Hue – color name
Value – light or dark
Chroma – purity or intensity
Shade – black is added
Tint – white is added
Tone – gray is added
Hue – In color analysis we really only focus on cool or warm hues, but the colors you wear and we drape will vary. We will also use the color names (or hues) when we talk about a summer or winter blue or a spring red.
Cool – blue
Warm – yellow
Neutral – red
Value – in color analysis depth refers to the value – light or dark/deep
Are your eyes, skin, hair light or dark for you ethnicity.
Value can also refer to the amount of contrast. Between features or in general
jewel tones are deep shades
pastels are light tints
Medium refers to tons
Contrast – analyzes how different the elements in your face are.
This can be applied to color or gray scale
Chroma – The saturation of colors – If you look at a person and it appears like sliding the photo toward gray scale. This is muted. High chroma is vibrant
Clear/bright/high chroma – pure hue
Soft/muted/low chroma – tone
Undertone – invisible subtle hue underneath the surface tone – determines primary characteristic. Determined by skin translucence, nutrition, hemoglobin (circulation), carotene (diet can cause a golden-orange tint), collagen (yellow), and melanin (black-brown or red-yellow)
Cool – pin, red, blue
neutral
warm – yellow, peach, golden-olive
Overtone – surface tone – determines secondary characteristic
Olive
Melanin (black, blue, brown) and carotene (yellow, orange, red) levels.
Most of the research will tell you olive is warm.
But for many this will lead you astray. You may need to do more research for cool olive
Overtone – fair to deep, based on ethnicity
Seasons
SPRING
warm + light → bright
SUMMER
cool + light → muted
AUTUMN
warm + dark → muted
WINTER
cool + dark → bright
Tonal
DEEP
All deep colors → warm + cool + bright + muted
LIGHT
All light colors → warm + cool + bright + muted
WARM
All warm colors → bright + muted + dark + light
COOL
All cool colors → bright + muted + dark + light
Seasons + Contrast Levels
Spring – warm + light to medium + bright/clear
Summer – cool + light to medium-dark + soft/muted
Autumn – warm + medium-light to dark + soft/mutd + tonal/low contrast
Winter – cool + very light to very dark + bright/clear + very high contrast
Steps to determine your colors
Today we will practice draping which is the best way. This is a simplified 4 seasons method. I’m giving the other info so you can go deeper as you may not fit into an easy season.
Warm or Cool – undertone
Light Medium or Dark – Chromatic Value or Hue – High Low Chroma
Contrast – How do your hair and eyes compare to your skin tone (dark vs light)
Depth, Chroma, Saturation – Muted, Medium, Bright/Clear
Expect to Not Easily Fit into one Category if you have or are – Draping will get you a long ways. Play with colors in real life. Pay attention to what colors you get compliments in
Freckles
Asian, African, Middle Easter descent
Grey hair
Red hair
Appear neutral toned
See a green-ish or gray tint – may be olive (can be warm or cool – a lot of info will be wrong if you are olive)
Resources
Your Color Season – Does good with the exception categories
Has a focus section on gray hair
Color Me A Season
Truth is Beauty
Style essence system – this is an entirely different rabbit hole of wonderful confusing fun
Color analysis
House Of Colour
Color and Style analysis
Has cool toned makeup and make up for all seasons
The Concept Wardrobe
Sci-Art
Style By Color – Erin Cox
Pretty Your World
https://www.prettyyourworld.com/the-best-color-analysis-system.html
Style Yourself Confident
Has a discount for POC because of the difficulty to find resources and the amount of misinformation
Tonal Analysis
Created Colorful – Good for POC
https://www.createdcolorful.com/
Color Analysis for Asians – https://web.archive.org/web/20180325022057/http://fonfabulous.blogspot.com/2015/01/guide-makeupfashion-color-theory-for.html
– search “Color Analysis olive skin POC” the link can be found in the Redit thread
Merriam Style – YouTube
Lots of great resources for Asian, olive, Mixed, African
Spice Market Color
https://www.spicemarketcolour.com.au/blog/2021/8/11/mailbag-dark-winter-vs-bright-winter
Image Consultant Products
Tonal palates as well
Coco Style – African
Olive skin
Carol Braley
Yellow cools – POC – Asian, Black, mixed
Black woman – not winter
Red heads
Fair/pale skin
My style box – eyes
https://mystylebox.ca/pages/eye-patterns
Style Systems
Truth is Beauty
The most approachable system to play around with
Kibbe – Body Types
Felicia Follum 