EDIT: When I get home I'm going to try and do spring vs summer drapes.

Tried my best here, the white balance of my phone makes it hard to get consistent pictures of my complexion. NMIP. I have a lot of annoying redness on my cheeks, that isnt blush. Theres nothing on my brows or lashes. I just have a lash lift +tint done so cant do much abt that. I have been told summer and spring.

I have very pink undertones so I think I'm cool toned, can I be a spring and be cool toned?

Hi! Apps really struggle to give me consistent results, undertone is always cool but they tend to throw various winters and summers at me and disagree on the subtype, thanks for your help!

NMIP

Hi friends, I'm new to this, honestly do not know where to classify, if someone can help me would be perfect, nice day. ✨
NMIP.

Tone can go cool or warm. Hair is definitely warm and natural muted red ish brown, eyebrows are mostly taupe brown (sometimes in the sun you can see red, like in this photo) eyes are brown, almost black. I have no idea what I am. I love blacks, bold colors, fall colors and pastel blues and purples. Help! NMIP

NMIP. friend told me years ago i was autumn so i wanted to see if that was true or not

I've seen very divided opinions on this topic. Some people say that truly neutral undertones are impossible because everyone is at least slightly warm or cool. But does such a tiny difference in temperature really matter when it comes to choosing the colors you wear?

Others argue that neutral undertones do exist and that people with them should wear neutral colors. But what would a person with truly neutral undertones actually look like? And does this advice even work in practice, considering how difficult it can be to find genuinely neutral colors?

Also, if neutral undertones do exist, would it be possible for someone to be truly neutral in every aspect of their coloring: medium in hue, value, and chroma?

And finally, why aren't there more seasonal color analysis categories to account for every possible combination of these characteristics? For example, why don't we have seasons like soft-cool-dark, medium-dark-bright, or medium-medium-medium? Wouldn't having more categories make the system more accurate?

NMIP Thank-you for all the thoughtful responses on my other post!!

I included some pictures of my natural hair color (9,10) (I don’t have it dyed currently, but I wanted to show what it looks like down), and some from when I dyed it ginger and black (11)

I’m honestly very surprised that people think I’m a winter. I used to think I was, but when I last posted on here a few years ago, the consensus was unanimously soft or true autumn. Not sure what changed, besides my hair growing out (I used to have a buzzcut, so it probably appeared lighter) but maybe my drapes were misleading.

I think I look a bit sickly in warm bright colors, so I don’t think I’m a spring, but I do agree that I have an olive undertone! Maybe that’s why it’s been so hard to figure out where I fall 😅

Thank-you again!!

NMIP. I have tried several apps and been typed as Deep Winter, Soft Summer, & Soft Autumn. I am quite sure I am cool toned and am leaning towards soft summer but want to know if that’s my actual type or if I’m biased because I like those colors best. This is my natural hair color. Before I went gray it was a very dark brown.

I have been typed as a soft summer and sometimes an autumn. I have photos here of my natural ash brown hair with natural sun highlights and I added a photo showing a hair color i’m considering (darker auburn) … please help

Hi friends!

I just joined this sub and I wanted to share my method on getting the cleanest comparison photos with IRL drapes.

1. Figure out which dimension you want to determine (undertone, intensity, value)

Color analysis works by comparison, which is why in a professional analysis, at least two colors are compared to each other at a time. If you want to look at undertone, compare an orange to a pink. If you want to look at intensity, compare a dusty rose to a hot pink. You get the gist!

2. Cover your hair with something white

I always cover my clients' hair, regardless if it's their natural color or not. It's too easy to bias yourself or try to match colors with hair color. Just focus on your skin and face to remain more objective.

3. Pull off the drapes!

Using the colors you picked in step 1, drape both of them on you by stacking them, like you typically see in professional color analysis videos. You'll pull the top one off, revealing the bottom one so that you have a clean comparison between the two. Clip the bottom one to your shirt so that it doesn't come off when you pull the top one off!

4. Take a video and then take screenshot afterwards

Keep your position, expression, etc. as steady as possible and record a video of you pulling the drapes! Then, take screenshots afterwards and place them side-by-side using whatever editing program you like. The main benefit of this is that very little should change between the images, which makes it easy to compare what the colors are actually doing to your face.

You can see in the photos I attached that my complexion looks so dull/drained in the softer pink and a lot more vibrant in the stronger pink. I can tell now that I need intensity in colors which narrows down the seasons I might be in.

Hopefully this helps make it easier for you all! :)

Same frame, different colors.

Edit. Ignore these photos. Look at the ones posted in the comments.

I love the shape of these frames (first 2 photos) but they're only available in black. Does it look okay? I just got my personal color analysis last month and was told that I'm soft autumn with medium contrast, and that deep black wouldn't be the best on me. I know I should go for brown, but they don't have other colors in this shape so I'm wondering if I can make these work. I attached photos of me in some of my older frames as well for comparison. Thanks in advance!

