Wait, so what is the girl in the thumbnail?? Those are all colors that I think look good on me haha Is it light spring?? I think I’m either a light spring or soft autumn.. but I have dark hair and medium/dark brown eyes???
I understand the confusion about the term "saturated" in this context, because in the visual art community "saturated" means very bright, and "desaturated" means the colour is closer towards grey. So it feels like the opposite to how i normally think of the word "saturated" when it comes to colour
Also confused me but I think it means when you have a mix of a bunch of saturated colors, they mud together and create an unclear colour. So its not so much "saturated" as "so many saturated colors that we're back into muted tones"
Color saturation refers to the intensity of colour, as the saturation increases, the colours appear to be more pure so the definition in this tutorial is incorrect. Highly saturated colours are the OPPOSITE to muted & greyish colours ❤💛💙
@@mjfanta1915 when you mix grey with a color you are decreasing its saturation, making the color less saturated, because you are mixing in white and black which both have saturation = 0
I think you are naturally drawn to your seasonal colour palette. Being a south Asian I always thought I should wear warm colours because that’s what suits most Indian skin tones. Yet I always felt somewhat off in those colours. Have always been drawn to and felt comfortable in soft muted colours…..after a lot of research I realized that I am a soft summer! It was such a Eureka moment for me….🥰
Wow I feel the same way! I was never that attracted to saturated colours, I am a soft summer as well and it just clicked when I figured out my season. The colours I was drawn to happened to look the best on me. The most amazing part for me is a colour can look so drab and boring but when I put it on it looks amazing, I'm glowing, it's like it's made for me lol.
I thought so too, but the season I suspect I am, I don’t like most of the colors. I love Soft Summer, but I think I’m Soft Autumn. I’m really sad about it. Yes I know it is silly.
The lip test was so helpful! I simply swatched a pinky purple and pinky peach eyeshadow on my lips near the corners of my mouth and blended a little to see which one looked the most similar and I came up with I’m cool toned!
Great vid, but I think it would’ve been best if you looked up “Cocoa Styling - for dark skin women”. She goes in debt about color analysis for women with darker skins in a way that genuinely helps. I feel like with most of these color analysis videos with women being white or light in color, you guys never really go into actual black women, which I understand may not be your fault. But I would love to see more people pull in color analysis that is geared for women of darker skin as well & include us more. They always put us in the category of just Autumns or summers and that’s not accurate at all :/. Literally I go through tons of these videos and they’re always the same. If you can, check her out!
She is white herself, I think it’s just easier for white women to see the difference in cool versus warm, saturated versus clear on a skin color we’re familiar with. Maybe it’s not ideal, but I wouldn’t be able to identify the difference with medium and darker skin tones in regards to warm or cool. I’m glad that there is another creator on here who specializes in darker skin tones so that you ladies aren’t left out!
@@alex.and.babies Tbh I'm half black half indian and I have no fking clue how to tell the difference with dark skin myself lol. I think I'm warm, but I'm still unsure 😭☠️.
Great video! I think there's a confusion about saturation. "Saturated" actually refers to a color's purest form. When you say a color is saturated you mean it's the most clear it can get. The opposite of saturated is desaturated, wich you get as the color looses it's vividness. The thing is most people relate "muted" with grayish tones, but in reality, with a medium value color, you'll notice it starts to look more grayish as it desaturates, but with a really dark or a really light value color, you'll only notice it by the absence of tone.
As an illustrator, I was thinking the same. For example, if you totally desaturate a picture it will transform in a black and white image. On the other hand, a highly saturated image would have the brightest, more vibrant colors, the more vivid version of them. There are so many tricky words about color, it's perfectly normal be a little confused about them. 😊👍 Great video as always!
In art classes, I got the same definition of saturated. Pure color without white, gray, black or brown added. Secondary and tertiary colors which are Blends, can also be saturated, with no white &/or black added. In some systems, clear colors are always either tinted with white or left clear and saturated. Like springs, with a touch or more of white. Or Icy Winter colors, white with a tiny hint of pure color. Summers have a touch of gray in the colors. Autumns have a touch of black added to their colors, but some autumn colors are so muddy (thinking of some hideous camping clothing) that just frankly don't bring a glow to anyone's face that I can find. Who knows what they put into those colors, lol! That said, certain colors with a touch of black added is stunning on dark winters (and cool summers, which is probably the closest to her soft summer.) I like the 16 type system, and I feel like I fall closest into “dark summer“ but I’ve never seen that type anywhere except on the Kettlewell Website.
This video helped so much! Thank you! As a medium toned black women, I've always been typed as a deep winter or autumn, but now I know I'm a true autumn! Completely changed my perspective!
Determining whether you're warm or cool is way more difficult than I initially thought it was. My mom and I always thought we were both very cool toned, but after swatching my mom yesterday with the various colors we have around the house, lo and behold, she glows in the bright, *warm* colors! We were both so used to seeing her skin in cool tones, that it took us awhile to recognize how much better she looked in warm. Then I got to thinking about me, wondering if I was truly a soft summer because I had recently found a very muted, very blue top that washed me out. So I looked up several soft autumn color palettes and thought, "Would you lookie there, all of those colors are the colors that look good on me." I can't wear *clear* warm colors (the horror of me in bright yellow or orange 😬), and so I always thought I must be cool. Nope. Just need to be wearing *muted* warm colors instead.
i struggled with this for so long because i'm neutral toned so i realised thats probably not my defining feature, then realised i've got to be some kind of winter. just trying to work out which winter
I wish there was more info on how our seasons change with a tan. My skin is much more neutral and pale in the winter and incredibly yellow when I get a tan which I do easily in summer. I can wear colors with a tan that look not good in winter and the colors that flatter me in winter look very dull and wrong with a tan. I would love to see a video on this phenomena.
@@CamilaMarquesESilvaSraE I am not a season I am a person. Some find it comforting to believe in an absolute dictated by someone or something they see as an authority. I myself prefer information that is not a box.
@@suzanned5859 Dear, your missing the point. The "color season system" came after, well, persons. It is a tool that describes the color theory found in ones fenotype. It's an application of Color Theory itself, and remember: color only exists as is for a human eye, under the specific conditions that we evolved in. Getting dressed using the colors who favor your features should be a fun and empowering process, not a box that you fell trapped to 💙
I think the clear/saturated-muted-soft-dimentional names are still confusing. I would opt for something like "streamlined vs. complex" colouring. This way it is clear what is meant: is your colour easy to name, it's simple and straighforward? Or is it compound, complex. with many add-ons, hues and tints mixed in?
Totally agree. Art School graduate and color theory nerd here. The confusion is coming from a misuse of ‘saturated’. Saturated means ‘vivid; very bright, full and free from an admixture of white and/or black.’ I.e., there isn’t any grey mixed into the color (because in order to add grey, you have to mix in white + black). The word you’re looking for is ‘desaturated’ to mean muted or less vivid. So the terms that line up are: saturated, vivid, clear, bright, easily named vs. desaturated, muted, soft, hazy, faded, muddied or dull, not easily named - more complex. (Some of these terms feel less than flattering, which I think might be why there is such a variety in use - people are trying to avoid words like ‘dull’ or ‘muddy’.
@@kjeanpociask Yes. Unfortunately Kibbe made it very confusing when he used the word saturated when the literal definition is the opposite. I get why he used it but it’s too confusing to use.
I agree with this and find this video confusing because of it. Saturated = Bright to most color analysts. Muted would be a better choice to describe “lack of distinct color”. Otherwise, the video is great.
@@BbGun-lw5vi 😲 I didn't recall that Kibble used "saturated" as opposite of it's usual meaning! I read Metamorphosis but I totally passed the colour part because as a formed artist it didn't make any sense to me, the terms were quite confusing, and the recommendations a little bit too much for me 😅😂 Thanks for explaining that, I was very confused watching this video and hearing "saturated" as muted or dull.
As a biracial woman, I always thought I automatically had a medium coloring, but this video has me thinking I may actually be light instead. My whole life, I've always thought I am !ight for my ethnicity. My hair is lighter than my biracial people I've met, my eyes are light green/hazel instead of brown, and my skin tone is lighter than expected. This video made it click! Now I just have to decide between soft autumn and light spring. I've always considered myself a autumn, but I'm not sure now😅
That makes sense. Now you have to see if you look better in colors that have brightness and clarity (light spring) or colors that are soft and muted. Maybe trying different lipsticks and blushes can help.
If you don't really click with either of those seasons, maybe play around with some summer colours. A lot of people think if they have darker skin that leans yellow or olive they need to be warm seasons but they can totally be cool seasons. Especially olive skin gets mistaken for warm toned skin a lot. Take Shay Mitchell, she has olive, bronzed skin but she looks best in cool, bright colours, while the warm honey blonde balayage she used to wear did nothing for her complexion. At first glance one might think she was an autumn but she is actually a winter. Now I think we can rule out winter for you if that is you in the foto,but you could still be a summer if you feel like you lean quite light. If you look at Zoe Saldana she has quite dark skin from a eurocentric point of view but she has a lightness to her appearance and looks her very best in powdery pinks and other summer colours. She is a soft summer. I used to have a similar problem the other way around I knew I was very light skinned and warm toned so I thought I could only be a spring, since I wasn't dark enough for an autumn. But as it turns out my colours are medium light and very muted, so spring colours just look loud and out of place on me. As it turns out I'm actually a soft autumn. It's not about the skin tone it's about the general appearance of your colours so sometimes too much emphasis on skintone can make things hard Edit: I was thinking of soft summer since that is right next to soft autumn on the colour wheel and those two seem to get mixed up a lot. I like to use Lucy Hale as an example as well. She has brown hair, hazel green eyes and very light, slightly olive skin so she could be confused for a soft autumn but she looks best in soft, pastel summer colours
What’s annoying is I’m fair skinned and everyone automatically assumes because I’m fair I must have a pink undertones and classes me as a winter. But I actually feel like I look awful in the winter colour palette and I never understood why. I even hate cool toned blonde hair next to my skin tone. My skin in my opinion is more neutral. I actually think I’m a “clear spring”. I read somewhere that clear springs can often be mistyped as winters. When I l read that it all made sense. I held up the spring colour palette next to my complexion and it really suits me.
Saturated means 'full of' color, saturated would be clear. ('It's clearly blue') Muted or de-saturated is soft grayish. ('Is that green, grey or blue?') Brightness, white balance and saturation :)
@@heiroot and Kibbe honestly cannot write to save his life, so it makes sense that his 'version' of a word would mean the opposite of its dictionary meaning 😂 I mean, I genuinely like his typing system for the most part, but I joined Strictly Kibbe a while back and when I tried to read his posts on there I was convinced that one of us had had an aneurysm!
Thank you for addressing the proper use of the word "saturation"!!! I loved her video but it was driving me crazy and I almost couldn't finish watching it without audibly saying the proper terminology out loud over her track just so I could hear it correctly and keep my brain from freaking out from the incongruent use of this word, lol. 😂
this was so helpful! I literally had given up on finding my color season because all the guides had been super confusing, now I know that I'm a Dark Winter!
I've been draped, so I know 100% where I belong, however I have always struggled with warm vs cool, and I think it's because people dismiss neutral undertones. Even using the method you suggest, I really struggle because I actually have hints of both peach and purple. This was always my area of confusion. I typed myself as a bright spring, but I am actually a light summer. (your summary of bright "for a summer" TOTALLY made sense to me!) Anyway, long winded way of saying that I loved your video, but wanted to point out that some people might struggle with cut and dry warm vs cool.
As a soft summer apparently I can get away with both silver and gold as I have neutral undertones however, it’s best to avoid shiny metals and instead go for a more matte finish. I thought this was an interesting way of looking at it: I can go for cool and warm tones but they should always be desaturated and muted instead of bright.
@@phoebelang6394 That is exactly my case as well! Neither bright gold or bright silver jewelry really look good on me. Brass / antique silver suit me far better - basically jewelry that is muted in tone no matter if it's warmer or cooler leaning. The closer to neutral, the better.
