Color Analysis Controversy: Discover Why & When Hair Color Should Be Your Focus In Color Analysis!

Is skintone really the best way to determine your color palette? 🤔 At Color Class, we’re challenging one of the most controversial topics in the color analysis world: focusing on skintone vs. hair color. In this video, Sara and Lucinda reveal why hair color can be a more reliable guide to your true seasonal palette and how skintone can often lead you astray.
We break down the science, explain the flaws in traditional methods, and show you how considering your hair color can lead to better wardrobe choices, makeup matches, and stunning style transformations!
👉 Ready to rethink everything you know about color analysis? Watch now and decide for yourself!
Timestamps:
0:18 - Introduction
0:43 - The Problem with Skintone-Based Analysis
2:21 - Our Hair Color Experiment
4:10 - Adding Hair Into The Equation
5:19 - Adjusting Your Palette Though Color Analysis
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[@sarah_i_loenneberga]

First of all - I totally get the idea, that’s all fine for women who actually do have hair. I don’t and I don’t have eyebrows either. No pity please, I’ve lost my hair due to alopecia and it has become my new normal. And I’m definitely not alone on this earth proudly walking around as a woman with my bald head and missing eyebrows (oh and lashes as well btw). I’d really love to see a color analysis (attempt?!) with a real bald woman on your channel. No need for AI here, we proudly exist ✌️❤

[@lorilee1931]

Yes!

[@cathwalsh9921]

Regarding undertone/overtone… I look rather yellow, yet warm colours don’t look good. So to the eye I might look yellow, but I’m not warm, I’m cool. When I put cool colours on, you can tell that they harmonise with my skin. Some springs can look quite pink, yet cool colours don’t work for them. Some people have rosacea which would make them look pinker in patches, but they might not be cool. Of course you’ll know that because it’s your job anyway. I wouldn’t go for a system that uses hair for the simple reason that you can drastically change your hair from what it naturally is. Not so your skin. If I dyed my hair a colour which was alien to my colouring,, I’d then be having to adjust my makeup etc in order to ‘fit in’, rather than work with what I actually am. I’d then by buying clothes in colours that weren’t really ‘me’, in order to have a hair colour. I can see the point for someone who can’t cope with not colouring their hair differently and frequently, or for actresses, but if your goal is to look like what you naturally are but as good as you can, I think analysing to skin is the best way. Just my personal opinion.

[@BlueBird8925]

I agree.

[@cosmicalchemist8219]

I think so too.

[@Ivannacrashalot]

I agree. My mother is greying but she is still a soft autumn. I have had blonde hair, red hair, brown hair, and I always suited the same colours the best. Other colours never all of a sudden started to suit me.

[@Dani-lc9hq]

Exactly! My skin is the same!!

[@emileeirwin1981]

I appreciate your method so much. I was listening to a lot of those skin-tone-only color analysts here on KZbin before and I was never more confused. Every time I thought I saw what I thought the people in their videos looked good in based on photos I was wrong. I could also never identify myself in those systems. Not only is it crazy to think we want to continue to wear colors to correspond with a way we no longer look, but it perpetuates the idea that only people trained in a specific color analysis method can tell us what looks good on us. It's simply absurd that normal people can't know what looks good on them. If that were the case how would we even know it looked good at all?! It's like color gaslighting! 😂 Thanks to you both for your content!

[@rosanilebron1566]

Color gaslighting!!! 😅😅😅 Your comment is exactly how I felt watching other people on KZbin. Also, when theybput a white piece of fabric on their heads. Makes no sense at all.

[@helahreljac1523]

I absolutely agree with you. At the beginning I loved the idea of color analysis but at this point it's hard to watch most of the videos. The worst thing is lack of common sense in the comment section..a lot of people give up their own judgement just becuse someone else tells them what's good for them! Color analysis shoud be a tool,not a dogma.

