The Emmas Are True Springs Part 2
August 11, 2011 by Christine Scaman
I’d like to recognize Maytee Garza of Reveal Style Consultancy for performing the analysis for the first Emma in this article, as well as the Emma from the previous article. Sincere thanks also to the women who allow photos to be used, providing us with a richer understanding of human colouring and its inevitable associations with our natural world. From me and every reader, know that we appreciate it.
In Part 1, we talked about the draping process and offered some makeup suggestions. Today, we’re on to the person, the hair, and the look.
In 12 Season personal colour analysis, True Spring is the springboard for the clear and warmed-by-yellow palette. Spring people in general have the attribute of looking young for their age for a lifetime. Youthful skin, pointed effects (like a heart shaped face), or upturned features (like Julie Andrews’ nose or the outer corners of Mrs. Laura Bush’s eyes) are often found in this Season and its five blends. When you’re reminded of faeries and elves, you’re often in the presence of Spring. It’s the cuteness sometimes, and more often the light humoured, lighthearted, easy possibility of magic. The whole thing – the lightest touch, the sprinkle of gold dust splashing from the end of a wand, the musical trill, and the reminder that life’s limits are all imagined. Spring is enchanted to the point of being not real.
I put thought into avoiding the stereotype pictures on this site. It uses up barely any mind space because those stereotypes are quite hard to find among real people. Today’s beautiful Emma may be more Spring-like, but I expect someone could have said Summer or even Soft Autumn. There are many Spring indicators. You see the sublime skin quality, poreless, flawless. Spring is able to illuminate the skin from within, like a light backlighting the face, better than any other group. The hair colour (more later) is strongly Spring. The warmest colours in a so delicately chiseled face – it’s not a big step to fairy princess. And of course, she is not yellow in True Spring’s drapes. Everyone else is, even the Spring blends, and I don’t mean just a bit yellow. Only a True Spring can clear the jaundice in those colours.
The Person
I once said about True Spring something like “I lost the keys, forgot the map, didn’t get money, but I’m ready to party. What are you so mad about?” But that was wrong, they’re not dizzy in the least. That was before I had ever analyzed any. This is much more of a “Come on, people, now, smile on your brother” personality.
I once expected this person to be a bit manic, like a day on a rollercoaster. I put too much emphasis on the stereotype, forgot to balance the picture, and came out with Goldie Hawn on Laugh-In. We all do this with the personality traits. Once I realized that my dentist is a True Spring and then I had analyzed some, I fixed that notion.
True Spring is a relaxed and peaceful individual, one who can hold the faith that the world can work in our favour. They are undeniably cheerful, but not cheerleader. They easily trust in the value of play rather than work. They are more informal and less sensitive and focused on the details than Summers. Winter’s drama and intensity of character are not here, and neither is Autumn’s keep-your-head-down-till-the-job-gets-done drive.
If they have trouble choosing, it’s because every choice is a good choice. They can see the positive side of anything. Spend a little time with them and you find yourself as contented by life’s little joys as they are. This isn’t a sugar rush. It’s a carefree optimist with a song going in their head all the time. A summer day, a pool, and a beer are enough.
The Hair
Remember that hair is the feature least tied to skin colour. Everything I say about hair colour goes after the disclaimer of Usually…
Besides covering grey, I can’t think of a time when chemistry improves base hair colour from what Nature gives us – and let me be clear that by improvement, I mean that the woman is receiving what she wants, which is to be not gray. I do not mean that coloured hair necessarily looks better. It does sometimes, and sometimes definitely not. It is a choice. The colour we had at 25 provides a good picture of believable hair colour on our adult heads, before many of us darken in our mid 30s. It is a flattering, low maintenance colour that we can wear well. Some look great with lights woven in, many don’t, in any Season. Highlights are not a necessity, just a marketer’s dream.
The hair base is beige, though may be dark. Emma has outstandingly beautiful hair colour, a very successful base colour for many True and Light Springs. There is warmth and weightlessness in this colour, a translucency compared to the heavy, rich warms of Autumns. This is not Grizzly brown. Many True Springs have darker hair, sometimes brown enough to cross over into Autumn type browns. Absolutely no absolutes with hair.
