As someone who also went to artschool and is a graphic designer and knows color theory by heart, I believe it's also a matter of what you want to communicate and/or achieve as a vibe. To take you as an example: your bright spring look is giving off major bubbly and artistic vibes over the more edgy sophisticated vibes you gave off before. And I think it's a good thing to ask yourself which vibes you resonate with more. I'm a light spring who loves edgy and cool/effortless vibes and I actually used that information to continue doing so. Edgy means disharmony, so I try to wear my most harmonious disharmonious clothing. If I were to wear my light spring palette, I'd probably look ethereal and sweet and bubbly. Not my jam at all. My point is that even if you don't want to follow your season, you can still use the color theory behind it to communicate or achieve what you want to - and that is also something that people should know imo :)
That's a great point. I remind people that the purpose of color analysis is to find the colors that most harmonize with your natural coloring. They will make you look healthier, younger, and smooth out your skin. But yes you could use that knowledge to create disharmony if going for goth, grunge, heroine chic, or a costume for a play to make you look older or sickly for a certain role.
I remember when you wrote on blog, that you're summer with winter colouring, but you remind me a lot of my friend that is bright spring and you both have fair skin, brown hair, eye colour the same. Bright springs are very misunderstood. You're glowing in this palette. I love it❤
So interesting that you’re now seeing yourself as bright spring and you used to think you were summer. I’m feeling the exact opposite right now - I thought I was a bright spring, but now suddenly I’m seeing myself as a soft summer. I love that you can always change your mind.
Don't be surprised if you misdiagnosed your color season. The drapes are designed to determine where you harmonize along the spectrum of each color characteristic: Chroma Hue Value The eye isn't great at seeing true colors but it's really good at seeing contrast even when subtle. Also for accuracy, you need good full spectrum lighting or natural light during midday. And you should be surrounded by neutral colors so something doesn't cast a strong color onto your face.
I had an in-person sci-art analysis with a woman who has been in the profession for over 20 years and was typed as a bright spring also, but struggled a lot with accepting the results. I did notice a 'glow' and harmony with bright spring, but I also noticed if I were to drape myself on video (not photos) with a variety of colors, the soft summer palette gave me a very strong moonlit look, and noticed I would get a ton of compliments in that palette. When I would compare (on video) the soft summer with the bright spring, my skin would no longer retain a glow in bright spring. So I ordered two other virtual anslyses from Carol Brailey and the colour studio ladies and was again typed bright spring by them too! I have come to the conclusion in nearly 2 years since my in person analysis that I think there are two ways of viewing a drape: one is that your colors should flow into the drape and that the palette supports you, or two, that you are looking for a sheen, a freshness, an iridescence from within the skin. I don't think there is one way to analyze someone, hence all the different systems out there. I feel like I honestly look great in both soft summer and bright spring, and generally think people can look good in more than one palette if they wear the right makeup and jewelry.
I've had multiple online color analyses done (that I PAID for) that gave me deep winter, true summer, soft autumn, and soft summer 🙃 then I got an in-person analysis and was typed as a warm autumn. my ghasts were flabbered because I was convinced I was cool-neutral. I think I blacked out for more of the analysis after she said my season haha. I'm now a firm believer in the in-person method. There was another girl in a group with me who turned out to be bright spring and she was incredibly resistant to it; the color analyst said she even has a 'support group' for her bright spring clients because the color palette can be jarring for people
I totally think in person is the best! Any really online shouldn’t ever be done without years of experience. Also yes, in my training she said ppl either are terrified or overjoyed by bright spring at first 😂 so glad you found warm autumn (eventually!)
Can I say, you are the first person who made me want to get professionally draped. I've always DIY'd as a Dark Winter, but... your DIY vs draping result is so dramatic, it does make me wonder about myself! Who knows, maybe I really am a DW. But hello, fresh interest in getting a professional perspective, haha. (Though I do have apprehensions about the fact that sometimes even the 'professionals' disagree with each other, and people struggle for years in a professionally draped 'wrong' palette before getting redraped into something that suits them much better.)
I think this is when studying the systems and finding an analyst you really trust and like is important. I studied Sci/Art because their explanations and system resonated with me. Not all systems value the same results and so this is huge if you want to get results that make sense in your brain. I am so glad I got trained and also got my colors verified. But everyone has their own journey. I don't think I was open to being a bright spring before i saw it with my own eyes
I've been very easily influenced over the years from commenter feedback (still working on this) and SO many ppl told me summer. But the final results of my analysis were bright winter vs bright spring, so you were very close!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign I think summer must be the most "suggested" season to people in general.. Maybe because it seems "safe"? like yea you look "stereotypically" cool-ish and kinda medium-ish value/chroma? You're a summer! I was also told by the internet that I was a summer, but got analyzed by a sci-art professional in-person and turned out to be a True Winter.
My jaw dropped to the floor when I read your Instagram story revealing your actual season. I was 100% on board with dark summer for you. As a fellow light skinned brunette who has been typed a soft winter I felt we were pretty similar and it made sense to me. But *WOW*, do these bright colors make you glow! You look stunning! And I agree that your whole vibe has changed! I again almost fell from my chair when Andrea Pflaumer suggested IRG for you because you were so very clearly Natural (and romantic and dramatic) in my eyes! But in the interview with her, you looked so youthful, glowy and bubbly.. I was first thinking "she's just saying that because the bright colors make her look different, she doesn’t really "know" Gabby like we do. But then I realized, it was probably the opposite, and wearing the wrong palette was giving you a "stern" vibe reading as more yang than you actually are. I can picture you pulling off even something like a pin up style in this new palette! So yes, I do see RG, but still refuse to believe you don't have natural in your blend! I would love to see you re-explore your essence blend now with the right colors! ❤
Haha, I know it's been a surprising journey so far! I think maybe I could have some natural as a small element of my blend, but kitchener does view natural differently than Kibbe. I think Liv Tyler is a great example of this and I've been loosely compared to her. Shes verified as heavily IR in kitchener and is a kibbe FN. Now, I fairly confident in my Kibbe FN (although who knows maybe I'll go see him and we will tell me something equally shocking lol, at this point not ruling that out!) so I think that relaxed quality works for me. It's going to be interesting expanding the IR in my blend and the touches of G. I think I always tried too much G in the past, so maybe that's why I thought i had exhausted my attempts. I do plan to share some of my journey with these pivots but probably not for a bit. Still in my messy middle. I do think these bright colors have helped shift it and seem more feasible in my brain though!
Dare I say you were moving in the right direction even when you thought you were a winter! Bright spring is closer to being a winter (a bright winter that is, not so much the other ones) than any other spring type. Kind of like light spring is akin to light summer, warm spring to warm autumn etc. But regardless, now I definitely see that bright spring is your color palette. You're glowing. Congrats on getting typed correctly! 💗
Yes, I think winter was closer. But I was actually so convinced I wasn't bright that I was looking at deep winter lol. But when we did my analysis we did come down to bright winter versus bright spring, so it was very illuminating to see!
I’m looking forward to seeing more content about your wardrobe transition! Im going from thinking I was a bright spring to being professionally typed as a soft summer. It was too overwhelming for me to overhaul my wardrobe all at once so I focused in on the two qualities that make the biggest difference for me: soft and neutral. Anything too warm, too cool, or too bright is being phased out. I’ll deal with the fine tuning of more specific colors at a later time, but I’m not getting that detailed quite yet. I’m so close to neutral that slightly warm or slightly cool doesn’t matter as much on me.
Bright seasons typically have the most varied visual spectrum in terms of coloring. And I think we assume that bright seasons will literally "glow" in real life and appear super bright, when really we all just look like humans and we all shine when we wear the right season!
@@GabriellearrudadesignAgreed! My good friend was also typed as a bright spring and I was shocked! But seeing her in her colors it makes complete sense. Bright seasons are very misunderstood. I think people are also intimidated by a bright palette, but on the right person those colors don’t look especially bright, just harmonious.
When typing myself, I assumed soft autumn bc of eye color (green grey) and my brown hair that is turning grey. (Which is pretty darn silver) and light olive skin which tans easily. (Olive skin is actually neutral to cool!) Anyway, thinking I was soft autumn, I dressed in browns and olives a lot and just felt so ugly. Those colors just pulled so many shadows on my face. Eye bags, jowls, double chin. It took a lot of mental untangling to see myself as bright season. Weirdly anticdotal, I would gravitate towards BW makeup, hot pink blush and electric blue mascara bc they look good on me. (If this is you too, it's a sign, do not ignore this!) My lime green obsession should have also been a clue. Anyway,.going back to my bright makeup and popping on a bright top makes the icky face shadows disappear and I feel so much less frumpy. Cool, clear and bright has become my color mantra. That said, I still want to get draped and see what someone else has to say on it.😂
When watching you try gamine styles I thought that maybe you were a bright spring because while not being super flattering the more colourful styles suited you :) it is very nice to see that you found your season and started to rock colourful styles in your lines!
I never loved you in cool colors before and would think absently to myself as I was watching you- what is her season? Now, that blush and lip are STUNNING on you. Just confirms you are definitely warm. As a Warm FN, I'm excited to see your new style choices and get inspired.
I struggled with being typed as a deep winter or deep autumn every single time by quizzes and people who did online analysis. But then, I made friends online who do this work as a hobby and for a profession, did my own analysis with a couple of hobbyists, and realized the discomfort with winter and autumn (and deep tbh) were because I'm a spring! I'm pretty sure I am a warm spring that can "pull off" blues and brights a bit more than others due to being olive, since some bright spring shades are overwhelming, autumn is too soft, summer tones make me look sallow, and the coolest/deepest winter colors drain me. A lot of people with nonwhite backgrounds or who identify as BIPOC struggle with color analysis because it is so centered on the relative coloring of white people. So many of us with dark hair and eyes are automatically considered too deep for spring and summer, whereas we may be one of those after all. I love all sorts of colors, though, so I mostly use the system to determine my "easy," "medium," and "effortful" colors. Easy is warm spring tones with some warm autumn and bright spring, medium is bright/light spring/some bright winter, and effortful is pulled from other seasons. I'll need the most thoughtfully selected makeup or even heavy makeup for effortful, light makeup at a minimum for medium, and I can be bare faced and know I will photograph well with easy level clothes.
You look utterly radiant in those colors and that lipstick! Oh my! Welcome to the spring family. I am a warm spring in the 12 seasons system. I also thought I was soft and muted before I was analyzed. It's been a few years and I'm still on my journey.