[@rosanilebron1566]

Thanks again for your insights. As a 53 years old woman who decided to stop dyeing her hair, I can totally agree with both of you. Now that my hair is lighter than when I used to dye it, I somewhat shifted inside the same season. I haven't changed from one season to another yet, but now I need a kick of color to look fresh and vibrant. Otherwise, I look overall greyish.

[@MariaSCarr]

This is exactly why I really like this method. I have had every hair color on the spectrum through my life. I’ve learned that as long as I adjust my makeup and clothes, I can get away with it.

[@nataliesirota2611]

As someone who covers my hair, I have wondered about this very fact. However, I do wear natural bows, so that gives me direction. Also, my haircolor and eye color have dramatically changed as I have aged and post menopause.

[@ozbolder]

I love that you take in the whole person in the now. I want to look good where I am right now not at 20. Also I have long hair and I feel like not taking it into consideration is missing a big part of my personal image.

[@mvh5661]

I don't totally agree that you can make any hair color work for any skin tone. My skin tone is really cool, and I think that a warm hair color looks off on me.

[@Ann-wv2ti]

Seasonal colors never made sense to me until I started watching your channel. Seasons changing due to hair color, etc changes makes logical sense. The 6 palette system was what finally made it all click in my mind; especially when you talked about the soft attribute. Thank you for creating and sharing these videos. ❤

[@corinasucre]

You ladies look amazing with these soft and light colors. Amazing video btw!

[@cassiaaguilar7708]

I think the reason other color analysts ignore hair is because so many people dye their hair so there’s an assumption that the person will change their hair color to suit their skin

[@YamIa3gypsy]

Makes perfect sense to me. Thanks!

[@Houseofgamine]

On this subject I realize I lean towards skin only for season but I think within that season your hair color can affect best colors. For example when my hair is natural it is noticeably brown with natural highlights, color variations and I realize I enjoy a bit less contrast but when I dye my hair single process dark brown I enjoy a higher level of contrast. I’ve been blond, red, brown and nearly black but all in all, my true winter palette always looked the best although the colors within the palette and combinations varied for my taste.

[@cafefay]

Great topic! I was dark brunette, I colored my hair for 5 years, and it always ended up getting that orange tone even though I did ash brown. I decided to stop coloring my hair 10 yrs ago, best decision ever. Now, my salt and pepper hair is a perfect compliment to my cool skin tone, grey brown eyes, and coordinates perfect with my brows.

[@MaryYoungblood-xy8vg]

Even if we are in the same season, sometimes we align different as we age. At age 20 I was on border between warm and clear spring and now warm and soft spring. Warm still works best but my second and third features have definitely changed.

[@rebeccaw1772]

Spot on ladies, I shifted from golden blonde to brown with golden highlights and now it’s like an ashy brown with minimal golden highlights and white hairs popping up so I am so confused lol❤

[@michelehonore3343]

Love this! Glad I learned this from you years ago. This philosophy has helped me to better analyze my clients based on the now.

[@ChaoticAuthenticity]

Reese Witherspoon played June Carter in Walk The Line.

[@User-2cents]

My niece was the young girl in Walk the Line.

[@karisheets2323]

I was an Autumn, now I am a Soft Winter!

[@FrostyFreya]

It’s just so logical to take all into the account. Also, I’m pretty sure undertone / overtone are the same thing, it’s just the skin colour and the pigmentation that is in it. I do believe that our “season “ or rather the colours that look best on us change if we change the hair colour or we tan.

[@thinkbig5438]

I have neutral overtone = the foundations I wear are neutral. But everything that is remotely warm will turn orange on me. Because my undertone is cool only.

[@FrostyFreya]

@@thinkbig5438. It’s really good you have it figured out. I am exactly the same and I have heard it means I am a cool skin tone but since all skin tones are on a spectrum, I must be close to the middle rather than on a far end of cool. I’ve heard most people are somewhat neutral only slightly leaning cool or warm yet we are always either cool or warm. Sharing as I find it interesting and useful.

