How to Find Your Colour Season for BEGINNERS 🎨🤩

Summary

In this video, Ellie Jean, a style analyst, breaks down the process of finding your color season, which helps identify the best colors for your wardrobe based on your natural features. By understanding key elements such as warmth vs. coolness, lightness vs. darkness, and brightness vs. softness, you can determine which colors harmonize with your skin, hair, and eyes. With practical tips like draping fabrics to see which shades complement your features, the video offers a comprehensive guide to confidently selecting colors that enhance your personal style.

Takeaways

• 😀 Finding your color season involves understanding your natural features, including hair, eyes, and skin, and how they relate to warm or cool tones.
• 😀 The 12-season color system categorizes colors based on warmth (yellow) or coolness (blue), and each season corresponds to a palette that complements those features.
• 😀 Color seasons help you select clothing that harmonizes with your natural features, enhancing your appearance by echoing the tones found in your skin, hair, and eyes.
• 😀 Warm tones are more yellow, and cool tones are closer to blue, with each color having a warm or cool version, like warm green vs cool green.
• 😀 Neutrals are colors like gray, beige, brown, and true red or green, which do not lean towards either cool or warm but still carry some tone.
• 😀 To determine if a color suits you, consider its tone in relation to your natural features, and avoid focusing on the emotional appeal of the color itself.
• 😀 Identifying your season involves categorizing your features into 'light' vs. 'dark', 'cool' vs. 'warm', and 'soft' vs. 'bright' characteristics.
• 😀 The four main seasonal categories are: Summers (cool, light, soft), Winters (cool, dark, bright), Springs (warm, light, bright), and Autumns (warm, dark, bright).
• 😀 For a more nuanced classification, the 12 seasons include variations like Light Summers, Soft Autumns, or Dark Winters, which allow for a more precise match to individual features.
• 😀 The 'draping' method, where fabrics are held near your face to see how they interact with your features, is an effective way to test which colors suit you.
• 😀 Even if you find your perfect color season, it's okay to wear colors outside of it if they bring you joy. Personal happiness with color choice matters most in the long term.

Q & A

What is the main purpose of finding your color season?

The main purpose of finding your color season is to identify the colors that complement your natural features (hair, eyes, skin) to create harmony in your wardrobe, helping you choose clothing that enhances your appearance and makes you feel confident.

How do you define your features when determining your color season?

To define your features, you should look at your natural traits—hair, skin, eyes—under natural light, without makeup or dyed hair. It's important to assess the overall picture of your features, including how they change over time or seasonally.

What are the basic categories used to assess color seasons?

The three basic categories to assess color seasons are warmth (cool or warm), lightness (light or dark), and brightness (soft or bright). These categories are used to determine the dominant feature of your appearance, which helps identify your season.

What does it mean if a person has neutral features?

If a person has neutral features, it means their features don't strongly lean toward cool or warm, light or dark, or soft or bright. They are generally considered to be in between these extremes, and their color season might be a mix or close to the edge of two categories.

How do light and dark characteristics impact your color season?

Light and dark characteristics refer to how close a feature is to white (light) or black (dark). A person with light features might be categorized into a light season (like Light Summer or Light Spring), while someone with dark features may belong to a dark season (like Dark Winter or Dark Autumn).

What is the difference between soft and bright features?

Soft features are those with a muted, dusty appearance, often having gray or brown tones mixed in, while bright features are clear and vibrant without any gray or brown. These two traits help determine whether a person’s season falls under soft or bright categories.

How can you determine whether you are soft or bright in terms of your features?

To determine whether you are soft or bright, assess the clarity and vibrancy of your features. For example, if your eyes or hair have a muted, slightly grayish tint, you might be soft. If they are clear and vivid, you are more likely to be bright.

What are the 12 seasons in the color analysis method?

The 12 seasons are divided into four main groups—Winter, Summer, Spring, and Autumn—each of which has three subcategories: light, medium, and dark, or bright, soft, and true. For example, Winter can include Bright Winter, True Winter, and Dark Winter, based on the specific traits of coolness, lightness, and brightness.

How do contrast levels affect your color season?

Contrast refers to the difference in brightness between your features. For example, if your skin and hair are very different in tone (like Snow White’s pale skin and dark hair), you have high contrast, which can make you a Bright Winter. Low contrast means your features blend together more, leading to a softer season like Soft Summer.

What is the role of draping in determining your color season?

Draping is a method where you place fabrics of different colors under your chin to see which ones enhance your appearance. The right colors will make your skin appear brighter and more vibrant, while the wrong ones may make your features look dull or clash with your skin tone. This method is particularly useful when determining warmth, coolness, lightness, or brightness.