What is a color type?
A color type is the set of shades that nature has awarded you. There are 4 color types in total, which conveniently fit into the season. Each season has its own palette. A person can belong to only one color type, that is, he belongs to either WINTER or SPRING, or AUTUMN, or SUMMER.
How are colors distinguished?
Colors are separated by temperature
Colors are separated by saturation
How to determine your color type?
There are 2 ways. 1st is an experiment with rags and 2nd is a search for matching signs. I defined myself by the 2nd.
I want to immediately make it easier for everyone to self-determinate themselves. Most Russian women are SUMMER by color type.
When I was trying to define myself, I mistakenly believed that I was SPRING.
So you need:
- Put your hair in a ponytail
- Lighting - daylight from the window
- Take fabrics:
- light orange or light - blue or light green- Spring
- fuchsia or black or snow white - Winter
- light pink or lilac or pale blue- Summer
- brown or brick or dark green - Autumn
Apply it to your face and try to determine which ones do not fit exactly. If the colors are yours, then the face will be fresh, rested, if not yours, the face will be tired, every wrinkle will be visible, and if there is a pimple or redness, then they will appear even larger and even brighter.
Hair is determined only by natural hair, not dyed hair; if dyed, try to remember your native color.
Signs
Spring - warm, light, pure (saturation) color type -freshness and cleanliness
This color type is rare for Russia. Often confused with the Summer and Autumn color type. Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Scandinavians
General description:
skin and lips: transparent, thin, with a warm soft golden or peach undertone, the blush is a subtle milky pink. The lips have a warm natural red color, which is fundamentally different from the soft bluish cold color of the lips of summer and winter.
freckles: Sometimes they are not gray like Leta’s, but golden or golden brown.
hair: more often light: linen, honey, golden brown, sand. As children they were all blond. With age, hair darkens, but does not lose its golden tint. Even if the hair is dark-dark brown, it still has a reddish-golden tint, not only in the sun, but also in the light of a lamp.
eye color: the most diverse: from blue, gray to golden brown. There are practically no dark or pronounced green shades.
Tan: On very fair skin, the tan will have a red tint. The middle one has a golden bronze color.
There are several varieties of Spring:
Warm
- can be confused with Autumn.
The main difference between these types is the color of their skin and hair.
Spring type hair does not come any darker than honey blonde, and its shade is golden, without a reddish copper tint.
Spring is never sparsely saturated, dull, calmly blond, it is always a radiant, intensely golden appearance. Spring, unlike autumn, tans easily and blushes easily. Autumn seems a little pale compared to spring; people of the autumn type do not have a blush on their cheeks.
To finally make sure that you are spring, you can do a color test - apricot versus red-brown. Dark brown, perfect for autumn, is too dark for spring. Apricot, on the contrary, well emphasizes the radiance of spring, but is too primitive for autumn, it seems vulgar.
Light - in The exterior features a mix of warm and cool shades, so you can use both spring and summer colors.
The word “light” is key for you when choosing colors.
Very dark colors make you unhappy and tortured.
Bright - a mixture of Spring and Winter.
Both types are characterized by contrasting appearance (expressive colors of eyes, skin, hair) and brightness. The difference between Bright Spring and Winter is that any type of spring is always warm (but compared to Warm Spring, Bright Spring is more neutral), and Winter is always cold. Bright Spring's hair, eye and skin colors are always lighter than Winter's.
Any colors you use should be bright and clean, but you should avoid dark, pale and muted colors because... they completely extinguish your natural “aliveness”.
Autumn - dark, warm, muted color type- luxury and nobility
This color type is often confused with Winter.
skin and lips: The complexion is quite intense and distinctly warm. It has a peachy hue and golden highlight. Unlike the spring color type, the skin does not look transparent and the blush rarely touches the cheeks.
freckles: red, can cover the entire body
hair: red, golden-red, copper, golden-copper, chestnut-red. Even dark hair will have a sufficient red tint.
eye color:it can be icy blue, bright blue, emerald green, transparent light green, golden brown with yellowish specks.
Tan: doesn't tan well.
Autumn also has several varieties:
Warm - Such “warm” girls look best in colors typical of autumn - brown colors of fallen leaves, yellow and red, pumpkin-orange, fragrant cinnamon. Rich and warm colors are in perfect harmony with the natural golden coloring of their owner.
It is best to choose medium-toned colors, not too dark, but not too light.
Warm Autumn sometimes overlaps with the Warm Spring color type, so it is allowed to use colors from the palette of this related color type.
Deep - RICH, VIBRANT
*rich (dark) eye and hair color
* skin from light to dark
This type is often confused with Winter
The deepest and most pronounced autumn shades are suitable for a rich Autumn - dark chocolate, tomato red, green shade of fir needles. These colors will emphasize the brightness of this type. It is very good to combine such deep colors with bright ones for contrast. Avoid light pastel shades and light earth tones, they will dull your natural depth. Saturated Autumn is Autumn turning into Winter, it is less bright than Warm Autumn. Remember the month of November in nature - there is no longer the former diversity of shades.
