

The only thing I’ve 100% taken off the table is Light Spring, because I have the fan and have been able to accurately match colors and understand what it does to my skin. Understanding my need for darkness, rather than lightness, has given me some new direction in my seasonal color analysis journey. I LOVE the Dark Winter palette, and it definitely has much more variety than people give it credit for. I guess your hair couldn’t go darker than the fan because then it would look too dark and harsh on you, so even brown-haired Light Springs have pretty light hair. I don’t think hair color would affect how dark you could go, though. I think Caygill/Zyla Early Springs often end up in Light Summer, which is entirely possible but Lightness is super obviously not my TMIT. still tend to put me in Spring, especially Early Spring, which doesn’t fit with my style at all but does go darker than Sci/art Light Spring. People who do color by body color, eye pattern, etc.
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Plus the Light Spring colors that don’t turn me gray turn me pink. It was pretty much clear when I had the Light Spring fan in my hands that my range is much bigger.


Face? Totally in focus.įinding out about the possibility of me being Dark Winter makes me feel like I did when I came home to Flamboyant Gamine. Dark circles that require two different kinds of concealer? Gone. Nothing makes my heart sing more than a very dark purple, which, coincidentally, has been my most flattering drape to date. The only difference between me and the theoretical light Dark Winter in Rachel’s post is that I love dark colors.

I promise, though, that when I do finally get draped professionally, I will post those pictures.) (I take draping shots with messy hair and no makeup, so I’m not posting them on the blog for posterity. Every point she makes in the post could be taken from my Facebook thread where I posted my drapes. Then I found this post by Rachel Nachmias, on Dark Winters who people think are Bright Springs. Cate Linden posted a beautiful picture of a little blonde girl that she had draped as Dark Winter.
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It brought up the handful of non-stereotypical Dark Winters I’d seen, ones who didn’t look like Kim Kardashian and instead had similar skin tones to me. Tina has a great post on signs you might be a Bright Spring, but none of her points applied to me.Ī little voice in my head began making itself heard. Bright Spring lipsticks leap off my face as if the color was photoshopped on. Like my experiences with clothes among the Soft Naturals, I felt like I was having a different experience with colors than the Bright Springs were having. I went to the Bright Spring group on Facebook, and like when I thought I was a Soft Natural, I felt like I really didn’t fit in. Coral had something good about it, but the shade (fan-matched to Light Spring) was a little off. Soft Summer was brought up, but most agreed that I was Bright Spring. Everyone agreed that Light Spring was as terrible as I thought. I didn’t tick any of the boxes of how a Light Spring person reacts to colors I just fit the stereotype. Many colors brought out gray shadows on my face that didn’t exist otherwise. When I began color-matching things to the fan, I could immediately tell that it was not where I belonged. So I got my Light Spring fan in the mail.
