Finding out my 'Colour Palette'

[Froel1982]

Has anyone ever had their colours done? I've always struggled with what colours suit me, and style in general, and wondered if anyone had had it done and what they thought?

I don't seem to fit into a particular category. Strawberry blonde, warm undertone, pale skin, blue/grey eyes, and blue veins. I seem to be a mish/mash of warm/cool.

That being said, I put a black top on the other day and looked like I'd been ill. So I can discount one colour at least!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Love from a style dunce!

Loads of info online but you can discount winter!
Do you tan?
What are the colours you gravitate towards?
It's sounds like you may be Spring or autumn?

Oh @Froel1982 we sound similar. I'm a hybrid too. I don't suit loads of colours but can't really think what groups they're in. Loop ok in black and navy and white. Grey is a bit meh. Royal blue is quite nice on me. How about you?

I’ve had my colours done with House of Colour as a friend is a consultant. It’s a bit of fun to do with a group of friends, and you might learn a few things too. I’m a Winter, but didn’t learn much as I already like and wear the colours I ‘should’. Not sure how much it is cost-wise. Loads of info online to start you off.

You sound like you have spring colouring. Easy guide I read said, those with light colouring and a warm easy tanning skin are springs. Light colouring with cool burns easy skin are summers.

Your colouring sounds like mine. I had my colours done with HoC, diagnosed as a Spring but a Blue Spring which is the coolest of the spring sub sections. So my best colours were the blue/green/turquoise/ grey end rather than the hotter yellows & oranges. True red is one of my colours but it overwhelms me a bit. Black is possible but greys & navy are better as core neutrals..

Hi all, I don't tan, I have true Irish skin courtesy of my Dad. So I start off whiter than white, go pink, lobster red, then back to white. I spent 2 months in Oz and came back the same colour I was before!

Colours I feel I look good in: coral orange/pink, teal, cream, camel/browns, brighter blues, bright red (as long as it is broken up with a pattern.

Colours I look sick in: black, navy, bright white, fuschia pink, anything pastel coloured, yellow.

Jewellery, I love silver, but probably look better in gold, my gold birkenstocks are also my favourite shoes.

It's a toughie, as online sources/apps have me pegged as every type of spring, an autumn (not convinced as I feel my colouring and the blue eyes are a bit fair), sometimes a summer has come up. I tend to err towards a spring I suppose (light with a touch of true spring??), but do love the soft autumn palette.

The reason I'm asking is that my children are 5 and 3 now, and I'm coming out of the 'trenches' as it were, and I'm looking to update my wardrobe, now that I'm less likely to get covered in baby sick/stains. I'd like to look a bit more put together.

This sounds very like me! I do gravitate towards blues/greens. I also love red, but it has to be broken up with a pattern.

Have a look at Emily Innes Instagram page. Think it's called style me happy. You can send photos and she'll tell you your season and your best colours. I think it's about £40. There's a Facebook group too that's quite helpful.

“I don't tan, I have true Irish skin courtesy of my Dad” … you’re a summer then. I’m a light summer and also suit both good and silver.

Ooh thanks! I'll check it out. I've looked into it and online consultations all start at £100 mark.

Is your colouring high or low contrast? I'm very fair, warm-toned with low contrast colouring and I'm a soft autumn. Springs tend to have more contrast than autumns. I also have blue/grey eyes, not everything has to be overtly warm to be an autumn or spring.

You sound like a spring to me, given the colors that you can wear. Tans, creams and corals would look ghastly on a summer, and pastel colors should suit one. Rather than having an online analysis (which can be hit or miss, although I have heard good things about the person recommended above), have one done in person. Then you would know for certain and would see the process - what colors work and what don't - before your very eyes. Online can be a false economy, as it is quite often wrong and might just leave you with more doubts and questions.

I've looked into it and online consultations all start at £100 mark.

Keep a look out for the house of colour training school and colour me beautiful training academy. They both offer freelances colour and style analysis done by trainee consultants as part of their final 'exam'

All are working under supervision so will not get the answer 'wrong'. If you are 'tricky' to categorise then having someone who really knows they stuff (even if only supervising) will be really useful. I'm a big fan of house of colour but any system will work really.

