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Klara is a warm spring, with peachy skintone & warm blue eye
color. The warm spring colors are better for her than warm
autumn (which is what she thought she was) because of the
clarity of her coloring. If we put you in warm autumn colors,
they would tend to look ‘heavy’ on her.
I got an email yesterday that asks:
I don’t understand how pale caucasians and african and asian people can both
be in the same group as their skin tones differ dramatically?
The person also referenced an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattering_colors
Firstly, I don’t agree with everything that’s stated in the
above article. The 4-season theory doesn’t account
accurately the 3 components of color: hue, depth, and intensity.
It covers only 2 thoroughly, depth and hue. Intensity is
not clearly defined.
Also, I don’t believe people have blue undertones. Cool people
simply have a lack of yellow undertones, or the pigment that
creates them. So they have more of an ‘absence’ of warmth
than anything else.
But back to the question: how can people with different
skin, eye, and hair colors wear the same colors? The answer
is that everyone, regardless of coloring, falls somewhere on the
warm –> cool, soft –> clear, deep –> light ranges. Those ranges
are relative to the culture, to be sure. But a ‘light’ caucasian
and a ‘light’ african may well find themselves flattered
by the same colors. The reason would be that they are both characterized
by ‘light’ features, and therefore the colors that flatter them both reflect
that dominant characteristic of depth = ‘light’.
So my answer is that everyone falls out somewhere in the color equation on
three points (depth, hue, and intensity). The colors that look best on them mirror
their coloring on those three points. It is hard sometimes when we compare
cultures with respect to color analysis. . .and we shouldn’t. It’s very helpful
to search out each individual’s dominant characteristic (light, deep, soft, clear,
warm, cool) and map back to the colors once we figure out where they fall on
those color ranges.