COLOR ANALYSIS Simply Explained | How to Find Your Personal Color Palette

Hi everyone! Welcome to my channel! As you probably know, color is the most important element of appearance. This is the first thing that anyone pays attention to. Color can make you stand out and look absolutely awesome or completely ruin the impression. So today we're going to talk about color analysis, how it was born, how it works, and what is your type. And finally, how you should and should not use it. There's going to be a ton of information and examples and I'm really excited to share it with you. So let's get started! I like the idea of figuring out what works for you and your life rather than following trends and the idea of gradually creating a wardrobe that goes along with your individual style. Knowing your color type gives you an idea of what colors work best for you, but knowing how to apply it gives you a freedom to be creative and master your own style. Basically, your color type is the mixture of your skin color, your natural hair color, and your eyes color. And these three components make an extremely large number of possible combinations. To make it easier, people developed a theory of a seasonal color analysis that was inspired by a Swiss expressionist painter Johannes Eden. When he was painting, he noticed that different types of appearance of people look better against the background of landscapes of certain seasons. Now, a lot of stylists define the color type using only three parameters of the main color scheme of your skin, eyes, and hair. Temperature, situation, and brightness. But what exactly are they all about? Colors are considered warm if they contain enough yellow or yellow-red. They are considered cool if they contain enough blue, black, white, and gray shades are neutral. Basically, everybody's skin is warm until you're not dead. But in color analysis, we talk about skin undertone. It's a teeny-tiny difference that your skin tends to be on the cooler or the warmer side. You have cool undertone if your skin appears to have a tint of pink and blue under natural light. You have warm undertone if your skin appears more yellowish, orangey, and golden under natural light. All of this applies to the hair and eyes colors too. So, if you have a cool undertone, it would be better to follow a cooler side of the color wheel when choosing your personal color palette and the opposite when you're on the warmer side. Your also can be somewhere in between and it's called neutral undertone. It gives you a lot of variety. The next one is situation. It refers to how vivid, rich, and intense a color is. It describes how close a color to pure gray. If you have a high situation, your face features are clear and sparkly, and you have a pretty high contrast between the eyes, skin, and hair. If you have a low situation, your colors are soft, muted, dusty, nothing bright, and overpowering. For high situation features, it would be better to use clear, saturated colors. And for a low situation features, your perfect match would be muted palette, meaning all the colors mixed with gray in proportion that depends on how low your situation is. And the last one is brightness. It simply means how close a color to pure white or pure black. You tend to be on the lighter side if your hair and eyes are pretty light, like you have blonde hair, light green or blue eyes. You're on the darker side if your natural features have deep, rich, dark coloring. Dark hair and eyes. Skin may or may not be dark. If you're light colored, your suiting colors would be on the brighter side, mixed with white. If you're dark colored, your perfect colors would be deeper, mixed with black. Three parameters of your color type are useful not only when choosing clothes, but also for your hair color, makeup, nails, and accessories. The whole point of color analysis is to find colors that match your skin tone, hair, eye color, your face in general. So items that are not in direct contact with your face can actually be different. In theory, everything is quite simple and schematic, but in practice, there are a large number of exceptions and nuances. Your color type should be used as a guide, as a starting point, not a set of rules. Don't rely entirely on your colors because it prevents you from being creative and exploring your own preferences. But knowing color theory definitely can help you make a better choice for your wardrobe palette. So apply the knowledge and listen to yourself. Thank you very much for watching. I hope this video was helpful for you. And if it was, please let me know giving a thumbs up and hitting the subscribe button below so I can make more content for you. And I'll see you again in the next video.