I find the Amethyst earrings in the deep autumn probably have more white quartz and I would see them in summer - although the depth of the Amethyst could work in it's most concentrated areas, beside a Garnet I find it cool. This is interesting to me ,as I never really considered this gem outside of winter ,it being February's stone.
I agree, in the darkest tones, they could be fine with DA but overall, next to the face and cosmetics and hair colour, perhaps not a new item to add to a wardrobe but if a DA owned them, they'd find common ground. The same happens with burgundy fabric between SSu and DA, my conclusion being that if they're that hard to to tell apart, the item could work for both in the everyday world.
I truly have no idea how she doesn’t have significantly more subscribers. When I need more information on where a color fits, Christine’s videos are my go-to.
New subscriber here and I’ve binge-watched all of your videos. I love the way you describe and muse over colour; you’re an artist of language, colour and imagery!
Thank you! I've succeeded in moving to a new location, nearer downtown these days with better light. The shop is mostly restocked and filming a video was the last flag to be planted. Yesterday was a great day!
So happy to see a new video pop up! I enjoy listening to you talk color so much. I hope the podcast will be back soon as well! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
Thank you, I'm happy to be back and making videos. The podcast is indeed back, next episode to publish on Sept. 22 if all goes well, back to our 4th Friday of each month schedule.
I believe purple in general looks more at home with Winters and Summers becaise it's a COOL color. On the other hand, Autumns and Springs can look great as well if thought out right. For example, Springs' warmth can contrast very well with purple as some can make the color look like grape candy or soda🎉, while some autumn purples can look sweet like berry jam.
Welcome back, Christine! I appreciate this video so much. My TCI Soft Summer fan has quite a spattering of purples. For most of the strips it’s easy to see “this one is warmer, this one is middle, and this one is on the cooler end of my spectrum.” The purples aren’t like that though, and it’s really hard for me to wrap my mind around them. Being on the warmer end of the SSu spectrum myself, I find myself borrowing from SA’s purples more comfortably than, say, TSu. True Summer tends to feel… I dunno… silly? … when I wear it? I’m not sure how else to describe it. I found this video helpful though. And I’d really love to see more comparisons of neighbor seasons (SA and SSu, LSu and LSp, etc) in these videos. I don’t know if that’s possible, though. They would end up being an hour long! Still, I’d watch them. Your videos are super helpful when I’m going shopping for specific colors. They keep me on track and from getting distracted.
It's wonderful to be back, thank you. I'm settling into this new location and it's working out well. I agree with you, that SSu purple can be hard to imagine from the palettes, TSu can be strangely bright for SSu in certain colours, and SA seems the closest place to expand, and all of these are good decisions. You can see a variety of choices in the SA and SSu panels in this video, some very traditional, some more relaxed. Purple is quite challenging, surprisingly so for a cool neutral Summer. I hear you about hour-long videos, it's my concern with the colours left to look at (blue, green, red) that have so many choices. We'll probably break them down somehow. These Your Best Colour may be as close as I'd get to dedicated comparison videos since I'm conscious of not presenting colour analysis as rule-bound or so detailed that most people wouldn't take a closer look.
The energy of True and Dark Winters purples is quite similar. They are calmer, nocturnal, quite mysterious, whereas Bright Winter purples are not. They look more carnival, discothèque. Maybe that's why Bright Winters aren't particularly flattered by dark purple by itself. I love dark purple, but I cannot say it's one of the top colours.
Nocturnal is a good word. I'm with you, TW and DW look spectacular in purple whereas BW has other spectaculars. Their periwinkle and teal are among my favourites.
I am a Bright Winter closer to True Winter and I love purple! Reds, purples, fuschias, and bright blues are easy and always get me compliments. I feel at home in purple and, like red, it is a forgiving color on me even if it isn't a perfect BW match. 12 Blueprints Imperfect eyeshadow looks natural on my skin and I even wear MAC Heroine with a bit of red gloss. Now green and yellow...I have watched your yellow video several times and still struggle and every attempt at green makes me look sick. I really appreciate how this color video went one level deeper, really mimicking the shopping experience and helping us as viewers develop our eye. Purple is a color with a lot of nuance. It can pull in many directions. This video was super helpful to understand. For example there are some "softer" periwinkle-ish purples that I wouldn't think would be Bright Winter.
So interesting about purple and green. I imagine you could play with Imperfect, meaning mix it with lighter purples or turquoise. The matte aspect would make it flexible for making new colours. With green, if you've tried it, do you find TW green has the same effect on you, or the cooler BW greens? Or BW teal and turquoise, usually among my favourites for this group? Turquoise can be a surprise, it looks like Spring but the brightness is at Winter level. I agree that purple (and turquoise) can go in many directions, maybe because they're a mix of cool and warm-associated pigments and textile has a lot of influence on how these colours appear.
@@ChristineScaman it feels like my "greens" are teal, that is blue greens. I do feel more affinity with True Winter greens yes. And yes, one of my best colors is bright turquoise, and yes I thought I was stealing it! It is fascinating how clear, neutral cool, and medium dark can look so different accross colors.
I can see it. When I asked about TW greens, I meant the bluer greens, what you said. So true about colours looking quite different, I still see colours that surprise me with, Oh look at that, it's BW! The learning never ends.
"sense becoming nonsense as color-pops sometimes can". That really resonated with me. As a Soft Dramatic who is a Spring it has been a real learning experience in how to honor that "whimsical" side of my personality in a grown-up way. I love the addition of the purse - a clever way to interject some whimsy in my outfit without going too over the top. :)
I can hear in your words that you're on a learning and self-perception journey, congratulations :) Our palette is like a guard rail, I find. Between various kinds of contrast, textiles, and design variations, it offers plenty of choices for pops without spinning our wheels in other lanes.
Dark purple has been one of my fave colors the past few years, even before I discovered that I'm an autumn. I guess I just knew that it worked for me. Thanks for the vid. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 😊🎉
Yes! You are back! Loved your podcasts on all the neutrals for all the different seasons. I learned a lot! Looking very forward to your future videos! The "Your Best" videos that you do is my absolute favourite!
Happy to be back, thank you! I'm looking forward to a more settled time and better streamlining to make videos. The podcasts are back this month, I believe we publish on Sept. 22.
Hi Christine, oh my, once again your level of expertise is extraordinary!! You are so lovely to view and to listen to and I always learn a lot from your videos. Thank you for all the care and time you dedicate to making the best color analysis videos on RUclips!!
Hello again, may I ask you a question? I am a True Spring and I am confused about transitioning to an autumn wardrobe because the warmer clothing I see in stores is predominantly black, charcoal grey, mustard, olive, deep reds and pumpkin colors. In other words, they are not my True Spring colors. How does someone dress seasonally appropriate (weather-wise) while also dressing within his or her own color family?
There's no time of year when stores offer wide colour choice for most people in their various Seasons, but I agree TSp is more challenging depending on where you live. I think the answer is planning. If you're in the US, you have access to stores that serve many different climates, either locally with good shipping policies or huge online retailers with many colours (Land's End and many others). Putting more shopping time and budget into times of year when your colours appear may help, or on holidays in warmer places. Joining online groups where people collaborate on shopping and know brands that use more bright colours. Google 'clothes in bright colours' and look under Shopping. When I have time, I add pins from current retail to my 12 Season Pinterest boards. Buying what's in stores is a good compromise, so one year, you may buy a lot of coral or whatever the colour of the year is. Learning your neutrals is good, the backbone of a wardrobe and colours that can appear randomly in stores everywhere. I appreciate the frustration though. Most educated consumers experience it with all sorts of products and buying does take more time. The good thing is that your colours won't change and your purchases last for as long as you want to keep them, which is a long time because everything looks so good.
I really love watching your videos over and over again, and not only for your amazing guidance for looking at and choosing colours. It is so inspiring for me to hear you describe your way of thinking and looking at things - color, texture, people, and sometimes just life in general. I really find so much value in how you put your thoughts into words and articulate yourself beautifully and with insight. (I hope that's a good way to say it, I am not a native English speaker.) Thank you for sharing your way of looking at things and making it fun and inspiring!
Many thank you's for your words. The stories we can tell about ourselves with the colours we wear are amazing to me, the basis of how we communicate with appearance. It's always good to hear that this way of seeing resonates with others :)
There are two coming, Iconic, a fuchsia red (more fuchsia with some violet tones, BW), and Vixen (gorgeous red with a hint of blue and pink, TW). So many colours out of stock at the moment that I'm waiting to place my order for now.