You look radiant in that red! ❤ I'm also having some bright spring envy here, love that look, but I'm probably a soft autumn myself, so bright colours ain't happening, unfortunately. 😅 Wish they'd look good on me.
I think every palette is beautiful. We all have envy at times! Especially when I'm shopping and find the perfect dress for my essences but it's a beautiful muted pink haha
I remember when I was still guessing my season, I was stuck between spring and winter, but both seemed to be "too amazing for me" as I'm quite a reserved person. And when holding colours against my face "either spring or maybe bright winter? But it can't be bright spring anyway, because everyone says they are extremely rare". Surprise, bright spring.
I have watched your videos over the past few years and I have to see these colours look amazing on you. The brightness works. As I was watching I thought I bet Christine Scaman taught her… (I always appreciate her accuracy and I can hear it in your voice to) I can see from the above comments that she did! I was sci-art analysed 3yrs ago as a light spring and I opened up a whole world of fun for me. I enjoy the process of ‘seeing’, it’s not just about clothes. Enjoy your new colours, they look fabulous
"Seeing" the results is amazing. I was shocked to be BS but i also couldn't doubt it because we did so many strategic comparisons to find my season, it became very obvious at the end. Christine is amazing, I was so honored and excited to be trained by her. Now, I'm just sharpening and practicing my skills!
As many other bright season people I thought I was a summer and I was told I was a summer. Looking good in occasional bright colours was registered as a fluke in my mind rather than a hint. I was so brainwashed to think I was a summer that only recently when colour analysis made a resurgence with a lot of new approaches I started to question summer pallette. After extensive self-draping over these years both digital and physical I discovered bright flow (I use 16 season system) consistently looks the best and muted flow is the worst. And I'm more neutral in temperature than I expected. Warm flow gives me yellowing effect, cool flow greying effect. And the most important thing I'm sensitive to is saturation. At this point I can see someone typing me as either bright spring or bright winter depending on the system and on the specialist and I can see the reasoning behind the results. So I just stick with bright flow palette.
Yes it's funny right, because now I can so clearly see muted colors drain my face, but you get told "summer" so many times you just assume it's right. Glad you've found your place with a bright flow!
Happy for you Gabrielle! The orangey-red is very flattering on you. I noticed it immediately in the Andrea Pflaumer vid. I remember some of your older vids when you wore a cool red lip and I always thought it felt off but probably my personal dislike of red in general. I've never had a pro analysis, but feel pretty confident in my soft autumn palette. I've cringed at the way some colors look on me and steer clear of those.
That's great that you were able to find your palette and have that eye to know when a color was wrong. ANd yes, I was so convinced I was cool that my journey to find the right "red" lipstick was plagued by failures. Very happy to have found my reds, because they are one of my favorite colors
I can totally see you as bright spring! Lol I was mistyped by friends as a warm autumn all my life, then I booked a session with a trained, certified color analyst (color analysis studio, the 2 italian ladies) and turns out I am a Cool Winter!! I am completly cool😅 Before that I constantly struggled with both undertone and intensity because my own and friends ”typing” was dead wrong. Now it’s a breeze🤓 so worth it.
Yes I think when multiple elements of a season aren't working, it's time to go back and re-drape. I had the same experience where i couldn't get undertone or chroma right. Glad you found your season!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Thank you 😍 I am so glad you did this training, it feels like the missing piece that will pull all your creative talent together and lift it to a new level! Would you say the training trained your eye in a new way, changed your perception? I know some people offer color analysis without actual training but I am convinced the training (with a good trainer!!) is necessery to get it right. I guess you trained with Cristine S🤓 she is lovely!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign just gotta add- there is something increadibly refreshing with those colors on you! It is like you came out of a spa or something, the colors don’t overpower you at all…they just look completly natural on you! Yeeeey!!! You found YOU🤩🥳😂😂😂😍
Oh, my gosh! I always thought you were the poster child for a cool skin tone! You look great in that outfit, though, and I'm glad you found some answers. I got analyzed through house of color, which I'm sure is a great program, but I didn't click with the person who color analyzed me, and she was really new. She said I was a spring, and then she identified my "best colors." What I really wanted, though, was for her to put me square into a sub-season because I felt like that would give me more guidance going forward. I agreed that I was a spring, but I just didn't get enough information. Then, I paid for an analysis by Carol Brailey, who you can find here on youtube, and she typed me as a warm spring, which is honestly a completely different set of colors than what was recommended to me from the house of color consultant. In Brailey's analysis system, true spring is a completely different palette from warm spring, so the results were pretty different. Anyway, I got what I needed from Brailey, and I'm glad I had my analysis double-checked for more info. I also wish that I had felt more comfortable with my first analyst because then I would have been able to ask her more specific questions. So, your advice is right on. This stuff is expensive. Make sure you ask all the questions!
@@rachellopez8357 Interesting about the true palettes...same goes for true autumn. The palette for that has really deep colours. I bought some palettes from Carol. I'm glad you have a better grasp of what works for you now.
There is something interesting that you mentioned. I also am familiar with color theory. I have various training in Makeup and the Beauty industry. I find it more difficult to "see" me. My basic wardrobe is black(due to having yellow hair) and wanted a simple look. I finally made a hair color change and am finally stepping into the world of color for my wardrobe as a result. I feel like I'd go to a color analysis because maybe I'm biased or just blind to seeing my most complimentary pallets etc. You look so vibrant and fresh. I love it.
I think it is really hard to identify yourself, and I felt like i had trouble seeing some of the things on me (my innate bias and feedback was also a problem). I think finding a system you like and respect and then getting an analysis done can be incredibly validating. Then you use all your color skills to actually build a wardrobe you love!
I think it takes a lot of time to train our eyes, that’s why DIY is so hard. I always thought I was cool toned too, but now I think I’m a spring. No one saw spring in me either when I was asking for feedback in the groups just soft summer or true summer. I never felt really right in those colors. I felt they removed color from my features, soft summer, or made me super high contrast (the brighter summer colors and winter colors) with very pale skin, ghostly white and dark brown hair. I think I’m a light spring, but I’m a little afraid of claiming that season since I have medium brown hair and they’re usually portrayed as being blonde. Spring colors give me color, they bring out the natural color variation of my hair
I think stereotypes are there to show a "easy" example but that they limit our thinking of a season. I also think training our eyes and learning color theory can be so helpful even after you determine your season (because that's when identifying colors really comes in handy!). Don't be afraid to explore a season based on a common stereotype. As I said, like one person out thousands ever said BS for me
Im also a bright spring. I was always told i was cool toned by my mother. Im a lighter complected mexican american. My mom is dark (native mexican appearance) and she always assumed light equals cool and darker tones were warm. I lived all of high school dressing as if i was a dark winter. I now know i am warm undertone. I used to be stuck thinking i may be deep autumn but look awful in muted tones. I am convinced im bright spring after starting to incorporate the palette. Ive seen selena gomez labeled as dark winter, deep autumn and brighr spring. Its a pitfall our ethnic background seems to face when analyzed
John Kitchener says that is rare that one person can stick to only one color season. I'm a soft autumn but I can borrow from summer and some spring too 🤷🏼♀️
@@Gaerys The reason you can borrow is because of how the seasons relate to each other on the color wheel. Theres a lot more nuance to borrowing colors than people assume. You can borrow from summer bc of how they relate to being soft autumn. Autumn is between the seasons of summer and spring so of course there is overlap. You can absolutely borrow colors bc they touch your preferred palette on the wheel. But all of this emphasizes how important your true season is. You can see how and why behind everything.
I also recently got my colours done and I’m a light spring with a seasonal colour do dark autumn. I was so surprised with light spring because I’m asian, and always felt that because of my black hair, and was super yellow. So it was interesting to see how you can have multiple seasons.
i had you propped up on my windowsill whilst i was washing up and this video has factiming your long distance friend energy 😂 but that information is super interesting, i wish i was in NY so i could book you!!
Great post, totally agree. Love your new bright spring colours.. You look amazing. I may have picked you as a bright but the temperature is difficult when you're fair. I feel I may be a bright spring...but need to do as you did. I'm also fair and fairly neutral but lean slightly warm. Think I may find out more about the training as this would be something I really enjoy.
Training was fantastic but it is a big time and money investment. I would also just study the different systems if you want to pick the right analyst for a professional confirmation. That's what can give you a lot of peace of mind!
I've had an in-person and online colour analysis and I was typed as an autumn both times. The difference was the in-person one typed me as dark autumn with dark winter as my sister season, and the online typed me as true autumn (not warm autumn, just an autumn able to wear all three autumn sub-seasons with no sister season). For me it cemented the colours that I already gravitated towards - and that I don't have a cool undertone!
Everyone i talk to (none professionals except one makeup artist friend) is always split between bright winter for me or bright spring so i just look for contrast for now. Someday i might get it done professionally in person
Awww yeah I’ve been waiting for this! I’m a new Bright Spring and when I heard you were too I was thrilled. Love all the BS colours on you and I can’t wait to see more (that I’ll use as inspo 😊)
The more I’ve gone into seasonal colour analysis the more I’m like I’m just gonna wear the colours I like and feel good in. Sometimes that changes day to day
When I use to try to figure out my colors I completely dismissed spring as an option for years. It seems like spring is a tough one for people. I love your warm reds. You look glowing.
Unfortunately my only in person option in my area is House of Color and they typed me as a winter. :/ I think I was mistyped because I’m pretty sure I’m light. As much as I love black it can make the bags under my eyes more pronounced. I think I’m a light spring but still feel lost, maybe because I am reluctant to try light spring colors. They look ingenue-ish and I like looking mature, bold, and edgy. Love your content and excited to see more of your color blogs on Warm spring and light spring.
Thank you! I think colors can relate to many different styles. The light palettes still have options for bold and mature. Also, you should check out my teacher Christine Scaman's youtube channel. She has a series the best blacks for each season and pure black isn't always winters "best" option.
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Thanks. I’ll give it a watch. Even though I got typed by House of Color I don’t think they got my coloring right I think I’m a spring or summer (maybe Soft autumn) but Winter just seems off. I’m dark for a blond but they said I was Burnish winter (aka dark winter). And though I’m nuetral I think I lean slightly warm.
