The colour really works well, doesn't it? It can be harder to find than other icy colours, though I see it fairly often in camis to wear under jackets or sweaters.
So excellent to hear you talk thru the differences in your examples. Super helpful and I didn't realize winter is more red based vs summer being blue based. Thank you for sharing your work!!
Glad it was helpful! The red-blue balance depends on the colour, but in general, the colours that makeup up Winter tones are more saturated and visible, the same as yellow is more visible in Winter colours and give folks an idea the colour (or person) are warm in their colouring.
Your winter-yellows perception was a game changer to me, Christine. It drives me nuts how ppl tend to always equate yellow with warmth of color, as if it was all too simple, and it is not. The color knowledge you share is not only logical and coherent, it actually makes color more understandable because it's not oversimplified.
Thank you Christine - so insightful as always. I'm a bright winter and I never actually realised that bright winter pastels are different to true winter! I recently bought an iced blue dress in my colours but it washed me out a little as one block colour, and I had to pair it with fushia to make it work. I'd love to see another video where you talk about how different seasons can wear pastels, and I'd also love to hear you talk about colour combinations. Sometimes I look at all the colours in my BW palette and am not sure which colours go well together yet also give me the contrast I need as a winter!
If you're on LinkedIn, a place to find many answers is the videos I do with Jorunn Hernes, search her name to find the profile page, the videos are under Activity. We film True Winter next week, so about another week to post. Bright Winter was among the earlier ones we did. Jorunn also has a lot of Bright Winter content regarding combinations on her site at nordicsimplicity.com, combinations being one of her interests also as a Bright Winter.
Such a fine distinction to the untrained eye, yet such a big difference to how the garment suits the person! Thanks for helping to train my eye with all your videos, I enjoy it!
You're so welcome! You may find that once you're shown the difference, you notice it more in the world around you, your eye becomes sensitive to it, and that small difference seems to get bigger!
As a Light Spring I'm very glad to see this video! On Pinterest and other websites my colors are often conflated with icy ones, since icy colors obviously appear light, and I've had to learn to ignore that stereotype for building my wardrobe. I like to just compare my white strip with a color--does it seem too cool? Is the color lighter than my buttercream white? Do they look sickly together? I also like to put a color next to black and notice where my eye goes; if the color balances with the black, then it goes back on the rack.
Its so useful to have these examples. I remember looking through the old Colour Me Beautiful books and thinking the icy and pastel colours looked the same.
Glad it helped. Older ink on canvas colour palettes can be that way too, icy and pastel looking the same. Maybe there were advances in printing processes, or digital formats came along 20 years later and changed what was possible.
I would love to know if there's a way to distinguish the navies from each season. They seem to be in all palettes and I have a hard time distinguishing them.
2022-23 winter season has had the worst navy for me, it’s indistinguishable from black, except in the brightest sunlight. It just looks “off” with everything and like a cheap, faded black. I wanted to get a true, classic navy 100% wool long coat this winter, but there’s nothing available in this color, so I’m holding off; it’s a big purchase that will have to last for years, so I have to love it. I hope the brighter, lighter true, classic, navy returns soon.
Fascinating! I love hearing how you see analyze colors with such descriptive terms. I was recently typed as a deep winter and some palettes include “icy” colors in blue, pink and lavender. It’s so helpful to hear your detailed thoughts on how you can incorporate these colors in your palette and make them work for you. I love understanding why they can work in each palette.
This video reminds me that the colour theory is much more complicated than it seems :). When I look at Light Summer palette, I see some duality in it. On the hand, the colours still have some brightness and some energy in them (I mean, when you look at yellow or red, you see no ambiguity), on the other hand, you see some softness (the added grey), but mainly when you compare these colours to Winter or Spring pallets. Would you be able to make a video about suitable light colours for dark seasons? Because there is some misunderstanding about Dark Winter and Dark Autumn that the can pull off only deepest shades, which is obviously not true.
True about Light Summer, as the saturated Summer, there are similarities with True Winter. About light colours for darker Seasons, of which you're right, there are plenty, here is a blog post that may help: www.12blueprints.com/hot-weather-colour-for-dark-winter/?v=3e8d115eb4b3 If you're still left with questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
@@ChristineScaman I think you're particularly skilled at looking at things from many different angles. So many color analysis people seem to use the same terms repeatedly, and I appreciate your variety!
I suspect i fit best in a bright winter pallet but i am nervous that i will never be able to judge these colors adequately when shopping. The differences are so subtle.
I can be nervous when I think about doing new things too. I think many of us experience that. Once we get started with the project, we take back control of our emotions and the worry settles down. We might be worried about specific aspects like finding an outfit for an event but the general anxieties subside. BW is easy enough to spot because it has a lot of colour. Many TW colours work fine for BW. Don't be concerned about colours being perfectly in Season and you'll soon be gathering better and better choices.
This was helpful, thanks. Cool, light purples were in my recommended Summer palette colors, but I eventually dropped them as being too difficult to style as separates and I think they make my skin look a little grayish, too. I dropped grays, too, they just make me look washed out and a bit tired. Every time I bought a purple top, and the one jacket I tried, I just couldn’t find a color that worked with them. My color analysis was before the subtypes were added, and I think I might be a slightly more-neutral, Soft Summer, type. I can wear some colors that don’t suit other summers, like khaki greens, but I wouldn’t say they’re my best, either. I love soft white (with no yellow undertone), and pastel blues, greens and pinks, along with cool browns and, especially the lighter version-taupe. Those warmer beiges, like camel, and browns, like cognac, that were trending for so long in the late 2010s, just don’t look very good on me. Fortunately, cooler browns appeared in 2022, at last. Darks and clear brights are no good on me at all. But no colors are as awful on me as yellows, oranges, warm reds, or worst of all, bright yellow-greens.
You're very colour perceptive, and colour-perceptive about yourself, two different things :) Soft Summer may be the one. Not sure you knew but Sci\ART colour analysis is available periodically in London UK when Jorunn Hernes of Fargeporten in Norway visits, about twice a year. Given your natural sense with colour, you might find it enlightening and resolves many of your questions.
I hadn't considered regarding the red or blue background of a color as to which version would be preferable. I'm a winter that is salt and pepper, light skin, brown eyes. This gives me an explanation as to why certain colors look 'better' to me. Love your content ❤
Great video again Christine! Learned a lot! Topics I’d be interested to hear about are colour examples for men and how to swatch yarn and see examples of yarns for different seasons.
Thank you, I'm appreciate your comment and knowing that you're learning as you watch. An excellent place to start for an overview of how men in each Season create their best appearance is the series of videos I've done with Jorunn Hernes, posted on her profile page at LinkedIn, here www.linkedin.com/in/jorunn-hernes-personal-colour-analyst/, under Activity. We have 3 left to complete the series. For yarn, quite a few analysts have covered this topic in the past and I think the conclusion is that it's very much like clothing made of the same textile. You might search 'yarn in colour analysis season' or something similar in Pinterest. If you have specific questions, regarding these topics, please ask.