I'm so happy to have found your channel and your book, which I know I'll be rereading many times. A friend and I got into Color Me Beautiful in the '80s and discovered that we had a knack for typing people, which we did in informal groups. When color analysis seemed to fall by the wayside later on, being considered "an '80s thing," I was disappointed because I felt that kind of knowledge shouldn't be lost. When I first heard about 12 seasons I felt kind of resistant to it (I mean, TWELVE? LOL), but I now see how the concept of 12 completes the picture of the full range of human coloring and is so much more inclusive. I've been watching your videos as instructional tools, pausing to gauge my own impressions of the pictures and diagrams before listening to yours, and I'm thrilled to find I agree with you a good 95% of the time. I think I've still got it! 😄 Anyway, I love your content and your poetic way of expression, and I'm so excited to dive back into this subject. ❤
Welcome to the channel! I'm happy that you're revisiting colour analysis and seeing the many ways it's progressed over the years. Great to know you've kept your colour aptitude :)
Christine, happy to see youre videos again! Id really love a closer look at the neutral leaning seasons as they seem a bit tricky, especially dark autumn vs deep winter as we get to this time of year where nature reminds of these palettes most. ❤ thank you so much
I'd be happy to talk about the Neutrals if I had a clearer picture of what your questions might be. Do you mean how to place their colours in one Season or the other? If yes, the video Nextdoor Seasons Colours may help. The Neutrals are not so different from the Trues in this respect. If your questions were about something else, I'd love to hear more.
I think I’ve quite naturally gravitated to winter colours. Recently had hiccups but now on the winter trail again. This has been helpful for me to see that I managed to buy a bright winter dress and a dark winter cardigan!
Grateful for the guidance on purple as it isn’t a favorite for me, and so Is harder to analyze. And thank you for the NDU color product info. Great to have the options. Am ordering the mini poster for the seasons on either side of mine so I can hone in more objectively on the subtle differences between adjacent seasons.
I'm glad it was helpful. In the same way that I see blue (and navy) as more interesting than black, purple is more interesting than navy, possibly because it's not a dual-purpose neutral the way navy can be. The right purple does take some searching unless one is a Winter, that is very true. It's almost more of an accidental discovery :)
Yes, it's very revealing once you start looking at it and a great idea for a video. We might make it about jewelry in general, an item that can be expected to stand-apart and be part of the presentation at the same time. Thank you for the suggestion!
Oh my god rhis exactly what I been looking for irs so confusing mixing the winters correct shades together im gonna bring these photos with me everywhere! So helpful thqnk you for such detailed immaculate work
Glad it was helpful! So much to learn about colour, it's good to take a big step forward :) You'll find similar videos about other colours on the channel as well.
im a true winter, but im definitely more drawn towards some bright winter examples over some true winter examples (especially the muted jacket on the bottom, its too soft for me). the turtle neck top and the turtle neck dress would look great on me, since the bluer the color, the less olive my skin looks. also, the bluer the color, the brighter the color i can wear and its not overpowering. the more warmth in the color (more red in the purple) the more i need to watch out. purples and greens are definitely scary colors for me in general, as its very hard to know when how much warmth can my skin handle till its too much. that's why i stick to visibly bluer versions, since its safe area for me.
Great video! Pinkish-purple is one of my most flattering colors so this was very helpful. I’m pretty sure I’m a light spring, the only thing that is making me question it is that I can pull off white fairly well (but not black). Your videos have been extremely helpful in training my eye to be able to identify my best colors 😊
Glad it was helpful! Being light and fairly saturated, white is often manageable for LSp. The question then becomes, which white? In an analysis, white is a challenging colour to decide Season since it has less colour pigment to work with. The advantage is that you may have flexibility with whites, and in time you might narrow them down to the great whites.
@@ChristineScaman a buttery white is definitely the best option for me. Pure white gets ahead of me slightly and ivory is too grey (grey is my worst color). The thing that throws a bit of a wrench in the works for me is my eyes, which are a dark teal while my skin and hair are quite light. My eyes give a sense of depth and contrast that I’m not entirely sure the light palettes support. That being said, teal is one of my best colors.
Christiiiiiiine🤗 please tell me videos will be coming more often?🥹🙏🏼 I love your calm voice! Nerd as I am I like to knit my sweaters for fall myself, and just started on a lighter purple one🤓💜 hopefully cool enough!
More to come absolutely! I've been making changes to streamline video production and with our Canadian winter on the way, I hope to create many more :)
I'm happy to know that this style is helpful for you. Brown is a good idea. I've tried white and beige and the more items I add on the screen for comparisons, the more the colours looked alike. Maybe it was the light background, so the page looked like a white blur with beige blobs. My new approach is to add white and beige within a video about colour (like in the most recent video about Light Summer, would appreciate your thoughts about whether that worked). But I haven't tried medium and darker browns. Thank you for the suggestion!
Your Light Summer Video worked really well. As a True Autumn I need help mostly around the orange browns There is an orange brown in the Dark Autumn palette and another surprisingly in the Bright Spring which are ever so close to the True Autumn one. It may also be that as True Autumn has a wider range of browns (and because brown itself is a mix of colours) it is hardest colour for me to discern. Also I find that as I have Medium brown hair and brown green eyes that if I wear a solid brown outfit it can be a bit blocky or drab. It needs some texture or a marled knit to give me contrast.
Thank you, it's helpful to know that adding light neutrals with the colours is helpful. I understand your point with TA and the browns and we'll look at them in the video :)
Periwinkle! My fav colour-well, purple is already but definitely one of my fav purples 😊 I remember asking you whether I could wear it. But at the time I didn’t know I was a bright winter. You replied saying that everyone can wear a version of it I think! And, well, bright periwinkle is actually the colour I’m talking about so I’m excited to buy some. Very underrated colour I feel. I do wish there were more options for my size.
I’m so glad you’re back 🎉💕 Such a wonderful breakdown. I especially loved my own dark autumn season’s examples. I didn’t love the silver-encased purple ring, from Purple 5. Could it be true summer?? Something about it felt true summer to me. Also didn’t love the sweater veering DW. Every time I get too close to DW, my gut reacts very strongly against it. Probably because I have olive eyes and fair skin. I’m just not close enough to winter to cheat. I would much rather wear TA if I have to cheat.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and so happy to be back :) DA purples are excellent because there's that, "Wait, is that purple?" moment. It's a great Season in general because you'd rarely need to look in neighbour Seasons, even for purples. Thank you for commenting on the sweater, I wondered how DA's would feel about that item. That ring...I really don't know. On a TSu hand, maybe but it might appear to weigh 20 lbs. I'd like to think I could find its Season in person but some items are challenging!
@@ChristineScaman I'm only one DA, so I am curious if other DAs will comment about that sweater. I suppose cooler leaning DAs might love it? Not needing to look in neighbor seasons: I'm finding that true! While there are still some colors I'm looking for right now, I have found a lot of beautiful DA colors so far. I even found a gorgeous DA sunflower yellow dress; and DA orchid--in undergarments of all places. I'm searching for DA's teaberry and cooler greens next. I also wouldn't mind find more plums/berries from our season. The ring is challenging, indeed. I can see how it could be too heavy for TSu. It makes me wonder which season it really fits! I'm eager to hear if you ever find its home.
@@ChristineScaman PS... I ordered DA cosmetic samples from you this spring. I cannot tell you how much I love the black-brown eyeshadow in the palette!! It's divine. It makes me think of toasting a marshmallow over a fire and the marshmallow getting so toasted it burns in some spots. Except it's not quite black or charcoal. The blackened spots have rich bronze and chocolate edges. Hoping to order the full-size palette soon. Rambling so will let you go! Warmly -- Keturah
Yes, we can be quite focussed on clothing, which makes sense when we begin transforming our wardrobe, but those small items are fun to wear and look at. Teaberry was a new colour for me, I had to look it up, gorgeous coral. You never know where it will appear. Like a quest! When you said marshmallow, edges glowing and just starting to burn, so brilliant. I could feel the colour! I'll be thinking of that all day, thank you :)
Do you mean it's hard to find purples that work for TSp? It took me a long time to recognize them in fabrics. They had similarities to TW and BW but were either too 'tropical blooms' or had too much blue in them for the other colours. I now try all red-purple fabrics with the Spring palettes to see what happens. Winter colours look bluer than before with no lift whatsoever, whereas these Sp purples remain the same or better with other Spring colours, they don't change each other. True that in stores and on websites, they're hard to find. Every Season has a few of those colours.
@ I’ll try them Christine. Thanks. I’m only just noticing that I am drawn to bright winter yellow and bright spring yellow. I’ve only just noticed the red purples. I’ll try to find one as I LOVE it but have wasted a good bit if money trying 😩
Can you please do color red? ❤❤ I find it a very difficult color but it can be so powerful done right, with black, white and blue. What is true red? I'm a winter type and a man.
