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Seasonal Color Analysis

 

MY BEST COLORS
 

Guide + Workbook
 Welcome.
Hey there! It’s Nicole from Donna Colori.

I developed this workbook to help you create your

own unique color palette; one that you love and
can apply to your wardrobe and lifestyle demands.

Here’s how to make the most of this workbook:

+ Read the explanations then fill out the answers.

There are 5 steps in this Workbook.

+ You can either print out the Workbook and

complete it by hand, or click into each of the text
boxes with your mouse and start typing.

+ Take your time. You don’t need to finish all the

steps in a single day!

+ When you’re finished, check out the last page of

this document. I’ve included some bonus
resources for you. Videos, blogs posts and much
more.

Let's start!
 Step 1 - Identify your undertone

Cool: The veins on your underarms look more bluish. Your skin
shows hints of pink undertones or you have very black skin.

Warm: The veins on your arms look more greenish. Your skin
shows hints of yellow undertones or you have black skin with
golden undertones.

Neutral: You have no obvious overtones of pink or of sallow

looking skin.

Note: If your skin appears more ashen or gray, then you could
have a natural olive tone. This isn’t as common as warm, cool,
or neutral. But your skin may have a combination of undertones.
 Hair

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Cool: Hair is blond, brown, or black with blue, silver, violet

and/or ash undertones. This also includes red violet or a blue-
red variety colored hair.
Cool types look better with platinum and ash-colored hair dyes
as well.

Warm: Hair can also be blond, brown or black but it tends to

have gold, red, orange, or yellow undertones, like golden or
peachy blondes, orangey reds, auburn or golden browns.
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Cool: Deep brown or black-brown, gray-blue or dark blue, or

hazel with white, gray or blue flecks

Warm: Golden brown, green, blue green or turquoise, or hazel

with gold or brown flecks.
1. Write down a description of your features (e.g. skin: golden with green
veins; hair: light brown with red undertone; eyes: dark brown).

2. What are the undertones of your features? Write down “warm” or “cool”
for each feature (w.g. skin: warm; hair: warm; eyes: warm).
 Step 2: Find your season -4 Seasonal
Color Analysis

Autumn Winter

←WARM COLD→
Spring Summer

1. Which season you think reflects you the most?

2. Are you more warm or more cool? If you more warm you're Autumn or
Spring. If cool Winter or Summer.

3. Do you have high or low contrast between your skin, hair and eyes?

4. Which jewelry looks best on you, silver or gold ? Take a piece of both
types of jewerly and compare under natural light. If gold looks better,
you're on the warm side. If silver, then you're on the cool. There must be
one type of jewerly that looks better, put for now your preferences aside.
 Step 3: Narrow down your season: 12
Seasonal Color Analysis

If you’ve found your season by now, that’s amazing.

But if you’re like me and have mixed features, where do you fit?

My case: I have dark warm brown eyes, my skin tone has yellow
undertones and my veins look a bit more greenish than blue. But my hair
is a very light brown with some slightly red undertones in it.

So, it looks like my hair is Spring but my other features are Autumn.
That’s where the 12-season color analysis can help.
The 4-season method defines the hue, where we find the warm or cool
undertones.

It also has the value, which goes from light to dark (deep).

What’s missing? The chroma.

With chroma, you can measure the brightness, which means how
intense the color is, from clear to muted (soft).

Adding this aspect, you can see your how bright (clear) or muted (soft)
you are with respect to your season.

The purpose? Find out if you look better on bright or soft colors.

Now instead of 4, we have 12 seasons, which is far more precise.

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In the previous exercises you found the season that reflects you the
most by evaluating your undertone (cool or warm) and how deep,
medium or light you're into a season.

Now, you can also see how clear (bright) or soft (muted) your
features are.

WE'VE GOT ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A 12-SEASON

COLOR ANALYSIS

It’s time to narrow yours down. Do you see a main characteristic in these
pictures that you notice in yourself? Which? Write it following your
season.

light soft cool

deep clear warm

Try and find in the following graphic which season resembles you the
most by comparing your features to those depicted in the graphic.

