Colour analysis
Warm or cool undertone?
This is your palette
Undertone is the colour under the surface of your skin – golden, or pink and bluish – and a tan does not change it. It decides the first half of colour analysis: whether the warm palettes suit you or the cool ones.
Three tests you can do at home
- Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist in daylight: green-leaning veins point warm, blue or purple ones point cool.
- Hold gold and then silver jewellery against your skin: whichever makes it look even and clear, rather than sallow or grey, is your side.
- Compare a warm ivory with an optic white under your chin: warm colourings come alive in ivory, cool ones in the cleaner white.
If the tests disagree
Many people get mixed answers: the wrist says one thing, the jewellery another. That is a neutral undertone, and then your eyes and hair decide – which is what the quiz does when you tell it you are not sure.
The warm palettes
Light Springwarm, light and mutedTrue Springwarm, light and clearBright Springwarm, mid-toned and clearSoft Autumnwarm, mid-toned and mutedTrue Autumnwarm, deep and mutedDeep Autumnwarm, deep and clear
The cool palettes
Light Summercool, light and mutedTrue Summercool, light and clearSoft Summercool, mid-toned and mutedBright Wintercool, mid-toned and clearTrue Wintercool, deep and clearDeep Wintercool, deep and muted
How to find your palette
Colour analysis reads three things in your colouring: warm or cool, light or deep, clear or soft. The quiz asks about your eyes, hair and skin, looked at in a mirror by a window in daylight. It never photographs or scans your face, and the palette it finds is yours to keep.