About This Site
For a long time, this work was just me, a room with good natural light, and a set of draping swatches I’d built up over years of doing this in person.
No website. No online anything. Just clients who came through word of mouth, sat across from me, and left knowing exactly which colors worked for them and why. That was enough for a while. Then it wasn’t.
How I Started Doing This
I got into color analysis the way most people in this field do — through personal experience first, professional training second.
I’d always been drawn to color. Not in an artistic way, exactly. More in a practical way. I noticed early on that certain colors made people look healthier and more awake, and others made the same people look tired even on a good day. It wasn’t about the quality of the clothes or how expensive they were. It was purely the color.
After studying seasonal color theory properly and getting trained in draping methodology, I started doing in-person consultations. Small scale at first — friends, then friends of friends, then actual paying clients who’d heard about the work through someone I’d helped.
The sessions ran for about an hour and a half. The client would come in with no makeup on and their hair pulled back. I’d work through a set of draping swatches — fabric samples in every seasonal color — holding each one near their face under daylight-balanced lighting and watching how their skin responded. Not what they thought of the color. Not whether they liked it. What actually happened to their complexion when the color was near them.
Some swatches made people’s skin look clearer almost immediately. Others cast shadows under their eyes or made their skin look slightly yellow or flat. After enough sessions you start to see these shifts within seconds. The right color does something visible. The wrong one does too.
By the end of a session the client had their season, their specific sub-type within that season, and a small fan of fabric swatches in their exact colors they could take shopping with them.
What I Kept Seeing
After a few years of doing this, a pattern became obvious.
Almost everyone who came in had the same reaction at the end of the session. Relief, mostly. Not because they’d discovered something complicated, but because something that had felt confusing for years suddenly made sense. Why that one coat always looked right. Why the color their friend swore would suit them never did. Why they’d been reaching for the same few shades for years without knowing why.
The information itself isn’t complicated. It’s just not something most people ever receive.
And the barrier to receiving it is real. An in-person color analysis session costs money. It costs time. It requires finding someone properly trained within a reasonable distance. For a lot of people — most people, honestly — those barriers add up to never getting the information at all.
I started thinking about that more and more. The clients who emailed asking if I could do the session over video call. The ones who messaged from other countries asking for a recommendation near them. The people who clearly wanted this but couldn’t make it work practically or financially.
I kept saying no to the video calls. You can’t drape over a screen. The whole point of draping is watching how actual colored fabric affects actual skin in real light, and a laptop camera in a home with mixed artificial lighting doesn’t give you that. I wasn’t willing to do a session badly just to do it remotely.
But I kept thinking about whether there was another way.
Why I Built the Quiz
The quiz isn’t a replacement for what I did in person. I want to say that clearly because I think it’s important to be honest about what this is and what it isn’t.
In-person draping picks up things that questions can’t. A trained eye watching how a swatch of True Red versus a swatch of Tomato Red affects a specific person’s skin in controlled light will catch distinctions that self-reported answers to eight questions will miss. That precision matters, especially at the borders between seasons.
What the quiz can do is apply the same core logic — the undertone indicators, the contrast markers, the seasonal framework — in a format anyone can access from anywhere, at no cost. For most people who take it honestly in natural light without makeup, it gets the right answer. Not with the same precision as draping. But accurately enough to make genuinely better color decisions.
The questions are built around the indicators I used in every in-person session. Vein color. Sun reaction. Hair tone. Eye quality. Jewelry preference. These aren’t arbitrary questions — they’re the same things I was observing and asking about in every consultation, just translated into a self-assessment format.
I spent a long time building and refining this before making it public. Testing results against known seasonal types. Adjusting the question weighting. Making sure the 16-season version was catching the sub-type nuances that the basic four-season version can miss. It’s not perfect — nothing is — but it’s built on real experience, not assembled from scratch as a web project.
What the Site Has
The main quiz takes about three minutes. Eight questions. You get your color season — Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter — along with your best colors, the shades to avoid, and an explanation of why that season fits your specific features. No email required. No payment. No locked result that requires an upgrade.
There’s also a 16-season quiz for people whose coloring doesn’t sit cleanly in one of the four main categories. In my in-person work, a significant number of clients were sub-types — Soft Autumns who sat close to the Summer border, Bright Winters with much higher contrast than a typical Cool Winter. The 16-season quiz is built to catch those distinctions online as well as a question-based format can.
The blog covers the practical application side — how to use your season when shopping, how to apply it to makeup and hair color decisions, how to work with it rather than feel constrained by it. The same things I talked through with clients at the end of every session.
Color analysis works for every skin tone and ethnicity. It works for men and women. The seasonal logic applies universally because it’s based on undertone, not on surface skin depth. The quiz is built with that in mind.
Get in Touch
If your result doesn’t feel right, if something on the site isn’t working, or if you have a question about your season that the quiz result didn’t answer —
email: coloranalysisquiz@gmail.com
I read everything that comes in. I don’t always reply quickly, but I do reply.
And if you’ve had a professional in-person consultation done and want to compare your draping result with what the quiz gives you — I’m genuinely interested in that feedback. It helps make the quiz better.
