roy - sorry, I missed your earlier post somehow.
Can you categorize more fully? How about this - of the shirts you have that do not leap out and poke out people’s eyes (yellow, say, which tends to get comments for the color, not how it looks on you), which get the most comment? You might have to go out in the sun with a mirror to check yourself.
Or you could also just be one of those major babes who nobody cares if the color is bad, you still look good. 
i’m sallow (olive) skinned, dark hair dark eyes.
i’m definitely a winter…except i cannot wear ANYTHING yellow, beige, orange, cream or mustard…i just look jaundiced, despite what the books say.
But I look absolutely horrid in about half of the major colors from both of those seasons.
(plus, the colors I have to wear on my face (when I do wear makeup) need to be autumn colors, but only certain ones - winter and summer colors don’t work there. Maybe that’s common for everyone though, is it? (I was just told that it was one season for all your color needs, which for me, isn’t true)).
I was trying to figure out whether I’m a winter or a summer, but then realized that since almost all my clothes are either black or flat gray, I have no way of knowing.
What a disturbing thought.
This is an interesting thread, though. I’d heard of color seasons, but I never knew the explanations.
i’m with daowajan, i can’t decide … winter or summer. i can’t wear many reds though, with my hair and orange is a major disaster.
i stick with the fab. four; black, grey, green, and blue.
I’m a winter.
I’m a winter. I look atrocious in earth tones. Black, white, bright yellow, bright red, bright or cobalt blue- that’s me.
I guess I’m a winter, pity I loathe the season with a relentless fury that knows no limits.
I am an Autumn, natural brown hair with golden and auburn (not colored) highlights, Blue/Gray Eyes, and pale skin color - can not tan.
Hello, Color Me Beautiful! I had my colors done, by professionals 3 times to determine what season am I.
My very nice Mother-In-Law had it done for my birthday, I was leaving the Navy and had to invest money for clothes for career.
1st time I was a Winter - which was OK, but I had to work on the Make-up. Ex-Navy had to wear Black and White Uniforms all the time.
2nd time I was a Summer - Just say NO to Pink/Fuscia, Pastels.
and the 3rd time I was an Autumn.
I took her word, she is the best color analysist I have ever known, she also mixes my Foundation, Powder, and Cover Make-up. When I wear Make-up I use the Autumn Colors, also.
I look really good in the Browns, Greens, Ivory, Olives, Goldtones, Rust, Reds, there is a difference (have to be careful not to get a Winter Red).
I mostly wear Gold Jewelry, I do have Silver though.
I also only wear Brown hair stuff (Scrunchies, Barrettes, Hair-Ties, Claws) that matches my hair, sometimes I’ll use a Gold Barrette, but not very often.
I can wear some of Winter (Black, Gray (a little hard to do), Navy Blue Suits, Pants, etc) if I put it with a Sweater/Shirt that is Autumn, or Accessories that help downplay the harshness of the Winter Colors.
It is a very good investment, you know what you wear well, buy those articles that you need to help you pull off colors that are maybe colors, and not to spend money and waste time that you look awful/hideous. Getting analysed was very helpful.
You let your family/friends who buy you thing (Clothes/Jewelry - whatever) what you wear, and what you do not wear.
I hope this helps, hopefully not TMI.
a fall who happens to look fundamentally horrid in tomato red.
I have no idea. I can dress well by instinct, and I find the less I think about it the better. I basically go ‘I like that,’ purchase, ‘I think I should wear that with that,’ and do so.
This works well for me. I am well dressed.
At the moment I am quite fond of reds and browns. Last summer I was more oranges and yellows, while a couple of years ago, it was blue. It always works, cuz I wouldn’t like it if I didn’t and I wouldn’t wear it if I didn’t like it.
Simple.
irishgirl, if you are a winter, you shouldn’t be wearing those colors anyway - those are warm colors, not cool ones. Of course you’d look bad in them if you are a winter (whatever book put those in the ‘Winter’ category should be tossed!). And ignore the color names given by the fashion industry - “Winter White” is a cream that should be worn by warm season people, not by Winters.
Seems like we’ve got a lot of crossover people in this thread (funny, the people who don’t fit in a category seem to always be the ones who still have questions about it… ). It is a familiar issue for me - My SIL is either an autumn or a winter, has been tested as both by different people. She looks best in neutral makeup (not strongly warm or cool), and can pull off a variety of the darker shades of both seasons. Go figure. And another friend is a Winter, but can do most rust, maroon, and brick shades without looking dead at all - but put her in mustard, and she looks awful (she can do all the Winter shades with ease). Eventually, you just learn which shades look good on you, and that’s all you need to know.
The critical point is not whether your entire wardrobe matches one season, it is whether the clothes you choose make you look better or worse. If you wear black and gray and look fine in them, who cares if you are a summer who is getting away with wearing black, or a winter who does fine in gray? People who freak about you not being ‘allowed’ to cross over between seasons (I’ve met some) need more important things to think about, especially if you do indeed look fine in both. And if you don’t look fine in both, find something else that works for you, instead. If you absolutely must know where to start, try the White/Beige and Pink/Orange test. At least you’ll know if you are cool or warm, that way.
Buyer beware on the testing - just because you pay someone doesn’t mean they are right (unfortunately, there is little industry standardization in these things, and a lot of people do it with almost no training. At least I got a few hours of training, and had a good color eye to start with from art classes). If it seems wrong, maybe it IS wrong. (though I reiterate - a lot of autumns and springs can’t do all the colors in their sets, and have to pick and choose carefully among both).