@@phoebelang6394 I'm the same way. My wedding ring is silver but I gravitate to gold more and after wearing my ring for so long, I can tell, just from the reaction of the metals against my skin, that it doesn't really matter for me. I'm technically a true summer but because of my neutral undertones I can float throughout all three summer palettes. I can wear most of the colors in the soft summer and probably half of the light summer colors. I hadn't thought of looking at jewelry finish though, that's really interesting!
I can relate. As a soft summer, I can pull off soft autumn when I get a little “tan” (for me). One analyst even named a new type for people who are transitional between two types.
We neutral toned ones always struggle! I really have a hard time to know what i'm as I've both warm and cool undertones too. Asking mom also doesn't help coz she says "you look good in most colours", so even if I won't be one type atleast I wanna know what season is the closest to me so I'll build my wardrobe depending on it.
It’s so hard to be objective about these things! I thought I was cool for years and years, mainly because I have blue veins. Thought I had super grey ashy hair. Wore a lot of turquoise, which overpowered me (but brought out the blue in my very… hmm… bluegreengraynotreallyacolour eyes). Began to realise only last year that I’m neutral and leaning towards warm when I got a muted terracotta coloured t-shirt as a gift, thought “oh no, I’m never gonna be able to wear this colour…” and put it on only to find it brought a healthy glow to my skin and coppery and brown tones in my hair. Now I’m pretty certain I’m a soft autumn. However, since I’m more neutral than warm my first feature is muted and then light, so I need to stay away from the brighter colours of soft autumn, or pair them with neutrals such as off white.
You are so right that it’s super hard to be objective about ourselves. I looked at a few of your videos and I would have also thought you were cool. But then I saw the video that starts with: Ar du slav under diderot-effekten. You’re wearing a soft terracota lipstick and you look so good in it. Makes your skin, eyes and hair glow despite the black and white top which isn’t ideal.
@@BbGun-lw5vi Thank you for checking them out and being an objective judge 😄 I can wear soft summer colours and look just fine, but like you said soft warm colours does that little extra. I agree that a black and white isn’t ideal at all - I’ve ditched wearing black near my face since. Like a lot of us probably should, I guess! It looks gorgeous on the winters though.
Hi Filippa, didn't you consider being a Spring type? I think you are mostly light, then warm and then bright. I hope don't being confused with the colouring of the camera, lighting, etc. But the video where I see the best of your features is "6 enkla steg for att bli mer priduktiv" (I didn't saw all the videos thoug). I think you would look awesome in more colors like soft tourquise, coral or salmon, yellow just in between bright and pastel, in some silky fabric. Always luminous. When you use muted colors you look washed down. Sorryyy for this opinions from a total stranger. Of course I see crearly on you but not on me 🤣🤣 cheers!!
It would be wonderful if you could do a video to discuss those who don’t clearly fit into a category, eg, a redhead with dark blue-grey eyes and very cool skin.
I'm a dark autumn, that was very easy for me to figure out! You were recommended to me by my soft summer friend and I'm having a lot of fun! I have a good eye for colour though, and I feel like I already knew inherently what colours were good for me
Just found your channel and im obsessed!! I’ve never known my color season, but I finally think I’ve discovered that in either a soft summer or a true summer. I always thought I was the same season as my mom, but she is a winter, and I could never pull off the jewel tones like she can!! Thank you for enlightening me!
Since I have mixed/ oddball characteristics, I've come up with my own system. If a color gives me a "snow white" effect, whether mild or intense, warm or cool, then it works for me. 😊 I don't stress the season.
There are also 16-box color systems, and some people are just in the middle of a cool to warm spectrum and can wear either. Or else their skin tans more at certain times and they can wear a more intense color at that time. All kinds of things can be at play. I also feel like I have oddball characteristics, (and people have tried to put me in all four boxes at one time or another with spring the least successful), and I don’t think there’s a single box that perfectly fits me but the one that is closest is something called dark summer which is different from soft summer, but leans into winter and autumn. It’s not a convenient color palette for living in a very hot area, but it’s always the most becoming on me. Kettlewell website has it on their website, along with more info on finding one's colors. In the end, I kind of did what you did, I focused on what looks good on me. And I experimented with wearing colors from adjacent palettes, which confirmed that those colors suck on me. 😂 I have a book called “the triumph of individual style,“ which was fun and informative. it encourages you to look at ALL of your features individually, all of your proportions, as well as your coloring, and how to create outfits that reflect those elements. I had fun one year going to the store to see What scale of print worked best on me, what kind of stripe, what kind of plaid (none at all), sheen/texture, embellishments like sequins versus beading, Type of embroidery, the different lines of jackets, and of course colors. The book helped me pay attention to the scale of neck lines, all kinds of things. It made it very clear why I continue to reach for the same things in my closet. As I did my shopping I used voice dictation on my phone as I went from rack to rack and section from section, holding up anything and everything to me and making a note of my reactions of good, bad or indifferent, and specific things I liked or did not like. I did that on a couple of other trips to the mall, a few months apart. That way I could span the fashion seasons a little bit. My impressions were remarkably consistent and now act as a guide. From my notes, I made a short list of words that describe my style preferences that I use to evaluate things. If an outfit that I am looking at doesn’t evoke that list of qualities, there’s a 99.9% chance that I’m not gonna like it on my body. So you can apply your own observations to all those details, too, and make it even easier to shop.
@@bitrudder3792 my goodness, I JUST saw this.. Oops, sorry! Yes, I think you're right about the colors. To peg billions of people into 16 boxes just sounds impossible to me 🤷🏻♀️ Although I realize my undertone doesn't change, the seasonal effect because of the sun, or lack thereof, makes a big difference to my surface tone. (Yellow/greenish in summer, parchment pale in winter) I should probably investigate prints a bit. My closet only has a nerdy handful. Lol I will check that website you mentioned. Thanks 😊 Have a happy Saturday!
@@preciousypenguino - i'm glad you found it! And I know it would be fun for me to hear how your story evolves, if you continue to share it 😁! This is a fun journey, And it has saved me loads of money on the wrong clothing!
I agree u gotta repeat your features to look your best BUT as a girl with A LOT of redness in my skin i have found that blue colors make me look best while red ones make me look sicker
Blue isn’t opposite to red, green is (so you are red not olive ) - so it could be that you also have a cool undertone as well as having some reddish-ness ☺️☺️
@@elliejeanroyden ooooh i see I always thought blue is opposite to red Yess i am cool toned as fuck 😅 So wait , does that mean i generally look the worst in warm green colors ?
@@somebody-br2hm if you are cool and reddish that means that the worst will likely be 1) yellowish, orangy colors and 2) greenish, so maybe like acid green could be the worst, but I don’t claim that. But also for example I am very cool and have more olive undertone, and really, I look my absolute worst in orange colors but don’t actually look that bad in acid green
@@dariiagaycheva2853 Exactly! I’m a light cool olive. A Dark Winter. And I look horrible in orange. My mom is a true winter and she looks even worse in orange. Not sure what’s the worst color for Summers which are also cool like Winters.
Omg, the lip test was so helpful! I mean it didn't tell me if I am definitely warm or cool toned (I'm convinced I'm neutral toned), but it helped me to find out that I'm slightly cool toned. And finally I realized why I do look good in black, even if I seem to be light type - it turns out that I'm a bright winter! It was so confusing to me since I'm naturally dark blonde, but it makes so much sense right now
This has helped me see why I've struggled with colour analysis for so long: I don't seem to be clearly anything! Dark or light: I have extremely fair skin for my ethnicity (Mediterranean/Hispanic), medium-dark brown hair and dark brown eyes Cool or warm: my skin is actually pretty neutral, my hair learns cool, my eye are very warm. From experience, neutral-cool colours are best, but it's definitely not something I would've figured out from my features at all Saturated or clear: I have olive undertones so multiple colours are a natural part of my skin tone, my hair is pretty saturated I think (the exact shade it looks changes a lot with lighting), my eyes are more saturated than you'd expect considering how dark they are. But I know from experience that black works for me like no other, which seems to contradict all that I've considered BW (feels too bright), DW (feels too heavy), TW (too cool) and SSu (but the black thing). Maybe I just need a different approach to colour!
Same here, I felt I am medium/neutral/moderate, etc in all the values used. I am Spaniard but very pale, almost totally neutral, with ashy caramel brown hair wich gets blonder in summer, but my eyes are a very dark brown. I really don't feel I fit perfectly in any season, but maybe I am too pale, or my eyes too dark for whatever my ethnicity would be.
Same here. For many years I wore black and vivid winter colors, as well as a lot of makeup, because my dark circles were very obvious while I was wearing those colors. I had my hair dyed jet black for a number of years, and I wore lots of lipstick in cooler reds. Snow White was my icon. I now see that I actually lean towards Autumn, and I find that medium shades of green (sage, olive, even uniform green), and some caramel shades make me look best. Wearing them also helps me ditch the heavy under eye makeup. The only colors that really suit me are medium/ moderate in all values used, as @Tamara Arriola pointed, and they need to be natural (as in colors you may find in forests or natural fibers, such as linen). It is a pity, as I love black and bright colors, yet they make me look older and tired.
All of you sound like my husband’s cousin who is Primarily of Spanish descent, Dark hair that catches other colors in the light, but cool, slightly olive light skin that contrasts pretty sharply with dimensional brown eyes. She looks sensational in neutrals, especially when they are made of linen. I covet that look so much! She can wear black but it just isn’t as successful on her as the light soft whites with taupes and beiges. The black wears HER, instead of the other way around.
If you have quite high colour contrast, and lean cool, makes sense you have thought you are one of the winters, TW sounds like a good fit as the brightness seems to clash. I find that if you have more neutral colouring, you can choose the more neutral colours in the palette. Or perhaps balance out a cooler colour with a more neutral one when you are playing with colours outside of black. For example, more jewel toned looks that lean cool but they’re not super dark.
This is the first explanation I've come across that's actually made sense. Thank you so much. I always thought I was a winter, but am in fact a soft summer!
I think it would be great to have a colour wheel for every continent/ complexity classification; let’s say southamerican and african (with often green undertones) heritage, asian heritage and european/australien/northamerican heritage. Because when it comes to comparing my complexity (european) with one from e.g. african ethnicity the differences are so confusing. I can totally imagine that people with african/southamerican complexity having a hard time looking to the ‚white‘ colour wheel to picture themselves. Nevertheless: I love your videos. I find your voice very calming and your topics lead me to getting to know my best way to dress. Weird: I’m a designer and apparel engineer but when it comes to dress myself up I mostly grab black or aubergine and I‘d like to change that soo bad! Thank you 🌹
It’s a good idea, except what happens when you’re a mix of different heritages from different parts of the world? It would become a very complex and complicated system to create.
A thought to share in case it might help someone: Something that really helped me in being able to tell the undercurrent color of a person is how they look against their background. Like for example, your background is grey and you still look really alive and healthy in front of it. That tells us you have either grey or another matching color to grey in your undercurrent coloring. If a person has a warmer undercurrent they would look kind of sickly, pale, ghostly or tired against the grey background bc their undercurrent doesn't match the grey. Grey is typically a cool color, so if one looks good against a grey background it means they are cool toned. If they look good against both cool and warm backgrounds it means they are neutral toned.
The lip test was really helpful! I have found it hard to pinpoint what colour season I am, but I think I’ve finally confirmed that I am a light spring. My most prominent feature is definitely that I am so light, but I’ve struggled with figuring out if I am warm or cool as I fit both silver and gold. The vein test is also of no use on my skin. From your description of saturation it is also clear that I am a saturated type. My eye colour has always been a bit of an enigma. They are blue, but I have gotten questions about them being green all my life, even from close relatives, and my hair has strands that go from extremely light to quite dark while still being a blonde. I am looking forwards to exploring my colour season more.
I'm so glad that you focus on colours of the face, eyes and hair to determine whether someone is cool or warm because that's exactly what I do, and it's far more accurate. I have a yellow overtone to my skin, so I often get forced into warm colours, even though my hair is ashen dark-brown, my eyes are a cloudy hazel and my skin has a grey undertone to it making me a pale cool-toned olive (I also have a slight green undertone). Olive skintones are all over the place in marketing because they're wrongly attributed to skin colour instead of skin undertone. Just because you are tanned doesn't make you olive. I am a Dark Winter but since I am an olive I have to stay away from bright tones because they will wash me out.