Red is on our list of colours to look at. I agree with you, powerful when done right. I'm not sure what true red is, although a question that may be more useful for you is, what are my reds? Every type of colouring has several versions of every colour, but as we've seen in these videos, the traditional version of a colour may not appear in certain Seasons. In the case of red that most resembles colour wheel or primary red, it harmonizes with the 3 Winters, and I'm sure you'll see a few versions you could wear. I'll see if I can find examples of clothing for men :)
I'm back to this video again, Christine 😂 Are you tired of me yet? My birthday is next month, and I always go on an overnight shopping trip with some girl friends for my birthday. So in preparation, I'm thinking about my closet and what I'd like to add to it. I really hope there are more purple options out there this year. The first time I ever bought a purple shirt, it was probably a TSu purple. It made me feel like I was wearing candy. The second time I bought a purple shirt, it was more LSu. I thought I had done well that time because the warm-to-cool levels were right, and it was clearly softer than other purples I had seen in the stores. But when I got it home and tried to put it with other pieces in my wardrobe, it was very obviously too bright for my SSu wardrobe. *sigh* Maybe there just isn't that much out there in stores? I can easily find my pinkish-purple mauves. But my bluer purples seem very difficult to find in stores.
I love having you here! Keep sending your great comments and questions. Something colour analysts, RUclipsrs, bloggers...what they have in common is they (we) work mostly alone and far apart. Hearing how our folks relate to our ideas is hugely helpful, much better than sending them into the ether :) That blue-purple, I know exactly the one you mean. I've seen the most shy, quiet student have an immediate emotional reaction, before her logical mind could rein things back in. She surprised herself :) I hope you can find the colour. Keep it in your mind, it's like pulling it towards you energy wise. One day, it will be there, hopefully in a turtleneck or coat. Maybe it will be Pantone's colour of 2024.
Yay!!! You’re back!! Okay, what you just said about a dark autumn with very fair skin, mossy green eyes, & silver hair…yes, agreed. Also, so many people use only the “dark hair, medium dark skin, dark eyes” example of dark autumn. So, in your opinion could someone with super fair skin & dark blonde/light brown hair be a dark autumn?
And happy to be back, thank you :) I try not to describe Season using skin surface colour, or hair and eye colours, though I appreciate that this is the information you have at the moment. With words, everyone pictures something different. Our Season is 100% about how we react to colour, rather than how we look on the surface, which I find more useful after knowing the Season for putting together great looks and a personalized closet. The dark-medium-dark combination you describe could apply to someone in 6, maybe 8, Seasons. So very light skin tones and light brown hair, doesn't sound likely or unlikely for DA. I'd go with possible, but not 'average' given that average doesn't exist...or maybe I could say, each Season might have 3 to 5 average appearances. Such a vague response, but it's the truest one I know.
@@ChristineScaman haha I love the nuance. It’s one of the things I enjoy about your channel. 😊 yes, I’m working to figure out my coloring. It’s so difficult. Pretty sure I am not one of the more obvious or easy examples. 😜 color is so fascinating though. Love your breakdowns.
I think the mens light spring swim shorts lack a bit of saturation to be spring. That stood out for me. But you make a good point about colours in sunshine I guess.
Yes! Right there with you! Excellent you picked those out. They seemed close at first, a bit too red but the white cord (likely True Winter) was a little more than the purple so maybe the shorts were BSp. I included them so folks could see that of all the purples at the store, these would be quite ok and viewers would have this side-by-side visual of the better phone case. Possibly I should have put a ? beside the shorts. We appreciate Best so much more when we understand Almost and some viewers have eagle eyes for colour and palettes, but I never want people new to this concept to feel it's too fussy or complicated. There's room for everyone at this table; you could give a seminar at the Annual Meeting :)
@@ChristineScaman Well I found them a lot less saturated (on my screen at least) than the other items in the spring picks, it stood out on my screen almost as a more muted colour. I don’t really count the drawstring because it’s incidental to the look, in my opinion, though I guess it can be seen as adding contrast like for the winters or BSp. My point is is that I think BSp deserves more than just an incidental touch. And at least for me I think Springs ideally should never compromise on saturation, easier said than done of course. My dad is, bright spring, and it’s amazing the difference for him when saturation is present and the crispest whites, and not the run of the mill box store cotton white t’s. My parents go to Bali and the silk shirts acquired suit him great because they hold white and colours very well and durable. Soft is anethema, but of course mens clothes tend to be soft a lot of times , we gotta get the winters and springs in our life out of those muted tones! But 😮normal equals muted these days:( I see colour analysis as a collective endeavour as much as individual lol! The convention awaits :D But seriously, I would go to one 😂
So interesting, thank you for explaining, I see what you mean. I thought of the bathing suit as too red rather than too saturated for the group, and the drawstring was my TW reference. Agreed about Sp needing that brightness, even in Light Summer, the person looks so good, but I also find they need to stay in their Season. BSp is too much on TSp, the cool side looks Winter-y and the warm side looks overheated, and likewise LSp is best in their saturation (although it can be so hard to find in stores that wearing TSp in matte or woven textiles can be quite ok). Also agree that the Springs are at their best in their brightness colours. Now I'm wondering if every Season is that way but no, DW in their navy, TA in their olive, TW in surgical steel gray, quite awesome. When you mentioned your Dad's shirts from Bali, wow, I could really picture it!
Thank you these one-color deep dives are so helpful for me! I would love to see greens, reds, “whites”! The terms you use which each season are helpful such as “watery”, “airy”, “icy” etc. eg as a soft autumn I keep accidentally buying soft summer colors, now I can ask myself “is this more wheat or lemon ginger tea?” 😅👍thanks again!
I'm glad this format is helpful. We'll get to all the colours in time. People often ask where they can find their Season information in one place and the most comprehensive resource (including helpful analogies) may be the E-books (available to readers worldwide). Have a look on my website (link in Desc box) under E-books.
Прекрасно видео! Сравнението с близките сезони много ми хареса - изключително полезно е човек да хваща прехода от единия към другия сезон, когато пазарува. Да споделя историята си с един странен часовник, който си поръчах след дълго оглеждане в сайта. По всичко личеше, че цветовете на циферблата и каишката попадат към палитрата на Soft Summer. Но явно снимките са били обработени, защото пристигна часовник с доста тъмен лилав циферблат, все пак сивеещ, и светлолилава каишка като за Light Summer. Реших все пак да му дам шанс, защото беше и подарък, и се оказа много интересно допълнение към гардероба ми. Добавен към тоалетите ми с тази каишка винаги става център на внимание и е като единична лютива подправка, която придава живот на ястието! Може би прескачането от време на време в съседните сезони не е никак лошо, за да се получи този wow ефект, който прави един тоалет запомнящ се. Досега съм получава все комплименти за този часовник 😊
From Google Translate: Wonderful video! I really liked the comparison with the nearby seasons - it is extremely useful for a person to catch the transition from one season when he is shopping. To share my story with a strange watch that I ordered after a long look at the site. It seemed that the colors of the dial and the strap fall to the palette of Soft Summer. But apparently the photos were processed because a clock with a rather dark purple dial arrived, after all, a gray, and light -purple strap like Light Summer. However, I decided to give him a chance because it was a gift, and it turned out to be a very interesting addition to my wardrobe. Added to my outfits with this strap it always becomes the center of attention and is like a single hot spice that gives life to the dish! Maybe jumping from time to time in the neighboring seasons is not bad to get this WOW effect that makes a toilet memorable. I have been receiving all compliments for this clock so far. Glad you enjoyed the video! I agree, sometimes an accent with a connection to the rest of the outfit or person tells an interesting story that people enjoy, like a conversation piece, a fun digression.
My skin is a MAC NC 25/C3 and my eyes military green with tiny dots of yellow and teal that lean to olive oil color or greyish green depending on how sunny is the day. Honestly, I don' t see the need to choose but all the opposite: every single shade brings something different up so why not to enjoy the diversity and versatility paired with make up and wigs and explore the wide range of possibilities all these purples offer me? 🧛🏻♀️💜🖤
You make a good point. Each of us decides how we want to look and how our appearance communicates with others, and we all have different others in our lives :)
I hope you add more purple to your Soft Autumn Pinterest board! I only see one purple item there and in general in color analysis I don't see much representation of purple in Soft Autumn. Always a bummer to me.🙁
I'd be happy to make a video about this topic, it's a request many people have. Making these videos, I've learned that they always help me clarify my thinking about the subject. My perspective on olive skin tones in Winter people (I'm thinking Culls is Culpo) is that they're the same in how they wear their Season in apparel as other members of their particular Winter Season, like in the People of Colour video. Blush and lip colour may vary, with red looking more natural and healthy than fuchsia, but these are often individual choices for all types of surface skin pigmentation within any Season. Maybe you could help me with specific questions? It would help me get started and have a place to focus, rather than making a video that could sound like it's about any Winter person in that type of Winter, which I can't always distinguish from images. If you were speaking on behalf of people with olive skin tones, what would their questions or colour situations be, different from the overall approach to Winter?
