give you more volume and movement to your hair. Wispy hair has a lot of movement. I woundnt worry about it.
I. Love. This. Video. I legit need to fix my hair 😂
As a ginger, I think it’s charming but people have made it a dirty word. I went to school with a natural strawberry blonde and I had auburn hair bleached by the southern UK sun so it had all the ginger highlights out all year long. I only learned I wasn’t that ginger all the time by moving to the Midlands where the sky is cloudier than Mordor.
I’m covered in freckles but people would say to my face I was lying about my hair colour because it’s much darker without the sun. Hair is weird, I really struggle with a hair colour to match my face and personality, as everything about me doesn’t give the “natural hair” vibe. Like you say, it makes up a huge part of your outfit, it’s basically a hat you never take off so it has to go with everything.
Pretty sure I might be a summer, but I dye my hair very dark and wear a lot of black😅🤷🏻♀️
I'm soft summer that mostly wears black 🤷
Same, girl. I suspect that I'm probably some kind of summer but dye my hair a vibrant deep red (My natural color is like Ellie Jeans just a bit lighter). It raises my contrast level quite a bit so I feel like I look better in winter colors.🤷♀️
What if your essences words clash? Volume and sleek ? What do I do 😅
I can tell you watch Abbey Yung hair videos with your wash routine haha love it! Xx if you don’t you should/you have very similar routines haha xxx
I do!! 😂😂 I’ve been using her advice for just over a year now!
@@elliejeanroyden she has the best advice - I have just started a new routine using her tips, I can’t wait to see results - your hair is looking amazing ❤ And you’ve inspired me to stop bleach my hair xxxx
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Neat, flowing and curly
Thank you! Yes, your head is important!
I think you would look great with bangs since you have an elongated face
i have a question. i have not yet found my color season, but i do know one of my main features is cool. i have mousy blonde hair and dark brown eyes and fair skin. a lot of people have told me ginger hair would suit me amazingly. and i have no idea how that would work, considering that ginger hair is for warm seasons and i am a cool season. does anyone have any idea?
Maybe you are an autumn. I have similar features and typed myself as a summer but ellie than typed me as autumn and it makes so much sense. I now also have ginger/copper hair and I have never gotten so many compliments :)
But are you actually tempted to go ginger? I mean, maybe "a lot of people" are making an assumption based on your fair skin, but don't really understand warm vs cool, and maybe you wouldn't be happy with ginger red hair. If you are tempted and want to try it out anyway, that's fine. I think anybody can do whatever they want with their hair. I tried going red once (I am a cool-toned brunette) and did not stick with it at all. I find I don't like warm shades, even warm browns, on me.
If you know you are a cool and you wish to color your hair and you also wish to flatter your skin tone, maybe try an ash brown or an ash blonde, depending on whether you would like to go lighter or darker. For darker, there is a shade called mushroom brown that was very popular a few years ago that I personally thought was gorgeous. For lighter, take a look at Naturtint's ash blonde (8A). I think that's a lovely color. (Not an ad--I just picked them because they are ammonia-free and that leaves your hair softer than if the coloring contains ammonia)
@@jenniferrodriguez8866 To be honest, yes, i have been wanting to go ginger for such a long time now. I am scared that it will look awful, but i do want to try it. I even asked my hair stylist about it and she told me it would look great. Thank you so much for your advice! I will look into the colors you told me and consult myself with my hairstylist to see which one would be the best
@ariahym Great! Let us know how it goes! A good colorist should help. If you do go red, it might not be an ideal or most harmonious color, but it could still look really nice! And it depends on your essence too (maybe you can pull off the color because of your personality), and getting the right shade, and if it's a natural- looking or artificial- looking red. Personally I can't take bright colors--I like them on things and on other people, but they overpower my features and coloring. I look better in softer, darker colors. the brightness or softness of your coloring may make a difference there too.
I don't want to talk anyone out of doing something they want to do, esp if doesn't hurt anyone, and I have always been all for experimenting with your own hair. And I did a lot of that when I was younger. Now I care more and understand more about what is more flattering for me, and do choose that when I can. But I also choose at times to wear colors that I know are not flattering but are just what Ireally like. And I don't care that it's not flattering, because I like looking at the color. If I can do that with knowledge/ intention/ acceptance, I am happy with my choice.
So whatever you end up choosing, I hope it turns out great and you enjoy it!
@@jenniferrodriguez8866 i really hope i can pull it off. i was thinking about a ginger color - that way it looks more natural. i plan on dying it in june. hopefully i won't abandon the idea and go through it. i will keep you updated - thank you so much!
I’ve never been so fast😂
Any other ideas for romantic? My hair doesn’t hold a curl!
I used to be into your content but this is such a bullshit video. Youre not talking about how to figure out our own thing anymore, youre just trying to be an influencer w all this brand deal bs and look at how pretty i am. Also you are not even slightly ethereal.
Does tussled = tousled? Maybe this is a Britishism thing, but I understand tussle to mean a fight. 😂
Not a Britism, just the wrong word used. It should be tousled. Source: I am British.
@@crimsontrace339 Gotcha, thank you!
-_- the soft summer and soft autumn are the same chick in different lighting.
Light spring barely got a footnote 😭I want unconventional hair colors for light spring please.. I didn’t even see it up on the screen which colors you suggested for light spring..
How I know I'm a winter
My best hair colors are dark cool toned browns, dark plum/ wine reds, and black.
Blonde/ highlights/ warm tones look awful on me
Idk really if you're at the point in your hair journey to be giving this direction. Your hair is so healthy and full and shiny. But your hair color and styles feel more like a costume now than at any time before.
How do I even achieve Volume, neat and curls when my hair is wavy and actively thinning 😭
God, I have been waiting for someone to talk about hairstyles and haircuts for the different essences and color seasons. I am a bit stuck here
I’m sorry, but the blonde just pops on you.
It did! It looked amazing!
You look just like Romy Schneider
Straight hair looks best for me
But I do not have the time for it
Please find someone to transmate the french "piste audio"
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I thought you looked lovely as a blond, I would have never guessed it was not natural. Why do you blow dry your hair in front of your wardrobe, where are the doors?
So therefore nobody can just age naturally and go grey/silver, and look stunning except maybe light summers. OK.
Who told you that?! I think the color that your hair naturally greys to looks great on most people! Every season has colors on the lighter end of the spectrum, for example dark winters still have cool, icy colors that flatter them.
@@TheJoker718 Meh Ellie-Jean never ever talks about grey/silver. The only time she referred to it kind of accidentally in this video was for light summers. So I suppose we infer that we just stay the same season as we were in our youth? Back in my youth we didn't have bright/cool/dark, we only had the 4 seasons so idk about that.
Everyone can and should wear their natural grey/silver/white hair! Aging slides you softer, lighter, and/or cooler. So it really depends on where you start. If you start out as a light spring, you'll probably go to light summer as you age. Whereas if you start off as a true autumn, you might move to a soft autumn. A bright winter might move to a dark or true winter. Also the way your hair goes grey will be totally unique. Soft seasons tend to get grey sprinkled in all over which might contribute more to softness, whereas a lot of winters get intense streaks which contributes to their overall contrast level. Hope this helps!
@@margaretkobel2910 Intense streaks, yes that helps! I think I was a bright winter and I intuited there would be some shift as we greyed somehow, but I never could find how the shift should go. Thank you!
She literally said your natural hair is best, so your natural version of grey/silver will be best for you
I feel she would look stunning in black hair
Thank you! Yes, your head is important!