Yes this. I’m rather olive too and people have such a hard time realizing I’m not warm. But my hair is ashy and I have grey blue eyes. Pale cool toned olive is definitely my skin in the winter, but I tan very easily. Also if a hair dresser tries a warm toned blonde on it is just bad. We olive beings are confusing lol
Okay, I'm thinking Clear Winter and it explains so much. I have NEVER looked good in pastels or muted colors. There is a ton of coral, red,blue (more aqua and navy) and white in my wardrobe because that's what I feel best wearing. This was so helpful. Thank you! ❤️
I had the fabric test done 20 years ago, I was told I was a spring but I found wearing winter colours better like emerald green and royal blue suited me. However I wear any color that I like to wear. I have also coloured my hair many colours as well. My natural is a light to medium brown, when I was a kid I had some auburn in my hair. I believe with this video I am a bright warm dark for spring. Thanks for clarifying in this video. I am eagerly awaiting my body type analysis. I am so excited! Anna Kerti in Budapest. This pic here was taken 2 years ago, and I found in winter I loved to wear the emerald greens. they were my fav!
Thank you for including ethnicity, I like to be able to tell what seasons everybody is! And oftentimes other ethnicities than Caucasians aren't talked about! Your video was very informative and way simpler to understand how to define one's color palette. Thank you so much for this brilliant work!!
I’ve been unsure if I was a soft autumn or soft summer, but your breakdown helped me figure it out. I’m soft/muted, light (for an autumn,) and my coloring isn’t too warm or cool…but I have green eyes, freckles, and I look SO much better in peach lip color! I’m a soft autumn! 🍂
true spring! ive seen many videos and this one is THE ONLY video that 100% clarified my doubts and helped. it was so easy, i didnt even have to rewatch. kudos to u! xoxo
This video was already much more helpful than the other i've watched! I just wish there were more examples or mentions of asian women (southeast and east asian as i'm a mix of both) :) But I still appreciate how you tried your best to explain everything!
I am Native American and white mixed. It gave me a beautiful yellow skin so I love when Asian women are included since they are closer to my color than any other group.
Where were you three years ago when I started researching this??? I've been wearing Soft Summer colors when I should be wearing True Summer colors. Now I know why I always feel so drab and drained. I need more color! Thank you! You have simplified my life so much.❤️
This is so hard for me! I keep trying to determine if I’m a dark winter or autumn. I am warm mostly but I always get more compliments and feel more lively when wearing winter colors. Pale colors wash me out, sage green and light lilac make me look sick, sometimes even a light pink. Your video helped me understand the ranking better though!
if you want to go buy a general rule, if you look good in black and truer colors you are in winter. If you can you get away with wearing black but it isn’t the best dark neutral on you, or if you need a touch of black to deep in the pure colors of dark winter, you might be a dark autumn or deep autumn. In the end, create your own best color palette, Which may include colors from both of those palettes.
I’m pretty much the same is you- I have olive overtones and lilac/most shades of purple and light blue makes me look 🤢. I can wear black and white and am very very high contrast so people type me as a winter but I know most of the colors other than black and white look like crap on me lol
I truly have no idea after watching the entire thing. The only thing I think I’m certain of it is that unsaturated I don’t know if I’m light or dark I don’t know if I am cool or warm. I feel like I really fall in the middle for both. And wish I had money to book an appointment.
Omg thank you so much!!!!!!!! I keep thinking I am a soft summer, but the thing that keeps throwing me off is my emerald green sunburst eyes. You are the first person who has mentioned that the green can be cool based. My lips lean purple too, and no other video has talked about this lip thing before. Thank you so much.
I have a complete mix of features. My eyes are green but I have strawberry blonde hair, lots of freckles, and very pink skin. I seem to look really good in warm and cool colors as long as they're light and not too saturated. (Pastels but not primary colors or neon). I've decided to follow the light summer and light spring palettes because I think they look good on me and they make me the happiest. 🤷♀️
I've been experimenting successfully with the Dark Autumn palette for a while (even the 'weird' colors like orchid purple) but I wanted to test it through this video. When I heard ''bright for an Autumn'' it made so much freaking sense! It really helps to see things in context. I was still a bit unsure because even if I'm high contrast I'm not SUPER high contrast as some Dark Autumns I've seen online, I have lighter (somewhat golden and tbh kinda cool) medium brown hair and a medium-light-warm-olive skintone so it would always confuse me. Zendaya is such a good example! I think Natalie Portman is another good example of ''bright for an Autumn'' (often categorized as Dark Autumn from what I've seen).
I only discovered my color palette once I started changing my lip color, I have always thought I was a winter but never understood why my eyes would change color, from a greenish Hazel to brown when I wore dark saturated colors. Well one day I bought a completely different lip tone, a shade of coral and suddenly I got It. My skin is warm but Very light. I started wearing light spring colors and now my eyes are always Very bright and look greener then before. Colors are amazing.
Yes! Please do a video explaining how to tell undertones of fabric colors! I often buy things under fluorescent store lighting and find they aren’t the right color at all. I have to go extremely warm to find a warm tone shirt, anything subtly warm is usually wrong in different lighting.
Thank you for the video! This is the first time I've heard this definition of "saturated" but it makes so much more sense for the specific context of color typing -- I've only ever heard the term "saturated" to mean "intense," which always made my attempts at typing myself not feel intuitively "right." I love that you referenced Merriam! I adore her color system and body geometry system, as I am such a mix of features and colors that I seem to defy and confuse every single typing system otherwise 😂 per her color typing, I seem to be extreeeeemely close to neutral, but very, very, very, VERY slightly warm and delicate with strong olive undertone (I did the lip test just now and I seriously think my lips are right between peach and purple -- cool test btw, had never heard of it!), which makes things....tricky. By the color season test, I appear to be some type of Autumn, but because of my green undertones, lots of colors from the winter and summer palettes suit me better than the autumn ones. Cool and muted greens, steel blues, warm and muted rosy pinks, and russet/copper tones seems to suit me best. Add in some super strong ethereal essence and a body type that seems to not fit any of Kibbe's types 😂😂
I find myself in the same exact situation as you, I couldn't type myself. My olive skin brings out a slightly yellow, almost sickly undertone if paired with some colors of the autumn or winter palettes, but at the same time I find the best colors to complement it also in these two families.
Maybe you should take a look at the cooler tones of soft autumn? You’ll find some jades, soft warmish blues and rosy pinks there. Those work very for me, because I’m neutral too and leaning slightly more towards warm than cool too. Edit: it’s also a wheel for a reason! 😊 If you’re leaning one way or another you can usually strategically borrow colours from the closest neighbour, in your (and mine) case soft summer.
I think the olives are just outside of the seasonal analysis. Maybe we need a 16 colour wheel, and create olive subtypes to each. Then we'd have olive winter ( these could be e.g. Audrey Tautou, Liya Kebede, Paz Vega, Leopsie, Audrey Coyne, Nina Dobrev, Rachel Weisz, Ruth Negga), olive autumn (e.g. Aishwarya Rai, Eva Mendes, Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Freida Pinto, Megan Markle), olive summer (e.g. Kim Kardashian, Nazanin Boniadi, Adriana Lima, Gemma Chang, Thandie Newton), and olive spring (Eva Longoria, Mila Kunis, Rihanna). I may lay completely wrong with some of the sorting, though. There is no bulletproof way to sort the olive skin tones into the seasonal categories, and I went with gut feeling.
i've been trying to figure out my color season (and even just my undertones) literally for years, and this ten minute video made it all click! i finally understand saturation and that made all the difference. thank you!!! i could never determine whether i was cool or warm because i can see both blue and yellow tones in my skin. i figured i had to be neutral, but instead of a nice, blended middle ground, i felt like a frankenstein of colors (not necessarily in a bad way, just in a confusing way haha). my veins are purple, gold jewelry is unflattering, white clothing makes me look jaundiced, and so on. now i understand (at least, if i've got it right!) that i'm just very saturated. i'm fairly certain that i'm a soft autumn! hooray!
I have watched many videos about color seasons and this is the best one yet! The vein and jewelry tests were very difficult for me, but now I know I am a true summer! Thank you for these great explanations
I considered myself a dark autumn, though this has me wondering if I could be a bright spring. They almost seem interchangeable except for if you are more saturated (though bright for an autumn lol) or bright overall (though dark for a spring lol). At least I know I am warm toned! I would love a follow up video on saturated vs. bright, as this seems to stump me a bit!
the best thing is to try on some of the shades from the two palettes and see which one suits you better. I have found that muted vs clear is an easily description to understand and look for than saturated or not
Yeah I think she used the word saturated incorrectly in the video. (or maybe it has a different meaning in fashion). To me Saturated means vivid colors, so it is the opposite of muted.
I had this same confusion myself. I found something online about it. They said that dark autumn and bright spring both look nice in bright, strong colors, and both of them can pull off some shades of black too (I know that's controversial, but I have warm tones and look very good in black). They said the difference is that dark autumn looks particularly good with all the dark brown and dark greenish brown colors too, but not so much in bright yellow because it's too light for them, and bright spring is the opposite. They can do light, bright colors, but not as much the dark muted colors. So with that reasoning, I settled on dark autumn.
This was immensely helpful. I am very fair so the vein color test has always seemed questionable to me. The lip color test made it immediately obvious for me.
Although I had to watch and re-watch this video a few times to fully understand it, this was the most useful breakdown of colour theory that I have seen so far! I really liked how you looked at the three points in relation to the season and individual colouring to find which season on the 12 season model. Thank you!
Hi Ellie! I love your videos and your advice on finding out our aesthetic/style. 😊 One thing I did notice though is, in this video, you used saturated and muted interchangeably when they’re on opposite sides of the spectrum. The image you used while naming the different seasons demonstrates this fact. Unless I’m mistaken, saturated = high vividness while muted = low vividness. Just thought I’d leave a comment to further help out with its explanation! ❤
This was a really excellently presented video.🙌👍 For years, I thought I was a Bright or Cool Winter but I think now I realize that I'm actually a Soft Summer. I used to dye my hair black since age 15 but at 39 shaved it all off and discovered my natural shade was dark ashy-grey chocolate brown. My skin is light olive/neutral and I can easily wear gold/silver/rose gold. Actually rose-gold jewellery is nearly IDENTICAL to my skin tone!! My skin turns exactly rose-gold with any sun exposure. My eyes are cloudy grey-blue-khaki green with no warmth and jet-black rings (wolf eyes😉 🐺). I have really grey undertones and suit Asian/very canary-yellow 🐥 undertoned foundation best. It's hard when you're mixed-race to know but I think you're "dimensional" explanation helps a lot. Most beauty counter people see olive skin as warm and blue eyes as cool but true warm/cool colours look deadful on me and I disappear. More faded/muted colours bring me to life. Sad though for me as I love strong autumny colours (browns/yellows/reds) so much more lol 😏😒 I hate wishy-washy/pastels 🤢😝😬🥴😵
Wait this is so interesting! I went to a stylist once and she had a hard time deciding if I was cool or warm (very pale but I have freckles and different colors in my eyes). She decided on bright winter but with this video I'm confused, the soft summer looks more like me I think.
Love your explanation of clear/ saturated. Finally explained it to me in a way I get. I’m light warm and can pull off pure chroma- but am saturated for a spring. So I’m light spring!
My skin tone is so comlex. Only thing that I'm sure is that I'm muted and medium contrast. I'm a SN, with a lot of grey in my skin tone (as you said saturated) medium ash brown hair, hazel eyes. Skin is light in winter and medium tan in summer, tone is confusing neutral, with pink, yellow and a lot of grey. Veins are green. At summer easy tan never burns, and get lot of yellow in skin and hair. I can pull off cool pink, cool lime, warm vanilla yellow, cool cobalt blue, warm camel, warm khaki, muted colors, and always look bad in any any orange, light grey fits on me, in dark grey and whole black outfit look like dead... I cannot find myselft within these types, feeling like crazy neutral cameleon 🤯
This really help. Thank you! I always thought I'm a warm but I saw myself not being compatible to it. Then you distinguish that the color of the lips can tell if you are warm or cool which equates to me being cool. I really lean in the Soft Summer color palette. Thank you very much for this video
This video has been so helpful for me! As someone who is mixed race, trying to figure out colors that work well for me has been difficult without a lot of people who have similar features to rely on. I always thought that because I have light brown eyes and brown hair that I automatically was some kind of warm tone/autumn. But now I realize that my eyes and hair color are quite cool toned relative to other browns and that I am definitely a winter
Please continue with color analysis! I am definitely a cool but not sure if a summer or winter. The best photo ever of me was in a medium blue denim collar close to my face.
