https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:15:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/4#post-1303398 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:30:14 +0000 Astrid 1303398@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Eva! That's a good point with the pastels. I actually think I don't have that many real SSu colors in my wardrobe, now that I've tried schooling my eye a bit. I tried to do a comparison like the one you did and I noticed a similar effect.</p> <p>Thanks Jean! I've come to a similar conclusion, full circle so to speak. I do think that the Soft Summer color fan I have is not the best though. I'll try to go more with my gut feeling from now on choosing colors. And I definitely wouldn't want to work against my coloring, although I know that it's possible to a degree. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/4#post-1303356 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:35:44 +0000 greenglove 1303356@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have not read any of the many comments here.<br />You are lovely, I agree that you are a soft summer without makeup.<br />#6, 7 and 9 are the best from the original post. (IMO)<br />You can wear soft cools, I do not think warms would work.<br />Your skin tone seems more pinkish.<br />I have done people's colors for what it is worth and work with color all the time as an artist.<br />I also think you are low contrast.</p> <p>Things change with hair color differences and tans, brighter makeup etc.<br />In other words you can make other things work but most naturally soft summer colors seem to be the best for you </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1303348 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:28:06 +0000 E 1303348@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm glad it helped! The other thing I'd say is that soft summer's palette includes light colours too: as long as the pastel is greyed enough, I can wear it (esp blue &amp; pink &amp; mauve). Whereas the clearer pastels (like that mint cardi) don't mesh. Here's another quick pic so you can see what I'm talking about (forgive the pillow messiness: it's bedding washing day). I learned all of this through trial &amp; error, but now I think I've finally got my 'pallete' sorted. It's still quite broad, so I don't feel confined. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1302682 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:17:17 +0000 Astrid 1302682@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks so much Eva for posting these pics! I think they're very helpful and I can definitely see what you're saying. I'll see if I can do a similar comparison. And you're right, I like to wear quite dark outfits sometimes, that would definitely speak against light as the dominant characteristic. Maybe I just didn't pick my colors and color combinations well enough and that's why I felt off in some of my outfits. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1302367 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:47:15 +0000 E 1302367@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Astrid!</p> <p>I just finished reading the whole thread &amp; loved doing it, as I'm a total colour nerd. As you know, I'm a self-diagnosed soft summer: for me softness is the most important thing (I can get overwhelmed by colours very easily) and while I can head into soft autumn territory in some shades, I cannot wear mustard yellow to save my life, which is why I decided I was in the summer camp. I'm pretty close to the border, though, so in colours like blues, teals, and pinks, I don't worry as much about warm/cool as soft.</p> <p>I'm pretty sure my mom is a light spring, and as I happened to recently thrift a couple pieces for her, I thought I'd do a quick comparison of how I look in muted colours vs clearer ones. I just used my iMac camera, and I'm wearing quite a bright blue blouse today (it's as bright as I can go) and my burgundy lipstick, so it's not the best example in the world. But in case it helps. The mint doesn't look too bad at first, but then compare it&nbsp;to the muted teal. The teal looks a part of me, while the mint looks a bit photoshopped (to my eyes). For the pinks, the fuchsia is too bright ( don't know how much this came through in the photo): instead of looking at my face, my eyes go to the shirt. This is even more true in real life. Whereas the dusty rose complements me: my eye goes straight to my face.</p> <p>I don't know if that will help you, but I hope it does. I think you should take more pictures with more of the fabric in them to decide if you're light or soft (or cool as a true summer). Going from your past outfits posts, I think you look quite good in your mainly dark outfits, which I don't think lighter seasons could pull off as well. But it's harder to tell in photos vs real life. If you don't feel as good in the very muted colours, perhaps try true summer? But I like a bit of contrast in my outfits: if I'm in all medium or all light or all dark I feel off. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1301131 Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:52:58 +0000 Astrid 1301131@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Freckles, for coming back to this thread. And you know, I think you're right. At the moment I'm almost suspecting myself to be a SSu after all, just one that doesn't need her colors to be quite as greyed out as others and can take some color. So, I'm going to do as you suggested and just look at the rough direction for inspiration, I'm sure the rest will come to me with practice when I'm shopping and wearing my clothes. I just need to take care to make color a bit of a higher priority than I've done so far. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1300731 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 20:46:56 +0000 Freckles 1300731@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sorry to be so late coming back, started posts many times but got interrupted.<br />I think there will always be colours in your palette that don't look that great on you if they are your own season or not and colours from the shoulder season that do. &nbsp;I happen to look super fab in the wrong brown but only with a statement necklace in tourquoise. &nbsp;Just makes my eyes pop and I really look alive.