It's so relaxing to watch colours speak to one another, one reason why people love colouring games. Today, we're imagining colour combinations and choosing the best of a few options for the 12 Seasons. We had many requests for this topic and if the video didn't answer your questions, please ask or share examples so we can take our skills to next level and be surprised by what we're good at doing :)
Awesome video! You answered so many questions I’ve had. It’s like your trained eye helped train my own eyes. No one does color analysis the way you do!
Excellent video Christine! I am BW close to TW. There was also something about my energy and coloring that kept my color analyst thinking of TSu. The neutrals really helped to clarify. I look frail and weak in TSu neutrals, even though the brightest pinks and blue-greens were endearing. TW black and white cast a severity in my features. It has taken me time to work out that I need that strength of TW softened with a touch of warmth. And something of the flowy, ethereal nature of TSu by using the lighter side of my palette liberally as well using draping and translucency in fabric. As you stated, just narrowing down your colors to your season, or even parent season, is a game changer. Once you see the results, it makes you want to go further.
You make a great point about using Summer texture to soften Winter. The warmth of BW can soften the effect of Winter, which is an interesting play of words since in technical terms, BW brightens and should be the opposite of 'softens'. But in perception, something does feel...well, which words...relaxed, not quite...warmer as in affectionate...can't think of one word....alleviates the cool, distant quality of TW that appears on non-TW-coloured people. On a TW, it looks normal, powerful, and glamorous. Sometimes though, a TW needs a softer effect, by being small scale or having a delicate quality, and matte, sheer, lightweight fabrics can be ideal, those 'stereotypic' Summer textures rather than Summer colours, with TW in the choices of whites, neutrals, and metals. That's very much a BW thing too, as with you, and in both Seasons, I see it in ethereal body types and facial features, and people of various ethnicities, all of whom may have trouble finding themselves in TW or BW colours (as may the natural/athletic types). The podcast episode last week was about texture and I was feeling I'd missed a side of TW that you've helped me articulate. Thank you :)
This was fun Christine! Having you point out the subtle differences in the seasons educates my eye so that I'm more able to distinguish them on my own while shopping or pairing outfits from my closet. Love your channel! 💕
I'm so glad it was helpful. I love exercises in trusting our own voice, which is easier said than done, but without it, appearance deviates into other people's permissions. A little education, a little practice, and your closet is a brave new world :)
This video is SO GOOD!!! I’m a warm leaning SSu, and everything you said in the SA to SSu complimentary slide feel so true for me. Ok, now to finish the video 😂
Excellent!! This was a fun exercise. I'm starting to realize how very color sensitive I am, both visually (as in me looking outward) and in the way my appearance reacts to colors. Your videos are always so helpful in making sense of things and making them practical! I would really enjoy more content on making your palette work for your personality/style when it *feels* opposite. I feel quite certain I fall into Winter (after having been misdiagnosed multiple times), and True Winter seems to be the most successful. I've been wearing that palette for a while now, but I have a very strong attraction the the way colors are put together on True Summer. This is making me feel a bit restless. Ethereal vibes speak to my soul. So at the moment I'm trying to bridge that gap and discover the Ethereal side of Winter, and how those two can be friends. I'm at the point of fine tuning my wardrobe more, I suppose - which is why this video made me so happy!
It certainly happens that people don't feel their colours align well with their personality or the customs and traditions of where they live. The first job is to confirm the Season if you happen to live or will visit a location with an analyst. True Winter can have a heavier sensibility about it, and it involves more darkness than most groups. The answer for some is either in the Summers, or the Brights. For the Brights, it seems hard to imagine that raising colour brightness would actually give colours more sense of lift and movement, but increasing colour purity gives less sense of density and for many Ethereal types, the effect works well and they recognize themselves. The second thing to sort might be body type, which was where I and many others find the solution to the same question as yours, "My colours only know part of me, where's the rest?" Analysts who understand both style and colour are quite able to help you with choosing clothes to help you get started. Look at Chrysalis Colour dot com under Resources if you'd like some names and locations.
@@ChristineScaman thank you, very validating! I would really like an analysis, at the moment it's not a practical option, but it is certainly "wishlisted". I love getting to know your analysts through the podcasts, it makes me feel much more comfortable with giving up that level of control, haha! I definitely know my body type within the Kibbe framework is Soft Dramatic (had it confirmed by a few stylists), which also requires some gravity, and an unbroken vertical. My "essences" in the Kitchener framework are Ethereal, Romantic, and Dramatic in that order. It can feel like a juggling act some days, other days a very exciting puzzle. I think you're most likely right in regards to one of the Bright seasons being a good solution, so thank you for that suggestion. Looking at it *feels* like it will be harsh, but there's rarely a color I can't handle unless we're getting in the too yellow or orange range. Then something feels plasticky and busy. Culturally too, you kind of touched on, people have an expectation of what a pale skinned "strawberry blonde" *should* wear - pastels (hello sunburn effect). I just love that you highlight showing up as your authentic self, that's an important thing for every human being and I very much support that message.
@@ChristineScaman self analysis is always a passion project for me, haha! And it's a bonus that this is an outlet for creative expression. Very interesting feedback with Nicole Kidman, thank you. I have heard that a couple of times, especially in regards to my coloring. I admire the way she plays with style, I'll have to have a closer look. She's definitely more sharp and linear in build than I am, but the "vibe" might be very close. You mentioned in a Chrysalis podcast that your style is "Fairytale meets The Matrix" (love it!), and that fairytale is the harder part for you to remember/incorporate, to paraphrase. That's what I have noticed in my own style in regards to Romantic. Ethereal is most comfortable, Dramatic is the "loudest", Romantic is the forgotten middle child. But without it everything looks too withdrawn or stark. So I'm going to look at Nicole's style with an eye to how she incorporated Romantic. I think I'm also going to look through your videos again and see what might work in the Bright seasons for a Romantic impression.
@@Nerdy-By-Nature I thought the same, that Nicole seems to have Ethereal and Dramatic. I'm no expert but Romantic...maybe in her round eyes and lips. She's like a pretty giraffe or a caricature gazelle. Also not sure if or how she incorporates Romantic in her styling, I'm not sure how she dresses. If you already know Romantic styling, wouldn't expressing it in the Bright Seasons just be matter of buying the styles in those colours and managing the proportions with E and D to suit your own shape and preferences?
Great to hear that the videos are helping. We all have a long way to go with understanding any natural phenomena, like colour, like gravity, we can take for granted something that's so huge. You sensitize to colour just by being around it and saying what you see, without any pressure to come up with yes-no answers. Keep going, you're doing great!
@@ChristineScaman yes I did, always a joy to listen and learn🤗💕. I find it most difficult to find what colors to use in makeup- 🤔could it be because our faces have different nuances and colors on the lips, eyes, eyebrows, even under the eyes? I find it really hard to buy a new blush, lipgloss or lipstick that looks truly harmonius and like it ”belongs” there. Is it really harder with makeup then with clothes or is it just me?😅💄💄
@@Spikypotato. Maybe it's both? Just knowing which colours to ignore lifts so much weight off our shoulders and we can put our attention in our own colours. But cosmetics are applied directly to the face, are almost expected to mimic skin, and have their own chemistry that interacts with ours. Plus we decide by looking at our face and objectivity is challenged more than with clothes or hair, which we may see by separating them from us (not necessarily a good thing, but with makeup, we can't create that separation). The cosmetic buying experience is hard for most women, even when we know our Season, but because makeup variety can be more available than clothing, it's also possible to have our cosmetics sorted within a week. Couldn't really do that with clothes unless you have a lot of time.