It's so difficult to understand this as a poc but you have explained quite well. Unfortunately when I look for references online they are mostly with white women making it completely unrelatable for me. One thing I didn't understand though is what is being bright for spring or bright for summer. How can I be bright or dark for a season? Can anyone kindly explain this?
I had my colours done professionally and I am supposedly 1% of the popular where I am actually a Warm Autumn though alot of the tests will learn me to light and cool. I can't actually remember the exact reasons for why she said this is. But I spent years trying to understand why, being I'm fairly sure I was cool I wasn't working great with Spring colours. I then tried the only other, what seemed to me obvious option in Summer and found the colours were just not quiet right. It had never came to my mind, being so pale white with light greeny blue eyes and blue veins I could be a Autumn. Since finding out, it hasn't made it much easier as I always need to find the lightest and most muted of the warm Autumn colours, as I just tip the scale.
I always thought I was an autumn. Today I found out that I'm a dark winter. Wow. I've been buying the wrong color palette for years lmao. That makes so much sense. I've always wondered why taupe-y purples looked so good on me.
For the last couple of years I've been confused between true winter and true summer, because my natural hair color was a light kinda golden blonde, but now my roots grow in a deep ashy blonde, almost brown. My eyes are really dark but greyish. But now maybe I can be a bright winter if I consider I am light for a winter, my lips also are clearly a cool medium pink. Thank you sm for the video :)
If you can pull off gold or icy colors (not pastels, icy), then you might be right. My mum was also a blonde as a girl, and darkened to near black with age. She is a winter with dark blue-grey eyes with classic winter 'wheels' in them.
I am light, saturated but cannot find if i am cool or warm toned, having tried the veins and jewelry before, these tips really helped, so thank u so much😄❤️
To start off I absolutely adore your channel! I am a head head with grayish blue eyes and struggle placing myself in a color season. I stumbled upon this post somewhere and am wondering how accurate you think it is. It said, “ Other than skin tone, eyes show more about a person's season than most physical traits. Each season has a dominant feature which is shown in the eye. The SUMMER eye appears as crackly glass, WINTER - spokes on a wheel, SPRING - Yellow sunburst around a gray doughnut shape, AUTUMN - Aztec sun directly around the pupil with specks and dots sometimes.”
This has helped me understand things better but has lead me to still be a bit confused as my primary aspect is saturated or muted (hazel eyes, medium brown hair with red and blonde highlights) but I feel like I’m cool toned. My veins are blue, my lips are more purple, my skin is very pale and I have freckles. I feel like warm colour such as a rust coloured red or warm khaki just make me look either really pink or washed out. This would mean I fall into no category… Confusing 😅
I have a similar problem: I have blonde hair with gold highlights, green eyes with gold rings around my pupils, but my skin is 100% cool toned. I think after watching this a few times I’m a light summer.
Kinda blows my mind watching all your videos. Looking at my skin and realizing I am warm - a dark autumn is eye opening. Makes sense why people like seeing me in red! And now I gotta rethink my choices because I love blue so much but it just doesn't work with my skin tone?! Makeup will be a new adventure too I am excited to explore tha now!
You can totally still wear blue just try to go for the warmer blue tones. If you google dark autumn color palette there are also a bunch of blues that would probably look great on you
I'm always a little bit confused with these classifications... Not that I don't understand them, but I don't seem to fit in that well 🙉 I have natural blond hair, the lightest skin possible, but very dark brown eyes 😅 Depending on the light situation, they can even apear black. And I think I'm a neutral to warm skin tone, as I don't have any red undertones... Through trial and error I discovered some colors that suit me, but I haven't found my type yet 🙈
@@elliejeanroyden Thank you so much for your assessment! ☺️ Mhh, so maybe a mix between a light and a clear spring, if mixed types are possible 🤷🏼♀️ I'm already excited to find out more in your future videos!
@@theartofnaturegermany There are no mixed types. I looked at your videos and I agree that you should look at the Springs. I see warmth in your eyes and hair and skin. I would look at Bright Spring first. Then True Spring. And don’t discount Bright Winter just in case. Btw, you looked amazing in the bright coral top in your video called Girls Weekend at Ausburg. You just come alive. I also noticed that muted colors make you look drab which is why I think you’re a season with brightness.
@@theartofnaturegermany I don’t know if you read my previous reply. But don’t discount Bright Spring. You looked incredible in the bright coral top in one of your videos.
@@BbGun-lw5vi Oh thank you so so much for your effort helping me!! That's very kind of you and honestly made my day! 🥰 I always loved the coral top and some of my other items in bright colors! But being new to the color theories made me overthink everything and I wasn't sure anymore, so thank you for your outside perspective on this as well! Have a wonderful day 💚
This is the best breakdown of the 12 seasons, omg!! So perfect. I used to be confused between True Spring and Light Spring. The way you described saturated HIT HOME! I'm def a Light Spring! People have been thrown off by my green eyes for awhile. They're very warm, and people have thought I was a True Spring and even Soft Autumn. But nope! Natural towhead blonde that progressed to dark blonde as I got older, with just hints of red. Light Spring colors bring me out like no other palette can! Some True colors look quite good on me due to my added warmth, but overall I am at home in LSp! 🙏 Thank you SO much!
You may be soft more than anything on this case. I am cool more than anything myself. I am cool and medium . If the colours are cool and medium I don't mind if they are summer or winter pallet .
I agree complete, the most hard for me is to define cool or warm, have lot of gray in skin tone, also yellow and pink... Could been anything except spring...
Wow the first thing that I could be 💯 sure about myself. I'm a true summer. Currently I'm wearing this t-shirt and its color suits me so well. Turns out its a color from true summer pallette. Nice vid!
I still get confused about my season. I’m East Asian, light skinned for my ethnicity, and definitely olive. My eyes are a deep brown but my hair is a lighter version of the very dark hair that we have (it’s still dark obviously, but it’s comparatively lighter when I stand next to my peers). My lips are peachy and become a gross yellowy creamsicle color when I’m sick, but I don’t look good in anything too warm (or too cool for that matter). I also don’t look good in really bright/clear or really greyed/dusty/muted colors either. Everything needs to kind of be in the middle so I end up picking a little bit from a bunch of seasons.
Merriam Style channel has really good analysis of warm olive delicate and cool olive delicate types and which colours compliment them most. It's worth checking out!
I thin I'm either a light spring or a soft autumn (I'm warm, saturated and dirty blonde) but can't really say which one... But thank you for the video, it's the first video about this topic that actually was comprehensible! 💕
This is so interesting because Ive established Im Light Warm and Saturated implying I would be a soft autumn which makes sense to me actually, I do love and wear a lot of natural, muted and warm tones but some of my favorite pieces and items I lean towards a lot are often cool toned but still muted. Sage Green is my favvvv or muted blues. I love fashion so I wear a lot of different things of all colors but ive always noticed I lean to those colors. I also prefer cool toned hair on myself when I do fashion colors. Greens and blues are my favorite, but always light. I don't feel like myself in warm toned hair, I did a fashion color red once and I didn't feel or look like myself at all. But I do enjoy and often go towards an edgy look so the contrast actually makes sense.
For ages I've wondered whether I was a light spring OR a soft autumn. I think (though I would sure love to have this confirmed), that I'm a light Spring (?). This is the first time I've seen this described this way!! It was super helpful!
You seem to have a more clear chroma than muted…I would say ‘bright, cool and light’ according to Jen Vax’s “your colour style“ theory. Her system is an advance on the 12 season model in my experience as, like Merriam, she places a high importance on chroma. I think this is basically important if you are light - which can easily be confused with muted. The cutaways you use show you in fairly clear, light cool colours, and I just don’t think muddy colours would work on you. Also, as you know you are cool, I am puzzled why you wear orangey lipstick, which in my opinion isn’t flattering (you are so pretty!) and TBH lowers my confidence in your analysis abilities… sorry to be blunt!
It’s actually not orangey, it’s the editing of the video! It’s rose pink ☺️☺️ but the rest of it is right - I’m a light summer which is light cool and bright (for a summer) so you’re spot on ☺️
I think you’re wrong and right. You’re right that she has more brightness than a True Summer. But you’re confused about Light Summers being muted. Here’s something I copied from a color analyst. Light Summer is the very beginning of Summer. It borders Spring. Recall that Spring colors are light, bright and warm. So adding a little Spring to Summer makes the summer colors lighter, brighter and just slightly yellow-y. We say that Summer is a season characterized by softness. But your Light Summer colors aren't particularly soft. They're suprisingly un-Summery in their level of saturation - bright enough to rival Light or Warm Spring's palette.
I’m definitely something light. Makeup can so easily look dark and very pigmented on me. The thing is my eyes are warm, my lips are cool and I can use both silver and gold jewelry, so I’ve always said myself to be neutral:)
The saturated-clear part got me confused, someone please explain 😢 the rest was so so helpful and I loved the fact that I could tell while looking in a mirror! Im obsessed with this new knowledge 😊 ❤️✨
If you want my opinion on your colour season, head to bodyandstyle.com ☺️☺️☺️
What if I’m a dark, warm, and clear? What am I?
And I’m a autumn
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Oh thank you Ellie Jean! I have tried for ages to get my season. This is the first time it’s ever clicked. I think I’m a light summer hooray!
Wait, so what is the girl in the thumbnail?? Those are all colors that I think look good on me haha
Is it light spring??
I think I’m either a light spring or soft autumn.. but I have dark hair and medium/dark brown eyes???
after watching this video i realised i'm confused about things i didn't even know i could be confused about
Me too....I'd got it straight in my mind but this was so confusing I give up!
I understand the confusion about the term "saturated" in this context, because in the visual art community "saturated" means very bright, and "desaturated" means the colour is closer towards grey. So it feels like the opposite to how i normally think of the word "saturated" when it comes to colour
Also confused me but I think it means when you have a mix of a bunch of saturated colors, they mud together and create an unclear colour. So its not so much "saturated" as "so many saturated colors that we're back into muted tones"
I think it means "saturated with gray" or some other undertone that makes everything more monochromatic.
Yes! to me, "saturated" and "muted" are opposites, not synonyms...
Color saturation refers to the intensity of colour, as the saturation increases, the colours appear to be more pure so the definition in this tutorial is incorrect. Highly saturated colours are the OPPOSITE to muted & greyish colours ❤💛💙
@@mjfanta1915 when you mix grey with a color you are decreasing its saturation, making the color less saturated, because you are mixing in white and black which both have saturation = 0
I think you are naturally drawn to your seasonal colour palette. Being a south Asian I always thought I should wear warm colours because that’s what suits most Indian skin tones. Yet I always felt somewhat off in those colours. Have always been drawn to and felt comfortable in soft muted colours…..after a lot of research I realized that I am a soft summer! It was such a Eureka moment for me….🥰
Wow I feel the same way! I was never that attracted to saturated colours, I am a soft summer as well and it just clicked when I figured out my season. The colours I was drawn to happened to look the best on me. The most amazing part for me is a colour can look so drab and boring but when I put it on it looks amazing, I'm glowing, it's like it's made for me lol.
May I know how you found out?
I thought so too, but the season I suspect I am, I don’t like most of the colors. I love Soft Summer, but I think I’m Soft Autumn. I’m really sad about it. Yes I know it is silly.
I’m a warm tone but my wardrobe is almost exclusively cool colors 😅 wish I had your intuition
@@Lily_of_the_Forest same, I just wanted to be a true winter but I think I'm something autumny or summer lol
The lip test was so helpful! I simply swatched a pinky purple and pinky peach eyeshadow on my lips near the corners of my mouth and blended a little to see which one looked the most similar and I came up with I’m cool toned!
That’s so great! I love that idea!
That's genius! 🤯
I have purple lips but my hair, eyes and skin are warm toned
Really enjoyed reading.