<br />As has been advised even if you had the right one it is nearly impossible to find in the shops. &nbsp;Different fabrics take dye differently so the same colour looks different when done in different fabrics. &nbsp;If you think summer fits I might take a loose look at it instead of trying to really hone in. &nbsp;In the shops, at home, etc. try things on. &nbsp;What you wear them with, the style of the items, the fabric, time of year, cloudy or bright sun, if you slept last night or are stressed due to papers/labs/exams all play a part.<br />Don't remember if I'm technically supposed to wear gold or not but the right gold in a tiny delicate chain with pearls dispersed throughout looks fab on me. &nbsp;It is soft and delicate even if the gold may be wrong or so therefore works.<br />I also have a clinique eyeliner in moss which should not work at all. &nbsp;It does though. &nbsp;The softest application barely there smudged just defines my old drooping eyes a bit and I look much more alive. &nbsp;I'm not a make-up wearer either and it is somewhat sporadic with allergies and being retired. &nbsp;Just this hint of almost no colour adds definition.<br />Even though it might feel like you're all mixed up I think that you're on the right track. &nbsp;Vix's advice has been brilliant. &nbsp;Love that greyscale thingy with the pics, need to look up how to do that.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298478 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:26:36 +0000 Joana 1298478@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It is best to find a piece of silver or gold fabric if possible, the larger the area the clearer the results.<br />You might want to check 16 seasons system (don't know exact title), they divided soft summers into two.<br />I think you'll figure out your season, it's just a matter of time. And of course there are people in between seasons. And even if you are draped by professional and have your swatch palette, most often you have to make compromises at store, there rarely is a exact match. But knowing your season really deepens understanding of oneself looks, and even if the garment is not exact right color you'll figure out workarounds :)</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298462 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:08:23 +0000 Astrid 1298462@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks. You're probably right, it was a long shot. It's not that I just don't like gold, it truly looks not quite right. I'll try to take pics with both metals later today. If that all is true that would leave me with SSu... Sigh. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298423 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:21:18 +0000 Joana 1298423@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>True or Cool summer is a summer without a drop off warmth. And she is the one with highest contrast level, of summers. Somehow I doubt that you are a TSu, INMHO cool is not your dominant characteristic, but it's hard to decide what is :D<br />I am not very fond of gold either But colors suit or not despite our (anti)sympathies towards them :)</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298395 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:09:49 +0000 Astrid 1298395@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Joana! I'm not a big fan of gold on myself, maybe Im not a LSu after all. You know I wonder if feeling a bit too blah in SSu colors means I could be a True Summer. That's something I haven't really considered yet. I first thought it wasn't an option because the colors looked to be a bit <i>much</i>, but I wonder if I really tried the right ones (cool without being too bright and therefore belonging to winter). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298365 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:26:22 +0000 Joana 1298365@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Light summers wear silwer and <b>gold</b> well :)<br />Because they have spring influence, that soft and cool summer don't have. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298348 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 06:49:31 +0000 Astrid 1298348@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks. That makes sense! The pinky coral is the color that is mentioned with the LSu. The color that is supposed to say if you could be a LSp is a light olive-khaki. I'm not sure if I could wear that one. I don't think I have the color anywhere to try it out. But, I still like silver better on me than gold, so I guess that speaks for the summer. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1298335 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 06:16:11 +0000 Joana 1298335@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The blouse looks very summery color for me. And the delicate pattern says summer (as opposed to winter or bright spring color blocking and contrast). But if coral is on the warmer side I think it as well might be LSpr :)<br />But patterns are tricky drapes, because in the mix, colors influence each other, and the end result is not clear. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297708 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:59:14 +0000 Astrid 1297708@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Coming back to the last link about colors that make or break it - I think this is pinky coral in this blouse right? Is this enough color in the pattern to influence the look? Because I really liked that blouse. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297694 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:38:06 +0000 Astrid 1297694@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks. I think the problem is that I haven't worn a lot of color in general so I don't think I have tried all of these. I would say I could instantly rule out anything besides True Summer, Light Spring, Light Summer, Soft Summer and Soft Autumn. That still leaves a big range! </p> <p>ETA</p> <p><a href="http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/please-explain-contrast.