Seasonal color analysis from one selfie

Undertone, depth and chroma

Undertone is whether your skin leans warm, toward gold and peach, or cool, toward rose and blue-red; neutral skin sits near the middle. It divides the families: Spring and Autumn are warm, Summer and Winter cool.

Depth is the overall lightness or darkness of hair, skin and eyes, and contrast is the gap between them. High contrast tends to point to Winter or a Bright season, low contrast to Summer, Soft Autumn or Light Spring.

Chroma, or clarity, is how pure or greyed your coloring looks: clear coloring wears saturated color, soft coloring wears color with grey mixed in. Everyone has all three traits, but one leads. Each season is named for that trait, then the second: a Soft Autumn is soft first, warm second.

Where your result places you

The reading names one of twelve seasons, three in each family. Spring, warm and clear, holds Light, Warm and Bright Spring; Summer, cool and soft, holds Light, Cool and Soft Summer; Autumn, warm and muted or rich, holds Soft, Warm and Deep Autumn; Winter, cool and clear, holds Deep, Cool and Bright Winter. The first word of your result is the trait that leads your coloring, and your season's page shows its palette swatch by swatch, with the clothes, makeup and hair colors that go with it.

The 12 color seasons explained, one by one →

From a draping session to one selfie

In a classic draping, you sit bare-faced in daylight while an analyst holds colored fabric under your chin, usually testing warm against cool first, then light against deep, then clear against soft. The right drape evens your skin and brightens your eyes; the wrong one brings out shadows, redness or a grey cast.

The free reading here looks for the same signs in one photo: the undertone of your skin, the depth of your hair, brows and eyes beside it, and the clarity of the whole. Give it the light a draping room has: face a window, no filter, ideally no makeup, hair as it naturally falls.

Seasonal color analysis for clothes and makeup

Let your leading trait set the outfit, not only its colors. Light seasons wear pale shades together, with no dark piece cutting across them. Deep seasons anchor a look in a dark neutral and add one rich color. Soft seasons go tonal, two or three close shades with little contrast between them, and Bright seasons can put two vivid colors side by side.

Your neutrals come from the same palette. Only Winter wears black and pure white as they are; the other families trade them for their own darks and lights, such as espresso, soft charcoal, cream or soft white.

Makeup follows two traits. Undertone picks the family of shades, peach, coral and terracotta for warm seasons, rose and raspberry for cool ones. Depth and chroma pick the strength: sheer and muted on soft or light coloring, saturated on clear or deep.