When red exists, it’s yellow-based, so carrot yellow-orange, not squash brown-orange. Nicole Kidman, not Miley Cyrus. Shiny brand new penny. A reader helped me with the information that this colour is called Venetian Red in some lines of hair colour. It has a peach quality, where you can feel the pinkishness. Gold in hair colour is a heavier warmth, not what any Spring blends strives towards.
Spring is all about light, more so than any other. Yellow hair, varied like the colour of PeachesNCream corn can work here, but I suppose we all outgrow it and its maintenance at some point. For many who have highlighted their hair for so long that they can’t recall the base colour and the whole head is a highlight, look at the nape of the neck. Reset the head to that, or a shade or two lighter. Weave in filaments of sparkle. Stop.
Grey can be a tough transition for the pure warms because it seems inherently cool. Lighten the highlights at this time so the grey disappears into them. Eventually, a creamy grey that’s not platinum like Helen Mirren’s could be gorgeous. When she wears a more a natural grey, she seems more Summer in some ways, but you can see the yellow in the skin. She may soften to Light Spring, may lighten and soften the makeup then too.
Hair styles are fun to think about, but depend on so many things. Spring hair is beautiful when it moves, when it makes light dance. Ponytails, layers, swingy bobs, lots of ways to do this. When I think it suits the person less is when it’s heavy and lies too flat, like the straightened hair so many young girls wear. Spring is so much about the celebration of life that hair should join the party.
Pixie hair styles suit pixie faces, as in the very adorable (big big Spring word) Michelle Williams.
Interesting thing to think about for a minute: wispy hair suits wispy faces, something I see a lot in Soft Summer (Shannon Is A Soft Summer) and Dark Winter (Victoria Beckham). There’s some overlap here, people you’d wonder which they are, like Winona Ryder or Katie Holmes. A digression.
The Look
This is the fun part. When the colours and styles you add to you are a natural extension of you, that’s when it feels most right to look at you (and to be you). How do you become a continuation of a crystal green sea, a cloudless day, of what this feels like?
Words like hibiscus, frangipani, bamboo, orchid, sun, palm, banana, reef. Heat, scent, and colour to load the senses, at no risk.
1. True Spring should always inject colour. Try a purple bar on rimless or half frame eyeglass frames instead of silver or gold. True Spring does things out of the blue. Colour shouldn’t be too safe, there’s no need for it. This is not the budgie, it’s the Scarlet Macaw.
2. Adds movement. Think about several beads dangling off a hoop earring, a few light shiny bangles, or a charm bracelet or necklace. Lots of ways to be imaginative and grownup at the same time.
3. The natural colouring doesn’t feel linear, serious, or hemmed in. Neither should the clothing. To adapt a menswear jacket, choose light crisp cotton with a sheen and a colourful fabric detail in the roll-up of the cuff.
4. Tunics, smocks, hippie stuff, embroidery, the whole Peace Free love& Sandy feet thing.
5. Jeans are bright and blue. Denim’s fadedness seems contradictory to Spring’s clarity. But denim is about relaxation and holiday. These are great, intended for fun and amusement, not weeding. They are neither overly faded (read grey) or dark.
Denim can be about work too, what makes it so versatile. Avoid rugged cuts and weights.
6. Fun and funky. Aviators, colour pops, oversized purses, colourful coats and footwear, this is who can wear them and look terrific.
7. Suits are light shining on grey, tans, and bright navy. PCA puts you very far ahead by just knowing what to not buy. Keep it light to medium in darkness. No steel, soot, scalpel, ice, or black.
8. Spring is warm but delicate, especially when the facial structure is as porcelain fine as our Emma’s. Her face so puts me in mind of a young Sissy Spacek. Though her intrinsic colours are hothouse blooms, a colour riot or a very bold design may overwhelm her. For all of us, our neutral greys, browns, taupes, and so on, are the anchors for the more animated colours. They help quiet multicoloured prints and often include our hair colour tones, toning the busy-ness and looking more organized. This tunic uses warm colour in a delicate way, has random not repetitive design, and has many angular effects, like wings.