Having never had much idea of what suited me, once I'd been 'done' everything from shopping to getting dressed just became so much simpler for me. It's saved me £££s over the years. All my clothes are in my colours so I could get dressed in the dark and still look well turned out. I always have the right shoes to go with any hew clothes.

Highly recommend

Not sure why 'free' in my text above turned into freelances. Makes no sense.

You might have to wait a while for a free session but it will be totally worth it. All the best

Another House of Colour user here 👋🏼 appreciate the cost may not make it feasible, but if you can get it done it is so worth it. If HoC is too priced, on Instagram there's a page called Create Your Style which offers online colour matching, though I've not used this and am not sure how accurate looking at photos alone can be, particularly if you consider yourself difficult to place...

You mention that you like browns and teal but also reds, well that could fit into a few categories depending on, for example, the red is a scarlet or brick/rust in colour. Also, I have a similar complection to the one you described for yourself (pale Irish skin and don't tan) but have been categorised as an autumn. There are three levels of share for each season too which means the colours that suit you are more nuanced that I'd thought possible!

You're a Spring. I am, and only have a slightly warm undertone on my skin but have reddish hair, no freckles, and blue eyes.

I go by holding the garment, near my face in front of a mirror. I also sometimes go shopping with a friend who once had a boutique, and she'll pick colours for me that I wouldn't have considered. Many people will pick colours they like, not what suits you, so you need to be careful.

You sound like a neutral. Colour matching is not aimed at people with multiple ethnicities. If you've blue eyes you're allegedly automatically cool but if you have a creamy or pink undertone you're warm so I'm both cool and warm at the same time.

There's a lot of season debunking going on at the moment as its prescriptive and has been "replaced" by contrast levels. So black hair and pale skin is high contrast, whilst blonde hair and pale skin is low contrast.

You sound similar to me and I'm a paintbox spring. My mother is very similar colouring to me but she's an autumn. It's the contrast levels - she's 'softer' than I am. I can get away with silver, have blue veins and a few 'winter' colours like cobalt blue and emerald.

So next couple of months is the best time to shop as more spring-y colours will be around. See if they suit you.

We were saying on a different thread that being a spring can be tricky to get neutrals to work so it's a case of seeing what works for you.

Also I went mad at first finding 'my' colours to the detriment of style/cut. I have the most amazing turquoise jumper from fat face - my best ever colour so I bought it. It makes me look like a box. A pretty box but a box....

Definitely low contrast. Golden/strawberry blonde, warm toned skin that burns, blue grey eyes. I do look good in some spring colours, but I will say that some of the brighter spring colours look too much on me, unless it's broken up a bit.

This is how I found coral suited me. My friend suggested it, and it actually looked really good.

Ha! I am a paintbox spring currently wearing a turquoise jumper. It’s my best colour along with apple green, yellow and tomato red. I have blue/green eyes with lots of yellow flecks, blonde hair with a few red bits no freckles and tan. Neutrals in my palette are camel, tan, chocolate brown and bright navy. I can do black and white, and either silver or gold jewellery. Paying House of Colour has saved me a fortune over the years. Fortunately apart from a lot of dark teal stuff which I now concede did nothing for me I had a lot of the basics already.

This was all the thing many years ago. I wasn’t aware it was still ongoing. From my friends point of view, many years ago, they all thought it was bollocks. Has it changed?

I'm unsure whether I'm
Autumn or spring. I have a bright red dress with a white floral pattern on it that really suits me, but if it didn't have that pattern it would be far to overwhelming. My skin is pale, and has been described as peachy, it burns within 10 minutes of being in the sun, it can look warmer in some lights. I do think that more muted colours suit me, some of the brighter spring colours just look too much.

It was! I remember my step mum going and doing it with her friends,
and my mum used to do it as well. I feel that many of us probably suit colours from multiple palettes, and whose to say that you can't wear a colour that you love as it isn't in your palette. But as a total style novice, whose lived in grey the last 7 years, like myself. it's a good starting point 😊

I would highly recommend Emily innes style me happy. The best £40 I've spent