What Is My Color Season? How to Find It Without Guessing
What is my color season? Check undertone, depth and clarity, drape colors in natural light, avoid the common traps, then confirm it with the free quiz.
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11 articles by Lisa Routa
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New to color analysis? These articles cover the basics, in any order you like.
Why 12 seasons
12 or 16 Color Seasons? Why I Work With 12
Try it at home
Color Draping at Home: What You Need and How to Do It
Your best colors
What Colors Look Good on Me? Four Steps to Find Out
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12 or 16 Color Seasons? Why I Work With 12
16 season color analysis splits each season in four. I work with 12 instead. Here is what the extra shades add, what they blur, and how to read any result.
Can ChatGPT (or an App) Do Your Color Analysis?
ChatGPT color analysis gives you an answer, not a verdict. Here’s where AI and apps go wrong with your selfie, and how to use them as a first hint only.
- Draft, under review
Color Analysis Online or Near You: What It Costs, What It Covers
Color analysis online or near you? I can’t give you a price list, but I can tell you what to ask, what a remote analysis can see and where a quiz stops.
Color Draping at Home: What You Need and How to Do It
Color draping online can’t read your skin. At home, solid fabrics, daylight and a mirror can. Here is the setup, the order of colors and what to look for.
What Is My Color Season? How to Find It Without Guessing
What is my color season? Check undertone, depth and clarity, drape colors in natural light, avoid the common traps, then confirm it with the free quiz.
- Draft, under review
Korean Personal Color Analysis vs 12 Seasons: What Carries Over
Korean personal color analysis uses four tones with sub-types. See how it relates to the 12 seasons, what maps across, and where only a trained eye can tell.
Neutral Colors for Your Season, Beyond Black and Beige
Find your neutral color palette by sub-season: which neutrals replace black, which ones drain you, and how to build a simple capsule wardrobe from them.
- Draft, under review
Olive Skin Undertone: What It Is and Which Colors Work
Olive skin undertone is not warm or cool by default. Learn how to read an olive undertone, which colors, hair and makeup work, and why it isn’t one season.
- Draft, under review
Skin Tone Chart: From Fair to Deep, and What Your Undertone Adds
A skin tone chart from fair to deep, with the names, the undertones and what to check next. Find your row, then see which palettes fit. Every tone included.
Warm vs Cool Undertone: How to Tell (and When It’s Neither)
Cool vs warm undertone: six simple tests you can try at home, why veins and jewelry often mislead, and what to do when your skin reads neutral or olive.
What Colors Look Good on Me? Four Steps to Find Out
What colors look good on you? Check your closet, your undertone and color duels in daylight, then read your sub-season palette. Four steps, no guessing.
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