Guides
Long pieces on wearing color with a straight face. Each one links back to the analyzer and to the neighbors it is easily confused with.
Seasons
- Bright Spring colors and how to wear them Bright Spring: Warm-neutral, high clarity, medium contrast. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Bright Winter colors and how to wear them Bright Winter: Cool, highly saturated, and vivid. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Dark Autumn colors and how to wear them Dark Autumn: Warm, deep, and rich rather than icy. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Dark Winter colors and how to wear them Dark Winter: Cool or cool-neutral, deep, and high contrast. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Light Spring colors and how to wear them Light Spring: Warm, light, and clear enough to stay awake. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Light Summer colors and how to wear them Light Summer: Cool, light, and softly clear. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Soft Autumn colors and how to wear them Soft Autumn: Neutral-warm, muted, often where olive skin lands. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- Soft Summer colors and how to wear them Soft Summer: Neutral-cool, muted, and low contrast. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- True Autumn colors and how to wear them True Autumn: Clearly warm, rich, and muted. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- True Spring colors and how to wear them True Spring: Clearly warm, medium, and lively. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- True Summer colors and how to wear them True Summer: Clearly cool, medium, and muted rather than icy. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
- True Winter colors and how to wear them True Winter: Clearly cool, high contrast, and crystalline. Palette, neutrals, metals, and the daylight test, without the folklore.
Undertones
- How to find your undertone in daylight A daylight method for warm, cool, olive, and neutral undertones, using cloth at the jaw instead of veins or wrist jewelry.
- Neutral undertones and how to dress the middle When warm and cool signals sit close, test camel against cool taupe and dress from the softer seasonal maps.
- Olive undertones and the muted seasons Olive skin keeps yellow, quiets pink, and often shows a green cast. It usually dresses from Soft Autumn or Soft Summer.
- Warm and cool undertones, without the vein myth How a yellow-gold cast and a pink-blue cast show up in cloth, and why vein color is a weak substitute for daylight.
Face shapes
- Diamond face shape: cheeks, frames, and hair A diamond reading is widest at the cheeks, with a narrower forehead and jaw. Defined top frames and volume at the brow and chin balance that width.
- Face shapes, measured rather than guessed Six landmark ratios pick the nearest face shape. Length runs from the upper forehead point to the chin, so a hairline chart will not match.
- Heart face shape: width at the forehead and chin A heart reading is wider at the forehead than the jaw, with a narrow chin and often a sharp angle. Add width lower down, and keep the temples quieter.
- Oblong face shape: horizontal lines that shorten An oblong reading is long relative to cheek width. Boat necks, wide collars, taller frames, side volume, and an optional fringe shorten the impression.
- Oval face shape: lines, collars, and glasses An oval reading means length a bit over cheek width, a narrower jaw, and a forehead near the jaw. Most lines work, so color does the choosing.
- Round face shape: length, frames, and necklines A round reading is close in length and width, with a fuller jaw and a wide chin angle. Vertical lines, cornered frames, and crown volume help.
- Square face shape: curves that offset a strong jaw A square reading pairs a jaw nearly as wide as the cheeks with a sharper chin angle. Curves, rounder frames, and length past the jaw offset it.
Contrast
- Contrast levels: low, medium, and high Contrast is the lightness gap among hair, skin, and eyes. Low, medium, and high change which edges a collar can hold.
- Dressing for high-contrast coloring High-contrast coloring can carry sharper value jumps in shirts, coats, and prints, whether the undertone is cool or warm.
- Dressing for low-contrast coloring Low-contrast coloring is crowded by black-and-white edges. Neighboring values in coats, shirts, and scarves keep the face clear.
Wardrobe
- A capsule wardrobe for the autumn seasons Twelve autumn pieces in camel, cream, olive, and coffee brown, branched with terracotta, rust, mustard, forest, and deep teal for Soft, True, and Dark Autumn.
- A capsule wardrobe for the spring seasons Twelve spring pieces in warm ivory, camel, and teal-navy, branched with peach, coral, aqua, and leaf green for Light, True, and Bright Spring.
- A capsule wardrobe for the summer seasons A twelve-piece summer capsule in soft white, greige, taupe, and pewter, with rose, powder blue, and navy branched for Light, True, and Soft Summer.
- A capsule wardrobe for the winter seasons Twelve winter pieces in black, white, and silver, with emerald, icy pink, fuchsia, and hot pink branched for Dark, True, and Bright Winter.
Research
- Grooming, fit, and first impressions Shoulder fit, collars, hems, shoes, and hair edges shape what people see first. Match that sharpness to your contrast. Makeup stays optional.
- The color psychology of clothes, kept small Cultural color habits are not perceptual laws. Repetition, cohesion, and contrast do more for a wardrobe than folklore about what hues feel like.
- What attraction research says about color and style Russell, Stephen and colleagues, and Elliot and Niesta studied faces or red cloth. Those papers do not establish a season or a duty to wear red.
Details
- Color and style for men, on the same seasonal map Men sit on the same twelve seasons and undertones. Shirts, ties, navy, shoes, watches, and beards are the wardrobe differences that matter.
- Glasses frames for every face shape Choose frames that meet the width of the face, then contrast or echo the outline. Oval, round, square, heart, oblong, and diamond each have a useful shape.
- Hair color and the twelve seasons Hair is the largest color mass at the face. Depth changes contrast, and gold or ash changes warmth, season by season. Dye stays optional.
- How the Just Style Me analyzer works The landmark model runs in the browser. After consent, the downscaled photo and the numbers are stored, and a fixed palette produces the guide.
- Metals and jewelry for each color season Yellow gold, rose gold, bronze, and copper read warm. Silver, white gold, platinum, and pewter read cool. Finish and distance from the face decide the rest.
- Necklines and collars that change the outline V and open collars lengthen the outline. Boat necks and wide camp collars add width. The cloth at the jaw changes more than the shoe does.
- Prints and patterns that match your contrast The lightness gap inside a print matters more than the motif. Scale, warmth, and season decide what belongs near the face.