Colours For Your Complexion: Spring

It's time for the last instalment in our Colours For Your Complexion series! Today, we're featuring the most flattering shades for all you Spring ladies out there. Like their autumnal sisters, women with Spring complexions have warm as opposed to cool undertones -- think golden/olive as opposed to pink/blue. The main difference, however, is that Springs tend to have lighter hair and eyes, while Autumns are usually dark-eyed brunettes.

You're probably a Spring if you can identify with most of these characteristics:

Skin: Anything from creamy ivory to deep olive.
Hair: Typically blonde or red, but even if it's dark, will tend to have golden/reddish highlights.
Eyes: Tend to be clear and bright -- blue, green, grey, or a "bright" hazel.

You Look Best In: Light, warm-toned colours.

You Can Look Washed-Out In: Dark shades, and some bright, cool-toned hues.




Best Colours For Springs
































And that wraps up this series! What season do you fall under?! For a recap of the other three seasons -- Winter, Summer, and Autumn -- see here.

Colours For Your Complexion: Autumn

Over the past few weeks, we've shared some of the most flattering colours for those with Winter and Summer complexions -- now it's your turn, Autumns! Those whose colouring falls under this category have warm as opposed to cool undertones (think golden/peach rather than pink/blue), and a low level of contrast between hair and skin. 

You're probably an Autumn if you can identify with most of these characteristics:

Skin: Peach, olive, golden brown. Even if your skin is on the lighter side, you tend to tan easily and rarely burn.

Hair: Naturally, hair can be anything from strawberry blonde to chestnut brown to black.

Eyes: Generally, Autumns tend to have eyes on the darker side -- brown, black, or a soft, muted green or hazel.

You Look Best In: The rich, warm colours typically associated with the season autumn. Soft earth tones also look great on you. 

You Can Look Washed-Out In: Bright, vivid colours with cool undertones, and some pastels. 




Best Colours For Autumns

Next week is your turn, Springs! 

Colours for Your Complexion: Summer

Welcome to the second instalment of our "Colours for Your Complexion" series! This week we'll be focusing on the best colours to wear for those of you who fall under the Summer category. Like Winters (who you can read up on here), summer complexions have cool as opposed to warm undertones -- think blue/pink rather than golden/peach. Unlike their wintry brunette sisters, however, Summers tend to be natural blondes (or at least they were as children). 

You're probably a Summer if you can identify with most of these characteristics:

Skin: Fair, with blue or pink undertones. You tend to burn easily. 
Hair: Anything from white blonde to medium brown. 
Eyes: Tend to be on the light side -- blue, green, grey. 

You Look Best In: Pastels and dusty, muted shades.
You Can Look Washed-Out In: Bright, intense colours, earth tones, and black. 




Best Colours for Summers

Next week is your turn, Autumns! 

Colours for Your Complexion: Winter

We're excited to share the first instalment in our new "Colours for Your Complexion" series today! You've probably heard of the whole "what's your season?" thing, and over the next four weeks, we'll be giving a breakdown of which colours look best on which seasonal categories of complexions.

There are four basic types -- Winter and Summer (cool tones) and Autumn and Spring (warm tones) -- which can each be broken down into further sub-categories (we won't be going into that depth for this series, but you can read more about the 3 types of Winters here if you're interested). 

Basically, if your skin has a pink or bluish cast to it, then you're a cool tone; if it's more golden, you're warm. If you've got light to medium skin, you can also determine your type by what colour your veins are: cool tones tend to have bluish-purple veins, while warm tones often have greenish ones. 

While I love most colours and kind of hate the idea of barring some from my wardrobe because they don't suit my skin type, I know that certain shades just look so much better on me than others. I'm a Winter, and in general, I find bright, cool jewel tones work best for me -- they liven up my (often pasty) skin, while drab earth tones have a tendency to wash me out. Over the years, I've fake tanned and dyed my hair (under which circumstances I can pull off other shades), but in my natural state, I'm a definite Winter.

If you're a fellow Winter, you'll probably have these characteristics:

Skin: Cool undertones (blue/pink). Skin can range from very pale to very dark.
Hair: Generally, Winters have dark hair.
Eyes: Anything goes really! Winters can have anything from pale blue to dark brown/black eyes.

You Look Best In: Bright jewel tones and icy shades.
You Can Look Washed-Out In: Earth tones and nudes.

Best Colours for Winters

Next week is your turn, Summers!