9. The colour of the dress is fresh and green, like you’d find inside a greenhouse. Spring’s message expresses youth and movement very strongly, and this dress does both in the tiered ruffling, but toned down for a grown woman to wear.
Could the green be too blue? Maybe, might be good on a Bright Spring, or a True Spring on the cooler side of her Season. Not every item in stores will be perfect in every way, as you already know very well. A shiny gold necklace, a warm pink lipstick will pull it into True Spring.
We often talk on facebook about knowing whether you’re on the warm or cool side of your Season, since in the real world, you may have to compromise your palette in one direction or the other. The concept is confusing to many but needn’t be. Your Sci\ART draping makes it clear whether you tend warm or cool by which is your runner-up, second best Season. Just buy that Season’s Book to give you a very clear sense of its boundaries and how to make the crossover with your own Season. You’ll greatly expand your understanding of your own Season and make shopping all the easier
10. The jewelry – the person looks like happy magic and so should the jewelry. I loved this, on another True Spring, our third beautiful Emma.
The necklace detail,
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I love this! I want all your thoughts on the “Look” for True Summers!!!
This is spot on, Christine! Many of your remarks make very useful touchstones for us TSps — everything from “the hair base is beige” to “peace, love and sandy feet” to “happy magic” — these are phrases to bear in mind, especially for those of us who prefer to have words for the abstract.
I do wonder how much the personality parts of seasonal analysis initially drew from the ancient Greek doctrine of humorism — that humans are each governed by one of the four “humors,” or bodily fluids they were able to identify — so we have sanguine Springs (optimistic), phlegmatic Summers (quiet), choleric Autumns (forceful) and melancholic Winters? I might have the order of these wrong, but the basic idea seems to have persisted for thousands of years and is still around today in one form or another.
All the Emmas look amazing in “our” colours!
Your comments about buying the book of your second best season raised a question for me. My season was soft summer and second best was light summer. But, my understanding is that the seasons progress soft summer, true summer, light summer. So, if I’m looking for the boundaries to my season, which book would be best for me to buy?
Thanks
Thank you so much for the latest posts. As a Spring-type, I’ve found that using a shampoo with a blend of chamomile, marigold and/or citrus, brings out all of the golden-y, honey (the color of my hair as a wee girl) highlights beautifully. The shine from the citrus is great too. It’s a wonderful, inexpensive way to boost what nature has given us– especially if your hair has darkened in adulthood (I’m 32). Additionally, it is so nice in winter when my hair tends to get too dark and slightly drab. Shikai Gold is nice, Nature’s Gate makes a chamomile shampoo, and Now makes a citrus moisture shampoo with chamomile (all of these are paraben-free). Can anyone recommend a liquid eyeliner for Spring?
Isabella,
I also find the personality associations fascinating. I don’t know those 4 ‘humors’ exactly either, and they may be not be quite how I see the Seasons, but there is something to it. There’s more variability than predictability, but it’s fun to think about. It’s also easy to over-extrapolate – so I could say “Spring doesn’t take life so seriously”, but some will read frivolous which wasn’t my intention. I have yet to meet one that creates the drama around them than a Winter can though.
Denise,
According to Sci\ART’s system, and therefore to my experience, I have not seen the Soft Summer whose runner-up is Light Summer. It would T Su or SAutumn, so it would be one of those Books you’d have to help blend shopping decisions between Seasons.
Molly,
Thanks for the shampoo suggestions, that’s a really good idea for ‘boosting’ without looking harsh. I hope a reader can help with a liquid liner idea.
Sneza,
I’ll work on it. There’s probably a fair bit on TSu in the database, you probably already know this. Hover your cursor over “More Topics..” in the upper crossbars to see the dropdown.