Glad the video helped :) I agree about the icy colours for Winter, you'd think they translate well to summer fabrics, but the effect can be too soft. I find that men's dress shirts can show examples of icy colours in lightweight fabrics, but they're hard to find in styles for women.
This explains why I, a Summer, look great in pastels, but not icy colors, and my Mom, a Winter had the opposite experience. She also looked good in black, a sophisticated color that I would wear more of, if it didn’t make me look like I should be in a hospital bed!
Great clarification. I can see why a dusty blueberry or navy would work much better with my pieces than a slightly warm and bright lilac coat like I bought. Avoiding darkish colors as a soft summer isn't always the best way to go. 😅
Right, well said. Avoiding dark colours isn't the solution for SSu, although like all Summers, the overall darkness level of compositions is still fairly light. The idea is more of colours in the shade than colours at night.
This was so helpful. I've really been enjoying your channel. I would love to see more videos on how to shop for specific colors. I find greens especially hard to place.
Thank you for mentioning that you're enjoying the videos. I hope to do more of these demonstrations, working on one just now about navy blue. Green can be tricky for many people and I'm happy to do a video. It helps if the question can be narrowed down or I might talk about a colour family without getting to your particular point of interest. Is there a particular kind of green or a question that you're finding hard to solve?
Yes it would be interesting to hear you talk about green 💚 colours, whatever you find interesting or noteworthy 🙂 I have specific questions too... How can I more easily spot my season's green alongside lots of other greens? (Getting better at initially filtering the options by eye before doing a colour compare with colours I know work for me.) I like your videos where you show all the variations of the colour and which season they're in. Why might a bluish green suit me, but a greenish blue doesn't suit me? (I haven't had the opportunity to get a professional analysis done yet, to ask them!) How might someone wear green so that it conveys the sentiment of calmness and not jealousy? both of which green is known for. Or people saying it's like a Christmas decoration when I wear green with red 😂 But these colours can look so good together being complementary!
@@ChristineScaman I think I'm on the trail of answers to my green-blue question... I'm very intrigued. My natural colours lean cool so it makes sense that blue-ish greens would suit me. I was confused that purplish blues suit me better than greenish blues, because surely all the 'cool' blue-greens would suit me, and why would 'warm' purplish blue suit me better? But on the colour wheel blue is equal distance from yellow and red, arguably both warm colours. I read that the jury is out on which blue is warm and which is cool. Hmmmm! My question might be about blues rather than greens. Is it a unique question that doesn't apply to other colours? Could the purplish blue be suiting me because of the Summer lilac/pink showing through in blue? I'd so appreciate your insight! 🙂
@@hugbloom2664 Getting better at recognizing our Season colours, whichever colour it might be, begins with colours that look like they might match the palette swatch. It's actually easier alongside lots of similar colours because you can hold up the palette strip with the most similar green and look for a sense of continuity or belonging with the fabric. Some of the greens will be obviously wrong in some way and of those that are closer, you might work with them and the palette individually. Keep in mind that cool and warm are 1/3 of the Season decision, meaning you can have blue-greens that harmonize with cool or warm palettes, same with purple-blues. Brightness and darkness range are the other elements that determine Season, just as important as warm-cool. It's not so much that the jury is out on whether a blue is harmonious with warm or cool palettes, rather that the behaviour of blue as a pigment is less predictable for me in terms of warm and cool and I rely more heavily on brightness and darkness range to help me decide. Artists probably have technical definitions for warm and cool blue, in that red-blue makes the colour warmer and green-blue is considered cooler, since red is warm-associated on a colour wheel, but I could see a wheel as spinning in two directions. Blue is more individual, I find. I'm not a colour theorist or pigment expert, so I focus on applying Season as our clients do, in a practical way in the real world. As I read your words, I wondered also what you meant by 'suit me' and whether we would have the same opinion, from my colour analysis perspective. The blue violet might suit you just as well as blue green if they belong to the same Season. Quite a lot of variables! If ever you can experience a live analysis and work with an analyst in person, you'd love the experience :)
@@ChristineScaman thankyou for such a generous reply! 🙂 It's fascinating and thanks for giving me your experienced perspectives to ponder. For me I come to this as an artist, it's giving me great new ways to understand colors and color relationships...which are used in 3D, moving and enjoyed in daily life on the person! Perhaps the person is then an artist, born with their palette, revealed to them by the analyst!? Yes I think I'd both benefit and enjoy an analysis session, it will happen! I hope you have a good day. 🐦
I was recently typed as a dark winter, and I've always gravitated towards pastel, summery colors. Are my best light colors smoky or dusty instead of icy or pastel? I only remember seeing that season listed in the purple example.
It's a question of degrees, like every word applied to colour. Warm, cool, soft, ....compared to one colour, it could be warm, compared to another colour, it could be cool. DW light colours are soft compared to True Winter, but icy compared with Summer. They're a lot closer to TW than Summer. Overall, I'd go with bright and icy over dusty or pastel.
Icy colour for Dark Winter take me longer to choose because of the slight softness in a colour that is Winter. It helps me to know the colour is too light for any Summer and has the slight warmth of DW. Icy pink has a trace of peach. Icy blue has a trace of green. If I can find the colour in matte fabric, even better.
Slide #3. The pink sweater with the kind of ruffles on the bottom. For some reason I don’t see it as a saturated or vivid color. Mind you I am just starting my journey in this awesome adventure. I was diagnosed to be an autumn and recently found out I’m a winter... Thank you for responding my post.
I wonder if different words might help. Rather than vivid, saturated, or bright, would clear be easier to see? If not, this is a good example of why it's good to apply a few questions to find the answer. If it doesn't seem clear, you might disqualify it as pastel because it's too light for Summer palettes? It might also look softer here because of the even clearer colour next to it in #6. Keep doing what you're doing, asking questions and trying out new ideas. Changing our perceptions means letting our mind see things in ways it never has before. I appreciate your comments :)
I have noticed that the BW icy colours have a little more light than TW ones. TW icy colours look more frosty, more freeze. Bright Winter colours always look more shiny, regardless of the value level. I see some little connection between LSu and BW colours as they are two cool toned types with some Spring influence. Therefore, I believe some of their colours are relatively interchangeable if we take into consideration the value level and the fact that some LSu blue and turquoise shades have little to almost no grey in them.
For me, checking my wrist for vein color is more effortless. My veins look green on my skin; therefore, I am warm tone. For people with cool tone, veins look blue on their skin. If neither, then a person falls under neutral. It doesn't matter what ethnicity or color; the rule applies for all. I find it easier to comprehend knowing what colors fall under those elements. The winter/summer criteria are too complex. Are they more of the same guidelines, or are the winter/summer comparison techniques involved more information and knowledge? Thank you for the educational video.