Soft
is a mixture of Autumn and Summer types.
This type is characterized by a combination of warm and cold tones in appearance.
*eyes are quite light, with a “soft” tint, sometimes interspersed with gray
*skin with a slight cold undertone. It is often difficult to determine which type it belongs to - warm or cold
*hair is blond or brown"mouse" shades
For Soft Autumn, the softest autumn shades are also suitable. They should not use saturated colors, as for Warm Autumn, or as deep as for Saturated, due to the fact that they will contrast too much with the muted color scheme of this type.
The color range offered by Soft Autumn is quite soft and neutral, you can wear both soft warm and soft cool shades. Avoid flashy colors!
Winter - dark, cold color type -clarity and contrast
skin and lips: mostly light, pale, clean; rarely - dark, olive-colored. The blush is subtle pink, cool, lips are cool pink or with an olive tint
freckles: almost not
hair: black, brown with a silver or blue tint; very rarely - white (in combination with dark eyes, dark skin)
eye color: always clear, rich: black, dark brown, dark blue, light cold green, emerald, violet, gray-blue, amber. A sharp contrast between the iris and the white (white with a bluish “backlight”). Eyebrows and eyelashes black
Tan:rarely good, but for southern girls - olive color
Several varieties of Winter:
Cold
- The main rule for this type is not to use warm colors!
Cool colors that highlight the beauty of Cold Winter should be rich, not pastel. For example, pale blue and light lavender will look faded against such a bright appearance.
The peculiarity of this type of Winter is that many of its representatives at a young age were closer to the Deep Winter type, and with age, the natural shades of skin, hair, and eyes became colder and softer.
This type is closest in color to Cold Summer. Therefore, you can safely use the color palette recommended for this related color type - raspberry, plum, rich and cool pink. These same colors are recommended for use in makeup.
Deep
- SATURATE
*Saturated (dark) hair shade
*Rich (expressive, juicy) eye shade
*Skin can be very light or dark
There are warm shades in appearance, this is especially true for skin tone
The rich natural color scheme of this type allows you to safely wear active and pure colors, such as scarlet, rich blue, and pure neutral colors - rich charcoal gray, black and white.
People belonging to the Winter color type are among those few who are adorned with the color black.
Deep Winter is a mixture of Fall and Winter, so the deepest fall colors (dark chocolate, dark green) will also suit this color type.
Bright
- CLEAN
*bright, sparkling eyes - blue, hazel, green
*snow-white whites of eyes
* light skin, with a slight warm tint
*hair - dark brown or black
Bright Winter looks best in outfits consisting of items in pure and bright contrasting colors. For example, combining snow-white with dark blue. Black suits this type; it will look especially advantageous in combination with bright colors.
You can afford the most daring, “sparkling” colors - ruby red, emerald green, sapphire blue.
Bright Winter is Winter turning into Spring, so you can safely indulge in such bold spring shades as bright coral and cool yellow.
Do you know your color type?
If you treat your color type wisely, you will harmoniously emphasize all the attractive aspects of your natural appearance.
So how do you decide on your color type?
- Define cold or warm skin tone
- Define light or dark type of appearance
- From the results obtained, draw a conclusion
- How useful is knowledge of color type? Excursion into history
1. Determine the type of appearance Cold or Warm
The first thing you need to figure out is your appearance type.
Cold - This summer And winter,
Warm – spring And autumn .
METHOD ONE
1. You will need two foundations– one with a pink base shade, the other with a yellowish tint.
All foundations are based on either blue/pink shades (cool) or yellow (warm).
2. Apply foundation a blue/pink tint on one cheek and a yellowish tint on the other. Blend.
If your skin tone merges with a yellow tint, then your color type is warm.
If with bluish - cold .
This test is best carried out in winter, when the skin is not tanned and the tone is as close to natural as possible.
METHOD TWO
1. You will need two pieces of fabric or paper- silver and gold.
Carry out the test in natural light.
2. Place both pieces of fabric or paper on a neutral-colored surface and place your hands on them.
Your skin will blend in with either one or the other shade.
It's simple:
silver - cold type,
gold - warm .
So, a small summary:
If you have a warm, yellowish-golden skin tone and the prominent veins on your wrists are greenish, then you are WARM color type (autumn or spring).
If your subcutaneous veins have a bluish tint, and your skin is pink or blue, then you are COLD color type (winter or summer).
2. Determine the type of appearance Light or Dark
Everything is simple here:
Determined by eyes and hair dark or light you have the type of appearance.
Light -Eyes can be from light brown to light blue, light gray and light green, Hair is closer to light.
Dark - Eyes can be either dark brown, dark blue or dark green. Hair is closer to dark.
3. Result. Determine Color Type
Once we have defined:
- Cold or Warm skin tone
- Dark or Light type of appearance
We draw the following conclusions:
you are WINTER if
Your subcutaneous tones are cool. Eyes and hair are dark.
