

A slightly darker powder than your perfect match may work as well, but for the 3 Autumns, this choice would be less straightforward. Shadows darken in the folds of Autumn fabrics and so should they to make the visual best of an Autumn-coloured face.īronzer choices are plentiful at all price points. On a face, that means contour! Take the innate 3-D sculpting of your colours to new, yet believable, heights by emphasizing the hills and valleys. Rimmel SunBronze 02 is a good colour that’s barely shimmery and could be used with any of the 3 Autumn groups.Īutumn colour is found in a world of low-angle lighting. Autumn bronzer is reminiscent of baked earth, redder and darker than Spring’s choice, in variations of deep gold, orange, and brown (dark orange). So wear bronzer! Spring’s bronzer is beige-based, as is the hair colour, in a peach-gold colour with darkness adjusted to the natural complexion colour, usually around medium. Frost is cool, icy colour, meaning Winter, while metallic is warmer and darker, as copper, gold, bronze, and their variations, belonging to Autumn. Shine is smooth and wet and belongs on Spring. It may be useful to consider the difference between shine, frost, and metallic. You could say a rose petal is velvety, but it’s not dry or thick. I mean, I ask you.Īutumn is warm, dry, velvety thick, and metallic. Expressed in Autumn’s colours, dewy somehow feels oily or greasy.

Dewy spices, dewy chocolate, dewy rust, these make no sense. Autumn colour is rarely associated with dewy or creamy, or anything that reminds us of clear, thin, and smooth.

Spring’s wide-eyed-wonder is not the rhythm of this drum.
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How do these types of natural colours amplify the many gifts they were given?Īutumn colour speaks of full flavours and scenery, both mellow and vibrant. When the images are multiple and repeating, some get switched, causing us to see (or think we see) depth. With two incoming images, one for each eye, the brain has to decide which goes left and which belongs on the right. Examples are geometric (plaid), natural (leaves, paisley), or brushstrokes. Repeating patterns are successful for reasons based in basic biology and optics. It has long been recognized that Autumn-coloured people wear layers successfully, which enhances the visual 3-D effect and gives the appearance of warmth and creativity. The true shape of things may be altered or concealed until the object (or person) is viewed in its real colour(s). A line or style analysis will provide information about the clothing that suits each body type best, but have a colour analysis first. Hence, Instagram.Ī picture is a story, whether a forest or a human being, and colour plays the first and greatest role by informing the viewer through colour per se, as well as its influence on shape and relative proportion. Deep could be synonymous with complex, wise, and penetrating, in the associations our minds make between visual and verbal language. The tendency for light and shiny colour to advance and matte and darker colour to recede generates movement backwards and forwards to feel like depth, texture, and strength.

From a social distance, the distance from which we might meet a person or view a work of art, this varied natural landscape, depicted in rich, low intensity tones, has great resonance.
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The face and skin are often rich in detail, with lines, freckles, layered colours in the eyes, fullness of hair, all creating an overall impression of plush and pile. All faces have these qualities but an Autumn-coloured face appears flattened, like a plate, a distortion that is less evident when faces of other Seasons wear non-harmonious colour. In a face, this type of colour also creates shape and depth, which translates to three-dimensionality (3-D), meaning a distinct front and sides, hills and valleys. The feeling is safe, cozy, and secure, one reason that we don’t put fluorescent overhead lights in our homes. Colours are imbued with particular qualities as a result, appearing rich and warm with emphasis on shape and depth. In the autumn time of year in the Northern hemisphere or the late afternoon of any given day, light from the sun travels a long distance at a low angle.