I imagine that there are as many ways to arrive at an answer as there are angles from which to look at the question. I'm happy to know that you've found one that works for you :) I'm not certain whether your last question is rhetorical, but I'll offer that the process involves a different approach than observing surface colour of various features. Happy to answer any other questions.
This is a system where a person's colour type is determined by draping them and watching the face/skin to see how it reacts to the colour. More than warm/cool/neutral is involved; the degree of mutedness or brightness is also important, as well as how light or dark the colours are. There is typically a range of light-dark in each seasonal category but some categories involve a wider range and require the high contrast of this range, while other categories are low contrast. Ethnicity has no relationship to what category will be the right one for any given individual. This video is not about how to know what your category is. It is about how to distinguish between two similar seeming types of colours. Winter and Summer are both cool categories but Summer colours are cool and muted, usually with a bit of grey in the mix. Winter colours are saturated, thus seeming deeper or brighter than Summer and the lightest Winter colours are close to white, making them icy, while Summer colours are pastel which means added grey or chalkiness. I hope that helps. :-)
I am true winter and here to see if I can wear my fav color, periwinkle. I’m hoping it’s icy enough though I’m worried it might veer into light spring or such as it’s the border between light blue and purple 😢
Periwinkle is stunning on all Winters, or purple in general, as blue-violet or red-violet. It's often the colour that helps the person first see how amazing they can look and the one they receive most compliments with. I'm not so familiar with an icy or light version, although we'd want to look at the colour you have in mind specifically. The periwinkles I think of are blue violets ranging from medium to dark.
I think I am a light summer, and this about confirmed it: The medium-light 'pastels' look great, I thought light colors weren't my jam, but that was simply because I was tending towards the wintery icy's and the brightest pastels of the spring palette.
I'm glad that you found your answer. Words like Light, Soft, Dark, Bright, all have boundaries but it's not always easy to know what they are. It's good to learn techniques to recognize them. Comparisons and the other colours in the Season are what I find most useful.
I'd never understand why some light colors would work and others don't. Now I totally get it. I don't turn grey, but my lips do, specially in pictures. I look dead or if I'm cold or sth.
Glad you found it helpful :) Absolutely, for colour analysis in AU, look up True Colour International dot com dot au. Based out of Sydney with analysts in several cities, I believe.
Another good way to tell the difference between an icy color or pastel color is in the light versions and primary versions of the color. For example, an icy blue color will consist of Light Blue + White which will be a color closer to pure white. While a pastel blue color will consist of Primary Blue + White which will not have as much intensity as the former. 🥶
That seems a good and simple idea, but when I thought about it, say for the two blues in the thumbnail image, how do you tell what the initial blue pigment was?
@@ChristineScaman I just compared the values. These colors so similar in lightness, but the one on the right has a bit more blue pigment than the other so it actually appears WARMER than the other. Like ice that has been melted a bit but is still very cool.
It probably could mean that depending on the particular colour and what colour base the pigment was mixed into. Whether they're near white or have a touch more pigment, they seem to have a frosty impression that other Seasons' very light colours don't have, and of course, they work with Winter palettes.
I'm fairly sure I'm either True Summer or True Winter, but I find that light colors in general just don't look good on me. I feel washed out and muddy/bland in them, regardless if they're "pastel" or "icy". It seems as though I need at the least medium-valued depth in order to look "balanced". Could this be indicative of any particular season?
Nothing specific comes to mind. I might have a different way of looking at you wearing those colours, or you may be another Season. Even the Dark Seasons don't generally say they have trouble with light colours.
Hi! Can i ask, why do you say that summers are blue-based while winters are red-based? I thought both are blue-based as both are cool colours. Also, can you do videos on how different seasons may portray different images or give off different feels to people? Like how they may appear to people, what personality people would judge them to be based on first impression?
Right, thanks for pointing that out. I probably shouldn't make comments I only partially understand myself. Folks talk about core and energy colours for the Seasons, which is not a topic I'm familiar with either. My sense of it is ,there's an undertone to each Season, a colour that runs through all the other colours, like a wash layer under a watercolour painting, that unites all the colours together. In Summers, it's a blue-violet colour, like hydrangea or lilac. In Winter, it's red. This part, I do see, it's the basis for the lipsticks that look most belonging and sets a reference point for harmonious colours with colours that don't have blue-violet, like yellow. You're totally right though, both Summer and Winter are relatively bluer to set the coolness. The personality question with appearance may be too broad a topic for a video. I see personality as a curiosity, a fun sideline when it comes to deciding Season, and I hesitate to talk about it in any other context in such a public way. If you're interested in more thoughts I may have on appearance and character, I do have a paperback that goes into it a bit more on my website (12blueprints.com) It only ships to N. American destinations, but can ship worldwide if you connect with me by email (christine@12blueprints.com)
I do have a question. If I was a winter with my natural dark hair but because of alopecia im now wearing light to medium blondes, does that shift me from a winter to a summer? Because now I have little contrast although my wigs do have dark roots done on purpose. Could you shed some light on this? I do still look best in cool vibrant color
Changing hair colour wouldn't change Season any more than wearing Spring or Winter lipstick would make you those Seasons if you're not already. Our pigments are found in our blood and skin, and even with anemia or depigmentation of the skin, conditions that might affect blood or skin directly, Season stays the same. This said, as with many conditions and treatments, we don't have a large database to draw from of people analyzed at various times with the conditions. I've known a few clients with various forms of alopecia and Season has remained the same, including those I've re-analyzed once the condition resolves. I hope this helps, please ask if you have further questions :)
@Christine Scaman I so appreciate your response. I think this is an important question because a lot of women change their hair color particularly to blond it seems. So I would think other women not just me with alopecia would also like to know. But if you say you can't be a winter w blonde hair, no matter how I came by it, doesn't the blonde hair impact it a whole lot more than wearing a certain lipstick? I mean hair color has a huge influence on coloring. And now I've gone from a high contrast color person to a low-contrast one. I was thinking I should integrate some of the summer pallet into my wardrobe just for that simple reason
Really good thoughts and questions. It's true that blonde is a colour many women choose, from adolescence to their senior years, for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it's a big departure from their natural colouring and the colour suits them quite well, as in the Wearing Colour with Silver Hair video with Betty White, and Betty knew to continue wearing her Winter colours. Choice of hair colour and deciding how well it works are both done one person at a time. There are no rules around hair that could apply to every person in a Season; the guidelines for clothing and cosmetics in a Season are widely applicable, for all the diverse natural appearances of people in those Seasons, partly because hair colour is only a partial representation of our colours since it contains no blood, only melanin. Hair colour also has cultural interpretations, depending on where we live. Many women are blonde although they would not wear that colour in clothing, yet they frame their face with it for decades (as I once did). There are many Winters with natural blonde hair, that's entirely possible and not rare, although not the most common appearance of that group. It's actually Autumns that rarely (I can't think of any) who have naturally blonde hair in adulthood. Even Spring types are often not blonde in adulthood, although some wear it well. It's entirely true that hair colour has a huge effect on presentation and the other colours we wear. If certain Winters get the colour right, the brightness can work well, the concern being that once hair and skin colour are similar, the facial contours are less defined, like a wider face. Cosmetics and leaving some darkness visible from the crown to around the eyebrows can help tremendously, along with clothing colour helps to shape the lower half of the face. You may now be a lower contrast person but perhaps more in the sense of a Winter who has transitioned to silver or white hair. A colour area in the upper half has been replaced with a more neutral colour (as long as the blonde isn't too yellow). The way to bring balance and interest and restore the contrast may be to wear more of your Winter colours in clothing, rather than looking to a soft Season. The darker, brighter side of Summer may be of value though. I hope to post a video about pink in the next day that discusses colours that might serve both Seasons. People are Winter or Summer, but there are colours that share enough colour properties that they might be a great compromise.