Excited to see your wardrobe changes...I was draped 4 years ago and still working on it.🤔 Definitely doing better but still working on it. I was draped a paintbox spring but my lifestyle is not so much. I feel like my personality is too out there, too yang to handle the bright. I always felt it made me come in like a bull dozer🤪 I've embraced it more and more and realized it seems to tone it down, somehow??? I don't really understand it???😏
I think yang and bright can go beautifully together! You learn to customize it and find different parts of your palette you are drawn towards. I love the orangey reds in my palettes so I'm starting there. But I will definitely keep everyone updates on the transition and how I think you can merge these aspects together
🎉 Congrats! I had a similar journey: prior to analysis and was convinced I was cool but turns out I'm a warm autumn! I ❤ my palette. Controversial take: Not wearing black makes for bolder more interesting style since everyone wears black like it's a uniform. Where I live almoat everyone is terrified of colour.
@@Gabriellearrudadesign🎉 That's how I stated too. I put all black black in storage oddly I felt like I had more clothes because it was less crammed/easy to find stuff. I didn't miss it so now I started donating it.
As soon as I saw the bright red pinstripes and lipstick I knew you were a bright spring! I'm the same palette and it was a surprise to me too. I was also skeptical at first, but once I introduced warm/bright make up (such as pink/peach eyeshadow, bright coral blush, vibrant orange-red lipstick, etc.) it was like seeing my face properly for the first time. These colors make me feel like myself now
I am glad you found your colours!! You really look awesome in these tones. I think the clothing / draping shows us so much more sometimes than the idea or what a season should look like: my bf is ginger, by many guides he would be a spring - autumn. However, in warm tones he looks sick and ruddy. He is actually cool toned . His red hair is actually made up of lots of cool sandy tones ( like a topaz colour ) so it has a lot of grey if we were to mix that as a paint, he has very cool dark blue eyes and very cool toned pale skin. In winter tones ( dark winter usually) he shines, his eyes are a emphasised, his hair looks vibrant, his skin looks porcelain. But we only know that from having seen him in all those colours.
Gabby have you ever looked into David Zyla’s colour theory? I would love to hear your thoughts and analysis on it. Also, whoa! Never thought of you as a Spring, will have to get used to the idea 😂
I'm also a "paintbox" spring according to house of colour and secondary "pastel", so similar. I really wondered with you, because I thought you had too much contrast to be summer, but your eyes are so warm.
It's funny because I felt I had contrast too but not enough for winter... And my eyes were just a toss up for me because they have so many colors in them. Glad you found your home in paintbox spring!
As someone who’s been trying to DIY her colors now and has run the gamut from DA to DW to TW/BW (no color analysts in the country, can’t afford to travel to some other place) my biggest fear is that someone who knows what they’re doing is eventually going to tell me I’m doing it wrong, and I don’t look alive in bright colors, I look garish, or overwhelmed. I try my best to aim for colors that I think look good on me, regardless of “season” (though there are clearly some commonalities ie I really think I am cool toned) and then maybe if I ever get confirmation from a trained eye it won’t be so bad a shift because I’ll still look good in what I have.
Well, someone telling you you're doing it wrong isn't always a bad thing. You learn to apply all that knowledge in a new way. There are a few very seasoned online analysts like Carol Brailey you may be able to help since you don't live near anyone for in-person. But I'd study her content first and see if it resonates with you and if her system makes sense to you. And, maybe you don't need to get it done, if you're feeling good about the choices and purchases so far, that's fantastic and should be valued!
I commented on your video revealing that you were a bright spring saying I was a true spring within my comment… I had done that analysis myself, and I got pretty close.. but I was also wrong. I went to the chrysalis colour website to find a sci/art analyst and Roxanne did my color analysis and I turned out to also be a bright spring! I was very close so I don’t really need to get rid of any of my new clothes since my diy, but now I know I can wear fuchsia and hot pink and darker colors than I thought I could so it is a relief to me. Unfortunately I did get rid of some Lisa Eldridge lipsticks that were good for a bright spring and it would cost like $110 to purchase them again but I may do that at some point.
Omg sorry to jump in but I saw you mention Lisa lipsticks and you seem to know a lot about color seasons lol. Please explain to me this, I am quite sure I am a winter, I have some of her lipsticks but apparently I got shades that don't suit me...velvet muse looks grey/brown on me, but it's supposed to look good on a winter, right? Velvet blush lightly looks ok, a bit darker than my natural lip color. On me a Lippie that looks AMAZING is spirited away. Songbird looks awful, too light and warm. What season am I???😂😂😂
@@danyf.1442 I can’t tell you for sure, but it makes a lot of sense those muted colors like muse would be bad on you if you are a winter. I haven’t ordered those specific lipsticks myself so I can’t say much about them. I just know from my experience that her lipsticks tend to be too muted or dull for me, most of them are obviously very brown looking and I would never order that because I know it won’t work, and some of them are shockingly pale in person. I tried to order Dance Card and was really disappointed that it was even lighter than my lips. I wasn’t expecting that. I only buy her bright colors now. The best one for me is Atomic Cherry in the lucent formula. Wonder Wheel is cute but second best. Je Ne Sais Quois is verging on too dull for me but it’s okay. If you are a winter there are many good colors for you in her line because she definitely prefers cool tones. Most of her reds are very cool, most of her pinks look pretty cool as well. I guess it is for you to decide whether you look better in a deep winter color or a bright one, or one that is somewhere between but very cool for true/cool winter. Personally I recommend paying the money and getting a real Sci/art color analysis, I had to drive 3.5 hours each way to get it done but now I am totally sure about my season and I never need to get it done again because it was definitely right.
@@HeatherHasGame Thank you so much for your answer! Eh I think I am going to have to bite the bullet and make that investment, I am already checking out what I can find in my area but honestly I don't think I am that lucky. Again thanks a lot 🫶
Your color journey has been so fun to follow! (Sorry, I know this is a month old but I always want to comment on your videos) I was sharing one of your older videos with a friend and it was when you were deep in the Deep Summer trenches and I was startled by being able to "see" the wrongness of the colors on you. It's funny because I thought it looked so good at the time! And I think it does look good, but it's the startling contrast that looks good and not the harmony. You look very vampiric (positive) but I'm sure that's not what you want for yourself. I'm a DIY-er and personally I feel very confident in my results. Discovering my color season made a bunch of things click for me, but at the same time I've also learned that I don't like wearing color - that I prefer lights/neutrals even though as a DW i have a lot of brights and deeps not only available but recommended. I like your analogy of a style toolbox because I find that is very useful. Instead of thinking of my color palette as a limitation or a sentence that's been passed I think of it as a tool. So if I prefer soft colors, how can *I* wear soft colors? Etc. And I think a lot of other factors come in; I have a low visual weight (that video rocked my world Gabby!) and a classic/ingenue essence blend so while a deep jewel tone looks great on me, I don't think the austerity of the full DW palette matches *me*. (I've also downgraded from calling myself a DW and i typically prefer to say winter, as in the original 4 season method, which i feel better reflects my relationship with SCA.) It's like you've mentioned in other videos - we can get really bogged down in style systems and forget that the uniting thread is ourselves! How do *we* want to look? Which of these things resonate with our ideal image of ourselves, and which don't? Figuring out a color palette for my wardrobe is really important to me, but that color palette being 1:1 my SCA palette is not; but I wouldn't know as much as I do now if I hadn't learned my season. Also, it gave me permission to incorporate black/white into my wardrobe which is now pretty much the foundation of it. This is mostly just a long comment about Me ~ but I wanted to say that following you has been a really big part of my style journey! The way you articulate things is always so crisp and sends a direct route to the center of my brain. I'm so happy seeing you learning and thriving.
Thank you! Yes, I totally look back and can now see how those colors looked stark and a little frozen on me, it's funny how new input can do that. And I think your journey is so nice to hear. The approach of using it more broadly and as a tool and not a rule is so important. And it allows you to customize your style, look your best, and FEEL your best. Thank you for sharing!
You look much happier (and so beautiful) in your BS colours! I took a lifetime to find out my best colours (also a Bright Spring) with a professional. Info is always for typical of the types.I guessed Warm Spring or True Autumn, my friends guessed Soft Autumn. It's often the clichés that we hear/read that we use to DIY that can stop us from finding our true colours. It led me to think it was either all just theory or it only worked for some typical types. I was very hesitant to get my colours done. I was really hoping I wasn't BS too, because, when I saw the palate it seemed impossible to combine. It' also didn't seem like a hip-cool nuanced palette of complex colours, it looked like a child's paintbox. I didn't realize I didn't have to wear the 'paint-box' all at once - and there are neutrals too. It's bazaar (now I know) I'll be happy to wear a royal blue tee with a scarlet jacket. The BS combos are certainly not clichéd pairings, which ends up being very arty. Clothes-wise, I edited but I didn't buy anything new. It's not because I'm a holy sustainability freak but because love what I have. It's easy for me to cheat with WS and Autumn clouds because they don't look bad. I know when and how I'm wearing 'imperfect' colours. I'll steal an acid yellow (or black) from BW or a golden mustard from TW and know how to adjust elsewhere in an outfit/makeup. The most bold thing I bought was a lipstick. It's also amazing how after a life time or rose-brown (or nothing) I went out and bought (and wear) a bright pink-red lipstick. I don't believe in the online analysis for many reasons, the 'cheap' misdiagnosis that could end-up costing thousands is the biggest, but also, the actual experience of draping helps the sitter understand the process, and difference, even in a minor value, clarity or chroma, a nuance that makes one colour speak and another sing. I've worked with sorting graded coloured diamonds, we use master stones. The process of having my colour done was similar. I wish I'd thought of the analogy sooner, I would have booked a session years ago. I am grateful now.
I agree with so much of this! It takes awhile to learn your palette and figure out how you like to use it. And yes, analysts should emphasize this and how to approach shopping their season slowly (especially if the client has trepidation about their season). And in-person draping (when done well) is so powerful. It allows you to see the results and not question the final season.
1st thing: You look gorgeous! 2nd: When I look back at my DIY color journey I more or less did a 360 degree circle. Starting from soft, mellow, muted (warm-neutral or SA) on to the springs, later the summers, in between briefly considering a soft winter version and now almost a year later back to soft autumn kinda palette with little hints of cool. And I'm glad I didn't spent much money during this process although I bought a few lipsticks and tops that in hindsight are not as ideal as I hoped they would be. But I can get quite enthusiastic on concepts and designing everything around one so it makes sense. But meanwhile I'm at this point where I would really love to have a professional opinion and getting my colors done. Because despite all the learnings along the way it's still so much time that is wasted so that it's not economical anymore when you look at all the countless hours you put into that and then you're still left with some doubts.
