I never did any color test, I find this so confusing! I don't know which season I am..

Years ago, I read Carole Jackson's COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL, which was all the rage in the 80s and discovered that I am a summer. Mary Spillane's version (out of print) breaks it down even further: I am a COOL summer.

MsMaven,

As a teen, I knew that anything with yellow undertones totally washed me out. Now when shopping, I simply look in the dressing room mirror and know IMMEDIATELY if the color is flattering.

I have dark ash blond hair (my natural color!), fair Scots-Irish skin and very dark brown eyes. Teal, turquoise, purple are my best friends! Also deep fuchsia and blue-reds.

Thank you for posting the link. It will be interesting to analyze myself.

Sensible informational guidelines to know and work with and around if you're able to find your best palette or spectrum of shades. The proof of its value is right before one's eyes looking in the mirror I've found. I have deep autumn/fire/earth coloring. Put me in large swathes of cool tones and I look like I am jaundiced from liver failure. Thanks for the link MsMaven, his before and after photos are especially compelling and interesting.

Super interesting discussion ladies! I've had a couple of talks about this from some ladies who work at Mac and my friend who is a makeup artist/fashion consultant and I hear the same thing from everyone: the seasons thing is outdated. I tend to agree, though I am not an expert by any means. From my own journey I think it's important to find out what undertone your skin has, and try out tons of tops in different colors (take pictures in natural lighting if you can) and see what looks great on you. You might be surprised! I know I have been.

I tend to stick to jewel tones and cool colors but one day I needed to take a picture of myself with a
bunch of earthy, warm colors next to my face (Etsy shop photo, in case you're wondering why I "had" to do this lol) and I thought, "this is going to look awful." but it didnt! I put it on Facebook and received a ton of compliments. Thus I say, experiment, experiment!

Girls, I can only speak for myself here. I paid for a colour consultation, and bought the Colour Me Confident book, and am really pleased. I got lots of compliments when I started wearing my flattering colours, and stopped trying to wear colours that suited others. Interestingly, the colours that work well for me are the same colours I'm drawn to in decorating. I can't speak for the underlying theory, but I find sticking to the softer, muted, cool undertone colours that are 'mine' works really well for me.......I guess if you have a good eye and can look at what suits you objectively then colour analysis is somewhat of a circular agument, because it is done by draping colours near your face and seeing which colours work well for you....but I learnt a lot and often recommend the colour me confindent book . FWIW

Lol--- Zoe, my brother actually says that I am green! It isn't quite as catchy as calling somebody yellow. He looks like my grandmother who has rosy undertones and when you put my pale olive skin next to his I truly do look green-- he claimed I was an alien!

Lynne, your decorating choices are gorgeous. I have a tendency to decorate with colors I look good in as well. The walls in the bedroom are a saturated marigold color--- which is one of the only shades of yellow that tends to flatter me.

I am not giving up on grey. Grey should look good on me for goodness sake! I still have a thick grey rim around each of my eyes and had entirely grey eyes until I was in grade school.