Gray hair is a sign of the winter color type in people with cool skin tones.
you are SPRING if
Subcutaneous tones are warm, greenish. The hair is blond, the eyes are exceptionally light.
Among the representatives of the spring type there are both red-haired girls and owners of dark brown hair with reddish reflections.
you are SUMMER if
Subcutaneous tones are cool blue. Eyes and hair are light.
you are AUTUMN if
Subcutaneous tones are warm greenish. Eyes and hair are dark.
The autumn type is characterized by a copper and reddish tint in the hair.
4. Why is knowledge of color type useful? Excursion into history
At one time, artists, psychologists, and photographers thought about this survey.
It all started with the fact that at the beginning of the 20th century, one talented Swiss artist and famous teacher named Johannes Itten concluded that his portraits looked more attractive when he used a specific palette for each individual skin tone or hair color. As a result, he created four palettes corresponding to four different skin tones. These palettes helped his students paint truly attractive portraits.
Susan Caigill, who in the middle of the 20th century also studied the color scheme and searched for harmonious color combinations, continued Itten’s research. In her theory, each person carries subtle information about his personality and style thanks to his nature-given “color.” The shades of our hair, eyes and skin are combined with different natural objects.
Well, she was last in line, but by no means least important. Carol Jackson at the end of the 20th century. Being a psychologist by training, she published a wonderful book called “Color Me Beautiful” (literally “Color Me Beautiful”). She was the same woman who proposed conditionally dividing people's appearance into four seasonal color types, saving the majority of women from the age-old problem of choosing makeup, clothes and jewelry. Thanks to Carol Jackson and her theory, figuring out your color type has become much easier.
The first thing a makeup artist determines when looking at a new face is whether the skin type is “warm” or “cold,” since it is this factor that determines the future makeup.
Warm peach or cool rose?
Experts divide all people into two types - “warm” and “cold”. Warm types have peachy or yellowish undertones in their skin, and warm, bright colors make their faces sparkle. “Cool” types have skin with a pinkish or bluish undertone, which is most effectively emphasized by cold, icy colors. Using the pink and orange cards you received as a gift with this issue, take our color test (below) to determine whether you're a warm peach or a cool rose.
Test with cards "Your true colors"
1. Stand in front of a mirror and place first an orange and then a pink card on your face just below your chin.
2. The “right” color will illuminate the face. The “wrong” color will make the skin dry and uneven.
3. If the color orange suits you, you are a “warm peach”, and if pink, you are a “cold rose”
Check the result:
Gold jewelry gives a pleasant shimmer to warm skin, but silver suits cold skin better. Look at the inside of your wrist: “warm” people have greenish veins, while “cold” people have blue veins.
"Cold Roses"
So you're a "cool" type, but what type - light, medium or dark? It depends on the color of your skin, hair and eyes.
COLD LIGHT
Representatives cold light such as light brown, ash or blond hair. The eyes are light blue, bluish-gray or pale green. The skin is usually milky white.
Perfect colors The eyes will sparkle with pale gray, sky blue and lilac colors. Blush in soft pink tones will shine on the cheeks, and it is better to apply pale pink gloss on the lips.
Bad colors Apricot and golden shadows will make cold eyes look red and tired.
COLD MEDIUM
Representatives cold average type have brown or light brown hair with a medium to dark shade. Their eyes are usually brown or blue, sometimes interspersed with gray or green. The skin is milky white, often with a blush.
Perfect colors Blue-gray, cool taupe colors will add brightness to the eyes, and cheeks will bloom with ash-pink blush.
Bad colors Pale green tones make the skin look unhealthy.
COLD DARK
Business card cold dark type - dark brown or jet black hair. Eyes bright blue, cold gray, pale green.
Perfect colors Black, cool purple and blue shadows will make the look fatal, and blush in deep pink tones, as well as lipsticks in cool red and wine shades, look great.
Bad colors Pearlescent shades of pastel peach tones will make cold eyes watery, and against the background of terracotta color on the lips and cheeks, the skin will appear reddish.
"Warm Peaches"
Warm Peaches can be light, medium or dark. They range from reddish blondes to dark-skinned beauties.
WARM LIGHT
TO warm light types include reddish and golden blondes, as well as auburn beauties. Their eyes are hazelnut-colored, green or bluish-green, and their skin is often freckled.
Perfect colors Soft shades of champagne, ivory, honey and pale greens are best on the eyelids, while an orange-pink blush will bring the cheeks back to life.
Bad colors A black color that should not be applied thickly to the eyelids. Bright pink tones will look defiant.
WARM MEDIUM
Red-haired classic version warm medium type of appearance. Warm, average women have green, brown, hazel, or bluish-green eyes.
Perfect colors Shades of dull gold, clay brown and olive green will perfectly highlight the eyes. Coral and golden brown look flattering on the lips.
