Exposed: The Flawed Color Analysis Technique Still Used (and What We Do Instead)

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Are you relying on outdated color analysis methods? In this eye-opening video, Sara and Lucinda, with over 40 years of combined experience in the cosmetic industry, reveal the hidden flaws in traditional color analysis techniques that most experts still use today.
While many focus solely on skin tone-often even covering the hair with a white cloth-we take a modern, science-based approach that considers your complete look, in the moment. From your hair to your natural undertones, we believe every element matters when determining your true color palette.
Join us as we dive deep into why the old ways might be doing you a disservice and discover how our comprehensive method could completely transform the way you see yourself. Whether you're a seasoned color analysis enthusiast or new to the concept, this video will challenge everything you thought you knew!
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[@notyourmanicpixie]

Your skin covers your entire body. That is the biggest part, that's just a fact. Many people just hate their season and make up new rules, who cares lol wear what you want, but your skin is in fact the most important. Unless you're sitting 5 feet from someone, they can't see your eyes anyway.

[@gamergirlmars]

That is how I knew I was pale olive. I look gray kind of olive but I have very high contrast still. Neutral/cool undertone. And if I dress in gray colors I look like Casper. Summer lipsticks on me like a grayed out mauve are just NO! Ages me. Gray. It looks so bad lol. But if I dress more cohesively to my contrast level which is high and then for all my features, which are clear/bright, it pushes any of that back and enhances the good lol. Due to my ethnicities my analysis is an interesting one if you go stereotypically, interestingly will be WRONG. lol. I look great in especially in black and crisp whites, or wearing light brights, or brights, and jewel tones in general. There's more than just taking things at an inherent face value people don't think about. Like if I'm designing a piece of art, if the main color in it is black I want to add in another color but I can't just have a giant blob in the middle of the screen. It has to have elements of that color that draws the eye all the way around the canvas. Shoes imo are very important for getting a nice outfit. People neglect that and don't take the hair into consideration when choosing pants material/color (like denim washes) or shoe color and type. Which is why color analysis goes into body typing so much as well. I'd love to see you guys cover the Kibbe system at some point speaking of which.

[@idlehourlinda6476]

Couldn't agree more. Can you imagine going to choose a frame for a work of art without giving consideration to the colors and tones in the picture? The frame must blend, harmonize, and set off what is within it. And our hair frames our face in much the same way. Great video! ❤

[@coldplayfreak1235]

Thanks for touching on this! I feel like other color analysts online completely ignore natural hair color when doing the analysis, and the result is skewed. After watching your videos, I finally identified my dominant trait: soft (fair cool toned skin, brown eyes, warm golden brown hair). My coloring doesn't completely fit into one season if that makes sense. Your content is so helpful!

[@rosanilebron1566]

Hi! Just to let you know that the set is way too dark. It needs brighter lights.

[@markjordan433]

The expression of hair being one's crowning glory is way older than 100 years. More than 2,000 years ago, it was written in the Bible 😊

[@yensid4294]

When I wear colors (especially in makeup) that are too cool I look very sallow, too soft & I look grey. My skin is so fair it looks pinkish, my eyes are grey-green-amber & read golden olive. with a blue-grey rim. My hair is neutral warm dark blonde (base color) & turns golden very easily. I was so confused for a long time. I bounced around from soft to warm & back again. People would often compliment me on any light color just because I'm so fair/pale but Idc about looking tan anymore, I just don't want to look sallow or grey. I need a certain amount of contrast & clarity in my composition :) Too much beauty/fashion content focuses on individual body parts & individual facial features instead of the holistic package. ( Taking photos helps give you objective distance)

[@cathwalsh9921]

You say that Sara’s face turns grey in summer colours, does that not mean that her colouring is warmer? So even though the skin may give the impression of being cool, it’s actually warm or neutral warm? So the face agrees with the hair?

[@kalulu1675]

I have a related question. Some color analysts say there are differences in the kind of red hair in warm and cool seasons. And also I wondered about the desciption someone once made of the face, particularly the eyes--be they ever so small in bodily 'real estate'--that they are the communication center between people. So if the hair is the main factor, then will wearing colors based on the hair take away from the communication center of the face? This is just an honest question--not a criticism. So I'd really like to understand how this plays out.

[@kalulu1675]

P.S. Wanted to say you both have inspired me lately and made me realize my own most important color trait: SOFT. Even though I'm a lighter Soft Summer, I've learned that it works to combine my warmer tones in vestigial amounts with the cooler colors, keeping the cool nearer the face. It's something I read about years ago, and I'm really loving it because it keeps me from flipping out when I can't find perfect colors in shoes, belts and purses. Soft blends with soft, whether it's warm or cool. Thanks so much.

