Cold winter type. Bright winter palette
Winter is a very bright color type. Skillfully playing on contrasts, you will look stunning. What colors are suitable for the Winter color type?
Ideal colors for the Winter color type
Women of the winter color type are suitable for black, snow-white, as well as dark red and intense red without an admixture of yellow or orange.
Hot pink, deep blue, night sky, inky blue, intense purple, burgundy, lilac, ruby, rich green, emerald green, dark green with a blue tint, dark brown and pure gray will look good.
Here is a palette of shades suitable for all women of the Winter color type.
Rows 1, 2 and 3 are your lighter shades.
4th and 5th rows are your most bright colors.
6 and 7 are neutral shades.
8 and 9 - dark shades.
Despite the fact that the winter appearance gravitates towards cold colors, the girls of the winter color type also go with some shades of a warm range, except for yellow-green and brown. The main thing is that these shades should be distinct, bright and saturated, even caustic, but certainly not pastel. But light, obscure shades can ruthlessly blur the image of a woman of Winter.
What colors do not suit the Winter color type?
The Winter woman needs to exclude all warm shades. Watch out for orange, gold, reddish brown, rusty, coral red, and corn yellow.
Color type Winter: wardrobe
Why is the described color type of appearance associated with winter? In winter, autumn variegation is replaced by calm and majestic black and white beauty. Nature is characterized by a lack of colors and distinct contrasts.
Winter is a bright, cold, silent, motionless, quiet, clear, majestic, simple and sophisticated season at the same time. This is where the recommendations for creating a harmonious image come from.
If your color type is Winter, you are suitable for:
- oval silhouettes;
- medium size accessories;
- classic style clothes;
- sharp lines;
- balance of male and female principles;
- cold dark colors;
- fabrics with medium density;
- contrasts;
- one color in clothes.
Suitable fabrics for you: satin, leather, knitwear, cashmere, all smooth and shiny materials. Monochromatic fabrics will look good.
If choose things with a pattern, then you should look at the correct geometric lines. Floral motifs and delicate watercolor patterns are contraindicated for you. Large patterns are welcome.
your ideal style could become a classic. But a romantic style with an abundance of elegant and feminine details may not fit into your image.
Organize a clear silhouette line. Avoid fancy details. Use noble materials and pure colors. Focus on elegance and simplicity.
Your ideal clothing colors are the most distinct, clear, and coldest of all. You benefit from the colors that others should avoid: bright black and snowy white.
You need to enhance the contrasts between hair and skin color, between the color of the whites of the eyes and the iris.
If you have Brown eyes with bright squirrels, cool brown hair and tanned skin, you need to resist the temptation to wrap yourself up in the warm, earthy colors of autumn. The colors of Autumn give the winter color type a painful yellowness!
Ruby red and crimson suit you, but tomato red does not suit you!
Any strong caustic pink, cold lilac and deep purple tones will suit you.
love green color? Opt for distinct, bright colors, and avoid faded, milky and yellowish tones.
Do you like practical brown things? Choose dark and cold fabrics in the color of dark chocolate.
You are extraordinarily strong blue tones contraindicated for other color types.
Light colors are suitable for you if you are not a Bright contrasting Winter, but rather belong to its gentle subspecies. On your scale of safe light shades, grays, pinks, whites and yellows in an icy-cold variation, distinct, clear and very light, side by side.
You are 100% black. Black or dark anthracite can be the perfect base for basic wardrobe. Exciting cherry red, night blue or dark Blue colour.
When choosing shoes, bags and scarves, stick to a few basic colors of the winter palette. Beware of washed out shades. Avoid brown shoes. Black, silver and burgundy shoes will look great.
Wardrobe based on black
If you have a pinkish complexion, you need foundation cool pink color.
If you have very bright skin, then a light beige and beige base color will suit you, but without an admixture of yellow.
The consistency of the foundation should be soft and liquid. Let it cover the face with a transparent layer.
Not worth taking Foundation dark tone. The winter color type is attractive precisely for its fair skin.
And remember: as soon as you take the cosmetics of the Autumn or Summer color type, all the charming contrasts of appearance will immediately be lost.
A blush of light purplish pink and red wine color will suit you. They should be applied minimally so as not to destroy the contrast between hair and skin. Categorically do not fit brown blush.
The eyes of the girls of the winter color type are always very expressive, and the look is clear due to clear, bright whites. Makeup for women winter type can be made in dark colors. Smoky eye makeup will look very impressive. Pencil liner is also relevant.