Bad colors Pure whites and light shades, as well as cool purples, will make your eyes look puffy and tired.
WARM DARK
Women warm dark type distinguishes chestnut, black and mahogany hair in combination with brown, hazel or green eyes.
Perfect colors Bronze, warm chocolate and shades of lush foliage look luxurious on the eyes. Dark terracotta blush will perfectly refresh your cheekbones, and fiery red lipstick will look spectacular on your lips. Bad colors Cool pink tones are more likely to stand out as a separate detail on the face than to lie harmoniously on the lips and cheeks.
Ideal and bad colors
The right colors will make your eyes sparkle and your skin appear clearer, while the wrong colors will make your eyes look dull and your skin uneven.
Correct warm
Lily is a warm, dark type and looks great with brown shades on her eyes and cheekbones.
Wrong warm
Against the backdrop of pastel shadows, Lilia's brown eyes appear swollen.
Proper cold
Olga radiates beauty thanks to her soft pink blush.
Wrong cold
Olga's scarlet lips look defiant, and her eyes are inflamed due to bronze shadows.
Question answer
Neither warm nor cold?
Both orange and pink colors look equally good on my skin, and all my friends agree. What does this mean?
You belong to the lucky ones who are classified as a neutral type; almost all colors suit you, but with the condition that they are soft and muted. Jennifer Aniston (below), Cindy Crawford and Kate Moss are all in the neutral group.
Muted blue and greenish shades, eggplant and charcoal gray tones, taupe and cream will suit you. Saturated black and white colors are not for you.
“Soft plum, pine, stone gray, deep gray and cream colors are great for neutrals.”
The Snow Queen or Scheherazade from “100 and One Nights”? Solveig or the Shamakhan Queen? Snow White or Krasnozorka? Which of these fairy-tale heroines do you like best? Isn't it a strange question? The thing is that these beauties have completely different color types - warm or cold, and therefore it is simply impossible to choose: each of them is beautiful in its own way. How can you determine your color type of appearance in order to correctly and skillfully emphasize your natural beauty?
Color types and color combinations: the starting point for creating a wardrobe
Do you have a favorite color? If so, do you think you could explain why you love him? Maybe you consciously surround yourself with the color blue because it makes you feel happy or calm? Maybe you feel great because of the compliments you receive when you wear green? Many of us, consciously or unconsciously, are drawn to those shades that improve our sense of self. Now that you have a clearer idea of what elements of your inner world you want to enhance and express through style, it’s time to tackle the elements of your appearance.
Not only do colors have associations that can help you attract what you want and reinforce your message, but they can also dramatically change your appearance. Do you have bad days when you say to yourself, “I look terrible” or “I need more sleep”? It's amazing how a simple color change can take away that dull feeling, improve your mood and brighten up your look. On the other hand, if you wear a shade that doesn't match your complexion, it can make you look washed out or washed out, or highlight imperfections (such as dark circles under the eyes or fine lines).
That's why it's important to know which colors work best—not just for your skin tone and facial features, but also for your specific circumstances. If you use color in a way that works for you, reinforces your messages and complements your appearance rather than competing with it, your style language will become even more expressive. Best of all, color is a great starting point for creating the right wardrobe because you can start with the clothes you already own. So, let's understand the basics: cold and warm colors.
Determining your color type is easy: warm and cool colors
It is no coincidence that the words that determining your color type is easy are included in the title. It really isn't difficult at all. Especially if you know exactly how to determine the color type using a simple test.
As a child, you probably heard that there are three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. But then you had no idea that you could apply this knowledge throughout your life. They form the basis of the color wheel; all other colors of the spectrum are products of mixing these three basic ones. Eyeshadow has probably taught you by now that red and blue combined make purple.
The standard color wheel consists of twelve shades, which arise as follows: first, as a result of mixing the primary colors, green, orange and violet appear, then as a result of further mixing these second-order colors with the primary three, third-order colors are obtained: yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet and blue-green.
Various programs, such as Photoshop and even Microsoft Word, can help when determining the color type. They allow you to move your cursor around the color wheel to select the desired combination of shades (based on the same three basic ones). Thanks to the constant mixing of the colors of the spectrum, it is possible, in professional parlance, to “measure color temperature.”
The combination of red, yellow and blue in each color is unique, but any color can be classified into one of two groups: warm or cool. These two distinct categories divide the twelve-color circle in half.
So, the combinations of colors of different color types are as follows: from red to yellow, including shades of brown, are called warm, and colors from blue-green to blue-violet, including most shades of gray, are called cool. Although each shade has warmer and cooler varieties that are not represented on the basic color wheel.
When determining the color type of appearance, you need to rely on the obvious truth: warm colors give rise to a feeling of warmth - fire, a hot day, etc. and vice versa. Imagine rolling hills, bountiful harvests, golden sunsets, vast deserts, fertile red soil. These are shades of a warm color type - brown, orange-red, dusty yellow, olive or grassy green.