@@linibellini me toooo, im a dark autumn :)
Great vid, but I think it would’ve been best if you looked up “Cocoa Styling - for dark skin women”. She goes in debt about color analysis for women with darker skins in a way that genuinely helps. I feel like with most of these color analysis videos with women being white or light in color, you guys never really go into actual black women, which I understand may not be your fault. But I would love to see more people pull in color analysis that is geared for women of darker skin as well & include us more. They always put us in the category of just Autumns or summers and that’s not accurate at all :/. Literally I go through tons of these videos and they’re always the same. If you can, check her out!
I love her !!!
She is white herself, I think it’s just easier for white women to see the difference in cool versus warm, saturated versus clear on a skin color we’re familiar with. Maybe it’s not ideal, but I wouldn’t be able to identify the difference with medium and darker skin tones in regards to warm or cool. I’m glad that there is another creator on here who specializes in darker skin tones so that you ladies aren’t left out!
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@@alex.and.babies Tbh I'm half black half indian and I have no fking clue how to tell the difference with dark skin myself lol.
I think I'm warm, but I'm still unsure 😭☠️.
Great video! I think there's a confusion about saturation. "Saturated" actually refers to a color's purest form. When you say a color is saturated you mean it's the most clear it can get. The opposite of saturated is desaturated, wich you get as the color looses it's vividness. The thing is most people relate "muted" with grayish tones, but in reality, with a medium value color, you'll notice it starts to look more grayish as it desaturates, but with a really dark or a really light value color, you'll only notice it by the absence of tone.
As an illustrator, I was thinking the same. For example, if you totally desaturate a picture it will transform in a black and white image. On the other hand, a highly saturated image would have the brightest, more vibrant colors, the more vivid version of them.
There are so many tricky words about color, it's perfectly normal be a little confused about them. 😊👍 Great video as always!
I was confused for a moment as well! I think it might just be a matter of different jargon for different industries 🤷🏻♀️
In art classes, I got the same definition of saturated. Pure color without white, gray, black or brown added. Secondary and tertiary colors which are Blends, can also be saturated, with no white &/or black added. In some systems, clear colors are always either tinted with white or left clear and saturated. Like springs, with a touch or more of white. Or Icy Winter colors, white with a tiny hint of pure color. Summers have a touch of gray in the colors. Autumns have a touch of black added to their colors, but some autumn colors are so muddy (thinking of some hideous camping clothing) that just frankly don't bring a glow to anyone's face that I can find. Who knows what they put into those colors, lol! That said, certain colors with a touch of black added is stunning on dark winters (and cool summers, which is probably the closest to her soft summer.) I like the 16 type system, and I feel like I fall closest into “dark summer“ but I’ve never seen that type anywhere except on the Kettlewell Website.
That is why I think the words used in the diagrams she showed in the last section makes more sense to use "muted" instead of saturated.
Yeah, as an artist i was confused by the wording. I think “dimensional” is more accurate to what she was trying to convey
This video helped so much! Thank you! As a medium toned black women, I've always been typed as a deep winter or autumn, but now I know I'm a true autumn! Completely changed my perspective!
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Determining whether you're warm or cool is way more difficult than I initially thought it was. My mom and I always thought we were both very cool toned, but after swatching my mom yesterday with the various colors we have around the house, lo and behold, she glows in the bright, *warm* colors! We were both so used to seeing her skin in cool tones, that it took us awhile to recognize how much better she looked in warm. Then I got to thinking about me, wondering if I was truly a soft summer because I had recently found a very muted, very blue top that washed me out. So I looked up several soft autumn color palettes and thought, "Would you lookie there, all of those colors are the colors that look good on me." I can't wear *clear* warm colors (the horror of me in bright yellow or orange 😬), and so I always thought I must be cool. Nope. Just need to be wearing *muted* warm colors instead.
i struggled with this for so long because i'm neutral toned so i realised thats probably not my defining feature, then realised i've got to be some kind of winter. just trying to work out which winter
I wish there was more info on how our seasons change with a tan. My skin is much more neutral and pale in the winter and incredibly yellow when I get a tan which I do easily in summer. I can wear colors with a tan that look not good in winter and the colors that flatter me in winter look very dull and wrong with a tan. I would love to see a video on this phenomena.
Same
I’m exactly the same!
No matter how you tan, or how your hair changes as you age, you'll always be the same season. I know it's not much, but I hope it helped
@@CamilaMarquesESilvaSraE I am not a season I am a person. Some find it comforting to believe in an absolute dictated by someone or something they see as an authority. I myself prefer information that is not a box.
@@suzanned5859 Dear, your missing the point. The "color season system" came after, well, persons. It is a tool that describes the color theory found in ones fenotype. It's an application of Color Theory itself, and remember: color only exists as is for a human eye, under the specific conditions that we evolved in.
Getting dressed using the colors who favor your features should be a fun and empowering process, not a box that you fell trapped to 💙
I think the clear/saturated-muted-soft-dimentional names are still confusing. I would opt for something like "streamlined vs. complex" colouring. This way it is clear what is meant: is your colour easy to name, it's simple and straighforward? Or is it compound, complex. with many add-ons, hues and tints mixed in?
Totally agree. Art School graduate and color theory nerd here. The confusion is coming from a misuse of ‘saturated’. Saturated means ‘vivid; very bright, full and free from an admixture of white and/or black.’ I.e., there isn’t any grey mixed into the color (because in order to add grey, you have to mix in white + black). The word you’re looking for is ‘desaturated’ to mean muted or less vivid.
So the terms that line up are: saturated, vivid, clear, bright, easily named
vs.
desaturated, muted, soft, hazy, faded, muddied or dull, not easily named - more complex. (Some of these terms feel less than flattering, which I think might be why there is such a variety in use - people are trying to avoid words like ‘dull’ or ‘muddy’.
@@kjeanpociask Yes. Unfortunately Kibbe made it very confusing when he used the word saturated when the literal definition is the opposite. I get why he used it but it’s too confusing to use.
I agree with this and find this video confusing because of it. Saturated = Bright to most color analysts. Muted would be a better choice to describe “lack of distinct color”. Otherwise, the video is great.
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@@BbGun-lw5vi 😲 I didn't recall that Kibble used "saturated" as opposite of it's usual meaning! I read Metamorphosis but I totally passed the colour part because as a formed artist it didn't make any sense to me, the terms were quite confusing, and the recommendations a little bit too much for me 😅😂
Thanks for explaining that, I was very confused watching this video and hearing "saturated" as muted or dull.
As a biracial woman, I always thought I automatically had a medium coloring, but this video has me thinking I may actually be light instead. My whole life, I've always thought I am !ight for my ethnicity. My hair is lighter than my biracial people I've met, my eyes are light green/hazel instead of brown, and my skin tone is lighter than expected. This video made it click! Now I just have to decide between soft autumn and light spring. I've always considered myself a autumn, but I'm not sure now😅
That makes sense. Now you have to see if you look better in colors that have brightness and clarity (light spring) or colors that are soft and muted. Maybe trying different lipsticks and blushes can help.
If that is your picture, I have a feeling you're a spring!
If you don't really click with either of those seasons, maybe play around with some summer colours. A lot of people think if they have darker skin that leans yellow or olive they need to be warm seasons but they can totally be cool seasons. Especially olive skin gets mistaken for warm toned skin a lot. Take Shay Mitchell, she has olive, bronzed skin but she looks best in cool, bright colours, while the warm honey blonde balayage she used to wear did nothing for her complexion. At first glance one might think she was an autumn but she is actually a winter. Now I think we can rule out winter for you if that is you in the foto,but you could still be a summer if you feel like you lean quite light. If you look at Zoe Saldana she has quite dark skin from a eurocentric point of view but she has a lightness to her appearance and looks her very best in powdery pinks and other summer colours. She is a soft summer.
I used to have a similar problem the other way around I knew I was very light skinned and warm toned so I thought I could only be a spring, since I wasn't dark enough for an autumn. But as it turns out my colours are medium light and very muted, so spring colours just look loud and out of place on me. As it turns out I'm actually a soft autumn. It's not about the skin tone it's about the general appearance of your colours so sometimes too much emphasis on skintone can make things hard
Edit: I was thinking of soft summer since that is right next to soft autumn on the colour wheel and those two seem to get mixed up a lot. I like to use Lucy Hale as an example as well. She has brown hair, hazel green eyes and very light, slightly olive skin so she could be confused for a soft autumn but she looks best in soft, pastel summer colours
I'm also mixed with light brown hair and hazel green eyes. I'm 99% sure I'm a soft autumn :)
What’s annoying is I’m fair skinned and everyone automatically assumes because I’m fair I must have a pink undertones and classes me as a winter. But I actually feel like I look awful in the winter colour palette and I never understood why. I even hate cool toned blonde hair next to my skin tone. My skin in my opinion is more neutral. I actually think I’m a “clear spring”. I read somewhere that clear springs can often be mistyped as winters. When I l read that it all made sense. I held up the spring colour palette next to my complexion and it really suits me.
Saturated means 'full of' color, saturated would be clear. ('It's clearly blue')
Muted or de-saturated is soft grayish. ('Is that green, grey or blue?')
Brightness, white balance and saturation :)
It goes off of Kibbe
@@heiroot and Kibbe honestly cannot write to save his life, so it makes sense that his 'version' of a word would mean the opposite of its dictionary meaning 😂
I mean, I genuinely like his typing system for the most part, but I joined Strictly Kibbe a while back and when I tried to read his posts on there I was convinced that one of us had had an aneurysm!
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Thank you for addressing the proper use of the word "saturation"!!! I loved her video but it was driving me crazy and I almost couldn't finish watching it without audibly saying the proper terminology out loud over her track just so I could hear it correctly and keep my brain from freaking out from the incongruent use of this word, lol. 😂
this was so helpful! I literally had given up on finding my color season because all the guides had been super confusing, now I know that I'm a Dark Winter!
Oh yay this is excellent!! I’m so pleased ☺️☺️
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I've been draped, so I know 100% where I belong, however I have always struggled with warm vs cool, and I think it's because people dismiss neutral undertones. Even using the method you suggest, I really struggle because I actually have hints of both peach and purple. This was always my area of confusion. I typed myself as a bright spring, but I am actually a light summer. (your summary of bright "for a summer" TOTALLY made sense to me!)
Anyway, long winded way of saying that I loved your video, but wanted to point out that some people might struggle with cut and dry warm vs cool.
As a soft summer apparently I can get away with both silver and gold as I have neutral undertones however, it’s best to avoid shiny metals and instead go for a more matte finish. I thought this was an interesting way of looking at it: I can go for cool and warm tones but they should always be desaturated and muted instead of bright.
@@phoebelang6394 That is exactly my case as well! Neither bright gold or bright silver jewelry really look good on me. Brass / antique silver suit me far better - basically jewelry that is muted in tone no matter if it's warmer or cooler leaning. The closer to neutral, the better.
@@phoebelang6394 I'm the same way. My wedding ring is silver but I gravitate to gold more and after wearing my ring for so long, I can tell, just from the reaction of the metals against my skin, that it doesn't really matter for me. I'm technically a true summer but because of my neutral undertones I can float throughout all three summer palettes. I can wear most of the colors in the soft summer and probably half of the light summer colors. I hadn't thought of looking at jewelry finish though, that's really interesting!
I can relate. As a soft summer, I can pull off soft autumn when I get a little “tan” (for me). One analyst even named a new type for people who are transitional between two types.
We neutral toned ones always struggle! I really have a hard time to know what i'm as I've both warm and cool undertones too. Asking mom also doesn't help coz she says "you look good in most colours", so even if I won't be one type atleast I wanna know what season is the closest to me so I'll build my wardrobe depending on it.
It’s so hard to be objective about these things! I thought I was cool for years and years, mainly because I have blue veins. Thought I had super grey ashy hair. Wore a lot of turquoise, which overpowered me (but brought out the blue in my very… hmm… bluegreengraynotreallyacolour eyes).
Began to realise only last year that I’m neutral and leaning towards warm when I got a muted terracotta coloured t-shirt as a gift, thought “oh no, I’m never gonna be able to wear this colour…” and put it on only to find it brought a healthy glow to my skin and coppery and brown tones in my hair. Now I’m pretty certain I’m a soft autumn.
