4 Season Color Analysis Doesn't Fit All | Dakota Johnson Analysis | Deep, Cool, & Soft

[@DaniShugs]

The two of you are simply stunning in this video; not just because you’re wearing great colors for your seasons, but also fashion wise, hair wise, and makeup is absolutely flawless. 😍

[@thehardercandy]

Olive skin tones can also lean cool or warm. A video on olive skin tones and their colors would be awesome!

[@under_N_over_it]

omg yes pleaseeee , i’m so lost 😂, i just recently found out i’m considered fair olive! but i have no idea which way i lean. always thought i was NW, but wondered why i never got a perfect match lol. i have honey brown eyes w/ a dark ring around the outer & a medium burst 💥 in the center. and like medium to dark ash brown hair (like level 5)

[@aylablue669]

Deep cool and soft here, HoC said I'm a dark summer, Dakota would fit that too.

[@insideunwrittenthings]

yeah I agree, I'm the same and got typed as deep summer. I think the 16 colour seasonal analysis is better than the 12 one :)

[@susansmith8081]

How do you buy makeup colors for soft deep and cool? Not winter and not summer?

[@user-zy1co9hy9m]

Dakota Johnson is a natural blonde tho

[@almondmilk4601]

I think I'm either a dark summer or a soft winter. They're similar but soft winter is deeper and has more contrast..

[@lifeoflee09]

As a deep cool soft person, I am thankful for this video. It took me forever to figure out my colors, I gave up and got a personalized color consultation, and I turned out to be deep cool soft. There needs to be more content on this color type!! There is not enough representation on this color type so it's hard to find inspo. The colors often seem foreign to me, but I'm getting to know them! Anyways seeing how the colors affect Dakota is inspiring!

[@JackOllie4]

I love this. For myself, I'd now consider myself deep, cool and soft. I was previously a cool brunette and am now a cool silver-haired. But I remain deep and soft. Pastels have always looked terrible on me, and so have clear colors! The thing that has changed is that black has become a bit harsh for me. I've switched to navy as my dark neutral. My eyes are an "ish" color ... blueish, but also deep blueish! Navy really brings them out as looking more brightly deep blue😊

[@TheBaumcm]

Might I also recommend as a deep, soft and cool, charcoal. I find navy difficult as it is often quite clear. Charcoal never steers me wrong.

[@lapislazulis2378]

She's challenging because she's medium depht and medium clarity. In other systems she would be a dark version of soft summer. I would like to know your opinion on Rachel Weisz and Emmy Rossum, Kate Middleton, Angelina Jolie: I find their case tricky.

[@PlanningNerd]

I was analyzed as a Soft neutral-cool by a Colour Me Beautiful consultant, I think it's great they use that system (and they also believe that your color changes with age.) I was given a fan where 80% of the colours are the same whether you're soft-cool or soft-warm, because the softness is the main characteristic. I can rock an olive green like nobody's business! I think it's a really great, inclusive system.

[@aimeeromero1653]

I’m in the same boat. My dominant characteristic is muted/soft, with low contrast and midrange in the light/dark scale. I thought I was firmly soft autumn but I’m actually a bit more soft summer and can swing both soft palettes. I’m so grateful for this video because I thought I HAD to fit into one bucket but if you don’t have a lot of chroma going on to begin with, you actually have more options. 😂

[@maddielockridge5093]

Watching this video now I think I might be deep cool and soft, I’ve always considered myself a winter that’s very close to summer, but the lighter summer colors just don’t look good on me at all.

[@Jennifer_Ann]

In the 12 season system you are probably a cool summer 😊

[@drawingout.net-vmcg]

Me too...deep cool and soft

[@lynsphildav7987]

I’m the same - classified as a dark summer in 16 seasons - totally agree on the light summer colours. But winter as too much for me.

[@maddielockridge5093]

@@Jennifer_Ann I feel closer to Cool Winter though

[@lindavantassel5151]

Thank you! I was originally coded as a winter and never felt comfortable in clear colours. When I discovered the deep, cool and soft I felt myself.