@@ChristineScaman that was a great response that I can understand and do something with. I think the reason why my blond wigs suit me so well is partially because I choose rooted blonde colors which have darker roots. I often feel that the darker Roots really do ground my whole look in a way that I understand being that I'm a natural brunette. It brings back some of the drama and also makes my hair look extremely natural. Everything you said here makes sense to me. And I am looking forward to the video on pink because that's the color that I like to wear.
I'm glad to hear the information was practical and useful for you. I see more hair colour and wigs leaving natural colour visible, a step in the right direction.
I love icy colors but I have such a hard finding them. As a matter of fact I have a hard time finding any cool colors nowadays. Every thing seems to lean warm.
Icy colours are hard to find here as well. I doubt my eyes when I think I've found one. Where I have the most luck are big thrift stores with a lot of turnover. Here in Canada, we have Value Village, and I go regularly with a 'shopping list'.
I am pretty sure I am a light summer. I feel like there are very few colors that actual clothes are made with that I can wear well. Even colors I thought were good, I realize now are not. Too icy or too red. How does one find clothes????
Lots of people in the Light Seasons have the same question. In the How to Wear Summer Colours video, you can see my replies to similar questions. Patience, shopping widely from stores and sites based in those climates, shopping a lot when those colours are in your stores, thrift shopping where there's wider colour selection all the time are the basic ideas. All the Seasons have some challenge or other. In the interest of knowing what you're looking for and not filtering for 60 colours at once, it helped me to hold one colour in mind until I found it. Might have been socks or workout wear, but I had to feel certain I'd got it right. You know that if you're in N. America, you can purchase 15 colours as a set on my website, right? Also sets of 12 neutrals, even harder to colours to picture as fabric. Just FYI, in the service of knowing what you're looking for, half the challenge, but you sound as though you understand that already.
I have an idea and wonder if it would work…which one would look like it belongs next to a sparkling CZ or gemstone? I would think the pastel color would look dull and the icy shade would look nice and clean.
It would work for many people. The best way to start might be to actually take the jewelry to a few stores and try it on items you know are icy or pastel. We're so used to seeing diamond with every skin colouring and apparel that you might have to focus on looking at how the garment reacts rather than the jewelry. I have a Light Summer client who shops with a bracelet with several of her colours and she's learned to choose beautiful colours easily. I've always thought a scarf with a few of your colours might be easy to shop with too. Fabric to fabric tends to be an easier comparison than palette to fabric, especially in stores.
This is similar to how I think of it--it has to work with clear. With watercolor you can lighten colors by adding white or adding water. When you add white, the color is lighter, but becomes less transparent. When you add water, you're thinning the color so more of the white paper shows through which highlights the transparency of the color. "Icy" colors have a look like they were created with pure water (clear) rather than white.
To sum up about colour, the lowest common denominator is always 3 pieces of information. How light-dark, warm-cool, soft-bright. Pastels are darker than icy, the same coolness as the particular Summer or Winter they belong in, and softer than icy. Please ask if this is confusing though.
@@ChristineScaman Can pastels refer also to Light Spring colouring? Because the common statement about this type is, pastel colours suit them very well. And Light Spring is Summer-influenced. Therefore, the saturation of Light Spring colours is not extremely high.
@@peacefreedomandwealth I could include pastels as relevant for LSp, I'm not sure where the definition begins and ends, or if there is a technical endpoint, but since the light colours have the softness influence of Summer and are further from white, I think the term applies.
I didn't see colour this way when I started either, believe me. We don't start out as chefs or pianists, we start with curiosity and a belief that we need this skill to be in our lives, for no specific reason except that we do. I don't see colour better than anyone else, I've just been around it and thought about it in different applications. I hope these videos help you do the same :)
#5 of the blue panel, did you mean? That's a colour-perceptive observation. Could you say why you'd find it hard to imagine me wearing it, or why being Dark Winter would be a limitation? I agree with you and would love to know how you see it.
Kind of like skin sprinkled with concrete dust? 😆 What’s even more weird is putting on lipstick, thinking it is OK and then 15 minutes later, it looks grayed.
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The watery vs icy comparison was super helpful! Thank you!
You're so welcome! I'm glad you found some answers :)
The degree of nuance you put into your color observations is really impressive! I loved this topic.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm a DW, and that lavender you featured is the color that gets me the most compliments (aside from black and white).
The colour really works well, doesn't it? It can be harder to find than other icy colours, though I see it fairly often in camis to wear under jackets or sweaters.
So excellent to hear you talk thru the differences in your examples. Super helpful and I didn't realize winter is more red based vs summer being blue based. Thank you for sharing your work!!
Glad it was helpful! The red-blue balance depends on the colour, but in general, the colours that makeup up Winter tones are more saturated and visible, the same as yellow is more visible in Winter colours and give folks an idea the colour (or person) are warm in their colouring.
Your winter-yellows perception was a game changer to me, Christine. It drives me nuts how ppl tend to always equate yellow with warmth of color, as if it was all too simple, and it is not. The color knowledge you share is not only logical and coherent, it actually makes color more understandable because it's not oversimplified.
Thank you Christine - so insightful as always. I'm a bright winter and I never actually realised that bright winter pastels are different to true winter! I recently bought an iced blue dress in my colours but it washed me out a little as one block colour, and I had to pair it with fushia to make it work. I'd love to see another video where you talk about how different seasons can wear pastels, and I'd also love to hear you talk about colour combinations. Sometimes I look at all the colours in my BW palette and am not sure which colours go well together yet also give me the contrast I need as a winter!
If you're on LinkedIn, a place to find many answers is the videos I do with Jorunn Hernes, search her name to find the profile page, the videos are under Activity. We film True Winter next week, so about another week to post. Bright Winter was among the earlier ones we did. Jorunn also has a lot of Bright Winter content regarding combinations on her site at nordicsimplicity.com, combinations being one of her interests also as a Bright Winter.