However, since I’m more neutral than warm my first feature is muted and then light, so I need to stay away from the brighter colours of soft autumn, or pair them with neutrals such as off white.
You are so right that it’s super hard to be objective about ourselves. I looked at a few of your videos and I would have also thought you were cool. But then I saw the video that starts with: Ar du slav under diderot-effekten. You’re wearing a soft terracota lipstick and you look so good in it. Makes your skin, eyes and hair glow despite the black and white top which isn’t ideal.
@@BbGun-lw5vi Thank you for checking them out and being an objective judge 😄 I can wear soft summer colours and look just fine, but like you said soft warm colours does that little extra. I agree that a black and white isn’t ideal at all - I’ve ditched wearing black near my face since. Like a lot of us probably should, I guess! It looks gorgeous on the winters though.
Hi Filippa, didn't you consider being a Spring type? I think you are mostly light, then warm and then bright. I hope don't being confused with the colouring of the camera, lighting, etc. But the video where I see the best of your features is "6 enkla steg for att bli mer priduktiv" (I didn't saw all the videos thoug). I think you would look awesome in more colors like soft tourquise, coral or salmon, yellow just in between bright and pastel, in some silky fabric. Always luminous. When you use muted colors you look washed down. Sorryyy for this opinions from a total stranger. Of course I see crearly on you but not on me 🤣🤣 cheers!!
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It would be wonderful if you could do a video to discuss those who don’t clearly fit into a category, eg, a redhead with dark blue-grey eyes and very cool skin.
I'm a dark autumn, that was very easy for me to figure out! You were recommended to me by my soft summer friend and I'm having a lot of fun! I have a good eye for colour though, and I feel like I already knew inherently what colours were good for me
Just found your channel and im obsessed!! I’ve never known my color season, but I finally think I’ve discovered that in either a soft summer or a true summer. I always thought I was the same season as my mom, but she is a winter, and I could never pull off the jewel tones like she can!! Thank you for enlightening me!
Since I have mixed/ oddball characteristics, I've come up with my own system. If a color gives me a "snow white" effect, whether mild or intense, warm or cool, then it works for me. 😊 I don't stress the season.
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There are also 16-box color systems, and some people are just in the middle of a cool to warm spectrum and can wear either. Or else their skin tans more at certain times and they can wear a more intense color at that time. All kinds of things can be at play. I also feel like I have oddball characteristics, (and people have tried to put me in all four boxes at one time or another with spring the least successful), and I don’t think there’s a single box that perfectly fits me but the one that is closest is something called dark summer which is different from soft summer, but leans into winter and autumn. It’s not a convenient color palette for living in a very hot area, but it’s always the most becoming on me. Kettlewell website has it on their website, along with more info on finding one's colors. In the end, I kind of did what you did, I focused on what looks good on me. And I experimented with wearing colors from adjacent palettes, which confirmed that those colors suck on me. 😂 I have a book called “the triumph of individual style,“ which was fun and informative. it encourages you to look at ALL of your features individually, all of your proportions, as well as your coloring, and how to create outfits that reflect those elements. I had fun one year going to the store to see What scale of print worked best on me, what kind of stripe, what kind of plaid (none at all), sheen/texture, embellishments like sequins versus beading, Type of embroidery, the different lines of jackets, and of course colors. The book helped me pay attention to the scale of neck lines, all kinds of things. It made it very clear why I continue to reach for the same things in my closet. As I did my shopping I used voice dictation on my phone as I went from rack to rack and section from section, holding up anything and everything to me and making a note of my reactions of good, bad or indifferent, and specific things I liked or did not like. I did that on a couple of other trips to the mall, a few months apart. That way I could span the fashion seasons a little bit. My impressions were remarkably consistent and now act as a guide. From my notes, I made a short list of words that describe my style preferences that I use to evaluate things. If an outfit that I am looking at doesn’t evoke that list of qualities, there’s a 99.9% chance that I’m not gonna like it on my body. So you can apply your own observations to all those details, too, and make it even easier to shop.
@@bitrudder3792 my goodness, I JUST saw this.. Oops, sorry! Yes, I think you're right about the colors. To peg billions of people into 16 boxes just sounds impossible to me 🤷🏻♀️ Although I realize my undertone doesn't change, the seasonal effect because of the sun, or lack thereof, makes a big difference to my surface tone. (Yellow/greenish in summer, parchment pale in winter) I should probably investigate prints a bit. My closet only has a nerdy handful. Lol I will check that website you mentioned. Thanks 😊
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@@preciousypenguino - i'm glad you found it! And I know it would be fun for me to hear how your story evolves, if you continue to share it 😁! This is a fun journey, And it has saved me loads of money on the wrong clothing!
I agree u gotta repeat your features to look your best BUT as a girl with A LOT of redness in my skin i have found that blue colors make me look best while red ones make me look sicker
Blue isn’t opposite to red, green is (so you are red not olive ) - so it could be that you also have a cool undertone as well as having some reddish-ness ☺️☺️
@@elliejeanroyden ooooh i see
I always thought blue is opposite to red
Yess i am cool toned as fuck 😅
So wait , does that mean i generally look the worst in warm green colors ?
@@somebody-br2hm if you are cool and reddish that means that the worst will likely be 1) yellowish, orangy colors and 2) greenish, so maybe like acid green could be the worst, but I don’t claim that. But also for example I am very cool and have more olive undertone, and really, I look my absolute worst in orange colors but don’t actually look that bad in acid green
@@dariiagaycheva2853 Exactly! I’m a light cool olive. A Dark Winter. And I look horrible in orange. My mom is a true winter and she looks even worse in orange.
Not sure what’s the worst color for Summers which are also cool like Winters.
I dont know, I also tend to look grey and ashy tones in hair make me look even greyer and that's not a good look?
Omg, the lip test was so helpful! I mean it didn't tell me if I am definitely warm or cool toned (I'm convinced I'm neutral toned), but it helped me to find out that I'm slightly cool toned.
And finally I realized why I do look good in black, even if I seem to be light type - it turns out that I'm a bright winter!
It was so confusing to me since I'm naturally dark blonde, but it makes so much sense right now
This has helped me see why I've struggled with colour analysis for so long: I don't seem to be clearly anything!
Dark or light: I have extremely fair skin for my ethnicity (Mediterranean/Hispanic), medium-dark brown hair and dark brown eyes
Cool or warm: my skin is actually pretty neutral, my hair learns cool, my eye are very warm. From experience, neutral-cool colours are best, but it's definitely not something I would've figured out from my features at all
Saturated or clear: I have olive undertones so multiple colours are a natural part of my skin tone, my hair is pretty saturated I think (the exact shade it looks changes a lot with lighting), my eyes are more saturated than you'd expect considering how dark they are. But I know from experience that black works for me like no other, which seems to contradict all that
I've considered BW (feels too bright), DW (feels too heavy), TW (too cool) and SSu (but the black thing). Maybe I just need a different approach to colour!
Same here, I felt I am medium/neutral/moderate, etc in all the values used. I am Spaniard but very pale, almost totally neutral, with ashy caramel brown hair wich gets blonder in summer, but my eyes are a very dark brown. I really don't feel I fit perfectly in any season, but maybe I am too pale, or my eyes too dark for whatever my ethnicity would be.
Same here. For many years I wore black and vivid winter colors, as well as a lot of makeup, because my dark circles were very obvious while I was wearing those colors. I had my hair dyed jet black for a number of years, and I wore lots of lipstick in cooler reds. Snow White was my icon. I now see that I actually lean towards Autumn, and I find that medium shades of green (sage, olive, even uniform green), and some caramel shades make me look best. Wearing them also helps me ditch the heavy under eye makeup. The only colors that really suit me are medium/ moderate in all values used, as @Tamara Arriola pointed, and they need to be natural (as in colors you may find in forests or natural fibers, such as linen). It is a pity, as I love black and bright colors, yet they make me look older and tired.
All of you sound like my husband’s cousin who is Primarily of Spanish descent, Dark hair that catches other colors in the light, but cool, slightly olive light skin that contrasts pretty sharply with dimensional brown eyes. She looks sensational in neutrals, especially when they are made of linen. I covet that look so much! She can wear black but it just isn’t as successful on her as the light soft whites with taupes and beiges. The black wears HER, instead of the other way around.
If you have quite high colour contrast, and lean cool, makes sense you have thought you are one of the winters, TW sounds like a good fit as the brightness seems to clash. I find that if you have more neutral colouring, you can choose the more neutral colours in the palette. Or perhaps balance out a cooler colour with a more neutral one when you are playing with colours outside of black. For example, more jewel toned looks that lean cool but they’re not super dark.
I fit your exact description! Maybe we are twins!!!! I think we could be a mixture of all winters in the end
This is the first explanation I've come across that's actually made sense. Thank you so much. I always thought I was a winter, but am in fact a soft summer!
I think it would be great to have a colour wheel for every continent/ complexity classification; let’s say southamerican and african (with often green undertones) heritage, asian heritage and european/australien/northamerican heritage. Because when it comes to comparing my complexity (european) with one from e.g. african ethnicity the differences are so confusing. I can totally imagine that people with african/southamerican complexity having a hard time looking to the ‚white‘ colour wheel to picture themselves.
Nevertheless: I love your videos. I find your voice very calming and your topics lead me to getting to know my best way to dress. Weird: I’m a designer and apparel engineer but when it comes to dress myself up I mostly grab black or aubergine and I‘d like to change that soo bad! Thank you 🌹
It’s a good idea, except what happens when you’re a mix of different heritages from different parts of the world? It would become a very complex and complicated system to create.
A thought to share in case it might help someone:
Something that really helped me in being able to tell the undercurrent color of a person is how they look against their background. Like for example, your background is grey and you still look really alive and healthy in front of it. That tells us you have either grey or another matching color to grey in your undercurrent coloring. If a person has a warmer undercurrent they would look kind of sickly, pale, ghostly or tired against the grey background bc their undercurrent doesn't match the grey. Grey is typically a cool color, so if one looks good against a grey background it means they are cool toned. If they look good against both cool and warm backgrounds it means they are neutral toned.
thank you so much for this, i will keep it in mind!
This is interesting, it also suggests that you can use your decor to create a certain kind of frame for yourself.
Wow, I've never seen such a straight-forward and helpful guide about colour season analysis! Thank you loads, love your videos😊
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This is one of the most inclusive color season videos I've seen. Thank you Ellie-Jean ♡
The lip test was really helpful! I have found it hard to pinpoint what colour season I am, but I think I’ve finally confirmed that I am a light spring. My most prominent feature is definitely that I am so light, but I’ve struggled with figuring out if I am warm or cool as I fit both silver and gold. The vein test is also of no use on my skin. From your description of saturation it is also clear that I am a saturated type. My eye colour has always been a bit of an enigma. They are blue, but I have gotten questions about them being green all my life, even from close relatives, and my hair has strands that go from extremely light to quite dark while still being a blonde. I am looking forwards to exploring my colour season more.
I'm so glad that you focus on colours of the face, eyes and hair to determine whether someone is cool or warm because that's exactly what I do, and it's far more accurate. I have a yellow overtone to my skin, so I often get forced into warm colours, even though my hair is ashen dark-brown, my eyes are a cloudy hazel and my skin has a grey undertone to it making me a pale cool-toned olive (I also have a slight green undertone). Olive skintones are all over the place in marketing because they're wrongly attributed to skin colour instead of skin undertone. Just because you are tanned doesn't make you olive.
I am a Dark Winter but since I am an olive I have to stay away from bright tones because they will wash me out.
Yes this. I’m rather olive too and people have such a hard time realizing I’m not warm. But my hair is ashy and I have grey blue eyes. Pale cool toned olive is definitely my skin in the winter, but I tan very easily. Also if a hair dresser tries a warm toned blonde on it is just bad. We olive beings are confusing lol
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Okay, I'm thinking Clear Winter and it explains so much. I have NEVER looked good in pastels or muted colors. There is a ton of coral, red,blue (more aqua and navy) and white in my wardrobe because that's what I feel best wearing. This was so helpful. Thank you! ❤️
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I had the fabric test done 20 years ago, I was told I was a spring but I found wearing winter colours better like emerald green and royal blue suited me. However I wear any color that I like to wear. I have also coloured my hair many colours as well. My natural is a light to medium brown, when I was a kid I had some auburn in my hair. I believe with this video I am a bright warm dark for spring. Thanks for clarifying in this video. I am eagerly awaiting my body type analysis. I am so excited! Anna Kerti in Budapest. This pic here was taken 2 years ago, and I found in winter I loved to wear the emerald greens. they were my fav!
