A color season is simply a group of colors
that fall within a range of the three-color dimensions 
Hue, Value and Chroma 
 

According to the Munsell Scientific Order of Color, every color has three dimensions:
Hue - Temperature of a color warm, cool or neutral
Value - Lightness or darkness of a color
Chroma - Brightness or softness or a color
 

​Every visible color has a specific setting using these three dimensions

Which also determine the colors of our skin, eyes, and hair.
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A person’s color season can be identified by looking at three aspects to create color harmony in your appearance
proving the connection between our personal coloring and seasonal color analysis. 

Meaning that by understanding the hue, value, and chroma of an individual's coloration,

we can identify which season colors share similar attributes.

thereby enhancing their most vibrant, youthful, and radiant appearance. 
 

Personal color harmony is beauty and balance, achieved by knowing your season
and by selecting and wearing clothing, hair color and cosmetics

with similar characteristics to our own skin tone, hair color and eye color.

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Tada! Color Analysis = Beauty & Style
 

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The Story Behind the 12 Seasons
The late Kathryn Kalisz, a Master Munsell Colourist, drew from both the science and the art of color theory
to create the revolutionary Sci\ART system of PCA combining science and art to relate to color analysis.

She refined the original four “true” seasons and added eight new neutral seasons 
that cover the full range of colors found in all human beings. 

 

When using the characteristics of color the seasons Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn
we can narrow down the hues that will best enhance your natural features.

 

The four original true seasons were each divided into three sub-seasons (echoing the three months of each season of the year) giving a more detailed description of colors belonging to each season by then categorizing colors into

BRIGHT, LIGHT, SOFT and DARK, the eight neutral seasons.  

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In the same way that Spring gradually turns into Summer, Spring colours mix with Summer colors
to create two Light palettes, Light Spring and Light Summer.

As Summer turns into Autumn, these palettes mix to create the Soft tones, Soft Summer and Soft Autumn.

Autumn turning into Winter creates the Dark seasons, Dark Autumn and Dark Winter.

Finally, Winter moving back into Spring creates the Bright palettes, Bright Winter and Bright Spring.

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The 12 seasonal color palettes harmonies perfectly to capture the essential colors of each month of the year.

 

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How a Season is Determined

HUE - Temperature (Cool vs. Warm)
 

Out of the three aspects, temperature is what you’re most likely familiar with, especially if you wear makeup. It’s the debate of undertones — warm versus cool. Do you look best in colors with a yellowish hue or grayish hue? Spring and Autumn are known as warm seasons while Winter and Summer are cool. Those who are strongly warm or cool are what’s known as "true seasons." 
 

Value (Light vs. Dark)

In short, value means light or dark. For this, you would look at your hair and eyes — not your skin. Bright blue eyes and blonde hair would be light whereas brown eyes and black hair would be dark. If you've got dark hair and eyes, you're going to be in harmony with darker colors.  If you've got lighter hair and eyes, you're going to be in harmony with muted colors. This will help to determine if you fall into the lighter seasons (spring and summer) or the darker seasons (fall and winter.)
 

Chroma (Soft vs. Bright)

Lastly, there’s chroma, otherwise known as saturation, which determines how bright or muted your features are. Someone with bright features would be described as piercing or striking. They can handle highly saturated colors, such as neon, without being overtaken by the strong hue. Someone with muted features would be described as soft or enchanting.
They look best in less-saturated colors that draw the eye to their face before their clothes.
 

 

 

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Color Analysis will Reveal
Cool - completely blue undertone

​Warm - completely yellow undertone

Neutral undertone - a blend of both cool and warm
 

What makes a color neutral, if warm colors have yellow undertones and cool colors have blue undertones?
Neutral colours have both. 

If you have a color with yellow in it, and a color with blue in it, and you mix them together,
you’ll end up with a color that contains both blue and yellow. That’s a neutral color.

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You can think of neutral colors as all the colors on the way from a completely cool color to a completely warm color.

If we mix colors from a cool tone (either True Summer or True Winter) with a warm tone (True Spring or True Autumn)
we create the colors that make up the neutral tones.

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For example...

Let’s mix True Summer pink with True Spring coral:

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