How to Determine Your Color Season

Understanding your color season can revolutionize the way you shop for clothes and choose makeup, enhancing your natural beauty by selecting colors that complement your skin tone, hair color, and eye color. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you determine your color season: spring, summer, autumn, or winter.

Step 1: Determine Your Skin Tone

The first step in identifying your color season is to determine whether your skin tone is warm, cool, or neutral. Here’s how you can figure it out:

• Vein Test: Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist. If they appear green, you have a warm skin tone. If they appear blue or purple, you have a cool skin tone. If it’s hard to tell, and they look blue-green, you likely have a neutral skin tone.
• Jewelry Test: Think about whether silver or gold jewelry looks better on you. Silver flatters cool tones, while gold shines best on warm tones. If both look great, you might be neutral.

Step 2: Consider Your Hair and Eye Color

Your natural hair and eye colors can also help indicate your season. Typically, cool seasons have ash-toned hair (no red or golden highlights), while warm seasons have golden, red, or strawberry highlights in their hair. Eye color can also give hints, with warm seasons often having golden flecks in their eyes, and cool seasons having eyes that are stark and deeper in color.

Step 3: Season Characteristics

With your skin tone and natural coloring considered, compare them against the characteristics of the four color seasons:

1. Spring: Generally, springs have warm undertones with bright, warm eyes like blue, green, turquoise, or golden brown. Their hair may have natural golden, red, or orange-tinted highlights. They look best in clear, warm colors like peach, coral, golden yellow, and bright greens.
2. Summer: Summertime people typically have cool undertones. Their eyes might be blue, green, gray, or cool brown, while their hair might be blonde, brown, or black without golden highlights. They look great in soft, muted colors with cool undertones like lavender, rose, and pastel shades.
3. Autumn: Autumns also have warm undertones but with a richer depth of color in the hair and eyes, like warm brown or hazel. Earthy colors like olive, darker yellow, and richer oranges are flattering.
4. Winter: Winters have cool undertones and can vary widely, but they typically have deep, clear colors in their hair (black to ash blonde), and vibrant contrasting eye colors. Winters look striking in bright, clear shades like icy blues, emerald green, and clean, vibrant reds.

Step 4: Do a Fabric Test

A practical way to determine your color season is through fabric or color swatches. Take various pieces of cloth in colors typical of each season, and hold them up to your face in natural daylight. Notice which colors make your skin look bright and healthy as opposed to those that make you look washed out or sallow.

Conclusion

Determining your color season is not just a fun exercise; it’s a practical tool that can guide your wardrobe and makeup choices, ensuring you always look your best. It might take a bit of practice to get right, but once you do, it can be quite rewarding and transformative.

Remember, the goal is to highlight your natural beauty and confidence in whatever you choose to wear!