The design looks so cool.
The design looks so cool.
I am a bright winter, thank you so much!
Thank you for including ethnicity, I like to be able to tell what seasons everybody is! And oftentimes other ethnicities than Caucasians aren't talked about! Your video was very informative and way simpler to understand how to define one's color palette. Thank you so much for this brilliant work!!
I’ve been unsure if I was a soft autumn or soft summer, but your breakdown helped me figure it out. I’m soft/muted, light (for an autumn,) and my coloring isn’t too warm or cool…but I have green eyes, freckles, and I look SO much better in peach lip color!
I’m a soft autumn! 🍂
This is my first time watching your videos, and I honestly wasn't disappointed 😩
That’s great to hear!!
true spring! ive seen many videos and this one is THE ONLY video that 100% clarified my doubts and helped. it was so easy, i didnt even have to rewatch. kudos to u! xoxo
This video was already much more helpful than the other i've watched! I just wish there were more examples or mentions of asian women (southeast and east asian as i'm a mix of both) :) But I still appreciate how you tried your best to explain everything!
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Try the old book by Donna Fuji, She is the first one to really encompass multiple racial/ethnic women of the four different basic types.
I am Native American and white mixed. It gave me a beautiful yellow skin so I love when Asian women are included since they are closer to my color than any other group.
Where were you three years ago when I started researching this??? I've been wearing Soft Summer colors when I should be wearing True Summer colors. Now I know why I always feel so drab and drained. I need more color! Thank you! You have simplified my life so much.❤️
I knew my colour season before, but this video explains it soooo good!!!! Well done Ellie-Jean :) 💜
This made me smile. Love it.
THE LIP TEST IS AMAZING thank you!!!!!
This is so hard for me! I keep trying to determine if I’m a dark winter or autumn. I am warm mostly but I always get more compliments and feel more lively when wearing winter colors. Pale colors wash me out, sage green and light lilac make me look sick, sometimes even a light pink.
Your video helped me understand the ranking better though!
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if you want to go buy a general rule, if you look good in black and truer colors you are in winter. If you can you get away with wearing black but it isn’t the best dark neutral on you, or if you need a touch of black to deep in the pure colors of dark winter, you might be a dark autumn or deep autumn. In the end, create your own best color palette, Which may include colors from both of those palettes.
I’m pretty much the same is you- I have olive overtones and lilac/most shades of purple and light blue makes me look 🤢. I can wear black and white and am very very high contrast so people type me as a winter but I know most of the colors other than black and white look like crap on me lol
I truly have no idea after watching the entire thing. The only thing I think I’m certain of it is that unsaturated I don’t know if I’m light or dark I don’t know if I am cool or warm. I feel like I really fall in the middle for both. And wish I had money to book an appointment.
No colour season video has ever helped me except this one ! Thanks a lot
Aw that’s so lovely to hear!! I’m so glad! ☺️☺️
Omg thank you so much!!!!!!!! I keep thinking I am a soft summer, but the thing that keeps throwing me off is my emerald green sunburst eyes. You are the first person who has mentioned that the green can be cool based. My lips lean purple too, and no other video has talked about this lip thing before. Thank you so much.
I have a complete mix of features. My eyes are green but I have strawberry blonde hair, lots of freckles, and very pink skin. I seem to look really good in warm and cool colors as long as they're light and not too saturated. (Pastels but not primary colors or neon). I've decided to follow the light summer and light spring palettes because I think they look good on me and they make me the happiest. 🤷♀️
I've been experimenting successfully with the Dark Autumn palette for a while (even the 'weird' colors like orchid purple) but I wanted to test it through this video. When I heard ''bright for an Autumn'' it made so much freaking sense! It really helps to see things in context.
I was still a bit unsure because even if I'm high contrast I'm not SUPER high contrast as some Dark Autumns I've seen online, I have lighter (somewhat golden and tbh kinda cool) medium brown hair and a medium-light-warm-olive skintone so it would always confuse me. Zendaya is such a good example! I think Natalie Portman is another good example of ''bright for an Autumn'' (often categorized as Dark Autumn from what I've seen).
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This is the BEST explanation of seasonal color I have ever seen. You helped me narrow down SO much confusion
That is such a fantastic result for me, thank you so much for commenting!!
That is such a fantastic result for me, thank you so much for commenting!!
This video is extremely helpful...
I only discovered my color palette once I started changing my lip color, I have always thought I was a winter but never understood why my eyes would change color, from a greenish Hazel to brown when I wore dark saturated colors. Well one day I bought a completely different lip tone, a shade of coral and suddenly I got It. My skin is warm but Very light. I started wearing light spring colors and now my eyes are always Very bright and look greener then before. Colors are amazing.
Yes! Please do a video explaining how to tell undertones of fabric colors! I often buy things under fluorescent store lighting and find they aren’t the right color at all. I have to go extremely warm to find a warm tone shirt, anything subtly warm is usually wrong in different lighting.
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Thank you for the video! This is the first time I've heard this definition of "saturated" but it makes so much more sense for the specific context of color typing -- I've only ever heard the term "saturated" to mean "intense," which always made my attempts at typing myself not feel intuitively "right." I love that you referenced Merriam! I adore her color system and body geometry system, as I am such a mix of features and colors that I seem to defy and confuse every single typing system otherwise 😂 per her color typing, I seem to be extreeeeemely close to neutral, but very, very, very, VERY slightly warm and delicate with strong olive undertone (I did the lip test just now and I seriously think my lips are right between peach and purple -- cool test btw, had never heard of it!), which makes things....tricky. By the color season test, I appear to be some type of Autumn, but because of my green undertones, lots of colors from the winter and summer palettes suit me better than the autumn ones. Cool and muted greens, steel blues, warm and muted rosy pinks, and russet/copper tones seems to suit me best. Add in some super strong ethereal essence and a body type that seems to not fit any of Kibbe's types 😂😂
I find myself in the same exact situation as you, I couldn't type myself. My olive skin brings out a slightly yellow, almost sickly undertone if paired with some colors of the autumn or winter palettes, but at the same time I find the best colors to complement it also in these two families.
Maybe you should take a look at the cooler tones of soft autumn? You’ll find some jades, soft warmish blues and rosy pinks there. Those work very for me, because I’m neutral too and leaning slightly more towards warm than cool too.
Edit: it’s also a wheel for a reason! 😊 If you’re leaning one way or another you can usually strategically borrow colours from the closest neighbour, in your (and mine) case soft summer.
I think the olives are just outside of the seasonal analysis. Maybe we need a 16 colour wheel, and create olive subtypes to each.
Then we'd have olive winter ( these could be e.g. Audrey Tautou, Liya Kebede, Paz Vega, Leopsie, Audrey Coyne, Nina Dobrev, Rachel Weisz, Ruth Negga),
olive autumn (e.g. Aishwarya Rai, Eva Mendes, Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Freida Pinto, Megan Markle),
olive summer (e.g. Kim Kardashian, Nazanin Boniadi, Adriana Lima, Gemma Chang, Thandie Newton),
and olive spring (Eva Longoria, Mila Kunis, Rihanna).
I may lay completely wrong with some of the sorting, though. There is no bulletproof way to sort the olive skin tones into the seasonal categories, and I went with gut feeling.
I think we're the same colour type. 👀 I am fair green.
@@berlineczka Good idea! Hmm, idk which one i'd be. Closest to my tone is Mila but i thought she is soft autumn.
Excellent content! I think u are one of the best coaches on this subject❤
i've been trying to figure out my color season (and even just my undertones) literally for years, and this ten minute video made it all click! i finally understand saturation and that made all the difference. thank you!!!
i could never determine whether i was cool or warm because i can see both blue and yellow tones in my skin. i figured i had to be neutral, but instead of a nice, blended middle ground, i felt like a frankenstein of colors (not necessarily in a bad way, just in a confusing way haha). my veins are purple, gold jewelry is unflattering, white clothing makes me look jaundiced, and so on. now i understand (at least, if i've got it right!) that i'm just very saturated. i'm fairly certain that i'm a soft autumn! hooray!
same
Please continue this series...
I have watched many videos about color seasons and this is the best one yet! The vein and jewelry tests were very difficult for me, but now I know I am a true summer! Thank you for these great explanations
I considered myself a dark autumn, though this has me wondering if I could be a bright spring. They almost seem interchangeable except for if you are more saturated (though bright for an autumn lol) or bright overall (though dark for a spring lol). At least I know I am warm toned! I would love a follow up video on saturated vs. bright, as this seems to stump me a bit!
the best thing is to try on some of the shades from the two palettes and see which one suits you better. I have found that muted vs clear is an easily description to understand and look for than saturated or not
Yeah I think she used the word saturated incorrectly in the video. (or maybe it has a different meaning in fashion). To me Saturated means vivid colors, so it is the opposite of muted.
I had this same confusion myself. I found something online about it. They said that dark autumn and bright spring both look nice in bright, strong colors, and both of them can pull off some shades of black too (I know that's controversial, but I have warm tones and look very good in black). They said the difference is that dark autumn looks particularly good with all the dark brown and dark greenish brown colors too, but not so much in bright yellow because it's too light for them, and bright spring is the opposite. They can do light, bright colors, but not as much the dark muted colors. So with that reasoning, I settled on dark autumn.
I am a soft autumn. I have always gravitated towards fall fashions - because they look the best on me! :)
This was immensely helpful. I am very fair so the vein color test has always seemed questionable to me. The lip color test made it immediately obvious for me.
You're a true angel, love how you include every race and ethnicity, such a queen 😊
Amazing ! I learned so much.
Although I had to watch and re-watch this video a few times to fully understand it, this was the most useful breakdown of colour theory that I have seen so far! I really liked how you looked at the three points in relation to the season and individual colouring to find which season on the 12 season model. Thank you!
FINALLY SOMEONE EXPLAINED THE DEPTHS OF COLOR IN THE SEASONS!
Hi Ellie! I love your videos and your advice on finding out our aesthetic/style. 😊 One thing I did notice though is, in this video, you used saturated and muted interchangeably when they’re on opposite sides of the spectrum. The image you used while naming the different seasons demonstrates this fact. Unless I’m mistaken, saturated = high vividness while muted = low vividness. Just thought I’d leave a comment to further help out with its explanation! ❤
This was fascinating!! I actually have a House of Colour color analysis scheduled for a couple of weeks, and I'm so excited!!
This was a really excellently presented video.🙌👍 For years, I thought I was a Bright or Cool Winter but I think now I realize that I'm actually a Soft Summer. I used to dye my hair black since age 15 but at 39 shaved it all off and discovered my natural shade was dark ashy-grey chocolate brown. My skin is light olive/neutral and I can easily wear gold/silver/rose gold. Actually rose-gold jewellery is nearly IDENTICAL to my skin tone!! My skin turns exactly rose-gold with any sun exposure. My eyes are cloudy grey-blue-khaki green with no warmth and jet-black rings (wolf eyes😉 🐺). I have really grey undertones and suit Asian/very canary-yellow 🐥 undertoned foundation best. It's hard when you're mixed-race to know but I think you're "dimensional" explanation helps a lot. Most beauty counter people see olive skin as warm and blue eyes as cool but true warm/cool colours look deadful on me and I disappear. More faded/muted colours bring me to life. Sad though for me as I love strong autumny colours (browns/yellows/reds) so much more lol 😏😒 I hate wishy-washy/pastels 🤢😝😬🥴😵
@Rhauxshna82 What a beautiful description of your coloring. I enjoyed reading about it.
@@tomjones2157 ☺ Thank you!
I'm quite the quintessential DW(light olive skin, brown-black hair & dark brown eyes), but thanks to your video I can now type my partner and family.