Thanks so much for “happy magic”. Shopping for a True Spring a few days ago, I found myself repeating that phrase. It helped me pick a gift with the right vibe.
TSps looking for a warm red lipstick might want to look at J.Crew. This is the new Poppy King lipstick http://www.jcrew.com/womens_feature/NewArrivals/accessories/PRDOVR~52411/52411.jsp?srcCode=TBLR00043
I have seen it described by bloggers as a classic coral red — it’s also apparently more of a tinted balm than a full-on lipstick. I am starting to think that True Springs need to look for a translucent quality in makeup (and even in stones in jewelery) so I might even spend the $18 even though I can’t find any swatches of the color online.
Christine,
I think I remember that my (Sci/art) analyst removed true summer from consideration (we were down to the three summers) because the earlier “red drapes” had shown me to be a neutral tone. I didn’t see the true summer drapes as worse than the other two. Would taking the true season out of consideration have been a procedure different from how you were trained? (I guess I’m second guessing the choice because I didn’t see the comparison between soft and true summer.) Thanks for the work you do educating us all about color!
Isabella,
Brilliant about the Poppy King. I forgot all about that line. I looked at their main site. There are some simply fabulous colours there. Also brilliant about the translucency for Spring. I’d go further, all the way to transparency. I think it is an absolutely enormous element of Spring dressing – coloured glass beads and such. They are made for it. Their eyes look like that. Translucent might be perfectly suited to the Spring Summer blends where Summer’s haziness clouds things up a touch.
Denise,
I do things much the same way, take out the True Season, depending on how sure I felt about the neutral being much better than pure cool or pure warm. The red drapes never ever lie. They are always right. OK, I’ve learned not to say never and always, but in the 100 I’ve done, they have been right. Now sometimes, I’m a little torn between, say, neutral and cool – or else the client is unsure, so I’ll leave the True Season in. As you know, this PCA is extraordinary in its ability to check itself over and over. If there’s a conflict, it will be revealed later anyhow, so I don’t worry. I just keep going. The system allows you to check and recheck your data and conclusions in many ways, to confirm and convince.
Christine,
Thanks for sharing your experience, The red drapes were very clear that neutral was best in my case. So that makes me a soft summer leaning toward true. I’m also a darker soft summer. Looking forward to figuring out what that means for my dressing! I’m eagerly awaiting your book to help me with it. Hope it’s coming along well.
Re the translucency for TSp — I have often seen turquoise (the stone) recommended for Springs but have two problems with it: Often, it is too blue and not green enough to match the palette, or even to look suited to a gold setting, and it is a very opaque, solid-looking stone that does not somehow convey the right feel (“happy magic,” as Christine said!) Turquoise I think belongs in a silver setting, as we see in Navajo jewelery, etc. What season would wear such a dramatic look? I don’t know — maybe winter? After all, Navajo jewelery worn with black used to be a cliche for arty women of a certain age!
For TSp I am finding peridot, chalcedony, green onyx, etc provide options that seem to fit better. I really recommend Etsy as a site to find artisan-made jewelery — you can tailor your searches to find some really specific things, which is so helpful when you’re trying to pull together a seasonal look for yourself.
Thanks for interesting articles about springs! I’ve been color analysed both as spring and as soft autumn, and this article was helpful. I know you can’t tell anyone what season they are without a proper draping, but I’m interested to hear yours or anyone else’s thoughts on clarity versus softness of the skin. I find this interesting because this is an important difference between springs and autumns! I personally debate about wheather I’m more clear or soft – and to some people this might sound strange, but it’s not always that easy to tell clear from soft.
What I wonder is – what is it that we’re looking for when we identify clear/soft skin? The soft autumn palette looks super natural on me, and blends so well – but sometimes I feel it blends tooo well, that I almost disappear! But when I wear clear colors, I sort of feel like I come alive and the skin looks bright (and not pale!). But clear colors have always scared me, because I’m very light (natural blonde, low contrast, soft green eyes). So I’m still trying to figure out the clear/soft part. If anyone has any thoughts on this I’d love to hear them!
