True Summer or True Winter? You NEED Cool Colors!

[@lindaroy4061]

You know that since I started watching your channel, I discretely analyze people I cross at the grocery store? I’m like, lady in the dairy isle…….very pretty, true winter, long middle third, low cranial top, eyes have the most visual weight, could wear a bold lip. 😂

[@msafo3524]

Omg....... So do I 😂

[@YumeraChauque]

Sameeee is fo fun and is good to train my eyes👀

[@minervarose7664]

Same 😂❤

[@stylerefinement]

😂 I need to hire y'all into my team!! ❤

[@laurarl9261]

Guilty too... Hahahahaha

[@daniellejanae1027]

The way you talked about clarity being like direct or indirect lighting just blew my mind!! You always bring a new and concise perspective ❤

[@jax_08]

That analogy definitely helped me better understand clarity in this context. As soon as was presented is was instant light bulb moment!

[@stylerefinement]

I had the same reaction when I first encountered the analogy - so helpful! ❤

[@colsen4616]

Incredible video! As a true winter, patterns are a struggle and it’s not addressed nearly as much as the solid colors themselves. I’d love to see a video addressing color palette changes with aging. Going from dark brown hair to salt and pepper and losing some of that glow in the skin, I’ve found I really need to adhere to wearing my best colors.

[@stylerefinement]

Seems to be a hot topic of request!

[@HoffsPage]

I have the HARDEST time finding cool eyeshadow and blushes. Wish brands would label them since the computer pic is impossible!!

[@bransoleciarzalister3937]

I can't find a cool and soft blush either! Even if the blush is called "dirty pink" or "soft pink", it will still turn out slightly peachy. And these icy pink or Barbie pink blushes don't suit me at all, they're bright and really cool.

[@nuggetthief394]

The L'Oreal True Match line actually labels if the product is suitable for cool or warm toned!

[@koivunen2489]

Have you tried using lipstick as a blush? I haven't tried it myself (I'm not a blush person), but a friend of mine swears by it.

[@HoffsPage]

​@@koivunen2489I have! But they always end up splotchy on my dry skin

[@HoffsPage]

​@@nuggetthief394Yes, I love that system! I tried one of the C blushes and it was still too peachy for me, but maybe it was too light of a color or something. Just haven't bit the bullet to try another!

[@laurarl9261]

I wasn't sure if I was a true winter, I have looked for a lot of information and I couldn't understand why I can't wear any yellow if it's in winter palettes, now I understand. I can't tolerate warm tones at all, I have a red lipstick that isn't very cool, it's quite neutral and I look awful when I wear it, I have to wear a very cool red to look good. Thanks for the video!

[@stylerefinement]

Glad it was helpful!

[@forisadora7480]

I’m a true winter and actual pure yellow is in our palette also icy light yellow, not pastel.

[@laurarl9261]

@@forisadora7480 I don't think I look good in any yellow, I don't know. Maybe I'll try those you say some day.

[@koivunen2489]

I feel like I can pull off black but not white...but that might as well be just because I like black clothes better than white. Black is also safer for someone as prone to spilling their drinks as me, lol!

[@stylerefinement]

Practicality trumps all 😂

[@katem3961]

Your videos are incredible, Jenn. I always learn so much from them. I am a bright winter. Any shade of yellow 💛 just looks so wrong on me, and I also struggle to find the correct shade of pink 🩷 other than a bright fushia 💓 I can't seem to do any paler version and unfortunately 💓 is not always an easy find in more casual pieces. I refer to my palette as 'sharp' but not in a negative way. I love my colour palette. Thank you for your consistent, high-quality content, I truly appreciate your knowledge and information 💙 from Australia 🇦🇺

[@minervarose7664]

I heard somewhere that Bright Winters can wear neon yellow! Have you tried that? I think that would be a very sharp, *almost* greenish hue. Virtually impossible for any other season to pull off that colour 😅 As a Bright Spring, a bright yellow like canary or sunflower is one of my best colours, but neon is too overwhelming.

