PS - I feel like Michelle Dockery could be your color season twin!

Torontogirl, thank you. You are very good at colours, I remember your great post on colour analysis a while ago. You and many others have thought of me as a bright winter. So interesting, because I was more thinking maybe deep winter or cool winter, because I have read that bright winters often have very bright, often blue sparkly eyes. But I really like the bright winter colours. But as you say, everybody has to customize the palette to suit themselves.

Torontogirl, wow, thank you for the picture! So helpful. I will google some more of her outfits for colour inspiration.

I've just skimmed over the respones and haven't read them in detail. I see that Angie has responded that Winter is your true season.

I am a Dark Autumn (Autumn going into Winter), and I struggled with my season too. I'm guessing you are probably whatever Winter category comes after Dark Autumn. I think it can be tricky because we can have both cool and warm tones. I have noticed that my eyes are a very warm brown, but my hair is a cool brown. My skin has both yellow (warm) and blue-black (cool) undertones (yes, I can look kind of green sometimes, lol). I sometimes decide whether I want to wear a cool palette on a given day, or a warm one. I can skew my colors slightly either way and still look good...though I look slightly better in the warm colors.

Gigi, I love your colouring. I just looked at some of your pictures you posted earlier. You look so great in that tan/brown Free People top you wore to your birthday last year. To my eye, you are indeed not a Winter, rather an Autumn. The colour of your top would not work on me - so as you say, we are not the same colour season despite the dark hair and high contrast we have in common and perhaps some flattering colours we share. It is so interesting to be able to compare and to see the differences!

Katerina, she's perhaps a little fairer than you, but a great example of a bright winter (I think, anyway) who defies the convention of the jewel colored eyes. Plus, if you love them, that's the most important thing, and the happiness and confidence is sure to shine through!

Torontogirl, look at that picture, what an awesome colour on her...

Gorgeous! And I think she benefits from the contrast of the orange.

Yes, that is some truly special gown....

Katerina, you look wonderful in clear, saturated colours and I think you lean cool (even the orange you're wearing looks to me like it could be a winter orange). I might be tempted to place you in between True Winter and Bright Winter (so leaning just a bit toward Spring). You have a really good grasp of what works for you, regardless of how you want to categorize those colours. As mainelady says, confidence is your colour!

I'm yet another dark-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed person who feels a bit off when wearing True Winter colours. I think it's easy to oversimplify based on features, when what really matters are the underlying tones. My skin is decidedly not cool bluish-pink despite being quite fair, but I don't skew extremely warm/sallow either. My hair often looks almost-black, but in full sun it has an auburn cast. My eyes are a clear and intense blue, but have gold/amber flecks in them. So, as much as I love very cool colours like cobalt and emerald, they are not my best shades even though I thought for a long time they would work for me. Slightly darker, warmer, "dirtier" colours (pine and olive green, most navy, eggplant, etc) work much better, especially coupled with a splash of white/bright/pale for contrast.

I also *love* soft, dusty summer colours -- sage and faded olive greens, pearl greys, chambray and light denim -- and wear them despite the fact that my best colours are probably higher in both saturation. Many of my favourite looks to wear combine a high-contrast black/white base with one of those soft, dusty "happy colours" and that seems to work well.

I'm only just beginning to explore warmer neutrals for myself. I used to be a huge fan of dark chocolate/espresso browns, then fell off them for a long time in favour of black. Really bright whiskey/cognac colours with an orange base have never appealed to me, but there are a lot of nice brown shades around right now that have some warmth combined with a lot of depth, and those I'm really drawn to, along with amber and rust/terra-cotta. So I'm expanding my palette a bit now, wanting to create outfits where cool colours and warm colours play off of each other and create some tension/contrast. That seems to be the best way to reflect my natural colouring.

I have never seen you look bad in any colour,so what does that make you ?a woman for all seasons perhaps.