Such good examples as always! I'm TSu, and the clothes from my season are always the most versatile, but I have settled for some pieces that are SSu, and occasionally LSu. I remember a blog post saying that it can be easier to "borrow" neutrals from neighboring seasons than colors and I think that's proven to be correct when I put together outfits.
I'd agree with that statement about 'borrowing' the main Season group's neutral colours more easily than their colours. When we're getting started, it's good to cast a wider net (for neutrals and colours) to bring our closet back in order. As we get better at working with our colours and shopping for them, the wardrobe settles into our Season almost on its own, the situation I had in mind with the Light Season panel, and we can keep favourites from the other groups.
I’ve been draped True Autumn with the very brightest/shaded my bests. Nothing muted. So I can’t see deep autumn or soft autumn working as my neighbour. Some colours from True Spring make more sense.
Thanks for sharing, you make a great point. TA and Tsp have colours or ways of wearing colour that the other can certainly use. Same with True Winter and True Summer, they can be one another's second best with adaptations in darkness levels and fabric choice.
this is a really lovely video! I agreed with your assessment on most everything, and as a LSp it was very fun to start with my season. my SA mother and SSu sister and I were all draped by Mary Steele Lawler, who did an excellent job, and it's been interesting to see how we've all adapted and strayed and returned to our seasons over the years. one thing I find interesting is that my mom wears the full range of her palette with delight, but she is very sensitive to color temperature outside of her season. True Autumn is far too warm and while she can do some Soft Summer, it gets too cool very fast. because of that in shopping situations she's more likely to buy Dark Autumn clothes that are on the softer side of that season than either of her neighboring seasons--still autumn, but slightly cooled, without being as cool as a summer or warm as TA. I personally can't stray too bright and am much more likely to borrow LSu neutrals (those cooler grays are so much easier to find) or TSp corals and greens, but it's very clear that my mom wears deeper colors easier than warmer or cooler ones. softness is the most important thing for her and I have no doubts at all that she is SA, but staying in a neutral-warm temperature range is the second most important thing. do you have any thoughts on the topic of borrowing from the other neutral season in a seasonal group, or why this seems easier for some neutral season people than others?
Great question, what about borrowing from the other neutral in your True Season trio? Absolutely. They share so much about the main Season, TA in this case, and they have the same warmth level, neutral-warm for SA and DA. For a SA, there might be different ways of going about this. One, consider the lighter and medium darkness colours, since SA is overall lighter. Second, look for the DA colours with very similar versions in the SA palette. Third, use fabrics that tend to soften colour, matte and woven, for example. Four, avoid colours that just feel too hot, spicy, or bright, like the intense olives and greens and near-Winter reds. If the DA item were only one well-chosen colour in an SA outfit, there's enough about SA to make sense of it and have it blend in, like a dialect of the same language. Why easier for some than others? It may depend on age, younger people possibly wearing brighter colours more easily, and individual colouring (easier for a SA with brown eyes and hair than an SA with silver hair and soft blue-green eyes) and natural appearance (easier for an SA who looks very Autumn than one who looks more Summery.)
Hi Christine, ❤ your channel! I'm a deep winter, but I know the autumn colors that I can also utilize. I have two lipsticks that are deep neutrals, one is slightly cool and the other is slightly warm. Both lipsticks harmonize perfectly with my medium olive skin tone. So, if the autumn color is able to harmonize with either lipstick, I have a winner. 😊 If not, it's clearly not for me.🤷♀️
Great stuff. I love your deep dives and I think they are necessary in the world of color analysis. People get stuck on the surface and don’t peer through below. Maybe like you said that this takes time to understand but CA is so much more than the sum of its parts. It’s not a parlour game like some people see it.
Thank you. Like so many things, we get out of it what we put into it, I do agree with you. Sometimes, people get stuck because they want to learn more or understand better but they're not sure where to look. I imagine that appearance in general is that way, a person may know they want different makeup and recognize that they've outgrown all the usual sources of advice, but where do they look next? Or who they you trust? I've been on both sides of this, but I imagine it's also true that by realizing what we don't want, the path leads us to what we do want :)
The best way is to know what your Season and the particular Summer have in common. For Soft Summer, it's cool-neutral and darker colours. For True, it's moderate brightness. Use your educated eye though, there will always be better choices in your own Season :)
@@ChristineScaman your videos contribute a lot to cultivate an educated eye. Lots of variables and vocabulary that come with it and help our observations.
I lpove the depth you're going into, it's what I need to understand... I pause the video when you show a new range of pictures and try to decide for myself then compare what I thought with what you said. I've just had my colours done with House of Colour and I was happy that my own guesswork was correct, I've got a warm overtone but a cool undertone and I'm a summer, but suiting more the dark colours so deep, dark summer was the HoC sub season. I'm guessing that means I can borrow some winter and some autumn colours which is what I felt like, and why I was so confused. I'm waiting on getting a new apartment and I can see myself changing some decor ideas accordingly too, but I'm struggling with decorating in a cool palette when I already live in cold rainy Scotland: my home needs to feel warm and cosy and elegant so I have more work to do to figure this out! Thank you for your time and effort with the videos 😄
I'm happy to know that you enjoy the videos, thank you, and congratulations on confirming your Season! As one who lives in Atlantic Canada, I appreciate your interior decor approach. People often recreate their surroundings in the colours of the world around them, or choose colour with another significance, rather than their own personal colour scheme. I'm never sure why our own Season would carry over into our surroundings, although no reason why not either. I like a beach-aquatic theme, and you know that's not my colouring :) I'm not a decorator but I believe that the colours of our spaces may serve another purpose than to mirror us, unless of course we choose that, also fine.
Oh thank you! I wear black for the videos for a few reasons and find it so much more flattering when it's away from the face and neck or the fabric is sheer.
I was for a long time between light summer and soft summer. I kinda liked muted colors more because they're more neutral and safe. But I realized while I don't like to wear my bright turquoise sweater, the color still isn't overpowering me.
Many people feel the same way, I think. A friend prefers neutrals too and what a lift it gives her (and me!) when she wears colour. Just one item in an entire outfit makes all the difference. I wonder if we tend to wear the colours we see around us and the wearing of neutrals as a preferred look comes from living in cities where there's less colour in the 'landscape' and we feel we stand out if we wear colours.
When the light seasons comparison started I looked at TSp turquoise colour and immediately thought about whose strange TW colours you were talking about in previous videos (for example, about Elvis where he was in such shirt) that you'd never guess were from TW palette. Was a bit disappointed to see warm spring - how could I confuse such distant seasons, complete opposites. But I could not unsee that strong blue undertone. And it doesn't look overheated in cool surroundings on the collage. Okay, there must be some yellow tone because it's a green colour, so somehow it goes to the spring season. My continuous question arised - how to differentiate when the warm side of one colour ends and the cool side of next colour begins. Checked the lists of seasonal colours and turns out my eyes were right - warm spring and cool winter share this particular colour! Surprisingly, the warmest and the coolest seasons both have the same colour in palettes. It's not even me confusing warm blue and cool green, flowing into each other, it's literally the same colour, which looks a little bit different depending on the surrounding colours: "Medium blue green" in TW and TSp Looks like cool green in winter palette and like warm blue in spring palette. Also there is: "Emerald turquoise" in BW and Tsp Also: "Emerald green" in TW and BSp I know these observations are obvious for some folks, but I wanted to share.
This colour get stuck in my head so I've done some more contemplation. (Of course all following observations are true for my device settings) "Medium blue green" is also in TSu palette list, not only TSp and TW. This top is definitely brighter than "medium blue green" from the list (#5 top is closer to that colour), same level of brightness as TSp "turquoise" but with more blue in it. I've done collage with the photos of fabric colour sets, which you recently introduced - TSu colour set is predictably too pale, but between TSp and TW I prefer the harmony with TW colour set. In TSp set this blue-green top make some beautiful interaction with corals and violets, but the whole palette feels a little bit off. On the other hand I see it belonging to the whole TW palette, as you said in your videos "grow on the same tree". Just my thoughts. In no way I'm trying to undermine your work, Christine.