@@ChristineScaman amazing, thank you so much!
Such a fine distinction to the untrained eye, yet such a big difference to how the garment suits the person! Thanks for helping to train my eye with all your videos, I enjoy it!
You're so welcome! You may find that once you're shown the difference, you notice it more in the world around you, your eye becomes sensitive to it, and that small difference seems to get bigger!
As a Light Spring I'm very glad to see this video! On Pinterest and other websites my colors are often conflated with icy ones, since icy colors obviously appear light, and I've had to learn to ignore that stereotype for building my wardrobe. I like to just compare my white strip with a color--does it seem too cool? Is the color lighter than my buttercream white? Do they look sickly together? I also like to put a color next to black and notice where my eye goes; if the color balances with the black, then it goes back on the rack.
Wow, you're doing really well. Love your approach!
Great practical tips!
That’s a great tool for when you’re about and aboit have have no colour palette. I often confuse warm and cool unless it’s obvious.
Its so useful to have these examples. I remember looking through the old Colour Me Beautiful books and thinking the icy and pastel colours looked the same.
Glad it helped. Older ink on canvas colour palettes can be that way too, icy and pastel looking the same. Maybe there were advances in printing processes, or digital formats came along 20 years later and changed what was possible.
I would love to know if there's a way to distinguish the navies from each season. They seem to be in all palettes and I have a hard time distinguishing them.
Yes that is so true
Good topic! I've made a note.
2022-23 winter season has had the worst navy for me, it’s indistinguishable from black, except in the brightest sunlight. It just looks “off” with everything and like a cheap, faded black. I wanted to get a true, classic navy 100% wool long coat this winter, but there’s nothing available in this color, so I’m holding off; it’s a big purchase that will have to last for years, so I have to love it. I hope the brighter, lighter true, classic, navy returns soon.
Yes, so confused of what is a summer navy
I just found your channel, and your videos are AMAZING! Thank you so much for making them.
You are so welcome! Thank you for being here :)
Fascinating! I love hearing how you see analyze colors with such descriptive terms. I was recently typed as a deep winter and some palettes include “icy” colors in blue, pink and lavender. It’s so helpful to hear your detailed thoughts on how you can incorporate these colors in your palette and make them work for you. I love understanding why they can work in each palette.
So many thanks! Once we understand how to think about something, our choices level up. I'm happy to have helped :)
This video reminds me that the colour theory is much more complicated than it seems :).
When I look at Light Summer palette, I see some duality in it. On the hand, the colours still have some brightness and some energy in them (I mean, when you look at yellow or red, you see no ambiguity), on the other hand, you see some softness (the added grey), but mainly when you compare these colours to Winter or Spring pallets.
Would you be able to make a video about suitable light colours for dark seasons? Because there is some misunderstanding about Dark Winter and Dark Autumn that the can pull off only deepest shades, which is obviously not true.
I vote for this topic suggestion. :)
True about Light Summer, as the saturated Summer, there are similarities with True Winter. About light colours for darker Seasons, of which you're right, there are plenty, here is a blog post that may help: www.12blueprints.com/hot-weather-colour-for-dark-winter/?v=3e8d115eb4b3
If you're still left with questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
This makes so much sense now--thank you! I love how you have multiple ways of asking a question.
Glad it was helpful! Looking at things from many angles increases understanding so much, good on you to pick up on that :)
@@ChristineScaman I think you're particularly skilled at looking at things from many different angles. So many color analysis people seem to use the same terms repeatedly, and I appreciate your variety!
I suspect i fit best in a bright winter pallet but i am nervous that i will never be able to judge these colors adequately when shopping. The differences are so subtle.
I can be nervous when I think about doing new things too. I think many of us experience that. Once we get started with the project, we take back control of our emotions and the worry settles down. We might be worried about specific aspects like finding an outfit for an event but the general anxieties subside. BW is easy enough to spot because it has a lot of colour. Many TW colours work fine for BW. Don't be concerned about colours being perfectly in Season and you'll soon be gathering better and better choices.
This was helpful, thanks. Cool, light purples were in my recommended Summer palette colors, but I eventually dropped them as being too difficult to style as separates and I think they make my skin look a little grayish, too. I dropped grays, too, they just make me look washed out and a bit tired. Every time I bought a purple top, and the one jacket I tried, I just couldn’t find a color that worked with them. My color analysis was before the subtypes were added, and I think I might be a slightly more-neutral, Soft Summer, type. I can wear some colors that don’t suit other summers, like khaki greens, but I wouldn’t say they’re my best, either. I love soft white (with no yellow undertone), and pastel blues, greens and pinks, along with cool browns and, especially the lighter version-taupe. Those warmer beiges, like camel, and browns, like cognac, that were trending for so long in the late 2010s, just don’t look very good on me. Fortunately, cooler browns appeared in 2022, at last. Darks and clear brights are no good on me at all. But no colors are as awful on me as yellows, oranges, warm reds, or worst of all, bright yellow-greens.
You're very colour perceptive, and colour-perceptive about yourself, two different things :) Soft Summer may be the one. Not sure you knew but Sci\ART colour analysis is available periodically in London UK when Jorunn Hernes of Fargeporten in Norway visits, about twice a year. Given your natural sense with colour, you might find it enlightening and resolves many of your questions.
I hadn't considered regarding the red or blue background of a color as to which version would be preferable. I'm a winter that is salt and pepper, light skin, brown eyes. This gives me an explanation as to why certain colors look 'better' to me. Love your content ❤
Great to know you found a new perspective on colour :)
wow this was SO helpful. thank you so much christine! amazing presentation
You're so welcome!
Great video again Christine! Learned a lot! Topics I’d be interested to hear about are colour examples for men and how to swatch yarn and see examples of yarns for different seasons.
Thank you, I'm appreciate your comment and knowing that you're learning as you watch. An excellent place to start for an overview of how men in each Season create their best appearance is the series of videos I've done with Jorunn Hernes, posted on her profile page at LinkedIn, here www.linkedin.com/in/jorunn-hernes-personal-colour-analyst/, under Activity. We have 3 left to complete the series. For yarn, quite a few analysts have covered this topic in the past and I think the conclusion is that it's very much like clothing made of the same textile. You might search 'yarn in colour analysis season' or something similar in Pinterest. If you have specific questions, regarding these topics, please ask.
Wow really .... the differences are so suttle but now understandable. Thank you
You're welcome 😊 I'm glad you found some new insights.
Im a bright winter and this was very helpful! Trying to find those lighter colors to wear diring warmer seasons has been a challenge!
Glad the video helped :) I agree about the icy colours for Winter, you'd think they translate well to summer fabrics, but the effect can be too soft. I find that men's dress shirts can show examples of icy colours in lightweight fabrics, but they're hard to find in styles for women.