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Yes, definitely! And I feel like I finally want to spend my time on other things and move on. I don't want to fine-tune a personal palette on top of it. So that will be my kind of luxury I want to treat myself with. 🙂
Black isn't my best color either. BS usually do it more in a piping or trim, not full large chunks of black. But I'm actually loving this exploration into better neutrals for me, and it's making me shop much slower which is a great side benefit
I am a bright spring, and actually have a similar colouring as you, just my eyes are not hasel, but true green 😊 it’s not that easy palette in practice, especially with neutrals, it’s quite hard…
In your opinion as a trained analyst, do you find any patterns relating to skin opacity and “clarity/mutedness/brightness”? Is some one with very translucent skin more likely to be soft or bright? I have heard differing opinions on this aspect of color analysis and I’m very curious! As a redhead it’s almost certain that I am warm and I am neither very light nor very deep in coloring. I’m just having a hard time deciphering my level of brightness, made more difficult by confusing celebrity examples
I wouldn't base anything on celebrity examples. I would say there are some patterns with skin opacity or luminous but I wouldn't base it on that. How the skin reacts is much more paramount.
I feel like I'm flying partially blind when it comes to my color season. I'm confident I'm an autumn, and that muted colors look best on me, but I still struggle. I'm very fair, and I think my undertone is warm, but I can't tell for sure. Many warm colors look awful on me, but cool ones can easily wash me out, and I have some hyperpigmentation in my cheeks that I feel gives me a yellowish cast and throws things off. I also have auburn hair, which adds a whole other variable when it comes to color and what looks good. There are shades of purple that I really love, but they bring out the orange notes in my hair and just clash so badly, I can't wear them. Green or blue look great with red hair, but the wrong one makes me look like a ghost. I like my natural color a lot and have been embracing it for a good while now, but I didn't have this problem as a bleach blonde or when I went all black!
I just got an online seasonal colour analysis and it came back as soft autumn, but I feel like some of the colours feel pretty blah on me. Like I disappear. I’ve been wondering if I’m a bright spring actually, cause I defs ride the line between cool and warm
I think online analysis is really tricky, and I don't plan to offer it anytime in the near future because i truly believe you need years of evperience to get it right and the technology standardization is very hard to control. I would reach back out to your analyst to discuss your concerns.
I'd love to get a colour analysis but I'm in Australia and I don't know who's reputable in my country - and I definitely want to do it in person, not online. How do you find someone who's genuinely reputable?
So I was trained in the Sci-Art system, but you should study which system you like best. Chrysallis Colors and TCI analysts are both Sci-Art and I believe they have analysts in australia (espeically TCI)
@@Gabriellearrudadesign oh amazing, thank you for the response! I didn't even know how many different schools there were, so I'll start with researching there. Thanks!
What are your thoughts on a person who can't pull off any shade of red? Asking for a me. 😂 My gut says I'm soft-neutralish but I was wondering if this is some kind of huge obvious tell when analysts see it.
I wouldn't use that as a sole determining factor, because it really depends on the color of the red. But in my training resources, it did mention that summers can feel like no reds suit them, when really they do get their version of red it just tends to be a bit more cranberry
Cautionary tale: When I realized I was a light spring rather than a soft autumn I went on this huge shopping spree for pastel colored things and then I realized I am NOT comfortable wearing pastels, nor do I know how to wear them, and they do not reflect my personal style! I ended up donating almost everything I purchased 🙃
Yes you definitely have to build a relationship with the new color palette and test things slowly. Every palette has a wide spectrum and it needs to connect to your style goals. Very sage advice!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Thanks for confirming what I saw in myself. Another system said it leaned bright but that just didn't sit right with me. I love my muted colors! 🙂
It can take awhile to feel ok about your season, especially when you were expecting something else. I had the same experience in reverse. There are so many beautiful colors in the muted palettes, and you will glow in those colors. Don't think it needs to be drab or too soft! Every palette has a range!
The brutal truth is: you either have an eye for it or you don't. It takes actually a lot of knowledge and some serious training to the eye to be an analyst. There are analysts who get it wrong a lot of the times but still have a lot of clients. Because it's about more than just the colour type at the end of the day. It's the psychological intuition you bring to the table that you have to back up with your eye for colours and an ability to explain why certain colours suit someone, so that the person knows the logic behind it and not just believing what the analyst said. Also, you don't need to religiously stick to the colours from your type and you don't need to overhaul your entire wardrobe, the analyst will tell you how to work with what you have. Online analysis may be harder than in person but it's doable, again, see my first sentence. As for people desperately trying to find their colour type, there's often a lot insecurity behind that which has nothing to do with the colour system itself. Obviously you won't tell your customer that but I can write it here, so that it may help someone realise it and take maybe a slightly different approach when going for a colour analysis (or any other analysis connected with personal appearance). It may be a first step to realise that we need to work on something entirely different within ourselves. If you go for the analysis really out of curiosity or for fun, then it's another story.
I mean, training is a huge part of having an eye. I spent money and time to have a one on one training in a system I believe in with an expert in the field. And I'm still doing practice clients to make sure my eye is trained and I've seen a variety of different people. The current industry is flooded with people who have no training and just go based off of apps or loose stereotypes. I think online analysis, if done at all, should be done after years of in-person experience. I don't think it should ever be an analysts first method of clients. And yes, I agree.. I said that you don't overhaul your wardrobe, you take slow steps to see what you have and what you might want to replace. you have to build up your relationship with these new colors. And I agree, it can cause you to realize you have some more issues related to your relationship with yourself and your appearance.
Also, just a thought I had. Brightness seems much more obvious to me when I see the person wearing bright makeup, like you are here. It’s much easier to see the harmony or lack thereof when the color is right on your face. That bright lipstick looks harmonious on you, whereas on someone in a muted season it would look completely foreign and would overwhelm them. That lipstick really is perfect on you!
Yes totally! Although I think lipstick drapes can be very tricky because it depends on the natural lip pigmentation, the texture/opacity of the lipstick, and accurately placing the color. But I do think when you find your season, your lipsticks can totally help confirm it. When we tried a BW lipstick on me in the training, it was clearly separate!
I can try to do something like this. But we aren’t looking for actual warmth in skin or golden tones in skin. We are looking for warm colors to harmonize with our undertone for BS.
I think sometimes these elements or tricks can apply but overall they aren't determinant. Best to drape. But you're right I do have fairly pigmented lips
I’m goth and I’m a bright spring 😂💀 I did my own typing using irl and via procreate. Keep in mind I’m also a digital artist so I’m familiar with colors and color theory. I personally wanted winter to give my goth look justice.😂 However, drape after drape, image after image just solidified bright spring. Natural chestnut brown hair, green starburst eyes, fair neutral warm skin tone with clarity. For me, the deciding factor between the two was that I can wear orange, both bright and burnt. Winter burgundies and blues visibility drained the life out of me😅. The final nail in the coffin was the sheer amount of compliments wearing bright spring, not on the outfit or colors, but ME. However, bright spring is really incongruent with my personal aesthetic choice, so I’ve been making do with wearing my colors and keeping my accessories in goth land. I just don’t let it over power my primary visual look. At least, that’s what I’ve been doing 🤷♀️
As someone who also went to artschool and is a graphic designer and knows color theory by heart, I believe it's also a matter of what you want to communicate and/or achieve as a vibe. To take you as an example: your bright spring look is giving off major bubbly and artistic vibes over the more edgy sophisticated vibes you gave off before. And I think it's a good thing to ask yourself which vibes you resonate with more. I'm a light spring who loves edgy and cool/effortless vibes and I actually used that information to continue doing so. Edgy means disharmony, so I try to wear my most harmonious disharmonious clothing. If I were to wear my light spring palette, I'd probably look ethereal and sweet and bubbly. Not my jam at all. My point is that even if you don't want to follow your season, you can still use the color theory behind it to communicate or achieve what you want to - and that is also something that people should know imo :)
That's a great point. I remind people that the purpose of color analysis is to find the colors that most harmonize with your natural coloring. They will make you look healthier, younger, and smooth out your skin. But yes you could use that knowledge to create disharmony if going for goth, grunge, heroine chic, or a costume for a play to make you look older or sickly for a certain role.
I remember when you wrote on blog, that you're summer with winter colouring, but you remind me a lot of my friend that is bright spring and you both have fair skin, brown hair, eye colour the same. Bright springs are very misunderstood. You're glowing in this palette. I love it❤
Yes I love it too! I was definitely convinced I was cool, and struggled majorly!
So interesting that you’re now seeing yourself as bright spring and you used to think you were summer. I’m feeling the exact opposite right now - I thought I was a bright spring, but now suddenly I’m seeing myself as a soft summer. I love that you can always change your mind.
I am totally in love with this new pallet you're using. It's definitely made me reconsider throwing down the chunk of change to get a drapping.
Don't be surprised if you misdiagnosed your color season. The drapes are designed to determine where you harmonize along the spectrum of each color characteristic:
Chroma
Hue
Value
The eye isn't great at seeing true colors but it's really good at seeing contrast even when subtle. Also for accuracy, you need good full spectrum lighting or natural light during midday. And you should be surrounded by neutral colors so something doesn't cast a strong color onto your face.
I had an in-person sci-art analysis with a woman who has been in the profession for over 20 years and was typed as a bright spring also, but struggled a lot with accepting the results. I did notice a 'glow' and harmony with bright spring, but I also noticed if I were to drape myself on video (not photos) with a variety of colors, the soft summer palette gave me a very strong moonlit look, and noticed I would get a ton of compliments in that palette. When I would compare (on video) the soft summer with the bright spring, my skin would no longer retain a glow in bright spring. So I ordered two other virtual anslyses from Carol Brailey and the colour studio ladies and was again typed bright spring by them too! I have come to the conclusion in nearly 2 years since my in person analysis that I think there are two ways of viewing a drape: one is that your colors should flow into the drape and that the palette supports you, or two, that you are looking for a sheen, a freshness, an iridescence from within the skin. I don't think there is one way to analyze someone, hence all the different systems out there. I feel like I honestly look great in both soft summer and bright spring, and generally think people can look good in more than one palette if they wear the right makeup and jewelry.
You have been GLOWING with these brighter colors recently 😍😊 big difference. Your beauty shines even more with this palette
Thank you!!
