Blown away by skin tone!

[beatrixpotterspencil]

I posted a different thread this past week about style, but the discussion got me thinking about my complexion/tone, and how I've never really known what to think of it.
Blonde, pale, blue eyes, suit delicate things, so just always presumed I was cool/light summer.
Have light ash hair and use this (picture) colour corrector by Bobbi Brown. It's perfect for me so is the right shade.

I don't suit black or navy near my face much, or dark shades of anything. As for other colours, I suit lilac, some blues, petrol grey, cream, beige, and that Joules yellow raincoat colour.
For jewellery I am sure i suit gold better than silver, but can do both.
That said, I do not suit most of the 'spring' colours, although i must admit i havent tried them all!

But, after further reading I tried an old peachy orange lipstick i had tucked away somewhere - followed by my favourite cool berry shade. I am so freaked out that the peachy one was more flattering! My teeth looked whiter (i like tea!) and my eyes just lit up! This should not be, unless i am a chameleon, or a neutral?

DP insists i have a warm skin tone, but i disagree!

What colour are the veins on the inside of your wrist, OP?

More blue / purples usually indicate a cool skin tone, more green tend to indicate warmer.

Ive heard this doesnt always tell us much? I will go and check, ive never been able to decide.

They seem a bluey-green. Equally.

I thought I was a summer.. Similar to you colour wise.and colours I pick.. . But I'm a bright spring. Its revolutionary..
The veins thing is a good shout.
Do you blush easily? Also a sign..
BB wise I'm a pale ivory or sand...
BB is also a warm rather than cool brand suggesting spring.

Weird! I used to blush maniacally as a teenager but not much since, unless stressed or excited.

Don't summer's blush?

I use BB extra light bisque corrector and warm ivory foundation in their range. I also use a warm undertone in other foundations. I'm fair with blonde hair and blue eyes.

My guess would be a soft summer or possible one of the autumns? Im a self diagnosed soft summer and have blue/grey eyes, warm blonde hair, suit gold and silver, veins are both blue and green inside wrist. I suit peach coloured lipstick and neutrals generally.

Thank you, It seems it can be mixed?
I have a couple of pics of an eye here i have no idea if this helps!
This was my natural hair colour, it is lighter now due to highlights.
Eyes often pink rimmed and lashes very light, they're there but kind of invisible.

sorry theyre a bit useless as so grainy cropped.

You are similar in colouring to me and I am a Spring!

I'm sure I read a spring will usually have a dark line around the iris and then a lighter middle whereas a summer will usually have a not uniform iris. I think yours is spring with the dark rings round the edge? I also think you are not neutral than cool or warm. Your colouring looks a lot like mine and I'm a light spring, but can also get away with many summer colours.

I would love to be a spring, thanks!
I have gone down a youtube rabbit hole looking into it all and whilst I believe the seasons are helpful groupings, anything after that just confuses me and seems a bit convoluted. A few too many rules. But I agree with the people who say it's just a fun guide.

I hated most of the summer colours though! You very rarely see mint, cornflower, baby blue and pale pastels in most stores, and especially not in winter. I can thin of only a couple of stores that venture into pale pastels at all, and even then only in summer. It's a terribly restrictive palette, sadly, no matter how beautiful summer's may be. Some of them suit me, perhaps the warmer shades, but many make my shrink into the background.

Apologies for the photo's, realised later that different lighting will affect the tones and my eye colour so quite useless to post.

I would love to get some swatches/drapey things and have some fun experimentation at home!

Hohoho what a christmas surprise!
I did the jewellery test, it seems silver vanishes on me, looks nondescript and a bit cheap. Gold on the other hand, wow.

Haven't worn any except a tiny fine silver necklace for so long I hadnt noticed (probably because it looks nondescript!)

Well, my highlights are pale ash, and my regrowth blends well with them, so my hair must be cool?. This is not adding up! will discuss this with stylist next time i go, see what he says, but that'll be in 6 months

I had my colours done years ago and don’t know what the latest terminology is, but I think you could be what used to be known as a Spring-into-Summer. Which does mean that you would suit a mix of warm and cooler shades. Also, you have v nice eyes OP and should find the right colours to bring them out!

