Should you Avoid Bright Colors? | Medium Chroma Types

[@ellaraystyle]

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[@lynnfox8376]

It's a shame clothes manufacturers do not realise most people are medium chroma and produce fewer clothes in very bright strong colours and washed out colours and more in medium.

[@ellaraystyle]

very true! I hope to help change that.

[@pineapplesnoopy1876]

Yes, I find a lot are far too muted, and some too garish.

[@selwatchesyt]

i really appreciate that you recognize brown people with brown eyes can still be medium chroma. I've always questioned the dark eyes and hair automatically means bright that so many other color specialist claim. Especially because many black women have soft black (grayish black) hair color.

[@ellaraystyle]

Most welcome, good to hear it is helpful for you. They can also be soft chroma. Unfortunately, chroma is not universally well understood by other color specialists because they don´t know the science behind chroma and without proper training it is difficult to recognize chroma just by eye.

[@pineapplesnoopy1876]

I would have loved you to have included people who do fit into Soft or Bright as well, so that we could see the comparative difference. I would also have been interested to know what makes each of these celebrities not Soft (not just not Bright).

[@ellaraystyle]

There will be a video specifically about soft chroma types and another about bright chroma types. I might do a video where I explain the differences of all three in one video. Thank you for sharing your feedback. 🌺

[@1Smeegie]

So eye-opening and gratifying learning! The thoroughness is excellent!

[@ellaraystyle]

Thank you so much!

[@HilaryGaston-g9p]

I love your content Ella. I’ve been so confused about my colouring & more so now that I’m maturing. Thank you for your clear & comprehensive explanations. Can’t wait to see more!

[@ellaraystyle]

Beautiful to hear! Thank you. I feel you, when we age it becomes more challenging to understand our color types and find the right colors. I will have more videos in the future about grey hair and what happens to your color type when you age.

[@1Smeegie]

Agree!

[@BlueBird8925]

Thank you for this video. The large number of examples you showed and your detailed comments gave me a much better understanding of how the chroma level of a person is determined. Excellent video!

[@ellaraystyle]

Most welcome! Good to hear you found value in the video. I appreciate your feedback

[@hilarybeaumont8823]

So helpful! This explains in words what I already knew. I have dark hair and light cool-neutral skin and green eyes. I've had a few suggest bright winter for me but the brights just overwhelm me. Especially now that I'm letting my natural greys shine I have multiple frequencies in my hair too so I feel like I can tolerate anything leaning bright less than when I was younger.

[@ellaraystyle]

Good to hear! "Cool-neutral" skin will not help you in choosing the right colors. When our hair greys the chroma typically goes down. There are some exceptions.

[@French-Kiss24]

This was very helpful. When I was young, I had nearly black hair (very deep brown) and very fair skin. I was always assumed to be a Winter with bright p, strong colors. However, I was recently professionally analyzed and came out as a Summer. Now I understand - contrast and chroma are two different things. I have hazel eyes and need the medium chroma range. I’m now in my 70s and am still learning.

[@ellaraystyle]

Good to hear it was helpful! If you were analyzed wrong one time chances are they got you wrong second time, too. Most suggested colors in the Summer palette are dissonant to your True Color Type (having hazel eyes). The seasonal analysis is very generic and flawed. I don't use it as I believe you deserve the highest accuracy and only the best colors. Which is why I developed my own scientific method.

[@tsi4357]

I’m locking into this one! I keep getting put into bright spring or bright winter, but I realize that my chroma may be more medium than bright.

[@ellaraystyle]

Do you have any of the mentioned features for medium chroma types?

[@mariamyre9778]

Can you make a video about medium and soft croma. The similarities and the differences? Thank you ❤

[@ellaraystyle]

Yes, I will do a video on that 🧡

[@liav4102]

I know you are addressing this from a ideal State idea, but I think it’s interesting to look at this from a what effect do you actually wanna have? For example somebody who wanted their face to go unnoticed say they were a spy or something they might want to wear a brighter color that wallet would draw attention might also make their face less remarkable, less memorable, and as soon as they took that bright color off, they would be harder to remember because people were to remember them primarily as the lady in the red dress, for example. I wonder if there’s also an idea in advertising where you want to sell the clothing, not the person and possibly putting them in some thing that didn’t match their coloring precisely might make the clothing more noticeable because of its contrast or it’s floating away from the person. On the opposite side of the scale if you wanted your face to be supremely noticeable, and your clothing to be completely unremarkable, because then, perhaps you would want to go with the two soft color where your face would be floating out of out of the background maybe that’s a good way to determine a wall color background for a video or something like that because you would want your face to pop out from the background you don’t want it to fade into or mesh into the background. It’s just interesting to me to think about not necessarily like how to you know harmonize with your colors, but how you can choose the affect you want to have or what is useful to you in a situation, and knowing these ideas will help you achieve whatever affect you are trying to achieve not just a prescriptive, here’s how to look your prettiest

[@ellaraystyle]

Yes, absolutely. When you know the effects of chroma, contrast, and depth you can create the outcome that you are looking for. You are right, that the opposite is oftentimes done in advertising and fashion: models are chosen that are light/soft in coloring oftentimes or they get softening makeup to not compete with the clothing and draw attention to the fabric and not the face. In photography, it is a crucial part of the setting to know which background and lighting you should choose for your color type. Unfortunately, most photographers know nothing about this and choose wrong colors for the person and wrong lighting for their color type which ends up creating mediocre or horrible pictures.

