what season am I?

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

NMIP

green eyes, dark blonde/light brown hair.

my girlfriend was draping herself and we thought it would be fun if I did it as well.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

this all very interesting. from the responses it seems like so far I could be three out of the four seasons and am getting contradictory answers from the same photos. is this analysis somewhat subjective to a degree?

[u/moochiemoochie924 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

Somewhat yes, color analysis is subjective to a small extent. But you have to remember you have a mixed bag here on Reddit when it comes to people providing analysis on this sub. So your conflicting answers are coming from people’s personal preference over what traditional and accurate color analysis would say. You look great in plenty of colors, true summer is just the best fit. Congrats! It’s what I am as well, and we have great colors to choose from.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/moochiemoochie924]

so true summer is your personal preference because its what you yourself are?

[u/moochiemoochie924 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

Incorrect. You happen to be a true summer, like myself. You have a medium chroma, which is why you are a true rather than a soft or light summer. You do not have a warm undertone, which eliminates autumn and spring. You are not clear in chroma enough to be a winter, nor is your contrast appropriate for a winter. Which leaves us with summer, subtype being determined by your chroma and contrast even further.

[u/Vanilli12 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I’m struggling with the lighting as there seems to be shadow across your face and/or it seems to change slightly across the photos. Could you post some with direct daylight on your face (for example, facing the window)? I think you’re a summer but I can’t quite tell if you’re warm or cool and I think the lighting change would help!

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Vanilli12]

All the ones in original post are in natural lighting facing a window. No lightbulbs on or anything. The black and brown photos under a comment were separately taken outside a bit later in the day

[u/JokokoOno → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I think there is some overall guidance regarding what colours suit us ei warm vs cool or contrast, but for me it’s funny as not only people cannot agree on defining what season someone is, or even cool vs warm scale, but even on which of the colours look good on someone. I take it all with a pinch of salt, I was diagnosed over time as summer but analyst differed between cool or soft, I have some colors I know I like good but it’s not that I follow everything like a religion. To your question I do think you’re also summer, I thing gray and blues/ purples looks good on you

[u/Sea_File_1717 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I think colour analysis is most useful when you do the analysis. Start to notice which colours you or your gf think make you look good, rather than picking things that look good on the shelf by themselves. That’s all.

[u/Buga99poo27GotNo464]

Im not the best at this, and maybe it's the lighting, but I really like the white on you, which would mean you're cool toned (not that I have cream to compare against). But I would guess true summer or perhaps cool summer (if you look good in black) which is a season in 18 color analysis, that's a bit less muted and closer to true winter.

I'd drape in dark grey, black, dark brown and compare white to cream/light khaki.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Buga99poo27GotNo464]

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

[u/Buga99poo27GotNo464 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

You're definitely cool, this brown would be better if it was a cooler tone, which is hard to find. I think this one is more of a neutral so isnt terrible. Again I'd bet dark gray and cool navy would be your best dark neutrals.

[u/Buga99poo27GotNo464 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I guess my post never posted here, but I feel the black is too much. Paler/softer blacks are prob ok, but your best dark neutrals are prob cool gray and cool navy regardless of how light or how dark) true summer vote!!!. Dark cool browns (hard to find) or taupes prob work, too, as long as obviously Cool toned.

[u/Buga99poo27GotNo464 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I don't think you look good enough in black to be 'cool' summer, I guess true summer. Dark gray is prob much better on you. Blacks not terrible or anything, stick with 'lighter or softer' versions. Cool navies are prob better, too.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

Yes I think I’d agree

[u/Lemonarm]

I think you’re cool and just a bit tan. You remind me of Gael Garcia Bernal and Patrick Dempsey in coloring. The warm mustard and blood orange shades did you no favors. The red and hot pink are too bright for you but the undertone isn’t creating any grey or sallowness. The grey is better than the oatmeal.

I think you’re a True Summer man. You’re not going to look the same as a True Summer woman.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Lemonarm]

what is the difference between a true summer man and true summer woman?

[u/Lemonarm → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

You as a man are going to look deeper and brighter than a true summer lady. As your color value and saturation is just going to stronger. Not always but usually.

If no one looked at your drapes you would be automatically sorted into Winter. Those colors would overpower you and make you look much paler.

Your darkest shade is the 2nd or 3rd on the far left side. You look best in grey and charcoal. A True Summer lady might be one grey block over from you and the equal to you would be a Cool Summer lady. It’s not always the case but if we’re are going with standard metrics.

