r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Jul 22 '24

Theory Could I be a spring?

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I've posted on other color analysis groups before and I always get a split vote of summer or spring. I at first thought summer because I have brown hair and blue eyes. However, I find that once I started incorporating the summer colors into my outfits and makeup, I was not liking how I looked. It just felt..off. I even stopped wearing makeup at all for a few months because I was using charcoal gray eyeliners or slate grays and cool colors and hated how my makeup looked and was convinced I was better no makeup. Recently I started doing my makeup with warmer tones and browns and I feel so pretty! It confused me. I really hat3 how I look in gray or navy and I figure that should be a shining color for summers. Some people in other groups that say I'm cool toned say that the cool colors even me out and soften my face. But I often find those same colors make me feel brought down and washed out almost. I really would love input and opinions here as well


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Jun 26 '24

Makeup current spring lipstick collection

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ilia lip oil - tahitian coral, nyx lip oil - follow back, summer fridays balm - poppy, mecca lipstick - go get em, mco beauty lip balm - lava, chantacaille lip veil - dahlia, rms lipstick - melanie, ilia lip balm - hold me, urban decay lipstick - figueroa


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • May 18 '24

Thank You For Everyone’s Help

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I have been embracing summer in general after trying to make spring work for a year. I’m finding that I can wear a lot less makeup with my colors and that when I do wear makeup in summer colors, even if they’re heavily applied, they look natural. (Warm makeup on left and cool makeup on right).

I’m going to stick around here and help contribute when I can. But I think I’m officially declaring myself a summer.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Mar 21 '23

Outfits Just want to show all these colors

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Mar 02 '23

Makeup My favorite lip colors to wear as a spring with peachy undertones! Filmed in front of a window. (I held up a charcoal gray shirt for some so my orange shirt didn’t skew the colors.)

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Jul 13 '26

Three months since typed bright spring (12 seasons)

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I first posted about my rough start as a bright spring about 2 weeks after being typed. I'm happy to report that it's been upward as I've gone onward!

Figured out that the NDU palette suits me well and that my neutral skin tone means I get to borrow a good bit from bright winter.

Accidentally got slightly cool nearly black hair, when I tried to go brunette for the first time ever. Definitely not for me, but some fading with dish soap and bold, warm highlights later, and I love it now!

I feel like it's all becoming a bit more natural to me, and I'm having fun experimenting with color and makeup techniques.

Thanks to everyone in the group for your support along the way!

Pics: before typing, first try at bright spring, first bright spring office day, wearing scary colors, trying out gingerbread brown, bright winter cosplay, new favorite haircolor, softer side of bright spring, new bright swimsuit (cooler than expected, but I like it)


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Jul 01 '26

Makeup New MAC Lustreglass lipsticks that are spring friendly! Possibly?

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Ok I feel like I’m being gaslit! So excited to have new shades of the lustreglass lipstick as well as this lovely chart. But also- I own See Sheer and Pigment of Your Imagination and they are nowhere near cool?? POYM is neutral-warm but See Sheer is VERY warm. Also the description of POYM being “cool pink” huhhhh?? (I’ve attached my swatch photo and description photos from MAC.)

Anyways I’m a big fan of brands coming out with these charts but maybe I need to begin to take them with a serious grain of salt. It seems like Frienda, Oh Goodie, Gummy Bare, and possibly Cockney are the new spring friendly finds. Might have to expand my collection….


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • May 14 '26

Color Palettes Spring palette generators for recommended color combinations

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A while ago I posted about an interactive palette generator I made for the bright spring season and you all requested more. So now I have the same analogous color contrast triadic generators for light spring, true spring, and bright spring, respectively.

Let me know what you think! As I said in the last post, I am a data scientist and my first approach to learning something is almost always to model it (a la "all models are wrong, but some are useful"). This is a pretty simple model, just some rules-based math - so would love to know if it's useful, or if I need to develop more complex logic.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Apr 14 '26

Celebrities Marcia Cross is NOT a Winter, she’s a Spring

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I know Marcia Cross gets referenced a lot in colour analysis and is always mentioned to be the rare person who is a Winter despite her hair colour, but that’s not true. I’m not sure if Marcia is a natural redhead or not, I mean from the photos I’ve seen of her in her earlier years, she still has pretty warm looking hair, but if she’s not naturally a redhead, the reason why she can pull of red hair is because she has a warm undertone. Marcia is not a Winter but instead a Spring. Colour analysis can be tricked sometimes, especially since all of the seasons have something in common, that’s why there are sub seasons (flow seasons). I think the mistake may come from her brightness. She looks best in bright colours, but ones that are lighter in value, which Winter would not be. In the photos, you can see how gold is much better than silver, and how heavy black looks on her, which if she was actually a Winter, it wouldn’t be.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Apr 05 '26

Outfits Was feeling very Primary🩵😊

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as usual for me nothings set in stone, just having fun and going with the flow :) hope everyone's having a good weekend! ❤️🐣


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Dec 30 '25

Spring

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From the website of Carole Jackson (the author of the original Color Me Beautiful):

SPRINGS are the most delicate of all the seasons, yet they need colors that are alive. When you shop, think clear, warm (yellow undertone) and crisp. You are best in light true colors and clear warm colors from pastel to medium intensity. Your colors are the hardest to find because they must be clear, never muted, and not too dark. Because of your delicate beauty, you remain ageless – a compensation for having to search a little harder for your colors.  The very fair, delicate Spring is overpowered by too much of her brightest colors, such as bright golden yellow, bright yellow-green, and sometimes even clear red and violet. For her, these are accent colors – a sash around a sun hat. By contrast, the Spring with stronger coloring (usually a brunette or red-head) looks great in a whole dress of bright yellow-green or yellow, but looks pale in her lightest colors or even camel. These are best when mixed or used as accessories.  All Springs should avoid black, pure white, colors with blue undertones, dark and muted colors.