[@mariamyre9778]

Love your videos❤ can you also comment when the colors goes too soft? You mostly compare brighter to medium croma. I wonder where the medium cromas go too soft ,how to recognize that. Thank you once again for interesting information.

[@ellaraystyle]

Good to hear that, Mariam. Yes, I can do a video on that. Subscribe to not miss it 🧡

[@user-gy3fj1gt9i]

Wonderful 🎉 could you please make a video bringing examples of soft and bright chroma people? I'm also wondering why you don't use temperature as a color trait

[@ellaraystyle]

Yes, this video is planned and I will release it very soon. Temperature is not relevant for chroma.

[@TimeTravelReads]

Hmm. Could you do videos on blue eyes and the low contrast type please?

[@ellaraystyle]

Yes, I will include this on my request list. Thank you.

[@northwoodfalls1403]

Very interesting. It would have been helpful to see the opposite - to see examples of people who DO look their best in bright colours to see the contrast in action.

[@ellaraystyle]

Great idea! I can make a video comparing people who lookk great in bright chroma vs medium chroma vs soft chroma. How fast would you want that video to be delivered?

[@KathBorup]

Could you please talk about the eye pattern of a bright chroma type?

[@ellaraystyle]

Yes, I will in a separate video.

[@user-ur4tm6yx7m]

Useful video love it

[@ellaraystyle]

thank you, great to hear!

[@annat5105]

In this picture Lee Yeong-Ae looks quitу bright and it looks best on her

[@ellaraystyle]

untrained eyes might perceive it that way also depending on the color conditioning.

[@KathBorup]

I think Rihanna looks best in the soft and I actually think the bright red looks good on Lupita. Obviously just my subjective bias. It would've been interesting to see examples of people that do look good in the high chroma red to better understand

[@ellaraystyle]

there will be a video about bright chroma types only and soft chroma types only to see the difference to medium chroma types. I see that you are a designer and seamstress. ✨ When did you start designing?

[@KathBorup]

@@ellaraystyle Sounds great! Thanks for the reply! I've been sewing since I was a teenager and I started doing graphic design in my 20s, I then later moved onto UX.

[@ellaraystyle]

Beautiful! What was your favorite area in graphic design?

[@KathBorup]

​@@ellaraystyle For a long time I was a user experience designer. I enjoyed the visual design the most. It also involves research and a lot of meetings

[@cosmicalchemist8219]

Lupita is commonly used as a bright winter example though.

[@ellaraystyle]

I am aware. However, the seasonal analysis is so generic, flawed, outdated, and exclusive (not designed for non-caucasian types) that it gets the color type wrong every time.

[@PlanningNerd]

I was typed as a Soft Summer in 2 different systems, with pale skin and ashy hair, but my eyes are an unusual shade of very dark sapphire blue. I often feel it throws the balance off in Sof colors.

[@ellaraystyle]

The systems that I know so far are very generic, subjective, oftentimes flawed, not based in science and thus are not able to provide accurate colors for all ethnicities. Sounds like your hair is medium to soft chroma, skin is light depth (chroma unclear without seeing a picture), your eyes medium to dark depth (chroma again unclear). To find your exact chroma type which determines how bright the colors can go for your True Color Type I would need to see a picture of you and conduct an analysis.

[@PlanningNerd]

@@ellaraystyle Thank you for your reply!

[@missTinguish]

I have hazel eyes - you explained that hazel eyes automatically put me in medium. This agrees with my experience. Is it because they are complex? Could they also be soft because of adding more complexity in hair or skin?

[@ellaraystyle]

Hazel eyes are mostly medium or soft chroma depending on their complexity as you say. There are rare cases where hazel eyes can be bright chroma.

[@jessicavanderdysrasler8193]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@ellaraystyle]

Most welcome! Great to hear you find it wonderful.

[@colorcreatecamera]

Very, very helpful video!

[@ellaraystyle]

Good to hear that! Thank you for your feedback

[@2-_-B-_-continued]

Why is everyone medium chroma type?

[@ellaraystyle]

not everyone is medium chroma, but most people are in my experience.

[@ShearedJoy]

I don’t like that medium chroma color but I’m probably medium chroma 🤨

[@ellaraystyle]

When you are used to wearing the wrong chroma colors it will be weird and strange to consider the right chroma, you won´t like it because it is not something you are familiar with and feel comfortable or safe with. This is a normal transition process and if you have the courage to move toward your right colors your life will never be the same again.

