![]() Arbitrary attributes are hard to set boundaries around in words.So if you examine your attributes (blue veins, brown eyes, tan easily, look good in gold, WTF?) you are likely to get a pretty mixed bag. By all accounts, most people’s undertone is neutral, leaning very slightly warm or cool.Like how light or dark your skin is, where on your body you’re looking, and what you’re comparing them to. Even if you try to guess by examining your veins, there are a lot of factors that will make them look blue or purple or green (green compared to what?) aside from your undertone. I don’t think this is particularly helpful, for a lot of reasons including the following: Ok, so you may have heard the term “undertone” or taken a quiz online that tries to match up your hair, eye, vein and jewelry color to a particular season. Why are you talking so much about colors? Tell me my undertone. When you think “muted,” think “more gray.” Here is a bright pink, and here is a more muted pink of a similar darkness. Muted and bright colors can be either light or dark. Brightness/mutedness is not the same as lightness/darkness. This refers to how saturated the color is compared to gray. Even yellow and blue themselves:įinally, a color can be bright or muted. IMPORTANT NOTE: There is a spectrum of warmth and coolness within every color. Here is a warm red, and here is a cool red. You may be familiar with this concept from shopping for red lipstick. In PCA, this refers to how much yellow (warm) or blue (cool) is in it. Here’s a light blue, and here’s a dark blue.Īlso, a color can be warm or cool. This refers to how close it is to either white or black. Let’s define some terms that will help us put colors into groups for the purposes of PCA.įirst, a color can be light or dark. Knowing your season can suggest to you colors that would look great on you that you haven’t thought of before, or don’t tend to stumble across in stores.Knowing your season can help you avoid buying things that you later feel like you don’t look good in.It can give you a framework for building a wardrobe of colors that all harmonize with you and therefore also with each other. ![]() It can put people visually at ease when they see you, helping to garner subconscious trust and respect.It can make you look younger and healthier.With that out of the way, there are a lot of reasons to want to wear colors that harmonize with your natural coloring: ![]() ![]() Like the dressing for your body guide, this is intended to help you understand the concepts of PCA and use them if you want. Many people don’t care about PCA, don’t “believe” in it (as if it’s some variant of astrology), or just aren’t interested in taking their natural coloring into account when they dress. I feel like I should start with an important disclaimer: I am not here to tell you what colors you are and aren’t allowed to wear. This guide will take you further into the concepts of personal color analysis (“PCA”) and try to alleviate some of that confusion. And if you’ve gotten further into this concept via fashion magazines or Into Mind, you may have tried earnestly to analyze the color of your veins or the brightness of your eyes, to varying degrees of success, and probably some confusion. If you were alive in the 1980s or had a mother who was, you are probably familiar with the concept of having a “season” (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) based on your personal coloring, which determined which colors you can and can’t wear. Hair, Makeup, Skincare, Fitness, and Fragrance
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