How to Use Your Colour Palette to Reflect You
Colour analysis has nothing to do with gender, age or heritage. It's about light, undertone, and contrast: the way certain colours interact with your skin, eyes, and hair to make you look more alive, more rested, more you. That's it. No rules about what a top or a jacket or a lip colour is "supposed" to be for. Just colour, and how it sits against the person wearing it.
If you've had a session with me, you already know your season. Here's how to actually bring it into your everyday life, in whatever way feels most like you.
Start close to your face
Wherever colour sits closest to your skin like a top, a scarf, a jacket collar, makeup, glasses frames as that's where it has the most effect. It's simple physics: colour near your face reflects light onto your skin and changes how your complexion reads. A colour further away, like trousers or shoes, barely touches your face at all.
This means the highest-impact place to start applying your palette isn't your whole wardrobe, it's just the handful of things that sit nearest your face. Start there, and everything else can follow at its own pace.
Build a personal palette, not a costume
Your season gives you a range of colours that suit you and not a uniform. Within that range there's still enormous room for personal style, whether that means bold and graphic, soft and muted, minimal, maximalist, tailored, fluid, or anything in between. The palette is the foundation; how you express yourself within it is entirely up to you.
Think of it less as "these are your colours" and more as "these are the colours that will always have your back" which is for freeing you up to focus on silhouette, texture, and styling choices that actually reflect who you are.
Use it anywhere colour touches you
Your palette isn't confined to clothing, and it definitely isn't confined to any dress code. It applies just as much to:
Makeup — foundation undertone, blush, lip colour, eyeliner, whatever you wear
Hair colour — natural or dyed, your season can guide tones that look most harmonious against your skin
Accessories — jewelry, glasses, scarves, bags — anything with colour or metal tone
Nails, piercings, and small personal details — the little things that are entirely yours
There's no "menswear palette" or "womenswear palette." There's just your palette, and every part of your look is fair game.
Let it simplify decision-making, not add pressure
The goal here is ease, not another set of rules to follow. Once you know your palette, you have a quick filter for whether something is likely to work for you, which makes shopping (secondhand especially) faster and far less overwhelming. It's there to support you, not to box you in. If something outside your palette makes you feel completely yourself, that feeling matters more than any colour chart.
Build gradually, and only in the direction that feels right
You don't need to replace anything overnight, and you don't need to reshape your whole wardrobe to "match" a category. Pick one or two pieces in your best colours, whatever piece you already reach for often and build outward slowly from there, at whatever pace and in whatever direction feels authentic to you.
At the end of the day, colour analysis is simply a tool to help you see yourself a little more clearly, nothing more prescriptive than that. However you express yourself, your palette is there to support it, not define it.
If you'd like to talk through how your results apply to your specific style, wardrobe, or day-to-day, however that looks for you - I'd genuinely love to help.