Cold tones of the sea - cool colors convey a feeling of coolness, frost, ice, etc.
When determining the color type of appearance, the photos presented on this page will help:
How to find out your color type of appearance
We all came into this world with a unique physical and chemical natural “make-up”. Perhaps you have maintained your natural look all these years, or perhaps you have experimented with different hair colors, rolled around in the sun, or used the instant spray tanning technique; be that as it may, try to mentally return to your natural state. So, how to find out your color type, and most importantly, how to skillfully use the information received?
So, when determining the color type of a person’s appearance, you first need to find out whether he is “cold” or “warm”. That is, you need to determine the tone and undertone of the skin. These two concepts are close at first glance, but in fact they are different things, although they are easy to confuse.
Your skin tone is essentially your skin color, but it does not depend on what type you are (light, medium or dark). There are hundreds of skin tones among all races and ethnicities. Since our society is such a wonderful mix of people and skin tones are much more diverse now than they used to be, you might mistakenly think that your color type is solely based on your skin color. This is wrong.
Skin tone can help you identify the most flattering colors, but undertones often play an even more important role. The undertone determines whether warm or cool colors suit you more, and this is influenced by several factors not related to skin tone.
For many reasons, it can be difficult to immediately say how to find out your color type of appearance, so be careful: is what you are focusing on really your undertone? For example, if you have rosacea, that pink coloring doesn't necessarily mean you're "cold"; If you are of Asian or East Indian descent and your skin has a characteristic yellowish pigment, this does not necessarily mean that you are “warm”; If you're a black woman, or if you just have naturally dark skin and the dark coloring absorbs the undertones, then you may need to experiment with gradients or look at your photos to figure out what "temperature" suits you best. If you still haven’t figured out whether your color type is cold or warm, perhaps you should turn to professionals and conduct a color analysis.
Test on how to determine the color type of appearance (with photo)
So what are you, “cold” or “warm”? Perhaps these quick assessment methods will help you decide. Just before you test for the color type of appearance, do not forget that light bulbs produce yellow light. Perform these tests in natural light.
Here are the questions for the test to determine the color type of appearance - try to answer them.
And also look at the photo to determine the color type as accurately as possible:
1. Look at your wrists. What shade are your veins: more bluish-purple or greenish? If blue, then you are probably a cold type. If it’s green, then it’s more likely to be warm. This is not the final result yet; Some people cannot accurately distinguish the color of the veins, or see both shades at once. Therefore, let's move on to the next point.
2. Hold a sheet of thick white paper to your face. Which shade is more in the reflection on the paper - yellow-red (= warm) or bluish-pink (= cold)? Remember, you are not looking directly at your skin, but rather at the tone underneath your skin color and reflected off the paper.
If you're still not sure, maybe jewelry will help you decide.
3. What kind of jewelry do you prefer to wear: silver or gold? Gold usually suits people of a warm type, silver looks better on people of a cold type. If you're not sure, use jewelry, accessories, or clothing in one of these two metallic shades and see which one suits you best.
At worst, for the appearance test, instead of silver, you can even use a piece of foil.
How to find out what color type you have
Finding your flowers is a rewarding endeavor, but it can seem daunting when you consider all the research that has given rise to the systems we use today. Philosophers and artists have analyzed color for centuries. But it wasn't until the 1940s that a widespread tendency to think about color in terms of clothing and style emerged - when Susan Caygill, considered by many to be the founder of color analysis, developed the so-called seasonal method of color analysis. In 1980, Carol Jackson’s book “The Colors of Beauty” was published, which told how to find out what color type a person has. This book became a phenomenon in pop culture. Jackson's system, although popular and understandable, was criticized because it was too simplistic: it did not allow for variations in dark skin tones. Jackson acknowledged that her system was flawed - and the result was the dominant color analysis, which is based not only on skin tone, but also on the dominant features of a person as a whole. So if you want to understand your unique color type and determine which category is best for you, then there is a ton of research that will allow you to dive into the topic of color as deeply as you want.
Even just knowing whether you are “warm” or “cold” is already incredibly useful. But it also doesn’t hurt to decide on your season or dominant color category to narrow down the colors that are most suitable for you. The following material will help you with this (seasonal analysis and dominant color analysis).
You will be able to identify yourself with a specific category into which your current color type fits. But if this is difficult for you, then you may need skin color correction. If you've changed your hair color or your skin tone has changed over the years (due to sun exposure, for example), you may want to go back to your roots and keep your skin color natural by slathering on sunscreen and staying away from products. self-tanner. Or maybe it's the other way around: some self-tanning cream or bleached strands of hair can help you naturally fit into one of the categories.
Our world is a huge pot in which many people are mixed, each with a bright personality, but at the same time some of them belong to the same color season or to the same dominant color category. How to change, adapt or gain your colors is up to you.
Well, this character sure is warm. But for many people it is not at all obvious, whether their appearance colors are cold or warm.
