Below are two Springs: very different palettes (Sandy Spring on the left, Floral Spring on the right). A custom palette usually takes at least two hours to create, and should include clear guidance on the function of each color and what clothing styles best express the person’s season. He turns out to be one of the warmer and darker Summers, a “Dusk Summer.”Īn accurate color analysis process is best done one-on-one, face-to-face. Below is a client with his too bright custom palette from 1980 (as if he were a cool light Spring, like the gal on the right below) and the much more appropriate one I did for him recently. In the 1990s Sharon Chrisman further refined Suzanne’s work.īecoming a personal color analyst in the Caygill/Chrisman process requires lengthy training. Many copycat systems followed, often generic and extremely simplified. Hence she came up with 6 subtypes per season to accommodate this wide variety, which equals 24 unique types around which to build a custom palette. She typed her clients by “season,” which expressed itself both in color palette AND in an accompanying seasonal style of dressing.īut 4 seasons didn’t really cover the variability Caygill observed, because people are a mix of warm and cool temperatures and may be lighter or darker.
#COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL SEASONS QUIZ SKIN#
In the 1950s Hollywood color stylist Suzanne Caygill developed a sophisticated system for creating custom color palettes based on the client’s skin tones, eye and hair color, face shapes and personality. Furthermore, today thousands of additional hues are available, and they’re much more refined and subtle.Ĭase in point, below are two Color Me Beautiful palettes for a “Summer” type: the one on the left (way too bright!) from Carol Jackson’s original book, and the one on the right more current, but still too generic for most Summers.
#COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL SEASONS QUIZ FREE#
It’s free so you might try it.“Color Me Beautiful” is so last century! And quite honestly those generic color palettes you order off the internet are often downright wrong. Color Me Beautiful, the company I founded and eventually sold, has a Quiz on their website using only hair color. That said, it’s not a bad way to do it, especially if your hair is its natural color. They are selling makeup and don’t care if your hair is the right color for you in the event that you color it. One last tidbit…Some companies use Hair Color only as the test to determine your season. You can Google to find one if you need help.) (I say “used” because I am retired from teaching, but lots of Image Consultants still do Color Analysis. When you put on a pink or peach, plum or coral, burgundy or orange-red lip color and do comparisons, it shows! Often, we used the makeup test as the deciding factor in our classes. Testing yourself in makeup colors (Step 3) will give you confirmation. That Season will guide you to choose your best colors for clothing, makeup and hair color, if you choose to color your hair. One Season will emerge as your over-all best.
Remember that every person can find SOME colors from each season that look pretty good. A blond, blue-eyed woman may have trouble deciding between Summer and Spring. Others may be on the borderline between 2 seasons.Ī brown eyed, brown haired woman with a “greenish” undertone to the skin could be an Autumn or an olive-skinned Winter. Most of you will know your season from Steps 1, and 2. A tee, a towel, a throw pillow – whatever! Does the Powder Blue look better or is the Royal Blue better? Is Orange-Red more flattering or am I better in Blue-Red? You can test with anything you have around the house in the colors you need. Hold the swatch under your face as if it were your shirt.
It’s fun to do, and you can gather the colors suggested below and do it yourself in front of a mirror or with friends.Ĭompare the colors. Your face may brighten, or look pale or dull. Most personal Image Consultants and Color Analysts drape large swatches of colored fabric under your face to see how your coloring (skin, hair, eyes) reacts to the clothing color.
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