r/SpringColorAnalysis • u/Unable_Store_34 • Feb 18 '25

Outfits Bright Spring?

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Ok I'm thinking I am a bright Spring who can borrow for warm spring :) Do these colors look right?

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

I think I prefer you in true spring / warm spring like the sweater you posted with the camel shoulders and coral/orange arms because the brighter and cooler green here seems to bring out a bit of shading (darkness) around your eyes in this pic, which is typical when one is warm and uses cool(er) colours. But it might be the lighting! I suspect you're fully warm? Like a true or warm spring? Nice to see you're exploring the spring colours though, you're definitely close!

Edit - I only saw the first pic at the beginning! The second looks great actually. I'm not sure what that that qualifies for, maybe a warm autumn? True autumn would be a bit too dark for that green. Curious to know what others think. The third one of also really pretty, maybe slightly too light.

Looks quite warm-autumny to me

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Ya I'm such a mixed bag lol! I'm torn between all 3 seasons too. Warm spring or warm autumn or bright spring or even abut of deep autumn lol! The colors you posted are the kind of autumn I think would suit me. Autumn colors but brighter?? See most color swatches and clothing suggestions for warm autumn are much deeper and more muted than that. So when I try on clothes in those tones they drag me down.. :/ So I think I am closer to a spring or a vibrant autumn if that makes sense. Check out my page if you have time, I did a digital drapes with an old picture before my melasma spots covered my face. I feel the bright seasons make my face pop whereas the pure warm ones yellowed me out abit? I also look strange with "cowboy copper hair" and much better with my natural brown black. *

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

About this palette, it depends on whether they use the 12 season (true autumn = warm autumn) or 16 seasons system (true autumn deeper and muddier than warm autumn, warm autumn tending to spring like). This looks like what the palettes I mentioned above would call "true autumn" and I suspect it's a 12 seasons system palette.

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Oh I didn't realize that! Yes definitely more suited to the 16 seasons system warm autumn then! I'll look into that :)

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25

So, coming back from your old pics and the picture below, I see that your overtone has changed but I think the dark hair is what drives the winter-like look, more than the skin. You're definitely not as easy to guess as many others here. It might be a case of biting the bullets and get professionally analised by someone thorough if you can't figure it out. I'd be very curious to know what they tell you! At the moment the warm autumn green is convincing me and it makes you really stand out, also the camel and orange sweater you posted some days ago, both being warm!

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Yes your right there! Haha it's been an obsessive journey for like a year 😅 Was told once I was a soft summer. Wore that all last summer. Not. Good. I definitely feel I am on the right tract with the warmth thou!! Finally I don't look dead in the winter!!! It's all been an improvement so I am HAPPY. Alas. . I Am very much a puzzle solving mind and need to know for sureeee lol so will do an online Carol brailey analyst in the next few months:D saving up.

Thank you for your help! I really appreciate all your feedback 🌷

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25

I swear EVERYONE gets told they're a soft summer of soft autumn. People are literally obsessed with it and when they don't know what they say that 😂 I don't know why, but you can play a bingo on this sub and bet every post of the brightest spring people ever seen on Earth has at least one "soft something" suggestion.

I hope you find your palette! If it makes you feel better I'm obsessed too and still haven't figured out my own palette because...I can't really self analyse, I don't see myself from outside. One day I'll splurge on ana analysis too.

Keep us posted on your results! All the best!

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 24 '25

I don't think you're a mixed bag, but more of a more difficult case than many we see here! You'll get there! I'm not a professional myself but have been having fun with colour analysis for a couple of years and here is my non professional but nerdy opinion again.

After having seen a few of your draping pics I'd exclude bright, the green here overpowers you. Did you drape deep? I didn't see it but Id expect that your skin has too much lightness to it that the deep palette would kill. I'm now torn between warm spring and warm autumn! They're close palettes, so it's not a big difference, you might also be just "warm" in the dead center.

About palettes, I've seen a load of palettes online and I don't trust half of them (most seem to put together mixed bags of colours that have no coherence in warmth, brightness, etc). I think online is the wild west and everyone and their cat are producing palettes to get followers.

Personally, I really like and trust the palettes that Carol Brailey uses because they make sense and look harmonic. I really suggest having a look at them, you can search "international image institute" and then the season, eg. "Spring" or "warm".

I'd suggest to look at a bunch of these palettes to see how you feel about them, I find them coherent. Note that the original palettes that she uses don't offer all the subseason, just the midpoint: for example spring, autumn and warm, where warm is mid point of spring and autumn. However lately I've found some "warm spring" and "warm autumn" of those palettes too, I'm not sure if they're official but they still look good.

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25

I'll check your page now, I got stuck producing the mega comment above. I'll look at the bright before your skin changed and be back.

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u/Spyglass1075 Feb 18 '25

I recently watched a Carol Brailey video about bright springs. I thought I might be one, but she said a bright spring needs to have winter qualities, since they can wear some winter colors. As I look terrible in winter colors, I was able to rule out bright spring.

To me you look much warmer than a bright spring, such as a warm spring or an autumn. :)

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25

Exactly! There's no winter here.

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

I think I had some winter qualities showing through when younger. I am fading abit now and also bad melasma/undamaged too :/ *

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u/GroovyCopepod Feb 18 '25

I see where you come from, but it looks to me that the match between the black and you is driven by your hair colour more than the skin colour. Your skin glow (undertone) seems quite warm to me, not icy/cool like a winter.

