HoC Spring reSprung

[Aquelven]

Hi Springs.
New thread, hopefully, with the following link to our old one....

Early Spring

My 2* at 100% are Oxford blue, coral, Geranium, leaf green, flamingo pink, corn yellow, violet, hyacinth, turquoise

I don't think there is a direct correlation, unfortunately. But perhaps worth reading up on some of the other light spring colours. I think khaki is supposed to be good there......but not good on me :)

I think a good way of ruling out light spring is wearing head to toe light colours. If you are true/warm you will look washed out in only light shades IMO

So I m a CMB Clear, light and warm.
Dark blonde, bluey green eyes, fair skin that tans.
Best colours- geranium, coral, teal and Kelly green.

Absolutely right gilly, even if you try to convince yourself otherwise voice of bitter experience

:)

You sound similar to me Joycey similar best colours

Aque just seen your post on the autumn thread. Contrast is one of those things that we don't tend to go into in huge depths on the colour day as it can be information overload for some clients. Basically there are some people who are higher contrast than others, and in terms of Springs, it tends to be blue springs, although not always (as always, it kind of depends on the individual). High contrast in appearance generally means that higher contrast in clothes (within one's palette) works better. High contrast can be in terms of dark with light and neutral with brights.

It can be slightly dependent on clothing personality as well - someone who is very very natural sometimes won't feel comfortable in high contrast even if their colouring allows for it, and someone who has lots of dramatic might want to do lots of contrast even if it isn't absolutely what their skin tone demands - as always, it's about finding the individual balance for you.

Hope that helps a bit, feel free to ask more

Yes aque you're right. season just mentioned I may be a bright spring ... I just would like to feel I was in the right camp as, you know me, I'm plundering the charity shops and the lipstick counters and will be living a double life in colour until I feel convinced enough to ditch some clothes! Also, I miss you folks

That makes it click for me Gilly thank you
I look completely pasty & washed out in head to toe light colours.

I can see what you mean about your contrast Season from your photo so thank you very much for sharing your link. Your eyes are exactly like mine! Not hair & brows though, mine are much more colourless.

A lot of us seem to be very pale don't we? For what it's worth, I was matched NW15 in Mac foundation & Calico ( their palest) by Boots No7, though even that's a bit sludgy on me.

I'm nw15 too and am wearing the lightest shade of Doublewear light at the moment.

Yes Aqua looks like we have similar colouring and same ** colours plus. Now I need to go back and re-read all your comments and posts .

Hopefully that's interesting, the paintbox springs I know are much more contrasty than the blue springs. Is that a fluke? One thing I never established is what hoC actually mean by paintbox spring?

Thank you for coming over Hopefully & explaining. I was under the disillusion that high contrast meant you had to have it within yourself, dark hair/pale skin etc, not that it meant you needed it in your clothes.
But I can see how all pale colours would make us pasty ones look even more washed out, same as how without makeup I look ready for the embalmer

Fooogle welcome home hope you're going to stick around! We've missed you too, I'm always in awe of your charity forages. The ones near me stock stuff not good enough for the skip.

And me yours MrsP

Sorry my post came after hopefullys lovely explanation so seems like random comment!
That's really helpful hopefully. So if you are low ish contrast would you usually not contrast your colours or light/dark too much? (Assuming you're not dramatic etc)...
How likely is the bright spring / jewel winter option season mentioned? Sorry to keep banging on. Wishing you were nearer else I'd come and ask your opinion

We need a Spring consultant so we don't have to keep poaching Hopefully from the Autumn thread! I think Travelincolour is Summer isn't she?

I've found this but not sure it helps much as I can't see much difference other than in their make up personally, between the black & white photos of Sophie Ellis Bexter & Angelina Jolie.
www.truth-is-beauty.com/please-explain-contrast.html

And this
www.pinterest.com/janerekas/color-analysis-contrast/

Flipping heck!!
Now we've got Vital Spring, Buoyant Spring, Floral Spring, Tawny Spring...........

Sorry link failed
www.pinterest.com/janerekas/color-analysis-contrast/

Glad you got the black and whites, just catching up - it's moved a lot since yesterday, it was the black and whits photos that helped me see contrast, if you look at a black and white photo and bit is black and white then that's high contrast but if it looks 50 shades of grey then it's lower contrast!
I am blue spring but quite low contrast, on my colour day I mentioned Light Spring and my cons quite vehemently said no, but in my style day she called me a blue spring on the cusp of summer, better in the pinks blues and greys, which is what I thought a light spring was!