I've had multiple online color analyses done (that I PAID for) that gave me deep winter, true summer, soft autumn, and soft summer 🙃 then I got an in-person analysis and was typed as a warm autumn. my ghasts were flabbered because I was convinced I was cool-neutral. I think I blacked out for more of the analysis after she said my season haha. I'm now a firm believer in the in-person method. There was another girl in a group with me who turned out to be bright spring and she was incredibly resistant to it; the color analyst said she even has a 'support group' for her bright spring clients because the color palette can be jarring for people
I totally think in person is the best! Any really online shouldn’t ever be done without years of experience. Also yes, in my training she said ppl either are terrified or overjoyed by bright spring at first 😂 so glad you found warm autumn (eventually!)
I thought I was a bright spring. Now, I think I’m a light summer.
Yessss. We need more brunette spring examples! 🥳
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The warm red lip is harmonious and gorgeous on you.
I'm so glad I finally found my "red" lipstick, it's one of my favorites!
Can I say, you are the first person who made me want to get professionally draped. I've always DIY'd as a Dark Winter, but... your DIY vs draping result is so dramatic, it does make me wonder about myself! Who knows, maybe I really am a DW. But hello, fresh interest in getting a professional perspective, haha. (Though I do have apprehensions about the fact that sometimes even the 'professionals' disagree with each other, and people struggle for years in a professionally draped 'wrong' palette before getting redraped into something that suits them much better.)
I think this is when studying the systems and finding an analyst you really trust and like is important. I studied Sci/Art because their explanations and system resonated with me. Not all systems value the same results and so this is huge if you want to get results that make sense in your brain. I am so glad I got trained and also got my colors verified. But everyone has their own journey. I don't think I was open to being a bright spring before i saw it with my own eyes
I thought you were a bright winter and am shocked you thought you were MUTED 🤣🤣🤣🤣💪🏾
I've been very easily influenced over the years from commenter feedback (still working on this) and SO many ppl told me summer. But the final results of my analysis were bright winter vs bright spring, so you were very close!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign I think summer must be the most "suggested" season to people in general.. Maybe because it seems "safe"? like yea you look "stereotypically" cool-ish and kinda medium-ish value/chroma? You're a summer!
I was also told by the internet that I was a summer, but got analyzed by a sci-art professional in-person and turned out to be a True Winter.
@@GabriellearrudadesignI think it might be harder to see yourself than others.
Full agree! Cant tell just by looking if winter or spring, but there is no muted at all to be seen here.
My jaw dropped to the floor when I read your Instagram story revealing your actual season. I was 100% on board with dark summer for you. As a fellow light skinned brunette who has been typed a soft winter I felt we were pretty similar and it made sense to me.
But *WOW*, do these bright colors make you glow! You look stunning! And I agree that your whole vibe has changed!
I again almost fell from my chair when Andrea Pflaumer suggested IRG for you because you were so very clearly Natural (and romantic and dramatic) in my eyes! But in the interview with her, you looked so youthful, glowy and bubbly.. I was first thinking "she's just saying that because the bright colors make her look different, she doesn’t really "know" Gabby like we do. But then I realized, it was probably the opposite, and wearing the wrong palette was giving you a "stern" vibe reading as more yang than you actually are. I can picture you pulling off even something like a pin up style in this new palette!
So yes, I do see RG, but still refuse to believe you don't have natural in your blend!
I would love to see you re-explore your essence blend now with the right colors! ❤
Haha, I know it's been a surprising journey so far! I think maybe I could have some natural as a small element of my blend, but kitchener does view natural differently than Kibbe. I think Liv Tyler is a great example of this and I've been loosely compared to her. Shes verified as heavily IR in kitchener and is a kibbe FN. Now, I fairly confident in my Kibbe FN (although who knows maybe I'll go see him and we will tell me something equally shocking lol, at this point not ruling that out!) so I think that relaxed quality works for me. It's going to be interesting expanding the IR in my blend and the touches of G. I think I always tried too much G in the past, so maybe that's why I thought i had exhausted my attempts. I do plan to share some of my journey with these pivots but probably not for a bit. Still in my messy middle. I do think these bright colors have helped shift it and seem more feasible in my brain though!
Dare I say you were moving in the right direction even when you thought you were a winter! Bright spring is closer to being a winter (a bright winter that is, not so much the other ones) than any other spring type. Kind of like light spring is akin to light summer, warm spring to warm autumn etc. But regardless, now I definitely see that bright spring is your color palette. You're glowing. Congrats on getting typed correctly! 💗
Yes, I think winter was closer. But I was actually so convinced I wasn't bright that I was looking at deep winter lol. But when we did my analysis we did come down to bright winter versus bright spring, so it was very illuminating to see!
I love that you're doing training. You're bringing receipts to your skills.
Yes, it was really important to me to be certified in a system I respect and plan to integrate more into my content and services. Thank you!
I’m looking forward to seeing more content about your wardrobe transition! Im going from thinking I was a bright spring to being professionally typed as a soft summer. It was too overwhelming for me to overhaul my wardrobe all at once so I focused in on the two qualities that make the biggest difference for me: soft and neutral. Anything too warm, too cool, or too bright is being phased out. I’ll deal with the fine tuning of more specific colors at a later time, but I’m not getting that detailed quite yet. I’m so close to neutral that slightly warm or slightly cool doesn’t matter as much on me.
I'm going slowly as well! I think your approach sounds fantastic!
I think bright seasons are the hardest to analyze! Chroma isn’t the most obvious characteristic to visualize (for me at least).
Bright seasons typically have the most varied visual spectrum in terms of coloring. And I think we assume that bright seasons will literally "glow" in real life and appear super bright, when really we all just look like humans and we all shine when we wear the right season!
@@GabriellearrudadesignAgreed! My good friend was also typed as a bright spring and I was shocked! But seeing her in her colors it makes complete sense. Bright seasons are very misunderstood. I think people are also intimidated by a bright palette, but on the right person those colors don’t look especially bright, just harmonious.
When typing myself, I assumed soft autumn bc of eye color (green grey) and my brown hair that is turning grey. (Which is pretty darn silver) and light olive skin which tans easily. (Olive skin is actually neutral to cool!)
Anyway, thinking I was soft autumn, I dressed in browns and olives a lot and just felt so ugly. Those colors just pulled so many shadows on my face. Eye bags, jowls, double chin.
It took a lot of mental untangling to see myself as bright season. Weirdly anticdotal, I would gravitate towards BW makeup, hot pink blush and electric blue mascara bc they look good on me. (If this is you too, it's a sign, do not ignore this!) My lime green obsession should have also been a clue.
Anyway,.going back to my bright makeup and popping on a bright top makes the icky face shadows disappear and I feel so much less frumpy.
Cool, clear and bright has become my color mantra. That said, I still want to get draped and see what someone else has to say on it.😂
Amazing! You look great, harmonious and it’s like you have a light shining from the inside with that red. Beautiful!
Thank you!!
When watching you try gamine styles I thought that maybe you were a bright spring because while not being super flattering the more colourful styles suited you :) it is very nice to see that you found your season and started to rock colourful styles in your lines!
Yes but based on Andrea Pflaumers essence blend for me- I do have some G, so I’ll have to explore it again. (IRG to be exact 😳)
You look fantastic in this palette!
Thank you!
I never loved you in cool colors before and would think absently to myself as I was watching you- what is her season? Now, that blush and lip are STUNNING on you. Just confirms you are definitely warm. As a Warm FN, I'm excited to see your new style choices and get inspired.
Thank you, appreciate it!
You look absolutely fantastic here. And You give different vibes than before. I like it. ❤
Thank you!!
I struggled with being typed as a deep winter or deep autumn every single time by quizzes and people who did online analysis. But then, I made friends online who do this work as a hobby and for a profession, did my own analysis with a couple of hobbyists, and realized the discomfort with winter and autumn (and deep tbh) were because I'm a spring! I'm pretty sure I am a warm spring that can "pull off" blues and brights a bit more than others due to being olive, since some bright spring shades are overwhelming, autumn is too soft, summer tones make me look sallow, and the coolest/deepest winter colors drain me. A lot of people with nonwhite backgrounds or who identify as BIPOC struggle with color analysis because it is so centered on the relative coloring of white people. So many of us with dark hair and eyes are automatically considered too deep for spring and summer, whereas we may be one of those after all. I love all sorts of colors, though, so I mostly use the system to determine my "easy," "medium," and "effortful" colors. Easy is warm spring tones with some warm autumn and bright spring, medium is bright/light spring/some bright winter, and effortful is pulled from other seasons. I'll need the most thoughtfully selected makeup or even heavy makeup for effortful, light makeup at a minimum for medium, and I can be bare faced and know I will photograph well with easy level clothes.
Bright for sure...matches your personality well. :)
Thank you!!
You shine in these colors! What a surprise. This coloring is so rare will make you stand out of the crowd for sure 😃
I remember that Michelle Dockery and Henry Cavill are both Bright Spring brunettes! You are in good company!
Thank you! Yes it’s fun seeing similar coloring examples for sure
I can relate! I struggled to see my own coloring, and had never considered the season that I now feel confident in embracing.
I think this is incredibly common!
You look utterly radiant in those colors and that lipstick! Oh my! Welcome to the spring family. I am a warm spring in the 12 seasons system. I also thought I was soft and muted before I was analyzed. It's been a few years and I'm still on my journey.
Yes, I love that you call it a journey! It really is and I'm so thrilled to have found my BS home
You look radiant in that red! ❤ I'm also having some bright spring envy here, love that look, but I'm probably a soft autumn myself, so bright colours ain't happening, unfortunately. 😅 Wish they'd look good on me.
I think every palette is beautiful. We all have envy at times! Especially when I'm shopping and find the perfect dress for my essences but it's a beautiful muted pink haha
Omg I always thought you were a Winter of some kind! Happy to see you found your colors and are now trained professionally 😃
Yes, it's been such a journey, but a great one!
I remember when I was still guessing my season, I was stuck between spring and winter, but both seemed to be "too amazing for me" as I'm quite a reserved person. And when holding colours against my face "either spring or maybe bright winter? But it can't be bright spring anyway, because everyone says they are extremely rare". Surprise, bright spring.
Haha, I think this is common! Although BS really isn't that rare, it's just misunderstood in my opinion. So we tend to not want to claim it
I have watched your videos over the past few years and I have to see these colours look amazing on you. The brightness works. As I was watching I thought I bet Christine Scaman taught her… (I always appreciate her accuracy and I can hear it in your voice to) I can see from the above comments that she did!
