Reply to Where to get my colors done?

Forum Index » Beauty and Fashion

Reply to "Where to get my colors done?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics