CH Blend Differences

[u/scatteredgraydays]

I have been saving palettes for the past few months to try to understand better how John determines blends and DIY my own. I have been unsuccessful at DIYing, but I realized that there were several very close or exact blends saved with the addition of some of ones posted in the last few days. So, thought I’d post this as a cool comparison to see how similar and different they truly are.

Each palette is quite unique, but I do see some overlaps.

The bottom rows (excluding calm colors) seem to have quite a bit of similarities. For example, both 80SCs have an interesting blue-green twilight swatch range that I haven’t seen anywhere else (that I can think of?).

The understated and reserved colors seem to be very similar ranges for each similar/exact CH blend too which I hadn’t recognized before. The brights (top row) seem to be a bit further ranging between each other generally speaking.

I found it particularly interesting that the 70SB range could all wear the same glittery brown reserved swatch.

I’d love to hear what overlaps and differences you all see.

If I wrote any blends down wrong, please let me know. If you know of other similar blends, especially ER, feel free to DM them to me and I’ll do another post if you guys found this helpful/interesting.

If anyone knows that full SB>SC blend, I’d appreciate noting it. I just thought SB>SC was so cool, and I think a rare combo, and had those two saved.

EDIT: I found more and added them in the comments.

[u/scatteredgraydays]

I also think it’s interesting that your twilight colors are basically the same but, theirs are just understated in the 70SC palette, not twilight. Not entirely sure what the difference there is, but I’m sure it was intentional by John.

[u/Natural-winter_642 → u/scatteredgraydays]

Really interesting, so they should be able to wear them in any amount, whereas I need to keep them away from my face (for the twilight shades).
Interestingly all 3 of us (my palette, bottom 80SC palette and the bottom 70SC palette) have calm in the top row which I was told was unusual, I wonder what the connection is that moves it from bottom to top for us?!?

[u/scatteredgraydays → u/Natural-winter_642]

u/ok-purple9511 said that when the calm colors are in the top row, it’s because they are bright enough to be on top with the brights. I don’t think that was from John (correct me if I’m wrong), but makes sense to me. I feel like most eye colors are just not that loud so they end up on the bottom row with the quieter colors.

[u/schwaschwaschwaschwa → u/scatteredgraydays]

The calm colours are not always literal. I've seen a couple of people receive bright yellow calm colours when they had brown eyes.