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is contrast explained with b&amp;w pics. Looking at the pictures I'm definitely low contrast.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297675 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:04:32 +0000 Joana 1297675@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I tried to find a link with pictures about contrast levels, but I have no luck, I lost that bookmark. But instead found this:<br /><a href="http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/blog/seasonal-deal-breakers" rel="nofollow">http://www.truth-is-beauty.com.....l-breakers</a><br />maybe that will help :)</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297661 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 16:50:18 +0000 Astrid 1297661@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>MsKatieKat, I ususally take my pics with artificial light on, because my flat is fairly dark generally and even more so at the end of the day.&nbsp; </p> <p>Helenedith, I agree. </p> <p>Thanks Joana! I just put three of the pics through the black and white filter and I think the result looks fairly soft. My hair is fairly dark in comparison to the rest, but my brows are very low contrast. And my eyes don't stand out much. There isn't a big contrast in the eyes either. With the black and white pictures of LSu and LSp the eyes are much clearer and stand out more. You're right that I haven't posted anything in bight or light colors so far, I guess it's because I don't have much in that department. </p> <p>I used a colorblocked knit scarf&nbsp; for the pics below. The colors are all rather saturated. Definitely not much love for any of these! I look<i> so</i> tired. Maybe I'm a SSu after all. Now I'm completely confused... :D</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297485 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:24:28 +0000 Joana 1297485@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And here light springs, that are not that light.<br /><a href="http://www.12blueprints.com/louise-and-stevan-are-light-springs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.12blueprints.com/lo.....t-springs/</a><br />I think it would be helpful for you to make a little google search, which colors are the most typical for LSu and LSpr, and just try them, and make photos.<br />You can use any peace of fabric at home e.g. towels, Now you uploaded quite limited array of color, there are no real lights or brights :)<br />These two light seasons are quite complicated to distinct from each other.<br />Coral will be ok for both, but it requires long stare at the mirror to decide if salmon or watermelon is better And summer haven't anything orangey/peachey. And taupe is summer's neutral, warm camel - spring's. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297475 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:03:52 +0000 Joana 1297475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Remembered, also read somewhere, that light summers (I can't remember if this apply only for LSu or for both LSu and LSpr) as children were towheads, and as adults have very fair eyebrows.<br />look at the people pictured in this blog, that first girl and princess Diana don't look overly light to me, but they are light summers<br /><a href="http://www.12blueprints.com/light-summer-looking-serious/" rel="nofollow">http://www.12blueprints.com/li.....g-serious/</a><br /><a href="http://www.12blueprints.com/how-light-summer-goes-gray/" rel="nofollow">http://www.12blueprints.com/ho.....goes-gray/</a><br /><a href="http://www.12blueprints.com/kip-is-a-light-summer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.12blueprints.com/kip-is-a-light-summer/</a><br /><a href="http://www.12blueprints.com/a-brown-eyed-summer/" rel="nofollow">http://www.12blueprints.com/a-brown-eyed-summer/</a></p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297428 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:35:57 +0000 Helenedith 1297428@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am late to this thread but wanted to say that I have read somewhere that people who are analysed as spring types will have cheek colour. Eg a natural blush whereas someone analysed as autumn (the other warm category) have limited/ no natural blush in their cheeks. of course there are exceptions to everything and I tend to think choosing the right colour to wear is an art form. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297091 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:49:04 +0000 MsLuna 1297091@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@Astrid: ok I always thought you were a redhead too! I guess it's the lighting where your photos are taken? The photos you posted to me looked quite redhead - which is likely why I thought you were an autumn. I'm seeing how the colour looks now on the pics you just posted - your hair colour appears more "ashy" and it makes sense how you could be a variation of a summer! </p> <p>Based on the more recent photos you look great in muted blues - so this totally makes sense! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1297012 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 21:22:06 +0000 Astrid 1297012@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Joana, thanks for sharing your testing methods! I'm definitely going to try some of the things you mentioned, because I'm by no means sure of anything yet. I just realised, like you did, that the subdued colors of the SSu palette made me feel kind of invisible. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1296937 Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:25:22 +0000 Joana 1296937@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Followed you from my thread :)<br />I can not decide if you could be a light season (summer or spring), if you are, then a high contrast one. When I DIY my colors, I was considering soft summer, cool summer, even spring, and the light summer was at the end of the queue. What helped to decide was taking photos in open air (no direct sunlight) with blank white paper sheet under my chin, camera in one hand, mirror in other - to check if the photo, just taken, reflects true colors of hair, skin, eyes accurately. Paper for white balance in the picture. A lot of stuff to handle, but indoor photos just did not showed the true coloring!