Why does it matter? Well, warm and cool is not just for makeup, it's for clothes, too. Have you ever worn a certain color and people told you all day you looked tired? That probably wasn't the right color for you. Have you ever worn a certain color and even though you forgot to put on makeup that morning, everyone told you how nice you looked? You found a good color!
Since most people don't have lengths of gold and silver fabric laying around the house, which would be the easiest way to tell if you're warm or cool, I'll talk about your hair and eye color. It should be pretty obvious which you are.
If you have black or dark brown hair, or your hair has gone white or silvery, you are a cool. Most likely you are a dark cool, or what you've probably heard called a winter. If your hair is ash blonde, ash brown, or medium to light brown, you could also be a cool, but a light cool, or autumn.
On the other hand, if you have red, auburn, red brown, chestnut brown or honey blonde, you are a warm, and probably a summer. Light warms, or springs, tend to have golden blonde, strawberry blonde, golden brown or gray hair (the kind that appears almost yellow).
Now combine your hair color with your eye color. Winters can have brown, hazel, blue-gray, dark blue, icy blue, or green with yellow or white shades. Autumns tend to have clear blue or gray blue, dark to light blue, aqua blue, pale gray, green gray, hazel, or soft brown. Either of these, of course, would be cool.
Dark warms can have brown with black flecks, hazel, pale green, golden green, avocado green, turquoise blue or teal. Light warm or spring can have clear blue or deep blue, aqua, clear green, golden green, or light golden brown hazel.
So now, just match your hair color with your eye color and you should know your season! If you're still not sure, try this simple test. Get two different fabrics, one predominantly red, one orange (try to use a solid colored fabric, not a pattern). Cleanse your skin of any makeup or this won't work right. In front of a mirror, drape one fabric over your left shoulder and one over your right. You should notice that one side of your face looks lifted and brightened, and almost like you've applied foundation. The other side will look tired, unhealthy and dragged down. I've seen it look so dramatic on some women that it almost looks like they had a stroke! If the red side is your good side, you're cool. If the orange side is, you're warm.
So now that you have this knowledge, what do you do with it? The first thing I did was clean out my closet. If it wasn't my color, I got rid of it. I found a site with a color chart here, so you can see which colors are best for you! Happy closet cleaning!
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