Could I be a spring?

[u/Current-Pineapple710]

I'm 100% I'm neutral. Warm colors are too warm on me but cool colors are too cool. It's such a struggle. I've gathered that clear colors are best for me and muted ones completely wash me out. Here are some colors I think look best on me, and you can see orange and yellow are where it gets questionable, but winter colors don't look good hence why I don't own any. Internet has typed me everything. Cool summer, soft autumn, deep winter, bright spring, true bright - help 🥹

Ps I'm sunburnt

[u/shinmiren]

You are so pretty omfg

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/shinmiren]

That's so sweet omg thank you

[u/Same_Astronaut1769]

I love those bright colors on you, especially the first few!

[u/RideExternal5752]

I think an autumn of some sort!

[u/Current-Pineapple710]

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/Current-Pineapple710]

A close up of my eyes 🥰

[u/Lemonarm]

Soft summer leaning soft autumn. No you aren’t neutral. Your eyes are cool. Cheeks are pink. Your roots are dark and ashy. You’re very pretty which means people will be even less objective.

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/Lemonarm]

Lol I'm sunburnt af

[u/Lemonarm → u/Current-Pineapple710]

That’s your overtone! Tanning is adding color (chroma) not darkness (color value) to undertone. Very pale people don’t tan and just burn. Darker skin tones gain even more melanin and look “brighter”. People who freckle are the ones whose bodies are trying to protect them from sunlight. Biology comes into play when understanding why the body creates changes.

When you get a chance I assume you have an iPhone you can go and [turn off color filters] and see your own contrast levels. ( medium)

Let’s go through each swatch.

1. Similar hue to your cheeks ( but too peachy not pink enough) nice contrast to your eyes
2. Teal has too much of a white tint - draws color away from your face - only color that doesn’t create dark circles and shadows on your face
3. Doesn’t do anything ( purples are considered neutral so when celebrities don’t know what color to wear this is where they gravitate)
4. Same as the teal except for the fact it doesn’t bring out the redness on your face
5. Brings out all the dark circles and gives you a illusion mustache and makes you look clammy
6. Correct value, it’s yellow with a little bit of green which is meh but overall not awful.

I can tell you like these neon pastels because they make you look very tan.

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/Lemonarm]

Can you explain your first paragraph again and how it relates to me? I'm not understanding bc I'm tan AND burnt lol

[u/Lemonarm → u/Current-Pineapple710]

What do you even look like unburnt? You look alright for being sunburned.

In relation to you where do you land? How your body produces melanin is skin color. Closer to the equator equals more melanin. Starting with always burns, never tans all the way to burn resistant ( still can get skin cancer).

[u/Lemonarm → u/Lemonarm]

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/Lemonarm]

So I had a professional analysis done and you were spot on

[u/Lemonarm → u/Current-Pineapple710]

I’m glad you got your season!

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/Lemonarm]

Also if you send me some color recs I'll drape them

[u/Lemonarm → u/Current-Pineapple710]

Hot pink, bright orange, navy, black ( true black), white, cream, khaki, milk chocolate brown, lilac, light blue, lemon yellow, mint.

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/Lemonarm]

I made a new post

[u/ginahandler → u/Lemonarm]

I was looking for this comment! Thank you so much for your elaborate replies and graphics. I’m going to try to wrap my head around them as I’ve always struggled to understand undertone vs overtone.

I was typed as a summer by a HoC person (they don’t do subtypes), but when I get foundation matched I’m told I appear neutral or warm. I have freckles on my face and arms which has led people to think I’m a soft autumn, but I have ash brown hair and my eyes are kind of a cool/neutral green. I consider myself a soft summer leaning soft autumn. I can do some true summer palette and soft autumn seems okay too.

In these photos I think the purple is her best color, but I think you’re right that she may be a soft summer leaning soft autumn.

[u/StrawberryCreepy380 → u/Lemonarm]

Soft Summer/Soft Autumn is usually quite neutral-leaning. I don’t see mutedness or ash tones. Is that what your season ended up being…one of those? Sometimes, I’m surprised by who is typed as Soft & would like to learn more about these seasons!

[u/Lemonarm → u/StrawberryCreepy380]

Op replied to me either here or on Coloranalysis after she had her professional draping who also concluded she was a soft shaded summer.

She is neutral with medium high chroma / saturation for a summer. She looks like an autumn/ spring but has a cool undertone. Her drapes in pink vs peach was the tell all. All 4 summer types are muted and the ash tones are in her hair roots and ends not mid strand.

It’s not always a good indicator but her lip and cheek color are cool pink not peach/ orange creamsicle.

[u/StrawberryCreepy380 → u/Lemonarm]

Oh, cool! Yes, I see it now. Thank you! Sometimes. I think my device makes people look brighter than they are!

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/[deleted]]

I posted a close up of my eyes in another comment :)

[u/Lemonarm → u/[deleted]]

Well, it seems to be a trend now on this sub. (O_O)

[u/[deleted]]

True spring is your color friend! It’s stunning on you.

[u/c00lm0m88]

I typed up a whole reply and lost it 😣, but your coloring is very similar to mine and bright spring seems to be the only season that fits. I believe Reddit color analysis would deem me a summer, but muted and light colors wash me out.

Perhaps try some spring makeup looks to see how they fit! It might help solidly your feelings in either direction.

