Colour analysis conundrum

[MrsNoodleHead]

I am, I think, a deep winter. I have black-brown eyes, mid-brown hair and pale olive skin which tans easily.

Thing is that I'm not confident that the colours I should be wearing actually look good when I hold them up to my face. Eg black = death warmed up, bright blue = sallow. Cerise, I'm not sure about but burgundy is great.

My two best colours by a country mile are:

• deep green (this Cos dress makes my skin look more porcelain (it's not!) and my eyes stand out); and

• slightly bizarrely, a warm blush colour like this bunny sweatshirt. How that fits into a winter palette I do not know!

Can anyone shed any light? I know I ought to bite the bullet and her my colours "done" in person but I can't quite stretch to it at the moment...

Sounds like ypu might ne a deep autumn. Do you look.good.in chocolate brown, olive green, rich purple, burnt orange and mustard yellow?

I've not had my colours done either MrsNoodleHead but I would try and match those colours that do suit you against online palettes of colours and then go from there. Apparently the colours thing is about skin tone rather than hair or eye colour. To my untrained eye, those colours look like autumn colours

Thanks for replying.

Purple is good, but olive green leaves me looking sallow. The right kind of yellow really pops, but it's somewhere between mustard and acid yellow: it has to have some "bite" to it, IYSWIM, but I can't do neon.

I tried on the same coat in camel and navy the other day. DH loved me in the navy but thought I looked absolutely awful in the camel. So definite no to light brown, but I imagine chocolate brown is better.

Any help?

So the colours you have identified as working are warm blush, a 'bite-ey' yellow, purple and - isn't the colour of the Cos dress olive?

The different colour analysis systems use different terminology, but I'm thinking of autumnal colours that are deep and strong but warm-toned. If you look at libertychick's chart I would guess that these colours may look great on you: aubergine, deep teal, marine blue, pine green, sage, dark olive, dijon, chocolate, russet, amber, brick red. What do you think?

Oh, and libertychick is right that it's skin tone rather than hair and eye colouring. My dp is black with brown eyes, and my mum has auburn hair with golden skin and grey eyes: both are deep winter.

Oooh interesting. It's funny, I used to be drawn instinctively to more autumnal colours but since I read about "colours" a couple of years ago I've been trying to squeeze myself into a winter coloured box.

You're probably right about the dress; [[
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Lots of the colours you mention sound good. I'm more nervous of the orange/russet tones but it's been so long since I've let them anywhere near me! I need to reappraise.

Thanks!

Link fail: this is the green/khaki shirt which positively doesn't suit me. I think you are right that the colours need to be deep/strong and this is too muddy.

Yes, deep and warm. That shirt is too insipid for you. (Hark at me, like I know what you look like.)

Easiest way to find out: take off your make-up, hold up something (piece of clothing or swatch) that is chocolate brown against your face, then something charcoal grey. Which looks better? Then something brick red followed by a blue-toned crimson. Then burnt orange followed by fuschia pink. Then rich cream followed by ice white. And so on. If the first ones tend to look better, you're probably deep autumn. If the second ones, probably deep winter.

The trick is finding things of the right colour, of course, and being able to discern between warm and cool tones.

If you don't have fabric swatches try towels or scarves in those shades.

I'm on holiday at the moment but will have a proper play when I'm home.

On reds, this was the one that got away, colour-wise. The dress was far too short and expensive, but the colour was a wow on me: again, that skin looks good, eyes stand out, thing happened.

I had always thought of it as a true crimson but looking at it again maybe there's a bit of russet in there?