What colour season am I? How the 12 seasons are worked out
Your colour season is the combination of four things about your natural colouring: undertone (warm or cool), depth (light or deep), contrast (how different your skin, hair and eyes are) and chroma (whether clear or muted colours suit you). Those four together place you in one of 12 seasons.
The four measurements
Painters describe colour with the same four questions. Seasonal colour analysis simply applies them to your face.
- Undertone: does your skin lean golden (warm) or pink-blue (cool)?
- Depth: how light or deep are your skin, hair and eyes taken together?
- Contrast: how different are they from each other?
- Chroma: do clear, bright colours suit you, or soft, muted ones?
From four answers to twelve seasons
The four families are Spring (warm, clear), Summer (cool, soft), Autumn (warm, muted) and Winter (cool, clear). Each family splits into three, depending on which trait is strongest: Light, True, Bright, Soft or Deep.
A Soft Autumn, for example, is warm-neutral, medium depth, low contrast and muted. A Bright Winter is cool-neutral, medium depth, high contrast and very clear.
How to get a fair result
Light matters more than anything else. Use soft daylight from a window in front of you, no filter and little or no makeup, with your hair visible.
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Questions
How many colour seasons are there?
The most common system uses 12 seasons: three each for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.
Can my colour season change?
Your natural colouring is fairly stable, but dyed hair, a tan or ageing can shift which colours look best. Re-check in daylight if your colouring changes.
Is a photo enough to find my season?
A good daylight photo with no filter gives a useful starting point. Treat any result as guidance and check it against how colours look on you in real light.