Forget about guess work……
In the cosmetics and fashion industry, colour analysis, also known as Colour Coding, is the process of finding colours for clothing and makeup to match a person’s skin complexion, eye and hair colour. The goal is to determine which colours best suit your natural colouring and to use this to help wardrobe planning. Once you know your best colours, you can buy with confidence. Mixing and matching is easy, and you will have no more wasted purchases lurking at the back of your wardrobe!
One of my clients says:
“…my Colour Analysis session has helped me feel confident about finding colours that make me look and feel good…”
Barbara
At the end of the session you receive a booklet of 30 fabric swatches in your seasonal palette. To make future shopping easy, I mark the specific colours in the swatch that are best for your individual skin tone.
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I work on the seasonal palette system of Spring, Autumn, Winter and Summer.
First, we establish if you have a warm or cool undertone to you skin. Spring and Autumn palettes have a warm undertone and Winter and Summer have a cool undertone. Then I establish whether your seasonal palette is Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter, and here we then break it down to your best six to eight colours within that palette.
Spring colours are clear and bright, just like the colours of a spring day. The sun is low on the horizon, so everything is instilled with the golden hues of the sun. The trees and grass have not yet matured, so they are tinged with yellow undertones and are a bright, spring green colour. Distinct yellow undertones impart a vibrant, electric appearance to everything.
Dominant skin characteristics (an individual’s skin may include more than one) can be light amber with gold tones or a darker suntanned look with a yellow under cast. There is a tendency to blush easily, often very rosy, and there can be a lively appearance to skin tone. The overall appearance of a spring complexion is radiance.
The colours of summer are muted with blue undertones (think of looking at the scenery through a dusky summer haze). Late summer blossoms, a frothy ocean and white beaches are everywhere. Baby blue, slate blue, periwinkle, powder pink, seafoam green and slate grey are typical summer colours.
Dominant skin tones (an individual’s skin may include more than one) can be pale beige with delicate pink cheeks, pale beige (even sallow) with no cheek colour, rosy beige, very pink or rosy brown.
Autumn colours are virtually indistinguishable from the rich, earthy colours of the season for which they were named. They are as golden-hued as an autumn day, and it is impossible to mistake them for any other season. Typical colours from the palette include pumpkin, mustard yellow, burnt orange, brown, camel, beige, avocado green, rust and teal. Autumn colours are perennially popular, because they bring a feeling of warmth and security.
Dominant skin characteristics (an individual’s skin may include more than one) include a gold or yellow undertone that is more gold or orange-toned than a “Spring” and bronze.
The colours from this season are clear and icy, like a winter’s day and always with subtle blue undertones, for example: holly berry red, emerald and evergreen, royal blue, magenta and violet. Winter inspires pictures of winter berries, pine green conifers and black as well as white huskies racing through snow.
Dominant skin tones (an individual’s skin may include more than one) can be very white, white with delicate pink tone, beige (no cheek colour, even be sallow), grey-beige or brown, rosy beige, olive, black (blue undertone), or black (sallow).