Our lives would be so much easier if we could just put anything on and walk out the door, but we unfortunately can’t. Picking out the wrong color can make us look sick and washed out, wearing the wrong jewelry could make our skin look dull, and dying our hair an unsuitable color could age us years. Thankfully, we live in a world where color theory is a thing.
Color theory is not just a concept; it’s a tool that teaches us everything we need to know about color behavior, and we have found ways to incorporate this study into our fashion and beauty choices in order for us to look our best, always.
This includes studying the undertones of our skin to know which colors complement it and which don’t. Color is not limited to the color of clothes that we wear. It also includes the color of our jewelry, the color of our hair, and the undertone of our makeup. This is where seasonal color analysis comes in.
Season color analysis is a system that categorizes individuals’ overall coloring into four seasons: fall, spring, summer, and winter.
Individuals with warmer undertones are either springs or falls, while individuals with cooler undertones are either winters or summers. You might wonder how you can determine whether you are warm or cool tones. Many sources will tell you to simply look at your veins. If they’re green, then you’re warm, and if they’re blue, then you’re cool. Others will ask if you burn easily in the sun or not. Sounds pretty straightforward, doesn’t it?
Determining under which category you fall can be a tedious task, especially for individuals who have neutral characteristics that look neutral. These individuals will find difficulty knowing if they lean more toward warm or cool, and even if your undertone were so painfully obvious, you would still have a difficult time determining your season, considering that numerous undisclosed aspects are kept as secrets amongst the professionals.
There has been a recent craze regarding seasonal color analysis, and almost everyone is curious to know what their accurate season is. I can understand why. Knowing which color palette suits you best really does make your life easier. Now, you might be tempted to go and spend hundreds of dollars to get your color palette analyzed by a professional. But why do that when you can use AI and get it done free of charge?!
As someone who had lived most of their life thinking that they were a winter, my mind was blown to find out otherwise—all this time, I was an autumn! As I was sitting there on a lazy Sunday scrolling through TikTok, as one does, I came across this video of this TikTok creator claiming that she was able to save hundreds of dollars by getting her seasonal color analysis done using Chat GPT. I followed each step on how to get color from the picture and found out that, surprise, surprise, I am an autumn! It took me a minute to absorb that, and then I discussed with the ever-so-loving AI tool what best hair color would suit me. It said chestnut brown. That day, I went to the store, got chestnut brown hair dye, and dyed my hair that color. I have never looked back ever since.
Worry not. I shall not keep those secrets to myself. If you have Chat GPT Pro, things will be much easier for you, considering all you have to do is drop an unfiltered, make-up-free picture of yourself in natural lighting in Colorbot. This AI tool will tell you your season and give you a detailed explanation of your undertone, which colors suit you best, and why. But you can still do this without having to pay a dime. I tried both ways, and they both gave me the same results.
Follow these simple steps to find your color season with AI
Take a picture of yourself in natural lighting, ensuring the sun is not directly hitting your face, and click on the edit option
Mark up your photo
Click on the color
Select the dropper
Select the color from a clear part of your face and find the color number under the sliders bar
The following is an example of how to ask Chatgpt for your color season analysis:
My skin tone is #BA958F. What is my color season, and can you give me a detailed analysis of which colors suit me best?
The AI tool responded, saying:
Followed by stating detailed information about which colors and tones would suit me best. It even gave me which metals would suit me best. And the best part? I didn’t have to pay a dime.