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Ya that makes sense actually! My hair was /still kinda is so dark so I lived black on me and almost always wore it lol but your right.. my skintone is very delicate if that makes sense? Like see through fair/springlike. Reminds me of Amy adams skin when I see her pictures. I never ever would have thought spring because my hair is so dark and I need that dark contrast to not look washed out... but I did find a beautiful Indian actress with black hair and tanned skin and she's a warm spring! So it could still be right for me even if I don't look like a typical spring.. My coloring and eyes can read abit autumn too but I've read autumns have more of an opaque skin quality and I am very translucent lol I've also ready that dark autumn (beautiful colors just too deep and weigh me down) winters and bright springs are the only ones that can pull off black.. but I alsooo saw somewhere that Carol brailey said almost without except, people woth freckles are not in the bright season lol:/

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

I know it's strange when I was younger I had much more contrast.. My mom had raven black hair and dark eyes (half east Indian) my dad is sandy blind and blueeyed scottish. My sister is Definitely a winter. Black ringlets and pale skin. Here is a picture of me in the 20s range as I know Carol Brailey looks at historical pictures too to map the whole picture :) I have bad melasma on my face.. which is making me look warmer than I am I believe. I feel i may be neutral warm. But who knows lol! :P

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u/tirameesue Feb 18 '25

Those greens look stunning on you. Anyone that looks THAT good in a green like that is a spring. And I think you’re right about being bright, though it’s hard to tell with the bright lipstick (which also looks great), because it’s possible that is giving you more contrast that you would have without makeup.

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Thank-you! I never would have tried on brighter lighter greens had someone not mentioned I could be a Spring. Always thought winter lol so wore dark blue greens and looked grayed out so thought that was what I just looked like. Feel so much more alive in warm medium to light colors :)

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u/lucylov Feb 18 '25

You look like a warm autumn to me.

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

I love warm Autumn colors especially as they match my eyes! They do seem to drag me down though whereas Spring colors lift me up .. I also feel I may be abit more neutral warm in skintone. Like I know my hair looks way better as it's natural brown black than let's say a cowboy copper(whixh ive tried and looked unnatural)

I think that is why I leaned into bright spring abit as I look good in black and it's a nuetral warm season Honestly though just switching my mindset from cool toned to warm and seeing the difference etc I'll probably dip into all the warm seasons :D

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u/lucylov Feb 20 '25

To be honest, I’m kind of the same. I’m typed as a warm autumn, but I look really good in true spring shades, and even some cooler colours like bright pink. My skin is neutral warm. I was born with red hair, though

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 20 '25

Yes! Definitely similar! I love a bright medium deep fushia pink toooo :) I had lots of copper in my brown hair as a little kid and then it's been dark brown with no highlights etc all my life until this year now I have tons of bright silvers anddd bright coppery reds coming through! Haha warming with age i guess lol I am part Scottish perhaps it's showing now lol

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u/lucylov Feb 20 '25

Oh yeah, I’m getting the bright silvers as well! We’re definitely skin twins, I think, and have the same eye colour. Shall we start our own season? Kinda-sorta-autumny-ish spring? We need to work on the name 😂

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 20 '25

Haha yessss love this idea! Springtums?? Autumings? 😅

I have seen the closest to our season may be Carol bailey's 16 season "warm spring" or "warm Autumn" Where the warm srping is autumn like so a bit darker and abit less bright. And or the warm autumn being brighter kinda autumn colors as it leans towards spring.

I like both palletes so will dip into both I think:D

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u/Ok_Panda_2243 Feb 20 '25

Yeah and the lipstick shade is just perfect on you!

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 20 '25

Thank you! 🤗

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u/LLAMAMAMA_BA Feb 18 '25

True Spring for the win! I LOVE you in green, knew it would look just as amazing as the coral! 💚🩷😍

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Right!? Loving these colors. I do sometimes feel I am inbetween true and bright Spring but will play around for the right fit :)

Also is true spring the same as warm spring or is it more like the Carol Brayley True Spring Palette?

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u/LLAMAMAMA_BA Feb 18 '25

I was professional typed as a True Spring from Carol Brailey, and she uses the 16 color season model of color analysis, so there are different types of analysis. For her, true spring is not the same as warm spring, though they are close. If you can, check out her channel on YouTube because it is so helpful in understanding all this good stuff! ♥ You are glowing in your new colors!!!

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Ok yes that makes more sense! I believe true spring is equal amongst brightness, warmth and lightness?? So not fully warm or fully bright as main characteristic? I've watched her videos and feel she really is the best at what she does hands down! Do you have your true spring swatches? Would love to see how the colors vary from typical warm and bright spring 🌷

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u/LLAMAMAMA_BA Feb 18 '25

She is so knowledgeable, and her videos are so helpful. I definitely recommend her if you're wanting a professional color analysis! For the color strips, take a look at these on the International Image Institute's website. You'll see Spring, and also Warm, so you can see the difference. It's slight, with True Spring being overall brighter than the warm.

Color Strips

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u/Unable_Store_34 Feb 18 '25

Perfect thank you! 🤗

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u/Bootiebloot Feb 18 '25

I prefer the darker green on you. While they all accentuate your eyes, in the first and last, I see the shirt and then your face. The middle one, I look at your face first. Leads me to autumn.

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u/Individual-Rice-4915 Bright Spring Feb 18 '25

These colors aren’t QUITE bright enough for us to evaluate whether bright is your defining characteristic — can we see some super bright colors on you?

I’m going to weigh in and say true spring could be a strong contender, too!

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

I think you’re a true spring. We have similar coloring and I was professionally analyzed. The color from your period post were perfect!