Discover Your Color Season: A Guide to the 12-Season Color Analysis

Have you ever tried on a dress that instantly made you glow, or one that made you look tired and washed out? The secret may lie in your color season. Based on a person’s skin tone, eye color, and natural hair, the 12-season color analysis can help determine which hues may harmonize best with your natural features. (This is just for fun, always wear whatever you like!)

What Are the 12 Color Seasons?

Originally based on the 4-season theory (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter), the modern system expands this into 12 seasons by introducing three subtypes for each category:

Each subtype has a unique blend of temperature (warm vs. cool), value (light vs. dark), and chroma (bright vs. muted).

How to Find Your Color Season

Go to our tiktok to watch our in-depth step-by-step breakdown. Here's a simplified version:

1. Determine your undertone: Are you warm (yellow/golden), cool (pink/blue), or neutral? Try seeing whether your veins are blue (cool), green (warm), or both. You can also hold gold and silver up to your skin - warm undertones suit gold jewelry, cool undertones suit silver jewelry, and neutral undertones suit both! 

2. Assess your contrast: Do you have light or dark features overall? Take a photo of yourself and put on a black and white filter. Do your eyes and hair stand out against your skin? 

   Low contrast (e.g., fair skin, blonde hair, light eyes) = Light Value

   High contrast (e.g., pale skin and black hair, or medium skin and dark eyes) = Dark Value

   You can also be somewhere in the middle, and have medium value! 

3. Check your chroma: Are your features bright and clear or soft and muted? Grab a gray piece of clothing and a saturated, bright piece of clothing (think a hot pink, or bright teal), and hold both up against your face. Be objective. Which one reflects better and brings attention to YOU, not the clothes? On bright-featured folks, a gray may dull them out and make them look pale and sickly. On soft-featured folks, bold colors will detract attention away from them and to the clothes. 

4. Use the chart: Which of the three tests above was a no-brainer and had the strongest conclusion for you? Take that result and find it in bold, then using the chart below, determine your color season. If you are in the middle of two color seasons, go look at The Concept Wardrobe's guide for more help to narrow it down! This is a bit of an art, not a science, so go with your gut and the colors you're naturally drawn to if you're in the middle! 

Now, you have your color season that can help you with makeup and clothing choices! We have taken the time to make a collection for each color season - happy shopping with your new color palette! 

Spring

• Light Spring
• True Spring
• Bright Spring

Summer

• Light Summer
• True Summer
• Soft Summer

Autumn

• Dark Autumn 
• True Autumn
• Soft Autumn

Winter

• Dark Winter
• True Winter
• Bright Winter