That’s where I get confused as well, where does red hair fit into these things? I have red hair (a sort of medium copper red), blue eyes, and very fair skin with pink undertones. I’ve yet to see a chart in which my skin tone and hair color weren’t placed in seperate seasons; apparently, despite having seen few of them, most redheads have golden skin :rolleyes: Elfie does not wear: red, orange, yellow and purple because they do not look good at all.
Hedra, sorry for the delay…
Anyway, I do not wear really bright blinding colours, but I do not like earthy, dull, or dark colours.
Generally, the blue, yellow, and red get the most compliments. As for the specific shades, I am a man, I have no idea other than blue, red, and yellow!
I have been known to wear brown or black, but just not that often.
For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, a visit tot the official “color me beautiful” site is enlightening.
go to
http://www.cmb.co.uk/
I’m a spring bordering on autumn, and I find the concept really herlpful in buying clothes. I had my colours analyzed by a prfessional.
The professional advice is not really neccesary though… with the book by Carole Jackson “colour me beautiful” you can do it yourself.
What I liked best about the book was that it taught me that the colours I find most beautiful (and I wore them in the past, hoping their beauty would “rub off” on me) looked actually bad on me, because they did not match my skin.
Now I do not follw the concept as rigidly as 3 years ago, but I still find it helpful.
roy, roy, roy - are you a guy or what? Okay, here’s how you help me. Look at the color of blue that gets the most compliments. Tell me what other thing in nature is a similar color. Robin’s eggs? Summer sky? Paler winter sky? Denim (fresh or faded)? Kitchen appliances (dark/bright/pale)? Or, go into Word or some other program and scan through the custom font colors until you find something close, and then tell me what the RGB value is. Do the same for the yellow and the red, then get back to me. 
irishgirl - so, your options are limited even within the season. That happens. A lot of people are not smack in the middle of the season, and can only really kick butt in a portion of the colors.
As for red hair, there’s a trick to it. I’ve got a lot of red highlights, to the point that in sunlight my hair is chestnut. My younger son’s hair is very red, but the red is all highlight, not the base color. His base color is blonde. What color are your eyebrows and eyelashes is a better clue than hair color. Try pulling your hair out of your face and testing against skin and eyebrows instead of hair. True Spring and Autumn colors have reddish eyelashes and brows, not brown ones. So ignore the hair color for now, and focus on the face colors. This is why so many people get pushed into two different seasons, depending on who is looking - my aunt was told she was a definite autumn because her hair had so much red in it. WRONG! She’s a winter, with dark brown brows and lashes, and her hair changed to salt-and-pepper when she got older. Definite Winter.
Violin], yes, a person’s color season can change - some color analysis people suggest not doing colors before the end of adolescence because so many people’s seasons change during that period. At the very least, hair color often changes then, and that can throw things off. I was a Summer as a child, and am now a Winter. I suspect that even diet could affect it, as I’ve seen my older son after eating a lot of carrots and sweet potatoes - his skin tone turned orange from the excess beta carotene, which certainly made some colors look weird on him.
Amarynth - without seeing you, I’d say if autumn colors are all that work on your face, your face is telling the truth. You’re an autumn. And Autumns often (VERY often) can’t do all the colors in the season. Also, many of them can ‘borrow’ from Winter colors, but only select ones. They cross seasons. If your face can only do autumn, though, I’d call you an autumn who can borrow from Winter.
I do understand about not being able to see the undertone on your skin. I can’t see it on mine! My skin has a golden cast to it, but the undertone is apparently the COOL one. How to tell the undertone from the overtone? No idea. Draping is the only way I can really see it easily.
You could also try this place (free online version):
http://www.stylemakeovers.com/colortest/color_module.htm
I misjudged on the first round (contrasting or vivid? I picked vivid…), but when I got to the second question, I found that nothing matched my coloring in those questions, so I went back and tried the other one. Still, not the same as doing it with the actual colors reflecting on your skin.
I love that second link hedra. I hadn’t seen those before. A lot of what I do is just from my limited knowledge of art. I have a mixed skin tone and can now see that I am a warm autumn (primarily) or a soft autumn. It says warm autumns can borrow some colors from spring (which I can) and emerald green (which I think looks good on me and which I normally consider a winter color due to its jewel tone) also are in the spectrum. Very interesting indeed.
Well,
the blue is a darker blue, one young lady actually asked me for one of my blue shirts as a reminder of me, because I looked so darn sexy in it!
the yellow is kind of like an egg yolk…maybe, I do not know…
Red, I have received compliments on brighter red as well as darker, so apparently red is pretty good.
try:
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.7.1/ug/node45.html#ug:ui:form:color
those are my colours! in the picture. The darker blue, not the lighter one.
I’m getting slightly obsessed with this. I tried hedra’s second link, and I kept getting autumn. My eyebrows and lashes are definitely red.
So I decided to put on an “autumn” color, and couldn’t find a single thing in my closet! I went hunting in my husband’s closet and couldn’t find a thing either. Finally, at the back, I found a rust-colored shirt that had the tags still on. (Must have been a gift.) I tried it on, and looked pretty snappy in it, if I do say so myself, but the shirt and my hair were too close in color for my own comfort.
I’m inspired to get my colors professionally done, now.
roy, I’d say the blue and red look like Winter colors to me, but why you can do egg-yolk yellow is beyond me (I believe you, I just don’t know why it works). Do you have olive skin (or dark tan) perhaps? If so, you may be able to get away with the yellow, I just can’t see it. But those blues and reds are definitely in the cool zone. Few summers can get away with a wide variety of reds, so I’d tend to put you on the Winter end of things.
Neat! According to that I’m a “warm spring” and should be wearing the colors I always wear.
Okay, so I called the MIL to ask her what she thinks. Turns out that she’s familiar with the whole seasons thing, and says I’m definitely an autumn, even though I look good in many summer and winter colors. She has talked me into taking a trip to Macy’s (the big Macy’s) and having a sesion of color modeling. That should be fun. Then she’s going to paint me a sheet with a suggested color palette!
I also asked my mom what she thought. She says that she doesn’t know from colors, but complained that her friend Janet had her colors done and seems to never wear anything but salmon pink. But Janet happens to look smashing in salmon. So there you go.