[@JL-gs6wk]

I was analyzed as Cool Winter. Summer colors are not strong enough and some winter colors can be a tad too much. And now I understand why. Thank you for explaining this. You did not say what a person who is cool, deep and soft is called though. So please let us know. I read some comments below that it would be called Cool Winter or dark summer. What do Lucinda and Sarah call it?

[@peggyalaniz3880]

Yes would you let us know how you both would call it, is Cool Winter and or Dark Summer is that the proper name? If so what would be the difference between the two?

[@francesbell4386]

I am cool, deep, soft. Dakota's best colours are my best colours too. I have been analysed as a dark summer in the 16 palette system.

[@dawnjeffersramstad8401]

Excellent! When I had no gray and my hair was "dark ash blonde," I could not wear the softer colors either. But now that I am 67 and very gray, black has left my closet in favor of deep blues and mid tone grays. Lumina and Sarah, I am truly learning with your work. Again, in the six characteristics I am cool beyond a doubt (my eyes are Nordic blue and I get the most compliments in blues & icy pastels while white is way more flattering than ivory), then I would say I am light second and soft third , nut the more I learn the more of a tie those two characteristics are. 🎉

[@dawnjeffersramstad8401]

Sorry for the AI spellcheck!

[@RorysSpoonieDiaries-fh2gk]

It's so interesting that both of you are on the same color transition journey through your life ! Great to learn from

[@Eva-qz6if]

Dakota is a natural blonde so I think this is why it is difficult to place her because something is slightly off balance but I do definitely think she really suits brown hair though!

[@4264127]

She is not a natural blonde post puberty she was as a child.her hair color now is medium to light brown 🎉

[@coloredpencils01]

Of course she is not a natural blonde. She has brown hair. Blonde as a kid does not equal blonde as an adult. Most kid blondes turn brown hair as adults.

[@Eva-qz6if]

She said it herself in an interview. ☺️

[@notblondeswede]

I believe in the 16 palette system as according to the international image institute ( eg. Carol Brailey). It includes "true soft", "true warm" etc. That being said you both are autumns, while one leans more true and the other is a soft autumn which can borrow from soft summer. The sister seasons can borrow. Dakota looks like a deep winter like shown or possibly deep autumn ( cooler deeper autumn colors = deep, warm and soft ). She looks amazing in deep winter shades that you showed. I think there is something interesting in the fact that people think she's a cool-warm. Real swatches in natural daylight is needed.

[@karenkonecny]

I really enjoy your content. Keep it coming. I am a bit confused on this though - I thought the point of the 6 tonal characteristics was to choose a dominant characteristics and that is the category of color - what I have been seeing in the past few videos is that you are continually referring to each person as 3 of the categories - Deep, Cool and Soft rather than Deep or Cool or Soft in this case. I thought the point was to choose the dominant of the 6 and that was the category of the person. Thanks if you can clarify.😊

[@yensid4294]

Your hair is not the only thing that greys as you age, your skin & eyes will soften too. It's probably easiest for Summers & Autumns since that palette has a natural progression from True or Deep to Soft.

[@florenciapignataro4504]

You girls really rock it! I was typed as a true winter but when I try to wear red lipstick something seems off. I’ve tried other ‘red’ options and I found that mauve lipstick suits better, so I think I have a little softness in my combination. Thanks for your deep and detailed information. I really love and enjoy your content ❤

[@marybateman8127]

I always thought Dakota was a soft summer with an added need for depth? Soft deep plums would look amazing on her

[@catherineruthmorris]

I’ve just been analysed in person (by a Colour Me Beautiful consultant) as soft, cool, deep (in that order as soft is the most dominant. I definitely look younger and healthier in the colours at the deeper end of soft summer! This vid has been so helpful to confirm my best colours. Thank you for the great work you do!

[@markjordan433]

Dakota definitely looks better in deep cool and soft. Great video, thank you.

