What Season Am I?
Your color season is the group of colors that suit your natural coloring. It is decided by three things: whether your skin is warm or cool underneath (undertone), how light or deep your overall coloring is (value), and how bright or soft it is (chroma). The standard system sorts everyone into twelve seasons, grouped into four families — spring, summer, autumn and winter.
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The season name is a label, not the point. What you actually want is the palette: the specific colors that make your skin look even, your eyes look clearer, and shadows under them look lighter than they do in the wrong color.
Most people arrive here having already guessed. The guess is usually based on hair color, which is the least reliable signal available — hair can be dyed, and plenty of people have hair that belongs to a different family than their skin. Undertone is what decides it, and undertone does not change.
The second most common mistake is assuming that "looks good in black" means Winter. Black suits four of the twelve seasons and actively works against most of the rest. If black makes you look tired, that is information, but it points away from Winter rather than toward it.
The three questions that decide it
One. Are you warm or cool? Hold gold and silver jewelry either side of your jaw in daylight. One will look like it belongs to your skin and the other will look like it is sitting on top of it. If gold wins you are in spring or autumn; if silver wins you are in summer or winter. See the full undertone test if it is genuinely close.
Two. Are you light or deep? Look at your coloring as a whole — skin, hair and eyes together, not separately. Does it read as light and low contrast, or deep and strong? Squinting at a photo of yourself helps, because it removes detail and leaves value behind.
Three. Are you bright or soft? Do clear, saturated colors look right on you, or do they overpower you? If people describe your best colors as "rich" you are probably bright. If the colors that suit you are the ones others call muted or dusty, you are soft.
Those three answers land you in one of twelve. (If you have seen a sixteen-season system elsewhere and are wondering which to use, that is covered in 12 vs 16 seasons.) Run the analyser above if you would rather not guess.
The twelve seasons
Every season below has its full palette, its true neutrals, gold or silver, and what to avoid — with the reason why.