Colour analysis surprise result - anyone else?

[crispinglovershighkick]

100% convinced I was a winter, had colours done to figure out what the best bits of my winter pallette are, turns out I'm a deep/dark/blue autumn. In autumn colours I don't look like myself, it's very odd, my blue eyes turn hazel. Most of my wardrobe is blue! I always thought I looked like family member A, in new colours I look like family member B.

I did it for a bit of a tweak and refresh and it's provoked an existential crisis

I agree that this is a middle-class, middle-aged thing to do and I can just wear what I want, and I'm overinvested and should give my head a wobble

Urgh typos!

@Whydidimarryhim

I want it done but it’s about £250 now and I blinking don’t want them to get it wrong. Any cheaper options?

Just Google it and there are tonnes of quizzes you can take for free...

You might want to take two or three until you're sure you've got the right one.

I had my colours done a few years and came out as a winter who suits jewel colours.

I stuck to it religiously for a while, and there are still some of the ‘rules’ I stick to (always white, never cream or ivory, for example), but I really don’t feel comfortable in some of my supposedly best colours. Emerald green, raspberry red, cobalt blue...they just feel garish and not like ‘me’.

What I tend to go with now is cool tones, so any colour I like as long as the shade is cool not warm. It seems to work.

Would anyone like to hazard a guess at my season? Colours that suit me are cornflower blue, navy, candy pink. I have brown hair, that lightens in the sun, green eyes and pale skin that would tan quickly if I let it. Thanks for any tips in right direction!

@HeyGirlHeyBoy

Would anyone like to hazard a guess at my season? Colours that suit me are cornflower blue, navy, candy pink. I have brown hair, that lightens in the sun, green eyes and pale skin that would tan quickly if I let it. Thanks for any tips in right direction!

Sounds like you could be a light spring or a summer.

Clear / true springs look great in bold colours such as canary yellow, grass green, reds, etc. But light springs look better in lighter versions of those colours while still on the warmer side of the colour palette compared to a summer.

I'm a summer and look best in soft muted colours such as baby pinks, light blues & corn flower blues, periwinkles, pale yellows and greys. These colours can be similar with light spring, and while a summer could get away with some of the same colours a lot would look too bright on a summer and overpower them. Candy pink for example looks too bright on me. It brings the redness out in my skin, so I need a softer pale pink.

When you were a child what colour was your hair? And do you find that you tan really easily and develop a nice colour or is it hard work to build up a tan? Also look at the colour of your veins on your wrist. Do they appear more blue or green?

@HeyGirlHeyBoy - just saw you said you tan quickly. Has that always been the case? If so, then I would I guess you are a light spring. Springs have a warmer skin tone and generally tan quite easily (as do autumns) while summers have cool skin and find it much harder to build up a tan, often burning and then tanning

Yes I would have tanned easier as a child but now I'm so careful with spf that if I get caught out I would probably be reddish but it would quickly turn brown. Hmmm re spring, a quiz last night told me summer. It's confusing but I will look at light spring, thanks very much.

I had my colours done at least 30 years ago (it sounds horrendously expensive now). Although my colouring has changed, a quick online check, suggest nothing has changed. My eyes and skin were light and now that my hair is white grey and my skin will have lightened more to join in, I’ll be the same for a colour palette. No idea what season I am, but I definitely suit cool colours, including strong blues and greens. I also like Orange and bright yellow. I was warned against both, but I still choose to wear both because I enjoy wearing them. I wouldn’t go for a full on Orange jumpsuit or dress though. Instead I wear them with a bit of navy or green. There is definitely a psychology of colour. Some colours lift our mood and some feel wrong. It’s important to incorporate that into our decisions.

I assume I am Autumn as I suit mossy greens, but maybe I am wrong, reading the above ?
I have those eyes that change colour depending on the light and have become bluer over the years. They are basically green but have a navy ring and amber flecks, too blue to be hazel. I am pale and don’t really tan. I go a bit browner on my arms if I am outside a lot, but my face only colours slightly and my legs stay white. I have light brown hair with warmth, dark brows .
I don’t suit electric blue, that would be my worst colour. I love a very vivid Indian pink but that doesn’t suit me either. I feel sure that Winter colours are not for me.

@sirvixofvixhall I'm a bit similar (and I couldn't work out the warm Vs cool beforehand, quite a few contradictions in my colouring).
I'm a deep summer - best colours are navy, plum, raspberry, teal green, chocolate brown.
There are some overlaps over the seasons at the edges, so i think a darkish mossy green would be ok too.
I definitely don't suit bright colours, so I'm very far from a winter.
I found that my diagnosed colours were ones I've been drawn to all my life, I just hadn't realised it. Maybe have a think about colours you love, not just clothes, but interior design, paints, fabrics. I found I'd experimented more with clothes colours but everything else was always firmly in my season.

I was told that blue or green veins, tanning, eye colour etc aren't relevant, it's more about warm/cool, contrast and depth of colouring and the only way to find your season is through draping. It isn't what suits or looks nice or makes your eye colour pop, it's the colour that cast light on and remove shadows from your face and give definition to your features. It's much more subtle than I expected and had I not seen all the colours in the same place I wouldn't have got it (that probably makes me sound very suggestible).

The new colours don't have as much of a brightening effect, they don't make my eyes look extra blue, they make me look more even, more in focus. My saggy chin, for which I've been planning surgery, is no longer what I see when I look in a mirror. I can see now why people do it before interviews or to project authority.