[@eliali6484]

I had a revelation here! 😅That's why my winter wardrobe palette seems somehow off on me in summer! I'm self analyzed soft summer of true summer or something but cool soft and medium contrast in general. The problem is that my contrast level changes during the winter and summer - in winter my skin is very pale pink and my hair is light brown almost steel shade - my contrast level is higher than medium for sure and soft summer palette washes me out. In summer I gain tan really quick and my hair become lighter - dark ashy blond with high lights because of the sun and especially salty water 😁. So light muted colors top to bottom are my best. I wondered why. In practice I shift two palettes and it breaks my minimalist wardrobe concept... But it is what it is 😀

[@ernestavalenciute6279]

My description exactly 😂😂😂. I noticed that before and I couldn’t explain it with 12 colour palette concept, I just thought I should trust myself to know what fits me best.

[@717379]

I disagree that Dakota is deep. Her dark hair is not her natural colour. She was blond as a child and even though she tried dark brown and light/golden blond, she has more often been toying with different shades of medium brown. This back and forth is often indicative of having mousy hair: because the colour is not striking, some women feel that it is somehow lacking, that it should be lighter/darker/stronger: this is especially the case in Hollywood. They will try anything except their natural colour. Another good example is Angelina Jolie who also was blond but has been constantly dying her hair darker. As stated in this video, her eyes are not clear but soft. Her hair is likely medium and soft (she looks fresh, clean and absolutely stunning in medium ashy brown hair) So medium + soft + cool = summer. Go back to the pictures where she wears summer pastels and try and change the hair back to a mousy brown 🤩

[@AL-dy1lj]

Seasons change as we age ❤

[@adk5997]

I don’t understand from where it came from that the light colours are the only summer colours?? Because the summer palette has the darker colours too. It is to decide she is light summer (the lighter colours) or true summer or deep summer- darker colours. I don’t know system where sumner has only light colours.

[@meganunderwood856]

I am so glad you did this! My sisters say I am Dakota’s skin tone and have very similar hair color. Also, everyday I would get a stranger telling me I look like Dakota (sometimes Anne Hathaway as well) The only difference is I have green/hazel eyes. I’ve been having the hardest time with the color seasons and have given up because I also do not fit. I have warmish eyes and warmish hair and neutral-cool undertones. (Competing colors like you said)

[@lauriedonnelly7134]

Such great content. Your voices are so soothing yet confident. Look forward to seeing more content. ❤

[@YamIa3gypsy]

This is the first time this topic has ever made sense! You have earned my subscription. Thank you both. Maybe I can find a “home” too very soon. (Only difference with Dakota and my coloring is that I have olive green eyes. Everyone wants to make me an autumn, but nope.

[@coloredpencils01]

Eye color doesn't matter for color analysis. It's all about your skin's undertone. Check out Colour Analysis or Truth is Beauty for in depth info.

[@fionaakasha3653]

I think I fall into the category of deep cool and soft! You both look amazing in this video and thank you for speaking on this 🌷

[@camillasvensson8846]

Oh this helped me understand why I can't completely categorize myself as a summer/soft summer. My hair color is ash brownish and my eyes are blue/greyish. As a kid I was blonde. I dress better in cool tones, but if it's too sharp, they take over. In pastels I washed out. Thank you❤

[@LizHiggTN]

Omg I get so excited about all this. It’s fascinating. I’m currently studying the Your Color Style system and it’s very similar to y’all’s approach.

[@lookslikeiwin]

I did my own color analysis and what I got from it is I'm slightly cool, very soft, and I do better with medium-dark tones than light ones (they look a little bright on me). So I fit best into the soft summer category overall, but my eyes are slightly off-blue, and my hair is slightly warm, so I look best in all medium-dark soft colors, but cooler reds and warmer blues and violets. Like a blue-violet doesn't look anywhere near as good on me as a softened plum violet, and blue looks like I mismatched my eyes unless it's pretty gray, but a grayish teal is perfect. Meanwhile, orangey red isn't really my color, while a soft berry red looks perfect. Unfortunately a lot of my clothes are bright and warm but next time I'm shopping, I know what to look for!

[@Taichientaoyin]

I was classified as a deep winter but I believe deep cool and soft is what I need.

[@Laura_auer]

oh my goodness this is has been extremely helpful for those of us who don't feel at home in any of the four seasons!!

[@crocolagerfelden6142]

You guys look fantastic in these colours. Just pure perfection.