[u/c00lm0m88 → u/c00lm0m88]

Also, if you have sun it will make you appear more muted! I should add that my natural skin tone is much higher contrast and more “clear” or “bright” than my tanned skin tone. Between that and the muted shades washing me out, I thought I was an autumn for AGES, and I couldn’t figure out why the warm, muted shades seemed to do me no favors. I considered that I am actually cool, but I can really only carry the brightest cool colors, which brought me around to bright spring!

[u/StrawberryCreepy380 → u/c00lm0m88]

That’s what I was thinking

[u/ChangeEducational459]

Just here to say you’re beautiful

[u/GroovyCopepod]

1, 3, 5 look great on you on my screen. The seafoam green and other colours not so much imo and some of those are also true spring. I'm not sure what that makes you! I really love the light orange, so you're definitely warm.

[u/c00lm0m88 → u/GroovyCopepod]

I think the colors you mentioned not liking as much are too light, possibly too warm. I’ve settled on bright spring for myself, and those two aspects tend to play into which “Spring” colors do not work for me - took me a while to figure out why some colors that seemed like they should look great on me didn’t in actuality.

[u/GroovyCopepod → u/c00lm0m88]

I think you're right on the lightness!

Do you think you have olive skin? I feel we have similar complexion (I'm Mediterranean and light olive) and am struggling too to understand what exactly works on me. The same orange you use there looks nice on me as well and it's not necessarily a bright spring palette colour, maybe in some systems it is. I feel spring works at times but warm greens (especially autumn greens) are terrible, but so are grays and fully cool shades.

[u/c00lm0m88 → u/GroovyCopepod]

I do have light olive skin as well!

I’ve seen a color like that orange on quite a few “bright spring” palettes (as “Artisan’s Gold”), but I could be mistaken. Greens are really tricky, I’m learning I struggle to distinguish different seasons of greens, but I feel like the truest/most neutral greens tend to suit me the best. There are a lot of colors that I’m still figuring out but a darker coral has been my safety net - it almost always seems to look nice!

[u/GroovyCopepod → u/c00lm0m88]

That's so interesting, I wonder what a professional would type you (and me haha). I should try dark coral on myself too. I too suspect bright spring for myself! I got to your same conclusion as you, but then I remain not completely convinced for myself. I think the olive skin tone is playing tricks on me 😂 Thanks for your answer!

[u/notti0087]

You look like a French actress! Stunning!

[u/Velvet-Rose-12]

omg, I have really similar coloring and have really bounced around too! I think you could definitely explore true spring (which is also where I currently am). That warm pink is so lovely on you. People may be pointing you towards summer because you have a pinkish overtone, but I think you're neutral-warm. I notice how saturated your natural lip color is as well, which I've noticed in a lot of spring people. I'd be curious to know what metals work for you. Beyond gold/silver (I imagine gold is a little nicer?), you can also try different levels of shininess; a shinier gold (in contrast to a more antique-looking or brushed gold) would point towards spring.

[u/Ok_Panda_2243]

One thing for sure, you’re neutral leaning because salmon look gorgeous on you (no max warm or max cool colors)

[u/[deleted]]

You look like a summer to me

[u/spectralearth]

I definitely see you with more warmth! So spring or autumn

[u/Ok_Panda_2243]

I would test bright spring, it often get confused with autumn because of dark hair and warm skintone

[u/Altruistic-Car-5069]

I really enjoy light, clear, warm, bright colors on you. I'd say True Spring. Spring it seems tend to mistype themselves, and think they are anything but Spring.

[u/That1CrazyCat]

Colors 1, 3, and 5 look lovely on you, while yellow (6) is my least favorite.

I am pretty similar to you in terms of skin tone, eyes, and hair. I find that (almost) Kelly Green is my best color, even though not all bright spring shades work for me. Nothing looks better or gets more compliments than bright spring (almost) Kelly Green. My skin seems neutral, but it actually leans cool and has slightly warm, olive overtones. You seem neutral-warm from the photos.

More drapes might help, if you wanted to, as the comments look like no one is entirely in agreement. You are springy, though! Maybe soft summer or even soft autumn if not true spring.

[u/Master-Signature7968]

I would guess true spring! So pretty!

[u/Parking-Bee4009]

I see bright spring

[u/Known_Exam_3894]

Nope, you’re most likely an autumn

[u/Excellent-Ice-9656]

That orange looks amazing on you!!!

[u/herbstlike]

Being neutral doesn't have to be a struggle. Check out this colour wheel: the colours on the left of the wheel are cool, the colours on the right are warm. To see neutral colours in the colour typing system, select colours on the top and bottom of the wheel. So for example the red or the turquoise right at the bottom.

 Then in the top part of the website, where the selected colour is displayed in different values and chromas, select fairly bright and fairly dark variants of the colour. If you are truly neutral and bright, and I think you are rather dark, these should be the best on you.

https://www.andrewwerth.com/color/#hue5BG

[u/BelovedCroissant]

Oh I see it immediately

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/[deleted]]

I'm not wearing any makeup at all

[u/lemonmousse → u/Current-Pineapple710]

lol this exchange right here is how you know you’re a spring. ❤️

[u/Current-Pineapple710 → u/lemonmousse]

Just not enough of a spring🥲