This explains why I, a Summer, look great in pastels, but not icy colors, and my Mom, a Winter had the opposite experience. She also looked good in black, a sophisticated color that I would wear more of, if it didn’t make me look like I should be in a hospital bed!
You make a good point, that not only does the colour of clothing look different, so does a person wearing one or the other!
This is so helpful, thank you! I love icy colours, but it's so hard to find them. Your content is incredibly valuable!❤️
Glad it was helpful!
Love watching all your videos. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge. Merry Christmas, Christine!🎄🤍
You are so welcome! Happy holidays!
Great clarification. I can see why a dusty blueberry or navy would work much better with my pieces than a slightly warm and bright lilac coat like I bought. Avoiding darkish colors as a soft summer isn't always the best way to go. 😅
Right, well said. Avoiding dark colours isn't the solution for SSu, although like all Summers, the overall darkness level of compositions is still fairly light. The idea is more of colours in the shade than colours at night.
This is super helpful!
Thank you, I'm so glad that the information was useful!
This was so helpful. I've really been enjoying your channel. I would love to see more videos on how to shop for specific colors. I find greens especially hard to place.
Thank you for mentioning that you're enjoying the videos. I hope to do more of these demonstrations, working on one just now about navy blue. Green can be tricky for many people and I'm happy to do a video. It helps if the question can be narrowed down or I might talk about a colour family without getting to your particular point of interest. Is there a particular kind of green or a question that you're finding hard to solve?
Yes it would be interesting to hear you talk about green 💚 colours, whatever you find interesting or noteworthy 🙂
I have specific questions too... How can I more easily spot my season's green alongside lots of other greens? (Getting better at initially filtering the options by eye before doing a colour compare with colours I know work for me.) I like your videos where you show all the variations of the colour and which season they're in.
Why might a bluish green suit me, but a greenish blue doesn't suit me? (I haven't had the opportunity to get a professional analysis done yet, to ask them!)
How might someone wear green so that it conveys the sentiment of calmness and not jealousy? both of which green is known for. Or people saying it's like a Christmas decoration when I wear green with red 😂 But these colours can look so good together being complementary!
@@ChristineScaman I think I'm on the trail of answers to my green-blue question... I'm very intrigued. My natural colours lean cool so it makes sense that blue-ish greens would suit me. I was confused that purplish blues suit me better than greenish blues, because surely all the 'cool' blue-greens would suit me, and why would 'warm' purplish blue suit me better? But on the colour wheel blue is equal distance from yellow and red, arguably both warm colours. I read that the jury is out on which blue is warm and which is cool. Hmmmm! My question might be about blues rather than greens. Is it a unique question that doesn't apply to other colours? Could the purplish blue be suiting me because of the Summer lilac/pink showing through in blue? I'd so appreciate your insight! 🙂
@@hugbloom2664 Getting better at recognizing our Season colours, whichever colour it might be, begins with colours that look like they might match the palette swatch. It's actually easier alongside lots of similar colours because you can hold up the palette strip with the most similar green and look for a sense of continuity or belonging with the fabric. Some of the greens will be obviously wrong in some way and of those that are closer, you might work with them and the palette individually.
Keep in mind that cool and warm are 1/3 of the Season decision, meaning you can have blue-greens that harmonize with cool or warm palettes, same with purple-blues. Brightness and darkness range are the other elements that determine Season, just as important as warm-cool.
It's not so much that the jury is out on whether a blue is harmonious with warm or cool palettes, rather that the behaviour of blue as a pigment is less predictable for me in terms of warm and cool and I rely more heavily on brightness and darkness range to help me decide. Artists probably have technical definitions for warm and cool blue, in that red-blue makes the colour warmer and green-blue is considered cooler, since red is warm-associated on a colour wheel, but I could see a wheel as spinning in two directions. Blue is more individual, I find. I'm not a colour theorist or pigment expert, so I focus on applying Season as our clients do, in a practical way in the real world.
As I read your words, I wondered also what you meant by 'suit me' and whether we would have the same opinion, from my colour analysis perspective. The blue violet might suit you just as well as blue green if they belong to the same Season. Quite a lot of variables! If ever you can experience a live analysis and work with an analyst in person, you'd love the experience :)
@@ChristineScaman thankyou for such a generous reply! 🙂 It's fascinating and thanks for giving me your experienced perspectives to ponder. For me I come to this as an artist, it's giving me great new ways to understand colors and color relationships...which are used in 3D, moving and enjoyed in daily life on the person! Perhaps the person is then an artist, born with their palette, revealed to them by the analyst!? Yes I think I'd both benefit and enjoy an analysis session, it will happen! I hope you have a good day. 🐦
I was recently typed as a dark winter, and I've always gravitated towards pastel, summery colors. Are my best light colors smoky or dusty instead of icy or pastel? I only remember seeing that season listed in the purple example.
It's a question of degrees, like every word applied to colour. Warm, cool, soft, ....compared to one colour, it could be warm, compared to another colour, it could be cool. DW light colours are soft compared to True Winter, but icy compared with Summer. They're a lot closer to TW than Summer. Overall, I'd go with bright and icy over dusty or pastel.
Thank you for this video . It is not easy for my eye to see frosty quality. I would think i could wear all these blues as soft summer.
Glad it was helpful!
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Icy colors suits me better than pastels because I am a deep winter. However I need to combine them with other colors or my head will float.
Icy colour for Dark Winter take me longer to choose because of the slight softness in a colour that is Winter. It helps me to know the colour is too light for any Summer and has the slight warmth of DW. Icy pink has a trace of peach. Icy blue has a trace of green. If I can find the colour in matte fabric, even better.
@@ChristineScaman I love how you talk about those subtleties.
Slide #3. The pink sweater with the kind of ruffles on the bottom. For some reason I don’t see it as a saturated or vivid color. Mind you I am just starting my journey in this awesome adventure. I was diagnosed to be an autumn and recently found out I’m a winter...
Thank you for responding my post.
I wonder if different words might help. Rather than vivid, saturated, or bright, would clear be easier to see? If not, this is a good example of why it's good to apply a few questions to find the answer. If it doesn't seem clear, you might disqualify it as pastel because it's too light for Summer palettes? It might also look softer here because of the even clearer colour next to it in #6. Keep doing what you're doing, asking questions and trying out new ideas. Changing our perceptions means letting our mind see things in ways it never has before. I appreciate your comments :)
@@ChristineScaman thank you for the wonderful explanation.
I have noticed that the BW icy colours have a little more light than TW ones. TW icy colours look more frosty, more freeze. Bright Winter colours always look more shiny, regardless of the value level.
I see some little connection between LSu and BW colours as they are two cool toned types with some Spring influence. Therefore, I believe some of their colours are relatively interchangeable if we take into consideration the value level and the fact that some LSu blue and turquoise shades have little to almost no grey in them.