Let's try to understand this difficult issue, and also see what our temperature affects.
First of all, to understand the temperature of your own paints, you need to clearly understand what warm and cold colors are. .
What does Warm and Cool color type mean?
If you remember, among the six leading characteristics in the rubric there are two: and. These are the people whose color temperature is obvious, it catches your eye first of all. Such people usually do not wonder what is warm and what is cold. They know this, perhaps from birth.Below you see photographs of such obviously “cold” women. All their colors radiate coldness. There are no golden or reddish shades there and cannot be. It’s even scary to imagine such a woman dressed in warm orange or bright yellow.
And in these photographs (below) there are frankly “warm” people. Their colors radiate warmth, immediately creating an association with sunlight or with natural “earthly” colors (the color of soil, greenery, etc.).
It is these people who can be classified as Cold or Warm color types, since their temperature is their key characteristic. They are categorically unsuited to even hints of someone else's temperature in the colors of their clothes.
But they also have other characteristics that must be taken into account when choosing the colors of clothing and accessories: clean, bright or muted, deep or light. It's just that if, for example, a fairly fair representative wears something dark, it will be less lethal for her than something warm, since her temperature is very obvious, and it is a key characteristic.
Very often this indicator color is a warm shade of yellow. On the face of those with cool colors, yellow often casts a yellowish shadow, and the face takes on a yellow tint (Anne Hathaway, owner of cool colors, below).
And this is what Anya’s face looks like in a cold red dress (second photo below) - we don’t see any jaundiced effect. On the contrary, her skin glows. Both photographs are not studio photos and are not retouched.
This does not happen to those with warm skin, since their skin contains more yellow pigment (carotene), and this color looks quite harmonious on them. It will suit some people more, others less, but there will be no “yellow face effect”.
Below, the face of “warm” Julianne Moore looks quite pink next to such a yellow dress.
Also, cold shades of pink (fuchsia, for example) and red (raspberry) can be indicator colors - next to clothes of such colors, the faces of people with warm colors often acquire a reddish tint, and a stunning “red nose” effect can occur.
If you find it difficult to determine your external temperature, try holding one of these colors to your face: warm bright yellow or cool fuchsia or crimson. If you can observe one of the effects described above, then perhaps this test will help you determine your temperature.
What to do if I am neither a warm nor a cold color type or I don’t understand anything at all
Not all people have such a pronounced temperature. Sometimes it’s really difficult to tell whether the colors of an appearance are cold or warm. The fact is that often the color of eyes, skin or hair is on the border between cold and warm, the so-called neutral color. Blue eye color, for example, is sometimes quite close to both a warm and a cool shade. Hair is also often dyed a different color from its natural color. And the color of natural hair is sometimes difficult to classify as warm or cold (neutral again!).If this is your case, then temperature is NOT your leading characteristic. As a rule, in this case, it is more important for a person to focus on other parameters: depth (whether it is dark or light), as well as the brightness, purity or mutedness of its colors.
Often such people, when choosing colors that correspond to these characteristics, can wear some warm and some cold colors.
For example, Elizabeth Hurley's eyes seem cold, her skin color has a yellowish tint, which happens with warm skin, and her hair (she is dark brown) has golden streaks (highlights), which also gives the hair warmth. It's quite difficult to tell whether it's warm or cold.
Let's see how clothes of different temperatures behave.
In cool fuchsia, Liz looks organic, despite the warm reflections in her hair and warmish skin tone. The face did not acquire a reddish tint. Is Liz cold?
But the same can be said about the warm coral dress - again Liz is good.
And in a yellow dress she doesn’t have a “jaundiced effect”, which is also not bad. Is Liz warm?
Hard to say.
She has bright eyes, bright colors suit her, so all three dresses look good on her, since their colors are quite bright, not muted.
You might like Liz better in one of these outfits, but in any case, you have to agree that none of them look disastrous on her.
For those who find it quite difficult to determine whether their appearance colors are cold or warm, it is still better to know that we most often tend to one or the other anyway. That is, you can look good in some color from a cold palette, in some from a warm palette, but if you apply the entire palette of warm colors that suit you in other parameters (brightness, saturation, etc.), and then the whole palette of the same cool shades, then you will see that one of them will suit you better. Therefore, it is still advisable to determine whether your color scheme is colder or warmer. How to do this, read below.
The main disadvantage of color typing according to the Winter-Summer system, etc. is that people are offered either frankly warm or frankly cold colors. But for those whose external temperature is not obvious, or is closer to neutral (and there are many such people), colors close to the warm-cold border are more suitable.
If you are a truly neutral type, that is, the colors of your appearance are close in temperature to neutral, to the border of warm and cold, then some colors will suit you more, either from a warm palette or from a cold one, but rather not overtly warm ones and cold, and those close to the heat-cold boundary. In this case, it is important to pay attention to other characteristics of your paints (this is described above).