Just to make things even more annoying, it is entirely possible that people change seasons as they age - I certainly was not a winter as a child - clear blue eyes, pale straw blonde hair, pale skin. Pale pinks looked great on me. Even as a pre-teen, with medium brown hair and slightly grayer eyes, I still did well in most summer colors. As I hit college, my hair darkened to very dark brown, my eyes shifted to smokey blue (they’re now green), and I stopped being able to do powdery hues. Definitely Winter. Good thing I outgrew all those other clothes…
(**irishgirl[/], I meant to say “shouldn’t” in that first line, in quotes - again, it is more about if it looks good, use it, if it doesn’t, avoid it, no matter what season you are, or are told you are.)
Amarinth, I would take hedra’s advice and say that you are likely a dual color. I don’t understand how autumn colors can work on your face but not somewhere else. If those colors look good on you there they should look good on you in clothes as well. For me, when I see people in colors, they should compliment the facial skin tone. It is what 99% of the people look at when seeing you. However, I trust your judgement that browns, golds, and reds probably don’t look right on your body but look fine on your face. Who better to know your body than the owner, ie, you. 
Also, I can get away with wearing some of the other seasons clothes, even winter. However, they have to be really specific shades in those other seasons. It is typically not a safe bet for me. Although, in the summertime, assuming I go outside a lot and get a nice tan, I can start to wear spring and summer colored clothes rather easily. So, I would go so far to say that you can modify your season according to the time of the year, however, the base season(s) that one has will remain constant and always look good on you assuming something drastic doesn’t change over time.
I haven’t a clue what I am. I’ve never had it professionally done, but people who are “into” seasons take one look at me and pronounce me an autumn. I have red hair and brown eyes. But I don’t think I’m really an autumn. I don’t look particularly good in browns or earth tones. I don’t look particularly good in spring tones either. When I’ve had my makeup chosen for me at Clinique, they often start with brown shades, and then decide I look better in pinkier lipsticks and grayer eyeshadows.
My wardrobe is pretty much entirely black and gray. Charcoal gray, gray-blue, gray green. I don’t know whether this is just because I like those colors, or if they really look the best on me. The only bright color I wear is tangerine orange, but I don’t know that it looks good on me. I just like it. I occasionally wear pastels, but I don’t know if they’re really my best look. My dad, however, who has the exact same coloring as me, looks smashing in a pink dress shirt, though. And he looks great in clear pastels of all kinds. I look okay in white, but not so good in cream. I favor gray shades. Black is my favorite, and I also look good in navy, but prefer a grayer navy to a bluer one.
Hey, I think I just diagnosed myself! I’m a summer! Black works for me, but the jeweltones of winter don’t necessarily do so well.
I knew I wasn’t an autumn, red hair notwithstanding.
What do you color experts think?
I’m definitely a winter. I can get away with most colors except for yellows, greens, and browns, they make me look like a corpse. I don’t like pastels anyway so I avoid them. I have light olive skin, dark brown hair and eyes.
Medium to dark blues are my favorite colors for anything in the world. (I even picked my current car based largely on its color, which is the last thing you’re supposed to do with used cars!) I’m also fond of white. Red looks good on me but I don’t feel comfortable in it for some reason.
I guess I’m a winter, but browns and I get along okay. I never wear yellow or orange because they make me look sallow. I have very little green clothing but a lot of navy, black, gray or silver, white, pink, purple and some red.
Green Bean. I would guess that you are a summer too. All the greys and pastelly colors would do it. I would also say that since you have red hair, most of the browns would detract from it.
Vivalostwages, I would say that you probably aren’t an autumn at all but in addition to the winter things you may want to look at summer as well.
I got color-draped when I was 12, and the woman told me I was a winter. I went back 12 years later, to the same lady, and she said I was an autumn. I switched to autumn colors (I had a major weight change and had to buy all new clothes anyway) and feel a lot better about the way I look, and get a lot more compliments. I stink at doing that kind of thing myself, though. I read the books that ask “Do you have yellow or pink undertones?” and I can stare at my skin all day long and it looks like both and neither at the same time.
Question to anyone who knows about this stuff- can a person’s season CHANGE? I can’t think of any way that my coloring would have changed in 12 years, I am very very fair skinned with light brown hair and hazel eyes.
Gah. Hamsters ate my second post. But I was going to say:
I just remembered something. My MIL loves to get me gifts of clothes because she says she loves to choose colors for me. She’s a painter and has the best eye for color of anyone I’ve ever met. She always chooses grayish colors for me: sage green, grayish lavender, light grayish olive, gray-blue, taupe. The only exceptions would be a bright navy scarf and a black and white plaid shirt–but those are winter colors, so it’s still pretty on target.
So, there’s my evidence. I must be a summer.
Come to think of it, she would be absolutely excellent at doing color analysis for people. She could even provide them with a hand-painted card with their best colors on it! But she won’t do anything that takes her away from her painting.
yeah, cheers hedra.
i wear a lot of red and bright turquoise.
i generally don’t touch anything with even a speck of yellow in it.
it’s not worth it.
i’ll look terrible.
the problem seems to be that i have a “warm” skin that just doesn’t siut yellow.
i can’t wear bright pinks or purples either…
strange isn’t it…