This is shade 22 Warm in Fenty's eaze drop blurring skin tint! I think it looks pretty darn good but I sometimes don't have an eye for color! What do you guys think?

NMIP. 1) dusty purple 2) cobalt blue 3) periwinkle (no gray) 4) black 5) dusty green/teal. Thanks y'all!

Edit: Dang it, it won't let me respond to comments. I would have said thank you to each one!

To my healthcare workers, my oxygen levels are always fine and my lips are always like that, and my heart is good, they monitor all of it because of the meds I'm on. I'm just naturally purple, nails are too.

I won't be doing warm drapes because I know I don't like them (sorry, I'm old and grumpy lol). I've tried MANY times.

My hair is naturally ash light brown, I put it back because it's dyed all to hell right now, I'm getting it fixed next weekend. I did black box dye, and to those who said it overpowered me, I suppose so? But I slapped some goth makeup on and had a grand old time.

My skin is neutral, my eyes are gray green, and my hair is so ash it looks gray, so warm stuff looks pretty awful. I think the hair dye threw a lot of folks

The shirt I have on under the drapes is VERY grayed green with a dusty purple stripe. Definitely soft summer, soft autumn at most. I think my phone camera made a few colors very bright compared to them in person.

NMIP

Hello!
This is about the rabbit hole I went down with color analysis and my own conclusions afterwards, and I would like to know if someone else shares my opinion or has experienced something similar.

This is the second time I post in this community. My first post I deleted it, since it had my photos and felt a bit insecure about it. That first post was about me asking if you believed the results of a color analysis I took via Etsy were right, adn if someone recomended any analist.

First things first, I took a color analysis via Etsy with a well reviewd specialist. I was actually surprised and pleased with the result, but because it was rather cheap (I went for it on a whim, just as a little play), I was unsure of the result. I was deemed a "soft summer deep". That was what the first post was about, the few people who answered seemed to agree, thought others disagreed but only very slightly, thinking I looked a bit more neutral. I had seen many people recomending someone else here with good reputation, it was more expensive, but I thought it might be worthy, as she seemed more transparent. The result came out as Deep Cool Winter. Both agreed in two things: my primal characteristic was depth, but I was very cool, not neutral, so I would do best leaning into cooler tones rather than flowing into Autumn despite supposedly being on neighbouring subseasons. However, while the first one advised me to go into soft summer cathegory in the 12 season system, the second one told me to go to a brighter cool winter (in her system, cool winter wasn't leaning into summer, she had different cathegories for lower intensity winters) and use bright colors of winter. This was completely the opposite of the soft result in the first analysis. Value and temperature seemed to add up, but chroma didn't.

And thus, I decided to go for a final third analysis. And this was all it took to sent me down a rabbit hole, as it gave me a Deep Autumn. Great, so now it wasn't just a matter of chroma, but also temperature, while the first two were adamant I needed to stick to cool tones and avoid neutral or warm colors, as coolness was not my main trait but it was definitely important, this one sent me into a warm season. Anyother person would have assume, well, okay, so all I need is maybe deep tones, no matter cool or warm, and rather medium intensity (as Autumn is deep but softer than winter, we were going down in chroma once again), but being as picky and obsessive as I was, this just made me go nuts and start taking many more analysis, even ones by new graduates who offered their services at a rather low price (silly me, maybe, though I think they deserved a chance too, and a couple were from reputed analyst, though). I even put a video on tiktok with different lipstick and ask people to tell me what they thought I was. The analysis I took came out this way:

- 1 soft deep summer
- 1 soft autumn
- 1 warm autumn
- 2 deep autumn
- 2 deep winter
- 1deep cool winter

The trend was basically depth.
As for the tiktok video, most people stuck to deep autumn and deep winter, though many also went for true/warm autumn and true/cool winter.

And here's when things changed.
Last year a friend came to visit and he had the idea to take an in-person analysis. If you wonder why I hadn't taken an in person analysis yet, in my country it was not a thing 3 years ago (it is now, though still largely unknown) it was hard to find one, move to the city/town and schedule it. We were visiting the capital, so it was great, because there there were quite a few. We took it together. It used the International Image Institute system and tools, but they were not graduates from the III, they had graduated in a different system, but found the tools an system of the III useful and preferable. I was deemed a True summer. 100% cool and 100% soft.

From that moment on, for a reason or another, I've ended up having 4 more color analysis - I took 2 complete packs of image consultation using different systems, one was western based, another Japanese based, and both included color analysis studies, I engaged in a haridressing master class that also included one, and I initiated my own education attending my actual first class of color consultant with a reputed analyst in my country - and all of them have converged in a quite nice soft summer - cool summer result.

