What ‘season’ (colours) am I?

[MadameSapphire]

Can anyone give me an informed guess about what season I might be, please?

I’ve had my hair coloured ‘forever’ so I’m currently blonde, but my true colour would be a deep mid-brown. My eyes are blue-green (not piercingly pale) and my skin is naturally cool-toned (blue veins) and pale. I have also fake tanned for what feels like forever and, as I get older, I’m starting to wonder if I’d look and feel better if I (quite literally!) embraced my roots! Thank you so much. ☺️

I have been struggling to work myself out to be fair. I can do other people but not myself. I have eyes the exact colour of an olive, skin which tans very easily and I look tanned year round and mid brown hair which naturally has slight golden reddish undertones. I look good in greens, reds, navy. I look bad in light greys or pastels. I was therefore thinking I was an autumn but stronger colour looks better on me so a deep autumn rather than a soft autumn even though I’m definitely medium contrast. However on every photo that website has me as a winter.

OP I’ll be interested to see what that website says you are.

@twobluehorses You definitely sound like an autumn. I tried my niece, who is a deep autumn, on the website and it's insistent that she's a deep winter but she is most definitely an autumn. She has medium golden brown skin, dark brown eyes and dark brown hair that has (natural) reddish highlights. She couldn't be any warmer toned!

I've tried it again for me (same photo each time) and it always gives me autumn but keeps changing the sub-category depending on where I click. It obviously heavily depends on the photo being an accurate representation colour-wise. I also found that it couldn't pick out eye colour very accurately, maybe it's the quality of my phone camera that's at fault!

I get the impression that it's hard to do this accurately from photos. If you know those colours look best on you @twobluehorses then I would go with your decision that you are deep autumn

The best way to find out would be visiting a style and image consultant. There are a lot of questionnaires online eg Colour Me Beautiful. I went to one a few years back and it covered colours,a make up session and putting clothes together to make outfits. That might be helpful

That just tells you that you are deep but you can be warm deep or cool deep. Your predominant characteristic is deep though.

Doing it in person is so interesting. We did winter and autumn first, but the winter just made me slightly dead and it also showed up all the wrinkles and lines. My face looked more square, tired, whereas with warm colours it was more oval. So we knew I was warm. Then when we compared with spring, it was wierdly when they put chocolate brown up that the light bulb went off, it looked like a really expensive classy colour on me. Same with bright navy, it was like a red carpet colour on me.

Ooh that's so interesting. These look cool to me. Also one solid colour

Almost slate grey. I'd say summer as they have a soft quality. But maybe you are Brown Summer as you had that rose brown jacket on. Brown summers look great in rose pink.

Ditto Ash blonde Hair colours.

I'm a spring and have brown hair - I do warm honey blond highlights. I once had an Ashy balayage. Did not suit me.

Oh a fellow paintbox spring!

Fwiw I have grey eyes which change according to how I'm feeling/what I wear (they go green grey if I wear red lipstick, blue grey if I wear pink or feel ill).

Light brown hair now with natural grey highlights but blondey grey. Has some red tone in it. Skin is pinky toned but I do very lightly freckle in the sun. When I had my HoC session (in winter) she said I'm quite neutral. Veins are blue! But I am high contrast.

I will wear black - not a high neckline, usually with some jewellery to break it up and preferably with a true red lipstick. Mostly because it is hard for me to find neutrals to suit in reality and I have a semi senior job with a lot of client meetings so need 'smart'. Most high street navy is cool toned, chocolate brown may be in the shops now but wasn't for years, and 'brighter' smart colours like dark green and burgundy really really dont suit me.

My point here is do play around with what you discover because you can have the perfect pallet for you but if you can't find anything to buy you may need to compromise - I do a bit of tonal dressing so I may wear navy trousers but I'll wear a warm blue shirt close to my face.

Oh and it took me ages to realise that shops do actually stock spring colours in the spring....

I have the same issue with work clothes. I bought two pairs of black wide leg trousers which I wear on repeat.

Cream looks terrible on me so I can't do cream and black, I have to hunt down oatmeal and beige which is tricky online.

I did find a few bright navy things in kettlewell and sainsburys - roll necks and v necks for work, and some beige jumpers and cardigans in m&s. Also have jumpers in some of the lighter colours like peach and hyacinth - the marks and spencer supersoft jumpers are great. They do them in tomato red, blue, coral, peach and shell pink.

Dove grey is a good neutral but hard to find grey that is clear and not heathered. My compromise is a pewter grey, as my hair is dark rich brown it kind of works.

White looks good but black and white on its own is a bit cold. Terracotta was a 25% colour but that's quite a good work colour. I'm not averse to burgundy as it goes quite well with hyacinth and is a cross over colour. I've kept some things in aubergine that I had. Aquamarine is also quite professional, I have a nice blazer from M&S.

Couldn't find chocolate brown for ages, only bitter browns, except for a pashmina in mango. I also don't know how to wear brown. It was a 100% colour for me.

Like you say the key is to browse from now into spring (just the time I don't feel like spending!). I had my colours done in an October so it was a long wait and many incorrect jewel tones purchased!

In the beginning I was buying anything I saw in my colours, or if there was an event I'd look for a green dress for example. I pared my wardrobe right back and got rid of loads. It saves so much time in shops too.

This year I'm going to train my eye to buy more good quality neutrals. I'd love to have an outfit head to toe in the main neutrals. I'll probably have completed that by the time I reach retirement age 😄

Plus probably need a couple of black v neck dresses.

I haven't bought anything for a couple of years or thought about my colours but I've been going through my wardrobe the last couple of days hence the essay. : D

What was your worst colour? Mine was sunflower yellow. Looks great very very far away from my face. The autumn gold / ochre was nicer but my consultant didn't agree.

Think pp mentioned style me happy which is a very affordable colour matching service. One tip I read to determine if you're cool or warm is to hold a white and a cream top under your face. Cool seasons (summer and winter) will look best in white and warm seasons (spring and autumn) will look best in cream. Cool suits silver jewelry and warm suits gold. Some seasons are less distinct than others though - I'm deep winter so although I look best in deep cool colours, I can borrow warmer autumn shades as long as they're still rich and deep.