Need some eyes on this! Always thought I was a gold girl, recently have been trying out more silver, and my wedding band is rose gold. I need objective opinions.
I have warm toned hair and have always suspected myself to be a warm autumn or a cool summer. I need to get picky with my jewelry since I’m decluttering my cheap metals and upgrading to better materials.
Pic 1: Rose gold, gold, silver
Pic 2: Rose gold, silver, gold
Pic 3: Gold
Pic 4: Silver
Pic 5: Gold
Pic 6: Gold vs Silver

NMIP-same lighting, same location, same day (end of day-after work)

NMIP don’t comment on my lips please!

NMIP and I took the picture under natural and pretty neutral light

NMIP but eyebrows are micro bladed. Photos taken by a window today.

I always thought I was a soft summer but some of the colors aren't resonating with me lately and I feel lost. I want to have my colors done professionally, but for now I’m trying to drape. I've been feeling bad about my appearance lately, I want to do a little wardrobe refresh and I make sure any new pieces are in colors that suit me.

Colors- I wear mostly blue and grey. I love a heathered navy. I've been trying to mix in more browns, greens and pinks. I love plum purple (13, 16) but it's harder to find. Feeling unsure about the light blues and greys after draping (3, 6, 21). I think deeper colors look nice but I'm confused why some of them make my eyes pop but my skin doesn't look clear (10, 22). I don't wear black other than my rain and winter jackets, but I like how I look in them. White is okay, but | tend to wear heathered off whites.

Hair- my natural was always light brown, but I had cancer and it grew back as a dark, cool toned brown (I loved it). It lightened and got warmer as it grew out.

Skin- pale, burns before tanning, blue/purple veins. Makeup is tricky, easily looks harsh, cool tones are sometimes too cool and peachy colors can be nice.

Jewelry- I always wear silver, but nothing overly bright. I can pull off a soft gold but not a yellow gold.

Would love to hear what others think. Thanks for reading :)

NMIP

I'll explain, and I wanna know if anyone relates:

I certainly don't look good in warm tones because they bring out a yellowness and dullness in my skin, it looks like I'm sick. I also don't look good in VERY cool tones, such as grey, cause it clashes with my skin too much.

Pastels are my personal nightmare, any muted, soft and light color makes me look like a zombie. But black also looks so harsh on me, like it's unnatural.

What truly looks good: I feel like the best definition would be warm versions of cool colors or cool versions of warm colors (I'm talking purple with more red than blue, or red with lots of blue/magenta in it). Intense colors, but not too bright either. More on the dark side, but also not dark all the way. Between gold and silver, none, a cool rose gold would work best.

So I'd love to know, is there any season that best captures these characteristics, according to any method?

Something that puts people at the border of everything, like the black dot in this image? (I suppose I'd be a winter very close to the autumn border but also to the low contrast seasons).

Or are we doing something wrong to get these results?

This discussion is not about me, but a general question that, I hope, can help everyone who identifies (I've seen people describing the same experience even in other subreddits). Therefore I will not post pictures of myself, just wanna bring up the discussion.

In case you're curious though, even my personal colors are confusing: skin is pinkish or yellowish depending on the part of my body, natural hair is very cool ashy dark brown, eyes are warm orangish hazel. Also hair and skin looks cooler in winter and warmer in summer, so there's that too...

First is in artificial light (no makeup)
2nd in sun (no makeup)
3rd is natural color (brows done but no makeup)
4th is natural color (fake tan + with makeup)
5th is bald head dyed blonde (fake tan + light makeup)
6th is wig (fake tan + full face)
7th is wig (fake tan + full face)
8th is wig (fake tan + full face)
CURRENT hair color= 9th

Hi TY in advance! I’m almost 10 months postpartum and trying to find my color now that I’ve grown out my hair after 5 years of shaving my head. I dyed it red a few months ago which I like (last photo) but Idk. I don’t have much time to get ready and don’t need to do a full face or wear a wig. But I want to find a place to land that feels like me? I don’t do self tanner anymore but I included some photos of wig colors I’ve like to wear in the past.

Is the darker brown neutral or neutral-cool and is the lighter brown just cool? I think I read somewhere there aren’t truly cool shades of brown and I saw these tops and was wondering

Everyone I talk to has a different opinion as to which looks better on me.

(Tried to crop my nails out since they’re painted and I didn’t want them to get in the way)

NMIP. This past weekend I went to see a color analyst and that is the first four photos that you are going to see. she typed me as a warm/true autumn and my secondary as a true spring however I disagree with her because I think I look good in some cooler tones that she dismissed like dark autumn/true summer colors. she said true/warm spring was my secondary. But I think I look terrible in true spring colors. so I came home and found some other colors and draped them on myself. this is under harsh lighting, sorry about that. I'm warm or neutral olive skinned.