Your Color Analysis

Not many women have considered their own color analysis. Choosing the right colors can be the difference between looking healthy or unhealthy, thin or fat, short or tall.

When considering what suits us, most of us just choose a color that we like rather than what suits us best. What is important to consider is your hair color, your skin tone and the color of your eyes.

It's fine to choose your favourite color. The catch is to get the right shade. If your favourite color is blue, there are a miriad of blues from warm to cool tones to choose from to get your best look.

There are a few different ways you can do a color analysis.

The most well known is Seasonal Color Analysis which will place your colors into the four categories:

Winter or Summer are considered cool categories

Spring or Autumn are considered warm.

You can do Flow Color Analysis which is a seasonal color analysis at a much deeper level. (It has 12 categories instead of 4) for people who fall into more than one season.

You can also look at a Tonal Analysis where your colours are divided into pigments or 3 categories.

Warm - Yellow/orange tones

Cool - Blue/red tones

Neutral - Both warm and cool shades.

The great thing is that you can still pick your favourite colors as all colors are not either warm or cool. For example:

Red with a yellow content is considered a warm red.

Red with a blue content is considered a cool red.

A true red, one that has neither a yellow nor a blue content, is considered a “neutral” red.

It's all about understanding your own coloring and knowing where your hair, skin and eye tones fall. Then you can choose your best red, your best blue, your best colors. As an intro, have a look at the color analysis grid below for a great simple guideline on choosing your best colors.

WHICH TEMPERATURE ARE YOU?

COOL

HAIR

goes a salt and pepper grey
blue black
deep coffee brown
medium ash brown
medium golden brown
dishwater blonde
golden blonde
platinum blonde

SKIN

alabaster white
pale with pink undertones
olive
dark brown
blue undertones

EYES

mid brown to dark
have a dark rim around your iris

YOUR BEST COLORS

black
navy
grey
purple

YOUR WORST COLORS

brown
rust
apricot
beige

WARM

HAIR

goes a yellow grey
red pigments
rich brown to ginger
strawberry blonde
deep red brown
deep golden brown

SKIN

yellow or freckled skin
not dark or mid brown
pale with gold undertones
lighter brown with gold undertones

EYES

dull blue not bright blue eyes
brown eyes
hazel eyes
duller green

YOUR BEST COLORS

rust, olive
khaki, mustard
warm rich browns
olive greens
tomato reds

YOUR WORST COLORS

black
navy
pink
pastel blue
grey

NEUTRAL

HAIR

goes a muddy grey
neither warm or cool
Next to warm colors it looks cool and next to cool colors it looks warm
caramel browns
muted blondes

SKIN

without makeup you can look washed out
peaches and cream complexion
no obvious overtones of olive, yellow or pink

EYES

green
aqua
blue

YOUR BEST COLORS

purple
lavender
soft blue
burgandy
plum
powder pink or blue

YOUR WORST COLORS

beige
khaki
cold bright colours
blue
red
cardinal purple

COLORS THAT SUIT	COLORS THAT SUIT	COLORS THAT SUIT
Turquoise	Mustard	Lemon yellow
Blue red	Tomato red	Hot pink
Purple	Maroon	Aqua
Emerald green	Sea green	Mid green
Fushcia	Olive green	Orchid
Light grey	Cornsilk	Sage
YOU LEAST SUIT	YOU LEAST SUIT	YOU LEAST SUIT
Beige	Sky blue	Green gold
Apricot	Hot pink	Apricot
Khaki	Dark grey	Rust
Saddle Brown	Pale pink	Beige
Coffee	Baby blue	Charcoal