Thank you for pointing this out. If you saw the colours and fabrics in person, in larger pieces, and surrounded by other colours as you say, the differences would be more apparent. Winter has plenty of yellow in its greens, I'm not sure how to make green without it, but the type of yellow is different from Spring. Combined with blue in the green, and in a picture, I'm not sure how you'd know which type of yellow it is, you'd want to compare it to actual colours in those Seasons. Now I picture it though, I wonder if TW's lemon yellow might look bright or sharp next to that possibly-TSp top, and any of the Sp sunshine yellows might be more balanced. In these videos, I look for items that illustrate an idea because I really don't know their actual Season. For very specific colour, like a Tsp turquoise blue, I might not find any items and I choose the best of what's available, so maybe best not to take the colours too literally :) That green shirt Elvis was wearing, I still don't know where that would go, likely in the "I don't know till it's in my hands." file.
Yes, these can be challenging for me as well. The neutral warmth and medium brightness seem to slide into Light Summer quite easily. At some point, I figure if I can't tell the Season for sure, then the colour can work in either group.
Hi Christine! I have to be completely honest about the Gucci floral shirt trend.. as cool and fun as it is with a pair of glasses, it's usually a little too overwhelming on the boy wearing it like 99% of the time :) I really love the Softs comparisons and how it perfectly illustrates how a good top can make soft summer look a little more 'fresh' if we don't go all the way greish or warm.
I've wondered that about a lot of prints! I see such beautiful prints in fashion, really so beautiful, and they look great in staged situations, and I wonder how they would play in the real world. Even celebrities can sometimes be overtaken or lost somehow when they're taken out of the photo shoot. I'm not sure why that is. I've only seen these items as images on screens and can't imagine how they'd work on a person of the same colouring. It might be beautiful and great, I'm just not sure. Maybe when the print has a strong language of its own, besides the colours, the person who would wear it well might be even more specific, meaning they'd have to suit both colour and design for the item to look as good as it could. I agree that colour is huge for the Soft Seasons. The softness can be overplayed and the colours together have amazing vibrancy.
Thank you for this! Lots of information and your voice is very soothing. The pictures say a lot (for this, "a picture paints a thousand words" is true). Would you consider a vid re: building an outfit & contrast levels (low, medium, high)? Gracias!
Glad you found the video helpful :) I'm not sure I understand the question or what you hope to learn. Do you mean, within each Season, create outfits with the 3 light-dark contrast levels? If yes, wouldn't you just combine colours from the light-dark edges of the palette, then medium light-dark, then medium with medium?
I know I’m a warm season. Looking back at photographs of me with the rest of my family I am the one who glows and stands out because of my colouring. However recent life events have left me very lacking in confidence about my appearance and constantly second guessing myself. The only way I can analyse my season is by using a split screen on my iPad, one side with seasonal colour cards and the other with a photograph of me, some recent and some from years back. I know this is not ideal but seems to be the only way I can see myself a little more objectively. Over and over I am stuck between true autumn and true spring. Is there some more successful way of determining one’s colour for oneself?
I understand the confusion and wish I knew of a reliable way to figure out the answer by ourselves. Even with an immersive training course, a great system, and some practice, it can take time to identify Season. Sometimes, it's hard to choose between two Seasons because you're neither. Not trying to confuse things further, just saying to be OK with a few possibles and avoid big investments until you can have that analysis.
These borrowings are based on tonality. I have to choose between Soft Summer and True Summer. The Soft Summer has the necessary warmth but True Summer has more saturation. So I have to play around with both, but not wander away too much.
I don't remember my analyst mentioning where I fall on the spectrum of BSp. Do analysts take notes during an analysis? I'll have to ask her. Anyway, you give such useful perspectives. It wouldn't have occurred to me to consider what one season has that another doesn't when comparing colors or to compare them to the two true seasons involved. That's going to be incredibly helpful. Thank you.
These videos are here to offer tips that you can apply yourself, so I'm glad to hear they're helpful in that way. In the spectrum of our Seasons, the majority of people fall in the centre or close enough not to involve another Season, as you probably did. I wouldn't recall this level of detail about a client's draping and your analyst may not either. Which Season you might be closest to isn't nearly as important information as having ways of knowing the Season of the items you wear. In general, our borrowing Season is the main one in our colouring, so TSp if you're a BSp. Still, I could imagine a BSp wearing some of the lighter warmer colours in BW, including their 'neutral' navy blue.
I'm kind of confused. Is True Summer next to Soft or Light? I looked better in the darker colors for True Summer (charcoal, pine green, purple), than the Light Summer ones, but the Soft Summer colors were too warm. Or are we looking at each color and seeing whether Light or Soft is closer to that specific color?
I'm glad you're asking. I'm not sure I understand the question but we can work together to find the answer. The Seasons are a progression as the colours change, a bit like going around a colour wheel. You can go in either direction, the order stays the same, so you always move from red to orange to yellow or the reverse direction, but orange is always next to red and yellow. Orange shares some properties with red and yellow but it's also unique, same as TSu shares properties with red and yellow, TSu is always neighbour to SSu and LSu in the order, and TSu is also unique in its versions of all colours. The Your Best Navy Blue and others in that series may show the differences better. The Season means the entire colour collection, those particular versions of every colour harmonized together to have the same colour properties. Your colouring and your Season wouldn't pick and choose between a few groups. However, how you choose to wear your colours might since all people in a given Season would not have the same closet. For example, some love pink, some prefer dark colours, some have silver hair, some are 25 and want impacting cosmetics, and so on. Next consideration as you find your Season is how the decisions were made. When you say "I looked better in...", what were the criteria the analyst used? In the system I work with, the only one I'm familiar with, we apply specific details and big-picture observations together. I hope this helps you get started. Please ask if I can be of further help :)
Great question! I'm not familiar with other systems' colour palettes and how they name their Seasons. Speaking only for the system I use (Sci\ART), there are no Seasons blending True Winter and Summer or True Spring and Autumn for a few reasons. One is that humans don't drape equally well in both groups, there is a definite better choice. Between Spring and Autumn, the one the person is not is the first to be eliminated, their least flattering colours. It may be possible to make a blended or in-between colour chart, but humans are not charts. Similar to how you can make all sorts of colours using computers, fabric dyes, and cosmetic pigments, but human pigments are made of different substances and behave differently. A colour system used by humans has to be grounded in how human pigments actually behave and how humans see colours, Second is thing is, a Season that blends True Winter and True Summer...which colours would be part of those Seasons? For sure, there may be colours that could be worn decently well by both groups, but not enough of them to make a wardrobe, find the best neutral colours or guidance about hair colour, or be easy for people to distinguish from the True Seasons. Shopping becomes more complicated without any improvement in appearance. I hope this helps. Thank you for asking!
Hi, I'm learning to do colour analysis and recently trained. My concern is that i was trained in the 4 seasons and not 12. Is it possible to teach myself the sub seasons? Is it so important? Many thanks
I'm not familiar with the methods of other PCA systems so I can't answer very well, though it's a great question. In our approach, we work with the Neutral Seasons using different drapes and more detailed questions than we had with the 4 True Seasons. I doubt that even in our system, a person who was trained to distinguish the 4 Trues would figure out how to work with the 12. It's important for me to have 12 because 3/4 of people are of neutral warmth rather than True warm or cool. I don't know how to represent all human colouring with 4 Seasons without most of them being given Seasons that are too warm or cool for them.
