There is a relatively simple method to navigate the problems of color: the so-called theory of the seasons .  It comes from the fact that all people are divided into four color types (as well as own paint) on the seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter .  This theory will help you to define your own type of coloring your hair, eyes and skin, and the example of primary colors - red, blue, green - show what the nuances of these colors are good for you personally .  Here you will learn in the future on their own to judge whether the approach of any hue to your style .  The very awareness will bring you much pleasure .  Especially if success is clear: all things to your wardrobe will fit together .  I would only note that the use of tsvetotip can sometimes cause discomfort, even if the type is defined correctly and colors podobranny thereunder .  This is because in addition to the standard four tsvetotip, there are subgroups .  For example, the summer can be a non-contrast and contrast: And so with each Description .  And it is often important & lt; disturb & gt; tsvetotipa rules, if required by the concept of individual style, developed literate stylist-image-maker .  But it is - a topic for conversation .  In the meantime, let's get a basic knowledge tsvetotip .

It's all about the nuances

Each type can carry all colors (with rare exception) - though not in all the nuances, but only those that correspond to the type - this guideline practice of color recommendations. With the disposal of millions of different shades of colors, you can not choose for themselves suitable, not possessing the known systematics. This taxonomy is, and well designed.

It is based on a relatively simple situation: there are three basic & lt; color & gt; colors - yellow, red, blue - and three & lt; not colored & gt; (achromatic) - black, white, gray. All other colors are only nuances and combinations of these primary colors. At the same time significantly following division:

• Combinations, which are dominated by red and yellow undertone warm
• Combinations with a large share of blue midtone perceived as cold

The basis of the recommendations of color theory seasons

This separation is used in the theory of the seasons. It comes from the observation that the ratio of warm and cold colors in nature is characterized by changes from one season to another: warm (spring) - cold (summer), warm (autumn) - cold (winter).

• spring especially a lot of yellow paint on the basis of
• in the summer, on the contrary, a lot of blue, and even faded from the heat
• autumn dominated earthy warm tones.
• winter cold again, this time in clear distinct nuances.

All the nuances of one season in harmony between soboy.Vtoroe important provision theory of seasons is that all the nuances of one season on the basis of the same yellow, red or blue mix well. From this simple fact should be a wonderful harmony of color, which is our nature in all its times. We should learn from it, if we want to make the same impression of a harmonious combination of its own type of clothing and cosmetics.

Color type define our pigments

Learn this easy, because what underlies the harmony of nature, form and color of the body (skin, eyes, hair).

In its natural form they are also in perfect harmony with each other. Here, too, can be divided into four groups, which are based either on the dominant yellow-red colors (warm) or blue (cold). This parallel and led to the method of color units on the types of people by analogy with the seasons in nature and allowed to rank you in the spring, summer, autumn or winter.

The main question: what is your type?

The most difficult thing - it is right to establish their own style. Who consider themselves - in the spring? in summer? in the fall? in the winter? At the first stage the main thing - to identify warm or cool color direction sets the tone for all the colors of your body. Look, whether your skin is probably warm, reddish-yellow undertone or cold, bluish-pink? In the second stage you will need to find out brightly colored or slightly pigmented colors (cold or warm tones, respectively) are more suited to your individual color. Can help bandanas in the characteristic for each season colors of red, blue, green, yellow, purple and brown. The impact that has on your complexion (no makeup), cold or warm nuances of these colors, and allows you to identify you with any type.

• If the attached color matches the type, the skin appears soft and fresh, her lips seem naturally red, circles under the eyes or red prozhilochki become imperceptible, eyes get glitter and you become brighter and more beautiful.

• If the attached nuance is not in harmony with your type face seems tired and pale, his lips turned blue seem, circles under the eyes and prozhilochki becomes noticeable, eyes swimming, the skin may appear red, chapped.

The first determination step

It's not so easy to come to a final conclusion. But there is one simple test case that can hold and laymen, and which will, at least, to judge, to the warm type (spring / fall), or you belong to a cold (summer / winter). For this test, you need two headscarf - one bluish-pink, another yellow-salmon-pink. Or two large sheets of paper of these colors. Both samples in turn puts in the light of the day to the face and hands. Once again:

• You belong to the type of spring or autumn, if your skin is the proximity of a bluish-pink becoming pale and her lips become deathly blue. Pink salmon, in contrast, will make your skin fresh and healthy, and its golden hue becomes clearly.
• If you belong to the type of winter or summer, your skin near the blue-pink seem fresh, then as a yellowish tone salmon will make your skin tired and prozhilochki and circles under the eyes will immediately become visible.

Once you have found a warm or cold tones harmonizes your skin remain to be clarified, to which type of warm or cold tones you can include yourself. By the spring or autumn or, respectively, for the winter or summer.

