Warm Spring is a designation from another PCA system, Color Me Beautiful. I don’t use that category at all. Warm and Clear Spring are different, as is True Spring, and no, you would not be more than one at at time. Look through Lora’s site at http://www.prettyyourworld.com for photos and good explanations.

Choosing best hair for the Springs is challenging because of the frequency of red hair, like Nicole Kidman. If your hair is brown, then Scarlet Johanssen or Uma Thurman’s natural hair colours are good (do a Google search of their name and look through the Images for a colour that doesn’t look dyed).

A Bright Spring could be Audrey Tautou or former US First Lady Laura Bush – there is very wide variability in this group. They can look very Winterish.

Thanks for those makeup suggestions. It is difficult indeed to find color clarity for Spring but it is there. I find Estee Lauder does some of the clearest colour, though MAC has several.

When I make those palettes, I match them to the swatch book, but it will look different on other systems, more so than one would expect. For that reason, I don’t overfuss with it. Just trying to give you a collective visual to shop with, rather than belaboring each square of color.

Agreed about the appearance of makeup in different lighting. I thought about that, but for myself, most days I don’t worry too much. I wonder if the brain of the viewer makes the adjustment, just as we do automatically when looking at white surfaces that are really seldom truly white. Evening light certainly needs an adjustment.

Ashley,

I looked at Revlon glosses. Makeup you can’t test has wasted me more $$…I bought it hoping and certain it would be good, just to be disappointed. I wanted to swatch the Colorburst series you mentioned on Fb, but no testers at CVS or Target. They also had no tester for the Bright Winter/Spring color you wondered about. Jeez.
Testing them myself, and daylight are my new prerequisites for all makeup. It’s another shopping mistake looking for a time to happen otherwise. I looked at a lot of makeup though, and I’ll post it over the next few days at Fb.

Most makeup sites don’t talk much about how light influences our best makeup colors. I find it extra hard trying to wear roses on overcast and gray days. The slightest coolness in the colors show up then, and even my best pinks might look “a tad too cool”. On those days, the bright peaches are much better. And the warmer, the better! Then, on the other hand, a sunny day allows for roses and pinks as long as they are on the warm side. This applies to evening light as well. My pinks and rosy lipsticks look a tad better than the peaches in evening light since this light tends to be on the very yellow side. I look brighter in the pinks then.

Beauty By Jeunique’s collection for Springs is great on me. Their foundation X3245 in Rose Beige is excellent, the best I’ve ever had. Nice lipstick shades from other brands: Nivea’s 17 Melon, Lumene’s 12 So Energetic and Max Factor’s 21 Pearl Orange.

And thanks for this series – I’ll be very interested to see each and every season in this format.

Could I also request that when you have completed all 12 seasons you show them in a KalraSugar style recap, all together? I think that it will be amazingly informative!

Thanks!