Wait this is so interesting! I went to a stylist once and she had a hard time deciding if I was cool or warm (very pale but I have freckles and different colors in my eyes). She decided on bright winter but with this video I'm confused, the soft summer looks more like me I think.
Loved it, I learned a lot.
Love your explanation of clear/ saturated. Finally explained it to me in a way I get.
I’m light warm and can pull off pure chroma- but am saturated for a spring. So I’m light spring!
This is exactly the content searching...
My skin tone is so comlex. Only thing that I'm sure is that I'm muted and medium contrast. I'm a SN, with a lot of grey in my skin tone (as you said saturated) medium ash brown hair, hazel eyes. Skin is light in winter and medium tan in summer, tone is confusing neutral, with pink, yellow and a lot of grey. Veins are green. At summer easy tan never burns, and get lot of yellow in skin and hair. I can pull off cool pink, cool lime, warm vanilla yellow, cool cobalt blue, warm camel, warm khaki, muted colors, and always look bad in any any orange, light grey fits on me, in dark grey and whole black outfit look like dead... I cannot find myselft within these types, feeling like crazy neutral cameleon 🤯
You sound like a Soft Autumn to me! ☺️☺️
@@elliejeanroyden yay, that's my best colors 👍 My thanks and huge appreciation. Love your videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This really help. Thank you! I always thought I'm a warm but I saw myself not being compatible to it. Then you distinguish that the color of the lips can tell if you are warm or cool which equates to me being cool. I really lean in the Soft Summer color palette. Thank you very much for this video
This video has been so helpful for me! As someone who is mixed race, trying to figure out colors that work well for me has been difficult without a lot of people who have similar features to rely on. I always thought that because I have light brown eyes and brown hair that I automatically was some kind of warm tone/autumn. But now I realize that my eyes and hair color are quite cool toned relative to other browns and that I am definitely a winter
Please continue with color analysis! I am definitely a cool but not sure if a summer or winter. The best photo ever of me was in a medium blue denim collar close to my face.
It's so difficult to understand this as a poc but you have explained quite well. Unfortunately when I look for references online they are mostly with white women making it completely unrelatable for me.
One thing I didn't understand though is what is being bright for spring or bright for summer. How can I be bright or dark for a season? Can anyone kindly explain this?
Good advice to give you fashion ideas especially when you don’t know what to wear , at the end of day just wear what ever makes you feel good !!
I had my colours done professionally and I am supposedly 1% of the popular where I am actually a Warm Autumn though alot of the tests will learn me to light and cool. I can't actually remember the exact reasons for why she said this is. But I spent years trying to understand why, being I'm fairly sure I was cool I wasn't working great with Spring colours. I then tried the only other, what seemed to me obvious option in Summer and found the colours were just not quiet right. It had never came to my mind, being so pale white with light greeny blue eyes and blue veins I could be a Autumn. Since finding out, it hasn't made it much easier as I always need to find the lightest and most muted of the warm Autumn colours, as I just tip the scale.
I always thought I was an autumn. Today I found out that I'm a dark winter. Wow. I've been buying the wrong color palette for years lmao. That makes so much sense. I've always wondered why taupe-y purples looked so good on me.
For the last couple of years I've been confused between true winter and true summer, because my natural hair color was a light kinda golden blonde, but now my roots grow in a deep ashy blonde, almost brown. My eyes are really dark but greyish. But now maybe I can be a bright winter if I consider I am light for a winter, my lips also are clearly a cool medium pink. Thank you sm for the video :)
Love this channel...
If you can pull off gold or icy colors (not pastels, icy), then you might be right. My mum was also a blonde as a girl, and darkened to near black with age. She is a winter with dark blue-grey eyes with classic winter 'wheels' in them.
I am light, saturated but cannot find if i am cool or warm toned, having tried the veins and jewelry before, these tips really helped, so thank u so much😄❤️
Hi. Try the lipstick test. Pink/ fuschia (cool) vs orange-brown (warm) - which looks better on you?
Where does the bright come from all of a sudden? It was dark v light, cool v warm, saturated/muted v clear. What a hell is bright?
This
Yeah her rules aren't consistent.
To start off I absolutely adore your channel! I am a head head with grayish blue eyes and struggle placing myself in a color season. I stumbled upon this post somewhere and am wondering how accurate you think it is. It said, “ Other than skin tone, eyes show more about a person's season than most physical traits. Each season has a dominant feature which is shown in the eye. The SUMMER eye appears as crackly glass, WINTER - spokes on a wheel, SPRING - Yellow sunburst around a gray doughnut shape, AUTUMN - Aztec sun directly around the pupil with specks and dots sometimes.”
Yes, now we're getting into the specifics! Thank You for the elaboration!
Yay!! I’m so glad that you found this helpful ☺️☺️
I love your face...
Cannot believe how well explained this is girl 😍
This has helped me understand things better but has lead me to still be a bit confused as my primary aspect is saturated or muted (hazel eyes, medium brown hair with red and blonde highlights) but I feel like I’m cool toned. My veins are blue, my lips are more purple, my skin is very pale and I have freckles. I feel like warm colour such as a rust coloured red or warm khaki just make me look either really pink or washed out. This would mean I fall into no category… Confusing 😅
I have a similar problem: I have blonde hair with gold highlights, green eyes with gold rings around my pupils, but my skin is 100% cool toned. I think after watching this a few times I’m a light summer.
Kinda blows my mind watching all your videos.
Looking at my skin and realizing I am warm - a dark autumn is eye opening. Makes sense why people like seeing me in red!
And now I gotta rethink my choices because I love blue so much but it just doesn't work with my skin tone?!
Makeup will be a new adventure too I am excited to explore tha now!
You can totally still wear blue just try to go for the warmer blue tones. If you google dark autumn color palette there are also a bunch of blues that would probably look great on you
I'm always a little bit confused with these classifications... Not that I don't understand them, but I don't seem to fit in that well 🙉 I have natural blond hair, the lightest skin possible, but very dark brown eyes 😅 Depending on the light situation, they can even apear black. And I think I'm a neutral to warm skin tone, as I don't have any red undertones... Through trial and error I discovered some colors that suit me, but I haven't found my type yet 🙈
This sounds like some kind of spring to me! You sound very high contrast and light!
@@elliejeanroyden Thank you so much for your assessment! ☺️ Mhh, so maybe a mix between a light and a clear spring, if mixed types are possible 🤷🏼♀️ I'm already excited to find out more in your future videos!
@@theartofnaturegermany There are no mixed types. I looked at your videos and I agree that you should look at the Springs. I see warmth in your eyes and hair and skin. I would look at Bright Spring first. Then True Spring. And don’t discount Bright Winter just in case.
Btw, you looked amazing in the bright coral top in your video called Girls Weekend at Ausburg. You just come alive. I also noticed that muted colors make you look drab which is why I think you’re a season with brightness.
@@theartofnaturegermany I don’t know if you read my previous reply. But don’t discount Bright Spring. You looked incredible in the bright coral top in one of your videos.
@@BbGun-lw5vi Oh thank you so so much for your effort helping me!! That's very kind of you and honestly made my day! 🥰 I always loved the coral top and some of my other items in bright colors! But being new to the color theories made me overthink everything and I wasn't sure anymore, so thank you for your outside perspective on this as well! Have a wonderful day 💚
This is the best breakdown of the 12 seasons, omg!! So perfect.
I used to be confused between True Spring and Light Spring. The way you described saturated HIT HOME! I'm def a Light Spring! People have been thrown off by my green eyes for awhile. They're very warm, and people have thought I was a True Spring and even Soft Autumn. But nope! Natural towhead blonde that progressed to dark blonde as I got older, with just hints of red. Light Spring colors bring me out like no other palette can! Some True colors look quite good on me due to my added warmth, but overall I am at home in LSp! 🙏 Thank you SO much!
Can I be both soft Summer and soft Autumn? My undertone is quite neutral
I've been trying to figure out which of those two I am! It's just so difficult for me to distinguish undertone
You may be soft more than anything on this case. I am cool more than anything myself. I am cool and medium . If the colours are cool and medium I don't mind if they are summer or winter pallet .
I agree complete, the most hard for me is to define cool or warm, have lot of gray in skin tone, also yellow and pink... Could been anything except spring...
Same here, my undertone is green/grey/olive
@@icequeenvanilla have you ever heard of olive-underton? Its quite neutral.
Wow the first thing that I could be 💯 sure about myself. I'm a true summer. Currently I'm wearing this t-shirt and its color suits me so well. Turns out its a color from true summer pallette. Nice vid!
Please don't add background music. You don't need it and it's very distracting.
I'm a light spring ! Thank you so much, this video was incredible !
I still get confused about my season. I’m East Asian, light skinned for my ethnicity, and definitely olive. My eyes are a deep brown but my hair is a lighter version of the very dark hair that we have (it’s still dark obviously, but it’s comparatively lighter when I stand next to my peers). My lips are peachy and become a gross yellowy creamsicle color when I’m sick, but I don’t look good in anything too warm (or too cool for that matter). I also don’t look good in really bright/clear or really greyed/dusty/muted colors either. Everything needs to kind of be in the middle so I end up picking a little bit from a bunch of seasons.
Merriam Style channel has really good analysis of warm olive delicate and cool olive delicate types and which colours compliment them most. It's worth checking out!
@@berlineczka I’ll definitely take a look. Thanks so much 😊
This was the first time I had seen the lip comparison. It was very helpful!
Good grief. That was confusing as hell.
I thin I'm either a light spring or a soft autumn (I'm warm, saturated and dirty blonde) but can't really say which one... But thank you for the video, it's the first video about this topic that actually was comprehensible! 💕
This is so interesting because Ive established Im Light Warm and Saturated implying I would be a soft autumn which makes sense to me actually, I do love and wear a lot of natural, muted and warm tones but some of my favorite pieces and items I lean towards a lot are often cool toned but still muted. Sage Green is my favvvv or muted blues. I love fashion so I wear a lot of different things of all colors but ive always noticed I lean to those colors. I also prefer cool toned hair on myself when I do fashion colors. Greens and blues are my favorite, but always light. I don't feel like myself in warm toned hair, I did a fashion color red once and I didn't feel or look like myself at all. But I do enjoy and often go towards an edgy look so the contrast actually makes sense.
This just confused me more
For ages I've wondered whether I was a light spring OR a soft autumn. I think (though I would sure love to have this confirmed), that I'm a light Spring (?). This is the first time I've seen this described this way!! It was super helpful!
You seem to have a more clear chroma than muted…I would say ‘bright, cool and light’ according to Jen Vax’s “your colour style“ theory.
Her system is an advance on the 12 season model in my experience as, like Merriam, she places a high importance on chroma.
I think this is basically important if you are light - which can easily be confused with muted. The cutaways you use show you in fairly clear, light cool colours, and I just don’t think muddy colours would work on you.
Also, as you know you are cool, I am puzzled why you wear orangey lipstick, which in my opinion isn’t flattering (you are so pretty!) and TBH lowers my confidence in your analysis abilities… sorry to be blunt!
It’s actually not orangey, it’s the editing of the video! It’s rose pink ☺️☺️ but the rest of it is right - I’m a light summer which is light cool and bright (for a summer) so you’re spot on ☺️
I think you’re wrong and right. You’re right that she has more brightness than a True Summer. But you’re confused about Light Summers being muted. Here’s something I copied from a color analyst.
Light Summer is the very beginning of Summer. It borders Spring. Recall that Spring colors are light, bright and warm. So adding a little Spring to Summer makes the summer colors lighter, brighter and just slightly yellow-y.
We say that Summer is a season characterized by softness. But your Light Summer colors aren't particularly soft. They're suprisingly un-Summery in their level of saturation - bright enough to rival Light or Warm Spring's palette.
I’m definitely something light. Makeup can so easily look dark and very pigmented on me.
The thing is my eyes are warm, my lips are cool and I can use both silver and gold jewelry, so I’ve always said myself to be neutral:)
Oh my goodness. How cute were you! Thanks for sharing. Your videos are very clear to understand.
The saturated-clear part got me confused, someone please explain 😢 the rest was so so helpful and I loved the fact that I could tell while looking in a mirror! Im obsessed with this new knowledge 😊 ❤️✨
Wow this is really helpful! I think I was told in the past that I was a light spring, and now I totally understand why!