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Colours - can anyone remember the site to self diagnose?

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NewChoos · 28/08/2013 08:48

Someone poster this about a year ago I think, thanks.

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Downfall · 28/08/2013 08:56

This is the one I've often seen linked here, although the consensus is you can't properly self diagnose. I still found it helpful to understand different types of colouring/colour palettes etc.

NewChoos · 28/08/2013 09:38

Thank you.

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Hopefully · 28/08/2013 09:48

Both of those sites make me a Winter. I am very definitely not one!

JustBecauseICan · 28/08/2013 09:56

Oh, I've been looking for one of these and appear to be a light-soft summer which I think is fairly accurately me.

Kezztrel · 28/08/2013 13:50

I've had my colours done by House of Colour and both of those sites diagnose me accurately!

TravelinColour · 28/08/2013 14:22

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Kezztrel · 28/08/2013 14:32

To be fair, HoC woman did say I was easy to diagnose. She definitely spent less time on me than the other two people I was with.

NewChoos · 28/08/2013 15:41

hmmm I do wonder if you would get a different diagnosis depending on who does it anyway??

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Lurleene · 28/08/2013 19:20

I had a consultation at a party once and the two practitioners disagreed - one thought I was an Autumn, the other thought I was a Winter. They settled for Winter in the end, but I could tell the other one wasn't convinced!

talkingnonsense · 28/08/2013 19:39

Who is it that gets to wear white and not cream? I know I look washed out in cream, brown and khaki!

BeattieBow · 28/08/2013 19:40

Im a winter and can wear white and not cream

ouryve · 28/08/2013 19:59

I'm a winter and can't wear white or cream. I have very pale skin, though - with dark hair and dark blue eyes. Anything pale, next to my face, looks completely unbalanced, though I used to get away with icy blue. I've hit an age where my colouring is definitely becoming cooler. I've even decided I now hate the plummy red colour I've been dying my hair for the past couple of years. It might be that there's too much grey in my hair now and it just looks garish.

talkingnonsense · 28/08/2013 21:15

Fascinating- I didn't realise it really changed with age, I'm going grey and debating keeping it that way- I'm fed up with the orange shade you get from dying- though as I recall my natural brown does have a faint red tint.

KosherBacon · 28/08/2013 21:22

Your colour family doesn't change, but your colour preference within that family can change. So a winter wouldn't become a summer, more a jewel winter could change to a sultry winter, if that makes sense.

Ifancyashandy · 28/08/2013 21:28

I'm not on either site! I'm pale hazel eyes and dark brown (very dark) hair. Pale skin...

TravelinColour · 28/08/2013 21:46

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AmberNectarine · 28/08/2013 23:32

They got me right but then I'm a pretty obvious winter. I think much harder if you are on the cusp of the seasons.

ouryve · 29/08/2013 08:43

Our hair sounds similar, talking. There's a lot of red hear in my family and my natural brown was quite a warm treacly colour. If i looked at a bundle of hair, there was anything from red to black in there. The red and black hairs greyed first!

I've got very short hair, so it shouldn't take me too long to get rid of the colour. I might dye it a cooler colour before I grow it out, so it looks less like faded, uncared for red.

BridgeMix · 29/08/2013 15:36

Ifancyashandy - me too. I'm either autumn or winter. Helpful! Grin I've got no idea what suits me.

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