Shadows will go to your eyes dark shades. Your best companions are anthracite shades, lilac, dark green and shades of the color of the night sky.
If you have brown eyes, then shades of ripe plum color will do.
Green eyes are suitable for shades of mallow color.
Blue-eyed go cold light silver and bright blue shadows.
Regardless of the color of the eyes, cold gray, light purple-pink and pale purple shadows will look great.
White, pearly white, milky creamy, lilac, silvery, pinkish, cold ice blue, ice yellow, light ice green, cold light gray are suitable as highlighting shadows.
Lilac, purple, gray-brown, indigo, dark blue, gray-blue, luminous cornflower blue, black-gray, black-green are suitable as darkening shadows.
The winter type is the only type that goes black Eyeliner.
Mascara can only be black and dark brown. You can safely use false eyelashes.
Lipstick can be bright, but always cold shade. Winter women goes dark purple, bright purple-pink, transparent red lipstick.
Also, successful shades of lipsticks and glosses include bright red, cold pink, dirty pink, the color of a withering rose in its cold version, the color of rotten cherry, burgundy, burgundy-cyclomen, lilac-burgundy. Juicy lips will never seem pretentious.
If by nature the lips are bright, delicate shades will do.
Too pale lips can be emphasized with cold raspberry lipstick.
Color type Winter: decorations
Jewelry for the winter color type should sparkle and shine, and the stronger, the better.
Transparent jewelry and rhinestones suit you. Of the precious stones, your undisputed favorites will be diamonds, rock crystal and white pearls.
You can safely wear shiny jewelry with a large surface area, headbands and earrings made of organic glass. They will look precious on you, they will emphasize the contrasts of your natural colors even more.
But too small decorations will go unnoticed on you.
Jewelry of deep colors suits you: deep red ruby, deep black onyx, deep green emerald.
Do you love pearls? Put on several threads of cold white, gray or black at once.
The ideal metals for you are silver, White gold and platinum. yellow gold doesn't suit you.
Color type Winter: glasses and frames
Dark frames in cool colors are suitable for winter. Blue-black frames and anthracite frames with silver marble veins look great.
A game of contrasts would be very appropriate: red-black frames, cold green, purple, black, ruby red, coniferous green.
The Winter color type is suitable for metal frames made of blackened or plain silver.
Winter color type: hair color and hairstyle
As sad as it sounds, natural hair color suits you best.
Your highlight is the contrast of hair and skin. Breaking this contrast is an unforgivable mistake.
If you are a rare blonde Winter, then radical hair dyeing is even more dangerous for you: a random glimpse of yellow will turn the nobility of appearance into rusticity.
If you have brown hair with a cold tint, in no case should you transform into an autumn color type with a warm red color.
Do not highlight individual strands.
If you really want a change, dye your hair with a dark monochromatic paint based on a bluish color.
Your charm lies in cold colors. With age, you can afford a lighter frame of the face. You can try ashy tones.
In winter, the girl is very extravagant and sporty haircuts. But romantic curls may not work.
I have long wanted to update the information on the palettes of color types, and finally I was going to do it =) I will start with bright palettes, and today the palette Bright Winter. I will update the information slowly and gradually =) In addition, I will add information for men. Before getting acquainted with the palette, you can get acquainted with the theory of color types. .
Pictures that may be useful for you to master the palette
Bright winter - bright cool colors
. This means that, first of all, the colors of this color are bright, clean, expressive, there are few impurities in them. Since the coloring is slightly cold, there is a bluish undertone in the colors of this palette.
The most important characteristic of color is brightness, the additional one is coolness. Light-darkness doesn't matter.
Representatives of color Cast: Liv Tyler, Courteney Cox, Rita Ora, Anne Hathaway, Zhang Ziyi, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Gwen Stefani, Andre Agassi, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Columbus Short.
Associations:
This is a palette of winter contrasts of white, black and bright saturated colors - berry reds, emerald greens, this gems- rubies, sapphires, diamonds. Bright, but quite sophisticated palette. But at the same time, it is also a palette of tropical landscapes - bright sea and sky, exotic birds and flowers.
Palette colors:
White is the color of purity and new beginnings. Bright winter suits pure white. Gray is a calm and elegant color. The palette includes light neutral grays and dark grays. Black color is sophisticated and mysterious. Bright winter suits both pure black and gray-black.