[@guccideltaco]

I have seen a number of color analyses that would confirm that. Recently I saw Sarah Ryan, who is a Winter (cool) type, do an analysis of a woman w/ blonde hair, whose skin APPEARED to be cooler than Sarah's (she had a tan at the time). However, in the end, the woman turned out to be a Spring (warm) type, and looked GREAT in those colors. Sometimes the skin's UNDERTONE isn't the same as what it appears on the surface.

[@Maranatha4455]

Yeah regardless of hair color, your undertone is gonna run warmer or cooler...you can't tell from overtone. I follow a color analysis who says anyone who naturally has red hair around 20 years of age is 100% warm undertones, so Sarah would have warmer undertones and warmer hair. Makes sense. Most color analysis do a undertone check without the hair being in play specifically so hair doesn't sway the results.

[@sammyranyx6710]

How I understand it is, we can’t just do a visual “colour picker” of her skin and judge her colouring based solely on that. Just because her skin looks cool on first glance doesn’t mean that she automatically falls into a cool season.

[@Allesea159]

She turns grey in summer colors, because her undertone is warm. Eyes, hair and skintone is all overtone and can be anything (red hair as the only exception probably) in color. It has nothing to with her haircolor. Its the other way round. Her hair, eyes and skin matches her undertone

[@ST52655]

Yes!

[@CarolCercone]

You ladies have restored my faith in color analysis. As someone who has had many different hair colors (ex hairdresser) it absolutely changes everything. I’ve watched so many content creators say, hair color doesn’t matter 😳

[@YamIa3gypsy]

The hair is very important and yet as a soft autumn as long as the pastel pink is on the slightest warm side looks great on me. (Like your top, Sarah). Thanks!🌸

[@BlueBird8925]

Similar to your experience, I’m a True Autumn in the 16 colour system. Most of the time warm colours are much better but I noticed that sometimes if the colour is dark enough, slightly cool colours look fine too.

[@Chicmarr]

Hi all, love your videos. Just so you know your videos are very dark

[@SharrellKline]

I feel that people who claim that hair color shouldn't factor into color analysis must have had only one or possibly two hair colors. Having had almost every hair color under the sun I know for a fact how much hair color impacts the entire picture. I've had white-blonde, golden blonde, ash blonde, strawberry blonde, orange from henna, medium auburn, dark auburn, and dark brown. I've been analyzed as an autumn, a spring, and a summer. I'm currently somewhere in the spring family but that' because of my current hair color.

[@emmamartin4045]

Yes but color analysis tries to determine what is your natural color season, not the one you’re trying to emulate by changing your hair color 🤷‍♀️

[@darlenegrace8516]

Thank you for this video! Also, Lucinda looks amazing in that color blouse!

[@jennifergebken2879]

Hello; I wanted to ask Sara what color/brand eyeshadow she is wearing. I am searching for that color. Thank you!

[@lenaseale08]

By this logic, if I dye my hair, it's more important than if my skin colour and tone changed. Or if I dye my hair, my season will change.

[@sheri6089]

But when a woman colors her hair (natural hair color naturally harmonizes/balances) and colors it wrong for her face then wrinkles and dark circles show more. Or the older woman dyes her hair a darker color than her natural grey (ages her decades) due to her skin not matching.

[@TracyD2]

I’m an older person and dye my hair a darker brown to eliminate gray and I look younger with it as opposed to gray but if I were to dye pitch black like it used to it would definitely age me. We generally have to go a bit lighter then when young. That is what I find with myself and my peers. So in one aspect I have to to disagree.

[@kitty_s23456]

​@@TracyD2I agree with you. I am slightly older (in my 40s) and I started dyeing my black hair to some shade of brown in my late 30s. At first it was just to change hair color (and not be "boring black haired" but later on, it's to dye my grays too). My elder sis does it too - we were both black haired (Asians). I think if we were to return to having black hair, it would look very harsh and aging. I now understand why my older teachers in grade school & high school had brown or reddish hair. Lol. I like having reddish brown hair because when light hits it, it becomes different shades of brown/ red. The grays become copper colored & look like highlights. I use henna to dye my hair. I'm an autumn / warm autumn. 😊

[@MartaGonzalezdeChaves]

I do not understand. If you look only in the hair when you changed your hair colour you could change season?

[@lenaseale08]

Would it not be more intelligent to value both the same ?

[@ginahartley7295]

So your saying your hair color is more important in color analysis then skin color?

[@karengrohs4942]

Isn't the top Sara is wearing in the summer pallette?

[@karenh6058]

it looks like a warm pink color to me :)

[@christigallup2175]

So when others are doing ca and having you put your hair up and covered would not be accurate. It's a complete package. Exactly why I knew I could not be spring because my hair has never been golden. Toe head as a young child.