[@pdk9903]

Love this! I'm 45, after 40 I suddenly found reddish highlights in my coo middle l brown hair. I also discovered some light beige in my eyes. Also I suspect my skin tone is more neutral; I always thought it was cool because my surface tone is very light. My degree of contrast has lessened since my 20s, and now a super light foundation makes me look ashen. It's fascinating!

[@ramyakannan7212]

Amazing! please please a video on Olive skin tone, it can really be baffling to work with since many times it may 'look' warm but is actually a cool undertone.

[@theroyalshaman]

Omg this is def me! I have this issue when trying to fit the Soft Summer palette

[@Мария-и2ь4п]

16 types, dark sammer/ soft winter

[@mherman4712]

I am a dark/deep winter but it has never made sense (bright red overwhelms me even royal blue overwhelms me as well) - I have warm murky brown eyes, ashy brown hair but with reddish highlights, and pink tan skin - the deep, cool, soft colors suite me so much better in your examples than in the other system - thank you!!! Can you post some examples of deep cool soft colors? 🙏

[@Jo-pp7yj]

I think I am light, cool, soft. I'm going to run with that for a while. Putting away the darks.

[@vanessac1965]

Omg I'm so glad I found you! You are making me not feel crazy 😂 I've definitely changed as I got older!

[@elainelee4828]

My mystery solved, the eyes (they have been described as dreamy, unfocused on a good term, on a negative term, no shiny spirit coming out of them). I am categorized as winter over and over again. But I just can’t pull off black color close to my chin or deeply saturated colors for that matter. Even black eye liner is worse than bad, not even dark brown, it has to be chocolate. So puzzling, deep cool and soft. Yes, that muted deep colors are so much better. Even grey dots mixed in with the black as fabric color would work.

[@lukretiacandreja7938]

I am also a color consultant. In my system, Dakota would be a summer-winter. So darker than summer and softer than winter. 😊 Your system is also interesting. Thanks for the information. ❤

[@cathwalsh9921]

I’ve been typed as a winter and I’ve found that I’m definitely not able to handle the intensity.

[@carolineschnegg3437]

Sooo nice! The deep cool soft is gorgeous.

[@natalieayala2008]

I’m a deep, cool and soft! Thank you! It’s been so hard to self analyze and I keep bouncing between cool summer and cool winter. Winter colors are too strong and bright and summer colors can run too light so I’ve been doing the deeper summer colors. I know eventually you guys plan on doing the 16 seasons and I wonder if “dark summer” is what Dakota Johnson and me are. To clarify for Dakota Johnson, in the 6 characteristics are you giving her the deep palette or the soft palette?

[@debbie444]

I really enjoy your videos ! Do you offer online colour analysis for individuals?

[@carlamattei7276]

In this classification she would be considered a "Soft Winter" (given my characteristics, I could be one); There is no term "Dark Summer" (from what I've learned, Summer is always light, cool and soft)!

[@TheBaumcm]

There is a deep summer in the 16 palette.

[@xtinaaaaaaa]

soft, cool, and deep! i feel seen!

[@hannibalsings73]

Do you have a color grid for deep, cool, soft?

[@dilyaraabs8639]

She is also typed as dramatic classic body type in Kibbe system, and for people who are soft summer for example, and are dramatic classic body type, darker, more dramatic colors of soft summer will be more suitable. This is another rabbit hole to go down for sure, but I am the same color/body type as her and was also confused why lighter colors didn’t look as good

[@LeeRattmann]

shes a soft classic

[@karenh6058]

Wow! Love your analysis in this video. Makes so much sense. I’ve been typed as a True Summer, but I find I’m lost in the lighter colors of that palette. DEEP COOL SOFT would make so much more sense because I shine in the darker colors. Thank you for this!

[@mtskjsmtskjs953]

That’s me! Deep , cool, soft . Great video

[@Mon-Blue-Cat]

I am Cool, Deep & Soft just like Dakota Johnson. And this video was very helpful. I myself was going back & forth not fitting in either Summer or Winter completely. I cant pull off either pastels colours nor bright vivid colours. So this was a very eye opener of a video. I was wondering wether there is a Cool, Deep & Soft palette in the extended seasonal color analysis (the 12 seasons).

