Seasonal Colour Analysis Quiz (Undertone, Value, Chroma)

Turn your hand over in natural sunlight and look at the veins on your inner wrist. Are they blue/purple or green?
A) Mostly blue or purple
B) Mostly green
Magenta and Orange Test
4. In natural sunlight, hold next to your bare face (with no make-up) a cloth/fabric that is magenta and take a picture of yourself. In the same light, hold next to your face a bright orange cloth/fabric and take a picture. If you have shirts of these colours, it’s even better if you actually put them on. How do you look?
A) I look better next to the magenta cloth/fabric.
B) I look better next to the orange cloth/fabric.
Sun Test
5. Do you tan easily?
A) No, I usually burn first.
B) Yes, I tan easily.
Results:
All or mostly A(s): you have a cool skin undertone.
All or mostly B(s): you have a warm skin undertone.
If you couldn’t answer some of the above questions, you may have a neutral skin undertone. Skip this part for now and focus on part 2 and 3.

but your dominant features (usually eyes and/or hair) are dark/deep.
1. Are you light or deep or in between? To determine the value of your overall colouring (how light or dark your overall colouring is), convert a photo of your own into greyscale and see where your overall colouring falls on the value scale from 1 to 4 (see the top numbers on the greyscale image on your right). Remember your number (1, 2, 3 or 4).
A) 1 - dark
B) 2 - medium-dark
C) 3 - medium-light
D) 4 - light
Now let’s see what is your value contrast - the level of difference in value between two or more colours. The closer together colours are, the lower is the level of contrast between them, and the farther apart colours are, the higher is the level of contrast. For example, neighbouring hues of two medium greys have low contrast because their values are very similar, while black and white are highly contrasted because their values are very different.
2. What contrast is there between your skin, hair, and eyes? This question is not part of the quiz, but if you have doubts after taking the quiz, you can check the contrast for different seasons. To determine your contrast level, use the same desaturated photo and the bottom numbers of the greyscale photo on your right on the web page and assign values to the 3 elements of your face: hair, skin, and eyes. Assign each element a value from 0 to 11. Now, take your highest number and take away the lowest number (for example 11-1=10). What number do you get?
A) 0 - 2 (low value contrast)
B) 3 - 5 (medium-low value contrast)
C) 6 - 8 (medium-high value contrast)
D) 9 - 11 (high value contrast)
Remember your value contrast. It will help you find out how light and dark the colour values of your clothes should be. If you got a high value contrast, you can wear highly contrasted colours with very different values without problems, but if you got a low value contrast, you should opt for colours with similar values. For example, Dark Winter has a high value contrast, while Light Spring has a low value contrast. At the same time, keep in mind that your clothes should not be more than X (number you got) values apart.