DETERMINING YOUR COLOURS FOR WINTER SEASON
Now comes the fun finding your colours, select the group of colours below which you feel is most flattering to you, in general. Take a long look at yourself in the mirror, near natural daylight if possible. Look at your skin, hair and eyes, without makeup. If you colour your hair, try to remember its natural colour.
Your skin tone is the most important factor in determining the colours that look best on you. The tone of your skin comes from three pigments melanin(brown), carotene(yellow) hemoglobin(red). It is the particular combination of these three pigments that gives you your unique skin tone.
Because your skin acts as a thin filter, it is the tone just under its surface that determines whether your colouring is cool or warm. Summers and winters, the cool seasons have blue undertones, while autumns are springs have golden undertones. Some people’s skin tone is quite obvious, but for others the tone is subtle. We can compare wrists and palms. By comparison you can often see whether you are more blue or golden than someone else.
WINTER Skin- First look for the blue or blue-pink undertone, but don’t be discouraged if you can’t readily see it. It’s often subtle on a winter. There are more winters in the world than any other seasonal type. The largest range of winters are those with grey-beige skin, ranging from light to dark, usually with no visible pink in the skin. Most olive skinned people, blacks and orientals are winters, although a few are summers, autumn or springs. Many winters are sallow, appearing yellow and they misdiagnose themselves as autumns.
But golden colours will make them appear more sallow, while the cool winter colours make their sallowness disappear. A winter may also have milky white skin and dark hair. The white may have a visible pink tone or may appear pure white with a translucent quality. Winters do not usually have rosy cheeks and their appearance improves dramatically with pink tone blusher.
HAIR – Most winters have dark hair, even though some were white blond in infancy. Winter’s hair usually has an ash tone, although sometimes the hair will have a touch of red highlights visible in the sun. Blue-black hair is typical of winter, as is salt-and-pepper or silver grey.
EYES- The winter women’s eyes are most often a deep colour. They may be red brown, black-brown, green, blue, hazel, grey-blue, grey green or dark blue.
TRYING TOUR COLOURS- You are best in clear colours and sharp contrast. A winter strives to stay snappy and should never wear muted, powdered tones. When shopping think true blue and vivid; sharp, clear and icy. Winter is the only season who successfully wears pure white or black. Winters grey range from icy to charcoal and true grey is yours, but not blue grey or yellow grey. Icy tones make the winter woman sparkle.
These are your version of pastels, almost white with drop of colour. You wear icy blue, icy aqua, icy pink, icy violet, icy green and icy yellow as well as icy versions of your other colours, such as grey and taupe. Avoid all powdered pastels as they will dull you. For very fair skinned winter deep hot pink will be better than shocking pink. True emerald or pine green is better than light true green; blue-red and burgundy are better than true red.