[@TheBaumcm]

There is not , unfortunately but there are two in the 16 palette, soft/Smoky/Toned Winter and Deep Summer. If your primary is deep, you’re more likely the soft winter but if your primary is more cool, you might be more likely Deep summer.

[@TheBaumcm]

Typed as a deep winter but those colors are sometimes too bright while soft summer are not deep enough. This makes sense because both my hair and eyes and blackISH. My prime is deep followed by soft (so pretty much all darker colors reached by adding black or gray) and then neutral cool. Instead of worrying about my season, I simply ask if a color is either deep enough or soft but not too lightened in value when draped against my skin. It’s usually pretty obvious.

[@MarcinaRiley]

Shout to the Deep Cool Soft! We can be so striking and alluring when we get our color story just right! 🩷

[@mel_says]

Awesome video, I would also love to see how you ladies interpret a clear, warm and deep analysis.

[@2112Dahlia]

Thank you! That's exactly where I fall into!

[@jujugoketo3711]

You guys are amazing. I think I am a deep cool soft. Definitely “ishy”. I think I am a bit of Autumn; and a bit of Winter. My hair goes brassy easily in summer, my eyes are ishy green, cool skin tone that can warm up in summer. I have to blend my lipstick colors as my hair color goes from fresh dye - to brassy faded. I love the added detail information. As a trained interior designer and makeup artist, your descriptions truly help me work with clients.

[@khelix23]

What if you are neutral instead of warm or cool? In the 6 categories?

[@LJ-qf5xn]

I've been analyzed as a cool clear light in tonal analysis. Cool as no 1, clear as no 2, light as no 3. I am medium dark and have medium contrast

[@tetyanalove6186]

Dakota Johnson has very feminine roundish features to her eyes, lips and cheeks. That’s why the aggressive red or too much black make her older. She has not enough dramatic forms to her face to pull off very bright colors. On the other hand she has dark hair, that’s why she looks better in darker colors. It doesn’t always work out for everyone, but if a person has a certain if you say “ character face” it works even for color analysis

[@almondmilk4601]

I think Dakota Johnson with her natural blonde hair is a soft summer, but with her dyed brunette hair is a deep summer.

[@Nerdy-By-Nature]

Sometimes those softer colors make you look even more washed out when your hair is blonde/light - like you're just one big blob of flesh 🤣 But coloring is nuanced, ymmv.

[@lookwhatiboughttoday]

Yep, if I wear rose pink/beige I feel like a sausage 😂

[@Nerdy-By-Nature]

@@lookwhatiboughttoday that is the best description 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, even my mom said I looked so much better *as a baby* in blue vs light pink. Some contrast, please! No sausage.

[@lookwhatiboughttoday]

@@Nerdy-By-Nature *horrifying flashback to trying on pale pink skinny jeans* 🌭🌭😬

[@susanc9525]

So what is the color palette for reference for Deep, Cool, Soft? Very educational video. Thanks.

[@susanmcdowell2499]

Great class thank you. I also see Cate Blanchett, Amelia Clark and Princess Cate of Wales used in videos to show them in many different colour combinations and not sure of which they category they fall using the 4 system. I'm not sure where I fall...I think outside of the 4 system which is why I like your classes so much. I am told I suit black Nd white but I feel winter colours a little over powering also I think I'm neutral so can lean into spring columns. I just don't do well in pastles like Dakotoa examples...so this has been helpful.

[@osmanthusc1220]

What about her Legendary Grandmother is she light spring or light summer!?I think she is a light spring.

[@ST52655]

Medium, Warm & Soft here.

[@trishpaterson3206]

So helpful x

[@throwawayaccnt144]

I'm light, warm, and soft with a dominant characteristic of light. This is another example that doesn't exist in the four seasons system because I would be a light spring but those colors are too bright for me.

[@kitty_s23456]

Maybe try soft autumn palette in the 12 season system? It's also soft but the colors have gray in them.

[@throwawayaccnt144]

@@kitty_s23456 it's not light enough. My primary characteristic is light so many of the soft autumn colors are too deep. Light spring works better than soft autumn but is still not quite right. I am very pale and have naturally pale golden blonde hair, and greyish eyes. I've tried digital experiments with a color picker and it seems like my ideal palette is the light spring palate with a bit of grey added or the soft autumn with a decent amount of white added.