Lou — Maybe you’re a Light Spring?
I also think it’s important to look at the season’s neutrals since that is what the bulk of most peoples’ wardrobes consists of — so if you are feeling intimidated by the very brightest Spring colours remember that you certainly don’t have to wear peach, purple, yellow, aqua and lime all together! You can concentrate instead on building the core basics in the neutrals, which include some really gorgeous golden browns for example.
Lou, I don’t know if this will help – but you could try to think of clear skin as kind of translucent.
I always thought of my skin as olive, and a lot of the warm greens work really well for me (I have green eyes), however during my PCA I discovered that my skin more than anything has a transclucent quality to it. This is probably why a lot of colours look ok on me. I too felt that the soft autumn blended really well – I guess it was just more beige on skin which is kind of beige. But the right colours bring so much more than that. It is described in different ways by different people: clarity, alive, the face in High definition etc.
Lou – I’m blonde too and have greenish eyes, and I used to think that I was supposed wear light or soft colors. I thought that the I-have-just-been-sucked-dry-by-a-vampire-look was just natural for me. And the soft greens also seem to find something in my eyes. But now I know that bright colors gives me a much needed blood transfusion. I just still have to figure out the right balance. I also have very translucent skin. I don’t know if this helps you – I just know your confusion.
Christine, thanks for this beautiful article. You are so gifted!
I LOVE the way you describe hair colors for this season. It’s so true! Whenever I add “golden brown” or “golden blonde” to my hair, it looks matte. It’s just a tad too much of the wrong kind of warmth. It’s easy to fall into this trap due to earlier color analysis advice.
But like you say, the base is beige. NOT golden-orange. I am a red-brown Spring from Mother Nature. The fresh copper penny is a perfect description. (The roots are darker, though, like Emma’s)
Using highlights to cover gray works fine, but there is a fine line between losing the medium contrast level and looking too “light”. I use a light brown semi on my roots, but sometimes I have to soften the color by bleaching the ends (highlight kit) for 15 minutes only. This takes the dark edge away from the color and it looks very natural.
It was so relaxing to read this and it sparks the imagination =)
I was wondering what season Hillary duff and Lindsay lohan are True spring or True autumn?
I was also wondering why there are so few examples of celebrities who are true spring with green eyes? It seems like I see alot of True autumns with green eyes though. Is it very typical for true spring to have the blue eyes ,that even kind of jump out at you? I see other websites categorize Cameron Diaz as a Clear Spring but I agree that she is a True Spring.
Hi, Jkitten,
You know, I see both as Soft Autumns. Hilary is that blonde that isn’t a great blonde – she looks good with medium-darkness hair as many Soft Autumns do, as opposed to when it’s too dark, but I like it warmer. That square jaw makes me wonder about Autumn. But she may be a Spring, you’re right. I’ve never really looked at her in different colours. She has darkness in her eyes as I recall. Lindsay sure seems an Autumn of some sort, Soft or True.
Great point about the green eyed Spring. They absolutely exist, and hazel eyes too. I think we don’t see them much because such a small % of the population has been colour analyzed. There are many blue eyed T Sp, often it’s a turquoise blue because of all the yellow in it, but you won’t see that unless they’re wearing their best colours. Usually, it just looks like a blue eye. T Sp REALLY needs to be wearing their best colours for their appearance to be all that it could be. That jumping-out-eyes, I think you mean the whole clear-eyes are Bright Seasons belief, there’s no way I buy into that. You start looking at eyes thinking “Are those clear eyes? Are those? Now, those eyes aren’t jewel-toned, does that mean the person can’t be a Bright?” You go wandering down wrong-thinking paths.
For some reason I always assumed Lindsay lohan was a warm autumn,I can’t imagine non warm colors being her best,but im no color analyst.