Thank you, I'm happy to hear that you like the videos :) We could definitely do a BSp video, although some topics work better in video than others. Finding pictures of BSp celebrities wearing a variety of colours and their own hair colour would be challenging. But there's other ways of doing this. If we were in a room together and you were to ask me two questions about BSp, what might they be?
I would ask -examples of choices that look good on celebrity BSps and why -jewelry choices that work for BSp -hair dye choices -little black dress. It seems to work? Is this because BSp is so close to winter? Thanks!
OK, thank you! The celebrity part may be challenging, I don't know any I'm fairly sure are BSp, and almost guaranteed their hair is dyed. The problem with chemical colour is that in pictures, you can't tie it out of the way and you wind up analyzing the apparel to the dye. Even harder to talk about the person instead of the dye when the hair colour is a version of yellow, which it most often is. I couldn't see how this helped people so I started looking at men. So a BSp male celebrity...who would be an example? David Beckham may be in the neighbourhood. No others come to mind. Jewelry could be done. Hair dye, that's decided one person at a time, there's no colour, average, or menu that works for everyone in a Season. It depends on their natural base hair colours and natural pigmentation, like eye and eyebrow colours and skin tones. LBD, it can work because of the W influence, as you say. Helps a lot when the neckline is low, the fabric has a little shine, and the accessories are colourful. That said, if I had $1000 and could only buy one dress, I'd never choose all black on BSp. Little areas of black can be useful, same as little areas of white, but there are more flattering choices. I'll think more about a BSp video, I'm sure there's something we could do.
I’m pretty sure I’m a dark winter, possibly bright winter, but my question is what would a winter person wear in other times of the year? Still stick with dark colors?
Still stay with the same palette. Many people choose the lighter or brighter colours from their palette, or fabrics that brighten colour, or wear more colours at once, but our pigments remain the same when the time of year changes so our Season palette does as well.
Hi Christine, when you put nail polish colours can you annotate them with the colour name please? Would go straight out and buy that color! Wearing the right nail colour is like wearing a mini portable reference palette and is more flattering on mature hands.
The best way to find information about specific items is to follow the link for the image in the Desc. box. When it opens in URStyle, scroll down a bit to find Used In Set, which will take you to the store website with more product information. I looked for the two nail colours in the True Spring panel (though I'm not sure which Season you had in mind) and the items are not available any longer, at least on those websites (Ulta's link didn't open). Using nail polish as a reference guide is a brilliant idea. It may be best to test it (hard with this product, I appreciate), because I don't see any of these colours in person and most are probably not as you might expect from the pictures. The pictures can help you know what to look for but in terms of shopping reference, a bracelet or scarf may be easier to test before purchasing.
I’ve been typed as a Deep summer and as a brown skinned girl I’ve basically had to change my mindset on what colours I should look for when shopping. Would you happen to be able to do some videos on the sub category.
I've had a few clients with similar colouring to yours who have been Soft Summers. How we wear the colours of our Season doesn't change depending on skin tone, same as the analysis process is the same, whatever the depth of surface pigmentation. For example, Oprah, Mrs. Obama, and me may be the same Season and we wear the Season the same way. The only two differences that come to mind in this example are that they may wear slightly darker lipsticks, but lipstick colour is decided one woman at a time, there is no best or average lipstick within any Season. The second difference would be that if I had silver hair and wore very light colour, there might not be enough contrast between my hair, skin colour and the clothing, and I would add a darker area. People with naturally darker surface skin pigmentation have enough natural contrast that the adjustment might not be necessary. In any Season, there may be adjustments, but these depend more on each individuals pigmentation rather than related to surface skin tone. In your case, as I think about what the differences might be or have been with my SSu clients, nothing comes to mind. There are cultural differences in how people want to look or may wear their colours, but if you were to read the e-chapter about SSu, it would apply equally to you as a person in your Season with lighter surface skin tone. Making videos something I enjoy and would do more of, but finding pictures of people in any Season wearing harmonious and non-harmonious colours is hard to do. Great question, thank you for asking :)
You haven't missed it :) I may divide greens into warm and cool greens. It can take some time to decide how to present the big colour families over 12 groups but it's definitely on the list.
I found most of the purples of the same temperature unfortunately, whereas purples could also be so much more warm (with more pink/red) or much cooler (more blue), those we’re missing here, unfortunately didn’t help me at all😢
TW to DW is the next video topic, hoping to have it posted within. 2 weeks. I'm not sure what you mean by 'fabric for the colour Seasons'? As part of the DW>TW video, or a separate topic?
@@ChristineScaman separate, I’ve seen some people mentioning that flannel is never good for DW because it lacks intensity, seen the same thing about corduroy although this is debatable
When we hear names of colours, it's likely that we all visualize slightly different colours but they serve the general idea, especially when they come with a comparison colour name, like lime and olive. White is challenging because there's so little pigment that our imagination has less information to draw from. I find paint colour charts helpful, like charts of 'Benjamin Moore best whites for 2021", at least it's some kind of standard we can all access. White Dove seems to be off-white with a grayed yellow green pull, White Heron seems similar with less pigment and possibly better for Summer. Magnolia is a clearer, creamy white that doesn't seem soft enough for Summer, maybe Light Summer but even there, it seems more clear than pastel, although it does appear to have coolness. I'm not sure with that one, I'd wonder about one of the Bright Seasons?
@@ChristineScaman Alright,thank you.I see a little pink and maybe a tiny bit of purple in Magnolia petals , although they do turn brown very quickly. Yes,I like pulling paint swatch cards as well,blue purples to dusky lavenders especially give me a sense of their hues. In a lot of paint stores now however,I felt like the pink sat between the orange and the brown, the purple was off by itself and didn't go as far as purple,grey pinks. As a child,some of my Laurentian colored pencil names still stick with me , and to this day I still think of bright yellow green as "french green," which helps me distinguish it from 'waterier,'juicier' lime green . Sky Magenta is also one I remember from childhood,it's a warmer light, purple,but with a little more depth than blush lilac. I've seen artists explain that "olive " is a shade of yellow - a brownish-grey shade of yellow,do you think of olive as green,or yellow? Thank you for answering my comment.❤️
I'm not a colour classification expert or theorist and I generally think of olive as green. Yellowish green, but when the colour is saturated higher, I see green. There's also some red in olive, which I don't see so much in Spring's warmer greens.
Hi, everyone :) I'm so glad we're doing our videos again and looking forward to our conversations!
Thank you!
My sincere pleasure :)
I find the Amethyst earrings in the deep autumn probably have more white quartz and I would see them in summer - although the depth of the Amethyst could work in it's most concentrated areas, beside a Garnet I find it cool. This is interesting to me ,as I never really considered this gem outside of winter ,it being February's stone.
I agree, in the darkest tones, they could be fine with DA but overall, next to the face and cosmetics and hair colour, perhaps not a new item to add to a wardrobe but if a DA owned them, they'd find common ground. The same happens with burgundy fabric between SSu and DA, my conclusion being that if they're that hard to to tell apart, the item could work for both in the everyday world.
Have missed you
I truly have no idea how she doesn’t have significantly more subscribers. When I need more information on where a color fits, Christine’s videos are my go-to.
Thank you :) It might help if I posted more often and I'm taking steps to do that!
@@ChristineScamanI always find your videos so interesting. You have the technical knowledge but a lovely whimsical way of putting it across.
New subscriber here and I’ve binge-watched all of your videos. I love the way you describe and muse over colour; you’re an artist of language, colour and imagery!
The way you dance with words is so helpful in understanding these concepts.
Pictures and stories are so helpful to understand colour. Without them, it can be like imagining flavours without tasting.
I agree with everyone’s comments above, YOU WERE MISSED! So glad to see this video and you look wonderful.
Thank you! I've succeeded in moving to a new location, nearer downtown these days with better light. The shop is mostly restocked and filming a video was the last flag to be planted. Yesterday was a great day!
Omg I've missed you!!!!! You have the most divine, calming energy!!! Please don't ever go away again ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
It's wonderful to be back!
Yay, you're back Christine! We've missed you! 🥰
😊 thank you
Thank you for this video! I always enjoy your thorough breakdowns of colors. Your viewers have missed you! 😊
So many thanks! I'm in a new space with better light, hoping to make many more videos.
So happy to see a new video pop up! I enjoy listening to you talk color so much. I hope the podcast will be back soon as well! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
Thank you, I'm happy to be back and making videos. The podcast is indeed back, next episode to publish on Sept. 22 if all goes well, back to our 4th Friday of each month schedule.
