Where to get my colors done?

[Anonymous]

I've seen it so many times on social media that now I want to get mine done. Who does this?

[Anonymous]

Natalie at District Color is amazing!

[Anonymous]

Did you find it worthwhile? Did it change the way you dress or shop? I’ve narrowed down my season but can’t figure out the true, soft or deep part, so I’m debating whether to splurge and get analyzed.

[Anonymous]

What is the going rate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you find it worthwhile? Did it change the way you dress or shop? I’ve narrowed down my season but can’t figure out the true, soft or deep part, so I’m debating whether to splurge and get analyzed.

It was great! Especially helped with makeup — you can find lists of makeup by season online (I like Truth Is Beauty) and then you’re only trying a dozen lipsticks instead of Every Lipstick Ever. And similarly for online shopping — way easier to just discard 90% of clothes without even considering because I know they’re not my colors. And I look sooooo much better. In your season you just glow. It’s a splurge but I think it’s a better splurge than an equivalent spa day!

[Anonymous]

It’s such a nonsense scam, OP.

[Anonymous]

Also sounds like maybe you’re an autumn — if you can wear a black tshirt without makeup and not look like a corpse, you’re deep. If you can wear pumpkin orange you’re true. If you need makeup to became any kind of saturation you’re soft. I’m soft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you find it worthwhile? Did it change the way you dress or shop? I’ve narrowed down my season but can’t figure out the true, soft or deep part, so I’m debating whether to splurge and get analyzed.

It was great! Especially helped with makeup — you can find lists of makeup by season online (I like Truth Is Beauty) and then you’re only trying a dozen lipsticks instead of Every Lipstick Ever. And similarly for online shopping — way easier to just discard 90% of clothes without even considering because I know they’re not my colors. And I look sooooo much better. In your season you just glow. It’s a splurge but I think it’s a better splurge than an equivalent spa day!

+1 It completely changed the colors I wear and my makeup. I get so many more compliments now. At the same time, I worked on narrowing down my style as well (using online blogs mostly) and the combo of the right colors and sticking to a clear style of dressing makes shopping and getting dressed much easier and more satisfying.

Ignore the poster who feels the need to say this is a scam on every post.

[Anonymous]

The other thing I love, going along with seasonal color analysis, is what you might call "style analysis" -- what kind of lines and shapes look good on me. You might also see this called "essence" online. But they play into each other, because if your style is heavy on the primary colors that means your seasonal "primaries" -- which are not necessarily Crayola colors. You want something that looks red *on you* but that might be kind of brick or peachy in the abstract. Knowing my style and my season has made dressing in a flattering way SO MUCH easier -- I'm much pickier shopping, there are entire brands I don't even look at because their vibe is not right for me even if I like the way it looks on other people, and I wish J. Crew made stuff in more muted colors because I can't pull off most of their palette, but I look great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also sounds like maybe you’re an autumn — if you can wear a black tshirt without makeup and not look like a corpse, you’re deep. If you can wear pumpkin orange you’re true. If you need makeup to became any kind of saturation you’re soft. I’m soft.

How can you tell PP is an autumn when she hasn’t said anything about what she looks like?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also sounds like maybe you’re an autumn — if you can wear a black tshirt without makeup and not look like a corpse, you’re deep. If you can wear pumpkin orange you’re true. If you need makeup to became any kind of saturation you’re soft. I’m soft.

How can you tell PP is an autumn when she hasn’t said anything about what she looks like?

Because she said her options were soft, deep, and true. Summer had soft and light, spring has bright and light, winter has bright and deep. Only Autumn has those three.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also sounds like maybe you’re an autumn — if you can wear a black tshirt without makeup and not look like a corpse, you’re deep. If you can wear pumpkin orange you’re true. If you need makeup to became any kind of saturation you’re soft. I’m soft.

How can you tell PP is an autumn when she hasn’t said anything about what she looks like?

Because she said her options were soft, deep, and true. Summer had soft and light, spring has bright and light, winter has bright and deep. Only Autumn has those three.

Nice detective work!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also sounds like maybe you’re an autumn — if you can wear a black tshirt without makeup and not look like a corpse, you’re deep. If you can wear pumpkin orange you’re true. If you need makeup to became any kind of saturation you’re soft. I’m soft.

Is it really that simple? Pumpkin orange is good on me, so I'm true? (Not OP but positive I'm autumn.)

[Anonymous]

I did some color quizzes on my own and got color recommendations on instagram - cost me nothing and it’s clear to me that the end result is correct.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also sounds like maybe you’re an autumn — if you can wear a black tshirt without makeup and not look like a corpse, you’re deep. If you can wear pumpkin orange you’re true. If you need makeup to became any kind of saturation you’re soft. I’m soft.

Is it really that simple? Pumpkin orange is good on me, so I'm true? (Not OP but positive I'm autumn.)

More or less! The caveats: you need to be sure it really is the true autumn orange, which is very very warm (orange is always warm, but it can be more or less so) but muted relative to a spring orange, and you need to have trained your eye enough that you can "see" color harmony. But generally, if you're pretty sure you're an autumn and you look good in pumpkin orange -- again, without makeup and with it right next to your face -- you're probably a true ("warm") autumn. There's also a dark autumn orange, which is (shockingly) darker and a lot less warm (dark autumn verges on winter, which is a cool season), but there's not really a soft autumn orange because when orange loses saturation it turns weirdly yellow or green or brown depending on the precise shade.

When you pay for professional color analysis, you're mostly paying for 1) the eye training, which frankly you can cultivate on your own, and 2) a turn with the precisely calibrated seasonal color drapes, which are shockingly expensive. (Like $7k for a set, it's a racket.) Color analysis mostly just consists of the nice color analyst lady putting different colors of cloth around your shoulders in a well-lit space with a mirror and seeing how it changes how your face looks -- the differences can be dramatic! I'm a soft autumn and if I go too warm I look a little yellowish, but if I go too saturated or too dark the shadows in my face suddenly jump out and I look like a corpse. It's wild.