So true spring can wear really blonde hair? or both TS and TA? You said SA look best with medium darkness. Do most TS’s have light to medium eyes? Are Julianne Moore and Marcia Cross True Autumns? I also was surprised to see someone analyze Christina Hendricks as a Soft summer..does that sound right? It would be nice for a True Spring to be able to see a celebrity who wasn’t always tan(Cameron Diaz),or always with lightened hair(Nicole Kidman). Thanks I really appreciate your help
What is a easy way to diffrentiate True spring and True Autumn I know some people are harder then others? Is there a trademark color for each they only look good in? or a trademark color they look bad in?
I wouldn’t say TSp could go really blonde; it would very likely depend on the person’s natural coloring. I suspect the first Emma would look ghastly if she went blonde, whereas her natural brown looks great on her.
I see LiLo as warm too. Many TSp can be very blonde, even fake yellow, but not every one of them. I think Nicole Kidman is a terrible blonde. Many are better in brown hair, their own natural colour.
TA are better as brown hairs. The natural colour is somewhere along the Jillian Michaels line. Some of them are great reds, like Susan Sarandon types. They never good blondes, or not one I’ve seen.
TSp can have light to dark eyes, sometimes brown or very green-yellow.
IDK about Julianne Moore and Marcia Cross. They’re always too made up with fake hair for to feel comfortable. Moore seems more Autumn to me.
True Season people are relatively more rare, and in Hollywood, they’re just turned into blondes.
There’s an article coming on True Spring hair.
TSp vs TA : mango vs curry ; orange creamsicle vs pumpkin ; citrus vs pumpkin.
Very interesting posts and discussions, but I think I’m a bit confused. Christine, I am wondering why you say that TA are never good blondes, since I’ve read on this site that any season can have any hair colour, and that your natural hair colour is always right. So it would follow that there could be some good blonde True Autumns, wouldn’t it?
Yes I agree I do not like Nicole Kidman with blonde hair it makes her face seem harsh,she looks great without it though. Thank you Christine
How bad does pink look on True Springs? Does it look bad,or does it just hold something back? I’ve scene someone think cool colors look good on a TS because of the paleness they add to the skin which they thought was
flawlessness form a good color.
You’re right, Seanne. It does follow. What I need to learn is to stop using the word never. I’ve seen red-headed True Winters, brown haired True Springs, flaxen haired True Summers,…there must be a NATURAL blonde True Autumn out there. And if there were, I hope I could honestly say that no other colour would suit her better or make her more unique. I doubt she’d have ashy blonde hair colour. So, what I should have said is “True Autumn should reconsider before adding yellow to hair colour, which is usually how hair is lightened, because the lightness doesn’t work if you’re naturally darker and the yellow won’t flatter a person who is by Nature golden-brown. If you’re going to add a cool blonde, that’s even worse for setting up many conflicts with your skin.”
I’d have to see the pinks you have in mind. Very warm yellowed pink, like pure coral, looks great on T Sp. In fact, it’s a staple blush and lip colour.
Yea sorry I meant to be more specific I mean cool pinks (fuchsia,hot pink,rose pink,baby pink,etc) because I know very warm pinks are good ^___^
Also you said you’ve scene brown hair true springs does that mean they are usually red? Or blonde? Or what?
I guess many True Springs make convincing blondes, I’m dark blonde myself. Have three suggestions for celebs who probably are TS, haven’t seen them listed anywhere, but I believe I see clearness, yellowness and medium contrast in them. Ke$ha (Kesha), who I am really really confident about, and Marilyn Monroe (black is no good on her and neither is very light colours, people seem to agree that she’s some sort of clear.) Both these girls had reddishbrown hair, before they got famous and bottle-blonde. And Beyonce maybe (or clear spring), I don’t think she can handle wearing black, but she seems higher contrast than my other two examples.
oh, and btw. Christine, could you please consider to make a “True Spring looking serious”-post? Don’t mind looking like a childish hippie in my everyday life, because that’s who I am, but sometimes we all need to look a bit more grown up. Feel like it would easier to achieve an appropriate, serious look in the elegant Light Summer colours, than in True Springs bold colours (this might apply for Clear Spring as well? Remember someone calling them “clown colours”).
