Color Analysis
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Color analysis is the process of finding appropriate colors of clothes and make up to match a person’s personality, eye color & hair color. It is also known as skin tone color matching or color seasons & used during wardrobe planning and style consultation. Every woman should know what colors are becoming of her & what her seasonal palette is and this information can be used while you are buying clothes, choosing make up shades or choosing a new hair color to enhance your appearance. The correct colors not only make you look healthier, younger, slimmer & brighter but also make you feel good about yourself. Colors affect our moods & emotions & our perceived body shape.
Seasonal color analysis:-
There are several means of analyzing personal colors. Most commonly used is ‘Seasonal color analysis’. It categorizes people into one of the four general categories- winter, summer, autumn & spring. The categories are named after the seasons & color range found in nature. You need to understand your seasonal color & its attributes.
1) Winter- If you are a winter you probably have bluish or pinkish undertone & a lot of contrast between your hair color, eye color & skin tone. Your should wear bold shades of grey, black& brown, shades of pink, purple, blue, green & lavender.
2) Summer- If your color season is summer, then you probably have a low level of contrast between your hair & eye color, pale eye color, skin tone with undertones of pink or blue & hair color ranges from light ash blonde to deep ash brown. You should wear light & muted shades of grey, pink, purple, blue, yellow & red.
3) Autumn- If you’re an autumn, then most probably you have a lot of depth to your coloring, earthy tone quality to your eye color, olive, beige, ivory, bronze skin with yellow or peachy undertone. You must wear rich golden, spicy & earthy colors.
4) Spring- If you’re a spring, then you’ve low level of contrast between hair & skin tone, clear warm & golden undertones, medium brown to light blonde hair with a golden or reddish tint, eye color ranges from blue to dark brown eyes. You should wear true colors like cadet navy or golden shades like olive, golden brown, camel & warm greys.
Determining your skin color tone:-
Skin color, & not hair or eye color, determines a person’s color season since skin color remains the same over a person’s entire lifetime while eye or hair color can be artificially changed. Everybody’s skin color includes strong elements of red because of the presence of hemoglobin in blood but actually it’s the undertone, which could be blue or yellow, which determines the person’s color season. Yellow or blue undertones in a person are a result of two pigments- melanin & carotene. Melanin produces brown (when it’s alone) & greys & blue-greys (when mixed with yellow & reds). Where carotene is predominant, it produces golden or peach undertones.
How to know if you are warm or cool:
A color can also be grouped as- ‘warm, cool or neutral’. To know whether you are warm or cool, do the following:-
- Stand 2-3 feet away in front of a mirror in natural daylight.
- Place a white paper below your chin.
- Close your eyes for few seconds.
- Open your eyes. If you noticed white paper first, then you’re warm but if you noticed your face first, then you are cool.
- By using this information on color analysis, you can easily mix & match your clothes and enrich your wardrobe.
About the Author
Albright is graduated from the Australian Institute of Applied Sciences at Stones Corner in Brisbane. He has an understanding of fashion and design, good with the public, good communicator, flexible and able to work on request for extended periods. He has been a pioneer in the field of beauty therapy. His advice on any beauty therapy will surely prove favorable for anybody.
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