What do you think about natural hair color changes affecting season?
Kids' hair darkens as they get older; gray/white hair changes your overall color palette; since reddish hairs tend to gray fastest, aging probably turns some "autumns" into "winters".
i think you're right, natural hair color changes mean something different than dye
i've been a big believer in "type only by the skin, ignore hair & eyes, dial in the skin" so this is tough for me & i want to maintain my beliefs by saying these changes always go w changes in skin tone but ultimately i don't really have reason to stand by that
i like summer & winter palates a little more than autumn & kind of look forward to going grey if it works all silvery like my mother's--my couple of greys coming in are very promising in that regard
Can here to comment on aging! I was always pale with very dark hair as I get older I am getting greyer and have more pigmentation on my face. I go through phases where I dye my hair just so my wardrobe of winter focused high contrast outfits still work. But I am excited to play with slightly different colors once I'm all silver.
Truth is Beauty subdivides each of the four seasons into three parts, for a total of 12, each season having one part at the true centre of the season and two at the edges, fading into other seasons… and does NOT name them for the months of the year. This is driving me into paroxysms of furniture-chewing rage.
(Though it would need to vary by hemisphere, so perhaps that's for the best.)
hm thinking more abt months & the thing is that september october & november accurately describe the types pf autumn & june july august kinda get the types of summer, but december january february march may & arguably april really dont go where they should ykwim
This makes sense to me if I think of the entirety of the clothed as a quartet playing various pieces… same instruments but different tempo, rhythm, genre, light. A jazz kaleidoscope.
This whole thing I encountered once in the mid 1990s irrc and completely discarded on the grounds of suggesting that I couldn't wear black, which was what I mostly wore, and for which I most definitely needed to have mascara/ eyebrow colour but otherwise seemed to work fine. But maybe it's time to give it another go, even if in the spirit of astrology and MBTI.
As to changes: tan most definitely changes things massively. There are colours that I look positively good in when tanned, but DREADFUL when all the tan is gone. This effect seems to have got stronger with age, though maybe it's because I used to wear foundation etc face products when young.
Hair I have scant experience changing without skin changing - so I suspect that it's tan rather than my hair going from light blonde to (almost) platinum that makes that summer difference.
I'm not sure about age. I certainly seem to be able to not just wear but really suit a much larger range of greens than in my youth. But it's not impossible that those greens I am wearing now just didn't occur in the wild then.
Now I've been and died on the first hill as basically (in accordance with what you say actually) my sun-touched hue is most definitely warm (even a touch of sun gives my skin a truly gold undertone, and when tanned it intensifies) and my pale sunless hue is most definitely quite disgustingly cool pink on sort of deathly lardy-white.
I think I would need to do two and as even one seems like quite a chore, I maybe will stick to my decision from 30 years ago.
I still don't quite understand what the benefit to this is as compared to just trying things on.
i feel like the benefit is there just so many things to try on and color seasons helps one think about clothes less ultimately. or should that is their telos
What do you think about natural hair color changes affecting season?
Kids' hair darkens as they get older; gray/white hair changes your overall color palette; since reddish hairs tend to gray fastest, aging probably turns some "autumns" into "winters".
i think you're right, natural hair color changes mean something different than dye
i've been a big believer in "type only by the skin, ignore hair & eyes, dial in the skin" so this is tough for me & i want to maintain my beliefs by saying these changes always go w changes in skin tone but ultimately i don't really have reason to stand by that
i like summer & winter palates a little more than autumn & kind of look forward to going grey if it works all silvery like my mother's--my couple of greys coming in are very promising in that regard
Can here to comment on aging! I was always pale with very dark hair as I get older I am getting greyer and have more pigmentation on my face. I go through phases where I dye my hair just so my wardrobe of winter focused high contrast outfits still work. But I am excited to play with slightly different colors once I'm all silver.
re: your footnote... please write the makeup post too <_< I would upgrade to paid for that lol
you should go to truth-is-beauty.com & read her content esp about style analysis & makeup
thank you! will def check out. I find all this fascinating.
more esoteric aesthetic commentary tbh
so, how do I figure out what's my color season?
Truth is Beauty subdivides each of the four seasons into three parts, for a total of 12, each season having one part at the true centre of the season and two at the edges, fading into other seasons… and does NOT name them for the months of the year. This is driving me into paroxysms of furniture-chewing rage.
(Though it would need to vary by hemisphere, so perhaps that's for the best.)
sounds like it's time for you to come up with your own color analysis system
I mean, I do have one, but it has a rather different goal. There are two types of colours:
- Dull colours: dark green, brown, beige, grey, black.
- Bright colours: everything else, especially white.
Dull colours are usually best. Bright colours should only be worn in one case: namely, when you're not birdwatching.
hm thinking more abt months & the thing is that september october & november accurately describe the types pf autumn & june july august kinda get the types of summer, but december january february march may & arguably april really dont go where they should ykwim
"(I think I’m getting rationalism vs empiricism slightly wrong & also this is absolutely not the terminology most color analysts would use here). "
Perhaps ur diggin into prescriptivist vs descriptivist mindsets? ultra-nuanced Jung and Strict ruled Freud.
ig what im saying is that some color analysts think you can “figure it out” & some thinj uou have to “check”
This makes sense to me if I think of the entirety of the clothed as a quartet playing various pieces… same instruments but different tempo, rhythm, genre, light. A jazz kaleidoscope.
This whole thing I encountered once in the mid 1990s irrc and completely discarded on the grounds of suggesting that I couldn't wear black, which was what I mostly wore, and for which I most definitely needed to have mascara/ eyebrow colour but otherwise seemed to work fine. But maybe it's time to give it another go, even if in the spirit of astrology and MBTI.
As to changes: tan most definitely changes things massively. There are colours that I look positively good in when tanned, but DREADFUL when all the tan is gone. This effect seems to have got stronger with age, though maybe it's because I used to wear foundation etc face products when young.
Hair I have scant experience changing without skin changing - so I suspect that it's tan rather than my hair going from light blonde to (almost) platinum that makes that summer difference.
I'm not sure about age. I certainly seem to be able to not just wear but really suit a much larger range of greens than in my youth. But it's not impossible that those greens I am wearing now just didn't occur in the wild then.
Ok, ok I'm.gling to that other website.
Now I've been and died on the first hill as basically (in accordance with what you say actually) my sun-touched hue is most definitely warm (even a touch of sun gives my skin a truly gold undertone, and when tanned it intensifies) and my pale sunless hue is most definitely quite disgustingly cool pink on sort of deathly lardy-white.
I think I would need to do two and as even one seems like quite a chore, I maybe will stick to my decision from 30 years ago.
I still don't quite understand what the benefit to this is as compared to just trying things on.
i feel like the benefit is there just so many things to try on and color seasons helps one think about clothes less ultimately. or should that is their telos