[@meganbisek5805]

I have absolutly white blonde brows! And dark blonde hair!

[@cosmicalchemist8219]

It’s interesting that you’re going by the palms of your hands. I know that is usually the lightest part of the skin, but I’ve noticed that we usually don’t tan on the palms of our hands, so I’m wondering how the sun changes them.

[@laurenbuckley5496]

Are these new glasses on you, Lucinda? They look so beautiful and harmonious on you! Also fyi the audio is a little quiet even when I have my speakers up all the way :)

[@tracie6837]

Can you guys talk about the makeup you are wearing? … or provide it in the description notes

[@cloche-et-chocolat]

Well.... I still don't look good in red hair. So skin has to be part of it. And I don't necessarily have the skin tone of your AI lady or Reese Witherspoon. I do agree natural hair colour can be part of it too.

[@akmamabear2258]

Okay how Reeses hair looks for Autumn 🍂 is exactly what I want lol its looking too dull brown again... Driving me crazy and I'm not ready to transition to a summer. 😂❤ how do I get this look at the salon yall? What do I ask for?

[@CarenLinn]

But my hair is lightened. Naturally I have nearly black hair, pale neutral skin, warmish brown eyes. Was typed Dark Winter twice. IDK I could be Dark Autum easily too,

[@janetleight8788]

That blue 💙 is too cool for your skin tone .

[@gamergirlmars]

you forgot to remove the eyebrows lol!

[@sestricaanutka]

So, you are sitting there both in muted colours and telling us that you are not the neighbouring seasons? It is known, that a soft autumn with time would shift to soft summer, because you become cooler and lighter as you age. So I don't see a problem there, where you see it. A bad colour analysis is a bad colour analysis. Colour analysis is about the natural colour. However the question that I cannot answer to myself till today, is a colour analysis approach suitable for grey hair at all? Or for women of colour? Maybe not. I cannot see how someone like me (bright spring) can pull off grey (muted, light, cool) hair colour. Btw, you have to do smith about your sound, it's extremely weak...

[@Daiseehead]

As a WOC, the only time color analysis has worked for me is in person. Online every.single.person typed me as an autumn, which now I know looks horrific. My skin is golden, so I understand it’s not obvious how cool I am. I was beginning to wonder if I am that ugly 😢Once I had it done in person, it was clear that all of the winter colors suited me, from bright (which many repeatedly associate only with light skin/dark hair), dark, to various “whites.” Silvers look wayyy better than gold, which saddens me because I like gold.

[@BlueBird8925]

I hear you. I’m in a similar situation. I’m a True Autumn but if I let my natural colour grow out, it’s 95% white. I look awful in white (and gray). I’ve heard a number of colour analysts say the toughest transition to gray/white is if you’re an Autumn and I can see that for my situation. I believe hair colour can be a factor but it’s not the primary determining one. For now I’m ignoring the problem 😃 by continuing to colour my hair a warm medium brown, which looks great on me.

[@thinkbig5438]

There is inclusive color analysis. Good example is the Korea. There is a whole industry and most non-inclusive systems would put anyone they see as „Asian“ into winter. It’s about finding someone whose eyes are trained in seeing color in different ethnicities.

[@sestricaanutka]

@thinkbig5438 agree, however the video was about hair colour, and as Asians in your example have all almost exactly the same hair and eye colour, they according to the described principle would all be winters.

[@thinkbig5438]

@ yep, that‘s what I mean with inclusivity. And I find many of the different systems struggle with describing feature that „make you“ season xyz. It’s more about does your coloring tend to be more deep, more soft, more cool,…. and you need a trained I to see that „for your ethnicity“. That‘s normal by the way, we need to see a lot of different people from one erhnicity that our brain can see the differences. It’s not that easy.

[@gobyfish1399]

Your model looks like the non binary actress from Deadpool and Wolverine.