I really enjoy watching all your videos, I learn something new every time! I What I don't get is this: some spring blues and summer greens always look kind of similar to me. Is there a way to distinguish between them? Because they are both a mix of green and blue as far as I understood. Thank you so much :)
You're right that Spring blue can be greenish. As blue warms, it can become greener or redder, making turquoise and orchid colours. The answer with understanding colour is can be to know that a single colour on its own is hard to classify into warmth or brightness, almost impossible actually. The answer is to compare it to another colour, or several other colours, as experts also do. What helps me with Spring is to go by brightness, as we did in the first image of this video and try making outfits, although this image is already fine tuning the differences and it may help to start with wider categories and narrow down as you practice, as we did in the recent video about pink.
Thank you, it happens with every video actually. I'm able to block them from the channel but they keep coming. Spam, they blanket the internet. Good idea to report it and UA-cam makes it easy. I'll start doing that as well.
Christine, is it possible for a true season to blend a bit into another true season? For example TW flowing into TSu or TA flowing into TSp? Or would it be more like TW with a secondary of DW or BW, etc.?
The answer may depend on the colour analysis system that you follow. I'm not familiar enough with other approaches to be certain or give examples, but I've read about these in the past. For sure, True Season colours have strong similarities in theory, and in practice too with certain colours in fabrics and cosmetics. Where I get stuck, two places. One, when you look at the entire outfit and how the colours work together, the result looks very different, like in the Reference Pieces panel that was last in this video. Two, even bigger problem, is that people don't react to colour equally in both groups, meaning they don't drape or look equally good once they wear the colours next to their own. Human diversity is too big to say that any 'rule' applies equally to everyone and I'd guess 6 or 7 in 10 people, the opposite True Season is the first one to eliminate, meaning for a TA, it is obvious that TSp doesn't harmonize with them at all. And then for the other folks, it can be a harder distinction, especially between TSu and TW and we try a few different drape comparisons to work it out. I might say about this second group where we try to separate on of the True Seasons that it's usually between two Neutral Seasons that we're trying to sort whether they're W or Su, for example DW and SSu or BW and LSu. I find it more evident when the person actually is a True Season because the harmony is so much better in theirs than the other Trues. Shorter answer, there are colours in items that could be worn by both groups (the pale yellow sleeveless top in the Your Best Yellow video), but the number of these colours is few and rare and would be hard for folks to find, and you couldn't create a whole Season out of them without using 90% of the colours already in the True Seasons. In this video, I mention about Trues flowing into their neighbour Neutrals, but in practice I almost never see that, it's the other way round, with one of the neighbour Neutrals being very close to the True Season, as with DW very near TW or LSu very near TSu.
@@ChristineScaman thank you for this detailed explanation! I see a lot of self draping in the sci/art online groups where people have decided that they are (for random example) TW with a TSu secondary. I know nothing is impossible, but I always thought it was strange, as during my draping, (I am a TW) Tsu was so very obviously not good- too dull, and we were more double checking that BW and DW weren’t a better fit. I suppose though, there could always be that one unicorn out there.
@@TheeScarletRose I'm glad I could help. I don't use the term secondary so I'm not certain of the meaning but depending on how it's interpreted and applied, I could see how a TW could find some usable colours in TSu for single items here and there. The lightest pastels for example could be similar, but when you actually see the fabric, they look quite different, more so than the palette swatch might be able to show, like the difference in a swatch of paint and a larger area of a wall. In the same way, there are colours and neutrals that TSp and TA might share, say a bright khaki-olive, because they have similar colour properties. There are situations with a True Season person where the neighbour Neutral Seasons are obviously lesser choices and if there has to be a theoretical 'secondary', it would be the other True, but maybe there doesn't have to be a secondary. In the practical world, shopping may require that a True Season use colours from one of the neighbour Neutrals, and that's very common. A TSp might wear some BSp clothes and cosmetics, a TA might wear some DA, very normal. It sounds as though you belong with the 6 or 7 in 10 where the opposite True has low compatibility, but you might wear some of the cooler BW colours perfectly well outside of the perfectionism of an analysis situation.
Would that be Light Spring, the Spring blended with Summer? Often, True Spring isn't as bright as might be imagine, they're more of a warm Season than a bright one.
As to Bright Seasons, I find this dark blue pants really similar to each other, but I find that BW colours create sharper contrast than BS ones. They also seem a bit more static, more calm. Spring colours feel more energetic overall. Summer colours feel very watery - I always associate them with water, rain, oceans, seas, and lakes. As to Dark Seasons I feel that Autumn reds are more fiery than Winter reds. Not energetic, not vital, but simply associated with fire. Winter reds seem sharper, but also less fiery, less to the brownish side.
I preferred the BW pants as well but found it hard to say why exactly. The BSp left me uneasy whereas the BW look was calmer, agree on that, and the body looked less tippy somehow. The BW pants could hold up the top, and adding the person would amplify the effect even more, it gave me a feeling of trust. Your Season associations are the same as mine and you've described them so well. Fire may just be the division between DA and DW, as bright as DW is, even the warmer reds have a different feeling from fire or red-orange in general.
Christine, I've noticed your necklines always seem to flatter and draw attention to your face. I'd love if you do a video on necklines/colors/details that look good with the face.
Lines, shapes, and scale in clothing is the other half of appearance. I agree that it makes a huge and enormous difference and without it, it's like trying to make a puzzle with half the pieces, or the pieces in the right colours but the wrong shapes. Colour is the question to answer first because, as we've seen in the videos, it profoundly affects our perception of shape. Second is line analysis. My work is with colour though and a video about shape and line would be out of my reach. If you look at chrysaliscolour dot com under Resources, you'll find a selection of analysts and the great thing is that, unlike colour, this service works perfectly well online. If you look at Pinterest, you'll find boards by StyleScience, created by Florentina Mossou in The Netherlands. In that system, I'm a Transcendent. When I shop, I follow the extensive galleries of images that clients receive in the everyday items we wear, including specific information about necklines. It makes shopping as easy as having your personal cookbook where everything always turns out great. The Pinterest board shows that elevated vision of what is possible for this body type. It is very very amazing and useful.
There should be a law that people making printed fabric have to study colour. I get so irritated when a garment isn't going to work for me because of a clashing colour combination, especially putting warm colours on pure white backgrounds.
It's so relaxing to watch colours speak to one another, one reason why people love colouring games. Today, we're imagining colour combinations and choosing the best of a few options for the 12 Seasons. We had many requests for this topic and if the video didn't answer your questions, please ask or share examples so we can take our skills to next level and be surprised by what we're good at doing :)
Awesome video! You answered so many questions I’ve had. It’s like your trained eye helped train my own eyes. No one does color analysis the way you do!
I'm so glad it was helpful. I appreciate that you took a moment to comment that this format works for you, thank you :)
Love your new hair style!
Thank you 😊
Excellent video Christine! I am BW close to TW. There was also something about my energy and coloring that kept my color analyst thinking of TSu. The neutrals really helped to clarify.
I look frail and weak in TSu neutrals, even though the brightest pinks and blue-greens were endearing. TW black and white cast a severity in my features.
It has taken me time to work out that I need that strength of TW softened with a touch of warmth. And something of the flowy, ethereal nature of TSu by using the lighter side of my palette liberally as well using draping and translucency in fabric.
As you stated, just narrowing down your colors to your season, or even parent season, is a game changer. Once you see the results, it makes you want to go further.
