Interesting that you bring up this topic, Irina. Recently as part of my style flux situation (just feeling a little unsettled about it all, for whatever reasons), I've been re-considering my color choices. I've had my colors done a couple of times--once in the 80s by a Color Me Beautiful consultant, who classified me as a winter, and twice in the last decade or so by a consultant who uses some other system that remains opaque to me but is based on colors she finds in one's skin, hair, and eyes. That second system yielded a palette that I carry around with me a lot of time when I shop, and which I use with varying amounts of success. When I was trying to conform to the CMB winter palette back in the 80s, I kept rebelling against the approved colors in favor of more muted summer ones. I really didn't like the jewel tone look on me. But I just "knew" I couldn't be a summer, because I had dark hair. . . . Until now, when I see that the seasons have gotten a bit more sophisticated!
I have come across the site you linked to in your response to Carla, and maybe another one or two that use that system, and I feel pretty certain that I am a soft summer, i.e., my main color characteristic is muted and my secondary is cool. I feel comfortable in some autumn shades, and I think the palette my most recent consult provided has some colors that I would have thought were autumn, which has thrown me for a loop. So the soft summer and soft autumn shared characteristic of muted first (if I've got that correct) helps me see why I would feel at home in some warmer tones, if they are muted enough. That said, I feel I can pull off a lot of colors that aren't really my best ones.
Like Jenava, I have been exploring some of the Kibbe stuff on his Facebook pages, and I have just stumbled into the color section. I like the idea of tailoring makeup to outfits. My way of doing that has been simply to do it with lipstick, since my makeup is usually so minimal to begin with. (When I think I'm wearing a lot, it may not register to others. Maybe because I have deep-set eyes and wear glasses?)
My recent re-evaluation of the colors I'm wearing has shown me that I have wandered into possibly every palette in the 12-season system. I feel like my wardrobe is all over the place in that regard, and it is hard for me to assemble capsules that are color-complementary. And yet, if you just walk into my closet and look around, it does look fairly coherent. There are very few bright spring colors represented, and perhaps none of the really warm, fiery autumn ones, close to zero bright whites (which I dislike, a lot, near my face). I have more black than I'd like, but darn if it's not hard to banish, especially since I don't hate it.