This is a good way to encapsulate them. Bright Winter is somewhat glowy, I find that too, even in matte textiles.
For me, checking my wrist for vein color is more effortless. My veins look green on my skin; therefore, I am warm tone. For people with cool tone, veins look blue on their skin. If neither, then a person falls under neutral. It doesn't matter what ethnicity or color; the rule applies for all. I find it easier to comprehend knowing what colors fall under those elements. The winter/summer criteria are too complex. Are they more of the same guidelines, or are the winter/summer comparison techniques involved more information and knowledge? Thank you for the educational video.
I imagine that there are as many ways to arrive at an answer as there are angles from which to look at the question. I'm happy to know that you've found one that works for you :) I'm not certain whether your last question is rhetorical, but I'll offer that the process involves a different approach than observing surface colour of various features. Happy to answer any other questions.
This is a system where a person's colour type is determined by draping them and watching the face/skin to see how it reacts to the colour. More than warm/cool/neutral is involved; the degree of mutedness or brightness is also important, as well as how light or dark the colours are. There is typically a range of light-dark in each seasonal category but some categories involve a wider range and require the high contrast of this range, while other categories are low contrast. Ethnicity has no relationship to what category will be the right one for any given individual. This video is not about how to know what your category is. It is about how to distinguish between two similar seeming types of colours. Winter and Summer are both cool categories but Summer colours are cool and muted, usually with a bit of grey in the mix. Winter colours are saturated, thus seeming deeper or brighter than Summer and the lightest Winter colours are close to white, making them icy, while Summer colours are pastel which means added grey or chalkiness. I hope that helps. :-)
@@notbroken4342 Thank you!
I am true winter and here to see if I can wear my fav color, periwinkle. I’m hoping it’s icy enough though I’m worried it might veer into light spring or such as it’s the border between light blue and purple 😢
Periwinkle is stunning on all Winters, or purple in general, as blue-violet or red-violet. It's often the colour that helps the person first see how amazing they can look and the one they receive most compliments with. I'm not so familiar with an icy or light version, although we'd want to look at the colour you have in mind specifically. The periwinkles I think of are blue violets ranging from medium to dark.
I think I am a light summer, and this about confirmed it: The medium-light 'pastels' look great, I thought light colors weren't my jam, but that was simply because I was tending towards the wintery icy's and the brightest pastels of the spring palette.
I'm glad that you found your answer. Words like Light, Soft, Dark, Bright, all have boundaries but it's not always easy to know what they are. It's good to learn techniques to recognize them. Comparisons and the other colours in the Season are what I find most useful.
I'd never understand why some light colors would work and others don't. Now I totally get it. I don't turn grey, but my lips do, specially in pictures. I look dead or if I'm cold or sth.
There you go. You got it :)
Really great Christine! So helpful . I live in Australia, do you have any contacts for analysts here ?
Glad you found it helpful :) Absolutely, for colour analysis in AU, look up True Colour International dot com dot au. Based out of Sydney with analysts in several cities, I believe.
Another good way to tell the difference between an icy color or pastel color is in the light versions and primary versions of the color. For example, an icy blue color will consist of Light Blue + White which will be a color closer to pure white. While a pastel blue color will consist of Primary Blue + White which will not have as much intensity as the former. 🥶
That seems a good and simple idea, but when I thought about it, say for the two blues in the thumbnail image, how do you tell what the initial blue pigment was?
@@ChristineScaman I just compared the values. These colors so similar in lightness, but the one on the right has a bit more blue pigment than the other so it actually appears WARMER than the other. Like ice that has been melted a bit but is still very cool.
That's really good, thank you. Icy is still frozen, pastel looks a bit melted like a liquid, or at least not frozen solid. Excellent!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
If I wanted to compare an icy version of a color to a pastel, how would I alter a HSV, HSL, or LCH graph?
Thanks in advance!
I wish I could help but I'm not familiar with those types of graphs or how you'd want to compare them.
Icy always confused me. I thought it meant ‘nearly white’, like Dulux’s ‘hint of’ range.
It probably could mean that depending on the particular colour and what colour base the pigment was mixed into. Whether they're near white or have a touch more pigment, they seem to have a frosty impression that other Seasons' very light colours don't have, and of course, they work with Winter palettes.
I'm fairly sure I'm either True Summer or True Winter, but I find that light colors in general just don't look good on me. I feel washed out and muddy/bland in them, regardless if they're "pastel" or "icy". It seems as though I need at the least medium-valued depth in order to look "balanced". Could this be indicative of any particular season?
Nothing specific comes to mind. I might have a different way of looking at you wearing those colours, or you may be another Season. Even the Dark Seasons don't generally say they have trouble with light colours.
Hi! Can i ask, why do you say that summers are blue-based while winters are red-based? I thought both are blue-based as both are cool colours. Also, can you do videos on how different seasons may portray different images or give off different feels to people? Like how they may appear to people, what personality people would judge them to be based on first impression?
Right, thanks for pointing that out. I probably shouldn't make comments I only partially understand myself. Folks talk about core and energy colours for the Seasons, which is not a topic I'm familiar with either. My sense of it is ,there's an undertone to each Season, a colour that runs through all the other colours, like a wash layer under a watercolour painting, that unites all the colours together. In Summers, it's a blue-violet colour, like hydrangea or lilac. In Winter, it's red. This part, I do see, it's the basis for the lipsticks that look most belonging and sets a reference point for harmonious colours with colours that don't have blue-violet, like yellow. You're totally right though, both Summer and Winter are relatively bluer to set the coolness.
The personality question with appearance may be too broad a topic for a video. I see personality as a curiosity, a fun sideline when it comes to deciding Season, and I hesitate to talk about it in any other context in such a public way. If you're interested in more thoughts I may have on appearance and character, I do have a paperback that goes into it a bit more on my website (12blueprints.com) It only ships to N. American destinations, but can ship worldwide if you connect with me by email (christine@12blueprints.com)
I do have a question. If I was a winter with my natural dark hair but because of alopecia im now wearing light to medium blondes, does that shift me from a winter to a summer? Because now I have little contrast although my wigs do have dark roots done on purpose. Could you shed some light on this? I do still look best in cool vibrant color
Changing hair colour wouldn't change Season any more than wearing Spring or Winter lipstick would make you those Seasons if you're not already. Our pigments are found in our blood and skin, and even with anemia or depigmentation of the skin, conditions that might affect blood or skin directly, Season stays the same. This said, as with many conditions and treatments, we don't have a large database to draw from of people analyzed at various times with the conditions. I've known a few clients with various forms of alopecia and Season has remained the same, including those I've re-analyzed once the condition resolves. I hope this helps, please ask if you have further questions :)
@Christine Scaman I so appreciate your response. I think this is an important question because a lot of women change their hair color particularly to blond it seems. So I would think other women not just me with alopecia would also like to know. But if you say you can't be a winter w blonde hair, no matter how I came by it, doesn't the blonde hair impact it a whole lot more than wearing a certain lipstick? I mean hair color has a huge influence on coloring. And now I've gone from a high contrast color person to a low-contrast one. I was thinking I should integrate some of the summer pallet into my wardrobe just for that simple reason
Really good thoughts and questions. It's true that blonde is a colour many women choose, from adolescence to their senior years, for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it's a big departure from their natural colouring and the colour suits them quite well, as in the Wearing Colour with Silver Hair video with Betty White, and Betty knew to continue wearing her Winter colours.
