u/kewpiemoon

Just to be clear, this isn’t about eye color! It’s about patterns. I genuinely believe you can have any eye color and be any season!

I do think there’s some validity in eye patterns, and I understand why many color analysts asks their clients to send a picture of their eye when typing. That’s not to say that it’s the most important thing when it comes to color analysis, and I know that not everyone will have a pattern that is shown here. This post is mostly just for fun!

One thing I see people get confused about is flow seasons and their pattern so here’s a breakdown:

If you have multiple patterns:
Spring & autumn patterns = warm spring or warm autumn
Spring & summer patterns = light summer or light spring
Winter & spring patterns = bright spring or bright winter
Winter & autumn patterns = deep winter or deep autumn
Summer & winter patterns = cool summer or cool winter
Summer & autumn patterns = soft summer or soft autumn

1. Light spring
2. Warm/true spring
3. Bright spring
4. Light summer
5. Soft summer
6. True/cool summer
7. Soft autumn
8. Warm/true autumn
9. Deep autumn
10. Cool/true winter
11. Bright winter
12. Deep winter

1. Warm/true spring
2. Bright spring
3. Light spring
4. Warm/true autumn
5. Deep autumn
6. Soft autumn
7. Bright winter
8. Cool/true winter
9. Deep winter
10. Light summer
11. Cool/true summer
12. Soft summer

Top row: Emmy Rossum, Tessa Thompson, Jessica Paré, Miranda Kerr
Bottom row: Kerry Washington, Vanessa Hudgens, Rose McGowan, Milla Jovovich

I really need to get this off my chest. I feel like this sub really cares too much about contrast levels and hair/eye color, and I think it’s getting many people mistyped as well as causing waaay too much misinformation

A while ago (I forgot to save the post), a woman posted herself in some drapes, and it was pretty clear that saturated cool colors looked best on her. Like you could literally SEE that the shadows on her face weren’t as bad, and her eyes sparkled. The muted raspberries and mauves were too weak against her and caused a grey/lifeless complexion. You could tell her skin had higher chroma and translucency. It was dead obvious. Everyone except ONE person typed her as a cool winter. Everyone said she was probably a summer. Why? Because her natural hair color was a medium ashy mousey brown color and her eyes were muted green. EVEN THOUGH her skin looked terrible in the summer drapes. Like…I just don’t get it? It was obvious she was in the winter season just from her skin alone, and I feel like this is the issue with color analysis

How come we make exceptions for people with dark features to be light seasons? How come we make exceptions for bright springs to have blonde, brown and red hair, but bright winters can only have jet black or deep brown hair? How come summers are allowed to have dark hair, but winters can’t have lighter hair? Do you see the problem here? I’ve especially noticed this sub can be very gate-keepy with the winter season

I mean doesn’t it make more logical sense to only pay attention to the skin? Like what if someone with dark black hair has clearer skin in light spring colors? Do you just lump them into a different season JUST because of their hair? How does that make any sense? The goal of color analysis is to find colors that match your skin’s undertone, chroma, and value. Your hair and eyes only covers a small portion of your body

In my personal opinion, your hair and eyes should only act as a small indicator of what season you could be, but it shouldn’t get you typed as a completely wrong season

I’m also going to give you some examples of why hair color is the least important thing. Both Liv Tyler and Anne Hathaway are typed as cool/true winters. On the left is their natural hair color. We can clearly see their contrast levels are medium at best. And then we can see on the right that they have dyed hair to increase those levels, but even so, they have always suited winter colors anyway because the skin never lies

Anne Hathaway

Liv Tyler