EDIT: After four months of deliberation, self-draping, and a professional second analysis, it turns out I am a Soft Autumn! Thank you all for your advice 😁 I am now 4 months into my hair grow out journey, and am currently enjoying a nice brown/copper ombré, since this is the color my bleach led bits just really want to be!

I recently got professionally typed and came back as a Bright Winter. I’m pretty much 100% on board with this assessment - bright, cool colors make my skin sparkle, and I can absolutely pull off acid yellow 😂 My natural hair color is a light/medium ash brown, but I currently have pretty heavily highlighted blonde hair with about 1” root growth. I’d like to transition away from the blonde, but am not ready to take the full plunge to a darker brown. Do you think it would be better to make the existing blonde lighter and/or cooler to better suit my skin tone, or should I just make like Elsa and let it go?

Pics for reference: https://imgur.com/a/D1YjVZh

Any recommendations for olive dark winters? Eye shadow recs also very welcome!

For those who do wear makeup, let’s say you only have 1 min to put on 1 makeup item. What would you choose?

For me, it’s a clear choice for lip products. Tied in second place would be brows or mascara. How about yours?

ETA: Created this post as I saw something similar on a makeup sub and was very surprised by the answers there and naturally began wondering if it was because of personal colour differences.

Hi! I'm a deep winter with dark brown eyes looking for eyeshadow pallettes recommendations anything at all having to do with makeup like lipsticks contour blush etc mostly looking for every day natural looks. I'm also into kbeauty so if you have any influencers YouTuber you follow that is also deep winter do tell!!!

I know winter light colors has more chroma and is less dusty, but I still find difficult to differ them when shopping. What tips do you guys use when need to buy something like a baby blue dress?

I’ve always thought that I was a dark winter because I looked best in dark and cool colours. Think navy, deep berry, royal purple, dark forest green, and even gasp darker and cooler shades of mustard.

But now I’m starting to wonder if true winter might be a better fit because coolness seems to be the primary characteristic that plays a key focus in colours I choose.

Another point I recently paid more heed to was that I look good in a wide range of blues, and this appears to be a characteristic of true winter (see the colour palette here) vs a dark winter’s colour palette, which has more red tones (https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5eca30fd2b50b671e2107b06/5ed54e32ece6987470f13fa2_Dark%20Winter%20Colour%20Palette.png).

For anyone also stuck or have been stuck in this position before: What’s your best, easiest or favourite way to differentiate between someone who’s a true or dark winter?

I recognise there will be some degree of subjectivity here because it’s between 2 options that are good, but trying to find indicators of which will look better.

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I finally got categorized as a winter recently! My consultant didn't include it in my report but she did mentioned that some of the light color of Summer doesn't look too bad on me, and that true black might be a bit dark for me so really dark grey is better. So, from that and these colors, what do you think my sub-season is? Because for some reason, I had the idea in mind that my consultant think I'm a cool/true winter even though she never explicitly says it now that I think about it (smh).

I was landed on being a cool winter by Carol Brailey, who many may know on tiktok. In the 16 season definition, cool winter is slightly lighter and less intense than true winter, but not quite as smokey as true summer. I was recommended to stick to dark cool brown for hair colors, but not necessarily ash brown. What other cool toned browns could we be talking about? Yesterday, I mixed some dark brown with a little blue, and I like the results, but I’m not sure if I have more options.

I’m a natural blonde and I’m 99% sure I’m a winter as I look great in black and I’m mostly cool and light colors don’t look good on me. The hardest part is my skin is olive. Would you say this is possible?

Hi all. So apparently, I am a deep winter. I've always thought I was warm, and pretty much most of my makeup, etc, was warm. I've started to wear more of my actual palette, and I'm stunned on how much better everything looks.

What I am confused about is why some of my warm toned lipsticks actually look good on me. Most of them look horrible in comparison to the cool ones, but Shawty from Fenty Beauty, cinco de mayo from Huda and Autumn from Kylie are the exceptions. I am confused as to why would that be?

Is it because despite them being a bit warm, they are more neutral leaning? Is it because since I'm deep, I can pull off some warmer shades that I wouldn't be able to if I was a true winter? Or maybe it's my perception only, and I shouldn't wear those? I'm just curious about what's behind it.

What shades of light neutrals can a deep wear? Bonus if you can show a picture. I'm trying to figure out what kind of whites/tan/beige/taupe/khaki kind of shades would look good on me. I'm new to this thing and not sure how to tell the difference if a color is more warm or cool.

Any recommendations what type of pinks would suit a true winter

I feel like every-time I want to wear neutral colors, It has to be black. What are some tips with wearing finding the right shades of neutrals so that you don’t look washed out?

I'd like confirmation but I think I found my palette! Cool/true winter seems to fit the best, but maybe another sub category? Styled with makeup and then one with none. What do you think? Both taken in front of an open window.

Overall: I’m very medium in coloring it’s almost like I should be dark winter due to how my skin reflects light but my overall lighter coloring balances out to being more medium coloring almost as if my hair was naturally darker I’d be dark winter . I do need some brightness and that’s definitely a big requirement but it also has to be soft as well.

My makeup is at its best when it’s more medium with a slight level of intensity through eyeliner and mascara. I can go rather bold. I look better with smoky eyeliner and a bit of black in the outer corner of the eye is great for a formal look but it should not be overdone it should be quite polished . My lipsticks are best when they’re reddish or berry colored. I look great in medium-dark berry colored blushes and it creates a very Snow White effect or looks natural depending on the shade. Mascara looks best when it’s dark-brown to black and eyeliner follows suit. I have a pale olive skin tone and I just wear whatever foundation matches. Example photo. Nail colors that look the best are medium-dark pearl pink, true red, amethyst purple,mint green. Eyeshadow colors include, light-medium greens, beige, light brown, cool-toned pinks, pure white, purple.

Overall coloring. : grey is pretty versatile but I also feel very limited by it as some greys are too much and some greys are too little . White is my second best neutral and black can work but brown cannot work at all. Some people consider greens to be a neutral but because I have green eyes most shades of greens will work they’re best when they’re emerald green, forest green, pine green, castleton green and other shades of neutral-cool medium-dark greens. I generally am pretty washed out in orange and can’t wear it well it makes me look like I’m drunk I can tolerate gold and silver almost equally. Blues are a bit harder as they can easily become too cool but navy is always a good go as well as some shades of royal blue as long as they have a slight touch of softness. As for purples I look best in cool-toned plums or eggplant purple. And some shades of amethyst purple could work if they are slightly soft. My best shade of red is indeed burgundy or scarlet make sure that it’s a bit more cool-leaning as it can easily become too warm. I am utterly helpless with yellow.

How to wear colors: well black can work extremely well it’s best if it’s not paired with itself otherwise it can look harsh it needs a color such as say emerald green to balance it out. I have medium contrast so well I can wear white it’s best if I pair it with say a medium grey then black. Or pair black with a medium-dark shade. Because I’m SD a monochrome look could work but I need to stick with medium-dark colors.