Choice of hair colour and deciding how well it works are both done one person at a time. There are no rules around hair that could apply to every person in a Season; the guidelines for clothing and cosmetics in a Season are widely applicable, for all the diverse natural appearances of people in those Seasons, partly because hair colour is only a partial representation of our colours since it contains no blood, only melanin. Hair colour also has cultural interpretations, depending on where we live. Many women are blonde although they would not wear that colour in clothing, yet they frame their face with it for decades (as I once did).
There are many Winters with natural blonde hair, that's entirely possible and not rare, although not the most common appearance of that group. It's actually Autumns that rarely (I can't think of any) who have naturally blonde hair in adulthood. Even Spring types are often not blonde in adulthood, although some wear it well.
It's entirely true that hair colour has a huge effect on presentation and the other colours we wear. If certain Winters get the colour right, the brightness can work well, the concern being that once hair and skin colour are similar, the facial contours are less defined, like a wider face. Cosmetics and leaving some darkness visible from the crown to around the eyebrows can help tremendously, along with clothing colour helps to shape the lower half of the face.
You may now be a lower contrast person but perhaps more in the sense of a Winter who has transitioned to silver or white hair. A colour area in the upper half has been replaced with a more neutral colour (as long as the blonde isn't too yellow). The way to bring balance and interest and restore the contrast may be to wear more of your Winter colours in clothing, rather than looking to a soft Season. The darker, brighter side of Summer may be of value though. I hope to post a video about pink in the next day that discusses colours that might serve both Seasons. People are Winter or Summer, but there are colours that share enough colour properties that they might be a great compromise.
@@ChristineScaman that was a great response that I can understand and do something with. I think the reason why my blond wigs suit me so well is partially because I choose rooted blonde colors which have darker roots. I often feel that the darker Roots really do ground my whole look in a way that I understand being that I'm a natural brunette. It brings back some of the drama and also makes my hair look extremely natural. Everything you said here makes sense to me. And I am looking forward to the video on pink because that's the color that I like to wear.
I'm glad to hear the information was practical and useful for you. I see more hair colour and wigs leaving natural colour visible, a step in the right direction.
I love icy colors but I have such a hard finding them. As a matter of fact I have a hard time finding any cool colors nowadays. Every thing seems to lean warm.
Icy colours are hard to find here as well. I doubt my eyes when I think I've found one. Where I have the most luck are big thrift stores with a lot of turnover. Here in Canada, we have Value Village, and I go regularly with a 'shopping list'.
I am pretty sure I am a light summer. I feel like there are very few colors that actual clothes are made with that I can wear well. Even colors I thought were good, I realize now are not. Too icy or too red. How does one find clothes????
Lots of people in the Light Seasons have the same question. In the How to Wear Summer Colours video, you can see my replies to similar questions. Patience, shopping widely from stores and sites based in those climates, shopping a lot when those colours are in your stores, thrift shopping where there's wider colour selection all the time are the basic ideas. All the Seasons have some challenge or other. In the interest of knowing what you're looking for and not filtering for 60 colours at once, it helped me to hold one colour in mind until I found it. Might have been socks or workout wear, but I had to feel certain I'd got it right. You know that if you're in N. America, you can purchase 15 colours as a set on my website, right? Also sets of 12 neutrals, even harder to colours to picture as fabric. Just FYI, in the service of knowing what you're looking for, half the challenge, but you sound as though you understand that already.
I have an idea and wonder if it would work…which one would look like it belongs next to a sparkling CZ or gemstone? I would think the pastel color would look dull and the icy shade would look nice and clean.
It would work for many people. The best way to start might be to actually take the jewelry to a few stores and try it on items you know are icy or pastel. We're so used to seeing diamond with every skin colouring and apparel that you might have to focus on looking at how the garment reacts rather than the jewelry. I have a Light Summer client who shops with a bracelet with several of her colours and she's learned to choose beautiful colours easily. I've always thought a scarf with a few of your colours might be easy to shop with too. Fabric to fabric tends to be an easier comparison than palette to fabric, especially in stores.
This is similar to how I think of it--it has to work with clear. With watercolor you can lighten colors by adding white or adding water. When you add white, the color is lighter, but becomes less transparent. When you add water, you're thinning the color so more of the white paper shows through which highlights the transparency of the color. "Icy" colors have a look like they were created with pure water (clear) rather than white.
Pastel is Easter. Think Peeps or the sale section at target the day after Easter. Icy is Elsa from Frozen.
That's it :)
To sum up - pastels are lightened colours, but darker than icy ones?
To sum up about colour, the lowest common denominator is always 3 pieces of information. How light-dark, warm-cool, soft-bright. Pastels are darker than icy, the same coolness as the particular Summer or Winter they belong in, and softer than icy. Please ask if this is confusing though.
@@ChristineScaman Can pastels refer also to Light Spring colouring? Because the common statement about this type is, pastel colours suit them very well. And Light Spring is Summer-influenced. Therefore, the saturation of Light Spring colours is not extremely high.
@@peacefreedomandwealth I could include pastels as relevant for LSp, I'm not sure where the definition begins and ends, or if there is a technical endpoint, but since the light colours have the softness influence of Summer and are further from white, I think the term applies.
I confess that I do not always see this degree of nuance. I guess I am not destined to be a colour analyst. Lol
I didn't see colour this way when I started either, believe me. We don't start out as chefs or pianists, we start with curiosity and a belief that we need this skill to be in our lives, for no specific reason except that we do. I don't see colour better than anyone else, I've just been around it and thought about it in different applications. I hope these videos help you do the same :)
Now that you mentioned that you are dark winter, as I am, I’m having a hard time seeing you in garment number 5
#5 of the blue panel, did you mean? That's a colour-perceptive observation. Could you say why you'd find it hard to imagine me wearing it, or why being Dark Winter would be a limitation? I agree with you and would love to know how you see it.
Too powdery and muted on me gives me fat face syndrome.
Gives me chalk face :) You're in good company.
Kind of like skin sprinkled with concrete dust? 😆 What’s even more weird is putting on lipstick, thinking it is OK and then 15 minutes later, it looks grayed.
@@Teenitesy "sprinkled with concrete dust" is the exact awful effect definition. All color seems to be drained away.