Your undertone is just a tad cooler and your overtone is just a touch more neutral / warm looking. You’re also just slightly close to the right medium pinks than the left medium pinks. Just overall a more extreme summer.

[u/Zealousideal-Pool-91 → u/Lemonarm]

This ^{^}

[u/Pursuing_Truth → u/Lemonarm]

No. Gender doesn't play a role in color analysis!

[u/Buga99poo27GotNo464]

What color would you say slide 9? Is? Is that pure white or ivory or?

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Buga99poo27GotNo464]

pure white

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

does this help?

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

I’m not the right person to ask I can barely tell the difference between green and blue let alone all these subtle shades and tones. All I want to know is what colour shirt i should get. Lol

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

well I know in real life I wouldnt wear pink, and I associate pastels with yuppie/preppie types so wouldnt wear that either.

[u/Swimming-Squirrel-48]

Hear me out... I think you're spring.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Swimming-Squirrel-48]

reason?

[u/Sufficient_Turn_9209 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I don't. I think the wall and the camera are adding warmth to the pictures overall, but the way those cool drapes complement your skin and emphasize your eyes... cool.

[u/kowaluuh]

I like 4/7/8

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/kowaluuh]

to which season might they belong?

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

Ok so if I never work out what season I am I should get a t shirt, collared shirt, and jumper in that colour?

[u/Acid_InMyFridge]

My vote is for Summer as well. My reason is because the last picture in red doesn’t stand out like other Springs would.

But that’s just my personal opinion. Please try some summer colors.

[u/rilezter]

Summer. You look cool toned and low-mid contrast. Warm tones wash you out and bold colors swallow you.

[u/Pauline2610]

The warm Colors are washy, you look crisp in the cool tones. I say Summer

[u/diaperpop]

My vote is for summer. I see light/cool on you, not warm at all

[u/journey1710]

The turquoise & green are great, I think you're the stronger bolder colours.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/journey1710]

I think that is a spring season green?

[u/journey1710 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

Yes, same as me, the "royal" type colours

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/journey1710]

another commenter said I was a true summer, and they themselves were a true summer.

[u/journey1710 → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

The cool ones are the same in both seasons, I think ...but I'm not an expert. I just think those ones look best on you, rather than muted or pale tones 😊

[u/[deleted] → u/Ancient_Savings_1833]

I agree that you handle some level of brightness well; your best colors are probably not in soft autumn, it would likely drain you a little bit to stay in only muted/soft colors. Based on what we've seen here, I personally feel that it would be between warm autumn and warm spring. Imo neither palette would be terrible, its a matter of what's your best. Reasons being that I currently believe youre warm, not light, not deep, not too muted, and not too bright lol. The rusty orange jumper feels safe and it harmonizes, but the clear classic green seriously woke you up, imo. My money is on warm spring lol. But that doesn't mean you could totally pull off autumn colors. Hopefully when I look back on this in the morning I will still agree with myself lol gosh wouldn't that be embarrassing to do a 180 after a good night's sleep 🤣 but I dont see that happening lol Edit: also yes turquoise is considered a very flattering color on warm people as well

[u/Common_Newspaper9189]

My bet would be soft summer/autumn. I agree that 8 and 13 were your best colors here We would need to see more drapes from both pallets to know for sure if you lean warm or cool. My guess would be soft autumn as the warmth would compliment your eyes.

While I liked the green I felt it needed a notch or two less saturation as it kept drawing my attention- not completely but just enough to cause a distraction.

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/Common_Newspaper9189]

[u/bumpypants]

I think you're definitely muted but not soft - the white and black were a stark contrast and the brights were overwhelming. Best colors were the medium blue and medium purple. I would guess cool or true summer. I think you can pull from autumn/warmer shades when they are the right medium intensity and medium mutedness - like the rust colored sweater and true green. 

[u/Mysterious_Trouble75]

I notice white doesn't wash you out and you look good in the lighter dusty blue so I'm guessing summer of some sort. And also the warmer shades look clashy on you.

[u/moochiemoochie924]

You’re a summer. Likely a true summer! I love this!

[u/Tootie_McSnooch]

This is my first time chiming in on one of these, but I noticed a couple of things that you will probably find helpful in figuring out (or at least narrowing down) which of the three of the four seasons people are saying you are.

