

So if you are cooler and lighter, you will automatically be more muted. Whereas if you lighten a cool colour, it becomes more muted. Similarly, if your natural colouring is cooler and darker, it will also be brighter. So if you are warmer and darker, you are also automatically more muted. But when you darken a warm colour, it becomes more muted. So if your natural colouring is warmer and lighter, it will also be brighter. Warm colours are inherently light, whereas cool colours are naturally dark. This colour season will contain those kinds of colours which are most similar to your own colouring and will therefore harmonise with you.īear in mind that although we will analyse each colour dimension separately, in reality, they are interconnected. (2) Match these settings to a colour season with similar settings (1) Identify the colour settings of your natural colouring To sum up, what we are going to do is twofold: Your third aspect will be either value or chroma, but it cannot be hue. On this dimension, your colouring will be close to the neutral/medium midpoint of the spectrum. The third aspect doesn’t have much impact on your colouring. Your best colours will be saturated (rather than muted), but they won’t be extremely bright and vibrant. For instance, if your secondary aspect is medium-bright, the most saturated and vibrant colours will swallow you up. On this dimension, you will clearly lean more towards one of the extreme ends of the spectrum, but the most extreme version of a colour will be too much for you. Your secondary aspect can only be one of the following: On this dimension, your colouring will sit between one of the extreme ends and the midpoint of the spectrum.

Your secondary colour aspect significantly influences your colouring. Only the warmest colours will flatter your appearance. For example, if your primary aspect is warm, neutral and even neutral-warm colours won’t do anything for you. Even the medium/neutral level won’t look good on you. On this colour dimension, you will need the most extreme version of a colour. That means your colouring will sit at one of the extreme ends of that colour dimension.īased on three colour dimensions, your primary aspect will be one of the following six: One of the three aspects will turn out to be your primary colour aspect - the most important factor of your colouring. We need to find the setting of your natural colouring on each colour dimension - these are your three colour aspects. The question here is: do you suit highly saturated colours or greyed-out ones? The answer will depend on how high the natural grey content of your colouring is. The more grey is added to a pure colour, the more muted it becomes. The chroma scale depicts how bright/saturated/clear or muted/soft a colour is.