Tone and undertone - why warm skin can appear cold
… and vice versa. In general, a lot depends on the skin, and its color can sometimes be difficult to determine. The fact is that our eye detects skin tone, but the undertone is not always obvious.For example, if Julianne Moore were not naturally red-haired, and did not have such a cosmic number of freckles, then, looking ONLY at her skin, it would be difficult to immediately determine her warmth - Julianne’s skin is very pale and reddish, which is often testifies precisely to the “coldness” of her tone.
Could you tell that this skin belongs to such a “warm” person?
Let's change the image scale. And here is its owner herself.
So, sometimes we are even deceived by our own eyes.
Imagine that Julianne has no freckles and is brown-haired. In this case, determining its temperature correctly with such skin would be problematic.
As you can see, determining the temperature in various “not obvious” cases can be really difficult. So what to do? After all, everyone would like to find those colors that will make their eyes sparkle and their skin glow!
Let's try to go the experimental route.
Determine warm and cold colors by comparison
First of all, I will share with you a few observations that may help you determine the temperature. As you will now see, everything is so individual that there are exceptions to the general rules, but still they can help someone determine whether their appearance is warm or cold.Hair
Warm: This type of hair usually contains golden or reddish tones. It can be hair of any color (from blond to brunette), but warm shades are present in such hair. We are talking about natural hair color, of course.BUT: It’s hard to believe, but there are also red-haired people with cool colors who really suit cool shades - as a rule, they have cool-colored eyes (gray, cold blue) and fair skin.
Cold: Usually those that do not contain any shades of red or gold. Often black or dark brown hair (brunettes), ash brown or cool brown hair (brown hair), ash blonde, light ash and ash blonde.
BUT: there are also “warm” people who have ash in their hair color, their hair can even be ash-blond - as a rule, such people have warm but muted colors.
So everything is not so obvious here, but still...
Eyes
It is absolutely impossible to tell by color (that is, by tone - see above) - blue, gray, green, brown and even yellow eyes can be either warm or cold. Well, except that such gorgeous amber eyes of a red-haired character, as in the preview photo at the beginning of the article, can always be regarded as warm. :)Obviously warm eyes There are grass green, amber, olive, golden, and light brown.
Obviously cold- steel gray, ice blue, deep bright blue, walnut and dark brown without any golden veins, rays, inclusions.
You can often find that a person has warm colors if their eyes contain blue-green/green-blue undertones (aqua). That is, it is impossible to say for sure whether these eyes are blue or green. This is often a sign of “warmth.” But again, not always.
Also, chameleon eyes are usually a sign of warm temperature - this is when the eyes change color depending on the lighting and/or clothing. But there are exceptions here too.
As a rule, those with a cool color scheme do not change their eye color.. If they are gray, then they are always gray, if they are blue, then they are always blue, etc.
Yellow and golden rays can also indicate “warmth” ( important: rays, as in the photo, not specks! specks are melanin, it does not affect the temperature) on the iris of the eye. Partial heterochromia in the form of orange and yellow-brown spots also indicates this.
Leather
This is the most difficult, for the reason described above (see about Julianne Moore).However, general signs of warm skin the following (although this does not always work):
- the presence of reddish or yellowish freckles,
- peach colour,
- yellowish tint (in the absence of liver problems)
- pinkish color (using the example of Julianne Moore above you can see that this, unfortunately, does not always work),
- lilac skin color or blush,
- bluish color,
- olive color (this definitely indicates a cold temperature).
The fact is that initially the skin has a yellowish tint, since it contains carotene, which is either visible (with warm colors) or not (cold skin has less carotene).
What makes a color warmer? Adding yellow pigment to it.
What makes a color cooler? Adding blue pigment to it.
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Now, if you imagine that blue was added to initially yellowish skin, what color will the resulting color be? That's right, greenish. Skin with a greenish tint is called olive. That's why it happens to owners.
We can say that olive skin looks warm (we know that olive is a warm color). This is your skin tone. But her undertone is blue (it is what turns yellow skin greenish), and blue is a cool color. Therefore, such skin is cold.
By the way, if you know for sure that Pure white suits you very well, then this most likely testifies in favor of cold color schemes. If you know that cream suits you better than white, then warm.
We determine warm and cold colors experimentally
If this description didn’t help you much, then all that remains is to follow the experimental path.Here I can offer several options, you can try them all.
First you need to decide on other characteristics:
- you have dark colors (hair / hair and eyes / hair, eyes and skin) - light - medium saturation
- your colors are pure and bright - muted
You need to take such tests without makeup and without jewelry, in good lighting, preferably daylight, and also without clothes, or in a neutral top with a deep neckline (preferably white, cream, gray).
Test 1. Lipstick
You will need lipsticks of different shades: a warm shade of red or pink (tomato, coral, peach, etc.), as well as a cold shade (red, lilac, berry, hot pink, etc.). It is better if the colors of these lipsticks match your characteristics (dark, medium or light, muted or bright).
