BASIC 4 SEASONS

      

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One of the following Basic 4 Season color groups is best for you and will be considered your "Homebase." This gives you a foundation to build upon before considering other Inter-season colors to add.

Simply match yourself. Remember, your hair and eyes are part of your color scheme and are opposite your skintones. Great clue! Find the colors that match your hair and eyes and they will automatically balance your skintone. 

 CLASSIC SPRING COLORING     

 Everything about this person is vibrant, colorful and exaggerated — just like these Spring colors. Skin glows, peaches and cream look, high color from red in skin which flushes and blushes easily. Exaggerated color in red hair and green eyes. Freckles or bushy eyebrows even add the flair of exaggerated accent. Eyes are electric or sparkly and you can see down into them as if looking into a pool.

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   CLASSIC SUMMER COLORING

Everything about this person is light and more delicate and have less contrast between hair and skin — just like these Summer colors. Light colored hair and eyes give balance to olive or light skin that is warm based. Even softly curved or wavy fine hair is part of this energy.

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    CLASSIC AUTUMN  COLORING

Everything about this person is warm, muted and natural — just like these Autumn colors. Brown hair and medium brown, hazel or dusty khaki eyes. The skin is very cool and light because of lack of color with no red showing (These warm earthy colors bring color forward in skintones.)

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  CLASSIC WINTER COLORING

Everything about this person has striking contrast — just like these dark Winter colors. Dark or light skin is contrasted with dark colors adding light or icy colors for contrast. Very dark appearing eyes or eyebrows show contrast. White teeth or eye whites even give contrast. Very dark brown ash hair is considered a “brown-haired” Winter.

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This gives you a good feel for the general four basic categories of coloring that people fall into. Think of these categories as The Basic Templates that give perimeters and a frame of reference so that you can see where you fit into the scheme of things. Everyone has one of these categories as a HOMEBASE, and usually lesser influences from one or two of the other categories as well.  

Understand that some color families are inherently more warm or cool to begin with — the yellow family is definitely warmer than the blue family. Even though turquoise and teal are on the warm side of the blue oval, they are actually balanced; hunter green is on the cool side of the green oval but is so balanced that nearly everyone can wear it. Balanced medium purples test out balanced for most skintones. Colors that are composed with more red (such as rust and plum) give more leeway and are generally more flattering because red accentuates healthy pink and red tones in the skin. Some colors are just easier to wear because they are relatively balanced. 

NOTE: These sixteen colors are good for ALL SEASONS. Watch for them as you walk through the colors. These colors are excellent color choices for uniforms, group colors, and marketing clothing.