Virtual Color Draping: Try Season Colors on Your Own Photo

Color draping means holding solid-color fabrics, called drapes, under your chin and watching what each one does to your face. A color analyst compares them in pairs. Some even out your skin and make your eyes clearer. Others cast a shadow, or turn your skin yellow or gray. It is how seasonal color analysis is done in person.

Partly. This tool lets you hold the colors of each season up to your own photo and compare them. But a screen can’t show your skin react to a real drape: a screen gives off light, a fabric reflects light onto your face. So read the result as a first hint. For the real thing, drape with solid, matte fabrics at home, by a window.

No. The tool reads your photo in your browser, on your phone or your computer. It’s not uploaded, not saved, not even in your browser, and not seen by Lisa or anyone else. You can check: once the page has loaded, turn off your connection and the tool keeps working. The one exception is the optional email box at the end, which sends your address and nothing else.

It is a first hint, not a verdict. Screens, light and cameras all change colors, and the tool measures nothing on your face: you are the judge. If the same direction comes back on different days and in different light, that tells you more than any single try.

It measures the contrast between your hair, eyes, skin, teeth and brows, which is one of the three things a color analyst looks at. The tool shows your photo with its saturation at minus 100 (every color becomes its gray, which is not a black-and-white filter) and you compare it with three references: low, moderate or high contrast. Spring and Summer sit at low to moderate contrast, Autumn and Winter at moderate to high. It is the gap between your features, not how light or deep your skin is: every skin tone can have low, moderate or high contrast.

Because in the 12-season method the leading trait points to the sub-season: for an Autumn, softness gives Soft Autumn, depth gives Deep Autumn and warmth gives Warm Autumn. It is a difference between the drapes you just compared, not a trait of your body, so it never types you from your hair, eyes or skin. If you can’t say, the tool adds up all your answers instead.

Every screen shows color a little differently, and settings such as night mode, True Tone or automatic brightness shift them further. The code under each drape, for example #FF6F52, is the exact one, but what you see depends on your screen. Set the brightness to full and turn night mode off.

No. There is no AI here. Automatic tools read your photo and decide for you, and their answers change from one picture to the next. Here you choose, and the tool only shows the drapes and adds up your answers. An app, a filter or AI gives a first hint, never the equivalent of a trained eye.

A photo taken in daylight, near a window, with no flash, no filter and no makeup, with your hair pulled back and a plain background behind you. Hold the camera at eye level. Then zoom so that your face fills the oval and your chin sits on the mark.

Neither one. Nobody is typed from a single trait: red hair isn’t automatically Autumn, blonde isn’t excluded from Winter, and deep skin isn’t automatically Winter. Every skin tone shows up in all four seasons. What counts is what each color does to your face.

You get a likely season and one or two sub-season hints, or “between” two neighbors when your choices don’t settle. It is a direction to check with the free quiz and the season pages, not an answer.

Yes. In free mode you can drape the colors of any sub-season on a plaster mannequin, which is a good way to browse the palettes. The guided path needs your own photo, because its question is what each color does to your face.

Yes. The drapes and the questions are the same.

Yes, and there is no sign-up. The email box at the end is optional: your card is yours, with or without an email address.