True Winter
As a True Winter, the key features of your colouring are:
Cool colours based in blue, red, and purple • Pure, clear colour pigments • Span from white to black
When you shop...
- You will never get a 'farm' feeling from True Winter, and nor do the colours feel playful. For a True Winter, your colours look like jewel tones.
- Don't invest in colours that are dusty or heathery, faded, or have a harvest or rusty feel.
- Focus on bright colours. Bright means pure pigment, without visible gray from mixing colours. It doesn’t mean neon. Shine is optional.
- Be flexible about the lightness or darkness of individual items, aiming for an overall medium-light to fairly dark level.
- Look for your black – true black, which may look a little purple or intensely black-brown.
- Look for grays that remind you of ice, crystal, iron, stainless steel, and charcoal.
- Look for your white – true white, which may look a little blue but doesn’t have to as long as you don’t see orange, green, or yellow in it.
- Your lightest colours are icy clear (avoid light + muted = pastel), in the coolest variation of each colour.
- Use the technique demonstrated by your colour analyst for checking colour coolness (hue). Coolness is the most important property of the colours that flatter you. Getting the coolness level right is hard to 'guesstimate' without comparing to a fan.
