You’ve seen all the beauty/dressing young/shopping/makeup threads on CC. Let us be your color consultants - for free!!! (no fashion task goes undone on CC!!) 
I think I had this done back in the 80s. I’m a “winter.” Does that make sense?
Yes you are dating yourselves. 
In the eighties, I was too preoccupied with finishing college… had to wear a lab coat over any outfit, so did not bother with colors or fashionable stuff… I heard of the trend, just did not realize people had “colors done.”
Here’s one description of winter: https://infinitcloset.com/4-season-color-analysis/winter-colour-palette-4-season-color-analysis/
One thing I discovered is that gold jewelry only looks good on me if I have a deep tan. Otherwise I stick with silver.
Yep, that’s the winter I’m familiar with. I wore pretty much only gold jewelry until my 40s. Silver or white gold really do look better on me most of the time.
I still have my swatch booklet from the 80s. I was a winter, and it was accurate at the time. Dark hair, blue eyes, fair complexion.
I’ve been wondering what colors to wear now that my hair is white/silver/gray. I need my makeup to be a medium tone so I’m not completely washed out. My eyebrows are still dark and my eyes are more gray-blue. I used to wear a lot of black but it doesn’t seem to look as good as it did with dark hair.
I guess I just don’t get this concept at all! You need someone to tell you what colors you look good in? Isn’t that something that can be determined when you try clothes on and look in a mirror?
I know it was a thing years and years ago but…I trust myself to know more what I like than a palette that tells me I fit “here”.
Also while there might be a color that isn’t for you, would you really stay away from a whole host of shades or colors just because a random program said it wasn’t suited to you?
I remember a consultant coming to the sorority house back in 1979 to help us determine our colors so we could buy the perfect interview suit. I’m a winter and have stuck with those colors ever since.
It doesn’t really matter if you know which shade of a certain color works best with your skin and hair color, the fashion industry controls what you can buy. Everybody uses pretty much the same “in” colors. Heaven help you if your sister wants a turquoise sweater in the wrong year. I’m still waiting for that wonderful deep rust color from the late ‘70s to come back into favor.
Back in 1984 a group from work had a consultant come to do our colors. I recall she wrapped a cloth in a rather putrid shade of green around my neck. Everyone oohed and clapped and I was declared a classic Autumn. I’ve stuck to the palette since then. After 35 years, is this trend due for a comeback?
I still have the book, which I keep in my office. We used it in a group. I’m a Winter, as most people are. It helped to learn that the muted shades don’t do anything for me. The latter part of the book spoke of style, like the Jackie O or Debbie Reynolds. I have never liked anything with bows or ruffles.
I had the book and decided I was Winter. I had fair skin, blue eyes, and medium-dark brown hair. Now that I’m older and my hair is silver, my eyes a grayer blue, I tend to look better in the the lighter Summer palette. I have a lot of blue clothes, partly because when I find something I like, the color choices are either blue or orange. I look awful in oranges, golds, browns.
I used to work with a woman who looked fabulous in that mustard color. I think she is the only person I have ever known who could wear that color.
I love mustard yellow! I have dark hair and olive toned skin - it was my favorite new color in my wardrobe this year.
I guess I would have to say that if you REALLY believe in this color season process that you should perhaps review and update from 30-40 years ago when you hair color and perhaps skin tone were different!
My hair color has changed a number of times.
With regard to current colors and styles…I think the key ingredient IIRC was what colors were near your face. So…a scarf or necklace of some sort could offset a color you normally wouldn’t find.
I think I am a spring…fair skin, medium brown hair, blue eyes. I look best in pinks, blues, coral, aqua, lavender, yellow . But then I also look good in red, black, white, grey, cranberry red.
I know I’m not an autumn. Not only do I look terrible in those colors…but I really don’t like most of them!
This thread revived my interest in my colors. I recall Color Me Beautiful from the ‘80s’ and believe I had the book. Of course, I’m one of those that doesn’t fall neatly into one category. I’ve now spent close to an hour looking at different websites and still can’t quite find my category, lol, as I think I’m either a ‘clear winter’ or a ‘clear summer’.
I have darker blue eyes, medium brown hair and (I think) a slightly yellow undertone to my skin. Of course I have my favorite colors and know what I believe compliments me best but this seems like a fun exercise.
Does anyone have a favorite site or resource they’ve found particularly helpful?
I went to the recommended website and there are now 3 kinds of falls, summers, etc. I apparently am a clear summer. I firmly believe that when your “colors” are on trend you should buy, buy, buy, because you may be stuck with dusty rose and faded denim blue for a long time.
I think it would be hard to tell from an online test or even a virtual app or whatever they are using these days what your color palette is. Unless, of course, you’re a clear Winter, Spring, Summer or Autumn. The nice thing about the in-person evaluation is that the consultant has drapes of fabric in all sorts of colors and you get an instant “oooh” or “no” You can see that yes, this color that you have been wearing looks good on you, and it’s in your palette, but have you ever tried THIS color? Oh wow - that’s really flattering! I don’t think I ever would have thought before I had my colors done that I would look good in browns or corals, so I never would have selected them when out shopping.
Again, though, finding clothing in colors other than black, white, gray, navy, eggplant, taupe, red, and royal blue is becoming more and more difficult.
I still have that Color Me Beautiful book on my shelf somewhere. It made sense to me. The biggest problem is that stores tend to do colors et al that work for the majority without equal choices for those of us in the minority. Basic black may work on most, but not for me- my own personal sense as well as what the book said. I feel like I am waiting for my best liked and suited to me colors to be in fashion. Final comment in this post- black is a color that should be avoided as much as possible, unless used as the background for other colors. Boring, disheartening black.
Addenda- I have excellent color perception and can the small differences in colors. The change from red to blue in one college chemistry class went through so many different purples with the titration.
Black was my staple work color for years. I hardly have any in my wardrobe now, except pants. I do think with my dark hair and light olive skin, colors pop! It was validating when I was watching Desperate Housewives last year when they were going to a funeral. Gabby was grousing that black wasn’t her color!
One thing about color me beautiful that always stood was when they said to put gold or silver up to your face. Silver wasn’t in style back then, but it sure looked better with my skin tone.