[@debbie444]

I am cool winter and I have realised that contract is very important for my skin tone. Your comments on patterns and what winter needs is so useful! Can you have another video to elaborate more on patterns for different skin tones?

[@vivimakiart]

Textures are important to tell them apart too! Winters look good in glossy or shiny finishes (makeup and fabrics) while Summers in more softer or hazy textures. I'm a true winter. The other day I showed two gray colored scrunchies I made to my mom: the first was made with glossy satin fabric, the other with crystal organza, that has a subtle sheer. While looking at my hands side by side she thought her eyes were blurred, since the hand with the organza scrunchie looked pale and out of focus while the other looked very sharp. She blinked a few times to adjust her vision but it didn't work. Then I remembered of the seasonal color system and picked bigger pieces of fabric and put under my heat to test the theory. The hazy grey organza made my face blurry, she felt her attention being dispersed and couldn't tell where to look, however the satin framed my face beautifully and her attention was back on my features. Even though they were both of the same color and tone, the texture made a subtle difference. (She probably wouldn't noticed if she wasn't paying close attention and if it was not side by side, though). I think a person in the Summer season would look gorgeous with grey organza ❤

[@northwoodfalls1403]

Gonna be pedantic here for a minute …. Humans do not have blue pigmentation. All human skin, eye, and hair colouration comes from three types of melanin: brown, yellow, and red. For example, blue eyes are not blue, they are an absence of brown. The Rayleigh scattering effect causes the light reflecting back to read as blue to us - it’s the same phenomenon that makes the sky appear blue. It gets deep into the weeds of things like the thickness or thinness of ones skin allowing more or less light to be reflected and how that makes it “scatter” and your own individual levels of these brown, yellow, and red melanin pigments. No one has blue or green veins. They are red. It is the way, again, the light is being reflected and its interaction with the melanin pigments that make them appear more green or blue. Brown absorbs everything but reflects red and green. Yellow, obviously, absorbs all other colours but reflects back yellow, and the same with red. Yellow can be accomplished by adding green and red together as they balance out and their shared yellow aspects remain. Our eyes only have cones for red, green, and blue. So anything in human pigmentation that you are seeing as having a bluish cast is due to the way red, green, and yellow are being absorbed and then what is being reflected back is perceived as bluish as that is what our brain using the cones available to us will translate it as. Hence, a lot of people with cooler skin tones will often have a pinkish-ness as well vs that warm golden tone. This is, in large part, why so many people have difficulty with these colour seasons theories - all humans perceive colour slightly differently based on their own cones and how their brain translates that information (remember the Blue and black vs white and gold dress thing?). So the person doing the analysis might see tones in their clients features that the client themselves is not picking up on or vice versa. Some people are very sensitive to blue whilst others are not - think of how often people will argue whether a colour is blue or green, etc. People who are very sensitive to blue will likely have no trouble knowing if they are cool or warm toned. But a lot of people are not very sensitive to blue and will just be terribly confused unless they are VERY clearly warm toned. Colour is a fascinating bit of science. It gets really complex real fast. Basically, every person has their own “season”, really. But it’s going to take some people longer to figure it out because they have to actively train their brains to become more sensitive to colour variations. Your content is great for helping people perceive the slight or even obvious differences in colours and how they interact.

[@stylerefinement]

Loved the scientific details in this comment! 100% on every person having their own palette, and you're so right about not everyone seeing colors in the same way.

[@smusser8854]

Colors for clothes and make up do have blue. And if you think human skin can't have a blue cast try mixing paint to match your skin. It will take blue to get a match.

[@KaliKali-hv9bt]

You can mix blue too get a human flesh tone

[@spicymango92]

The way you explained these helps me so much! I've watched a lot of these videos, but yours details each element of the cooler color seasons so well. Thank you :)

[@stylerefinement]

I’m glad you’re finding my content helpful ❤️

[@AlexLouiseWest]

Great video. I'm True Summer but not far from True Winter. I need definite coolness, and I find that true (neutral) red and true (neutral) green look too warm on me. Of course, they're not actually warm, it's just that they're not cool enough for me personally.

