So all those colour analysis people were right!

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I've been teetering on the edge of having colour analysis done for about........... 10 20 years but been too tight and worried about feeling silly/vain
After many false starts deciding by myself I am one season or another I finally think I've cracked it! Have recently worked out I must be a bright spring. I've changed my (dyed) hair colour to a warmer shade and been wearing clothes from this palette. A total stranger told me today that my (very cheap, but correct colour) cardi really brought out the colour in my eyes and looked fantastic on me!
Can't remember that ever happening before! So, do we have a recent 'spring' thread that I've missed? Can see one for all the others but not spring

What's the quality like at kettlewell?
Price of £25 for a t shirt seem pretty steep unless the quality is better than the average. I'm a size 10 but generous (FF) of nork. Will I be able to squeeze myself into the small without looking like Dolly Parton? I'm pretty sure a medium would swamp me unless they come up smaller than average

I'm a 10 and an E cup and find the medium fine.

I have a small and rather stupid question, if anyone would be so kind as to help.

Is it:

warm skin tone = flattered by cooler colours, as a general rule.
cool skin tone = flattered by warmer colours as a general rule.

or, indeed the other way around.

I know which colours flatter me but am bizarrely incapable of working out if my skin is cool or warm toned

Warm skin = warm colours best
I know what you mean about the skin tone thing. Apparently on warm skin tones, your veins can look a little turquoise/green rather than the blue on cool tones. Might help?

It's the other way round, Mrs (loved calling you Mrs, btw ).

Thanks people!

WRT the vein thing - I'd heard that but my 1/2 veins show beep blue and 1/2 greenish, so yeah, goodness only knows.

Cream looks shit and white vaguely acceptable. Blue suits me well but so does orange and red. Black is good, most browns not. As a rule silver looks better against my skin than gold, unless I'm pregnant I have red tones in my hair if it gets a lot of sun, but blondes too. Is brown (and not coloured), eyes dark brown.

It seems that my skin might be cool toned when never exposed ot sun (glow in the dark pale) but warm if tanned (which I avoid) tending to a hint-of-baked-bean colour That's not possible, I suspect.

You know, you could still be asking these questions in five years' time, or you could start a fund - £1/£5/£10 a week - whatever you won 't miss - and say to yourself that money is reserved for your colour session.

Or ask for money at Christmas/birthdays. Saves so much angst.

Mrs - apparently all seasons have red, blue, green, purple, yellow and some other colours in their palettes but its the shade/tone that is different for each season (e,g orangey reds for Autumns and pillar box reds for Winters) and even then not everyone can wear ALL the colours in their season's palette (e.g can't wear ice yellow which is part of the winter palette).

Far much cheaper and easier in terms of no more mistakes and agonising decisions when clothes shopping to get your colours done professionally.

Thanks again. TBH it's more nosyness than actually wanting to have my colours done - I'm really not the type.

I'm lucky to have a damned good eye for colour and am also very, very fussy - as I'm eternally short of cash I never buy anything that doesn't 'work' IYSWIM so m wardrobe is sparse but good.

But yes, it's indeed true that even 1/2 a tone difference in shade can take a colour from ghastly to acceptable but meh to stunning on me (or whoever I've been dragged along to the shops with again).

Mrs. Lettuce my veins are both blue and green too. Is it veins on wrists or hands?

Inner wrist, inside of elbow (IYSWIM) and back of knees all show pretty much 50 / 50 blue / green.

Yes, as MadAbout said, it's the tone of each colour that makes such a difference, from making you look ill to glowing. It really does stand out when you watch someone draped. That's the good thing of the small classes where you can watch the other one, or two, people draped. You can really see the impact on someone else & they see it on you.

Mrs, you sound like you MIGHT be cool but you never know. I was convinced I was & turned out not so. The other girl who was with me was certain she was autumn & she was summer.
My veins are turquoise so I couldn't tell blue or green.

Even if you're lucky enough to match your season correctly the class goes so much further, going through each of the colours in your season & rating them for you personally as an individual. Some are two star colours, your most flattering, all the way down to ones you can wear as accessories but not as flattering near your face, your chart is marked up for every colour in your season, whether they're better for coats, suits worn with another colour, better as skirts/trousers not close to your face. It's very thorough. You also get to try the right makeup colours too & see how flattering they all can be.

Another advocate for getting it done professionally here!

MrsLettuce, I'm like you - 50:50 blue and greenish veins; couldn't see any difference with gold vs silver jewellery; reddish and blondish tones in my hair. I had managed to convince myself I was a winter, then a bright spring but the draping showed me to be a blue autumn. It took ages to find the right makeup shade because my skin tone is different in different areas, eg my forehead is a slightly pinker than my jawline thank god I've got a fringe So it might be that you are one of the less typical colourings within a season or have some characteristics of both. I second the poster below on the idea of saving up for it / asking for a voucher for a gift. Well worth it IMO.

My understanding of it is that either you need to wear colours with a blue undertone ( cool), or yellow. So I am a bright autumn, gold, brown green is great on me but I can only wear blue if it has some yellow in it ( turquoise type blues ). I hated having the draping done as I wore black all the time but am really glad I did it now as its saved me a fortune in both time and money and I feel good and confident in what I wear. It's usually cheaper if you do it in a group, do you have friends who would like to do it too? It really is money well spent!!