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Evaluating your Clothing Colour to match Skin tone, Hair colour and Eye Colour (Winter)

Written on October 6, 2008 – 2:47 am | by dodo

First, take a good look at your skin tone, hair colour and eye colour. Study yourself in a mirror, preferably in natural daylight. Give yourself a close shave so your facial tone is not influenced by the colour of your beard. A man with a heavy beard will have to look at other parts of his body. If you colour your hair to cover grey or for any other reason, you will need to remember your natural hair colour.

Your skin tone is the most influential factor in determining what colours look best on you. Because the skin is translucent, the tone just under its surface determines whether your colouring is warm or cool. The cool seasons, Winter and Summer, have a blue or greyish undertone to the skin, while the warm Autumns and Springs have a golden or peach undertone.

Some people’s skin tone is obvious, but for others the reading can be confusing, and it requires a trained eye. Don’t worry ifyou can’t get a clear determination of your skin tone; it is only one part of the test and the other steps will give you enough information to make a decision. Comparison is helpful. Hold a piece of white paper against your palm or your stomach. Is your skin pink or even greyish next to the white, or does it have an ivory or peach cast?

Be careful not to confuse sallowness with a golden skin tone. Many people have sallow skin, which appears yellow on the surface regardless of the undertone. These people are often Winters who will turn even more sallow wearing golden- based colours.

Ruddiness can also be confusing. In a ruddy complexion, the capillaries are very close to the surface of the skin, giving an intense pinkness to the face, especially to the cheeks and nose. This should not be confused with a blue undertone, as, ironically, ruddiness occurs most often in Autumns and Springs, the warm seasons. Here it’s best to look at your chest and stomach.

WINTER

Skin A Winter’s blue undertone is often subtle and difficult to see. There are many varieties of Winter, yet they all need the same cool colours to look their best. Many Winters have grey-beige skin, ranging from light to dark, usually with no visible pink. Most olive-skinned people, blacks and Asians are Winters, though it is possible to find them in any of the seasons.

Many Winters are sallow, appearing yellow, and they wrongly diagnose themselves as Autumns. Wearing golden colours increases the sallowness of their complexion, while the cool Winter colours make the sallowness disappear. A Winter may also have extremely white skin and dark hair. The white may have a visible pink tone, but more often does not. Winters usually do not have rosy cheeks.

Hair Winters usually have medium to dark brown or black hair, often glossy. The Winter man tends to go grey dramatically, either reaching a salt-and-pepper stage or turning steely white. Hair that goes grey prematurely is a sign of Winter or Summer. Winter hair usually has an ash tone, although sometimes the hair will have red highlights visible in sunlight (this is not the metallic red seen in Autumn hair, however). Occasionally a Winter has white-blonde hair as a child, but has turned dark by the age of five or six and is quite dark in adulthood. It is rare to see a blonde Winter adult, but when it happens, his hair is often very blonde and he is indeed a striking man.

Eyes Winter eyes can be black-brown, red brown, green, blue or hazel, and are most often a deep colour. The green or blue eyes of a Winter are distinguished by white flecks in the iris and often a grey rim around the edge of the iris. The hazel- eyed Winter usually has a brown smudge with jagged edges surrounding the pupil, with either blue or green extending to the outer iris. Occasionally a green-eyed Winter has a single thick yellow line going from the pupil to the edge of the iris like a single spoke on a wheel.

In general, all Winter eyes tend to have a look of high contrast between the whites of the eyes and the iris. This clue is especially helpful if you are deciding between Winter and Summer, as the white of a Summer eye is usually much softer with less contrast in the iris.

Tick the characteristics that describe you.

Skin

• Very white
• White with slight pink tone
• Beige (no cheek colour, may be sallow)
• Grey beige or brown
• Rosy beige
• Olive
• Black (blue undertone)
• Black (sallow)

Hair

• Blue black Dark brown (may have red highlights)
• Medium ash brown
• Salt and pepperSilver grey

• White blonde (rare)
• White

Eyes

• Dark red brown
• Black-brown
• Hazel (brown plus blue or green)
• Grey blue
• Blue with white flecks in iris (may have grey rim)
• Dark blue, violet
• Grey green

• Green with white flecks in iris (may have grey rim)

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