[@kitty_s23456]

@@throwawayaccnt144 interesting combination. Maybe get some of the lighter colors from soft autumn & darker colors from light spring? I use the palettes from Dream Wardrobe. Good luck!

[@blessedbee1]

What about Michelle Dockery (from Downton Abbey) and Rachel Brosnahan (from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) - they are both deep and warm in the shows, but they don't seem to suit soft colours... How would you categories them? What is their dominant characteristic?

[@danaconnolly8574]

What about Light Warm and Soft? I feel like I’m neutral warm and light but need softer light colors not those vibrant saturated colors of spring. Autumn subseaons look awful on me. Too bright overpowers me but too cool looks disconnected to me. Light peach, light softer corals and light softer greens & blues look good. Not bright lime green. Maybe I’m a light summer I’m describing? Idk

[@under_N_over_it]

i’ve been so lost!!! not sure where i belong.. every time i think i get close to figuring it out i learn something new & reevaluate 😆. always thought i was NW, but wondered why i never got a perfect match w/ foundation lol. & in the past i have been told i have cool qualities as well. but i just found out recently that i’m a fair olive. i have like yellowish peachy gray tones, so hard to explain. i do tan very well but i can also burn a bit. i have a warmer medium burst 💥 in the center of my eyes that goes into a honey brown to a grayish green brown w/ a dark ring around the outer. and like medium ash brown hair. i’ve been put into the deep autumn season with AI (which i know can be inaccurate) and i just don’t feel like it fully fits. and i’ve also been grouped into deep winter. color me beautiful online quiz put me in cool deep winter as well. (and i feel like soft autumn is too “matchy” to my skin tone) i have watched a few videos recently that say olives look good in cool colors, which makes sense. but i’m so lost personally lol 😅

[@TheBaumcm]

Olives can, unfortunately, be both cool and warm. You need to find out which you are. Many olives can have some degree of softness. I am cool, olive, and deep. Typed a deep winter but more likely a soft winter as black, white and brights can be overpowering.

[@under_N_over_it]

@@TheBaumcmugh that’s where i keep going in circles. some people say we can be both some people say we can’t. Someone just recently told me we have a blue undertone and a yellow overtone, so olives are always technically cool. so it literally drives me insane trying to figure out where i fall on the cool warm spectrum. i do believe i have soft features though. i think lol

[@tzoe875]

Please figure out Caitriona Balfe for us. I keep seeing her listed as true summer, which is debatable. In the six I see that she is deep and cool and clear or is she soft? Her eyes look clear to me? I see her dominate as cool. In my untrained eye I see her more as a true winter. I think when Dakota Johnson wears her hair blonde or red it looks off.

[@emmaheineking7490]

is this even possible with light, cool and clear, because I was analyzed as a clear spring but im not really warm, rather cool but really in-between so neutral. So I fall in the summer palette, but the summer palette is too ashy and grayish I look best in clear and bright pinks and blues and bright colors. Winter is tooo dark for me.

[@teresarose7524]

how about light warm and clear? where does that fit?

[@idlehourlinda6476]

Deconstructing Dakota; fascinating! So informative.❤

[@janelagerquist454]

I was identified as winter in my 20s. Then i thought, this is just one persons opinion and i was young with lighter skin, brighter eyes. I thought i am more of a deep summer now. Soft deep cool makes more sense. Aging of skin and more hazel in my eyes.

[@JC-yc8wg]

Excellent video 📹 Ladies! The six season system is so much more realistic and accurate. Personally, my biggest struggle is differentiating soft from bright when colors are deep. I am soft, warm and deep, and often I find there's a fine line between soft/clear when it comes to deep tones. Perhaps, my coloring just is easily overpowered .

[@mamabear8373]

I have a question that i would really appreciate you answering. Would cool summer (between a summer and winter) be the same as a dark summer? If not how do they differ?Also where can you find a good color reference for deep cool soft?

[@crowfoot5718]

I'm like Dakota and look good in Soft Cool Deep. My colors seem to be between Soft Summer/Soft Winter.

