Personal Colour Analysis

My friend asked me and our common friends to spare some time for her preparing for the exam to become a qualified 'personal colour analyst'. Do you know what it means? It's an analysis to find out which colour group suits you the best. It's not simply red or blue or green. There are different tints of red, blue, green and so on, and each tint is divided into 4 groups; spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring and autumn colours are yellowish group of colours: for example, spring pink is not pastel but shocking pink, autumn green is not peppermint but olive green. The purpose for this analysis is to know which colour group helps you to look more attractive, healthy and younger, and which ones make you look tired, sick or older, so you can apply this theory to your daily fashion. My friend would like to be a specialist for such a sort of thing.

The test itself is on a one-to-one basis. At first, you will be told which colour group, yellowish or non-yellowish, you belong to, according to your basic skin colour, the hue of your eyes and hair. Then, you will see which colour group within the category of yellowish or non-yellowish suit you better. For this, the analyst will put pieces of fabric of different colours on your chest and see how each of them matches your face.

The girl who had a go first was told to be 'yellowish', and the would-be colour analyst checked which suited her better, spring or autumn colours. She was obviously an 'autumn' person, as it was clear enough even for us amateurs.

Now, my turn. I was told to have a rosy complexion, so I wasn't 'yellowish', meaning I would belong to either summer or winter. But when she was checking summer and winter colours on me, she seemed confused. She said that both of them looked fine on me, so she couldn't decide if I was summer or winter. As getting confused, she also tried to put spring and autumn colours on me to find out if the first decision was wrong. She and the others agreed that neither of them looked wrong on me, but perhaps 'non-yellowish' would slightly be better. So, we went back to the starting point, and compare the summer and winter again… then confused again.

Actually, before we started it, I asked her if the test result would stay the same throughout your entire life. According to her, it would basically be the same, and the only exception would be when you got very old, like twenty becoming eighty. But for my test result, she said, 'Well, I would say summer for this time, but please, please let me try again sometime later!' So, my result might be revised soon? But it was fun anyway, and I’m happy to have known that I could basically wear any colours.