5 Reasons Why You Can't Find Your Season

I get it. We all want to know what looks best on us and it seems like it should be easy. You may have decided "I'm a Winter!" only to be puzzled when something is not quite right. You may notice some colors you absolutely KNOW look fabulous on you are nowhere to be seen in your palette while others, front and center are hideous on you. What's the deal? 

Here's five reasons you can't find your season. 

1) You are relying on TikTok.

OK, this is an easy one. No one looks good wrapped in neon colors that approximate nothing you could wear as clothing. This may be how color analysis is done someday in the future but we are not there yet. 

2) You asked the internet. 

Crowd-sourcing your best colors based on photographs on a forum sounds like a great idea but it often ends in confusion and frustration. Everybody has an opinion and they seldom agree. 

3) You don't have enough colors to choose between. 

Comparing colors is a great technique but you must have a sufficient amount of colors to compare. "Am I better in orange or burgundy?" The answer may be neither or in some instances both look fine. This is often misleading as well because there are many colors that qualify as orange and burgundy. Which ones are you comparing?  Don't get me wrong, this can help you with the broad strokes but will not deliver the breathtaking results a refined analysis can. 

4) You don't know what to look for. 

Each Season has a different vibe. Even within each season there is a different vibe. There are many differnt types of people who qualify as Summer, for example. They may look nothing alike but have underlying qualites that unite them.  Forcing yourself into a generic version of that Season is still a miss. You have inherited traits that show up that will influence how you show up in your Season. 

5) You're not ready.

This is a big one. A skillfully done analysis will reflect to you who you are. If you are not ready to face yourself as you really are, this is not the right time. Or it might be you are afraid of losing some beloved color or neutral (let's just say black) that you know looks bad on you but you love it anyway.  

I could go on listing more reasons but you get the point. There are dimensions to color analysis, especially done using the principles of Suzanne Caygill, its inventor, that go beyond color but include many other things such as texture, shape, movement, and space. I will be expounding on this subject in future articles.