How to determine your color type of appearance?

There are more than 7 billion people on Earth. Our charm is just the difference. But colorists, image makers tried to systematize the types of appearance. And they did it. The basis was a different combination of colors of eyes, hair, skin, and also took into account the degree of contrast between all components. As a result, all people were conventionally divided into color types.

Hair coloring, eyebrow tattoo, tanning ... You cannot disguise the true color type.

Properly 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 is absolutely impossible to do when applying makeup or selecting hair dye will help a woman avoid unwanted and very unsuccessful experiments on herself.

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

We are used to make up your wardrobe, based on our own color preferences, as well as on having a feeling of satisfaction with ourselves. This feeling is formed based on the opinions of other people. If colleagues, acquaintances or relatives in chorus tell you that it is in a green dress that you are beautiful as never before, then you will sincerely believe that green is your color. This may be a mistake. Only a properly established type is capable of giving 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. Called them as seasons - "Winter", "Spring", "Summer" and "Autumn". Each color type is divided into three further subcategories, thus, there are 12 color types. But it should be noted right away that there are no clearly expressed representatives of a particular color type. Therefore, it is possible to speak about the belonging of a person to one or another color type only according to his maximum compliance with the parameters of each group.

The color scheme of the coldest time of the year is naturally cold. Therefore, the appearance of a person - "winter" will always be contrast. In "winter" people, the skin is usually either very light, or, conversely, rather dark. Eyes - brown, black or unexpectedly bright blue with a steel shade. Hair is either very light or very dark.

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

People whose appearance is dominated by warm gamut. Often, representatives of such a color type are characterized by pink skin, sometimes with a peach shade, noticeable hair (for example, red or wheat), and often “spring” people have golden-tinged freckles.

"Spring" is 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 subtype “Warm Spring” are completely devoid of cold tones in their image. "Bright Spring" - warm and gentle. The color of the eyes, skin and hair of such people is filled with warm shades.

Representatives of this color type possess mainly cold shades, the brightness is almost absent, the contrast in appearance is minimized. "Summer" people are awarded nature with light skin, sometimes with a slight olive tint. Hair is often ashy, 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 -Light Summer, Mild 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. Mild Summer - those who in appearance have a tendency to warm, but it is insignificant. Cold Summer is a subtype with a predominance of cold shades, the contrast level is in average values.

Certainly, bright and surprisingly warm in terms of color type. The skin of its representatives never has cold shades, hair is almost always reddish with a tendency not in red, but in warming and pleasing to the eye “copper”, “gold”. Eyes are almost all green options.

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

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

Determining belonging to a color type can be done in different ways.

The first method that emerged, which is based on the conditional classification of people, by analogy with the four seasons. We have already met. 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 to do with the scientific approach, but sometimes allows you to quite accurately "get" into your flavor. It is based on the selection. You will need not so much - patience, optimism, daylight and a mirror.

Wash all makeup off your face, hide your hair under a light scarf so that even the roots do not look out.

Take two test shawls or scarves, and pieces of fabric will do. Let one of them be a rich warm gamma, the other cold. An example is coral and pale pink.

You will need to take handkerchiefs to face one by one.

To get started, set all the priorities. First we determine the degree of brightness of the skin, eyes, hair. If everything is more or less clear with brightness now, time is being determined with colors. Suppose you are bright, 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 scarves.As a result of a practical selection, a color type will be obtained. Bright and cold? So, "Winter." Bright and warm? There is "Spring". Cold and muted tones are typical of the typical “Summer”. Soft and warm - "Autumn". It may happen that you will feel that you belong to two color types at once. In this case, you need to use the recommendations for both types or carefully study the subtypes of each category of appearance.

This analysis, which is constructed with the involvement of all the same three characteristics - the color of hair, eyes and skin. After assessing the warmth, coldness of color, its brightness or muffling, as well as light or darkness, one most important characteristic is established. She is the dominant. Its directional method is called the color temperature.

The most accurate way to date to determine the color type, the basis of which in the early 20th century was formulated by the artist and professor Albert Munsell. He took the colors and divided them according to lightness, tone and saturation, placed them in an imaginary cylinder in three-dimensional space and assigned each to their own index. He defines the so-called degree of color. It is the Mansell colometric system that owes its existence to all the subtypes of the main four "seasonal" color types.

What you should not do, so it is not necessary to determine your color type by Skype or by photo. There are a lot of offers on the Internet, to give you color lessons some “stylists”, and to quickly and accurately “put the desired 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 be.

Count on the accuracy of self-determination of 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 defined incorrectly. It is better to entrust this business to professional designers and colorists.

First of all, you should be as objective as possible and attentive to yourself. To determine the color of hair is quite simple, so this criterion is fundamental in the "seasonal diagnosis." Blondes, redheads and burning brunettes are the most easily recognized.

With a lot of shades of brown (brown-haired) there is the most difficulty. Hair color when setting the type is not so important. Should take into account the shade that get curls in the sunlight. If it is golden, copper, wheat, then we can talk about a warm range. If ashen, silver is a cold gamma.

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

And absolutely reverent attitude requires the diagnosis of the eye color. "Warm" eyes - "chocolate", "nut", bluish or turquoise. Cold color types tend to have gray eyes, clear green, black, clear blue.

The color of the lips is not a necessary criterion, but it can be used as an additional hint in the difficult task of determining one's color type. The "spring" people lips, usually pink with a slight tinge of pastel scales. In the "summer" they have a milky shade and a general pale pink background. “Winter” color type implies pale lips, and “Autumn” means lips of warm pink shades.

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

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

All the advantages of the cool “Summer” are demonstrated by Natalya Vodyanova, Uma Thurman. There is no flashy brightness in them, but the undertones are adorable.

The blooming and spring-like bright Anna Kournikova and Princess Diana.

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

Choosing a wardrobe, guided by the color type, you need very carefully and carefully. And no matter what the stylists advise, and what the fashion trends of the current season would not require of you, it is necessary to take into account the individual features of the exterior. Someone will go color, which "according to science" is generally contraindicated to him. Everything is strictly individual!

Girls, representatives of the "winter" color type of appearance, will not fail if they wear clothes of bright and rich, deep, cold tones.Their bright appearance in any case, "pulls" 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 selecting clothes, because they need to strictly observe the balance of shades “on the verge of foul”: the milky color will decorate the “spring” woman, and the white will disfigure, the pink air will give her romance, and the rich raspberry will look good and cheap. When choosing a wardrobe - "Spring" is to 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 gamma. In the wardrobe there must be things of cool colors.

Natural bright external data can "overshadow" any clothing. When choosing the color of the wardrobe, be guided by the non-flashy colors - sand and earth tones, “chocolate”, “plum”, bold experiments with red shades are possible.