Wow, I was hoping for one on purple. Thanks. 😊
Hope you like it!
Happy you are back Christine and hope all is ok. Great video on purples for all the seasons!
Thank you. All is well, I just had the long, drawn-out process of moving to accomplish, now done and hoping for a peaceful stretch.
I believe purple in general looks more at home with Winters and Summers becaise it's a COOL color. On the other hand, Autumns and Springs can look great as well if thought out right. For example, Springs' warmth can contrast very well with purple as some can make the color look like grape candy or soda🎉, while some autumn purples can look sweet like berry jam.
Great analogies for Spring and Autumn purples!
@@ChristineScaman Thanks.
Welcome back, Christine!
I appreciate this video so much. My TCI Soft Summer fan has quite a spattering of purples. For most of the strips it’s easy to see “this one is warmer, this one is middle, and this one is on the cooler end of my spectrum.”
The purples aren’t like that though, and it’s really hard for me to wrap my mind around them. Being on the warmer end of the SSu spectrum myself, I find myself borrowing from SA’s purples more comfortably than, say, TSu. True Summer tends to feel… I dunno… silly? … when I wear it? I’m not sure how else to describe it.
I found this video helpful though. And I’d really love to see more comparisons of neighbor seasons (SA and SSu, LSu and LSp, etc) in these videos. I don’t know if that’s possible, though. They would end up being an hour long! Still, I’d watch them.
Your videos are super helpful when I’m going shopping for specific colors. They keep me on track and from getting distracted.
It's wonderful to be back, thank you. I'm settling into this new location and it's working out well.
I agree with you, that SSu purple can be hard to imagine from the palettes, TSu can be strangely bright for SSu in certain colours, and SA seems the closest place to expand, and all of these are good decisions. You can see a variety of choices in the SA and SSu panels in this video, some very traditional, some more relaxed. Purple is quite challenging, surprisingly so for a cool neutral Summer.
I hear you about hour-long videos, it's my concern with the colours left to look at (blue, green, red) that have so many choices. We'll probably break them down somehow. These Your Best Colour may be as close as I'd get to dedicated comparison videos since I'm conscious of not presenting colour analysis as rule-bound or so detailed that most people wouldn't take a closer look.
Super information on the color purple! Thank you for doing this video, always a true pleasure to watch!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad you enjoy this format.
I could listen to you talk about anything 😊 Happy that you're back.
Thank you, I'm truly happy to be making videos once more.
Thank you! I always look forward to your videos.
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoy them!
The energy of True and Dark Winters purples is quite similar. They are calmer, nocturnal, quite mysterious, whereas Bright Winter purples are not. They look more carnival, discothèque. Maybe that's why Bright Winters aren't particularly flattered by dark purple by itself. I love dark purple, but I cannot say it's one of the top colours.
Nocturnal is a good word. I'm with you, TW and DW look spectacular in purple whereas BW has other spectaculars. Their periwinkle and teal are among my favourites.
I am a Bright Winter closer to True Winter and I love purple! Reds, purples, fuschias, and bright blues are easy and always get me compliments. I feel at home in purple and, like red, it is a forgiving color on me even if it isn't a perfect BW match. 12 Blueprints Imperfect eyeshadow looks natural on my skin and I even wear MAC Heroine with a bit of red gloss.
Now green and yellow...I have watched your yellow video several times and still struggle and every attempt at green makes me look sick.
I really appreciate how this color video went one level deeper, really mimicking the shopping experience and helping us as viewers develop our eye. Purple is a color with a lot of nuance. It can pull in many directions. This video was super helpful to understand. For example there are some "softer" periwinkle-ish purples that I wouldn't think would be Bright Winter.
So interesting about purple and green. I imagine you could play with Imperfect, meaning mix it with lighter purples or turquoise. The matte aspect would make it flexible for making new colours. With green, if you've tried it, do you find TW green has the same effect on you, or the cooler BW greens? Or BW teal and turquoise, usually among my favourites for this group? Turquoise can be a surprise, it looks like Spring but the brightness is at Winter level. I agree that purple (and turquoise) can go in many directions, maybe because they're a mix of cool and warm-associated pigments and textile has a lot of influence on how these colours appear.
@@ChristineScaman it feels like my "greens" are teal, that is blue greens. I do feel more affinity with True Winter greens yes. And yes, one of my best colors is bright turquoise, and yes I thought I was stealing it! It is fascinating how clear, neutral cool, and medium dark can look so different accross colors.
I can see it. When I asked about TW greens, I meant the bluer greens, what you said. So true about colours looking quite different, I still see colours that surprise me with, Oh look at that, it's BW! The learning never ends.
"sense becoming nonsense as color-pops sometimes can". That really resonated with me. As a Soft Dramatic who is a Spring it has been a real learning experience in how to honor that "whimsical" side of my personality in a grown-up way. I love the addition of the purse - a clever way to interject some whimsy in my outfit without going too over the top. :)
I can hear in your words that you're on a learning and self-perception journey, congratulations :) Our palette is like a guard rail, I find. Between various kinds of contrast, textiles, and design variations, it offers plenty of choices for pops without spinning our wheels in other lanes.
You pick out the best accessories! Love it!
I love choosing those! I let my mind relax, like play time. Glad you enjoy them!
Dark purple has been one of my fave colors the past few years, even before I discovered that I'm an autumn. I guess I just knew that it worked for me. Thanks for the vid. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 😊🎉
Thanks for sharing! I admire your instincts, purple can be a tricky colour. Happy holidays and best in 2024!
Yes! You are back! Loved your podcasts on all the neutrals for all the different seasons. I learned a lot! Looking very forward to your future videos! The "Your Best" videos that you do is my absolute favourite!
Happy to be back, thank you! I'm looking forward to a more settled time and better streamlining to make videos. The podcasts are back this month, I believe we publish on Sept. 22.
That's great! @@ChristineScaman
Hi Christine, oh my, once again your level of expertise is extraordinary!! You are so lovely to view and to listen to and I always learn a lot from your videos. Thank you for all the care and time you dedicate to making the best color analysis videos on RUclips!!
I truly appreciate your very kind words. I value that you and I both learn from the videos :)
Hello again, may I ask you a question? I am a True Spring and I am confused about transitioning to an autumn wardrobe because the warmer clothing I see in stores is predominantly black, charcoal grey, mustard, olive, deep reds and pumpkin colors. In other words, they are not my True Spring colors. How does someone dress seasonally appropriate (weather-wise) while also dressing within his or her own color family?
There's no time of year when stores offer wide colour choice for most people in their various Seasons, but I agree TSp is more challenging depending on where you live. I think the answer is planning. If you're in the US, you have access to stores that serve many different climates, either locally with good shipping policies or huge online retailers with many colours (Land's End and many others). Putting more shopping time and budget into times of year when your colours appear may help, or on holidays in warmer places. Joining online groups where people collaborate on shopping and know brands that use more bright colours. Google 'clothes in bright colours' and look under Shopping. When I have time, I add pins from current retail to my 12 Season Pinterest boards. Buying what's in stores is a good compromise, so one year, you may buy a lot of coral or whatever the colour of the year is. Learning your neutrals is good, the backbone of a wardrobe and colours that can appear randomly in stores everywhere. I appreciate the frustration though. Most educated consumers experience it with all sorts of products and buying does take more time. The good thing is that your colours won't change and your purchases last for as long as you want to keep them, which is a long time because everything looks so good.
I really love watching your videos over and over again, and not only for your amazing guidance for looking at and choosing colours. It is so inspiring for me to hear you describe your way of thinking and looking at things - color, texture, people, and sometimes just life in general. I really find so much value in how you put your thoughts into words and articulate yourself beautifully and with insight. (I hope that's a good way to say it, I am not a native English speaker.)
Thank you for sharing your way of looking at things and making it fun and inspiring!
Many thank you's for your words. The stories we can tell about ourselves with the colours we wear are amazing to me, the basis of how we communicate with appearance. It's always good to hear that this way of seeing resonates with others :)
I can't wait to try your new lipstick Icon. Your cosmetics keep getting even better.
There are two coming, Iconic, a fuchsia red (more fuchsia with some violet tones, BW), and Vixen (gorgeous red with a hint of blue and pink, TW). So many colours out of stock at the moment that I'm waiting to place my order for now.
