Check the characteristics of each season to see where you fall. This will enable you to choose your personal color palette.
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Cool or blue undertone
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 Porcelain (very fair)Pink
Rose Beige (tans easily)
Ruddy with pink or red
Beige with hint of sallow (yellow)
Hair
Ash or gray blonde - usually deepens with age
Smokey blonde - dishwater
Smokey brown - with a gray cast that looks dull and lifeless in wrong colors
Dark brown and brown with auburn highlights
Ash gray, silver gray
Eyes
Blue, clear icy blue, gray blue, dark blue, aqua, and blue with white flecks
Pale gray
Gray green, clear green with yellow radiating from pupil
hazel - green/brown or blue/brown
Soft brown -rose brown or gray brown
Note: This person will usually burn then tan. There is a softer look compared to the Winter I
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Yellow or warm undertone
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Ivory or milky white - with some freckles
Peach (some freckles)
Beige or golden beige
Ruddy with peach, pink, or red - high color in cheeks, chin, and sometimes forehead
Hair
Golden, honey, flaxen blonde - may darken with age and lighten in the summer
Strawberry blonde
Red - usually freckled; Auburn
Golden brown, warm brown - rarely dark
Gray hair is usually yellow and dull until fully grown in
Eyes
Clear blue, blue, deep blue, aqua; seldom blue-gray; may have white rays in a sunburst pattern
Clear green, golden green, gray green, or teal blue-green
Light golden brown, topaz brown
Hazel - golden brown with green
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Yellow or warm undertone
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Ivory to light beige (sometimes with freckles)
Peach
Ruddy (with peach, pink, or red)
Golden beige or coppery bronze
Hair
Honey blonde or dishwater drab blonde with gold highlights; the latter is usually found in men
Red - auburn to strawberry
Coppery red-brown, deep chestnut brown, golden brown to dark brown with reddish highlights
Charcoal black
Golden gray - often dull
Eyes
Brown - reddish, dark to golden amber; sometimes have black or dark brown flecks
Hazel - golden brown, green or blue; predominately brown near the pupil with color near the outer edge of iris
Pale clear green, golden cat eye green, avocado green
Turquoise blue or teal -usually with fair skin, never blue-gray
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Cool or blue undertone
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Pale - often blue eyes or Welsh or Irish descent
Beige - sallow with a greenish - yellow tinge to skin
Rosy - usually blue-eyed
Olive - also sallow light to dark, sometimes with a gray cast to skin; will look tired in warm colors
Black, brown, or brown-black - often lacks cheek color
Hair
Black, blue-black or charcoal brown
Brown -dark to medium
Chestnut brown -red highlights in the sun
White, silver-gray and salt & pepper
Eyes
Shades of brown - usually with olive skin
Hazel - blue/brown and green/brown
Blue -gray blue, blue/white, deep blue, blue violet, sapphire blue, true blue, icy blue
Green - yellow green/yellow flecks, gray green, green/white flecks
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Cool or blue undertone
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Porcelain - fair
Rose beige - could have brown flecks
Ruddy - uneven complexion
Beige - somewhat sallow surface color
Hair
Medium brown (ash brown)
Chestnut brown
Burgundy brown
Silver-gray
Eyes
Blue or aqua
Blue gray or soft gray
Green, gray green
Hazel
Soft cool brown
Note: There is less contrast of skin to hair than Winter I and a softer look because of the lower contrast. There is a higher contrast compare to the Summer palette.
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Neutral undertone or may lean more toward cool or warm
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Copper brown
Medium to dark brown
Honey brown (with a light golden undertone; sometimes light ruddy brown
Olive
Brown olive
Dark olive
Beige or peach
Hair
Medium to dark brown
Black, Blue-black or charcoal brown
Brown - dark to medium
Chestnut brown - red highlights in the sun
White, silver-gray and salt and pepper
Eyes
Brown to dark brown
Hazel
Note: This person may tan beautifully if they have an olive complexion. Skin tone does not respond consistently to yellow or blue based colors.
Best lip and blush colors are clear red and orange red. May go warmer or cooler depending on the color of her clothing.
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