[@naynayhooray]

I like your description of clarity. I also think of it as the skin version of saturation. If skin undertone is hue and depth is value, clarity is saturation. Two people can have the same undertone and skin depth but one of them is just more colorful. You see a lot of people with low clarity struggle to find foundation that doesn’t look too red or too orange, regardless of their undertone or race.

[@travellingfemme]

Hey Jenn! I’ve noticed that in Korean color analysis they often categorize ppl into “summer” but the “summer” palette they are using isn’t muted. They look like the lighter colors of the winter color palette. Clear light/medium and cool. Just thought of that while watching this video and wanted to ask your thoughts. We don’t often talk about light cool and CLEAR colors. How sometimes if you’re a winter the colors in your palette that suit you best will be the lighter ones in your palette. For example I think Lupita Nyongo’s best colors are the light clear icy ones. Or is there a clear summer option or does that not “work” because the clarity denotes contrast? Food for thought. Thanks!

[@stylerefinement]

I was actually just reading up a blog post by a Korean color analyst about the possibility of "Bright Summers", which is essentially summer palettes that are brighter but not as bright as BW! Let me see how I can incorporate this point when I talk about Bright seasons :)

[@Komatik_]

@@stylerefinement It's a weakness of the typical 12/16-season configuration. They just lack types for light-cool-bright and dark-warm-bright, for example.

[@katiebrigden3550]

Thankskyou for this video,i found it helpful. I have had colour analysis done 20 yrs ago and 10 yrs ago in person. Both times told i was winter in the first and winter deep in the second analysis. Black and white is my staple wardrobe with navy purple and cool clear brights. I recently had an online colour analysis which said i was true summer with muted tones, i was shocked .Can people change seasons? My hair is dark brown,skin light and eyes green.

[@Qwertyuiop-p2s5f]

I'm either dark winter or true summer. I think I'm dark winter but my eyes are a bit light. I look best it grey, light/muted blue, white and black. I have very light olive skin, brown black hair, and eyes that are combination grey and hazel. This is so confusing!

[@annbet3684]

I had ash brown hair I was typed as a soft summer. My hair is grey now im a true summer. Cool summer, true summer soft summer true summer is cooler than soft summer. All because of my grey hair

[@labb592]

Super appreciate this channel but something to think about; You're probably using a cool & delicate filter for editing your videos (?) but I feel like it really makes you look strangely washed out.

[@LotusesGalaxyOcean]

I am a true winter for certain, but weirdly there are a few specific colors that are warm I can wear. Crimson red, old gold in metallic and nude blush pink. The crimson contrasts dramatically. The old yellow gold tone looks better often than silver for some unknown reason. I feel like when I wear silver it often works too well and I transform into an ice maiden if I am not very careful. The nude pink blush tone is actually essentially my skin tone and blends in seamlessly. Thoughts?

[@YumeraChauque]

Maybe depends on wich type of silver you are talking about. If you didnt watch I do recommend watching the video about gold vs silver on her channel maybe the the gold balance it out the coldness in your skin make it "neutral "/balanced or is very light for your complexion is difficult to tell if I cant see it🤷🏽‍♀️

[@YumeraChauque]

And the blush could work for you maybe bcs is very sutble 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[@stylerefinement]

It could also depend on how these colors harmonize with the rest of your outfit too!

[@sn3596]

I don't know if I'm a True Winter (all I know is I'm definitely Winter) but can empathise. I find warmer colours are easier to get away with for me when dark and/or brighter; the specific helpful trait depends on the colour. I think all that says is, even if cool is your main characteristic, your secondary and/or tertiary characteristic are equally or similarly important to you. E.g. most oranges look awful on me but a deep, clearer shade like pumpkin looks better than say peach which is both light and muted.

[@gabyvadillo]

Hi!! Can you make a video about dark circles and how is actually working for some celebrities like Mila Kunis and Kristen Steward? ❤

[@stylerefinement]

Great idea!!