<br />Then putting my photos in a group of LSu celebrities showed, that I with my natural hair color (celebs are all bleached!) look like I belong there among sisters :D. <br />Another useful trick was to turn picture b/w, this shows LSu or LSp lack of contrast. The hair the skin the eyes are very similar value. (I used celeb pictures in b/w for comparison also).<br />And the fact that quite bright poppy red looked really good with my skin (nail polish) eliminated cool summer (only berry reds for them).<br />I thought for a while that I am soft summer, even bought some low key colored tops from SSu palette, but there was something not right all the time. I was not alive dressed in them.<br />It took quite long time for all pieces of the puzzle to fall to the right places, but I am pretty sure I am LSu. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1296041 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:55:36 +0000 Astrid 1296041@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Vix! I guess it was both my mum and my dad, but I don't think they had a great sense of color (thinking back on other pictures), these were just the colors that were "in style" at the time (early 90s). And yes, that is a very good idea with the pictures. Thanks for doing the work of putting these next to each other! I guess you normally can't match the colors exactly anyway, so it makes sense to just work in a range that seems right for you. I do like both scarf pictures - I just tried them one after the other looking in a mirror and I can't see a big difference looking at my face. Maybe a slight preference for the second one, but not by much. </p> <p>What I meant with the "golden look" was that the white balance was off, I didn't have good light when I took the pics and my camera couldn't cope with it. I took them again just now and these are more accurate. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1296020 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:06:54 +0000 Vix 1296020@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Astrid --</p> <p>I don't know who dressed you as a child, but s/he seemed to do a great job picking colors that looked great on you!</p> <p>One thing that was helpful to me when I was DIYing through my color journey to find my ranges (how dark/bright/light etc could I go?) was to plop photos of myself in colors that I thought looked good on me against the various palettes. It kind of freed me from feeling locked into one system/palette.</p> <p>Here's a comparison with Light Spring and Light Summer. Looking golden isn't a bad thing given your coloring!&nbsp;</p> <p>ETA If the scarf photos weren't shot in the same lighting, it might benefit you to just flip back and forth between them and see which you prefer. FWIW, they both seem really "in the zone" to me.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1296008 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 17:50:28 +0000 Astrid 1296008@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks Torontogirl!</p> <p>Thanks Freckles. And no problem with the yellow comment, I guess I'm so used to looking slightly yellow that I just don't see it when it's better than it usually ist. So thanks for speaking up! There is quite a difference betwenn that scarf and the last one colorwise when you place them next to each other, but I'm not sure in which way exactly. I wouldn't say the last scarf is a mix of summer/autumn, in fact I thought it fit fairly well into the light summer palette Vix has shown (if you leave the black out of it). The purple and blues and the slightly warmed gray and also the yellow, although in the palette it's not as intense. It is rather neutral and not overly cool I would say. The other scarf has that warm peach tone that runs through the other colors, that may be the problem. And I agree that the last one looks good! I kept my hair away from the face. It's definitely a lot about shadows and light, but it can't hurt to show more of my face. My hair is very 'present' when you look at me, that's just the way it is. I was talking to my mum recently and told her I needed to make an appointment for the next haircut and she said she'd love me to go back to a pixie! But I don't think I'm brave enough. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1295998 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 16:56:13 +0000 Freckles 1295998@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I really like this latest scarf on you. &nbsp;It seems to be a mix of summer and autumn colours.<br />Sorry about the yellow comment. &nbsp;Cameras and computer monitors are wonderful but terrible at showing the real person.<br />I have a yellow undertone to my white pinky skin so am very sensitive to that...<br />The last pic showing the pearls is fabulous. &nbsp;You look healthy and alive, really glow. &nbsp;I know it is all about camera angles and shadows and light and whatever but this one is dynamite. &nbsp;It seems to me that you glow more when more skin shows... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1295881 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:40:55 +0000 Helena 1295881@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That scarf is perfect on you! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/color-contrast-confused-warning-candid-pics/page/3#post-1295868 Sun, 06 Jul 2014 11:32:20 +0000 Astrid 1295868@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One last pic in another scarf I used to wear a lot, plus bonus pic of my pearl earrings for Freckles. Also Deb made me aware of <a href="http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/what-season-are-you.html" rel="nofollow">this site</a> and the option to test the season with lipsticks. I've searched for a few light summer colors and will try to test those. Using the lipsticks I own at the moment and taking pics showed that most of them didn't work on me at all. Now I know why I never use them. </p>