What Your Color Season Is, and Why You Need to Know It
When image consultants talk about spring, summer, autumn, and winter, they are identifying your personal palette through Color Theory based on the color of your skin, hair, and eyes. Knowing your type will help you highlight your strong sides and hide the weak sides of your look.
At 5-Minute Crafts, we want you to look beautiful, so we decided to learn more about this.
What a color season is
We have strong associations with a particular color and season. For example, white snow and black branches belong to winter, orange leaves are associated with autumn, lush green grass is found in summer and delicate, pastel pink flowers are a sign of spring.
To determine the color palette suitable for a particular type of appearance, each season is broken down into a subtype. To determine your season, you need to take into account the following:
- hair color
- eye color
- skin tone
Determining your season is just a starting point to help you decide on the color palette that works for both your makeup and your wardrobe. These are not strict rules, you can always try colors from a different season, but if you want to achieve the best results, then check which type you are.
The color palette of winter
Hair: Black with blue undertones, dark brown, ashy blonde, or ashy light
Eyes: Blue, gray, or light brown
Skin: olive or cool blue undertones
Celebrities who belong to this season: Liv Tyler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristin Davis
Hair: Black, or medium to dark brown
Eyes: Bright green or blue
Skin: Cool blue undertones or olive
Celebrities who belong to this season: Angelina Jolie, Courteney Cox, Zooey Deschanel
Hair: Black or medium to dark brown
Eyes: Dark brown or black
Skin: Cool blue undertones or olive
Colors to avoid: dimmed colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Anne Hathaway, Priyanka Chopra, Lupita Nyong’o, Lucy Liu
The color palette of spring
Hair: Golden blonde, strawberry blonde, or golden brown
Eyes: Blue, green, hazel, or light brown
Skin: Fair skin with pink or peachy undertones
Colors to avoid: dark and bright colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Scarlett Johannson, Taylor Swift, Amanda Seyfried, Gwyneth Paltrow
Hair: Golden light to dark brown
Eyes: Green, blue, light brown
Skin: Skin has a pink undertone and ranges from ivory to golden brown
Colors to avoid: dimmed colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Emma Stone, Cara Delevingne, Tyra Banks, Beyoncé
Hair: Strawberry blonde to copper auburn, light to dark golden brown
Eyes: Green, blue, hazel, or light brown
Skin: Warm beige, slightly bronzed, may have freckles
Colors to avoid: Dark, pastel colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Amy Adams, Mandy Moore, Cameron Diaz
The color palette of summer
Hair: Light to medium ashy blonde or strawberry blonde
Eyes: Blue or green
Skin: Skin has a neutral undertone with a slight pink tinge
Colors to avoid: Dark colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Naomi Watts
Hair: Medium to dark ashy brown
Eyes: Gray, blue, hazel
Skin: Medium beige to dark brown with neutral undertones
Colors to avoid: Watery colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Katie Holmes, Sarah Jessica Parker
Hair: Medium to dark ashy brown
Skin: Skin has a cool undertone and ranges from medium beige to dark brown
Eyes: Blue or gray
Colors to avoid: Pastel, light, and warm colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Kate Middleton, Tina Fey, Zendaya
The color palette of autumn
Hair: Blonde to medium brown or red hair with a golden shine
Eyes: Green, hazel, or light brown
Skin: Ivory, olive, or medium brown with warm undertones
Colors to avoid: Watery colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Drew Barrymore
Hair: Medium to dark golden brown, or warm auburn
Eyes: Green, hazel, or light brown
Skin: Ivory, olive, or medium brown with warm undertones
Colors to avoid: Dark and pastel colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore
Hair: Medium to dark brown with golden shine
Eyes: Dark blue, deep green, hazel, dark brown, brown-black
Skin: Ivory, olive, or medium to dark brown with warm undertones
Colors to avoid: Dimmed colors
Celebrities who belong to this season: Keira Knightley, Oprah, Sandra Bullock
Bonus: quick ways to tell if your skin has “cool” or “warm” undertones
- Pay attention to how the jewelry looks on you: If you look better in silver, most likely, you have a cool undertone. But if gold suits you better, you may have a warm undertone.
- See how your skin reacts to the sun: If you burn easily or turn pink under the sun, you likely have a cool undertone, but if you easily get tan, then you have a warm undertone.
- Check the color of your veins: If your veins appear to be blue or purple, you are cool-toned. But if they’re more green, then you’re warm-toned.