You make a great point about using Summer texture to soften Winter. The warmth of BW can soften the effect of Winter, which is an interesting play of words since in technical terms, BW brightens and should be the opposite of 'softens'. But in perception, something does feel...well, which words...relaxed, not quite...warmer as in affectionate...can't think of one word....alleviates the cool, distant quality of TW that appears on non-TW-coloured people. On a TW, it looks normal, powerful, and glamorous. Sometimes though, a TW needs a softer effect, by being small scale or having a delicate quality, and matte, sheer, lightweight fabrics can be ideal, those 'stereotypic' Summer textures rather than Summer colours, with TW in the choices of whites, neutrals, and metals. That's very much a BW thing too, as with you, and in both Seasons, I see it in ethereal body types and facial features, and people of various ethnicities, all of whom may have trouble finding themselves in TW or BW colours (as may the natural/athletic types). The podcast episode last week was about texture and I was feeling I'd missed a side of TW that you've helped me articulate. Thank you :)
You are so articulate and go into this so deeply. Love it thank you
You are so welcome :)
This was fun Christine! Having you point out the subtle differences in the seasons educates my eye so that I'm more able to distinguish them on my own while shopping or pairing outfits from my closet. Love your channel! 💕
I'm so glad it was helpful. I love exercises in trusting our own voice, which is easier said than done, but without it, appearance deviates into other people's permissions. A little education, a little practice, and your closet is a brave new world :)
This video is SO GOOD!!! I’m a warm leaning SSu, and everything you said in the SA to SSu complimentary slide feel so true for me. Ok, now to finish the video 😂
I'm so glad it was helpful and relatable to your own situation. Please ask if new questions bubble up :)
Extremely educational video Christine! Gave me a small headache absorbing it all😂
Yes, it may be one to absorb in small pieces, possibly with a relaxing beverage :)
@@ChristineScaman 😂👍🏻🍷
Excellent!! This was a fun exercise. I'm starting to realize how very color sensitive I am, both visually (as in me looking outward) and in the way my appearance reacts to colors. Your videos are always so helpful in making sense of things and making them practical! I would really enjoy more content on making your palette work for your personality/style when it *feels* opposite. I feel quite certain I fall into Winter (after having been misdiagnosed multiple times), and True Winter seems to be the most successful. I've been wearing that palette for a while now, but I have a very strong attraction the the way colors are put together on True Summer. This is making me feel a bit restless. Ethereal vibes speak to my soul. So at the moment I'm trying to bridge that gap and discover the Ethereal side of Winter, and how those two can be friends. I'm at the point of fine tuning my wardrobe more, I suppose - which is why this video made me so happy!
It certainly happens that people don't feel their colours align well with their personality or the customs and traditions of where they live. The first job is to confirm the Season if you happen to live or will visit a location with an analyst.
True Winter can have a heavier sensibility about it, and it involves more darkness than most groups. The answer for some is either in the Summers, or the Brights. For the Brights, it seems hard to imagine that raising colour brightness would actually give colours more sense of lift and movement, but increasing colour purity gives less sense of density and for many Ethereal types, the effect works well and they recognize themselves.
The second thing to sort might be body type, which was where I and many others find the solution to the same question as yours, "My colours only know part of me, where's the rest?" Analysts who understand both style and colour are quite able to help you with choosing clothes to help you get started. Look at Chrysalis Colour dot com under Resources if you'd like some names and locations.
@@ChristineScaman thank you, very validating! I would really like an analysis, at the moment it's not a practical option, but it is certainly "wishlisted". I love getting to know your analysts through the podcasts, it makes me feel much more comfortable with giving up that level of control, haha! I definitely know my body type within the Kibbe framework is Soft Dramatic (had it confirmed by a few stylists), which also requires some gravity, and an unbroken vertical. My "essences" in the Kitchener framework are Ethereal, Romantic, and Dramatic in that order. It can feel like a juggling act some days, other days a very exciting puzzle. I think you're most likely right in regards to one of the Bright seasons being a good solution, so thank you for that suggestion. Looking at it *feels* like it will be harsh, but there's rarely a color I can't handle unless we're getting in the too yellow or orange range. Then something feels plasticky and busy. Culturally too, you kind of touched on, people have an expectation of what a pale skinned "strawberry blonde" *should* wear - pastels (hello sunburn effect). I just love that you highlight showing up as your authentic self, that's an important thing for every human being and I very much support that message.
@@Nerdy-By-Nature You already know a lot about yourself. Your description reminds me Nicole Kidman :)
@@ChristineScaman self analysis is always a passion project for me, haha! And it's a bonus that this is an outlet for creative expression. Very interesting feedback with Nicole Kidman, thank you. I have heard that a couple of times, especially in regards to my coloring. I admire the way she plays with style, I'll have to have a closer look. She's definitely more sharp and linear in build than I am, but the "vibe" might be very close. You mentioned in a Chrysalis podcast that your style is "Fairytale meets The Matrix" (love it!), and that fairytale is the harder part for you to remember/incorporate, to paraphrase. That's what I have noticed in my own style in regards to Romantic. Ethereal is most comfortable, Dramatic is the "loudest", Romantic is the forgotten middle child. But without it everything looks too withdrawn or stark. So I'm going to look at Nicole's style with an eye to how she incorporated Romantic. I think I'm also going to look through your videos again and see what might work in the Bright seasons for a Romantic impression.
@@Nerdy-By-Nature I thought the same, that Nicole seems to have Ethereal and Dramatic. I'm no expert but Romantic...maybe in her round eyes and lips. She's like a pretty giraffe or a caricature gazelle. Also not sure if or how she incorporates Romantic in her styling, I'm not sure how she dresses. If you already know Romantic styling, wouldn't expressing it in the Bright Seasons just be matter of buying the styles in those colours and managing the proportions with E and D to suit your own shape and preferences?
Your videos are super educational. I love your analysis. I am getting better at seeing the nuances. But still a long way to go -:).
Great to hear that the videos are helping. We all have a long way to go with understanding any natural phenomena, like colour, like gravity, we can take for granted something that's so huge. You sensitize to colour just by being around it and saying what you see, without any pressure to come up with yes-no answers. Keep going, you're doing great!
Oh a new christine video, yeeeey! I really longed for this. Ok back to watching😍🤓🤓❤️
Hope you enjoyed it!
@@ChristineScaman yes I did, always a joy to listen and learn🤗💕. I find it most difficult to find what colors to use in makeup- 🤔could it be because our faces have different nuances and colors on the lips, eyes, eyebrows, even under the eyes? I find it really hard to buy a new blush, lipgloss or lipstick that looks truly harmonius and like it ”belongs” there.
Is it really harder with makeup then with clothes or is it just me?😅💄💄
@@Spikypotato. Maybe it's both? Just knowing which colours to ignore lifts so much weight off our shoulders and we can put our attention in our own colours. But cosmetics are applied directly to the face, are almost expected to mimic skin, and have their own chemistry that interacts with ours. Plus we decide by looking at our face and objectivity is challenged more than with clothes or hair, which we may see by separating them from us (not necessarily a good thing, but with makeup, we can't create that separation). The cosmetic buying experience is hard for most women, even when we know our Season, but because makeup variety can be more available than clothing, it's also possible to have our cosmetics sorted within a week. Couldn't really do that with clothes unless you have a lot of time.
Such good examples as always! I'm TSu, and the clothes from my season are always the most versatile, but I have settled for some pieces that are SSu, and occasionally LSu. I remember a blog post saying that it can be easier to "borrow" neutrals from neighboring seasons than colors and I think that's proven to be correct when I put together outfits.
I'd agree with that statement about 'borrowing' the main Season group's neutral colours more easily than their colours. When we're getting started, it's good to cast a wider net (for neutrals and colours) to bring our closet back in order. As we get better at working with our colours and shopping for them, the wardrobe settles into our Season almost on its own, the situation I had in mind with the Light Season panel, and we can keep favourites from the other groups.
very helpful in developing my confidence when purchasing new items.
