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Seasonal Color Analysis for Makeup: Find Your Perfect Makeup Colors

01 Apr 2025

If you spend a lot of time on TikTok, you’re almost certainly familiar (at least in passing) with seasonal color analysis. The trendy practice involves categorizing people into color seasons based on their unique features. Proponents of the practice claim that determining your color season is the key to finding colors that best flatter your complexion. Naturally, makeup and seasonal color analysis go hand-in-hand—knowing which category you fall into can help you find the perfect lip gloss for your complexion or narrow down your search for the best blush to make your cheeks pop. If you’re new to seasonal color analysis, don’t worry. We’re explaining everything you need to know ahead and offering a look at some of the best makeup products to use to enhance your natural beauty.

What Are Color Seasons?

Seasonal color analysis is a practice that involves categorizing people into seasonal color palettes based on their eye, skin, and hair color. There are four main color seasons: Spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each season is further divided into three subcategories based on your skin’s underlying hue (warm, neutral, or cool), the amount of contrast between your features (low, medium, or high), and chroma (bright, medium, or muted).

Color season subcategory factor: Hue

Hue refers to your overall undertones, which can generally be classified as warm, neutral, or cool. Those with warm skin typically have yellow or gold undertones, while those with cool skin boast pink or bluish undertones. If you have neutral skin, you’re neither warm nor cool, but somewhere in the middle.

Color season subcategory factor: Contrast

Contrast refers to the difference in color between your skin, hair, and eyes. High contrast means that your skin, hair, and eyes are all starkly different shades—for example, you have naturally fair skin with dark eyes and hair. If you’re low contrast, your skin, eyes, and hair are all similar in tone. Medium contrast is the middle ground—your features stand out, but the contrast isn’t significant.

If you’re unsure of your contrast levels, snap a picture of yourself in natural lighting, then convert the picture to black and white. From there, use your phone’s color-selection tool to identify the lightest color in the photo and the darkest color in the photo. If the two colors are extremely different, you likely have high contrast levels. If there’s a difference between the shades, but it’s not extreme, you’re probably medium contrast. And if the hues are very close in tone, you’re almost certainly low-contrast.

Color season subcategory factor: Chroma

Chroma, also known as saturation or intensity, defines how pure or muted a color appears. It is described as muted (soft, grayish colors), medium (neither too bright nor too soft), and bright (vibrant, clear colors).

How Do I Find My Color Season?

Doing an accurate color season analysis involves analyzing your skin color and undertone. If you’re warm-toned, you’re either an autumn or a spring. Cool undertones suggest you fall into the summer or winter categories.

From there, assess your contrast levels and chroma to help narrow down your sub-season. A high contrast level typically suggests you fall into the “bright” subcategory. If you’re low-contrast, you’re likely in the “muted” category. Those with medium contrast features usually fall into the “true” category, meaning your coloration aligns very closely with your color season.

You can also try doing a drape color analysis by comparing different colors against your face to observe which ones make you look vibrant and which ones make you appear washed out. The ones that make you look your best will be the hues that make up your season’s color palette.

If you’ve tried the above and you’re still wondering “what is my color season?”, know that you’re far from alone—there’s an entire industry dedicated to helping people figure out exactly where they fall on the spectrum.

Makeup by Color Season: Spring

When doing makeup, color analysis can help you narrow down which hues look best on you. The spring season palette is characterized by warm-neutral undertones and medium to light overtones. Imagine a lush, blooming meadow in full spring—those vibrant, colorful hues are the backbone of your color palette.

Bright spring makeup

Bright spring features are warm and have high contrast. If you fall into this category, your skin is golden in tone, and your natural hair color is likely a sunny blonde, coppery red, or golden brown. You may have blue, green, hazel, or light brown eyes. Those in this color season tend to look best in bright, vibrant makeup colors, such as corals, tangerines, and metallic golds. Pops of bright green and yellow can also be flattering, especially for a bolder look.

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True spring/warm spring makeup

True spring features have noticeable contrast and tend to be warm in tone (which is why they’re sometimes referred to as warm spring). Those in this color season might have golden skin, golden or honey hair, and warm green or brown eyes. True springs look radiant in warm, sunny, and earthy shades, such as terracotta, warm brown, apricot, and peach.

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