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Color Season Quiz

Find out which of the 12 color seasons matches your natural coloring. Takes 5 minutes and gives you a complete palette of your best colors, makeup shades and more.

15 Questions Takes 5 minutes Free
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What to Do With Your Result

Your color season connects to several other tools. Here is where to go next.

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What Is Personal Color Analysis?

Personal color analysis is a method of identifying which colors harmonize with your natural coloring — your skin tone, hair color and eye color — to make you look your most alive and vibrant. The seasonal color system, popularized in the 1980s by Carole Jackson's book Color Me Beautiful, organizes all possible human coloring into four seasonal families: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Modern color analysis has expanded this to 12 seasons, giving each of the four families three distinct sub-seasons for greater accuracy.

When you wear colors from your season, your skin appears clearer, your eyes brighter and your overall appearance more harmonious. When you wear colors outside your season, the effect can be the opposite — skin may look sallow, tired or uneven. Understanding your season transforms how you shop for clothing, makeup and even hair color, because you stop guessing and start knowing.

The 4 Season Families

Spring

Spring seasons have warm undertones and clear, fresh coloring. Their best colors are warm, bright and light rather than dark or muted.

Summer

Summer seasons have cool undertones with soft, muted coloring. Their best colors are cool, gentle and blended rather than warm or vivid.

Autumn

Autumn seasons have warm undertones with rich, deep or muted coloring. Their best colors are earthy, warm and complex rather than bright or icy.

Winter

Winter seasons have cool undertones with high contrast or very deep coloring. Their best colors are cool, vivid or stark rather than warm or muted.

The 12 Color Seasons

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Frequently Asked Questions

A color season is one of 12 categories in the personal color analysis system that describes which palette of colors harmonizes best with your natural skin tone, hair color and eye color based on their warmth or coolness, depth and clarity.
An online quiz gives a strong starting point based on the key indicators color analysts use. For the most precise result, an in-person analysis under natural daylight with physical color drapes is more accurate. However, many people find their quiz result genuinely useful and correct.
Your natural coloring changes slowly over a lifetime as hair and skin shift with age. Your fundamental season family usually stays consistent, though you may find yourself moving within a family or to an adjacent season as you age.
Most people suit colors outside their primary season in certain contexts. Your season represents your most consistently flattering palette, not the only colors you can wear. Adjacent seasons often share colors too.
No. The color season system works for all skin tones and ethnicities. Every skin tone exists in a warm, cool or neutral version and sits within a season accordingly. Deep skin tones are most often Deep Autumn or Deep Winter. Fair skin tones span across multiple seasons.