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Can you tell me my ‘colours’ if I describe my face.

17 replies

PrinceHaz · 07/04/2023 11:09

Just been thinking again about colour analysis, what ‘season’ I am and the colours I should wear. Description of my face below and pic attached:
As a small child I had golden blonde hair and pinky skin. From about age 2/3 I developed a lot of freckles and my hair turned mouse. I now call my natural hair ‘rat’. It’s very, very dark mouse with strips of whitey grey. There is no red at all, apart from the occasional one when I look at my hair in the light.
When I had my colours done in the 90s I was told I was a warm autumn. That makes some sense as I’m freckly but I didn’t always feel the colours in the colour swatch I got were necessarily right for me.
My skin under the freckles is fair and pinkish. My veins in my wrist look blue. I burn easily but on my face and arms I also tan easily so in high summer I can look very brown under the freckles. My eyes were grey blue as a child. Now people think they’re green, but I think they just appear green with certain clothes but are actually more blue. There’s a hazel ring round the pupil and a black ring round the eye.
I know I’m not a winter, probably not a summer but veering between all the types of spring and autumn and just can’t decide.
What do you think? Thanks

OP posts:
Tealsofa · 07/04/2023 11:13

The best way to work it out is to drape yourself with the colours in daylight

Repeat over a few weeks to allow for hormonal changes etc

Topictwenty · 07/04/2023 11:29

If your skin is in pink then you’re likely a cool season, so not autumn or spring

hennybeans · 07/04/2023 11:37

From the small portion of your face pictured, you look like you have cool skin. I would guess summer of some kind but that is just a vague guess as I can see such a small part of your face.

I suggest taking photos of yourself wearing cream then wearing bright white to see if you’re cool or warm. One colour should look better than the other. Then you can narrow down from there. Google the colours of summer/winter or spring/autumn and take more photos to see which suit you best. I think it’s easier to tell in a photo versus looking in the mirror, maybe more detached from just seeing yourself in the mirror. Ask friends opinions on your photos, which set of colours do they think suit you best. Although people can be biased to preferring their own colours when looking at someone else.

PrinceHaz · 07/04/2023 12:31

Thanks everyone for useful advice. Carlybitmitoemam - straight after I’d written the post and said I want a summer I decided perhaps soft summer!

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Eventysaurus · 07/04/2023 12:35

I'm trying to work what I am too. I am naturally just like Courtney Cox. However, I somehow look REALLY sick when I have dark hair! My skin goes white / grey.

So I had it highlighted blonde and now I suit more pastel colours and my skin looks more English Rose.

It's confusing!

CrystalMaisie · 07/04/2023 13:51

I have pink skin and eyes that are greenish, mousey hair that used to be more golden blonde as a child, and I tan ok (golden colour). I’m a spring. The colours are described as clear and bright, autumn is soft and muted, if that helps.

GeneHuntsCowboyBoots · 07/04/2023 14:11

I’ve had my colours done and have often played around with this and I’ve found it always says what I’ve been analysed as.

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JoanThursday · 07/04/2023 19:59

I've been a bit baffled by all this. I always assumed I was an autumn: dark hair which can take on warmish tints, pale skin that burns and pale green eyes.

I got a new foundation recently from No7 and the assistant said I had a cool skin tone, and picked a foundation that is absolutely perfect.

So that got me thinking and I tried out a couple of online analysis sites. Am coming out mostly as a clear winter and, on a couple, as a dark winter.

This could all explain why I feel that lipstick never suits me - I'm perhaps choosing the wrong shades. 🤦‍♀️

Is it possible to be 'between seasons'? I always think of winters as being that lovely dark haired, pale skin and luminous blue eyes. I'm warmer than that I think.

Or is all this just a pile of rubbish?!

GCWorkNightmare · 08/04/2023 00:06

Eventysaurus · 07/04/2023 12:35

I'm trying to work what I am too. I am naturally just like Courtney Cox. However, I somehow look REALLY sick when I have dark hair! My skin goes white / grey.

So I had it highlighted blonde and now I suit more pastel colours and my skin looks more English Rose.

It's confusing!

Courtney Cox is a cool bright winter. She was the example given to me as a match. Despite my bright purple hair. ;)

CC4712 · 08/04/2023 00:13

A lot of children are born blonde then go darker, so not really relevant to your colours now, x amount of years on! Is your hair currently coloured or is this natural in the pic? Eyes and hair both look grey, so I'd say cool colouring. I agree with checking some of the links posted.

OliviaFlaversham · 08/04/2023 00:39

JoanThursday · 07/04/2023 19:59

I've been a bit baffled by all this. I always assumed I was an autumn: dark hair which can take on warmish tints, pale skin that burns and pale green eyes.

I got a new foundation recently from No7 and the assistant said I had a cool skin tone, and picked a foundation that is absolutely perfect.

So that got me thinking and I tried out a couple of online analysis sites. Am coming out mostly as a clear winter and, on a couple, as a dark winter.

This could all explain why I feel that lipstick never suits me - I'm perhaps choosing the wrong shades. 🤦‍♀️

Is it possible to be 'between seasons'? I always think of winters as being that lovely dark haired, pale skin and luminous blue eyes. I'm warmer than that I think.

Or is all this just a pile of rubbish?!

I’ve used the above tool on several photographs and surprised to find they kept saying deep winter. I always thought I was an autumn! This could explain a lot…although I always thought I flushed too easily to be a winter anything.

TheOGCCL · 08/04/2023 09:03

My eyes look quite similar and I’m an Autumn, and that’s what I come out at using the tool posted upthread. It’s hard to get a sense of your skin and hair from the pic.

It’s a seasonal wheel so there are people who land close to the edge of two seasons, and can wear colours from both, but you’d normally be told which are your best colours.

Widmerpool · 08/04/2023 09:20

GeneHuntsCowboyBoots · 07/04/2023 14:11

I’ve had my colours done and have often played around with this and I’ve found it always says what I’ve been analysed as.

https://colorwise.me/

Thanks for this link. I thought I was going to find out, at last, so I just tried this with three different photos! Just normal recent selfies. No make up.

First one I was a soft summer.
Second attempt I was a soft autumn.
Third go I got clear spring.

No wonder I’ve always found it impossible to tell what ‘season’ I am. Perhaps I really am unclassifiable. 😕

ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 08/04/2023 09:30

I just want to say this. I have green eyes, chestnut hair ( well it’s silver now) green veins and tan easily. Every foundation consultant, online tool or quiz puts me as warm. But I’m not. I’m a summer. I look dreadful in anything brown or black.

Be careful about the tools you use. Trinny foundation, once I’d put in green eyes didn’t even give me the option of cool based colours. I downloaded an app which said l had warm colouring but l just don’t.

The best way is to work out what colours suit you by just wearing them.

GeneHuntsCowboyBoots · 08/04/2023 12:19

Widmerpool · 08/04/2023 09:20

Thanks for this link. I thought I was going to find out, at last, so I just tried this with three different photos! Just normal recent selfies. No make up.

First one I was a soft summer.
Second attempt I was a soft autumn.
Third go I got clear spring.

No wonder I’ve always found it impossible to tell what ‘season’ I am. Perhaps I really am unclassifiable. 😕

Oh, that’s a shame! It’s worked every time on me! Well, has me between summer and winter. I used some old photos as well from when my hair was darker, which was what brought the winter results.

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