[@dortek882]

Yesh… idont find myself in the colour system… veins are both purplr and green. Skintone yellowish , but the best Foundation says cool tone… hair ash whith a bit grey. Eyes can look blue, green or grey depending on what i wear. Need contrast, but black is not good anymore, but charcoal is great😂

[@aprilbatley6738]

i cant find anything for the 16 palette system, exciting u guys are going to cover it

[@ColorClassInc]

There is very little information about the 6 and the 16 palette and both are really great systems!

[@coloredpencils01]

12 season palettes and 16 season palettes are still based in the 4 seasons and fit within them. Also, color analysis is based on your skin's undertone. Skin tone is very different from undertone. Just because you look alike doesn't mean you share the same season or subseason. Just because your eye color and hair color changes does not mean your skin undertone changes.

[@MaryYoungblood-xy8vg]

If you have two of three it would still work. Totally Dakota Johnson is a Deep and Cool so she works as a winter. So what if she is more soft than clear. The deep colors and cool colors work. As long as she avoids the Bozo the Circus Clown bright colors and strategically blends her colors more she will do okay.

[@dianaholbrook]

Can you please give your opinion on the Color Alliance method of color analysis? I am intrigued by it and the Signia style system

[@carinaoliveira5850]

To me the seasons concept seems limited when you have grey/white hair. When I compare to my other 30 and 40 something's friends, we can easily use our hair tone to depict the season and sub season. But I find with people who have all grey or white hair, they get lumped into "cool". This makes sense because the greys naturally make the overall essence more cool toned. But seems limiting.

[@coloredpencils01]

Dakota is a Soft Summer in traditional 12 season analysis. That fits into soft, cool, medium depth.

[@coloredpencils01]

Being a summer doesnt mean you are supposed to look good in pastels. Pastels are for Light Spring and Light Summer. Dakota is clearly a Soft Summer or perhaps Cool Summer.

[@coloredpencils01]

Also, all the "correct" colors she is shown in in this video, are Soft Summer colors!

[@TheBaumcm]

She could also be a deep summer or soft winter in the 16 palette. It adds a bit more depth than soft summer.

[@rowanjoy419]

just a question, so isn't she just a cool summer or cool winter? because cool winter or I see people also called true winter, is the most muted sub group in the winter palette. And cool summer is the least light of the summer palette.

[@brettgirl]

I thought the 4 seasons include 3 variations (12 total for all season) with those 3 spectrums as permutations of the season itself. I've known her to be classified as a Cool Summer. But you all say she's not a Summer

[@lilyawood]

This is definitely my palette

[@lhuggett]

It sounds like there should be an 8 season system to include the combinations like deep+cool+soft and deep+warm+bright that don’t fit the standard 4?

[@coloredpencils01]

The problem with this is it doesn't fit the scientific properties of color. Soft summer and warm autumn come closest to the combos you describe.

[@lhuggett]

Deep+cool+soft was literally what the video was about...

[@johannbredendieck7568]

Nowadays i would consider Dakota Johnson as a summer- winter - type in the 10-seasons-system.

[@hepaticapropria]

That’s Merida 😮😮 soooo beautiful! Don’t ever again hold your hair! 😂

[@dianamaurer613]

So if I’m deep cool and soft is that a soft winter? I have grey eyes fair skin medium brown hair my eyes don’t stand out like our late dad he had same hair skin tone but very blue eyes. Our eyes when we were younger would change more if we wore certain colors. At 50 they definitely don’t stand out but our hair color thanks to dad no grey. Skin still pale though.

[@user-zy1co9hy9m]

Dakota a natural blonde tho, so she naturally is light and cool.

