![]() ![]() I always think it's helpful to realize that there are a lot of different color systems out there, including ones which pull from one's body colors in micro detail. Glad we are giving you some tools to hopefully help you! More study and experimentation is in order, I think. ![]() Like Shiny I think I'm something of a "neutral." I think I'm somewhere on the spectrum between the two, and my highlighted hair confuses matters. To Claire's point, I don't know if my "warm" qualities are strong enough to trump my "muted" qualities. I am PROBABLY more toward the warm scale than the cool, although this is where things get murky. I am definitely "muted" and not bright/clear. For the time being, I am able to grasp (somewhat!) Shelley's 16season system. Vix, I am going to set aside some time later in the week to study the 12 Blueprints theories and try to wrap my head around them! I feel like I have some sort of mental block about this color thing. "soft." But I have to confess that my head is spinning a little! If soft more than warmth, you could look at Soft Summer.Īnother color analyst, Shelley of, explains her take on the above here:Ĭlaire, Shiny, and Vix, you all have imparted a boatload of wisdom on this whole color palette topic.and I'm starting to get a glimmer of understanding re "warm" v. Sounds as if you've done a lot of that over the years, so it may come down to fine tuning.Īs Claire says, if you need warmth more than softness you may want to look at other warm shades when building your closet. You really need to experiment to see how bright, how deep, how warm, and how cool you are. Closer to grey compared to what? Wedgewood blue or electric sapphire? Compared to Bright Spring, True Spring is soft, but we don’t call True Spring’s colour low in saturation or muted. Most important to always remember, colour is relative. If the colour appears dusty, heathered, greyed, then it is called muted or soft. They mean desaturated, closer to the pot of grey paint you started with before you began adding colour pigment. >Q: I am still confused with the terms “soft” and “muted” – what is the difference. Since those terms are often used with the Sci/Art system, I'm quoting what color analyst Christine at 12 Blueprints says: Soft is about saturation, warm references temperature. Which is why I continue to lighten my hair. But honestly? I think I look better siding towards the cool and summer end of the range. My hairdresser says this is because I'm "neutral" - and says I can pull off either. if I dye my hair darker to bring out the red, I have to completely overhaul my make up and my wardrobe, and wear warm autumn tones instead. Whereas she goes with the peaches instead.Īll that said. Here lies another clue to whether one is warm or cool! The inside of my lips is very definitely in the "mauve" range and in fact I can reliably choose any mauve lipstick at the drugstore and it'll work on me. What's more, she and I have totally different lip color. She once was visiting and forgot to bring hers, so borrowed mine, which at that time was "C." It looked like she'd smeared calamine lotion all over her face! (I later realized that "N" worked even better on me than C in fact, I use this product that tones down the red in my face because I have a lot of it). ![]() She and I used to wear the same foundation - I forget the brand, but it is coded N for Neutral, W for warm, and C for cool. Yet, she is warm (probably soft autumn) and I am cool. Right now my best friend is playing up the red in her hair and skipping the blonde highlights. You can't tell by my photos but I actually have a LOT of red in my hair my mother and sister are natural redheads, and my hairdresser has been dying to get me to go red. Like you, we both have hair that is mousey if we don't color it. Do you have yellow undertone (warm) or pink/blue (cool)?Īs an example, my best friend and I have very very similar coloring (we're often mistaken for sisters). #Low contrast true autumn skin skin#Warm vs cool, in my opinion, has more to do with your skin tone than anything else. These are also my best shades but I can still get away with the occasional bright color too, balanced by the softer shades. I am no expert but my understanding is that the soft shades are "muddied" - mixed with gray - to mute them down and make them less bright/clear. ![]()
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