How to determine your color type of appearance?

There are more than 7 billion people on Earth. Our charm just lies in the dissimilarity. But colorists, image makers tried to systematize the types of appearance. And they did it. A different combination of eye, hair, and skin colors was taken as a basis, and the degree of contrast between all components was also taken into account. As a result, all people were conditionally divided into color types.

Hair coloring, eyebrow tattooing, tanning ... The true color type cannot be masked.

A correctly defined color type will help a woman always look spectacular and harmonious. Clothing in the “right” range emphasizes what you want to show the world, and carefully hides what you do not want to advertise. Knowing what is possible and what absolutely can not be done when applying makeup or selecting hair dye will help a woman avoid undesirable and very unsuccessful experiments on herself.

Agree, rarely is anyone born with an impeccable sense of beauty, and can intuitively guess what suits him in the best way. There are only a few such people.Color typing was originally created for most of humanity, because doubts are common to everyone.

We are used to composing our wardrobe based on our own color preferences, as well as the presence of a sense of self-satisfaction. This feeling is formed based on the opinions of other people. If colleagues, acquaintances or relatives in chorus repeat to you that it is in a green dress that you are more beautiful than ever, then you will sincerely believe that green is your color. This may be a mistake. Only a correctly established type can give you the keys to an irresistible image.

According to the ratio of eye color, hair, skin tone, degree of contrast, colorists distinguish 4 global color types. They were called them as seasons - “Winter”, “Spring”, “Summer” and “Autumn”. Each color type is divided into three subcategories, thus, color types 12 are obtained. But it is immediately worth noting that there are no pronounced representatives of a particular color type. Therefore, one can speak about a person’s belonging to a particular color type only by its maximum compliance with the parameters of each group.

The color scheme of the coldest season is naturally cold. Therefore, the appearance of man - "winter" will always be contrasting. In “winter” people, the skin is usually either very light or, conversely, quite dark. Eyes - brown, black or unexpectedly bright blue with a steel tint. Hair is either very light or very dark.

"Winter" are of three subtypes - Dark Winter, Bright Winter, Cold Winter. Representatives of the "Bright Winter" - the most prominent. They have bright eye color and very contrasting hair. “Dark Winter” is a subcategory to which people with a predominance of dark colors in the look can be attributed. Representatives of “Cold Winter” are completely devoid of warm spectra, their eyes, regardless of whether they are dark or light, have an icy shine, which is impossible not to notice.

People whose appearance is dominated by warm colors. Often, representatives of this color type are characterized by pink skin, sometimes with a peach tint, noticeable hair (for example, red or wheat), often the "spring" people have freckles of a golden hue.

“Spring” can be different: Warm, Bright and Bright. People - representatives of the "Bright Spring" are famous for their pure shades, devoid of smoothness and tenderness, they seem to shine. Those who belong to the Warm Spring subtype are completely devoid of cold tones in their image. “Bright Spring” is warm and tender. The color of the eyes, skin and hair of such people is filled with warm shades.

Representatives of this color type have predominantly cold shades, brightness is practically absent, contrast in appearance is minimized. "Summer" people are awarded the nature of fair skin, sometimes with a slight olive tint. Hair is most often ashen, light brown. Eyes - brown, gray, gray-blue. This is the most common color type in our latitudes.

All “summer” people, in turn, are divided into three subcategories - Bright Summer, Soft Summer and Cold Summer. Bright Summer - these are people with the least pronounced contrast in appearance, they have velvety skin, hair from blond to light blond. Soft Summer - these are those who in appearance have a tendency to warm, but it is insignificant. Cold Summer - a subtype with a predominance of cold shades, the contrast level is in average values.

Of course, a bright and surprisingly warm color scheme. The skin of its representatives never has cold shades, its hair is almost always reddish with a tendency not to red, but to “copper” and “gold” that warm and delight the eye. Eyes are almost all green options.

There are three subcategories: Warm Autumn, Soft Autumn, Dark Autumn:

1. Representatives of "Soft Autumn" are distinguished by gentle shades in appearance, moderately muted.
2. "Dark Autumn" unites people in whose appearance there is a high contrast between all components of the appearance - between skin, hair and eye color. Warm shades have saturation and depth.
3. “Warm Autumn” is a subtype denoting the brightest representatives of the “Autumn” color type.

There are several ways to determine color affiliation.

The very first method that emerged, which is based on a conditional classification of people by analogy with the four seasons. We had already met him. The disadvantage of this method is that it fits only a quarter of the world's population. Only 25% of people can be attributed to the color type using the seasonal method. Professional colorists are gradually moving away from such color diagnostics, believing that the method is hopelessly outdated.

This method has little in common with the scientific approach, but sometimes it allows you to quite accurately "get" into your flavor. It is based on selection. You will not need so much - patience, optimism, daylight and a mirror.

Rinse off all makeup from your face, hide your hair under a light scarf so that even the roots do not peek.

