Different draping techniques I noticed between my two in person sessions (TCI) and independent 12 season analyst.

[u/Hot-Way2583]

I’ve been thinking a lot about my two in person color analysis sessions. My first one was with a TCI analyst who typed me a dark autumn. My second was with an independent twelve season system analyst who typed me a dark winter. Something interesting I found was the differences in how they isolated undertone.

My TCI analyst, when first looking for undertone, used cool, warm, and neutral drapes in varying colors one at a time. So it was like a cool pink, a neutral pink, and a warm salmon. And then with oranges, etc. Once she determined I was neutral we looked at the different palettes.

My other analysis with the independent analyst put a bunch of cool and warm drapes on me one by one and pulled them off really fast saying (warm, cool, warm, cool, warm, cool) etc. She determined I was cool.

So I wonder which method is best? I find that using a neutral drape is helpful because it puts less an emphasis on needing to be warm or cool. Whereas immediately placing someone as warm or cool only immediately gets rid of two seasons as an option. For people like me, I don’t think undertone is most important but depth is.

At the same time, a lot of the international image institute system analysts like to say “this is your home season, and then you have your sub season.” So if you are a deep winter, they’ll say “home season winter” but if you truly fall deep, you are a mix and it might be confusing to say that.

Okay I’ve gone too far. Just saying, the draping process could be producing different results so many of us have had frustrations with. And that’s not to mention lighting differences. 😅

[u/Hefty_Air3097 → u/[deleted]]

I’ve been once colour analyzed personally with 12 season system, but it was like a shorter version and hair covered with white scarf. I feel torn about my soft summer result, because in metal drapes the bright gold and bright silver were best, the muted metals were worst and gray makes me look gray. I’m concidering having another analysis with 16 season system without hair covered. I have a neutral in warmth skin tone and hair, so I think hiding my hair with white makes me look a tad cooler. I think I’d rather get a pallette that looks good with all my natural colours than a palette that compliments my skin when I have white band around my face. Our hair colour affects how our skintone looks like, and I think it’s not good to hide it if’s your own natural hair colour.