Candle same here, my colours can be seen all around my house, they said that's really common.

Candleabra I don’t really suit navy, or raspberry. I do suit a very dark chocolate brown.

@SirVixofVixHall
It sounds like autumn with mossy green and brown?
Both of the ladies I did my HOC day were autumns. It was so interesting to see the transformation with the right colours. One had kingfisher blue and orange draped and looked amazing.
I would look absolutely awful in those colours.
So interesting.

I like orange, not sure whether kingfisher would suit me or not as I avoid all blues although I have the odd navy thing, and a delphinium sort of blue I do like even though it may not be right for me.
I am trying to think of what my best colour would be and I don’t know.
Dd says this scarf really suits me.

It looks more teal and green in reality than in that pic.

That scarf looks autumny I think.
The HOC consultant said that all seasons could wear any colour, it was all about finding the right shade.
Have a look at the House of Colour colour wheel (sorry I can't do links but you can Google). Shows the overlap in seasons but some shades are very firmly in one quadrant only.
Lots of yellows/oranges in autumn - almost none in summer.
Whereas summer has loads of soft pinks, lilacs etc.

30somethingurbangirl.com/free-quiz-what-is-your-seasonal-color/ I did this one this morning . I think it's pretty good.

I just did that quiz and it says I am a clear Spring, I don’t think I am though.
Hard to pick an eye colour and skin shade.

I too agree with the Bullfinch about neutral people being very hard to diagnose.
I had it done with HoC about five years ago. I have pure white hair ( went grey in my early twenties) muted turquoise eyes & deathly pale skin.
I went convinced I was a Summer or Winter. Was really looking forward to finding which of the beautiful muted, dusky shades of summer suited me best. Shock...horror...I’m a Spring. Granted a Blue Spring, not the CeBeebies horror of bright neon colours. There’s no way I could wear bright yellow but was really surprised to find there are some reds I can wear along with my best colours, luckily ones I like of blues, turquoise, greens. I still stick to a mostly neutral wardrobe but based around French navy, grey, brown rather than black with tops, cardigans in “ my colours “. Best of all I was told I suit equally good & silver, please about that.
Although you can get 1:1 & was nervous of having the day with two total strangers, I found it both helpful & fascinating to see how the colours transformed the other two, one was an autumn, the other a paintbox summer
I also did a follow up style day & that REALLY was helpful.

I sat in while my friend had this done, must have been 10-15 years ago. The consultant just held up big sheets of different coloured fabric and it was genuinely fascinating to really see how certain colours brought her eyes out, looked a bit meh, made her hairstyle look fab, made her look rosy cheeked etc etc.

I don’t know how much a whole load of big sheets cost, or maybe you could just do it with a random selection of clothes. Get a bunch of friends together and all just hold them up to faces!

You can actually buy the colour swatches on a small wheel..

@MrsMaizel

30somethingurbangirl.com/free-quiz-what-is-your-seasonal-color/ I did this one this morning . I think it's pretty good.

That wasn’t remotely accurate on me 😔 It asked for my original hair colour (mid brown), taking no account of my current hair colour (white grey) and went on to tell me that lime green is one of the main colours that would suit me! Absolutely not!

I had my colours done in 2002 and I found the book recently, now 20 years on will I need a new pallet skin colour etc I just found my book of colours recently

I had this experience @crispinglovershighkick. I'd convinced myself I was autumn either soft or deep, I would have been unsurprised to be a burnished winter (as you can see I read a lot before!) but I was a bloody Paintbox Spring!!

We were going through the Autumns to work out if I was cool or warm and I was thinking lovely, nice, then we compared with summer and those looked washed out so I was definitely warm.

But then we started to compare spring and autumn. I couldn't understand why my consultant wasn't as enthusiastic about some of the Autumn colours, then we got to Spring Bright Navy and I was like oh I see that's my colour! It was the fact that colours need to be clear not muted.

At the end she said I'd put you between a Blue Spring although they do not normally look good in brown and a Paintbox Spring, and if I had to say one I'd say Paintbox Spring.

I mean I have brown eyes and brown hair, that was the last one I thought I would be. I haven't seen any Paintbox Springs with brown eyes but Erica Davies might be one.

I have felt a lot more comfortable sorting out my neutrals but dipping into the colour is daunting!

I've actually drawn from Blue Spring colours and decided to include midnight navy which is on the Kettlewell website under their seasonal subtypes as bright navy is literally nowhere in the shops (although I will constantly look out for it!).

Also the colour analysis tells me nothing about style, especially necklines or patterns.

The last thing I want is to look like I tried too hard. Its so true that cut always trumps colour. I had an online shape analysis so I am using suggestions for both of those.

Its fun but quite hard to know where to start - I think the first thing I bought was something in ivory rather than brilliant white.

I am being really fussy- because its in my colour it still has to work with lots of other clothes style wise.

I also really like some autumn colours and I think I would wear these contrasted with something in my palette, but I am trying to stick with my colours for now as it means getting more wear from clothes.

I was tonally analysed by CMB - I'm a Soft. I have neutral skin, can wear gold or silver, my eyes are blue/grey with beige flecks, honey blonde hair.

I like, and can wear, the majority of colours in my palette. I don't wear very warm colours (mustard) or very cool (shocking pink) - my colours are beautiful and muted - rust, olive, chocolate, claret, teal ... I wore most of them before being analysed to be honest!