Take two test shawls or a scarf, and pieces of cloth will do. Let one of them be saturated with warm colors, the other cold. An example is coral and pale pink.

You will need to take turns to bring the scarves to your face.

To get started, set all the priorities. The first to determine the degree of brightness of the skin, eyes, hair. If with brightness everything is more or less clear now, the time is determined with colors. Suppose that bright suits you, then you need to take two pieces of fabric from the yellow and blue ranges and “try on” them to find out whether you are warm or cold shades.

If bright colors are not your option, pick up pastel test shawls. As a result of practical selection, a color type will be obtained. Bright and cold? So, "Winter." Bright and warm? There is a "Spring". Cold and muted tones are typical of the typical “Summer”. Soft and warm - Autumn. It may turn out that you will feel that you belong to two color types at once. In this case, you need to use recommendations for both types or carefully study the subtypes of each category of appearance.

This is an analysis that is built using all the same three characteristics - the color of hair, eyes and skin. After evaluating the warmth-coldness of the color, its brightness or muffle, as well as light or darkness, one of the most important characteristics is established. She is the dominant. In the directional method, it is commonly called the color temperature.

The most accurate way to date is to determine the color type, the basis of which at the beginning of the 20th century was formulated by the artist and professor Albert Mansell. He took the colors and divided them by their luminosity, tone and saturation, placed them in an imaginary cylinder in three-dimensional space and assigned each his own index. He determines the so-called degree of color. It is the Mansell colometric system that all subtypes of the main four “seasonal” color types owe their existence.

What you do not need to do is to not determine your color type by skype or photo. There are a lot of offers on the Internet, for your hard-earned ones to give you some “stylists” color lessons, and quickly and accurately “make the right color diagnosis”. In most cases, this is just a way to make you pay. Not the fact that the result will be reliable or even will be.

Counting on the accuracy of independent determination of the color type is also not necessary. With self-selection, you can easily confuse colors that really suit you, with colors that you subjectively like. The color type in this case will be determined incorrectly. It is better to entrust this work to professional designers and colorists.

First of all, you should be as objective and attentive to yourself as possible. Deciding on the color of the hair is quite simple, so this criterion is fundamental in the "seasonal diagnosis". The easiest to recognize blondes, red and burning brunettes.

With a lot of shades of brown (brown), most of the difficulties arise. Hair color is not so important when establishing the type. Take into account the shade that curls acquire in sunlight. If it is golden, copper, wheat, then we can talk about a warm range. If ashen, silver is a cold gamma.

A more careful look deserves a skin tone. It’s not difficult to distinguish between cold and warm types: “winter” skin is always light and cold, “summer” skin is warmer in “autumn” people, it has a golden tone, and a girl - “Spring” will most likely differ in a peach skin tint.

And a completely reverent attitude requires the diagnosis of eye color. “Warm” eyes - “chocolate”, “nut”, bluish or turquoise. Cold color types typically have gray eyes, green clear, black, clear blue.

Lip color is an optional criterion, but it can be used as an additional hint in the difficult task of determining your color type. In "spring" people, lips are usually pink with a slight shade of pastel color. In the "summer" they have a milky hue and a common pale pink background. “Winter” color type implies pale lips, and “Autumn” - lips of warm pink shades.

It is much easier to navigate in color types, looking at photos of celebrities who have a pronounced flavor.

Typical representatives of their type are Nastya Zavorotnyuk and Liv Tyler. Charming contrasts prevail in their appearance.

All the virtues of the cool “Summer” are demonstrated by Natalia Vodianova, Uma Thurman. They do not have flashy brightness, but the midtones are charming.

Blossoming and spring-like bright Anna Kournikova and Princess Diana.

Typical representatives are singer Julia Savicheva and actress Julia Roberts. Very noticeable, like all women of this color type.

Choose a wardrobe, guided by the color type, you need to very carefully and carefully. And no matter what stylists advise, or whatever fashion trends of the current season require from you, it is imperative to take into account the individual features of your appearance. Someone will suit the color, which "according to science" is generally contraindicated for him. Everything is strictly individual!

Girls, representatives of the “winter” color type of appearance, do not lose out if they wear clothes of bright and saturated, deep cold tones. In any case, their bright appearance "draws" attention to themselves. Turquoise and emerald shades, classic white and black, will help to emphasize the advantages of the “Winter” figure.

Representatives of the “Spring” type have a hard time choosing clothes, because they need to strictly observe the balance of shades “on the verge of a foul”: milk color decorates the “spring” woman, and white disfigures, airy pink will give her romance, and rich raspberry will look fine and cheap. When choosing a wardrobe - "Spring" should give preference to pastel colors.

Representatives of the "Summer" type are one of the few who are not at all contraindicated in the numerous blue colors. In the wardrobe must be things cold colors.

Natural bright external data can “overshadow” any clothing. When choosing a wardrobe color, focus on non-shouting colors - sand and earthy shades, “chocolate”, “plum”, bold experiments with red shades are possible.