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What Is Your Color Palette?
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You are not required to pick a color palette for your profile. However, if you'd like to know your color palette, use our chart below or contact your local image consultant.

Here is a quick check to see what your color palette is likely to be.

First: Are you high or low contrast?

Low Contrast
Your hair color and your skin and eyes are similar shades (i.e. dark brown hair, olive skin and brown eyes)

High Contrast
Hair and skin and eyes are very different shades (i.e. black hair, fair skin and blue eyes)

Second: Do you have a cool or warm skin tone?

Pick the grouping that is most like you.

Warm Cool
Yellow undertone Pink undertone
Gold looks good on you Silver looks good on you
Tan easily Don't tan easily
Prefer orange red lipstick Prefer rose red lipstick
Prefer orange/brown shades Prefer pink/grey/yellow shades

Third: Pick your season.

Combine your contrast, skin tone and hair color.

Spring

Spring

Summer

Summer

Autumn

Autumn

Winter

Winter

Low
Contrast

High Contrast

Low Contrast

High
Contrast

Low
Contrast

High Contrast

Low Contrast

High Contrast

Warm
skin tone

Warm
skin tone

Cool
skin tone

Cool
skin tone

Warm
skin tone*

Any
skin tone

Warm
skin tone

Cool
skin tone*

Hair

Golden blond

Platinum white blonde

 

Hair

Silver
gray

Light or Medium Brown

Blond
with
Brown

 

Hair

Light
brown

Silver
gray

Golden, honey or ash blond

 

 

 

Hair

Medium
brown

Dark
brown with lighter eyes

Black with white/gray

Medium
brown to
Black

Hair

Gold
ash blonde

Golden,
Honey and
Strawberry blondes with golden,
golden
bronze and
olive skin
tone

*Strawberry blonde with
cool skin
tone

Hair

Red auburn

Medium
to dark
brown
and
warm
brown
skin tone

Hair

Dark
brown

Black

Black-
brown

 

 

Hair

Dark
brown

Black

Black-
brown

Blue-
black

*Silver
gray (only
if also
darker skintone
or olive skintone)

* Exceptions to skintone
Strawberry Blonds with pink or light olive skin tones can be a Low Contrast Autumn; they do not have to have a Cool skin tone as indicated in the chart above. Similiarly, Silver gray hair with a dark or olive skintone can be High Contrast Winter.

Reference: Color with Style by Donna Fujii, March 2000