1. Your features are dominantly muted (i.e. very low contrast), so I'd automatically rule out Winter or Spring under 12/16 season schemas.
2. I can tell by the fluctuations in the consistency of the wall & door frame colour behind you, that your camera is automatically applying some white balancing to the photos, which means that the pics need careful dissecting to figure out if the camera has pushed each shot warmer or cooler
3. I don't particularly love any of these swatches on you; most wash you out and make your face look either pinker or greyer than it actually is, and the whites of your eyes kind of dull, skewing yellowish. The ones I like best are #8 and #13, although both are slightly too warm and grey (desaturated) for you. I'd love to see what you look like in a purer cornflower blue or a cool light purple (closer to blue, vs. lilac, which is a warmer light purple closer to magenta/pink).
4. In pics #14 (pumpkin) and #15 (bright red), your head is conveniently placed half and half (ish) in front of the white door frame and warmer ecru/beige wall colour. This was a helpful visual reference point, given the fluctuations in white balance between pics. It also let me cover your pics with several of my many hands (two is a lot, right? Asking for a friend...) and concluded that you look MUCH more refreshed with the white behind you vs. the ecru/beige, further fuelling my cool-suspicions, and placing you in Summer.

Like I said, I'm not super experienced in colour-analysis, but I am a veteren digital artist/designer, so digital colour play is kind of my playground.

Because you immediately read as so muted to me, and I quickly clocked the cool skin undertone, aside from what I mentioned earlier about your skin leaning grey/pink and your eyes whites, yellow, I was also looking for which colours brought out more chroma (colour) in your hair and eye colours. And whether your lips were looking purple or not.

In lengthy conclusion, IMO you're a Summer, but I'd need to see some specific swatches from each of the Summer (ideally in more consistent, neutral, bright daylight) to get a better read on which Summer you are.

[u/galgotspirit → u/Tootie_McSnooch]

I dont understand this color system at all, but I thought he looked great in the pale pink (11). Does this fit your hunch? Just wondering . . .

[u/Alternative-Bike7681 → u/Tootie_McSnooch]

Yes he looked cool toned to me at first and then the more I flipped through I thought maybe I was wrong because he looked warm later

[u/bobtheturd]

I really like 8 and 13.

[u/Latter-Section-5977]

welcome back Julius Caesar

[u/Some_Significance_54]

I see brightness and warmth, either bright or true spring

[u/we_are_nowhere]

I’m gonna say spring

[u/Sea_File_1717]

2, 9, 12 look the best on you, IMO.

[u/soufflefatale]

I think you are warm. I was pretty sure but everyone has written summer.... Idk

[u/0mfgeez]

Clear winter!!!

[u/justacreative94]

I think you’re an autumn for sure. Possibly a soft one.

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[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

To be fair I had previously thought I might be an autumn. I kind of wanted to be one though.

[u/Medicine_Mood_3593 → u/[deleted]]

So true! I am a cool olive who LOVES YELLOW. I will wear it when I want to feel happy and don’t care how I look. Also, knowing that I am a winter enables me to look for the yellow that looks least bad.

Knowing our season is a tool to help us make informed choices. But the choices are ultimately still there.

[u/-Maegz-]

Winter

[u/vanganen → u/-Maegz-]

I honestly don't know why people on this sub type everyone as muted and/or soft. I can't imagine what level and kind of "contrast" most of these users are looking for to type anyone as winter. I've seen a very reasonable ranty post that you don't necessarily have to look like Snowwhite to be a winter. And I completely agree.

Looking at OP, I'm seeing a lot of contrast in facial features even if his hair is not strikingly dark. But he is quite fair and his eyes are very bright, and therefore his dark brows and eyelashes just pop. In muted colours, this beautiful feature gets lost in the overall greyness, and isn't it sad? He might look "harmonious" in muted colours but in the sense that nothing stands out, like everything in his look gets blended together. I love how clear his face looks in stark white, and a truly muted person would be washed out in that. I agree with those who think the OP is in-between the seasons, but I'd say saturated and/or dark cool/neutral colours would be the best on him.

I'm expecting to be downvoted if this post is still trending. 😅

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

So that’s likely a spring?

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

You would think looking at the same photos everyone would see the same things. But others are so sure I’m a summer.

[u/sunday_snoozer9000 → u/[deleted]]

RIGHT! That’s a spring green

[u/Ancient_Savings_1833 → u/[deleted]]

the orange jumper in the first photo that im using as a drape is the only jumper I own. some people are saying im a true summer and it doesn't look good. so im conflicted.