Can you be a ginger Winter?

[StrangeOddment]

I love the idea of colour analysis, but I look like death warmed over in camel and pretty much all pastel shades, in spite of being a blue-ish-eyed, blonde-eyebrowed ginger.

I look good (I think) in raspberry/hot pink and pure white and pine green, and when I wear foundation it's Bare Minerals in Fair (which is their lightest colour, and a cool-toned one, I believe), which is the only foundation which doesn't make me look strangely orange.

So...is skin tone more important than hair colour when it comes to what looks good on you? And can you be a ginger winter?

i have naturally dark auburn hair and am cool toned. i look great in black, awful in coral, pastels and camel. i look amazing in bright pink and emerald green though. most foundations look orange on me. girl at the benefit counter once told me i shuld wear yellow toned foundation to counter the pink undertones i have......

You're all Springs!

My son (who is two, haha starting him early) looks amazing in bright green and bright red. He is the whitest child I've ever seen, and his hair is a dullish red although bright red if you use a flash! My daughter has same hair but warm skin tones and looks great in the autumn colours.

i'm not really fussed about which season i am, i just wish people would stop giving me crap advice like wear pastels or yellow toned foundation! i know what suits me, i can see it in my face, just let me get on with it!

I think Imogen Lamport (Inside out fashion I think is her website - Google it) describes the various tones within the seasons and will give examples of colours to wear in clothing. She is also on Pinterest.

Ideas from Imogen Lamport.

Oh2beatsea, you are my new favourite person.

Or given that I've now wasted spent hours of productive time on Imogen's inside out style blog, possibly my least favourite?

Her post on colour contrast and value contrast was so useful (and explained things so clearly, and took into account personality when it came to colour and contrast and clothing, le shock!)

I attempt to insert the link: www.insideoutstyleblog.com/2014/11/how-to-find-your-ultimate-contrast-your-three-step-process.html

(Off to archive binge now)

Ha ha Strange!!! Enjoy ; )

I have been! I'm also addicted to the 'looking expensive' thread on here, it's been fascinating.

hollinhurst, looking at you, and thinking about most of the redheads I know, it seems like we mostly have cooler skin and warmer hair (some exceptions, but not many). So black is good for our skin tone (your skin is amazing btw) but doesn't really set off our hair to best effect IYSWIM? Seems like a dark blue would work with both, but not just any random dark blue.

Maybe that's why I gravitate towards black: it'll never look completely amazing like a colour might, but it'll never look completely awful, which some colours definitely do. looking at you mustard yellow

OneNightTime, I'm laughing in recognition at the foundation thing. Once upon a time my teenage self was an unwitting model for makeup products at a charity event. Said makeup was slathered on by a lady who was, herself, pretty liberally coated in makeup. She looked rather better than I did though, given that her face was not so pale, and therefore not so orange, and her eyelashes did not make her look like Goth Barbie.

I looked like a Tiny Inexperienced Drag Queen: plenty of product, but no actual panache. Drag Race would have been appalled.

I have dark hair (had a chestnut tone when I was younger) and very pale skin (quite similar to hollinhurst), oh and hazel eyes (the ones that are a different colour in the middle). I had my colours done with a friend who I thought was equally pale, also with dark hair but has blue eyes.

We were totally different palettes. I am a deep summer, and she was a winter. Good colours made her features pop ('clear' according to the colour person). Bad colours made me look yellow and ill ('sallow'). We had some similar colours that looked good, but not very many.

Then there are variations within the palette too, so for example I look great in all the jewel colours (green is tricky to get right) and none of the pastels, or at least not near my face.