Yea I guess TS’s or I guess holly wood thinks so. I’m a mixed hair color myself(Contrast level or a dark blonde or lightest brown but then I have a lot of red/copper in my hair,but then my hair lightens lots in the sun so my roots and tips are always different colors with my tips being some variation of blonde and the rest of my hair being another color that’s slightly darker. But the other confusing thing about my hair is despite the actual level of color it is it seems much darker to me when I see pictures.Most people call me a strawberry blonde/copper blonde,some even say light redhead. I guess the point of me talking about my hair color is. I was thinking it must be hard to get a true spring to who has red in their hair to be a golden blonde. Because with the amount in my hair if I bleach it,or even if I add blonde dye that’s a bit lighter then my natural shade no matter if its golden blonde or ash blonde I get no where near golden blonde. Strawberry at best. Yes I did lots of experimenting with colors growing up
Thanks Michelle for the three TS’s I will look at them. I do agree that Marilyn Monroe is Warm and clear and not light,probably not a Bright so true really could make alot of sense. I’ve scene her in a raspberry dress and it did nothing good for her. However I’ve scene coral and peach and they looked spot on. But I’d like to hear Christine’s opinion on it to
Christine: What season do you think Allison Mack is? I’ve been wondering for a while sometimes I think her coloring has something in common with my own.
Michelle:Yea I think Kesha is a True Spring to,but she could be a True Autumn. She seems very warm to me
I had to go looking for who Kesha is, tells you how old I am. I start at sites like this http://iamfahmi.blogspot.com/2011/01/when-they-were-young-singer.html to get some idea of what they really looked like before the blonde babe bandwagon got hold of them. I’m not so sure about Kesha as a Spring. I’d have to be open to Autumn. Eminem, now he looks like there’s some Spring in there, he has a lot of clarity and transparency in his colouring (not sure if he still does as an adult). Beyonce, IDK, always made me think more Autumn, I like her more in warm earthy-Bollywood (Autumn) colours than candy, popsicle, and lollipop (Spring) colours.
Allison Mack, now she was interesting for sure. She made me think of the Spring version of Jessica Simpson, like the younger, clearer, more fine-boned sister, so I could see Spring easily.
Which made me look at Jessica some more. Not good in dark or saturated colour. An ok blonde but not as good as ScarJo or Zellweger. For all her babe body, there’s some squaring of the face, made me wonder about Soft or True Autumn. It’s not that TSu’s femininity is weak, rather the reverse than TA is a little masculine of feature (even in women) which is why it comes across with such strength. She’s probably too good a blonde for TA. Not sure about Jess. She wears more candy colours and darks than soft earthy colours so I didn’t have many photos to compare.
Keep sending me these younger celeb ideas. I watch zero TV so I don’t know them. I’m still searching for the young modern T Su.
Yea Kesha and Beyonce do have a autumn influence to them for sure. Another website said
Jessica Simpson was a soft summer..but she could be a soft autumn.
Sara Paxton,Anna Sophia Rob,and Demi Lovato could be some celebrities you might look at. And I would also be interested to hear what you think they are to.
Do you think Christina Hendricks is a TS?
Paxton and Rob are more spring-like to my eyes.
Perhaps Rosamund Pike and Olivia Williams are TS? They are noticeably cool-toned, and they also have that refined bone structure.
^By TS, I meant true summer.
Is Michelle Tracktenberg a True Summer?
How can a True Spring wear black? Because I know I am supposed to wear my browns and beiges but honestly I still prefer black as my dark neutral and ivory as my light. I just don’t like how browns and beiges look on me,not that I don’t like them in general. So can I wear black as long as its not close to the face and good color is on as well?? Dark/true brown doesn’t bother me as much but beiges are pretty horrid on me I/friends/family think. When I can i find a warm charcoal type grey instead of a black and I do like that color,and its in my pallet. Thanks sorry If I rambled.
A T Spring that’s quite dark haired and eyed could manage black, I guess. But warm charcoal is a far better choice, as you say, just hard to find. I’d probably still pick any charcoal/dark grey as better than black, making sure it doesn’t have a blue tinge that would make it Summer’s.