I'm so happy to have found your channel and your book, which I know I'll be rereading many times. A friend and I got into Color Me Beautiful in the '80s and discovered that we had a knack for typing people, which we did in informal groups. When color analysis seemed to fall by the wayside later on, being considered "an '80s thing," I was disappointed because I felt that kind of knowledge shouldn't be lost. When I first heard about 12 seasons I felt kind of resistant to it (I mean, TWELVE? LOL), but I now see how the concept of 12 completes the picture of the full range of human coloring and is so much more inclusive. I've been watching your videos as instructional tools, pausing to gauge my own impressions of the pictures and diagrams before listening to yours, and I'm thrilled to find I agree with you a good 95% of the time. I think I've still got it! 😄 Anyway, I love your content and your poetic way of expression, and I'm so excited to dive back into this subject. ❤
Welcome to the channel! I'm happy that you're revisiting colour analysis and seeing the many ways it's progressed over the years. Great to know you've kept your colour aptitude :)
Great content, Christine, as always. I love your hair!
Thank you so much!
Yay! Been looking forward to your purple video!
I hope you enjoyed it :)
@@ChristineScaman Yes!
Christine, happy to see youre videos again! Id really love a closer look at the neutral leaning seasons as they seem a bit tricky, especially dark autumn vs deep winter as we get to this time of year where nature reminds of these palettes most. ❤ thank you so much
I'd be happy to talk about the Neutrals if I had a clearer picture of what your questions might be. Do you mean how to place their colours in one Season or the other? If yes, the video Nextdoor Seasons Colours may help. The Neutrals are not so different from the Trues in this respect. If your questions were about something else, I'd love to hear more.
I think I’ve quite naturally gravitated to winter colours. Recently had hiccups but now on the winter trail again. This has been helpful for me to see that I managed to buy a bright winter dress and a dark winter cardigan!
It takes time to find our way and organize the pieces. I'm happy to hear that you're back on your path :)
Grateful for the guidance on purple as it isn’t a favorite for me, and so Is harder to analyze. And thank you for the NDU color product info. Great to have the options. Am ordering the mini poster for the seasons on either side of mine so I can hone in more objectively on the subtle differences between adjacent seasons.
I'm glad it was helpful. In the same way that I see blue (and navy) as more interesting than black, purple is more interesting than navy, possibly because it's not a dual-purpose neutral the way navy can be. The right purple does take some searching unless one is a Winter, that is very true. It's almost more of an accidental discovery :)
I would love to see more jewelry or color comparisons against the hands.
Yes, it's very revealing once you start looking at it and a great idea for a video. We might make it about jewelry in general, an item that can be expected to stand-apart and be part of the presentation at the same time. Thank you for the suggestion!
Oh my god rhis exactly what I been looking for irs so confusing mixing the winters correct shades together im gonna bring these photos with me everywhere! So helpful thqnk you for such detailed immaculate work
Glad it was helpful! So much to learn about colour, it's good to take a big step forward :) You'll find similar videos about other colours on the channel as well.
Greatest color analyst videos of all time
Sincere thanks, I'm so glad they're helpful :)
Great video, thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Me again. 😄 I just bought the summer umbrella with the hummingbirds. It’s so cute and I’m so happy to have a joyful little knickknack for rainy days!
That's wonderful! I'm so glad you love it :)
im a true winter, but im definitely more drawn towards some bright winter examples over some true winter examples (especially the muted jacket on the bottom, its too soft for me). the turtle neck top and the turtle neck dress would look great on me, since the bluer the color, the less olive my skin looks. also, the bluer the color, the brighter the color i can wear and its not overpowering. the more warmth in the color (more red in the purple) the more i need to watch out. purples and greens are definitely scary colors for me in general, as its very hard to know when how much warmth can my skin handle till its too much. that's why i stick to visibly bluer versions, since its safe area for me.
Your observations are perceptive. Many TW and BW persons have great tolerance for certain colours in one another's palettes.
Great video! Pinkish-purple is one of my most flattering colors so this was very helpful.
I’m pretty sure I’m a light spring, the only thing that is making me question it is that I can pull off white fairly well (but not black).
Your videos have been extremely helpful in training my eye to be able to identify my best colors 😊
Glad it was helpful! Being light and fairly saturated, white is often manageable for LSp. The question then becomes, which white? In an analysis, white is a challenging colour to decide Season since it has less colour pigment to work with. The advantage is that you may have flexibility with whites, and in time you might narrow them down to the great whites.
@@ChristineScaman a buttery white is definitely the best option for me. Pure white gets ahead of me slightly and ivory is too grey (grey is my worst color). The thing that throws a bit of a wrench in the works for me is my eyes, which are a dark teal while my skin and hair are quite light. My eyes give a sense of depth and contrast that I’m not entirely sure the light palettes support. That being said, teal is one of my best colors.
Christiiiiiiine🤗 please tell me videos will be coming more often?🥹🙏🏼
I love your calm voice! Nerd as I am I like to knit my sweaters for fall myself, and just started on a lighter purple one🤓💜 hopefully cool enough!
More to come absolutely! I've been making changes to streamline video production and with our Canadian winter on the way, I hope to create many more :)
I love this series. Could you do one on the browns please. We miss you Christine !
I'm happy to know that this style is helpful for you. Brown is a good idea. I've tried white and beige and the more items I add on the screen for comparisons, the more the colours looked alike. Maybe it was the light background, so the page looked like a white blur with beige blobs. My new approach is to add white and beige within a video about colour (like in the most recent video about Light Summer, would appreciate your thoughts about whether that worked). But I haven't tried medium and darker browns. Thank you for the suggestion!
Your Light Summer Video worked really well. As a True Autumn I need help mostly around the orange browns There is an orange brown in the Dark Autumn palette and another surprisingly in the Bright Spring which are ever so close to the True Autumn one. It may also be that as True Autumn has a wider range of browns (and because brown itself is a mix of colours) it is hardest colour for me to discern. Also I find that as I have Medium brown hair and brown green eyes that if I wear a solid brown outfit it can be a bit blocky or drab. It needs some texture or a marled knit to give me contrast.
Thank you, it's helpful to know that adding light neutrals with the colours is helpful. I understand your point with TA and the browns and we'll look at them in the video :)
Periwinkle! My fav colour-well, purple is already but definitely one of my fav purples 😊 I remember asking you whether I could wear it. But at the time I didn’t know I was a bright winter. You replied saying that everyone can wear a version of it I think! And, well, bright periwinkle is actually the colour I’m talking about so I’m excited to buy some. Very underrated colour I feel. I do wish there were more options for my size.
Periwinkle is underrated and hard to find, I agree with you on both :) Even for cooler Seasons, those beautiful blue-violets are scarce.
love your NDU color card recommendation! Other color cards are unreasonably expensive and there's unreliable dups on eBay.
They're great, I agree. You could even laminate them, I imagine. I love these great, practical resources, glad you find the cards useful :)
I’m so glad you’re back 🎉💕 Such a wonderful breakdown. I especially loved my own dark autumn season’s examples. I didn’t love the silver-encased purple ring, from Purple 5. Could it be true summer?? Something about it felt true summer to me. Also didn’t love the sweater veering DW. Every time I get too close to DW, my gut reacts very strongly against it. Probably because I have olive eyes and fair skin. I’m just not close enough to winter to cheat. I would much rather wear TA if I have to cheat.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video and so happy to be back :) DA purples are excellent because there's that, "Wait, is that purple?" moment. It's a great Season in general because you'd rarely need to look in neighbour Seasons, even for purples. Thank you for commenting on the sweater, I wondered how DA's would feel about that item. That ring...I really don't know. On a TSu hand, maybe but it might appear to weigh 20 lbs. I'd like to think I could find its Season in person but some items are challenging!
@@ChristineScaman I'm only one DA, so I am curious if other DAs will comment about that sweater. I suppose cooler leaning DAs might love it? Not needing to look in neighbor seasons: I'm finding that true! While there are still some colors I'm looking for right now, I have found a lot of beautiful DA colors so far. I even found a gorgeous DA sunflower yellow dress; and DA orchid--in undergarments of all places. I'm searching for DA's teaberry and cooler greens next. I also wouldn't mind find more plums/berries from our season. The ring is challenging, indeed. I can see how it could be too heavy for TSu. It makes me wonder which season it really fits! I'm eager to hear if you ever find its home.
@@ChristineScaman PS... I ordered DA cosmetic samples from you this spring. I cannot tell you how much I love the black-brown eyeshadow in the palette!! It's divine. It makes me think of toasting a marshmallow over a fire and the marshmallow getting so toasted it burns in some spots. Except it's not quite black or charcoal. The blackened spots have rich bronze and chocolate edges. Hoping to order the full-size palette soon. Rambling so will let you go! Warmly -- Keturah
Yes, we can be quite focussed on clothing, which makes sense when we begin transforming our wardrobe, but those small items are fun to wear and look at. Teaberry was a new colour for me, I had to look it up, gorgeous coral. You never know where it will appear. Like a quest!
When you said marshmallow, edges glowing and just starting to burn, so brilliant. I could feel the colour! I'll be thinking of that all day, thank you :)
Interesting that so few references to true or warm spring. I haven’t found one that suits me yet!