Beige and brown are associated with comfort. Gray-beige and beige-brown, as well as shades of dark chocolate, are suitable for a bright winter.
Pink is associated with dreaminess. Bright winters suit bright neutrals and cold pinks. Red is the color of energy and passion. In the palette of bright winter there are bright neutral reds.
Light colors are gentle, calm and inviting. A bright winter suits quite bright light colors, like the northern lights.
Yellow is cheerful. A bright winter is suitable for shades of peel and pulp of a lemon. The yellow-green color is active, in this palette there are shades of lime peel.
Green color is calming and relaxing. Vibrant winter suits bright emerald greens and bright blue-greens.
Blue-green is relaxed and inviting. A bright winter is suitable for bright shades of turquoise closer to blue, both light and quite saturated.
Blue is inspiring and refreshing. Dark blue is the color of stability. Light bright blues, sky blues, bright dark royal blues and dark blues suit bright winters.
Lilac is a mysterious and creative color. Bright winter suits quite bright and only slightly softened lilac and blue-lilac.
Purple is a sensual color. Fuchsia and red-violet, bright pink, "shocking pink", bright red-violet and deep bright red-violet and plum are suitable for bright winter.
Using the Palette
All colors of the palette are combined with each other at the expense of a common subtone.
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The palette has calmer colors, brighter, lighter and darker. I will single them out. Blue - light colors, blue - dark, lilac - soft, green - bright.
Light colors palettes are usually used closer to the face - in blouses (for women), shirts, sweaters, hats, and also in summer clothes.
soft colors - these are the calmest colors of the palette that do not attract much attention. They are usually used in basic clothing. This is the background, everything that will be calmly combined with other colors of the palette without attracting attention.
dark colors palettes can be used as a more interesting and spectacular base or in accessories - shoes, bags, belts.
Most bright colors palettes are color accents. They are used where you want to draw attention. Often they are used in evening wardrobe and accessories.
All colors of the palette are perfectly combined with each other. so you can let your imagination run wild and experiment!
Good luck with your palette!
Tips for the winter color type: what is coming, what color of clothes to choose and what colors to use in makeup. Examples of photos and features of 3 subtypes: deep cold and bright - we will describe in this article.
- Signs of the Winter color type (hair color, eyes)
- Colors in clothes
- Makeup
- Subtypes
- Cold winter (cool)
- Deep Winter (classic)
- Bright winter (light, contrast)
Are you not sure if you know your color type? We read How to determine the color type.
Are you not Winter? recommendations for other Color Types SPRING , SUMMER , AUTUMN
Hair color, eyes and other signs of winter color type
If the protruding areas of the veins on the hands are bluish (cold type of appearance), and the hair and eyes are dark, then you belong to the winter color type.
Colors in clothes. Wardrobe
Winter color palette
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Such a palette will seriously speed up shopping when updating the wardrobe for owners of winter looks.
The winter color type is clear, clean, bright colors: black, white, blue, aquamarine, red, acid pink.
From light tones, cool shades are suitable, rather than warm pastels.
Beige, orange and gold tones should be avoided in the image. Monochrome in the image is welcome.
Do not use more than three colors in one image.
For example, red, gray and black complement each other in a set that is suitable for office work, shopping, and meeting with friends.
Dare to wear contrasting clothes, for example, black and white, because it suits WINTER! Enjoy it!
A classic white blouse, skinny pants, a Victorian coat and plenty of silver vintage jewelry will accentuate your chilly winter personality.
Remember: black and white is not necessarily a classic.
Try this one: faded straight-leg jeans, a sheer geometric blouse, and discreet matching accessories. With this way you can dare to bright elements in makeup and manicure.
Your color in jewelry is silver.
Do not overdo it with jewelry in the image.
Makeup for the winter color type
Subtypes and subtleties in the selection of shades of makeup
There are three subtypes of winter appearance and the above recommendations apply to them all.
But there are subtleties associated with the intensity of makeup for each subtype, because the winter appearance varies depending on skin tones, eyes and hair.
√ COOL (COLD) WINTER
Dominant shades- cold.
The skin is rosy.
Eyes - light (blue, blue green, gray).
Skin and hair tones are cold and light.
Your makeup palette is the lightest of all.
The difference from other subtypes is golden brown or golden blond hair, which does not contrast with your winter appearance.