The best way to judge is silver or gold jewellery next to your skin. I'm a summer: pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes. Gold against my skin is dull. Silver shines. If you can wear both, you're probably more of a neutral.
Take a coral pink and baby pink and put them under your chin. You'll soon see which one lights up your face and which one makes you look dead.

You look strawberry blonde in your photo OP, but I think you said that your hair is ash coloured?

I am a strawberry blonde (well more silver now than blonde due to my age), so I can only tell you what suits me, which is nearly all the autumn colours, and green. Nearly every shade of green suits me, from khaki to bottle green, but the absolutely best colour on me is Emerald green (although I found out through my snag tights that I don't suit a bright neon green, but that could have more to do with my age than my skin tone!) I once had an emerald green cocktail dress in a rich velvet, I got an awful lot of compliments when I wore that. I can also get away with most of the deep jewel colours, but not topaz, and I have to be very careful with the different shades of red.

If we can ignore Covid for a while (on here, not in real life, I am not a Conservative politician), have you got some friends (or family) where you can all get together for some drinks and nibbles at one of your houses, and bring a selection of your plain coloured clothes, scarfs, (even pillowcases if suitable) etc and have a little party where you hold the different colours up to each others faces, and see what colours you each think suit each other. If you want to check this for daytime clothes, have coffee and cakes instead (my vote would be for both day and night do's, but I can be greedy)!

ps. Obviously not too many cakes...
pps. Obviously following Covid rules at all times, so any gatherings might have to be put on hold for a while.

From the photo you seem to have a peachy skin tone. A lot of people have a pink based tone, a lot of people have a yellow based tone, And peachy has a bit of both.

One of the make up brands I use divides foundations/concealers into warm, cool and neutral base tines. So I think you are a neutral.

This I think would mean you sit on the border between spring and summer, so you’d have some spring colours you suit, some summer.

I think the seasons system is good for a lot of people but not for outliers.

I was classified as an autumn and whilst I suit some autumn colours it just never sat right one me.

There are some more complex seasons systems out there that go into more divisions ( the seasons with added description I.e. cool, deep, light, soft, clear, warm) but I still never managed to find the right thing. Here’s a good guide to that:
anuschkarees.com/blog/2013/09/24/colour-analysis-part-i-finding-your-type

I suit clear, vibrant colours a lot as long as they are warm toned and I don’t suit browns at all really except golden tan and a really dark brown like black coffee. Even chocolate brown isn’t right on me. So in some ways I look more like a winter, but the cool tones just look very off on me. If I had to say something it’s be “clear autumn” but that’s not a thing apparently.

I definitely have warm toned skin, but when I get tanned I have almost a lilac sheen to my skin.

Came across another way of looking at it though which made everything fall into place. And that was to look at my contrast.

So basically the amount of contrast between your eyes/hair/skin. I have very dark brown hair and eyes and pale though warm toned skin. So I am high contrast and look best in things like black/white, coffee/cream, French navy/ecru.

So I’d say work out your contrast, and then weave in the high colours suit you from the spring/summer border.

From your photo I’d say low contrast probably.
Here’s a guide to contrast
www.mycolourstylist.co.uk/blog-full/2020/7/7/value-contrast-for-all-season-tones-explained

Think you probably have a light peachy skin tone, as do I and it's a pita for picking foundation and concealer which is often either pink or yellow based

This has piqued my interest! Is there any particular gold standard guide by anyone/anywhere in particular or is this a fairly general thing?
Like OP I'm pale, blue eyes, blonde hair (that has darkened with age), & I always thought I had cool colouring.
I recently put in a box dye that I thought was the same as my own colour (ashy) & it turned out quite warm & a bit brassy & looks awful against my skin
Suit silver jewellery, dark muddy autumnal colours like burgundy/navy, nude colours make me look washed out....
Does 'cool' sound right?

Ooh @beatrixpotterspencil I just reread your OP - would you mind linking your last thread?

I had my colours done and am a Warm Spring. Knowing this really helps when I'm buying clothes - but if I stray and buy something that I think suits me, the minute I try it on at home I realise it's all wrong! Winter clothes in the UK are usually the wrong colours for me, but Kettlewell do clothes in a wide range of colours all year. (Not related to any who work there). They are more expensive than H and M etc but I stock up in their sales.