Autumn Spring Summer Winter

Light
Deep
Warm
Cool
Clear
Soft
 Important Reminder
Don't freak out if you can’t find your season. There are still a lot of
exceptions.

You're now on the final steps. Remember the purpose of this eBook is to
help you find your best colors so you can bring MORE COLORS into
your life, not less.

Every woman can and should wear what she feels like. Any color,
any haircut, any tattoo, any piece of clothing.

I want you to be more confident, wear beautiful colors and make more
conscious purchases.

Don’t be afraid to include a hue you love in your wardrobe. If you think it
doesn't flatter you, that's why you here. To find your best colors and
learn how to use the ones you don't feel confident in.

If you’re more of a neutral type you’re lucky because many different

colors will look good on you.
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 Step 4: Choosing your colors

It's time to get creative!

Maybe in the past you tried a new a color that you liked but it looked off
and you decided to never wear that color again. It's time to leave these
insecurities behind you.

Some colors have warmer and cooler versions like, "warm yellow"
for reddish yellow and "cool yellow" for greenish yellow.

Maybe you just need to find the right balance of cold or warm in "that"
color you tried.

Warm Yellow Cold Yellow

Warm Red Cold Red

Warm Green Cool Green

On the next pages you'll see a sample wardrobe color palette for
each of the 12 seasons. But it's up to you to pick your own colors
based on your taste.

Some tips:

• Choose a warmer or cooler version of a hue that goes well with your
season

• Deep and clear types go better with intense colors while soft and
light goes well with more muted tones

• Wear the colors that don’t look good on you but you love anyway,
away from your face (for accent pieces)

• Allow yourself to be lazy. Build a palette with matching colors so you

can easily mix and match the pieces you love

• If you’re not really into a lot of color, choose some beautiful neutrals
for your palette
soft autumn

deep autumn

warm autumn
light spring

warm spring

clear spring
deep winter

cool winter

clear winter
light summer

cool summer

soft summer
 Step 5: Creating your personal color
palette

THE FINAL STEP! On the next pages you're going to learn how to
build a palette on your own based on this model:

neutral colors

main colors

accent colors
 Hands-on
Open Adobe Color Wheel or a similar tool to create your own palette

Some tips:

1. Choose 2 neutrals: These are the colors that go with ANYTHING.

So, buy pieces that never go out of style in these neutral colors and
wear them with your basic tops, sweaters, trousers, coats etc.

beige coffee tan olive dreamy rose

white gray navy charcoal black

2. Choose 3 main colors: These are the colors that you will wear a
lot! Use for key pieces like shoes, trousers, coats.

3. Choose 3 highlight colors: These colors are for accessories and

pieces like tops and bottoms. They work well for seasonal items.

Feel free to add patterned layers. I get them all the time in vintage
shops, like stripes, polka dots, and floral retro tees :)
 How to build and save your palete

Option 1: Print, cut and glue your colors from Adobe Color Wheel (or
other tool) on your palette below

Option 2: Open a Word/Pages file and create your own palette based
on this one

Snap a pic and save it in your phone. This way you’ll always have it in
case you’re undecided about buying something. ��

your neutral colors

your main colors

your accent colors

 Congratulations! You’ve found
your best colors.

Now that you have your palette, try to put together some great
looking outfits with the clothes you already have.

And next time you go shopping try to incorporate your palette and
use the following sheet if you wish, to make notes on the new outfits
you feel good in.

Eg. Brick blazer + Black jeans + Beige top + Cognac ankle boots =
Brick, Black, Beige, Cognac
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 Resources 

So much information but you’ve made it! You found your best colors
and learned how to use them in a color palette. Check out these links
if you’re interested in expanding your personal color palette.

- Create color palettes for free with Adobe's Kuler

- Enter this COULORLovers community and create and share color

palettes and patterns

- Check my Pinterest for colored outfits and styling ideias

- More examples of color analysis on my Pinterest

- Original 4 season color analysis 80’s show on Youtube - “Color me

Beautiful”
Copyright © 2018 by Nicole M. S. Salgado

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Photo Credits
All photos from Unplash.com and Wikipedia

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