Good to hear it was helpful :)
I’ve been draped True Autumn with the very brightest/shaded my bests. Nothing muted. So I can’t see deep autumn or soft autumn working as my neighbour. Some colours from True Spring make more sense.
Thanks for sharing, you make a great point. TA and Tsp have colours or ways of wearing colour that the other can certainly use. Same with True Winter and True Summer, they can be one another's second best with adaptations in darkness levels and fabric choice.
I love this video Christine. It’s so great to get present to the subtle nuances of colours and how they interact with each other.
Thank you so much!
this is a really lovely video! I agreed with your assessment on most everything, and as a LSp it was very fun to start with my season. my SA mother and SSu sister and I were all draped by Mary Steele Lawler, who did an excellent job, and it's been interesting to see how we've all adapted and strayed and returned to our seasons over the years. one thing I find interesting is that my mom wears the full range of her palette with delight, but she is very sensitive to color temperature outside of her season. True Autumn is far too warm and while she can do some Soft Summer, it gets too cool very fast. because of that in shopping situations she's more likely to buy Dark Autumn clothes that are on the softer side of that season than either of her neighboring seasons--still autumn, but slightly cooled, without being as cool as a summer or warm as TA. I personally can't stray too bright and am much more likely to borrow LSu neutrals (those cooler grays are so much easier to find) or TSp corals and greens, but it's very clear that my mom wears deeper colors easier than warmer or cooler ones. softness is the most important thing for her and I have no doubts at all that she is SA, but staying in a neutral-warm temperature range is the second most important thing. do you have any thoughts on the topic of borrowing from the other neutral season in a seasonal group, or why this seems easier for some neutral season people than others?
My only guess could be that the true warm colors might be overwhelming for her overtones or hair color.
Great question, what about borrowing from the other neutral in your True Season trio? Absolutely. They share so much about the main Season, TA in this case, and they have the same warmth level, neutral-warm for SA and DA. For a SA, there might be different ways of going about this. One, consider the lighter and medium darkness colours, since SA is overall lighter. Second, look for the DA colours with very similar versions in the SA palette. Third, use fabrics that tend to soften colour, matte and woven, for example. Four, avoid colours that just feel too hot, spicy, or bright, like the intense olives and greens and near-Winter reds. If the DA item were only one well-chosen colour in an SA outfit, there's enough about SA to make sense of it and have it blend in, like a dialect of the same language.
Why easier for some than others? It may depend on age, younger people possibly wearing brighter colours more easily, and individual colouring (easier for a SA with brown eyes and hair than an SA with silver hair and soft blue-green eyes) and natural appearance (easier for an SA who looks very Autumn than one who looks more Summery.)
Since I found you I am reveling in Christine-colour-videos! Both interesting, well spoken, genial and relaxing at the same time.
Wonderful! I'm so glad you've joined the conversation :)
Hi Christine, ❤ your channel! I'm a deep winter, but I know the autumn colors that I can also utilize. I have two lipsticks that are deep neutrals, one is slightly cool and the other is slightly warm. Both lipsticks harmonize perfectly with my medium olive skin tone. So, if the autumn color is able to harmonize with either lipstick, I have a winner. 😊 If not, it's clearly not for me.🤷♀️
Great idea to use lipstick as a gauge. Lipstick is so particular to the individual that using it in this way is brilliant. Thank you for sharing :)
Great stuff. I love your deep dives and I think they are necessary in the world of color analysis. People get stuck on the surface and don’t peer through below. Maybe like you said that this takes time to understand but CA is so much more than the sum of its parts. It’s not a parlour game like some people see it.
Thank you. Like so many things, we get out of it what we put into it, I do agree with you. Sometimes, people get stuck because they want to learn more or understand better but they're not sure where to look. I imagine that appearance in general is that way, a person may know they want different makeup and recognize that they've outgrown all the usual sources of advice, but where do they look next? Or who they you trust? I've been on both sides of this, but I imagine it's also true that by realizing what we don't want, the path leads us to what we do want :)
This video was very informative! Colors and color combinations are a fascinating study! You are an excellent teacher.
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
This is fun. So much to explore! I wonder if as a deep winter I can explore the summer too.
The best way is to know what your Season and the particular Summer have in common. For Soft Summer, it's cool-neutral and darker colours. For True, it's moderate brightness. Use your educated eye though, there will always be better choices in your own Season :)
@@ChristineScaman your videos contribute a lot to cultivate an educated eye. Lots of variables and vocabulary that come with it and help our observations.
I lpove the depth you're going into, it's what I need to understand... I pause the video when you show a new range of pictures and try to decide for myself then compare what I thought with what you said. I've just had my colours done with House of Colour and I was happy that my own guesswork was correct, I've got a warm overtone but a cool undertone and I'm a summer, but suiting more the dark colours so deep, dark summer was the HoC sub season. I'm guessing that means I can borrow some winter and some autumn colours which is what I felt like, and why I was so confused. I'm waiting on getting a new apartment and I can see myself changing some decor ideas accordingly too, but I'm struggling with decorating in a cool palette when I already live in cold rainy Scotland: my home needs to feel warm and cosy and elegant so I have more work to do to figure this out! Thank you for your time and effort with the videos 😄
I'm happy to know that you enjoy the videos, thank you, and congratulations on confirming your Season! As one who lives in Atlantic Canada, I appreciate your interior decor approach. People often recreate their surroundings in the colours of the world around them, or choose colour with another significance, rather than their own personal colour scheme. I'm never sure why our own Season would carry over into our surroundings, although no reason why not either. I like a beach-aquatic theme, and you know that's not my colouring :) I'm not a decorator but I believe that the colours of our spaces may serve another purpose than to mirror us, unless of course we choose that, also fine.
Your blouse is amazing on you!
Oh thank you! I wear black for the videos for a few reasons and find it so much more flattering when it's away from the face and neck or the fabric is sheer.
Great video - thanks. That necklace is fabulous!
Thank you! You mean the necklace I'm wearing? It's actually built into the top, bonus item, and it's a good colour of gold. A true find!
I was for a long time between light summer and soft summer. I kinda liked muted colors more because they're more neutral and safe. But I realized while I don't like to wear my bright turquoise sweater, the color still isn't overpowering me.
Many people feel the same way, I think. A friend prefers neutrals too and what a lift it gives her (and me!) when she wears colour. Just one item in an entire outfit makes all the difference. I wonder if we tend to wear the colours we see around us and the wearing of neutrals as a preferred look comes from living in cities where there's less colour in the 'landscape' and we feel we stand out if we wear colours.
When the light seasons comparison started I looked at TSp turquoise colour and immediately thought about whose strange TW colours you were talking about in previous videos (for example, about Elvis where he was in such shirt) that you'd never guess were from TW palette. Was a bit disappointed to see warm spring - how could I confuse such distant seasons, complete opposites. But I could not unsee that strong blue undertone. And it doesn't look overheated in cool surroundings on the collage. Okay, there must be some yellow tone because it's a green colour, so somehow it goes to the spring season.
My continuous question arised - how to differentiate when the warm side of one colour ends and the cool side of next colour begins.
Checked the lists of seasonal colours and turns out my eyes were right - warm spring and cool winter share this particular colour! Surprisingly, the warmest and the coolest seasons both have the same colour in palettes. It's not even me confusing warm blue and cool green, flowing into each other, it's literally the same colour, which looks a little bit different depending on the surrounding colours:
"Medium blue green" in TW and TSp
Looks like cool green in winter palette and like warm blue in spring palette.
Also there is:
"Emerald turquoise" in BW and Tsp
Also:
"Emerald green" in TW and BSp
I know these observations are obvious for some folks, but I wanted to share.
This colour get stuck in my head so I've done some more contemplation.