[@to_ru_kw]

Do you have any info on then 12+4 seasons system. I was recently analyzed by colour analysis studio in Melbourne and got the results of true winter. In their system, it’s different from cool winter and I can borrow colors from cool, deep and bright winter (which on the other hand eliminates sister seasons for me)

[@emilyevans6989]

I’ve about decided I sit somewhere right between cool winter and cool summer. My hair is a really dark ash with no red. Because it can really have a green or bluish tint during some months, I colored it with red bases for a long time. It was a disaster-a COMPLETE DISASTER looking back on pictures. Ugh!

[@IncandescentLightbulb00]

I’m wondering about the “pink” quality to the skin. Whenever I do one of the seasonal tests it asks if my skin tends to look pink and because it does I almost universally get typed as some type of summer. You discuss so much about blue and yellow tones to the skin but what about that pink cast? I don’t have rosacea or anything like that. My skin is quite light and I don’t flush either but I just find that in certain colours I look like miss piggy. 🐽 it doesn’t seem like I’m very sensitive to temperature over all - I usually gravitate towards blues and purples but I absolutely can’t wear pink especially fuchsia. So in that orange and fuchsia test I look much better in orange and I can wear ginger hair and even orange lipstick quite well but pinks just look horrific. When it comes to contrast I handle black much better than stark white - very white colour tends to also make my skin look pink so either light ivory or very pale dove gray look much better than true white. I’ve been watching your videos religiously because I finally want to figure this out. It’s like a puzzle at this point 😂

[@preciousypenguino]

Perhaps you have a touch of olive?? Olives can be cool, warm or neutral-ish lol. Although I am light I am also olive. I see yellow, green, pink, even grayish blue in my skin. Fuchsia looks god awful on me too and pink lipstick is a fat no! Either true red, deep red or berry.

[@IncandescentLightbulb00]

@@preciousypenguinothat’s interesting… I would never think of my skin as olive though because it’s so light so I guess to me it just doesn’t seem so

[@destinychild4659]

​@@IncandescentLightbulb00Olives can be light, even very light. For long time I didn't think I could be olive, but watching these videos and read about it, I now know it's possible. I think I am either neutral or olive. 😍

[@vivimakiart]

Have you tried giving a chance to the Deep Autumn season? From what you noticed it is possible. Autumns don't look good in bluish pinks like magenta or fuchsia, the only pinks they have in their palette have a touch of orange, like coral, salmon or peach. They also look better in off whites like ivory or cream than in pure white because of their softness. Deep Autumns can handle black, darker and slightly warmer blues and purples like petrol blue and eggplant purple, because of their closeness to deep winter, they both share some colors. Oh you could also be in the Bright Spring sub season leaning towards Warm spring, depending on how much saturation you can handle. Give a thought on those two seasons, hope it helps ❤

[@stylerefinement]

If you can wear ginger hair and orange lipstick well, I definitely don't think that you are a Summer! @vivimakiart made some fantastic points about DA and BS leaning TS 👆

[@EH012]

I love Uireh Colour (유이레컬러 One and Only), they have such a wonderful way of explaining things - as do you! I've learned my most pivotal concepts from the two of you ❤

[@stylerefinement]

Me too! I learn so much from her ❤ one of my fav channels on colors

[@ohh....]

can you credit/link the korean youtuber? its difficult finding their page because of the hangul.

[@stylerefinement]

Added in the description!

[@ohh....]

@@stylerefinement thanks!!

[@erinvalkyria]

It is posible to have Black eyes and be a True Summer? I’m fully cool, ash medium brown hair , cool pink skin, i tan cool, matte even olive in body, and even I have medium contrast, i look muted, not bright and bright cool colors looks super bad on me, meanwhile muted cool colors in medium to low value makes me pop, but in all test i did with black eyes being white ethnicity is not posible, but i look light idk… is weird, and bright red lips looks horrible… AMAZING video BTW, is just sometimes i feel the “theory” in general don’t match the reality always , but im happy you don’t follow the theory that much and you out examples of dark eyes and summer , but Asian … and i am white that’s why im confused, but i think Asians develop better system because they have closest similarities and they still can be in every season 💜

[@stylerefinement]

I think you can absolutely be a True Summer with dark eyes. There are guidelines for skin / hair / eye color combinations in relation to seasons but they're not meant to be used as strict rules, so statements like "if you're white but you have dark eyes, you can't be a True Summer" simply don't make sense imo. Hope that helps!