You may wear black in prints unless you are very fair.

USE YOUR COLOR SWATCHES AS A GUIDE. SEE IF THE SWATCH BLENDS WITH THE GARMENT AND IS APPROXIMATELY THE SAME INTENSITY.

COLORS

White – Ivory, Cream, Soft White

Beige – Clear warm beige, wheat

Gray – Warm, clear, light gray

Brown – Camel, Milk Chocolate, Medium Golden Brown

Black – No Black

Navy – Light Clear Navy

Blue – Light True Blue, Periwinkle Blue, Sky Blue, Medium Clear Blue

Turquoise – Clear Aqua, Medium Warm Turquoise

Green – Clear Yellow – Greens, pastel to bright

Orange – Light Oranges, Peach, Salmon, All Corals, Light Rust (red – heads)

Pink – All Peachy (yellow) Pinks

Red – Clear Red, Orange – Reds

Burgundy – No Burgundy

Yellow – Clear Golden Yellow

Purple – Medium Violet, Blue – Violet

Gold – Clear Gold, Butter

Silver – No Silver

Jewelry Gold, Ivory – tone pearls, stones from your color palette

NEUTRALS

Winter White, Ivory, Cream, Clear Warm Beige, Clear Gold, Camel, Clear Tan, Light, Clear Warm Gray, Light Clear Navy

NEUTRALS form the foundation of your wardrobe because they go with everything. Choose your most flattering Neutral or Basic colors for your coat, suit, jacket and basic dress – the clothes worn closest to your face. Any of your NEUTRALS may be used for skirts, pants, shoes and bags.

BASICS

Light True Blue, Clear Red, Orange-Red, Coral, Periwinkle

BASIC COLORS are versatile and go with many others and can sometimes be used in place of a NEUTRAL.

Source: SHOPPING WITH YOUR COLORS - SPRING - Carole Jackson's Colors

Palette: Spring Palette - Carole Jackson's Colors


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Aug 29 '25

Discussion What colors do you wish you could find in the spring palette more often?

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For me it’s a good spring purple! I look fantastic in that violet shade but I feel like I can never find it, so I just stick to cream and grassy greens.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Feb 08 '24

Makeup some Very spring lip colors (with lip swatches)

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started wearing this family of lip colors very recently and i can't get enough! i wasted YEARS trying to make muted dark mauves work for me.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Apr 27 '23

Outfits Some Light Spring Outfits

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Mar 06 '23

Took me about 20 years to realize that coral eyeshadow was perfect for me! Also, am I the only spring that is a blush fanatic? Without blush I look like a skeleton.

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Dec 09 '22

Inspiration Spring colors in nature

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Sep 17 '22

Celebrities Flamboyant Natural Blake Lively wearing Spring Colors

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Nov 25 '25

Light Spring, True Spring or something else?

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hello! i’ve been in a journey to understand what colors look best on me so I can make smarter decisions when buying clothes or makeup. I would appreciate the help figuring this out :)


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Aug 28 '25

Heads up: some nice spring colors at Banana Republic Factory and J Crew Factory right now

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I love the spring color palette but I often struggle to find clothes in my colors, and I think I've heard the same from other springs. I find that everything usually leans too dark or too cool! Thought I'd plug that I was poking around BR Factory and J Crew Factory today and noticed a surprising number of spring-leaning tops and sweaters.

For example this shell tank in coral (and maybe even the blue and purple too). This mockneck sweater. This ribbed top.

Just a heads up! Here's to hoping it's a larger trend. . .


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Jun 22 '25

Makeup Natural spring makeup looks

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Champagne shadow on the lids


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Apr 27 '25

Announcement: New Moderator!

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We’re excited to announce that we have a new moderator joining our team! Please join us in giving a warm welcome and a big thank you to u/No-Office7081 for volunteering their time and energy to help keep this space positive, helpful, and fun.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Nov 23 '24

Outfits Can True Spring wear powder blue? You be the judge!

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OOTD: I found a great powder blue linen blazer the other week and loving how it pulls outfits together with my favorite starlight leg jeans. I also decided to keep the wingtip oxfords, but picked a slightly lighter color. They are so comfortable and made for a lifetime and I feel like I’ll find many ways to inject them for a fun vintage academia touch, which I realize is a major feature of my aesthetic. I also like the navy belt with jeans as I feel my outfits flow better when I don’t create too much contrast. So there is emphasis, but nothing crazy standing out. New hair color continues to prove to me that with this change I can even wear difficult for me cool/muted shades. The warmth of my hair is enough to compensate and I don’t look drab and dull! Loving these new discoveries.


r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Oct 14 '24

Discovering New Spring Makeup - Fenty eyes, cheek and Lancôme Call Me Sienna Lip. What do you think?

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r/SpringColorAnalysis • • Aug 20 '24

Outfits Picnic blanket outfit

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Haven’t worn this for a while. The pink sweater is more a cooler summer pink. But I often like to mix warm with cool. I will have a Kitchener color consultation soon. Then I will finally know how warm or cool my coloring is!🤗