(Of course all following observations are true for my device settings)
"Medium blue green" is also in TSu palette list, not only TSp and TW. This top is definitely brighter than "medium blue green" from the list (#5 top is closer to that colour), same level of brightness as TSp "turquoise" but with more blue in it.
I've done collage with the photos of fabric colour sets, which you recently introduced - TSu colour set is predictably too pale, but between TSp and TW I prefer the harmony with TW colour set. In TSp set this blue-green top make some beautiful interaction with corals and violets, but the whole palette feels a little bit off. On the other hand I see it belonging to the whole TW palette, as you said in your videos "grow on the same tree".
Just my thoughts. In no way I'm trying to undermine your work, Christine.
Thank you for pointing this out. If you saw the colours and fabrics in person, in larger pieces, and surrounded by other colours as you say, the differences would be more apparent. Winter has plenty of yellow in its greens, I'm not sure how to make green without it, but the type of yellow is different from Spring. Combined with blue in the green, and in a picture, I'm not sure how you'd know which type of yellow it is, you'd want to compare it to actual colours in those Seasons. Now I picture it though, I wonder if TW's lemon yellow might look bright or sharp next to that possibly-TSp top, and any of the Sp sunshine yellows might be more balanced.
In these videos, I look for items that illustrate an idea because I really don't know their actual Season. For very specific colour, like a Tsp turquoise blue, I might not find any items and I choose the best of what's available, so maybe best not to take the colours too literally :) That green shirt Elvis was wearing, I still don't know where that would go, likely in the "I don't know till it's in my hands." file.
I've had these exact experiences with blues an purples as a light spring
Yes, these can be challenging for me as well. The neutral warmth and medium brightness seem to slide into Light Summer quite easily. At some point, I figure if I can't tell the Season for sure, then the colour can work in either group.
Hi Christine!
I have to be completely honest about the Gucci floral shirt trend.. as cool and fun as it is with a pair of glasses, it's usually a little too overwhelming on the boy wearing it like 99% of the time :)
I really love the Softs comparisons and how it perfectly illustrates how a good top can make soft summer look a little more 'fresh' if we don't go all the way greish or warm.
I've wondered that about a lot of prints! I see such beautiful prints in fashion, really so beautiful, and they look great in staged situations, and I wonder how they would play in the real world. Even celebrities can sometimes be overtaken or lost somehow when they're taken out of the photo shoot. I'm not sure why that is. I've only seen these items as images on screens and can't imagine how they'd work on a person of the same colouring. It might be beautiful and great, I'm just not sure. Maybe when the print has a strong language of its own, besides the colours, the person who would wear it well might be even more specific, meaning they'd have to suit both colour and design for the item to look as good as it could.
I agree that colour is huge for the Soft Seasons. The softness can be overplayed and the colours together have amazing vibrancy.
Thank you for this! Lots of information and your voice is very soothing. The pictures say a lot (for this, "a picture paints a thousand words" is true). Would you consider a vid re: building an outfit & contrast levels (low, medium, high)? Gracias!
Glad you found the video helpful :) I'm not sure I understand the question or what you hope to learn. Do you mean, within each Season, create outfits with the 3 light-dark contrast levels? If yes, wouldn't you just combine colours from the light-dark edges of the palette, then medium light-dark, then medium with medium?
Great video!!! So helpful in a real-life way!
So glad you found it informative. Real life is exactly where I hope this channel is useful :)
I know I’m a warm season. Looking back at photographs of me with the rest of my family I am the one who glows and stands out because of my colouring. However recent life events have left me very lacking in confidence about my appearance and constantly second guessing myself. The only way I can analyse my season is by using a split screen on my iPad, one side with seasonal colour cards and the other with a photograph of me, some recent and some from years back. I know this is not ideal but seems to be the only way I can see myself a little more objectively. Over and over I am stuck between true autumn and true spring. Is there some more successful way of determining one’s colour for oneself?
I understand the confusion and wish I knew of a reliable way to figure out the answer by ourselves. Even with an immersive training course, a great system, and some practice, it can take time to identify Season. Sometimes, it's hard to choose between two Seasons because you're neither. Not trying to confuse things further, just saying to be OK with a few possibles and avoid big investments until you can have that analysis.
These borrowings are based on tonality. I have to choose between Soft Summer and True Summer. The Soft Summer has the necessary warmth but True Summer has more saturation. So I have to play around with both, but not wander away too much.
Your solution makes perfect sense. These Seasons share so much more than they differ that beautiful choices exist in both.
I don't remember my analyst mentioning where I fall on the spectrum of BSp. Do analysts take notes during an analysis? I'll have to ask her.
Anyway, you give such useful perspectives. It wouldn't have occurred to me to consider what one season has that another doesn't when comparing colors or to compare them to the two true seasons involved. That's going to be incredibly helpful.
Thank you.
These videos are here to offer tips that you can apply yourself, so I'm glad to hear they're helpful in that way. In the spectrum of our Seasons, the majority of people fall in the centre or close enough not to involve another Season, as you probably did. I wouldn't recall this level of detail about a client's draping and your analyst may not either. Which Season you might be closest to isn't nearly as important information as having ways of knowing the Season of the items you wear.
In general, our borrowing Season is the main one in our colouring, so TSp if you're a BSp. Still, I could imagine a BSp wearing some of the lighter warmer colours in BW, including their 'neutral' navy blue.
I'm kind of confused. Is True Summer next to Soft or Light? I looked better in the darker colors for True Summer (charcoal, pine green, purple), than the Light Summer ones, but the Soft Summer colors were too warm. Or are we looking at each color and seeing whether Light or Soft is closer to that specific color?
I'm glad you're asking. I'm not sure I understand the question but we can work together to find the answer. The Seasons are a progression as the colours change, a bit like going around a colour wheel. You can go in either direction, the order stays the same, so you always move from red to orange to yellow or the reverse direction, but orange is always next to red and yellow. Orange shares some properties with red and yellow but it's also unique, same as TSu shares properties with red and yellow, TSu is always neighbour to SSu and LSu in the order, and TSu is also unique in its versions of all colours. The Your Best Navy Blue and others in that series may show the differences better.
The Season means the entire colour collection, those particular versions of every colour harmonized together to have the same colour properties. Your colouring and your Season wouldn't pick and choose between a few groups. However, how you choose to wear your colours might since all people in a given Season would not have the same closet. For example, some love pink, some prefer dark colours, some have silver hair, some are 25 and want impacting cosmetics, and so on.
Next consideration as you find your Season is how the decisions were made. When you say "I looked better in...", what were the criteria the analyst used? In the system I work with, the only one I'm familiar with, we apply specific details and big-picture observations together.
I hope this helps you get started. Please ask if I can be of further help :)
Without 16 seasons where you have a palette between winter and summer, where would you put a cool summer then?
Great question! I'm not familiar with other systems' colour palettes and how they name their Seasons. Speaking only for the system I use (Sci\ART), there are no Seasons blending True Winter and Summer or True Spring and Autumn for a few reasons.
One is that humans don't drape equally well in both groups, there is a definite better choice. Between Spring and Autumn, the one the person is not is the first to be eliminated, their least flattering colours. It may be possible to make a blended or in-between colour chart, but humans are not charts. Similar to how you can make all sorts of colours using computers, fabric dyes, and cosmetic pigments, but human pigments are made of different substances and behave differently. A colour system used by humans has to be grounded in how human pigments actually behave and how humans see colours,
Second is thing is, a Season that blends True Winter and True Summer...which colours would be part of those Seasons? For sure, there may be colours that could be worn decently well by both groups, but not enough of them to make a wardrobe, find the best neutral colours or guidance about hair colour, or be easy for people to distinguish from the True Seasons. Shopping becomes more complicated without any improvement in appearance.
