I did my own Color Season Analysis

This is solid entertainment.

Smelling the swatch you liked is some kind of art math that I really resonate with

This process was probably particularly frustrating because you were testing for cool vs warm when your dominant characteristic is neither. It’s soft. Soft autumn colors look stunning on you.

I’m olive and happen to be a bright winter. If I wear my best colors it’s like someone turned on the light. My face lits up, my complexion looks radiant, I literally look healthier and younger. It’s so worth it because it makes me feel better. How can you hate a color that makes you look stunning? I can’t.

You had me at "welcome to the void."

Although I agree that color analysis is not for everyone and doesn't need to be for everyone (especially those who wear makeup!) I do think the draping is fairly misinformed in the video. For instance, in the undertone test, we generally pick warm and cool tones in the same family, like red-pink vs red-orange, rather than two completely different colors like gray and brown. Also, many color analysis schools of thought do include palettes for neutrals. Though not always explicit, you can have a dominant attribute that makes the other two attributes less important. For instance, you can be so overwhelmingly muted, that temperature doesn't matter anymore. Keeping this in mind, sometimes it's easier to start with the most obvious trait and then adjust for the more subtle differentiations if they can be identified. In your instance, maybe starting with intensity, then moving to depth, then to temperature would have been more productive and less confusing. Comparing Spring vs Autumn and then Summer vs Winter is less useful then comparing Autumn vs Summer, which are both muted palettes in which you seem to be dominant. tldr; Kakkie's understanding of color is fantasic as always-- and that learned intuition really shows in the video. And I totally agree that there is nothing exact or defined about color seasons (like astrology? :) ). That being said, I think there was a lack of understanding of color analysis as a process, and I think that is why the "why" is not clicking. Would love to see Kakkie collab with an analysis studio to have her questions answered because I think Kakkie would ask all our questions, if not more.

Honestly the soft autumn colors really look beautiful on you

Style me Jen has a very good series about why people who are olive or neutral could struggle a bit. And the fact you can use some colours from other pallets is not a bug, it's a feature! I am also very desaturated and it helped me so much to know I don't have to care with warm or cool I need to care about softness first and foremost.

One of the joys of color analysis is that when you find the right colors it really does make your skin and overall appearance better (or harmonized, as they say), which then might make you want to use less makeup. For example, if a certain color suddenly reduces the look of your undereye circles, you'd probably need way less concealer.

Kackie slowly becoming unhinged while trying to come to terms with these colors is amazing. I hope she got a nap in after. 😂❤😂

And yes, it's like you said--I think the major distinction is that clothing colors reflect light onto our face in different ways, whereas makeup blends with our skin and has a different effect. Clothing is like reflection plus comparison/harmony, and makeup is blending plus comparison/harmony.

many olives end up being cool seasons bc warm colors can sometimes make us look super yellow/green/gray

I’m an olive but turned out to be a winter which I found really interesting because I’d previously gravitated towards olive/burnt oranges but I realise now how dramatically those colours change my face. Still sticking with gold jewellery though because it’s not enough gold to be an issue and let’s face it, gold and navy are perfection.

Seasonal color analysis operates on the idea of achieving "harmony" with your skin tone and features. It does not account for all of the stunning outcomes that can be achieved from contrast. For example, Elle Fanning has very cool toned skin but looks amazing with very warm golden yellow hair. Another example would be how amazing Asian women with very warm skin tones can look with either platinum or violet haircolors (both cool). The contrast actually amplifies both attributes so instead of clashing it just creates a very stunning effect.

Check out Merriem Style. She has a whole bunch of videos on why color analysis systems dont work for a lot of people, specifically if you're muted, neutral, or olive. She also talks about how sometimes your style/essence/whatever overrides your "technical" color season.

I had mine done years ago, and it works. As the pro said who did my colours, it isn't for everyday, it's not rules. If sage green doesn't suit you, but you love it, wear it anyway, but provide a "break," like a necklace or collar, that suits you. Or just wear it. Your seasonal colours are for best, or job interviews, important occasions when you want to show out. If a colour makes you feel good, wear it. The questionnaires online seem flawed, since they're about choice, ie what colour jewellery do you prefer, gold or silver? If you prefer gold, but you know silver suits you as well, what do you answer? It does seem like a good idea to get someone to help you, since they might make less preferential decisions.

If you can distinguish between warm or cool and saturated or muted, then you can understand seasonal color analysis. Winter is cool and saturated, spring is warm and saturated, summer is cool and muted, autumn is warm and muted. The subgroups are about determining which of those characteristics is most important to your overall coloring. A Winter might pull off a warmer saturated color or warmer muted color indicating if saturation is equally or more important than your temperature. It seems like you already understand your coloring in these terms, being muted leaning warm. This would roughly place you in the autumn soft quadrant/area on the map. Your lip theory/technique keeping the temperature and tint (per picmonkey) the same but sliding it to red is theoretically how the different pallets were made. Color analysis posits everyone’s got some form of roygbiv that would complement their unique coloring based on their temperature and tint. Now when you get down to the granularity of it, selling swatches for exact color matching I think you get restrictive diminishing returns. To me, it’s about that moment you find something in your style that comes in multiple colors, you can choose the more muted or saturated or cool or warm of the options to suits you best without having to “work” for the color. Hope that makes sense!

As someone who has been very lost in the colour analysis sauce and is also neutral we don't really fit this system......your main aspect is muted (vs bright) and you lean slightly warm so you can borrow colours from both muted seasons Autumn and Summer I'm the exact opposite, neutral leaning cool and bright

For those of us with untrained eyes for color—seasonal color analysis has been life changing! I really think the Italian ladies in Australia (color analysis studio) do a great job and turn something that seems subjective into something objective that people like me with a math/science brain can understand. Thanks for this video Kackie—made for a fun run on my treadmill!

I’d love to see you do a professional one. Those swatches aro too small, actual drapes reflect light onto the face more so it’s easier to see