Do you mean it's hard to find purples that work for TSp? It took me a long time to recognize them in fabrics. They had similarities to TW and BW but were either too 'tropical blooms' or had too much blue in them for the other colours. I now try all red-purple fabrics with the Spring palettes to see what happens. Winter colours look bluer than before with no lift whatsoever, whereas these Sp purples remain the same or better with other Spring colours, they don't change each other. True that in stores and on websites, they're hard to find. Every Season has a few of those colours.
@ I’ll try them Christine. Thanks. I’m only just noticing that I am drawn to bright winter yellow and bright spring yellow. I’ve only just noticed the red purples. I’ll try to find one as I LOVE it but have wasted a good bit if money trying 😩
Can you please do color red? ❤❤ I find it a very difficult color but it can be so powerful done right, with black, white and blue. What is true red? I'm a winter type and a man.
Red is on our list of colours to look at. I agree with you, powerful when done right. I'm not sure what true red is, although a question that may be more useful for you is, what are my reds? Every type of colouring has several versions of every colour, but as we've seen in these videos, the traditional version of a colour may not appear in certain Seasons. In the case of red that most resembles colour wheel or primary red, it harmonizes with the 3 Winters, and I'm sure you'll see a few versions you could wear. I'll see if I can find examples of clothing for men :)
I'm back to this video again, Christine 😂 Are you tired of me yet? My birthday is next month, and I always go on an overnight shopping trip with some girl friends for my birthday. So in preparation, I'm thinking about my closet and what I'd like to add to it. I really hope there are more purple options out there this year.
The first time I ever bought a purple shirt, it was probably a TSu purple. It made me feel like I was wearing candy. The second time I bought a purple shirt, it was more LSu. I thought I had done well that time because the warm-to-cool levels were right, and it was clearly softer than other purples I had seen in the stores. But when I got it home and tried to put it with other pieces in my wardrobe, it was very obviously too bright for my SSu wardrobe. *sigh* Maybe there just isn't that much out there in stores? I can easily find my pinkish-purple mauves. But my bluer purples seem very difficult to find in stores.
I love having you here! Keep sending your great comments and questions. Something colour analysts, RUclipsrs, bloggers...what they have in common is they (we) work mostly alone and far apart. Hearing how our folks relate to our ideas is hugely helpful, much better than sending them into the ether :)
That blue-purple, I know exactly the one you mean. I've seen the most shy, quiet student have an immediate emotional reaction, before her logical mind could rein things back in. She surprised herself :) I hope you can find the colour. Keep it in your mind, it's like pulling it towards you energy wise. One day, it will be there, hopefully in a turtleneck or coat. Maybe it will be Pantone's colour of 2024.
Thank you! That was very helpful!
You're welcome! I'm glad it was useful :)
Yay!!! You’re back!! Okay, what you just said about a dark autumn with very fair skin, mossy green eyes, & silver hair…yes, agreed. Also, so many people use only the “dark hair, medium dark skin, dark eyes” example of dark autumn. So, in your opinion could someone with super fair skin & dark blonde/light brown hair be a dark autumn?
And happy to be back, thank you :) I try not to describe Season using skin surface colour, or hair and eye colours, though I appreciate that this is the information you have at the moment. With words, everyone pictures something different. Our Season is 100% about how we react to colour, rather than how we look on the surface, which I find more useful after knowing the Season for putting together great looks and a personalized closet.
The dark-medium-dark combination you describe could apply to someone in 6, maybe 8, Seasons. So very light skin tones and light brown hair, doesn't sound likely or unlikely for DA. I'd go with possible, but not 'average' given that average doesn't exist...or maybe I could say, each Season might have 3 to 5 average appearances. Such a vague response, but it's the truest one I know.
@@ChristineScaman haha I love the nuance. It’s one of the things I enjoy about your channel. 😊 yes, I’m working to figure out my coloring. It’s so difficult. Pretty sure I am not one of the more obvious or easy examples. 😜 color is so fascinating though. Love your breakdowns.
I think the mens light spring swim shorts lack a bit of saturation to be spring. That stood out for me. But you make a good point about colours in sunshine I guess.
Yes! Right there with you! Excellent you picked those out. They seemed close at first, a bit too red but the white cord (likely True Winter) was a little more than the purple so maybe the shorts were BSp. I included them so folks could see that of all the purples at the store, these would be quite ok and viewers would have this side-by-side visual of the better phone case. Possibly I should have put a ? beside the shorts. We appreciate Best so much more when we understand Almost and some viewers have eagle eyes for colour and palettes, but I never want people new to this concept to feel it's too fussy or complicated. There's room for everyone at this table; you could give a seminar at the Annual Meeting :)
@@ChristineScaman Well I found them a lot less saturated (on my screen at least) than the other items in the spring picks, it stood out on my screen almost as a more muted colour. I don’t really count the drawstring because it’s incidental to the look, in my opinion, though I guess it can be seen as adding contrast like for the winters or BSp. My point is is that I think BSp deserves more than just an incidental touch.
And at least for me I think Springs ideally should never compromise on saturation, easier said than done of course. My dad is, bright spring, and it’s amazing the difference for him when saturation is present and the crispest whites, and not the run of the mill box store cotton white t’s. My parents go to Bali and the silk shirts acquired suit him great because they hold white and colours very well and durable. Soft is anethema, but of course mens clothes tend to be soft a lot of times , we gotta get the winters and springs in our life out of those muted tones!
But 😮normal equals muted these days:(
I see colour analysis as a collective endeavour as much as individual lol!
The convention awaits :D
But seriously, I would go to one 😂
So interesting, thank you for explaining, I see what you mean. I thought of the bathing suit as too red rather than too saturated for the group, and the drawstring was my TW reference. Agreed about Sp needing that brightness, even in Light Summer, the person looks so good, but I also find they need to stay in their Season. BSp is too much on TSp, the cool side looks Winter-y and the warm side looks overheated, and likewise LSp is best in their saturation (although it can be so hard to find in stores that wearing TSp in matte or woven textiles can be quite ok). Also agree that the Springs are at their best in their brightness colours. Now I'm wondering if every Season is that way but no, DW in their navy, TA in their olive, TW in surgical steel gray, quite awesome. When you mentioned your Dad's shirts from Bali, wow, I could really picture it!
Thank you these one-color deep dives are so helpful for me! I would love to see greens, reds, “whites”! The terms you use which each season are helpful such as “watery”, “airy”, “icy” etc. eg as a soft autumn I keep accidentally buying soft summer colors, now I can ask myself “is this more wheat or lemon ginger tea?” 😅👍thanks again!
I'm glad this format is helpful. We'll get to all the colours in time. People often ask where they can find their Season information in one place and the most comprehensive resource (including helpful analogies) may be the E-books (available to readers worldwide). Have a look on my website (link in Desc box) under E-books.
Прекрасно видео! Сравнението с близките сезони много ми хареса - изключително полезно е човек да хваща прехода от единия към другия сезон, когато пазарува. Да споделя историята си с един странен часовник, който си поръчах след дълго оглеждане в сайта. По всичко личеше, че цветовете на циферблата и каишката попадат към палитрата на Soft Summer. Но явно снимките са били обработени, защото пристигна часовник с доста тъмен лилав циферблат, все пак сивеещ, и светлолилава каишка като за Light Summer. Реших все пак да му дам шанс, защото беше и подарък, и се оказа много интересно допълнение към гардероба ми. Добавен към тоалетите ми с тази каишка винаги става център на внимание и е като единична лютива подправка, която придава живот на ястието! Може би прескачането от време на време в съседните сезони не е никак лошо, за да се получи този wow ефект, който прави един тоалет запомнящ се. Досега съм получава все комплименти за този часовник 😊
From Google Translate: Wonderful video! I really liked the comparison with the nearby seasons - it is extremely useful for a person to catch the transition from one season when he is shopping. To share my story with a strange watch that I ordered after a long look at the site. It seemed that the colors of the dial and the strap fall to the palette of Soft Summer. But apparently the photos were processed because a clock with a rather dark purple dial arrived, after all, a gray, and light -purple strap like Light Summer. However, I decided to give him a chance because it was a gift, and it turned out to be a very interesting addition to my wardrobe. Added to my outfits with this strap it always becomes the center of attention and is like a single hot spice that gives life to the dish! Maybe jumping from time to time in the neighboring seasons is not bad to get this WOW effect that makes a toilet memorable. I have been receiving all compliments for this clock so far.
Glad you enjoyed the video! I agree, sometimes an accent with a connection to the rest of the outfit or person tells an interesting story that people enjoy, like a conversation piece, a fun digression.