They were all 12 season systems, albeit different. But they all have agreed in basically everything. The soft summer results deemed I was definitely cool, but that I benefited from the softest colors of summer, and cool summer leaned slightly into winter, making it a bit less soft, and though they suited me perfectly, the softer the merrier. But they did advise me to avoid leaning into Autumn territory. In fact, they all gave me the cool summer palette instead to use as my "sister season" as oposed to soft autumn, and a few colors from the light summer palette. As for the cool summer results, they deemed softness was quite important on me, and that it was certainly a key characteristic I needed in my colors, but that coolness was my primary feature and a very obvious one (truth be told, all of them, including the first one with the III system, deemed me cool at the first draping attempt, they were quite fast in discerning I was definitely nowhere near warm or even neutral). Because coolness was so obvious on me, there was no doubt that was my main trait, and therefore I had to be cool summer, and even if winter tones were too intense, cool summer was still leaning soft, so it suit me pretty well, and they deemd soft summer subseason lost a little bit of that coolness, and that it leant a bit too much into a neutral cathegory that doesn't look as good as a truely cool palette, soft summer was good, but not the best. And again I was told to stick to summer and avoid the supposed sister season of "cool winter", for it was a bit too intense and a bit too dark, and I was given, once again, some colors of both, the soft summer subseason and even a few from the light summer subseason,

All 12 season systems, but not the same one, and all converged in the importance of both, softness and coolness adn the importance to stick to summer, ones favoured softness and others coolness, that was all. As for the first in person analysis, the one using the III: they didn't place me into soft summer because I wasn't neutral leaning and didn't flow into autumn, they didn't placed me in light summer because some colors were too pale/light and I definetely didn't flow into spring (some also were a bit too bight, not just too light), and I wasn't placed into cool summer because in that system both cool summer and cool winter palettes are the same medium intensity and I needed softness, I could handle colours that were not 100% soft, but medium intensity was already a bit straining on me, winter territory was definitely not my thing, so true summer it was.

And they all also agree in one more thing: deep colours overwhelmed me enormously.

Because of my dark hair, darkish eyes and light skin, I had more of a medium constrast and had a bit more depth than the stereotypical summer types, thus why light summer colors looked too light and pale on me and why I did benefited from medium value colors as oposed to lighter value ones. But anything in the darker range was a big no-no. One of the analysts that placed me in cool summer even mentioned that soft summer was also really good and to borrow from it, telling me that I would like most colors, but advised me to be careful with the darkest colours, as they could make me look a bit pale. I did benefit from a bit more medium range values as they balanced my darkish hair an eyes, my superficial "depth", but in fact, many of the moderately light colors of summer like sea green, chinese pink, pink orquid, opera mauve, moonstone, or any medium-light value slate blue or glaucous color looked much more flattering on me than deep soft burgundy or deep grey-navy.

What is my conclusion after all this? Do it in person. Camera's and computers are not to be trusted. In my opinion they affect two things in color analysis. First thing they do is they enhance the chroma. Period. They make everything seem brgihter than it really is (well, maybe if you have a really nice good camera they don't, don't know). This leads to two drastic changes in the perception of a person's colouring: 1 the skin appears brighter/clearer, macking chroma appear higher than it is, and 2 this,in many cases, can lead to a perceived higher contrast. Though contrast is not a key element in color analysis, it is also taken into account, specially if you do it online. It's a mistake.

Just in case anyone is having second thoughts, at least the very first in-person analysis I can assure you I didn't give any hints whatsoever because I was in no way expecting a summer cathegory, and specially not a true summer one. If there was one thing I thought I was sure about what the depth, I just wanted to finally clear out if I was leaning warm or cool or if I needed more or less chroma. That was all.

Thank you for those of you who have read the whole thing. Please, share your experiences and opininons if you'd like.

Edit.- Please, don't be mistaken, many of the virtual analysts I went to were reputed analysts, not all were the cheap options, and they were all graduated analysts in any case.

I was typed by colorsbykayli would yall agree I'm a bright winter?

NMIP

Another pic of me
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I'm obsessed with color analysis, I did mine a few years ago with House of Colour in the UK and I was a winter (sultry/jewel was my subseason which I believe is just my best colors out of my palette)

I never understood the 16 seasons, felt a little dumb tbh to have subseasons like "warm autumn" because there's no cool autumn..

My problem is that every post online has multiple subseasons for winter (deep, cool(?), bright, true) that I just don't get, they all have some of my colors

Has anyone gotten theirs done by HoC and successfully found their season in the other systems? I really don't wanna pay again for another analysis by someone else

Does the gold or silver suit better (or something in between?). Thanks!

NMIP

NMIP

Natural/sun light

eyelashes curled via lift but specifically no colour added

Hey everyone i’m a bit new but i have jewelry both gold and silver but i want to invest more into one and i want to know if gold or silver suits me better and i need some opinions