What colour type am I?

Ever wondered why the colours that look stunning on models don’t always have the same effect when you try them on? When shopping in-store or online, everything may seem perfect, but once you put on your new clothes at home, the results can be disappointing.

Why do some colours flatter others but not you? The answer lies in knowing your colour type. By understanding which colours suit you best, you can confidently choose shades that enhance your natural beauty and make you truly shine!

What are colour types?

Each of us has colours that complement our features and others that don’t. The easiest way to determine which colours suit you best is through a colour analysis. This process looks at the natural tones of your skin, hair, and eyes to identify which colours will enhance your appearance. The right colours can highlight your best features, making imperfections like puffiness or fatigue less noticeable.

Colour types are categorized into four seasonal groups: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. These seasonal types provide insights into whether warm or cool tones suit you better, whether you should opt for light or dark shades, and whether bright or muted colours work best for you. By understanding your colour type, you can create combinations that make you feel and look your best!

Too many colour options? Here’s how to choose the right one!

Explanation Colour types

Winter types tend to have dark hair and dark eye colour. The eyes can be brown, but also blue or some sort of green. When a winter type turns grey it looks silver grey. Winter types are beautiful in cool, bright colours like black, navy, muscle white, bright red, fuchsia or royal blue.

Summer types are often lighter in hair colour such as ash blonde or medium blonde hair and often light blue or grey eyes. Usually, summer types don’t have a lot of colour in their skin but sometimes there is some redness visible. Summer types are beautiful in cool, soft colours like pink, lilac, sea green but also blue and grey.

Spring types are also the blonde types but their hair colour often has a golden sheen and sometimes they have freckles and peachy cheeks. On them, beige, camel, creamy white, coral and turquoise look very nice again.

Autumn types have warm brown hair and green or brown eyes. Autumn types also can have freckles with some redness in the skin or an ivory colour. Colours such as green, brown, orange, camel, petrol, tomato red and salmon look beautiful on autumn types.

What colour type am I?

Understanding your colour type takes the guesswork out of shopping, allowing you to confidently choose garments based on what truly suits you rather than relying on luck. Once you know your colour type, you’ll avoid costly mis-purchases and effortlessly build a wardrobe that flatters you every time. And it’s not just about clothes—during a colour consultation, you’ll also discover the best colours for your makeup, hair, jewelry, and accessories. This knowledge will save you both time and money, helping you make better, more stylish choices.

Would you like to find out which colour type you are? Take the quiz!

Quiz – What colour type am I?

Question number 1.
Does black look better on you or brown?
If it is black, then you can be the cool type like winter or summer. If your answer is brown, then you may be the warm colour type like autumn or spring.

Question number 2.
Do pink and red look better on you than coral and orange?
Then you are probably a cool colour type. Coral is a colour that looks nice on many people, but orange is a typical warm colour.

Question number 3.
Does gold or silver look better on you?
You can look at your skin but also your hair and eye colour. If gold looks better on you, you are probably a warm colour type like an autumn or spring type. If silver looks better on you, you could be a winter or summer type.

Still unsure? Book a personal colour analysis!

Not quite sure which colour type suits you best? It’s possible that you fall outside the traditional four seasons of colour types. You might find that you can wear a mix of warm and cool colours, or that specific shades—like dark blue, ton-sur-ton combinations, or even green to match your eyes—look great on you.

At Hi Style Academy, we use a refined system of 15 colour types, built on the foundation of the four seasons. This allows us to provide more personalized and precise recommendations to help you discover your colour type. In just an hour to an hour and a half, you will receive your best colours, top accent shades, base tones, makeup colours, and even guide you on whether gold or silver jewellery suits you best.

More information about a personal Colour analysis can be found here.

To get a good impression about the magic of colour watch the video of your colour type!

Hi Style Academy trains Colour and Personal Stylist for over 30 years! Hundreds off stylist all over the world are trained by Merel van ‘t Wout; trainer, stylist, author.
If you are interested to become a colour stylist yourself, Hi Style Academy offers online and practical courses. For more information: Practical Colour training and Online Colour Analyst Training

For more information, please visit our website: Hi Style Academy or send an email to: info@histyle.nl