My skin is a MAC NC 25/C3 and my eyes military green with tiny dots of yellow and teal that lean to olive oil color or greyish green depending on how sunny is the day. Honestly, I don' t see the need to choose but all the opposite: every single shade brings something different up so why not to enjoy the diversity and versatility paired with make up and wigs and explore the wide range of possibilities all these purples offer me? 🧛🏻♀️💜🖤
You make a good point. Each of us decides how we want to look and how our appearance communicates with others, and we all have different others in our lives :)
I hope you add more purple to your Soft Autumn Pinterest board! I only see one purple item there and in general in color analysis I don't see much representation of purple in Soft Autumn. Always a bummer to me.🙁
Me as well. I hope that time becomes more available this winter and the Pinterest boards might all be updated.
@@ChristineScamanJust when you have time! No pressure.🙂
Christine can you please analyze OLIVE-toned people…such as Eva Longoria , Salma Hayek, Olivia culls etc…tx u❣️
I'd be happy to make a video about this topic, it's a request many people have. Making these videos, I've learned that they always help me clarify my thinking about the subject.
My perspective on olive skin tones in Winter people (I'm thinking Culls is Culpo) is that they're the same in how they wear their Season in apparel as other members of their particular Winter Season, like in the People of Colour video. Blush and lip colour may vary, with red looking more natural and healthy than fuchsia, but these are often individual choices for all types of surface skin pigmentation within any Season.
Maybe you could help me with specific questions? It would help me get started and have a place to focus, rather than making a video that could sound like it's about any Winter person in that type of Winter, which I can't always distinguish from images. If you were speaking on behalf of people with olive skin tones, what would their questions or colour situations be, different from the overall approach to Winter?
I love your videos! Can you do bright spring?
Thank you, I'm happy to hear that you like the videos :) We could definitely do a BSp video, although some topics work better in video than others. Finding pictures of BSp celebrities wearing a variety of colours and their own hair colour would be challenging. But there's other ways of doing this. If we were in a room together and you were to ask me two questions about BSp, what might they be?
I would ask
-examples of choices that look good on celebrity BSps and why
-jewelry choices that work for BSp
-hair dye choices
-little black dress. It seems to work? Is this because BSp is so close to winter?
Thanks!
OK, thank you! The celebrity part may be challenging, I don't know any I'm fairly sure are BSp, and almost guaranteed their hair is dyed. The problem with chemical colour is that in pictures, you can't tie it out of the way and you wind up analyzing the apparel to the dye. Even harder to talk about the person instead of the dye when the hair colour is a version of yellow, which it most often is. I couldn't see how this helped people so I started looking at men. So a BSp male celebrity...who would be an example? David Beckham may be in the neighbourhood. No others come to mind.
Jewelry could be done.
Hair dye, that's decided one person at a time, there's no colour, average, or menu that works for everyone in a Season. It depends on their natural base hair colours and natural pigmentation, like eye and eyebrow colours and skin tones.
LBD, it can work because of the W influence, as you say. Helps a lot when the neckline is low, the fabric has a little shine, and the accessories are colourful. That said, if I had $1000 and could only buy one dress, I'd never choose all black on BSp. Little areas of black can be useful, same as little areas of white, but there are more flattering choices. I'll think more about a BSp video, I'm sure there's something we could do.
So excited to see it! I enjoy watching your videos!
I’m pretty sure I’m a dark winter, possibly bright winter, but my question is what would a winter person wear in other times of the year? Still stick with dark colors?
Still stay with the same palette. Many people choose the lighter or brighter colours from their palette, or fabrics that brighten colour, or wear more colours at once, but our pigments remain the same when the time of year changes so our Season palette does as well.
Hi Christine, when you put nail polish colours can you annotate them with the colour name please? Would go straight out and buy that color! Wearing the right nail colour is like wearing a mini portable reference palette and is more flattering on mature hands.
The best way to find information about specific items is to follow the link for the image in the Desc. box. When it opens in URStyle, scroll down a bit to find Used In Set, which will take you to the store website with more product information. I looked for the two nail colours in the True Spring panel (though I'm not sure which Season you had in mind) and the items are not available any longer, at least on those websites (Ulta's link didn't open).
Using nail polish as a reference guide is a brilliant idea. It may be best to test it (hard with this product, I appreciate), because I don't see any of these colours in person and most are probably not as you might expect from the pictures. The pictures can help you know what to look for but in terms of shopping reference, a bracelet or scarf may be easier to test before purchasing.
I’ve been typed as a Deep summer and as a brown skinned girl I’ve basically had to change my mindset on what colours I should look for when shopping. Would you happen to be able to do some videos on the sub category.
I've had a few clients with similar colouring to yours who have been Soft Summers. How we wear the colours of our Season doesn't change depending on skin tone, same as the analysis process is the same, whatever the depth of surface pigmentation.
For example, Oprah, Mrs. Obama, and me may be the same Season and we wear the Season the same way. The only two differences that come to mind in this example are that they may wear slightly darker lipsticks, but lipstick colour is decided one woman at a time, there is no best or average lipstick within any Season. The second difference would be that if I had silver hair and wore very light colour, there might not be enough contrast between my hair, skin colour and the clothing, and I would add a darker area. People with naturally darker surface skin pigmentation have enough natural contrast that the adjustment might not be necessary.
In any Season, there may be adjustments, but these depend more on each individuals pigmentation rather than related to surface skin tone. In your case, as I think about what the differences might be or have been with my SSu clients, nothing comes to mind. There are cultural differences in how people want to look or may wear their colours, but if you were to read the e-chapter about SSu, it would apply equally to you as a person in your Season with lighter surface skin tone.
Making videos something I enjoy and would do more of, but finding pictures of people in any Season wearing harmonious and non-harmonious colours is hard to do. Great question, thank you for asking :)
Christine, are you going to do greens? Or have I missed it?
You haven't missed it :) I may divide greens into warm and cool greens. It can take some time to decide how to present the big colour families over 12 groups but it's definitely on the list.
I found most of the purples of the same temperature unfortunately, whereas purples could also be so much more warm (with more pink/red) or much cooler (more blue), those we’re missing here, unfortunately didn’t help me at all😢
I appreciate your comment :) It helps in making the videos to know what isn't working for viewers.
Can you please do look deep winter not true winter and fabric for the colour seasons
TW to DW is the next video topic, hoping to have it posted within. 2 weeks. I'm not sure what you mean by 'fabric for the colour Seasons'? As part of the DW>TW video, or a separate topic?
@@ChristineScaman separate, I’ve seen some people mentioning that flannel is never good for DW because it lacks intensity, seen the same thing about corduroy although this is debatable
Hi, I’m new to your channel, may I ask what your colour is? Great video by the way.
Welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video. I'm a Dark Winter (Winter with some Autumn).
I like the "dove white" name for the shade. What about magnolia white? Do you see that as summer?
When we hear names of colours, it's likely that we all visualize slightly different colours but they serve the general idea, especially when they come with a comparison colour name, like lime and olive. White is challenging because there's so little pigment that our imagination has less information to draw from. I find paint colour charts helpful, like charts of 'Benjamin Moore best whites for 2021", at least it's some kind of standard we can all access. White Dove seems to be off-white with a grayed yellow green pull, White Heron seems similar with less pigment and possibly better for Summer. Magnolia is a clearer, creamy white that doesn't seem soft enough for Summer, maybe Light Summer but even there, it seems more clear than pastel, although it does appear to have coolness. I'm not sure with that one, I'd wonder about one of the Bright Seasons?
@@ChristineScaman Alright,thank you.I see a little pink and maybe a tiny bit of purple in Magnolia petals , although they do turn brown very quickly.
Yes,I like pulling paint swatch cards as well,blue purples to dusky lavenders especially give me a sense of their hues. In a lot of paint stores now however,I felt like the pink sat between the orange and the brown, the purple was off by itself and didn't go as far as purple,grey pinks. As a child,some of my Laurentian colored pencil names still stick with me , and to this day I still think of bright yellow green as "french green," which helps me distinguish it from 'waterier,'juicier' lime green . Sky Magenta is also one I remember from childhood,it's a warmer light, purple,but with a little more depth than blush lilac.
I've seen artists explain that "olive " is a shade of yellow - a brownish-grey shade of yellow,do you think of olive as green,or yellow?
Thank you for answering my comment.❤️
I'm not a colour classification expert or theorist and I generally think of olive as green. Yellowish green, but when the colour is saturated higher, I see green. There's also some red in olive, which I don't see so much in Spring's warmer greens.
@@ChristineScaman Ya,I see red in it too - in other words brown, because all the primaries are mixed there...
Could you plz do your best green
Sure, we'll get to all the colours over time. Glad you're finding these videos useful.
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I have recently decided that purple is going to be my color no matter what my season really is 😅😅 all these purples are too similar
Purple really is very beautiful!
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