[@katitadeb]

​@@ShearedJoydon't like it don't wear it, people have become to sensitive with color analysis lately, as if it was some kind of law or something we should all follow

[@ellaraystyle]

the truth is, there is a law of harmony that all living forms are following to stay alive and healthy, from your DNA to flowers, they all follow this law. Colors are no different, they are energy and your body is energy, too. Your body is an orchastra of frequencies and it needs energy every day to keep playing the most beautiful theme possible. This will only be possible if you provide your body with the right frequencies and energies in form of the right food and water, colors, sounds, environments, people and the relationships you build. If you choose the wrong frequencies - colors including - your body has no chance to stay healthy or alive. It slowly dies in agony. Whether you believe in science or choose to ignore it to serve your emotions or ego is totally up to you. There is no judgment from my side. This channel is not designed to force people. If anything it is an invitation to seek true beauty, exceptional health, and awaken your genius.

[@Taichientaoyin]

I would like to understand the effect of colors in patterns.I can't have busy and defused patterns they say but I don't know why.

[@ellaraystyle]

A video on Pattern Types (that I have developed) is planned, and I am excited to explain why you can not wear busy and defused patterns.

[@Taichientaoyin]

@@ellaraystyle lovely 😍😍😍

[@AmazingJane137]

That was really helpful thankyou

[@ellaraystyle]

Most welcome! Good to hear that 🧡

[@apemayaxx]

Very interesting!

[@ellaraystyle]

Good to hear!

[@klara5578]

Makes sense that most people look better in nuanced shades, as the natural colouring of most people tends to be created that way. However I’ve had this thought about black lately - everyone’s got black pupils, so shouldn’t black be a universal colour?

[@ellaraystyle]

Black is considered a universal colors by many stylists. I don´t see it that way because you have to consider color/frequency quantity or weight to declare a color as universal. As pupils only take little space in our bodies compared to skin, eyes, and hair they are not playing a huge role. They do brighten the chroma of the eyes, definitely, and influence your beauty palette (makeup, lipstick, etc.), but not your clothing palette.

[@Taichientaoyin]

I am a medium type and was classified as a deep winter but some colors in the deep winter pallet are too much for me.

[@ellaraystyle]

Which colors in that palette are too much for you?

[@Taichientaoyin]

@@ellaraystyle some bright pinks and blues and violets eventhough they have black in them could be too strong. Indigo blue-violet is nice on me I think. I am not sure about my greens. I know I can't go too yellow although I love yellow greens.Sage green suits me I believe but I don't know why 😄

[@ellaraystyle]

What´s your eye color? Brown? If your Root Skin Color is yellow then yellow colors will be tricky for you if you don´t know your chroma, depth, and contrast.

[@SchlichteToven]

Virtually everyone in Hollywood has dyed hair, even if it looks like their natural colour. So how can you determine someone's medium chroma because of having more than one colour in their hair if the hair is highlighted? And if eye colour not matching hair colour is a sign you're medium chroma, wouldn't everybody with blue or green eyes be medium chroma, as no one has blue or green hair naturally?

[@ellaraystyle]

The first thing that I determine is whether the hair color is natural or not and I am trained to see the difference 99% of the time. But it is not necessary for the analysis to have natural hair color. It does help to understand their natural coloring and the harmonic sequence in their bodies. Regardless whether it is natural or dyed, my job is to find the harmonic frequencies aka the right colors for their current coloring. When you have highlights, it increases the amount of frequencies present in your hair and thus puts you closer to medium chroma. If you had brown hair before and were bright chroma and you dye your hair blond you will be medium chroma (which many women are not aware of). Most people with blue or green or grey eyes will fall into medium chroma. Here it plays a role what type of green, blue, or grey they have as there is a beautiful wide range of variations out there. Chroma is determined by the symphony between hair, skin, and eye color and not just eye color or just hair color. Let me know if that answers your questions.

[@SchlichteToven]

​@@ellaraystyleBut who has a bright chroma, and who a light? Do either of them exist in nature? If you're supposed to be monochrome to have bright chroma, wouldn't that mean the only people who were bright were people with dark skin, dark eyes, and dark hair? Because anyone with lighter skin would have contrast and therefore wouldn't be bright chroma? It seems counterintuitive, because if someone had very light skim, very blue eyes, and very red hair, they seem "bright" and stand out. But those features generally can't be bright chroma if multiple colours in the same person make someone medium. And it must change as you age, because the dark circle on the outer part of the iris fades with age, hair colour can fade or turn grey or white even by someone's 20s, the colour in lips fades, etc. Is bright supposed to be superior to medium? Because you said that's why people like to wear foundation, because it makes their face a single colour and more like a bright chroma. Which means bright is supposed to be better?

[@ellaraystyle]

Bright chroma can be found in either coloring: blond/brown/black hair, blue/green/grey eyes, light/medium/dark skin. Contrast is not the same as chroma. Someone can have high contrast and be soft chroma and vice versa. The probability of a monochromatic person having bright chroma is much higher than someone non-monochromatic. Statistically, there are more people with brown hair and brown eyes than any other coloring. Chroma changes as your hair turns grey, yes. Bright is not superior but is pushed by the fashion and beauty industry and so people buy into it and just imitate all the wrong styles from celebrities who wear too bright chroma all the time. This is why I am trying to show people that it is superior if you actually match your chroma with the colors you are wearing. This is the ultimate beauty level that you can achieve.