What does the color red look like?

Copious-Systems — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:48:58 GMT

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re: A Choose Your Own Color Adventure

ecoppell — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:13:45 GMT

Toni,

Your comments on fashion color and skin color was off quite a bit. Years ago, I was taught the art of color matching with makeup and fabric swatches for which I received a certificate - which is neither here nor there. There is actually a science to it and a clear cut way to determine your "season". What I'm about to explain IS NOT a one-size-fits-all garment. First of all, to dogmom@tds.net, people of color are usually winters. There are some exceptions. I have mostly salt and pepper hair and I'm caucasian - I am a winter. Usually, winter's have dark brown, black, platinum blonde or silver white hair. (Toni, you are very right in saying the color of one's hair will make a difference in your color palette.) Winter means you have blue undertones to your skin color. And yes, people of color have, with some exceptions, a blue undertone to their skin. Winter is a COOL, CLEAR color palette with CARDINAL reds, NAVY and ROYAL blues, CLEAR yellows, CLEAR greens (NOT EMERALD GREEN), CLEAR FUCHSIAS, ELECTRIC purples, CLEAR blacks, CHARCOAL greys, chocolate (NOT BROWN), CLEAR whites, and ICY CLEAR colors of white, black red, blue, yellow, green fuchsia, purple and SILVER. I think I'm missing something there so go to a knowledgeable person who does color palettes. I'm serious when I say to go to a paint store for paint chips in clear blue undertones, dusty blue undertones, clear yellow undertones and dusty yellow undertones. Summer, which you claim to be Toni, is a DUSTY color palette with an undertone of blue. That means COOL, CLEAR, BLUE undertone colors for winter are decidedly SOFTand MUTED (DUSTY) BUT still have a BLUE undertone for summer. Summers look good in denim (SOFT) blue, soft red (no orange undertones, only blue undertones), soft baby yellow, soft baby pink, soft baby green, lavender, soft grey, soft creme (NOT ECRU OR WHITE). Their haircolor is usually soft blonde, light brown hair. I'm not sure where strawberry blonde fits in, but I'll try to speak about eye color if there's room here. Spring palettes have a CLEAR, WARM, YELLOW undertone. They can wear BRIGHT COLORS with YELLOW undertones of: orange, gold, golden yellow, emerald green, purple with a YELLOW undertone, ecru (NOT WHITE), brown (which has a yellow undertone). (NO BLUE.) (Hopefully I didn't leave any colors out. As I said, this was many years ago.) Spring haircolor is usually red (I don't mean to stereotype, I'm just trying to ilustrate) like the Irish redheads; medium and some dark browns, and I'm not sure what other haircolors belong to the spring palette. Finally, the fall palette is a DUSTY, YELLOW, MUTED palette. Fall's colors are: olive green, caramel orange, yellow yellow (NOT A BLUE UNDERTONE), tan, muted brown. I'm sure I've left a few colors out of all of the palettes. Lastly, one of the secrets to finding out what season you are is in the rim around your iris. NOT the pupil in the middle of your eye, but the OUTER RIM around your iris. Mine is blue, because I'm a blue undertone winter. Incidentally, my EYECOLOR is deep brown to almost black. THAT DOES NOT determine your season. I hope this information was helpful. I felt like I was giving a mini-seminar to your readers, Toni. Thank you.

re: A Choose Your Own Color Adventure

dogmom@tds.net — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:37:29 GMT

You didn't include comments on fashion colors for people of color. To me, that makes the whole Interweave group snobbish - be more inclusive - those of us who aren't white like to knit and crochet, too.