Gillybobs there's no particular reason a paintbox spring couldn't be high contrast too. The kinds of springs I would expect to not be as high contrast (although it isn't completely black and white) are golden springs and pastel springs. Contrast is sometimes visible on the actual person, but not always - I need really high contrast, which is very obvious in winter when I have white skin and almost black hair, but in summer when I am tanned it is much less obvious. Colour combinations (and therefore contrast) are something that I believe they look at in the new format colour and style development classes (I haven't updated my training to do them yet, so not absolutely certain, but I believe so).

Fooogle as a general rule of thumb someone low contrast probably wouldn't be at their best in high contrast clothes, but it's not always totally clear cut. And it does partly come down to personal preference. My mum is a summer, but she likes a bit of paler colour next to her face, so if she is wearing darker summer colours she will keep that pale scarf/top and therefore have quite a lot of contrast in her outfit, but she is not a high contrast person. For her, keeping the light colour near her face matters more than the contrast. It's really one of those things that you sort of discover about yourself as you get more involved in your colours. Sorry, I know that's not terribly definitive or helpful! BTW, have you had a chance to go back and chat to your consultant/see the draping again yet? Not sure on the bright spring/jewel winter thing, as I haven't seen as 12BP bright spring swatch book. However, they do classify warm/cool as we do (although they call those seasons 'neutral', they are still essentially putting you fractionally one side or the other of the line, as we do when we make you a blue spring or a jewel/sprinter winter).

Butterflies A blue spring is generally leaning towards winter, as it were (I hate saying that as it sounds like you might be a winter, but you know what I mean I hope), but some blue springs are softer blue springs and 'lean' towards summer a bit more. 'Blue' essentially means you are a less warm spring, it doesn't automatically mean you are wintery, which is the main reason I always add caveats to comments about blue springs often being high contrast.

And don't worry at all about poaching me, it's nice to be useful, as much as I can be!

Just dropping by to see what's going on over here as I saw hopefully and I know she's not a spring. I'm a winter and on the winters thread but am finding all hopefullys explanations really useful and interesting .

We have a few natural ingenues on this thread don't we? A friend of mine has started a colour analysis blog (she's independent rather than hoC) . Her posts are informative and lovely and she has put a few natural ingenue outfit posts on which I thought someone on here might find useful? inlovewithcolour.com/page/2/

Thanks Hopefully, once again. I think at first glance I look quite winter (very dark hair, pale skin and super bright blue eyes) and can definitely pull off some winter brights, so I assumed paintbox springs were closest to winter. The Blue Springs I've met are blonde and softer blue eyes so I'd supposed they were closer to summer. I see that I've been over generalising!!

I am a cmb clear and warm. I have mid brown hair, blue eyes with grey, green, brown flecks. Skin is pale but rosy. I need the palest foundation though.

Having not done HoC I didn't understand the different types of Springs. Can someone summarise what they are?

Thankyou Hopefully, I sort of am taking blue to be on the more neutral edge of spring but not necessarily summer or winter, just not a warm spring, hence the greys being better than the tans and the pinks better than terracotta! Your explanations really help.

Eustacia, I think the spring categories are golden- warmer colours are better, pastel - light colours suit best, blue - cooler but still a bit warm colours are best, and paintbox - which I used to think was more like the comb clear and warm, so more bright spring but now I'm not so sure! Hope that helps?

Gilly I look like a typical Winter too, but I think the other thing to remember is that Winters often don't look like typical Winters. Since QueenC popped by I'll use her an example - she has blonde hair and you don't notice the amazing high contrast/brightness in her eyes and skin until you get the lightest and brightest winter colours on her (I only know that because I actually analysed her, I'm not psychic!)

Eustacia the spring types we use most often are Blue (which roughly equates to bright spring in other systems), Golden (which can correspond with warm/tawny in other systems), Pastel (which can relate to soft/light) and paintbox (true/classic in other systems). We sometimes mix two definitions if we have a more unusual client, like a blue/paintbox spring, to help them understand what they are.