[@lyra2282]

12 season systems like Sci Art are incredibly limiting. Ideally we'd all be able to go to a Caygill type analyst who'd paint all our personal colors, but that's not possible and honestly, not necessary as long as you break out of the 12 type system and understand tonality, or what you call the six characteristics (or rather the spectrums of 3 main characteristics). I am Dakota Johnson in the sense that I am that elusive person that nobody could type correctly. I was typed as a Soft Summer, then Sci Art and another system put me in Dark Autumn which never quite worked. I want to personally warn everyone to never, ever use eye and hair color to determine anyone's season or seasonal subtype. They are irrelevant. What matters is how your skin reacts to color. Now, of course using your body colors including natural hair, eye colors, skin colors will always look harmonious to an extent, but those colors won't necessarily also work for your whole body because they may not fall into your best color palette. My eyes are a cool olive green but have some warm brown spots in them - that warm brown in clothing would look awful on me. The best thing to do is to let go of any preconceived expectations of what one "should" be based on eyes and hair and skin color or depth and instead to go through the tonal characteristics, similarly to how you did. What is the very first thing that you can see about Dakota? It's that she's Dark, or Deep. You may not know if she's cool or warm, or clear or soft, but the depth and the obvious contrast is there. Then you find the second most obvious characteristic, and then finally, the one that is least obvious. Draping is very helpful though, because even if you figure out your place on the spectrum, it can be very hard to figure out which colors are right when you're shopping for clothing and makeup. You need to see how your skin is reacting to color, consistently, to really shift how you see yourself. It takes a ton of experience and a very trained eye to understand the nuances of color, which is why having a palette you can use over and over to start recognizing your best colors is so important. Like Dakota, I turned out to be primarily and most easily Dark, then actually quite, quite cool in how my skin reacts to color (not everyone who is light skinned and cool has a pink overtone), and then, soft. If we're still using the seasonal language, that places me in the Dark Summer (or Jeweltone Summer in the Susan Caygill system) category which doesn't exist in Sci Art, but does exist in the House of Colours system. No system is perfect and so it's important to really understand the nuances of tonality. But if you do decide to get your colors done, please consider a system that is more expanded and less rigid and prescriptive than just four or 12 seasons.

[@gracie_5]

The undertone never changes. In 26 years, cool stayed cool. The so called blonde hair was not warm. Dark blonde hair looks more golden and tanned even if its ashy dark. Every hair, even cool summer and cool winter, can have some warmth in the sun, thats normal. Eye color pigmentation changes with the clothes, but warm eyes cant go to totally warm, then there is pigmentation illness during aging. The subseason can change, but not the total season. If it changes, the first was false.

[@JHixon-bi8ok]

I think that some olive skinned people also don’t fit into any particular season. Supposedly I’m a spring…but I have olive skin. Go figure.

[@Jennifer_Ann]

From my understanding, olive can be either warm or cool in tone. More blue would be cool, more warm would be yellow. I’ve heard olives are mostly cool in tone

[@under_N_over_it]

yess that’s where i’ve been so lost!!! not sure where i belong.. every time i think i get close to figuring it out i learn something new & reevaluate 😆. always thought i was NW, but wondered why i never got a perfect match w/ foundation lol. & in the past i have been told i have cool qualities as well. but i just found out recently that i’m a fair olive. i have like yellowish peachy gray tones, so hard to explain. i have honey brown eyes w/ a dark ring around the outer & a medium burst 💥 in the center. and like medium ash brown hair (like level 4ish) i’ve been put into the deep autumn season with AI (which i know can be inaccurate) and i just don’t feel like it fully fits. and i’ve also been grouped into deep winter. i have watched a few videos recently that say olives look good in cool colors, which makes sense. but i’m so lost personally lol 😅

[@claudiah8905]

Olive is always cool. Blue undertone yellow overtone = Green

[@under_N_over_it]

@@claudiah8905i can’t believe with the amount of reading & video watching i’ve done recently, that no one has broken it down this simply. that makes so much sense lol. so i’d put myself on the cool side regarding the seasons/6 palette system ?

[@claudiah8905]

@@under_N_over_it 😄 yes you should be either in the winter or summer season. Seeing your picture you can x out winter type.

[@carolineschnegg3437]

Could you please present a Soft Spring celebrity or model example with pale skin and light brown hair? I was typed between a Light and Soft Spring which felt 100 percent correct. However, for years prior to color analysis, I assumed I must be a Summer because I have brown hair and nearly all Caucasian Spring examples are blonde or red. Even though I felt dull in Summer colors and loved yellow and peach, the hair color really threw me off.

[@MichelleBrandon-q3o]

Can you expand on a color palette for this type?