[@guccideltaco]

True, although I think some people color their hair a shade that is COMPLETELY wrong for them, and would throw off their look completely. I did that back in college: dyed my hair jet black (normally light brown w/ red-gold highlights). I looked physically ill; my skin was paler than normal, and every hollow and shadow was amplified. Even though my skin has a cooler undertone, this was NOT the shade for me, and no matter what colors I wore, it wasn't going to look very good on me. Thankfully I had the good sense to let that grow out & never do it again!

[@luisanaguti]

Love your approach. It makes so much sense

[@ginahartley7295]

My face and eyes do not agree with my silver hair coming in.

[@lynnfox8376]

A couple of times hairdressers have mistakenly put Ash brown tint on my hair and my skin looked grey. My hair and skin may only be slightly warm, but it is not cool.

[@irazorn3712]

I'm confused. How is hair colour not just another form of draping? Like, when I drape warm tones underneath my face and they make me look yellow, why would copper hair not have the same effect? My hair is currently a pale bleached blonde and I have been categorized a soft summer. I find my colour palette very fitting with my current style. But used to wear dye my hair with henna and it was a deep, warm autumn. I also think that I could pull off warmer colours in clothing and makeup better back then. So... is it about hair and clothing both reflecting the same undertone unto one's face rather than contrasting undertone? Is that it?

[@mianagouveia6511]

your hair color should be in alignment with your color season so you did well bleaching it blonde. If you have warm hair color like me with a cool undertone you look really washed out and like you have a sallow appearance. I want to change my hair color asap coz it is making me feel ugly. dont listen to this video, i dont even know what they are talking about. i have seen many color analysis specialists and never seen anyone using hair color to decide someone's undertone.

[@irazorn3712]

@@mianagouveia6511 but the things is, the red hair didn't wash me out. It actually looked very flattering and much better than my natural ashy brown. I do think it makes sense to determine season with hair covered up, but the hair also affects the overall appearance. Like, harmony is good, but contrast is also very interesting.... I don't even have a point here except maybe that this is more complex.

[@mianagouveia6511]

@@irazorn3712 the reason you looked good with red is because you are a soft summer and that is the closest subseason to spring (warm season). So basically you wear most cool but can also wear some warm colors. I am a true summer so i cannot wear any warm colors at all.

[@irazorn3712]

@@mianagouveia6511 yes that would make sense, I guess.

[@ginahartley7295]

I ❤ your videos. This is crazy. I am, I think Autumn Soft...I have Olive yellow/green skin tone, amber / brown eyes .. medium brown hair but it now has silver in it that makes it cooler. So you are saying that I am Deep/ cool soft.. .which is soft winter with olive skin

[@reettaelina]

Yes! We are a work of art🎨

[@karenh6058]

Hi ladies! Where can I join your patreon page?

[@lukretiacandreja7938]

I had deep hair and eyes and a olive skin tone. Now I'm going gray and my hair is getting lighter. Am I no longer deep?

[@dostopitnow]

I had dark auburn hair when I was younger, more burgundy brown, now it’s kind of a mixture of color. There is still a little copper mixed with platinum and what I would call white gold. My skin tone is very neutral appearing cool in cool lighting and slightly warm in warm lighting. I have lived for many years in seasonal color confusion. I don’t fit neatly into anyone season. I’m dominantly soft and seem to sit between soft summer and soft autumn. I find your channel interesting and it’s helping me feel less confused. Thank you, ❤

[@dianamaurer613]

This is difficult for someone like me who has grey eyes fair skin tone and medium brown hair. Especially when it comes to makeup. For a long time I’ve primarily chosen colors based my pale skin was not taught to use my dark hair in choosing clothes and makeup and jewelry Shades that are too pale make me look lifeless especially blush and lipstick and too dark I look like a vampire. At 50 I’m not looking to lighten my hair so if I base my color analysis on my dark hair how will that make it easier for the makeup problem? Clothing i suppose would be easier.

[@deborah9866]

You sound like a shaded summer. Look into it.

[@neon.neutral]

I think youre proving their point. You would bring some medium tones to your makeup and clothes so that as a whole you would be balanced. If you disregard your hsir you would choose colors that were very light, bringing disharmony to your whole look bc your hair would be the only medium thing going on.

[@june7rose]

Thank you. It makes sense. I was taught eye color is the most important, and I still would say if you have warm golden brown eyes (not the frigid golden-less charcoal brown-black of Dark Winter, or a pale hazel, but real brown) you're going to be an Autumn period, the only question is which kind. I agree with you on skin tone; there's too much variation to use it and there are millions of women with neutral skin these days. I agree hair is left out too much; that's because people change it so often, but it's more important than others give it credit for.

[@lieslforbes6631]

Ideally, one should change dyed hair color to fit in their season. Skin tone determines season. What you do, at least what I have seen, is tell people how to use color to balance their look. It’s not really color analysis.