I was sci-art analysed 3yrs ago as a light spring and I opened up a whole world of fun for me. I enjoy the process of ‘seeing’, it’s not just about clothes. Enjoy your new colours, they look fabulous
"Seeing" the results is amazing. I was shocked to be BS but i also couldn't doubt it because we did so many strategic comparisons to find my season, it became very obvious at the end. Christine is amazing, I was so honored and excited to be trained by her. Now, I'm just sharpening and practicing my skills!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign I’d love to be trained by her!
As many other bright season people I thought I was a summer and I was told I was a summer. Looking good in occasional bright colours was registered as a fluke in my mind rather than a hint. I was so brainwashed to think I was a summer that only recently when colour analysis made a resurgence with a lot of new approaches I started to question summer pallette. After extensive self-draping over these years both digital and physical I discovered bright flow (I use 16 season system) consistently looks the best and muted flow is the worst. And I'm more neutral in temperature than I expected. Warm flow gives me yellowing effect, cool flow greying effect. And the most important thing I'm sensitive to is saturation. At this point I can see someone typing me as either bright spring or bright winter depending on the system and on the specialist and I can see the reasoning behind the results. So I just stick with bright flow palette.
Yes it's funny right, because now I can so clearly see muted colors drain my face, but you get told "summer" so many times you just assume it's right. Glad you've found your place with a bright flow!
Happy for you Gabrielle! The orangey-red is very flattering on you. I noticed it immediately in the Andrea Pflaumer vid. I remember some of your older vids when you wore a cool red lip and I always thought it felt off but probably my personal dislike of red in general. I've never had a pro analysis, but feel pretty confident in my soft autumn palette. I've cringed at the way some colors look on me and steer clear of those.
That's great that you were able to find your palette and have that eye to know when a color was wrong. ANd yes, I was so convinced I was cool that my journey to find the right "red" lipstick was plagued by failures. Very happy to have found my reds, because they are one of my favorite colors
I can totally see you as bright spring! Lol I was mistyped by friends as a warm autumn all my life, then I booked a session with a trained, certified color analyst (color analysis studio, the 2 italian ladies) and turns out I am a Cool Winter!! I am completly cool😅 Before that I constantly struggled with both undertone and intensity because my own and friends ”typing” was dead wrong. Now it’s a breeze🤓 so worth it.
Yes I think when multiple elements of a season aren't working, it's time to go back and re-drape. I had the same experience where i couldn't get undertone or chroma right. Glad you found your season!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Thank you 😍 I am so glad you did this training, it feels like the missing piece that will pull all your creative talent together and lift it to a new level! Would you say the training trained your eye in a new way, changed your perception? I know some people offer color analysis without actual training but I am convinced the training (with a good trainer!!) is necessery to get it right. I guess you trained with Cristine S🤓 she is lovely!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign just gotta add- there is something increadibly refreshing with those colors on you! It is like you came out of a spa or something, the colors don’t overpower you at all…they just look completly natural on you! Yeeeey!!! You found YOU🤩🥳😂😂😂😍
Oh, my gosh! I always thought you were the poster child for a cool skin tone! You look great in that outfit, though, and I'm glad you found some answers. I got analyzed through house of color, which I'm sure is a great program, but I didn't click with the person who color analyzed me, and she was really new. She said I was a spring, and then she identified my "best colors." What I really wanted, though, was for her to put me square into a sub-season because I felt like that would give me more guidance going forward. I agreed that I was a spring, but I just didn't get enough information. Then, I paid for an analysis by Carol Brailey, who you can find here on youtube, and she typed me as a warm spring, which is honestly a completely different set of colors than what was recommended to me from the house of color consultant. In Brailey's analysis system, true spring is a completely different palette from warm spring, so the results were pretty different. Anyway, I got what I needed from Brailey, and I'm glad I had my analysis double-checked for more info. I also wish that I had felt more comfortable with my first analyst because then I would have been able to ask her more specific questions. So, your advice is right on. This stuff is expensive. Make sure you ask all the questions!
@@rachellopez8357 Interesting about the true palettes...same goes for true autumn. The palette for that has really deep colours. I bought some palettes from Carol.
I'm glad you have a better grasp of what works for you now.
Yes finding a system you like is so critical! And I thought so too- I thougth i HAD to be cool toned (whoops!).
There is something interesting that you mentioned. I also am familiar with color theory. I have various training in Makeup and the Beauty industry. I find it more difficult to "see" me. My basic wardrobe is black(due to having yellow hair) and wanted a simple look. I finally made a hair color change and am finally stepping into the world of color for my wardrobe as a result. I feel like I'd go to a color analysis because maybe I'm biased or just blind to seeing my most complimentary pallets etc. You look so vibrant and fresh. I love it.
I think it is really hard to identify yourself, and I felt like i had trouble seeing some of the things on me (my innate bias and feedback was also a problem). I think finding a system you like and respect and then getting an analysis done can be incredibly validating. Then you use all your color skills to actually build a wardrobe you love!
I think it takes a lot of time to train our eyes, that’s why DIY is so hard. I always thought I was cool toned too, but now I think I’m a spring. No one saw spring in me either when I was asking for feedback in the groups just soft summer or true summer. I never felt really right in those colors. I felt they removed color from my features, soft summer, or made me super high contrast (the brighter summer colors and winter colors) with very pale skin, ghostly white and dark brown hair. I think I’m a light spring, but I’m a little afraid of claiming that season since I have medium brown hair and they’re usually portrayed as being blonde. Spring colors give me color, they bring out the natural color variation of my hair
I think stereotypes are there to show a "easy" example but that they limit our thinking of a season. I also think training our eyes and learning color theory can be so helpful even after you determine your season (because that's when identifying colors really comes in handy!). Don't be afraid to explore a season based on a common stereotype. As I said, like one person out thousands ever said BS for me
Im also a bright spring. I was always told i was cool toned by my mother. Im a lighter complected mexican american. My mom is dark (native mexican appearance) and she always assumed light equals cool and darker tones were warm. I lived all of high school dressing as if i was a dark winter. I now know i am warm undertone. I used to be stuck thinking i may be deep autumn but look awful in muted tones. I am convinced im bright spring after starting to incorporate the palette. Ive seen selena gomez labeled as dark winter, deep autumn and brighr spring. Its a pitfall our ethnic background seems to face when analyzed
John Kitchener says that is rare that one person can stick to only one color season. I'm a soft autumn but I can borrow from summer and some spring too 🤷🏼♀️
@@Gaerys The reason you can borrow is because of how the seasons relate to each other on the color wheel. Theres a lot more nuance to borrowing colors than people assume. You can borrow from summer bc of how they relate to being soft autumn. Autumn is between the seasons of summer and spring so of course there is overlap. You can absolutely borrow colors bc they touch your preferred palette on the wheel. But all of this emphasizes how important your true season is. You can see how and why behind everything.
Yes I agree on this! Seasonal color palettes are not as limited as people think at all!
I also recently got my colours done and I’m a light spring with a seasonal colour do dark autumn. I was so surprised with light spring because I’m asian, and always felt that because of my black hair, and was super yellow. So it was interesting to see how you can have multiple seasons.
Excellent video! So happy you are now a Sci Art analyst and have found your proper season. 💕
Thank you! Yes, it's so exciting!
i had you propped up on my windowsill whilst i was washing up and this video has factiming your long distance friend energy 😂 but that information is super interesting, i wish i was in NY so i could book you!!
Love that! Also offering services in Seattle as well! (but either way thank you!)
Great post, totally agree. Love your new bright spring colours.. You look amazing. I may have picked you as a bright but the temperature is difficult when you're fair. I feel I may be a bright spring...but need to do as you did. I'm also fair and fairly neutral but lean slightly warm. Think I may find out more about the training as this would be something I really enjoy.
Training was fantastic but it is a big time and money investment. I would also just study the different systems if you want to pick the right analyst for a professional confirmation. That's what can give you a lot of peace of mind!
What a great discovery! That lipstick looks amazing on you!
Thank you!
I've had an in-person and online colour analysis and I was typed as an autumn both times. The difference was the in-person one typed me as dark autumn with dark winter as my sister season, and the online typed me as true autumn (not warm autumn, just an autumn able to wear all three autumn sub-seasons with no sister season). For me it cemented the colours that I already gravitated towards - and that I don't have a cool undertone!
Sounds like you had a good experience and that you've found a great palette to work from!
Everyone i talk to (none professionals except one makeup artist friend) is always split between bright winter for me or bright spring so i just look for contrast for now. Someday i might get it done professionally in person
I think just knowing you're bright is a huge help to your wardrobe and style!
Awww yeah I’ve been waiting for this! I’m a new Bright Spring and when I heard you were too I was thrilled. Love all the BS colours on you and I can’t wait to see more (that I’ll use as inspo 😊)
Yay! Welcome to the BS club 🤗🤗
The more I’ve gone into seasonal colour analysis the more I’m like I’m just gonna wear the colours I like and feel good in. Sometimes that changes day to day
You should absolutely do what's best for you and what makes you feel happy! Seasonal color analysis is just one potential tool for your style toolbox
When I use to try to figure out my colors I completely dismissed spring as an option for years. It seems like spring is a tough one for people. I love your warm reds. You look glowing.
yes I think we think of natural bright blondes and sparkling blue eyes, so it can be easy to dismiss!
Your hair and eyes are very bright and warm brown
Unfortunately my only in person option in my area is House of Color and they typed me as a winter. :/
I think I was mistyped because I’m pretty sure I’m light. As much as I love black it can make the bags under my eyes more pronounced.
I think I’m a light spring but still feel lost, maybe because I am reluctant to try light spring colors. They look ingenue-ish and I like looking mature, bold, and edgy.
Love your content and excited to see more of your color blogs on Warm spring and light spring.
Thank you! I think colors can relate to many different styles. The light palettes still have options for bold and mature. Also, you should check out my teacher Christine Scaman's youtube channel. She has a series the best blacks for each season and pure black isn't always winters "best" option.
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Oh my gosh, you were trained by Christine Scaman?! She's one of my favorites here on youtube! Absolute legend!!
@@Snoozler yes it was such an honor and wonderful experience! She’s amazing!!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Thanks. I’ll give it a watch. Even though I got typed by House of Color I don’t think they got my coloring right I think I’m a spring or summer (maybe Soft autumn) but Winter just seems off. I’m dark for a blond but they said I was Burnish winter (aka dark winter). And though I’m nuetral I think I lean slightly warm.
These color looks fab on you. I heart you gabbie.
Aw, thank you so much!!