The difference between the warm and cold two types:

•   The basic tone nuances of spring - yellow, so this type of fun to paint and brighter than the nuances of the same basic tone for the autumn palette.
•   The basis of the nuances of autumn - red, so they are richer, heavier, earthy than their related spring.
•   Summer nuances based on blue, but they are more muted, light, blurry compared to the winter nuances on the same blue-based.
•   Winter colors are always blue is also the foundation, but they are more rigid and clear than their related summer nuances.

The art of mixing warm and cool colors

All details, which belong to the panel of one season are combined with each other and allow any combination with each other. It sounds simple and straightforward, but upon closer inspection, this rule is not so easy to use, because, as we know:

•   Blue is the color of cold podton-.
•   red and yellow undertone - warm colors.

Strictly speaking, red and yellow nuances should prevail only in the spring and autumn palette, and all summer and all winter palette, on the contrary, must be composed of green and blue tones. But this is not so, because the basic rule of color recommendations reads: Each type can carry all colors - just need to choose the right nuances. So what should be and blue nuances in color palettes & lt; warm & gt; seasons, and red and yellow nuances in palettes summer and winter. And they, of course, there is. Out of this apparent paradox is very simple:

If a blue color appears in a warm palette of spring or fall, it contains a fair amount of impurity weakly red (spring) or dark red (autumn) and thus corresponds to the general warm mood this time of year. And vice versa: red nuances cold seasons of summer and winter contain a significant admixture of blue and may be due to it complies with the basic mood of the seasons.

What to do if you think you have a mixed type?

Contrary to all appearances, you might think to determine the type that you can not be in relation to establish unequivocally the year and you belong to a mixed type. But mixed types do not exist. The most that may be contrary to the uniqueness - this is more or less pronounced contrast between the skin, hair and iris in one type. Since each type are more delicate, lighter options and expressed brighter dark. So, spring type with dark, pronounced golden tones in your skin and hair Hair: structure, characteristics of growth and development   It may well resort to light nuances of autumn palette of clothes and cosmetics. Conversely, gentle, light-skinned type of autumn may be to face many of the soft, muted tones of spring palette. Something similar happens at the summer type with darker color, which is very delicate nuances to face the winter palette. And - as a rare exception to the rule - strongly pronounced winter style with bright, strong contrast between the skin, hair and eye color can take advantage of the lively nuances of the spring palette.

Comparative characteristics tsvetotip

The most common errors in determining tsvetotipa.

•   skin: clear, thin, with a warm hue, color - milky pink.
•   freckles: there
•   hair color: bright, warm shade, honey, amber, yellow, light brown with a golden hue. Slightly curly hair, they are thin and fluffy.
•   eye color: blue, turquoise
•   tan: tan poorly
•   Exclusion from the spring does not happen tsvetotipa brown and green eyes, chocolate tan, closely spaced capillaries, dark hair.
•   reaction: spring tsvetotip mostly happy with my hair color

Summer - cold tsvetotip

Summer can be a cold, non-contrast, average.

The most common tsvetotip in Russia. Often faced with challenges in defining its membership of colortype. The most common errors: identify themselves with the spring or autumn.

The contrast is determined by the difference between skin color and hair color. The more light skin and dark hair, the more contrast is tsvetotip summer. And vice versa. For example, people with very light skin tone cold and dark brown hair with gray (gray) shade will apply for the summer contrasting tsvetotipu.

•   Skin: cold pinkish-bluish tinge. Blush - pink or red, closely spaced vessels, often visible redness on the skin. Browns well. Most often prioberaet tan with grayish tinge (so-called "steppe" sunburn).
•   Freckles: the gray tint
•   CET hair: cold, ashen gray shade. From pale straw to a dark-haired with brown tint. Sometimes the sun fade and become cognac color, which is often confused with the warm. Pyamye or curling. Often whipped.
•   eye color: blue-gray, watery blue, gray-green, gray-olive
•   excluding Republic: from the summer are not red, black, copper hair, there is no snow-white skin color
•   reaction: summer tsvetotip often dissatisfied with his hair color, calling him a "colorless, gray, no, mouse."

Autumn - warm tsvetotip

•   color: warm beige. Bad tans, often under the influence of the sun the skin turns red and inflamed.
•   eye color: green, amber-brown, cognac-brown, amber olive.
•   Freckles: rarely
•   exception: there is no blue eyes, light brown-gray hair, black hair.
•   hair color: red, fiery copper, chestnut, dark brown. The hair is often curly, with large curls, elastic, shiny and thick.

Winter - cold tsvetotip

It may be non-contrast and contrast.

Contrast winter:

•   hair: black, mostly straight and thick, sometimes curly
•   Skin: very light, white, bluish midtone, like Snow White.
•   tan: good tan
•   eyes: ice-blue, dark-brown
•   exception: there is no red hair Is your red hair, select a shade .

Low-contrast winter:

•   Hair: softer than the contrast, can have chocolate-cognac hue with a cold midtone
•   Skin: olive-gray, maybe with a yellowish tint, tans well.
•   eyes: olive-gray, brown, quads Bob haircut - the progenitor of modern fashionable hairstyles -green

This is often confused with tsvetotip summer or fall.

Irina Sokhin

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