See which shade, cool or warm, looks better on you.
If you don't have these different shades, you can buy some cheap ones to do this test. It's actually very effective because the lipstick immediately reveals whether you're leaning toward a warmer temperature or a cooler temperature.
By the way, you can test lipstick not only on your lips, but also on the inside of your arm (see photo above). This way you can also see how well its shade will “fit” your skin color.
If both cool and warm shades of “your” color depth and brightness suit you, then most likely you have a mixed temperature, that is, you are a neutral type. It is written about above.
Test 2. Veins
Look at the veins on your wrist in daylight: if they have a greenish, greenish-blue color, then this indicates a warm color, and if they are bluish-lilac or blue, this indicates a cold color.
You can compare the color of your veins with someone you know whose color scheme you easily identified (clearly warm or cold type).
Test 3. White and yellow metal
With your hair tied up (see above), sit in front of a mirror and put on a necklace made of white metal (silver, steel, etc.), and then yellow (gold, brass, copper, etc.).
If you like silver more on yourself, it looks more organic, then most likely you have a cold color scheme, but if gold suits you better, it’s warm.
The same test can be carried out with metallic fabric of silver and gold color.
By the way, you can put metal jewelry on your hand and see which metal will look more harmonious on your skin and better match its color.
If both metals go (or both don’t :))), then most likely you have a mixed temperature, or you are a neutral type. By the way, rose gold is often very suitable in this case.
Test 4. Fabric
Do the same with fabric or clothing (or you can also use sheets of paper), placing it close to your face in the neck area. Choose several overtly warm and cool shades of the same color for comparison (for example, cool pink and warm coral/peach). Do not forget that for objectivity it is best to adhere to your other characteristics that you have already determined, that is, if you have light colors, then the fabric should be light, if deep, then deep colors, if bright, then bright, if muted - then muted shades.It is best not to wear clothes of these colors, but to apply them. First, place, for example, a fabric with a cold shade, and on top of it - with a warm one. Look at yourself carefully. And then quickly remove the top fabric (or clothing), now you will see yourself in a fabric with a cool undertone. Usually, exactly at this moment of changing shades you can see most clearly how the color behaves next to your face.
You need to look at eye area: Does shadow appear under the eyes, do circles/bags become more visible? Or, on the contrary, does this color seem to disguise them?
Look at area around the mouth and chin: Has a shadow appeared there, reminiscent of male stubble? :) It sounds scary, but sometimes colors that don't match our temperature can cast a greenish shadow on our chin.
Look at overall face: Does your skin look smoother, fresher, and your face more rested? Or are all your features “erased”, blurred, and skin unevenness more pronounced?
You can also test with yellow and fuchsia(it is described at the beginning of the article). If your face turns yellowish next to yellow, then this indicates a cold color scheme, and if you blush from being next to cold pink or red, then, on the contrary, your colors are warm.
Also good for determining temperature White color: if pure white suits you, the skin looks healthier, but in cream it becomes yellowish, then you have a cool color scheme. If cream suits you better than white, your face becomes fresher, and white “erases” it, as it were, then you have warm colors in your appearance.
In the photo below you can clearly see how color affects our appearance.
Below: the top two photos are warm shades of pink, the bottom two are cool pink and fuchsia.
It is noticeable that in warm shades this girl’s face becomes yellowish, and in cold shades it looks fresher.
Let's take deeper shades that suit her color scheme ().
Below: the top two photos are warm shades of red, the bottom two are cool shades.
It is also noticeable here that the face looks yellow in warm shades in the top two photos, but the cool shades in the bottom two photos do not leave their red mark on this girl’s face, the skin looks healthy.
All this indicates that she has a cold external temperature.
Below: the top two photos are warm shades of yellow, the bottom two are cool shades.
With the yellow indicator color, everything became completely obvious - in warm shades, the girl’s face came closer to the color of the fabric.
By the way, note that even a cool shade of yellow-orange (second photo in the second row) casts a yellow shadow on the face; in fact, there is no cold orange - the shade becomes cooler when adding red, but it is still warm. Apparently, she should stick to very frankly cold shades.
Test 5. Love
Exactly. :) Your love for a certain group of flowers can also indicate your possible temperature.Johannes Itten, a Swiss artist and color researcher and teacher at the famous Bauhaus school of building and art design in Germany in the last century, found that his students, given the same assignment, used either warm or cool shades of colors in their work. In 1947, he began to research this issue and found a correlation: warm shades were chosen by students with golden skin and warm-colored eyes, and cold shades were preferred by students with pinkish or lilac-colored skin, ashy hair and cool-colored eyes.
Itten concluded that people are naturally attracted to colors that are similar to their natural colors.
Look at the photo above to see what colors the red-haired baby chooses.
So, wear what you like and be happy!
I hope this is a difficult question determining warm or cold external temperature you will be able to successfully resolve, which will allow you to choose the most advantageous colors for you, which will only decorate and delight you!
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