For context: I’m a Soft Autumn who, before color analysis, would look at herself in the mirror wearing bright colors and go “ick.” Yet I still considered the possibility of being a winter or spring and got super confused trying to drape myself. After color analysis, I get it! Bright colors are literally the opposite of my season. I should have jumped straight to summer or autumn because those are the soft seasons (opposite of bright).

If anyone else has a gut reaction like I did to a certain quality of color, then I think it’s safe to assume you are FAR away from those colors.

For example, if you go “ick” when you wear any dusty/soft/muted color regardless of whether it’s warm or cool, then you are not summer or autumn because you need colors that are bright. This would put you into either winter or spring because one of your dominant features is brightness.

This concept would apply to any of the color characteristics. If you don’t already know, they are:

Bright (winter & spring) vs Soft (summer & autumn) Dark (winter & autumn) vs Light (summer & spring) Warm (autumn & spring) vs Cool (winter & summer)

Granted, if you don’t have an “ick” to a certain color characteristic, then this doesn’t work. But if you are like me and know your worst colors, then they can actually lead you to your best colors! Just look at the opposite of whatever your worst colors are. It’s so simple and I can’t believe I didn’t realize it sooner.

If this is already obvious to you then you are way ahead of me lol. It just felt like a eureka moment and I wanted to share in case it helps anyone else who is confused!

I have recently been typed as a soft summer. Probably the least attractive palette to me to be honest, I’m more drawn to bright, bold colours but I’ve been adding some summer pieces to my wardrobe & people have definitely been commenting on how well they suit me.

Where I’m struggling is with make up. I don’t wear heavy make up day to day anyway but would love some make up recommendations or tips from my fellow soft summers, lipsticks especially.

Hello reddit,

I've recently been analysed as a cool summer. I was very suprised because I always thought I had warm skin.. but I've been embracing my cool colors and I really see the difference.

Over the past years I've really liked the kind of preppy/academic quiet luxury/old money style. It's also easy for me to use for work. Thing is, this style exists out of lots of colors that technically don't suit me: black, white, brown, beige..

I can't unsee my result now, so I really want to use my new colors. Grey and blue I think can be used for this style as well and are definitely in my palette.

Does anybody have advice or recommendations for this style in a cool summer palette? Clothing brands, influencers, websites or any other recommendations are very welcome :)

Thanks in advance!

NMIP

Thanks!!

In an effort to not buy and return a bunch of items, I’d love to go try on some of the colors from the seasons people think I am.

When you all do this, do you wear any makeup? How do you counter the bad dressing room light?

My skin has red acne scarring that I feel isn’t accurate to my actual skin tone and I feel like that’s a factor as well. Any advice or suggestions would be great!

Hi! I really want to get my color analysis done. I could either do it in person in Mexico City or in Chicago, or online. Who do you recommend I work with? Thank you!

Dark autumn here! I'm still coming to terms with black not being one of my best colors. In my opinion, it just makes me look a bit.. boring? It doesn't do much for my features. However, so much of my closet includes black still! I'm considering slowly replacing each item with its brown counterpart.

Has anyone else swapped out their black clothing with gray or brown and found it worthwhile? Is a little brown dress ever going to truly replace the staple that is the little black dress??