Excited to see your wardrobe changes...I was draped 4 years ago and still working on it.🤔 Definitely doing better but still working on it. I was draped a paintbox spring but my lifestyle is not so much. I feel like my personality is too out there, too yang to handle the bright. I always felt it made me come in like a bull dozer🤪 I've embraced it more and more and realized it seems to tone it down, somehow??? I don't really understand it???😏
I think yang and bright can go beautifully together! You learn to customize it and find different parts of your palette you are drawn towards. I love the orangey reds in my palettes so I'm starting there. But I will definitely keep everyone updates on the transition and how I think you can merge these aspects together
🎉 Congrats! I had a similar journey: prior to analysis and was convinced I was cool but turns out I'm a warm autumn! I ❤ my palette.
Controversial take: Not wearing black makes for bolder more interesting style since everyone wears black like it's a uniform. Where I live almoat everyone is terrified of colour.
Congrats on your season! And I totally agree. I’m getting more comfortable with limiting black and finding my best brights!
@@Gabriellearrudadesign🎉 That's how I stated too. I put all black black in storage oddly I felt like I had more clothes because it was less crammed/easy to find stuff.
I didn't miss it so now I started donating it.
I feel you on this. I am a bright winter. Thought I was a soft autumn for too long
I think this is very common! Enjoy the bw palette 🤩
I did mine through Kitchener!
As soon as I saw the bright red pinstripes and lipstick I knew you were a bright spring! I'm the same palette and it was a surprise to me too. I was also skeptical at first, but once I introduced warm/bright make up (such as pink/peach eyeshadow, bright coral blush, vibrant orange-red lipstick, etc.) it was like seeing my face properly for the first time. These colors make me feel like myself now
Yes I had the same experience. Surprise followed by joy 🙃
Warm red really brings out your Romantic essence ❤
Thank you!
I am glad you found your colours!! You really look awesome in these tones.
I think the clothing / draping shows us so much more sometimes than the idea or what a season should look like: my bf is ginger, by many guides he would be a spring - autumn. However, in warm tones he looks sick and ruddy. He is actually cool toned . His red hair is actually made up of lots of cool sandy tones ( like a topaz colour ) so it has a lot of grey if we were to mix that as a paint, he has very cool dark blue eyes and very cool toned pale skin. In winter tones ( dark winter usually) he shines, his eyes are a emphasised, his hair looks vibrant, his skin looks porcelain. But we only know that from having seen him in all those colours.
Yes draping is so key! Stereotypes exist but most of us are much more nuanced to discern.
You look amazing in these colors
Thank you!
Gabby have you ever looked into David Zyla’s colour theory? I would love to hear your thoughts and analysis on it. Also, whoa! Never thought of you as a Spring, will have to get used to the idea 😂
Omg just heard you mention Zyla as I kept watching this video.. keeping my fingers crossed for zyla content from you 🤞😃
Yes, I've read his books and studied his system. It's very interesting. Not sure if I will do videos on it, but I'll consider it!
I'm also a "paintbox" spring according to house of colour and secondary "pastel", so similar. I really wondered with you, because I thought you had too much contrast to be summer, but your eyes are so warm.
It's funny because I felt I had contrast too but not enough for winter... And my eyes were just a toss up for me because they have so many colors in them. Glad you found your home in paintbox spring!
As someone who’s been trying to DIY her colors now and has run the gamut from DA to DW to TW/BW (no color analysts in the country, can’t afford to travel to some other place) my biggest fear is that someone who knows what they’re doing is eventually going to tell me I’m doing it wrong, and I don’t look alive in bright colors, I look garish, or overwhelmed. I try my best to aim for colors that I think look good on me, regardless of “season” (though there are clearly some commonalities ie I really think I am cool toned) and then maybe if I ever get confirmation from a trained eye it won’t be so bad a shift because I’ll still look good in what I have.
Well, someone telling you you're doing it wrong isn't always a bad thing. You learn to apply all that knowledge in a new way. There are a few very seasoned online analysts like Carol Brailey you may be able to help since you don't live near anyone for in-person. But I'd study her content first and see if it resonates with you and if her system makes sense to you. And, maybe you don't need to get it done, if you're feeling good about the choices and purchases so far, that's fantastic and should be valued!
I was right..great!! I'm so glad you know your colors now!!!
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I commented on your video revealing that you were a bright spring saying I was a true spring within my comment… I had done that analysis myself, and I got pretty close.. but I was also wrong. I went to the chrysalis colour website to find a sci/art analyst and Roxanne did my color analysis and I turned out to also be a bright spring! I was very close so I don’t really need to get rid of any of my new clothes since my diy, but now I know I can wear fuchsia and hot pink and darker colors than I thought I could so it is a relief to me. Unfortunately I did get rid of some Lisa Eldridge lipsticks that were good for a bright spring and it would cost like $110 to purchase them again but I may do that at some point.
Omg sorry to jump in but I saw you mention Lisa lipsticks and you seem to know a lot about color seasons lol. Please explain to me this, I am quite sure I am a winter, I have some of her lipsticks but apparently I got shades that don't suit me...velvet muse looks grey/brown on me, but it's supposed to look good on a winter, right? Velvet blush lightly looks ok, a bit darker than my natural lip color. On me a Lippie that looks AMAZING is spirited away. Songbird looks awful, too light and warm. What season am I???😂😂😂
@@danyf.1442 I can’t tell you for sure, but it makes a lot of sense those muted colors like muse would be bad on you if you are a winter. I haven’t ordered those specific lipsticks myself so I can’t say much about them. I just know from my experience that her lipsticks tend to be too muted or dull for me, most of them are obviously very brown looking and I would never order that because I know it won’t work, and some of them are shockingly pale in person. I tried to order Dance Card and was really disappointed that it was even lighter than my lips. I wasn’t expecting that. I only buy her bright colors now. The best one for me is Atomic Cherry in the lucent formula. Wonder Wheel is cute but second best. Je Ne Sais Quois is verging on too dull for me but it’s okay. If you are a winter there are many good colors for you in her line because she definitely prefers cool tones. Most of her reds are very cool, most of her pinks look pretty cool as well. I guess it is for you to decide whether you look better in a deep winter color or a bright one, or one that is somewhere between but very cool for true/cool winter. Personally I recommend paying the money and getting a real Sci/art color analysis, I had to drive 3.5 hours each way to get it done but now I am totally sure about my season and I never need to get it done again because it was definitely right.
@@HeatherHasGame Thank you so much for your answer! Eh I think I am going to have to bite the bullet and make that investment, I am already checking out what I can find in my area but honestly I don't think I am that lucky. Again thanks a lot 🫶
Wow bright spring it is! Loooks greaaaaat
Your color journey has been so fun to follow! (Sorry, I know this is a month old but I always want to comment on your videos) I was sharing one of your older videos with a friend and it was when you were deep in the Deep Summer trenches and I was startled by being able to "see" the wrongness of the colors on you. It's funny because I thought it looked so good at the time! And I think it does look good, but it's the startling contrast that looks good and not the harmony. You look very vampiric (positive) but I'm sure that's not what you want for yourself.
I'm a DIY-er and personally I feel very confident in my results. Discovering my color season made a bunch of things click for me, but at the same time I've also learned that I don't like wearing color - that I prefer lights/neutrals even though as a DW i have a lot of brights and deeps not only available but recommended. I like your analogy of a style toolbox because I find that is very useful. Instead of thinking of my color palette as a limitation or a sentence that's been passed I think of it as a tool. So if I prefer soft colors, how can *I* wear soft colors? Etc. And I think a lot of other factors come in; I have a low visual weight (that video rocked my world Gabby!) and a classic/ingenue essence blend so while a deep jewel tone looks great on me, I don't think the austerity of the full DW palette matches *me*. (I've also downgraded from calling myself a DW and i typically prefer to say winter, as in the original 4 season method, which i feel better reflects my relationship with SCA.)
It's like you've mentioned in other videos - we can get really bogged down in style systems and forget that the uniting thread is ourselves! How do *we* want to look? Which of these things resonate with our ideal image of ourselves, and which don't? Figuring out a color palette for my wardrobe is really important to me, but that color palette being 1:1 my SCA palette is not; but I wouldn't know as much as I do now if I hadn't learned my season. Also, it gave me permission to incorporate black/white into my wardrobe which is now pretty much the foundation of it.
This is mostly just a long comment about Me ~ but I wanted to say that following you has been a really big part of my style journey! The way you articulate things is always so crisp and sends a direct route to the center of my brain. I'm so happy seeing you learning and thriving.
Thank you! Yes, I totally look back and can now see how those colors looked stark and a little frozen on me, it's funny how new input can do that.
And I think your journey is so nice to hear. The approach of using it more broadly and as a tool and not a rule is so important. And it allows you to customize your style, look your best, and FEEL your best.
Thank you for sharing!
You look much happier (and so beautiful) in your BS colours! I took a lifetime to find out my best colours (also a Bright Spring) with a professional. Info is always for typical of the types.I guessed Warm Spring or True Autumn, my friends guessed Soft Autumn. It's often the clichés that we hear/read that we use to DIY that can stop us from finding our true colours. It led me to think it was either all just theory or it only worked for some typical types. I was very hesitant to get my colours done. I was really hoping I wasn't BS too, because, when I saw the palate it seemed impossible to combine. It' also didn't seem like a hip-cool nuanced palette of complex colours, it looked like a child's paintbox. I didn't realize I didn't have to wear the 'paint-box' all at once - and there are neutrals too. It's bazaar (now I know) I'll be happy to wear a royal blue tee with a scarlet jacket. The BS combos are certainly not clichéd pairings, which ends up being very arty. Clothes-wise, I edited but I didn't buy anything new. It's not because I'm a holy sustainability freak but because love what I have. It's easy for me to cheat with WS and Autumn clouds because they don't look bad. I know when and how I'm wearing 'imperfect' colours. I'll steal an acid yellow (or black) from BW or a golden mustard from TW and know how to adjust elsewhere in an outfit/makeup. The most bold thing I bought was a lipstick. It's also amazing how after a life time or rose-brown (or nothing) I went out and bought (and wear) a bright pink-red lipstick.
I don't believe in the online analysis for many reasons, the 'cheap' misdiagnosis that could end-up costing thousands is the biggest, but also, the actual experience of draping helps the sitter understand the process, and difference, even in a minor value, clarity or chroma, a nuance that makes one colour speak and another sing. I've worked with sorting graded coloured diamonds, we use master stones. The process of having my colour done was similar. I wish I'd thought of the analogy sooner, I would have booked a session years ago. I am grateful now.
