#DEEP AUTUMN VS TRUE AUTUMN FULL#
MEDIUM COLOUR CONTRAST - oh those eyes! This is the brightest of all the cool season palettes - it can be overwhelming when a client sees all those bright swatches on a rail - when I explain that they can have a wardrobe full of neutrals and use one or two of these colours as their highlights the relief on their faces always makes me smile. Colour blocking and dramatic geometric prints are perfect. The contrast between the light and dark neutrals must be very sharp to mirror the distinct features within the face. By mirroring the high contrast in her features in her clothing she intensifies the contrast in her features. It could be as small as shoe laces, buttons, a narrow belt, jewellery, a bag, topstitching - but somewhere in her outfit we need to see a reflection of her personal high value contrast level. She actually should always wear an element of her clothing in high contrast - if she is wearing black, then she ideally needs white or an icy light as a contrast. She could wear black and white together and dazzle.
#DEEP AUTUMN VS TRUE AUTUMN SKIN#
VERY HIGH VALUE CONTRAST - very light skin and very dark hair (even the natural eyebrows are very dark). The first woman in the photos below has typical jewel eyes and bright skin of a Bright Winter. These are the seasons where we want no restraint but a blaze of colour - and I only just realised why!! Equally Warm Autumn needs richness from mixing it’s gold spicy based colours together.
Putting an autumn or a spring in a one colour monochromatic outfit is dull - Warm Spring is vibrant and needs contrast which can only come from colour combinations as there are no extremes of value in the palette. Both of these seasons cannot wear grey, black or white - so strictly speaking they have no neutrals available. The warmth of the sun on Warm Spring and Warm Autumn provides a vitality to all of the colours within the palette and allows the wearer to wear several of the colours together without being over powered. Both cool seasons have the least amount of colour activity, cool seasons with spring or autumn influence have a little more, warm seasons with only a little winter or summer influence have a little more and the warm seasons both have the most colourful outfits and complimentary pairings. This is a bit of a light bulb moment for me. Below is a colour wheel with the numbers of colours you can wear at one time according to your level of colour contrast.Īs I have worked through lots of reading matter on colour contrast I have found that consistently the warmer the season the more colours can be worn. To create high colour contrast we could use two colours from opposite sides of the colour palette (complimentary pairs) or several colours from around the colour wheel. To get to a medium level of contrast we could use two colours together and create more contrast between them - for example using hues that sit near each other on the colour wheel(analogous) such as green and blue. The next example would be to add a colour to the neutrals as an accent. The lowest level of contrast would be no colours and just neutrals from the palette mixed all from one neutral in a monochrome - so a dark grey and light grey for example. I am giving a guide on how many colours and neutrals can be combined for each season and how contrasting these colours can be. I’m also looking here at how the colours we select should be separated - should we have sharp distinct barriers between the colours or soft blending?Ĭolour contrast has very little written about it and is the inspiration for me researching for this blog. We simply compare our features in a monochromatic photo to the grid to work out the extremes, and look at how blended our features are to work out if we need to avoid wearing our extreme values together (using our mid values), or whether we should have the biggest contrast between our light features and darkest mirrored in our clothing. Here is a reminder of what the Value Scale looks like - from white at a value of ten to black at a value of one. I thought it would be interesting to list out all of the seasons and where a typical person within that season would be on the two scales. It’s a really nice introduction into putting your colours together in a way that matches your season - and therefore harmonises with your natural features. In previous posts I analysed my own value contrast and colour contrast and invited you to analyse your own.
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