Our Eye Album: Spring
July 6, 2011 by Christine Scaman
No aspect of human form or colouring do I find more beautiful than eyes. The more photos I looked at, the more it seemed that such collectively splendid human truth should be compiled.
This is our family album, a celebration of the miracle of Nature’s creation. Let yourself be uplifted by the intricate simplicity of her use of colour, in our home planet as in our own body. I payed no heed to which PCA system determined Season, or how perfect the photographic conditions.
I am not attaching words except to say that eye colour and pattern are not sure guides to Season. Season, hair, and eyes come in any and every combination. As well, train yourself to look at everything in the photo. Notice the colour of skin, lashes, blood vessels, the rims of the eyelids, and the white of the eye.
A special tip of my hat to Color Me A Season founder Bernice Kentner who was first to deduce the eye colour and pattern association with Season. Her book, The Magnificent Eye, contains all the explanations you need to get started.
If you have pictures like these and know your Season, please do send them to me at christine@12blueprints.com and I will gladly add them.
Spring eyes have been a fascination to me in that they are barely ever what I expect. I cannot come up with a consistent pattern except the presence of yellow. Quite in keeping with the unpredictability of Spring. Line patterns in the iris may be very defined, to the point of crossing into Winter’s eyes. Lines radiating out from the edge of the pupil are more defined than Summer’s (often barely discernible), though less than Winter’s. There is often a lot of yellow, but not always, and not always organized as a ring in the iris. The yellow is usually yellow to strong peach, seldom an earthy orange-brown (which belongs to the Autumns), but sometimes the distinction isn’t so obvious.
Light Spring
Pure cool colours in the eye below, much more definite lines, Winter characteristics. But the skin is light yellow and so are the lashes.
See the yellow ring out in the iris?
Below, on a Summer base blue (little line detail, line-free ring around the pupil) there are brown flecks that seem Autumn, lots of yellow that’s not organized into a ring, and petal shapes that could suggest Winter. Eyes can be as misleading as helpful. They can give away too much about the real us, as we well know. The skin and lashes seem light, clear, yellow, and pink.
Notice what is so uniquely beautiful in the eye below: there are two rings of sunshine! One at the outer edge of the brown spacer round the iris and another at the outer edge of the iris, with many a sunbeam connecting the two rings. These eye photos just get better and better. The eye belongs to the very beautiful Light Spring woman in the light coral drape just under the eye. She and I both find it interesting that her facial structure resembles Louise’s in the article Louise And Stevan Are Light Springs (Light Spring eye 1 at the top belongs to Louise.) The haircolour you see is her natural colour. Her skin could not look more perfect.
We’ve seen so much variation in Light Spring eyes. I find Spring the most difficult Season to generalize regarding eye colours and patterns – in keeping with the unpredictable spontaneity of Springs, perhaps. The eye below seems to me more typical: the colour deposit or effect is light rather than intense; the skin is very young, glowing, pink and yellow both; lashes are light and contain yellow; there is an open area round the pupil with a faint line pattern only, a bit more defined than in a Summer; the definite presence of green which happens when Spring yellow is added to Summer’s blue eye base; and the unmistakable clear yellow beaming in the iris. The yellow is not intense, so this person may lean close to their cool Light Summer neighbor than to the warm side as the woman above does, in whose eye the colours are more saturated and more transparent.
The photo below shows so many interesting points. This woman was draped as a Light Spring in London by Nikki Bogardus. See how much more pigmentation there is than in the eye above? It’s uncommon to find such intensity of eye colour in the Light Seasons, and probably looks near electric when the clothes and cosmetics are light to keep the skin perfect. I wonder if she was created with more intense eye colour to balance her darker hair, again more value than is common in the Light Seasons. These unexpected findings make us unique, the gifts of our individuality that few others received, even within our Seasons. Notice also the orange-yellow colour clustered round the pupil – that could be misinterpreted as Soft Autumn, which is why it’s essential to be draped, to be surrounded by the most beautiful colours possible.
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True Spring
True to everything else about this Season, the eye pattern are the most unpredictable. What the cameras are picking up is amazing.
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Bright Spring
Eye patterns can seem so confusing, but in retrospect, once you know your Season, it can be so obvious. Bright Spring … the Season that combines a lot of Spring (seen in the yellow ring out in the iris, separated by a small distance from the edge of the pupil) and a little Winter (you can see that the spoke lines begin right at the pupil edge and go out to the outer edge of the iris). This skin isn’t very yellow or warm because Winter puts a lot of red here. But there’s Spring clarity in that eye, like beach glass.
The eye below contains a lot of Winter’s cooling and Winter geometry in the line patterns, as does the face it belongs to, with dark hair and still darker brows. The entire picture of the face is fresh, light, warm, and delicate, far more likely to be a Spring type than a Winter. Here, you see the yellow colouring of the skin next to the apparent coolness of the eye, already a very compelling effect. Add to that that some of the colours of the skin appear in the eyes. The photo captures the crystal clarity that human pigmentation can achieve. Did you notice the blue liner in the lower lid? Makeup that you see before the person isn’t my favorite, but this is subtle, interesting, and beautiful. The colour is young, clear, too playful to wear more obviously, but so happy and uplifting when applied this graceful restraint. We are so incredibly attuned to colour that the tiniest amount usually does the job better than applying more to be sure it will be seen. Trust me, we’ll see a speck and thank you for it.
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Related posts:
- Our Eye Album: Summer
- Our Eye Album: Winter
- Our Eye Album: More Beautiful Eyes
- Our Eye Album: Autumn
- The Brown-Eyed Spring
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Wonderful! The eye really is fascinating. Looking forward to seeing the other seasons.
Are the third and fourth pictures from a light spring and a bright spring?
The fourth is a Light Spring eye, it’s my eye
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Christine,
Would you please recommend an eyeliner for the second eye (the warm green one)? Thanks.
The neutral-gold color; is that what I hear people referring to as “topaz”?
Wow, this was eye-opening! I have been told I’m a summer, but that first gal’s eyeball is just like mine! I have that yellow burst around the pupil and a changing blue around that. I wish I could get draped, but do not live near anyone to do that. I am studying this site to see if I can find my own colors.
Do you do virtual help? I found you on Facebook and have been reading ever since….
What is the 5th eye?
Kay,
The 5th eye is Light Spring. Hover your mouse over them and it will tell you. I’ve reorganized them better, so the eye you ask about is now 4th, right?
Ashley,
The trouble with names for colours is that we both have a different colour in our head. Topaz makes me think of a yellow-green-brown that is more Spring than amber would be, and I could say that I see the colour in the now-4th eye .
I’m curious: what color hair does the person with the second eye (light spring 3 when I hover) have?