Hi again Christine! It’s been a while, but I took a closer on Beyonce, and agree, she’s an autumn for sure.
However Kesha, she’s just got to be a True Spring (she’s the celebrity I always picture when I’m shopping, if different colours would be flattering on her). The link you posted of her as young with dark hair, that picture was really blurred. And I’ve seen some other, older pictures of her with that dark hair, to me it looks coloured, it seems to me like she had a “dark rocker”-period in her teensor something. (Looking at pictures of celebs as young to get more clues of their season can be quite helpful, but considering how common hair colouring is nowadays, maybe we should be open to the possibility that their childhood pictures may also show fake haircolour?). Here is a clearer picture of young Kesha, her roots look dark blonde in fact:
http://portraited.com/school-portraits/kesha-when-she-was-just-kesha
And look at this no-makeup-on picture. Imagine how vibrant she’d look in that yellow shirt, if you removed the autumny scarf:
http://www.ritmic.com/fotos/kesha-animal-musical/y-ahora-tik-tok.html
This picture. The lips! Could anyone but a True Spring pull them off? (Put your hand in front of the eyes, to really see how great it is):
http://www.glamour.com/beauty/blogs/girls-in-the-beauty-department/2012/03/poll-is-this-makeup-on-kesha-a.html
So, what do you think?
You know, Michelle, with beauty questions, at some point, tastes diverge. About that bright lipstick, I don’t find she does pull it off so well. It’s the first thing you see. Then you drag your eyes away and they land on the hair. To me, she is not a comfortable blonde (not every T Sp is though). Then we see the eye glitter. Finally, finally, you see the woman under all the stuff. When 2 things don’t belong together, they push each other even further in the opposing directions, like repelling magnets. What’s interesting is that her eye is now screaming of muted-ness. It is hazy and cloudy, without the coloured glass transparency of a Spring. Moves me along to Soft Summer, that particular eye.
Michelle, Christine: cant be Kesha some lighter version of Soft Autumn?
For sure, yes, Maja. Those eyes could very easily be SA. And if you picture her real hair colour, I bet she’s not even that light. Good call.
Hi again! True, so true, with beauty that tastes diverge. Good point about the eyes.. Hmm.. Well I’m certainly no expert, and with celebs we’ll never really know for sure.. I guess it’s partly because of Kesha musical universe that I’m so convinced she’s a Spring. It’s happy playaround magic-time music
Hi Christine
I’m curious about this: “Spring is able to illuminate the skin from within, like a light backlighting the face, better than any other group”. Are all groups able to do this, but Spring better than others, or does this just not happen on some?
I ask because I would be looking for this effect as the outcome of pca. I’ve seen it on myself twice, and ever since have been trying to find more colours that do that, without success. I wanted to buy a fan so I could find those colours, and have tried matching the colours I was wearing on those days to a season in any system, but I haven’t worked it out. The colours looked neutral-cool, soft and light. Soft Summer looks too dark, Light Summer looks too bright.
I have a pca in a week and a half to sort it out once and for all. But your comment made me wonder – does having seen that backlit skin effect (it was very dramatic) suggest to you a Spring blend? I’ve seen it once on my sister too, but not on anyone else. Do you aim to see that effect when you do a pca?
Thank you, by the way, for your wonderful blog
I can’t stop reading! I’ve ordered your book and I can’t wait for it to arrive! 
Sarah,
The Spring group is defined by clarity, and in my head, to some extent, by transparency of texture. Their eyes don’t intensify in colour or shape, they sparkle. So it is a Spring thing, but in any colouring, once shadows are removed and skin is evenly coloured and smooth, it will appear illuminated. I couldn’t draw a Spring conclusion from the effect you noticed, and even if I did, remember that there are 5 Seasons under Spring influence.
Thanks Christine
One more question – if you could only buy one fan, and you were using it ONLY to match makeup, not clothes, would you get a 12 tone or Indigo tones fan?