I hope this helps. Thank you for asking!
Hi, I'm learning to do colour analysis and recently trained. My concern is that i was trained in the 4 seasons and not 12. Is it possible to teach myself the sub seasons? Is it so important?
Many thanks
I'm not familiar with the methods of other PCA systems so I can't answer very well, though it's a great question. In our approach, we work with the Neutral Seasons using different drapes and more detailed questions than we had with the 4 True Seasons. I doubt that even in our system, a person who was trained to distinguish the 4 Trues would figure out how to work with the 12. It's important for me to have 12 because 3/4 of people are of neutral warmth rather than True warm or cool. I don't know how to represent all human colouring with 4 Seasons without most of them being given Seasons that are too warm or cool for them.
Thank you
Lol what is the story behind your username?
Welcome!
I really enjoy watching all your videos, I learn something new every time! I What I don't get is this: some spring blues and summer greens always look kind of similar to me. Is there a way to distinguish between them? Because they are both a mix of green and blue as far as I understood. Thank you so much :)
You're right that Spring blue can be greenish. As blue warms, it can become greener or redder, making turquoise and orchid colours. The answer with understanding colour is can be to know that a single colour on its own is hard to classify into warmth or brightness, almost impossible actually. The answer is to compare it to another colour, or several other colours, as experts also do. What helps me with Spring is to go by brightness, as we did in the first image of this video and try making outfits, although this image is already fine tuning the differences and it may help to start with wider categories and narrow down as you practice, as we did in the recent video about pink.
As an aside, I noticed a spam message and reported it. One of the other channels I follow is experiencing a sudden uptick in spam.
I’ve been noticing the same thing, on the most unlikely channels too. I always report it.
Thank you, it happens with every video actually. I'm able to block them from the channel but they keep coming. Spam, they blanket the internet. Good idea to report it and UA-cam makes it easy. I'll start doing that as well.
Christine, is it possible for a true season to blend a bit into another true season? For example TW flowing into TSu or TA flowing into TSp? Or would it be more like TW with a secondary of DW or BW, etc.?
The answer may depend on the colour analysis system that you follow. I'm not familiar enough with other approaches to be certain or give examples, but I've read about these in the past. For sure, True Season colours have strong similarities in theory, and in practice too with certain colours in fabrics and cosmetics. Where I get stuck, two places. One, when you look at the entire outfit and how the colours work together, the result looks very different, like in the Reference Pieces panel that was last in this video.
Two, even bigger problem, is that people don't react to colour equally in both groups, meaning they don't drape or look equally good once they wear the colours next to their own. Human diversity is too big to say that any 'rule' applies equally to everyone and I'd guess 6 or 7 in 10 people, the opposite True Season is the first one to eliminate, meaning for a TA, it is obvious that TSp doesn't harmonize with them at all. And then for the other folks, it can be a harder distinction, especially between TSu and TW and we try a few different drape comparisons to work it out. I might say about this second group where we try to separate on of the True Seasons that it's usually between two Neutral Seasons that we're trying to sort whether they're W or Su, for example DW and SSu or BW and LSu. I find it more evident when the person actually is a True Season because the harmony is so much better in theirs than the other Trues.
Shorter answer, there are colours in items that could be worn by both groups (the pale yellow sleeveless top in the Your Best Yellow video), but the number of these colours is few and rare and would be hard for folks to find, and you couldn't create a whole Season out of them without using 90% of the colours already in the True Seasons. In this video, I mention about Trues flowing into their neighbour Neutrals, but in practice I almost never see that, it's the other way round, with one of the neighbour Neutrals being very close to the True Season, as with DW very near TW or LSu very near TSu.
@@ChristineScaman thank you for this detailed explanation! I see a lot of self draping in the sci/art online groups where people have decided that they are (for random example) TW with a TSu secondary. I know nothing is impossible, but I always thought it was strange, as during my draping, (I am a TW) Tsu was so very obviously not good- too dull, and we were more double checking that BW and DW weren’t a better fit. I suppose though, there could always be that one unicorn out there.
@@TheeScarletRose I'm glad I could help. I don't use the term secondary so I'm not certain of the meaning but depending on how it's interpreted and applied, I could see how a TW could find some usable colours in TSu for single items here and there. The lightest pastels for example could be similar, but when you actually see the fabric, they look quite different, more so than the palette swatch might be able to show, like the difference in a swatch of paint and a larger area of a wall. In the same way, there are colours and neutrals that TSp and TA might share, say a bright khaki-olive, because they have similar colour properties.
There are situations with a True Season person where the neighbour Neutral Seasons are obviously lesser choices and if there has to be a theoretical 'secondary', it would be the other True, but maybe there doesn't have to be a secondary. In the practical world, shopping may require that a True Season use colours from one of the neighbour Neutrals, and that's very common. A TSp might wear some BSp clothes and cosmetics, a TA might wear some DA, very normal. It sounds as though you belong with the 6 or 7 in 10 where the opposite True has low compatibility, but you might wear some of the cooler BW colours perfectly well outside of the perfectionism of an analysis situation.
I wish there was a SOFT SPRING option.
Would that be Light Spring, the Spring blended with Summer? Often, True Spring isn't as bright as might be imagine, they're more of a warm Season than a bright one.
As to Bright Seasons, I find this dark blue pants really similar to each other, but I find that BW colours create sharper contrast than BS ones. They also seem a bit more static, more calm. Spring colours feel more energetic overall.
Summer colours feel very watery - I always associate them with water, rain, oceans, seas, and lakes.
As to Dark Seasons I feel that Autumn reds are more fiery than Winter reds. Not energetic, not vital, but simply associated with fire. Winter reds seem sharper, but also less fiery, less to the brownish side.
I preferred the BW pants as well but found it hard to say why exactly. The BSp left me uneasy whereas the BW look was calmer, agree on that, and the body looked less tippy somehow. The BW pants could hold up the top, and adding the person would amplify the effect even more, it gave me a feeling of trust.
Your Season associations are the same as mine and you've described them so well. Fire may just be the division between DA and DW, as bright as DW is, even the warmer reds have a different feeling from fire or red-orange in general.
@@ChristineScaman Thank you!
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Christine, I've noticed your necklines always seem to flatter and draw attention to your face. I'd love if you do a video on necklines/colors/details that look good with the face.
Lines, shapes, and scale in clothing is the other half of appearance. I agree that it makes a huge and enormous difference and without it, it's like trying to make a puzzle with half the pieces, or the pieces in the right colours but the wrong shapes. Colour is the question to answer first because, as we've seen in the videos, it profoundly affects our perception of shape. Second is line analysis. My work is with colour though and a video about shape and line would be out of my reach. If you look at chrysaliscolour dot com under Resources, you'll find a selection of analysts and the great thing is that, unlike colour, this service works perfectly well online.
If you look at Pinterest, you'll find boards by StyleScience, created by Florentina Mossou in The Netherlands. In that system, I'm a Transcendent. When I shop, I follow the extensive galleries of images that clients receive in the everyday items we wear, including specific information about necklines. It makes shopping as easy as having your personal cookbook where everything always turns out great. The Pinterest board shows that elevated vision of what is possible for this body type. It is very very amazing and useful.
@@ChristineScaman Thanks so much! Today I'm seeing all your replies to my comments and email. Happy new year.
Lighter skin. Summer. Lighten hair ash. Longer sleeves but in the desert
Weight and oil. Hmmm
There should be a law that people making printed fabric have to study colour. I get so irritated when a garment isn't going to work for me because of a clashing colour combination, especially putting warm colours on pure white backgrounds.
White backgrounds in general! OK for Winters but for everyone else, there would be a better choice, Autumns most of all.