PDF guide · Spring · Coming soon
Found your sub-season? Here’s how to wear it, piece by piece.
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After the quiz
Finding your sub-season is step one. The hard part comes next: using it, every single day.
A beige a little too yellow, a pink a little too cool. In the store, it passes. On you, people see the clothes before they see you.
The racks keep offering the same basics. Yours have a name, a code and a place in your wardrobe:
IvoryGolden BeigeLight CamelWarm Light GrayBoth seasons are light. Light Summer is cooler and more powdery, Light Spring warmer and fresher. The guide gives you a two-color test to settle it at home.
You own pieces, but not outfits. You wear the same three over and over, and the rest waits on its hanger.
Thinking you need pale, dull colors. You need light, but a light with freshness in it.
Swapping black for charcoal gray: it’s just as heavy. Go for a light camel or a soft, warm navy.
Choosing a dark lipstick to give yourself some edge: it takes over.
The full guide covers 6 mistakes, each with the color to wear instead. See a taste with your colors
In practice
Three moments when you wonder what to do. Each gets an answer, and the chapter that gives it.
In the store
Hold your phone with your swatch card next to the garment. If it blends in without anyone noticing, it’s for you. If it jumps out, put it back.
Chapter 2 Your complete paletteChapter 4 Your capsule wardrobe
At your closet
Check off what you already own and buy only what’s missing. Every piece goes with at least three others, so in the morning, everything pairs.
Chapter 4 Your capsule wardrobeChapter 5 Pairings that work
At the salon and the makeup counter
“Something natural” doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. You get the exact words to say, and swatches to show.
Chapter 6 MakeupChapter 7 Hair
A taste
What you see here is also on your free Light Spring page. The guide goes further: each tab tells you where.
Your signature color
Peach
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If one color had to sum up your sub-season, this would be it.
#FFCBA4#FF8F7A#FBB87A#F9E38C#B8D98A#A8E0C0#7FD6CF#8EC5E8#A5B4E8#FFA59B#F78FA7#C8B1E4#FF9E8A#FDBF8F#FBC4C4#C5E0A5#7CCFC4#A7D3F2#8FB0E6#B9A0E0In the guide: your complete palette, sorted into light, medium, dark and accents, with every hex code, plus a pocket swatch card to keep on your phone. (Chapter 2)
#FFF6E3#E6D2B0#C9A26B#BEB7ABYour neutrals hold the rest of your wardrobe together: coat, pants, bag, shoes.
In the guide: which neutral goes where in your wardrobe, your backup neutrals, and how to keep wearing what you already own. (Chapter 3)
#0A0A0A#5A1326#33363B#3B2314Too dark for you: they create a contrast your face can’t carry.
Avoiding isn’t forbidding: near your face, you swap. Away from your face, wear anything.
In the guide: for each color to avoid, the color of your palette to wear in its place. (Chapter 3)
At the office
Light camel blazer, ivory shirt, golden beige pants, peach scarf
One of the 3 outfits on your free page.
In the guide: 10 outfits for the office, weekends, evenings, workouts and special occasions, each with its pieces and its colors. (Chapter 5)
Lips
Peach, light coral, salmon pink. Light, glossy formulas rather than matte, dark ones.
Eyes
Champagne, peach, light golden brown, soft green. Brown mascara rather than black.
Cheeks
Apricot or peach, applied lightly.
In the guide: complexion, cheeks, lips and eyes, 3 makeup looks you can redo (everyday, work, evening) and the words to look for on the packaging. (Chapter 6)
Honestly
Your free Light Spring page already gives you a lot. Here is, line by line, what the guide adds.
| What you get | The free page/seasons/light-spring | The full guidePDF · $29.99 planned |
|---|---|---|
| Palette | Your 20 colors, online. | Your complete palette, sorted into light, medium, dark and accents, with hex codes. Plus a pocket swatch card to keep on your phone. |
| Outfits | 3 outfits. | 10 outfits: office, weekend, evening, workout, special occasions. |
| Wardrobe | 8 pieces to start with. | 20 pieces and their colors, plus a shopping list to check off. |
| Makeup | Pointers: lips, eyes, cheeks. | 3 makeup looks you can redo, plus complexion, brows and the words to look for on the packaging. |
| Hair and jewelry | A few lines on each. | What suits you, what doesn’t, what to tell your colorist. Metals, stones, glasses, prints. |
| Checking your sub-season | The free quiz gives a first hint. The page explains how Light Spring differs from Light Summer. | A test you can do at home in ten minutes, then the two-color test to confirm before you rebuild your closet. |
| Format | A web page, read online. | A PDF to keep, easy to read on your phone, printable. |
If you only want to know your colors, the free page is enough. The guide is for people who want to know what to do with them.
