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What season am I? Find your color season in two steps

Your strongest trait narrows twelve seasons to two neighbors, and your second trait picks one; a selfie answers both at once.

Find what fits me best
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Take a selfie in daylight

Face a window, without makeup if you can, hair as it naturally falls. Daylight and no filter keep your real skin tone — colored lamps and beauty filters change the result.

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Your selfie is used for your reading and saved in your private Color Suite only if you go on to a try-on. Never shared, never used for training.

Twelve seasons sound like a lot, but you never weigh all twelve against each other. Each one is named after the trait that defines it, then a second trait that sets it apart from its closest neighbor: Light Spring is light first and warm second, Soft Summer soft first and cool second. Find your first trait and two seasons are left. The second trait picks one.

Tap "Find what fits me best" at the top and one selfie answers both questions, with the reason in one sentence and your palette. This page walks the same path by hand, so you can follow the logic, check a result that surprised you, or use it as a what-season-am-I quiz that you answer in daylight, in front of a mirror, rather than from memory.

Step one: find your strongest trait

Six traits lead the twelve seasons: light, deep, warm, cool, clear and soft. Each describes hair, skin and eyes together, and one usually stands out first. It is what a stranger would notice about your coloring, and what suffers most when a color gets it wrong.

Light: everything pale and close together, and dark colors swallow you. Deep: dark hair, dark eyes and strong brows, and pastels look chalky beside you. Warm: golden, peachy or copper tones throughout, and cool grey leaves you sallow. Cool: a rosy or bluish cast, ash hair, grey-blue or cool brown eyes, and orange turns you yellow. Clear: vivid eyes and crisp contrast, and dusty colors look dull on you. Soft: features that blend, muted eyes, and bright colors seem to wear you.

Depth is about your whole coloring, not your skin alone. A fair face with very dark hair and eyes can read deep, and a deep skin tone with soft, blended features can read soft. Every skin tone, from very fair to very deep, turns up in every season.

Step two: let the second trait pick between two neighbors

Light leaves Light Spring or Light Summer, and warm or cool decides: peach and butter yellow brighten a Light Spring, powder blue and lavender a Light Summer. Deep leaves Deep Autumn, in burnt orange, deep olive and chocolate brown, or Deep Winter, in emerald, sapphire blue, crimson and black.

Clear leaves Bright Spring, with hot coral and bright turquoise, or Bright Winter, with true red, cobalt blue and hot pink. Soft leaves Soft Summer, in dusty rose, sage and mauve, or Soft Autumn, in camel, muted mustard and dusty peach. Here, too, the split is warm or cool.

Warm and cool work the other way round: the second question is clear or soft. Warm Spring is the clear one, in golden yellow, poppy orange and grass green; Warm Autumn the softer, richer one, in pumpkin orange, olive green and terracotta. Cool Winter is clear, in icy blue, fuchsia and royal blue; Cool Summer soft, in raspberry, slate blue and cool rose pink.

If you seem to fit two seasons

Feeling torn between two neighbors is normal: they share their first trait, and their palettes meet in the middle. Hold one best color from each under your chin, such as dusty rose against dusty peach for the soft pair, and keep the one that evens out your skin.

Fitting two seasons that share nothing, such as Light Summer and Deep Autumn, usually points to the conditions rather than to you. Warm lamps, beauty filters, heavy makeup and dyed hair all shift how your coloring looks. Go back to daylight and a bare face, then run the selfie reading again.

How to find your color season

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    Look at yourself in daylight

    Face a window with a bare face and your natural hair, and judge hair, skin and eyes together.

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    Name your strongest trait

    Pick the one of light, deep, warm, cool, clear or soft that stands out first.

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    Narrow it to two neighbors

    Light leaves Light Spring or Light Summer, warm leaves Warm Spring or Warm Autumn, and so on for the other four.

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    Hold up one color from each

    Compare a best color of each neighbor under your chin, for example peach against powder blue, and keep the one that evens out your skin.

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    Confirm it with one selfie

    Tap "Find what fits me best" for your season out of twelve, the reason and your palette.

FAQ

How do I know what color season I am?

Find the trait that stands out most in your coloring, and two neighboring seasons are left. Compare one best color from each in daylight and keep the one that evens out your skin. For a quicker answer, tap "Find what fits me best" and let one selfie name your season.

Is there a what season am I quiz that actually works?

A quiz is only as good as your answers, and judging your own coloring from memory is hard. Answer the two steps on this page in front of a mirror instead, or let a selfie skip the self-judging: the season reading names your season from your own face, free and without an account.

What season am I with brown hair and brown eyes?

Brown hair and brown eyes fit several seasons, so the rest of your coloring decides. Golden or copper glints with warm skin often point to Warm Autumn or Deep Autumn, ash brown with rosy skin to Cool Summer or Soft Summer, and very dark brown with crisp contrast to Deep Winter or Bright Winter.

What do True Winter, Dark Autumn and Clear Spring mean?

They are other names for seasons on this site. True Spring, True Summer, True Autumn and True Winter are Warm Spring, Cool Summer, Warm Autumn and Cool Winter. Dark Autumn and Dark Winter are Deep Autumn and Deep Winter, and Clear Spring and Clear Winter are Bright Spring and Bright Winter.

Do I need to know my undertone to find my season?

It helps, but undertone leads only four seasons: Warm Spring, Warm Autumn, Cool Summer and Cool Winter. For the other eight it is the second trait, the tie-breaker between two neighbors. If you cannot tell whether you are warm or cool, start with depth or clarity, which are often easier to see.

Can your color season change over time?

Your undertone usually stays put, but hair greys and skin can lighten with age, so depth and contrast can shift you toward a lighter or softer season. A tan changes your skin for a few weeks, not your season, so find it on untanned skin if you can.

Why did the selfie give me a season I did not expect?

Often the expectation rests on dyed hair, makeup or photos under warm light, and the reading sees the coloring underneath. It can also go the other way, when a warm lamp, a beauty filter or heavy makeup pushes a photo toward the wrong season. Retake it at a window, bare-faced, and check which trait the one-sentence reason names.