I agree with so much of this! It takes awhile to learn your palette and figure out how you like to use it. And yes, analysts should emphasize this and how to approach shopping their season slowly (especially if the client has trepidation about their season). And in-person draping (when done well) is so powerful. It allows you to see the results and not question the final season.
I love those colors and I am a dark winter.
1st thing: You look gorgeous!
2nd: When I look back at my DIY color journey I more or less did a 360 degree circle. Starting from soft, mellow, muted (warm-neutral or SA) on to the springs, later the summers, in between briefly considering a soft winter version and now almost a year later back to soft autumn kinda palette with little hints of cool. And I'm glad I didn't spent much money during this process although I bought a few lipsticks and tops that in hindsight are not as ideal as I hoped they would be. But I can get quite enthusiastic on concepts and designing everything around one so it makes sense. But meanwhile I'm at this point where I would really love to have a professional opinion and getting my colors done. Because despite all the learnings along the way it's still so much time that is wasted so that it's not economical anymore when you look at all the countless hours you put into that and then you're still left with some doubts.
Thank you! I think the learning is invaluable but that the comfort of a firm diagnosis can also be incredibly validating.
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Yes, definitely! And I feel like I finally want to spend my time on other things and move on. I don't want to fine-tune a personal palette on top of it. So that will be my kind of luxury I want to treat myself with. 🙂
Bright springs can pull off black I am so jealous as a soft autumn I can only wear gray brown and navy clothes instead of black
Black isn't my best color either. BS usually do it more in a piping or trim, not full large chunks of black. But I'm actually loving this exploration into better neutrals for me, and it's making me shop much slower which is a great side benefit
I am a bright spring, and actually have a similar colouring as you, just my eyes are not hasel, but true green 😊 it’s not that easy palette in practice, especially with neutrals, it’s quite hard…
Do you use a color fan? I’ve found that super helpful to determine neutrals.
Bright spring is supposed to be the most misunderstood color season.
I can see that! Glad I can represent a brunette bs!
Absolutely!!! YES!!
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Omg....you have exactly same colouring as me. But like absolutely. I think I may be BS as well....
He has a great system!
Definitely, you’re a Bright Spring. I never personally thought the Winter colors were quite right. Not bad at all, just not “it”.
Yes very happy with the BS palette 🥰
Wow you look great
Thank you!!
In your opinion as a trained analyst, do you find any patterns relating to skin opacity and “clarity/mutedness/brightness”? Is some one with very translucent skin more likely to be soft or bright?
I have heard differing opinions on this aspect of color analysis and I’m very curious! As a redhead it’s almost certain that I am warm and I am neither very light nor very deep in coloring. I’m just having a hard time deciphering my level of brightness, made more difficult by confusing celebrity examples
I wouldn't base anything on celebrity examples. I would say there are some patterns with skin opacity or luminous but I wouldn't base it on that. How the skin reacts is much more paramount.
I feel like I'm flying partially blind when it comes to my color season. I'm confident I'm an autumn, and that muted colors look best on me, but I still struggle. I'm very fair, and I think my undertone is warm, but I can't tell for sure. Many warm colors look awful on me, but cool ones can easily wash me out, and I have some hyperpigmentation in my cheeks that I feel gives me a yellowish cast and throws things off. I also have auburn hair, which adds a whole other variable when it comes to color and what looks good. There are shades of purple that I really love, but they bring out the orange notes in my hair and just clash so badly, I can't wear them. Green or blue look great with red hair, but the wrong one makes me look like a ghost. I like my natural color a lot and have been embracing it for a good while now, but I didn't have this problem as a bleach blonde or when I went all black!
You remind me of someone like Rachel Weisz, she has been typed as Deep Winter and Bright Spring. I feel like you’re very neutral and hard to type.
It was tricky at first for sure! But after the sci art training and analysis the proof was easy to see for me 🥰
Yes bright springs almost look like winters. They’re very close
I love your pants!! They are awesome!
Thank you!
I just got an online seasonal colour analysis and it came back as soft autumn, but I feel like some of the colours feel pretty blah on me. Like I disappear. I’ve been wondering if I’m a bright spring actually, cause I defs ride the line between cool and warm
I think online analysis is really tricky, and I don't plan to offer it anytime in the near future because i truly believe you need years of evperience to get it right and the technology standardization is very hard to control. I would reach back out to your analyst to discuss your concerns.
Im struggling HARD with my season. I could be anything?
I'd love to get a colour analysis but I'm in Australia and I don't know who's reputable in my country - and I definitely want to do it in person, not online. How do you find someone who's genuinely reputable?
So I was trained in the Sci-Art system, but you should study which system you like best. Chrysallis Colors and TCI analysts are both Sci-Art and I believe they have analysts in australia (espeically TCI)
@@Gabriellearrudadesign oh amazing, thank you for the response! I didn't even know how many different schools there were, so I'll start with researching there. Thanks!
Just curious about the 27 tattoo on your finger? That’s my lucky #!
It’s my sons birthday ❤️
What are your thoughts on a person who can't pull off any shade of red? Asking for a me. 😂 My gut says I'm soft-neutralish but I was wondering if this is some kind of huge obvious tell when analysts see it.
I wouldn't use that as a sole determining factor, because it really depends on the color of the red. But in my training resources, it did mention that summers can feel like no reds suit them, when really they do get their version of red it just tends to be a bit more cranberry
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Cool thx!
Cautionary tale: When I realized I was a light spring rather than a soft autumn I went on this huge shopping spree for pastel colored things and then I realized I am NOT comfortable wearing pastels, nor do I know how to wear them, and they do not reflect my personal style! I ended up donating almost everything I purchased 🙃
Yes you definitely have to build a relationship with the new color palette and test things slowly. Every palette has a wide spectrum and it needs to connect to your style goals. Very sage advice!
Gabby, is DA muted or bright?
Dark Autumn is muted
@@Gabriellearrudadesign Thanks for confirming what I saw in myself. Another system said it leaned bright but that just didn't sit right with me. I love my muted colors! 🙂
@@Anita-silver maybe they were speaking relatively because it borders winter. But it still isn’t bright
@@GabriellearrudadesignCould be. They don't include colors like mustard. 🤔
Danke!
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It's pretty hard to be exited about color analysis when I'm only positive about being muted😅
It can take awhile to feel ok about your season, especially when you were expecting something else. I had the same experience in reverse. There are so many beautiful colors in the muted palettes, and you will glow in those colors. Don't think it needs to be drab or too soft! Every palette has a range!
Can we get link for the shirt ? 😬
It’s super old from nasty gal- used to wear it as an around the house shirt 😂
The brutal truth is: you either have an eye for it or you don't. It takes actually a lot of knowledge and some serious training to the eye to be an analyst. There are analysts who get it wrong a lot of the times but still have a lot of clients. Because it's about more than just the colour type at the end of the day. It's the psychological intuition you bring to the table that you have to back up with your eye for colours and an ability to explain why certain colours suit someone, so that the person knows the logic behind it and not just believing what the analyst said. Also, you don't need to religiously stick to the colours from your type and you don't need to overhaul your entire wardrobe, the analyst will tell you how to work with what you have. Online analysis may be harder than in person but it's doable, again, see my first sentence. As for people desperately trying to find their colour type, there's often a lot insecurity behind that which has nothing to do with the colour system itself. Obviously you won't tell your customer that but I can write it here, so that it may help someone realise it and take maybe a slightly different approach when going for a colour analysis (or any other analysis connected with personal appearance). It may be a first step to realise that we need to work on something entirely different within ourselves. If you go for the analysis really out of curiosity or for fun, then it's another story.
I mean, training is a huge part of having an eye. I spent money and time to have a one on one training in a system I believe in with an expert in the field. And I'm still doing practice clients to make sure my eye is trained and I've seen a variety of different people. The current industry is flooded with people who have no training and just go based off of apps or loose stereotypes. I think online analysis, if done at all, should be done after years of in-person experience. I don't think it should ever be an analysts first method of clients. And yes, I agree.. I said that you don't overhaul your wardrobe, you take slow steps to see what you have and what you might want to replace. you have to build up your relationship with these new colors. And I agree, it can cause you to realize you have some more issues related to your relationship with yourself and your appearance.
Also, just a thought I had. Brightness seems much more obvious to me when I see the person wearing bright makeup, like you are here. It’s much easier to see the harmony or lack thereof when the color is right on your face. That bright lipstick looks harmonious on you, whereas on someone in a muted season it would look completely foreign and would overwhelm them. That lipstick really is perfect on you!
Yes totally! Although I think lipstick drapes can be very tricky because it depends on the natural lip pigmentation, the texture/opacity of the lipstick, and accurately placing the color. But I do think when you find your season, your lipsticks can totally help confirm it. When we tried a BW lipstick on me in the training, it was clearly separate!
I don’t see the warmth in your skin. Can you demonstrate?
I can try to do something like this. But we aren’t looking for actual warmth in skin or golden tones in skin. We are looking for warm colors to harmonize with our undertone for BS.
Wait but you have PAN showing on that blush!
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@@Gabriellearrudadesign that takes years to do, so you’ve been wearing a warm bright shade for years!
Although you're quite fair, your natural lip color isn't the most cool toned, that's a tell I think
I think sometimes these elements or tricks can apply but overall they aren't determinant. Best to drape. But you're right I do have fairly pigmented lips
I think you look much nicer with a paler lip! , sorry just my honest opinion !❤
Hmm, everyones entitled to their own opinion of course and I appreciate your perspective. But I love a bright lip and plan to continue to do them.
@@Gabriellearrudadesign ok yeah fair enough, go for it !❤
I’m goth and I’m a bright spring 😂💀
I did my own typing using irl and via procreate. Keep in mind I’m also a digital artist so I’m familiar with colors and color theory. I personally wanted winter to give my goth look justice.😂
However, drape after drape, image after image just solidified bright spring. Natural chestnut brown hair, green starburst eyes, fair neutral warm skin tone with clarity.
For me, the deciding factor between the two was that I can wear orange, both bright and burnt. Winter burgundies and blues visibility drained the life out of me😅.
The final nail in the coffin was the sheer amount of compliments wearing bright spring, not on the outfit or colors, but ME.
However, bright spring is really incongruent with my personal aesthetic choice, so I’ve been making do with wearing my colors and keeping my accessories in goth land. I just don’t let it over power my primary visual look. At least, that’s what I’ve been doing 🤷♀️