Determine colors for Autumn
SKIN
Look for the golden undertone. The Autumn comes in three varieties: the fair person with ivory or creamy peach skin; the true red head, fair to dark, often with freckles; and the golden-beige brunette, whose skin ranges from medium to deep copper, the latter having charcoal black hair. Many autumns are pale or sallow and especially need an orange-tone rouge to ‘come alive’.
An autumn and a spring may have similar colouring, but the Autumn will usually are ruddy, however and may look pink, but the pink is more peachy than blue. These Autumns look good in a few summer colours, but really come to life in the true Autumn palette. A few orientals and blacks are Autumns, if they have a truly golden undertone, but most are other seasons.
HAIR- Autumn’s hair is most often touched with red or golden highlights. It ranges from auburn to copper, strawberry blonde to carrot top, dark golden blonde to warn brown. (A few redheads are springs, having colouring too delicate to handle the stronger Autumn palette). Many Autumns are brunette, their hair usually having a gold or metallic red cast. Some Autumns have ash blonde hair that has no warm highlights. This type of ‘wrong’ blonde Autumn can be easily confused with summer. Occasionally, an Autumn has charcoal black hair and swarthy skin. A redheaded Autumn should cover grey, as it tends to come in yellow-grey, and the two-tone look is drab on her. However, once her hair is completely grey, it can be most attractive.
EYES
Most Autumns have golden brown eyes, from dark to topaz, or green eyes with orange or golden streaks radiating from a star formation that surrounds the pupil. Isolated flecks either gold, brown or black are often present in the Autumn eye. Some Autumns have clear green eyes, like glass or deep olive green’ cat ’ eyes. An Autumn’s hazel eye contains golden brown, green and gold.
A few Autumns have vivid turquoise, aqua or steel blue eyes that are marked by a teal grey rim around the edge of the iris.. Occasionally an Autumn has extremely pale blue or teal eyes, giving the appearance of a clear ring around the pupil. This is a pastel Autumn who looks best in the muted colours of the palette.
TRYING YOUR COLOURS
Your Autumns have the easiest shopping! Your colours are readily available. And because you can wear either muted or clear tones, you need not be too careful in matching your swatches. You may use your swatches as a general guide, except for your blues, where you should stick to your printed samples. Always think of golden undertones when you shop. Your best white is oyster, a beige-tone white. You wear all warm beiges, from light to dark, except taupe(grey-beige) and rose-beige.
Dark chocolate brown is especially exciting on you, though you wear all browns well mahogany, camel, tan and bronze tones. Any gold, yellow-gold, pumpkin, mustard or terracotta is good. Your oranges range from medium peach and muted salmon to bright orange and rust. Orange-red and bittersweet reds are your best. Yellow-greens from grey to bright and earth greens from jade to moss are for you. Forest green is especially becoming. Be careful with your blues.
The very fair Autumn may be overwhelmed by the strength of the brightest colours such as orange, chartreuse, bright yellow-green and turquoise. By contrast a dark-skinned Autumn may look a little drab in the muted earth colours of this palette. She needs to wear her bright colours closest to her face, saving the muted ones for skirts and shoes or to mix in prints. She needs makeup to look her best in beige and softer colours. All Autumns should avoid black, pink, navy, grey, blue-reds and all colours with blue undertones.
