Hi again Astrid --
The pics of younger you definitely show a low contrast between skin/hair/eyes, but in theory you could be any "season" depending on what the color did for your skin and features.
In all likelihood you're on the right track with the muted seasons, though, which in Sci/Art is SSummer, DWinter, Soft Autumn, or Dark Autumn. Seems like you think the cool muted tones are better on you, which would mean SS/DW.
[Maybe you're hiding a "Bright" season, though! ;)]
Before I forget: a) thank you for the nice comments! and b) Imogen Lamport just posted the below as part of her recent post on one's personal colors:
http://www.insideoutstyleblog......asons.html
>Some colours do look better in the hotter months, and others are better in the cooler ones. So how do you use your colour palette to still look great but work around the seasons?
>Within each palette there are lighter and darker colours. Your colour palette is only a small selection of the 50 000 colours (0r so) that would look great on you. It’s a tool to help you find colours that work, not a definitive prescription of the only colours you can wear. A bit lighter, darker, brighter, more muted – these are all options for you. Your palette is just used to identify the kinds of colours that you’re looking for.
As others have mentioned, what's in the store does limit our choices (another reason I sneak around and have some custom pieces made) so sometimes I opt for "damn good" vs "probable best."
Don't forget you can choose Color A and Color B for key colors, and shop for items that let you create different "color capsules."
[This has worked so, so well for me the last few years -- can't believe it took me so long. Ditto to realizing prints/patterns can tie 2 sides together...for example a rose/brown/black print works with my purple-reds bottoms and tops as well as the neutrals that I can't do without.]
Without pro analysis, the best I have for myself is "cool" reigning as most important. Different color systems would place me differently -- and some allow for cross-seasonal flow/blend, so I try to test my boundaries and see how light, how bright, how deep, and how muted I can go with cool colors. ["Not too" is the shortcut answer....]
You might want to do the same...perhaps you can go deeper/warmer/[X] near your face than you think!
It's a little controversial in some arenas, but I pulled a couple of the cool 12 Season Sci-Art based palettes together and put some photos of my clothes against them.
(disclaimer re online colors blah blah)
You can see some clothing seems to fall right on a palette color, some "in between" the palette colors as we've been discussing, and other colors REALLY seem to have minute variations in shade from say, True Summer to True Winter.
Put me in mustard and bright olive and it's bad, but there's a lot more leeway in certain areas, especially when a print or pattern vs solid is involved.
You could definitely test yourself in a variety of muted blues, see how warm you can wear greys, etc.
Let us know how you progress!
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