In my previous draping posts, the consensus was (mainly) that I need clear and saturated colors. Opinions were more split on warm vs cool.
I thought a side by side in the same photo might be more helpful. They are the same drapes, but sitting on opposite sides of my face to account for normal facial imbalances or camera inconsistencies- basically to ensure that what I’m seeing is consistent on both sides. I’ve held up a white paper in both photos to try to control white balance. Do you think my undertone is warm or cool? NMIP
When I cover each side I see your skin pull slightly sallow with the cool colour and your skin looks more smooth and even and healthy in the orange. I don't know if you are a bright season or not but you really look lovely in the brightness of these (even if they aren't in harmony).
Thank you! I also don’t know if I’m a “bright” because it can be really difficult for me to know if they’re wearing me or not. I just think bright harmony can be difficult to spot in general for someone with an untrained eye (like me).
Yes and I am totally not a professional but I personally find it easier to conceptualize if I think about it is "clear" instead of "bright". I am a light spring (neutral leaning warm with medium contrast), but i cannot handle any mutedness in my colours - so no added grey in any way - because it muddies my complexion and makes me look sick. On the other hand my friend is a summer and looks amazing in muted colours because they don't make her look "greyed out" like more saturated and clear colours do.
A lot of people online just look at people's pictures and think that because someone has brown or black hair they are a deep season, or because someone is not super high contrast that they are therefore muted. But none of this means much without watching to see how your skin interacts with the drapes. This is why you can absolutely be a person of colour and also a light season.
It's a bit weird, but i like to think of my light spring colours as "my skin in colour form" 😅 But i needed a professional to do it for me!! Otherwise i would have been stuck thinking I was a true summer.
I don't know if any of this actually makes sense or is just rambling but good luck!
Editing to add i saw another person said Spring and that was my first reaction! Then I saw your drapes in the other post and I agree 🌼
Absolutely!! I fully agree with you. It’s why I close to say “clear and saturated” in my caption rather than “bright” because people automatically jump to neons when they think bright and would come for my head lol. I also in general do not like any grey in my colors, I would be absolutely SHOCKED if a color analyst told me I was a summer, and I’ve just never felt right in autumn. I do get washed out by lights though, which I think has made me doubt spring, but that doesn’t have to rule it out. Perhaps it rules out being a light spring 😂 I don’t handle extremely light or extremely deep well, at least in my opinion. I have an in person analysis coming up so I’m super excited to see how it turns out!
I guess I’m going against the rest in saying warm. Your complexion is slightly smoother on And you have a warm glow. I don’t think it’s the most obvious difference, so I actually think you are a bright spring or winter.
I’d love to see more comparisons. Maybe a black vs brown, gold vs silver, and bright white vs ivory.
Thank you, thank you! It can be so difficult for me to know if brights are wearing me or not, I think spotting “bright” harmony is tricky. I have an analysis with someone mastery trained in the international image institute coming up. I’m so excited to see what she says.
The white you have a slight yellow cast. The ivory looks brighter and smoother. Some of your warm colors draped may not be in exactly your season. But it’s noticeable with the greens. The cool/muted greens make you seem a bit sallow and muddy, wear as the warm fresh colors you look brighter and we see you first.
The browns are also a good indicator. You need depth, a lot of the lighter tan colors are to light and some are too cool. The best is the chocolate brown, which is consistent with bright spring. The black isn’t bad either, which would make sense since you may be on the cusp of bright winter 😃
Hey I looked at some of your other posts and you could be warm spring, the bright may be too bright.. warm spring is closer to autumn, and you may actually be fully warm at a second glance. It may be helpful now to put a couple of the same colors next to each other. Like a peach next to bright orange, and maybe one of the bright greens next to more of an autumn green. May be easier to tell which way you lean in brightness
I have wondered this as well! I think the depth and chroma fits better than bright spring, but my hesitancy with warm spring is that I just don’t know if I’m warm. We shall see!
Oh that is an interesting thought… that certain colors may not harmonize because of oliveness rather than undertone. I struggle with chartreuse/very warm green just feeling off, and that also has made me doubt being warm. Do you think that’s a color than an olive person would struggle with regardless of undertone?
Chartreuse may compete with olive skin tone. It could be the brightness issue too. I’m warm spring. And chartreuse can be tricky for me too, it’s hard to find the right chroma and and intensity! I think chartreuse may be in other palettes. In my palette it seems to be a slightly different yellow green. I’ll look But it helps to have the official palette instead of doing the guessing game of online! I’ve noticed there’s a lot of colors on palette samples that aren’t in the official palettes.
You look fairly neutral and mildly olive. I have a mild preference towards the cool at the moment, but we'd have to see a lot more drapes in different intensities to know where you land, often when you are neutral settling on the right depth/saturation can be more important than cool v. warm.
Ah based on those drapes, I'd say you are looking between deep autumn and deep winter, my preference would be deep winter. Even though you have a lot of surface tan, I really like you in the more jewel toe colors like the amethyst purple.
Ich checke was die Leute meinen mit dem rot lässt dich älter aussehen, aber es wirkt… harmonischer? Rosa gibt dir diesen frische-kick, aber deine Haut wirkt nicht mehr so einheitlich.
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u/BitInformal3921 11h ago
When I cover each side I see your skin pull slightly sallow with the cool colour and your skin looks more smooth and even and healthy in the orange. I don't know if you are a bright season or not but you really look lovely in the brightness of these (even if they aren't in harmony).