[@erinvalkyria]

A lot !!! Thank you so much, cannot wait for more videos 😻😻💜

[@ac4007]

Interesting, I’ve never seen Jada Pinkett represented as a winter/high contrast, only ever as a soft autumn… I’m so confused 🫤

[@stylerefinement]

Ahh sorry if that was confusing. Jada is not a Winter - I was showing examples for both Winter and Summer to explain the effects of wearing the wrong temperature can have on your skin. With that said I realize lots of examples out there show Jada as a Soft or Light warm season, but I personally think that she is cool :)

[@Carrie-sgda]

Im DA and most blues make me look sallow 🙃🤷🏻‍♀️😂 is it a warm olive skin thing?

[@stylerefinement]

I wonder if it's the blue-ish gray that I'm talking about in the video that you recognize as being sallow! 😁😅

[@Carrie-sgda]

@@stylerefinement no ,I get grey with a lot of cool colours but most blues make me look yellow, It's the lighter cool blues that make me yellow.

[@sylvia470]

Jazz is the worst

[@camerenboyd7764]

I'm still trying to figure out my color but your videos are helpful

[@minervarose7664]

This maybe a weird question 😂 but is the whole "clarity" situation influenced by your natural skin type at all?! For instance, i have oily skin which automatically makes it shiny lol, while i assume drier skin types have a more "softer" effect.

[@pajamamama5965]

I wondered that too

[@White_Isida]

It's interesting to describe the energy of Soft Winter. Gentleness and restraint of strong energy. Wow!

[@thatname4451]

I really love your videos!

[@Leticia_b_ceratti]

Me too! ❤ 😊

[@michelleholland1500]

This is so helpful! I was professionally analyzed as a soft autumn two years ago and thought my skin/complexion just wasn’t very good. Turns out I look muddy in warm colors/makeup and I am actually cool. The difference wearing cool colors makes is shocking! It makes so much sense now that I know I’m very sensitive to warmth. I’ve always wondered why bronzer didn’t look right, or why any perceived brassiness in my hair looked wrong.

[@rosmarieniesler3442]

very great! also, when a don't understand all totally, so i checkt now, what changed for me! your examples with light, pattern and lips helped! in my younger years i'v been a clear winter, now i'm 60 and it's really more difficult! in this video i could see what to considerate exactly!! and it works!! thank you very much, jenn!

[@YumeraChauque]

I like cool colors they have that refreshing vibe that I like☺️. Wind,water they have that fresh feeling that somehow make my brain feels relaxed☺️ calmed .

[@KaliKali-hv9bt]

Me too

[@helenaziegler6005]

I am a cool winter. And obviously...I love all those autumn colors that make me look ugly and sick

[@Life.Simply]

I still struggle with figuring out whether or not I'm a winter or summer. I describe myself as a muted cool tone. My skin color is neutral and slightly green, the KohGenDo 213 foundation is a close match to my skin although it leans just a bit towards the green side. When I tan, my skin looks gray for the next week. My biggest struggle is that I just can’t pull off stark white and black suits, it looks severe on me. I look great in deep emerald greens but the purples on a true winter palette feel strange on me. If I wear purples, I have to mute the color a bit, but for whatever reason I don’t have to the do the same with emerald greens. I can’t pull off fuchsias though ice pinks look good on me. My best colors are grayish light blues or periwinkles but true blues look harsh and yet navy is great. This makes me think that my struggle with Winter colors is the saturation in certain colors? Light grays look great but not charcoal grays; off blacks and off whites look great but not optic whites or true blacks especially if the black has a sheen or shimmer. Lime greens or chickpea yellows look good on me too but I think the lime green looks better. I’m definitely not a warm tone; oranges, rust or brick colors are my absolute worst colors. I can wear deep blacks if it has a matte or satin finish with no slick or wet look (like PVC black). I can also wear a black lacy dress better than a sequin dress. Sequins only look good on me depending on its avoidance of that “wet slick PVC look”. I struggle to label myself as either a true winter since strong contrasts look odd on me but I can pull off patterned dresses well. My natural hair color is jet black (box dye), and my eyes are jet black as well but my skin tone is lighter (I think I’m a Mac NC15 or above in terms of value) but I have sparse eyebrows and a muted skin tone that looks more like indirect lighting and not a strong contrast. I also can’t wear too much jewelry because it seems to overpower me (not for lack of trying either, because I have tried to wear lots of jewelry). I don’t know what it is with jewelry, if I wear anything fancy I look so overdone. I’m a soft gamine kibble body type, and this makes me think perhaps the shapes and complexity of jewelry clashes with my body type. Dainty or tiny pieces of jewelry look much less severe and more natural? I think I’m a Soft Winter but then sometimes I feel like I might be a some kind of Summer. It’s a struggle 😩

