Kia ora.
So, a bit of a guilty pleasure my wife and I have been getting into lately is watching color analysis videos on YouTube. If you hadn’t heard of it, it’s the practice of determining the best palette for a person using color theory - basically a pseudoscience that classifies certain colors and shades based on hue, brightness, and warmth.
The thinking is that certain colors work better on certain people (well, duh) and by comparing how a person looks when draped with similar color variants with a different underlying tone, a color analyst can help determine what people should wear, the shades of makeup that would best suit a person, and potentially the best options around hair coloring.
Basically, the colors that are in your season tend to make you look vibrant, healthy, and glowing, whereas if they’re outside your season (and especially if they’re on the opposite side of the color wheel) you can look washed out, ill, or just not quite right. The differences can be extremely subtle, so what my wife and I like to do is see if we can guess which color the analyst is going to go with when they’re comparing two shades. Sometimes it’s really, really obvious; other times it’s really hard to tell.
It’s a fun activity, and kind of intriguing how much just a subtle change in tint can make a huge difference to somebody’s appearance. We’ve assessed ourselves as well, with our limited knowledge and know-how - I reckon I’m a soft summer, whereas she’s a cool summer - so both in the same season but at slightly different ends.
Have you done any color analysis before? Are there any colors you love that just look awful on you? Or do you have other YouTube guilty pleasures with which you like to kill time?
Matty’s track of the day: The Rainbow, by Talk Talk
And now for your links:
With Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg officially leaving the club, Spurs posted a nice farewell video
Spurs announce WSL fixture list for the upcoming season