COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL SPRING VS WINTER SKIN

He turns out to be one of the warmer and darker Summers, a “Dusk Summer.”Īn accurate color analysis process is best done one-on-one, face-to-face. Below is a client with his too bright custom palette from 1980 (as if he were a cool light Spring, like the gal on the right below) and the much more appropriate one I did for him recently. In the 1990s Sharon Chrisman further refined Suzanne’s work.īecoming a personal color analyst in the Caygill/Chrisman process requires lengthy training. Many copycat systems followed, often generic and extremely simplified. Hence she came up with 6 subtypes per season to accommodate this wide variety, which equals 24 unique types around which to build a custom palette. She typed her clients by “season,” which expressed itself both in color palette AND in an accompanying seasonal style of dressing.īut 4 seasons didn’t really cover the variability Caygill observed, because people are a mix of warm and cool temperatures and may be lighter or darker.

COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL SPRING VS WINTER SKIN

In the 1950s Hollywood color stylist Suzanne Caygill developed a sophisticated system for creating custom color palettes based on the client’s skin tones, eye and hair color, face shapes and personality.

Furthermore, today thousands of additional hues are available, and they’re much more refined and subtle.Ĭase in point, below are two Color Me Beautiful palettes for a “Summer” type: the one on the left (way too bright!) from Carol Jackson’s original book, and the one on the right more current, but still too generic for most Summers. “Color Me Beautiful” is so last century! And quite honestly those generic color palettes you order off the internet are often downright wrong.

Color me beautiful spring vs winter