[@HannahJermy]

Anyone able to tell me if I'm a soft Winter or True Summer by my profile pic? I always thought Winter, but I now think maybe Summer...

[@froufou100]

oh my, am totally confused now. I may be a true summer and not a rue winter or in between....Do you also agree that your natural hair colour dictates the color combo yo could be? I was born with brown hair but died it natural black for so many years (Ieven forgotten!), that maybe that is why the online colour analyst said I was TW.

[@susannpatton2893]

Hi Jenn I've been on this journey for a while now. I'm Melungeon. I have olive skin, blonde body hair with blue green eyes that can and sometimes do change color. I consider myself a olive/neutral. I try watching the videos but don't see myself in any of the examples Any ideas? My veins are teal

[@ocean_lady]

Mmh I think I'm a True summer, bold colors really don't look good on me, clean cut red lipstick too 🥺

[@White_Isida]

I always admired warm, light summer colors and was sad because... my type is winter. And only thanks to your videos, I realized that I can play with light colors if I slightly soften the contrast! because I am a soft winter! Thank you so much for your detailed color analysis!

[@marifani4613]

Are mauve colors more for winter or summers? And magenta/berry? I guess it depends on the intensity

[@pajamamama5965]

I recently found your channel you've been extraordinarily helpful. I was typed as a summer in my teen years and have worn these colors most of my life. I'm 48 and over the past few years, I've been really struggling to figure out what's wrong. I found that black & white look good on me and some of the pastels made me look washed out. I thought my skin had become more neutral because I have looked so yellow in my clothes. I was having to wear a lot of makeup to fix that. I've lost a lot of weight, so I have to buy new clothes. I started thinking maybe I'm not a summer anymore. I've been panicking about what to buy but now I'm realizing that I'm a winter and I'm in shock. I have a yellow shirt that looks fantastic with my coloring but it's in the winter palette not the summer. Would that mean that I'm a bright winter and not a cool one?

[@stylerefinement]

Interesting! It would be difficult to tell if you're a bright winter just based on your description, but maybe you were so close to the middle of the spectrum between Summer and Winter to begin with? There are also systems that use "Bright Summer" as a sub-season so that might also be a possibility :)

[@pajamamama5965]

@@stylerefinement Thank you for your quick response! When I was young my mom was the one who typed me so I just trusted that I was a summer. I've always had black in my closet though. I've been able to make the pastels work by pairing them with either white or black and using lots of makeup. I had my husband and my teen daughter help me with some color analysis. I chose all of my best colors from my closet and held them up to my face and then we looked at the different seasonal palettes. We all agreed on bright winter, and I'm surprised but so many things make sense now. Like how I can wear both gold and silver jewelry as long as it's shiny. Your recent video about clarity helped tremendously. I do have that luminous complexion you described. I found a bin of clothes I had saved from 5 years ago that were absolute favorites for when I lost weight. I had the bright colors like cobalt blue, Kelly green, Royal purple, cool red Lemon yellow. This answer came just in time before I have to buy clothes for the summer. That process will be much more fun now and less of a struggle

[@Me-xo5tw]

Thank you so much for adding the names! This is so helpful 👍

[@stylerefinement]

You are so welcome!