Read the free Light Spring pageWhat you get
Read the first one all the way through, once. After that, each chapter stands on its own.
What defines you, what sets you apart from the neighboring seasons, and how to check.
All your colors sorted: light, medium, dark, accents, with their hex codes.
Your own versions of black, white, beige and gray: the basics the rest of your wardrobe is built on.
The pieces to own, in which colors, and a shopping list to check off.
Ready-made outfits for the office, the weekend and evenings out.
Complexion, lips, eyes, cheeks: the shades to look for at the store.
The hair colors and tones that suit you, the ones to avoid, and what to tell your colorist.
Metals, stones, frames, prints and fabrics.
Also inside: a page for men, the questions people still ask, and a plan for your first week.
Layout sketches · Light Spring colors
Drawn from the planned layout, with Light Spring colors and your wardrobe pieces. The finished pages replace these sketches when the guide is out.
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One guide
$29.99 PDFPlanned launch price
If you’re torn between two
Two neighboring guides
$44.99 both guides$14.99 less than buying them separately
Both seasons are light. Light Summer is cooler and more powdery, Light Spring warmer and fresher. Try both palettes at home, then keep the one that’s really yours.
The whole season
$59.99 three guides$29.98 less than buying them separately
You know your season, not yet your sub-season. Compare the three palettes at home and keep the one that fits.
Before you buy
The free quiz gives you a likely season and a first hint of your sub-season, not a verdict. The right guide beats two guides that almost fit.
Who it’s for
A guide only helps if it lands at the right moment. Here’s how to tell if it’s yours.
Whose method this is
French color analyst and founder of Ihana. Every guide follows her 12-season method: twelve seasons are enough to be precise, and few enough to stay clear.
FAQ
The free page gives you your 20 colors, 3 outfits, 8 wardrobe pieces and makeup pointers. The guide adds your complete palette sorted into light, medium, dark and accents with a pocket swatch card, 10 outfits, 20 pieces with a shopping list to check off, 3 makeup looks you can redo, and a two-color test to check your sub-season. If you only want to know your colors, the free page is enough.
Don’t buy a guide blind. A quiz or an app gives a first hint, not a verdict: we judge colors by our own taste, and neighboring sub-seasons look alike. Take the free quiz, read the free pages of the sub-seasons it points to, then choose. The guide includes a test you can do at home, but it can’t replace a trained eye.
No. The guide assumes you already know your sub-season: it shows you how to wear it, it doesn’t determine it. A guide can’t see your skin react to a color, and that reaction is what settles a sub-season.
Light Summer. Both seasons are light. Light Summer is cooler and more powdery, Light Spring warmer and fresher. Analysts also call a neighboring season a “sister season”. If you’re torn between the two, the pair of guides covers both, so you can try both palettes at home before you rebuild your closet.
There isn’t a typical one. Olive skin shows up in all four seasons, and skin tone alone never settles a season. A cool undertone points toward Summer or Winter and a warm one toward Spring or Autumn, but lightness, intensity and contrast decide the rest. That’s why a guide should start by confirming your sub-season instead of assuming it.
The guide is a PDF you download once you’ve bought it. It’s designed to be read on a phone, and you can print it too. Printed colors vary with your printer and your screen, so use the hex codes in the guide as your reference when you compare.
Yes. The palette, the neutrals and the contrast rule apply to everyone, and the guide includes a page on men’s wardrobes: suit, shirt, tie, leather, watch. For a Light Spring man: ivory, sky blue or mint shirts, a beige or warm light blue suit, sand chinos. Swap the black suit for a light navy.
Because the method has 12 sub-seasons: twelve are enough to be precise, and few enough to stay clear. Two sub-seasons of the same season don’t share the same colors, and that’s where your purchases are won or lost.
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The other guides
The two other Springs and your neighbor, Light Summer: same layout, each with its own palette.