A tan suits you - it helps to achieve harmony in the color of your hair and skin.
In the winter season, when the skin takes on a cold tone again, a darker shade of hair will suit you, without a hint of golden sheen.
Makeup should be in a range of grays, cool purples, blues and reds. Orange and yellow shades they do not suit you and merge with you, depriving you of natural uniqueness.
Your palette is similar to that of a light winter, but it is still the least intense of the three due to the predominantly light tones of your appearance.
For everyday makeup Choose neutral colors like white, black and grey.
√ DEEP (CLASSICAL) WINTER
Dominant characteristics- Dark eyes and hair.
The skin can be both light and dark, sometimes with an olive tint. The skin has an almost imperceptible pink tint.
Classic winter is a contrast of light skin and dark eyes and hair.
Your makeup palette suits most winter-type women. Her hair and eyes are dark, and her skin is ivory.
Black, rich purple and dark red shades suit you.
A dark classic look requires dark shades. With light and pastel tones, you look "blurry" and even sickly.
Red, terracotta and fuchsia will give the image a special charm.
Your appearance is also in harmony with the chocolate-dark, autumnal palette. Such shades will suit you as an everyday make-up.
Remember the main thing - the contrast of dark hair, eyes and cold light skin allows you to use the most "powerful", the most saturated, deep colors.
√ LIGHT (BRIGHT, CONTRAST) WINTER
Eyes bright, sparkling blue, hazel or green. The whites of the eyes are perfectly white and clear.
Hair black or dark chestnut. This image gravitates a little towards spring - light eyes and skin, but the hair color is usually dark.
Audrey TautouMost often, the winter color type can be confused with the contrasting “Summer”, but, in fact, their difference is obvious: the coldness of the summer color type lies in a grayish undertone, which muffles the colors and creates a restrained, aristocratic image; the coldness of "Winter" is based on sparkling blue, which fills the colors with saturation and brightness.
Color of the skin
The skin of a "winter" girl is quite dense and even and, as a rule, has a transparent bluish tint. Depending on the natural color, skin color can be brown-olive, beige, ash-brown, porcelain, pinkish, white-beige. The paler the skin of the representative of the winter color type, the weaker the sun affects it, but the darker “winter” girls in the summer can boast an even brownish tan. Occasionally, freckles may appear on the skin of a winter girl.
Hair color
The hair of a representative of the Winter color type is usually dark: black-brown, black, chestnut, ash-brown, plum. Sometimes you can meet light "winter" girls, but their hair color will be bright white with a clear ashen reflection.
Eye color, eyebrows and eyelashes
The eyes are always distinguished by their piercing color, bright and dark: dark brown, deep brown, black, ice green, dark gray, bright blue or blue.
Eyebrows and eyelashes, to match the hair, can have either a dark (almost black) shade, or a bleached light one.
Lip color
The color of the lips of a winter girl is usually cold and has a lilac-pinkish tint.
colors
Like any color type, "Winter" has 4 characteristic colors.
In natural color all indicators (skin color, lips, eyes, hair, eyebrows and eyelashes) are equal in terms of contrast level: earthy-olive skin tone, ash-brown hair, dark brown eyes.
In contrasting color three indicators contrast with each other: black hair, pale skin and green eyes.
In light color all three indicators are light: porcelain skin, light ash hair, icy blue eyes.
In bright color, as a rule, only one indicator stands out: beige skin, brown hair, blue-green eyes.
Celebrities with the Winter color type
Kim Kardashian, Liv Tyler, Vanessa Hudgens, Audrey Tautou, Megan Fox, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Dita Von Teese, Leighton Meester, Gwen Stefani, Katie Holmes, Salma Hayek, Renata Litvinova.
Perfect Makeup:
Foundation:
To mask imperfections, depending on the skin tone, greenish (for a dark shade) and pinkish (for a light shade) make-up bases are suitable for a “winter” girl. Color foundation will also depend on the skin tone: for white skin, porcelain tone is suitable, for dark skin - olive. Makeup powder can be transparent (for fair skin) and grayish-beige (for dark skin), and for evening makeup: in the first case, transparent powder with a silver shimmer effect will be ideal, in the second - powder with gold (but not bronze) cold glitter. In the case of blush, depending on the skin tone, all shades of pink with a cold undertone, as well as lilac-beige colors, are suitable for a winter girl.
Eyeshadow:
Almost all cold (including bright) shades of shadows are suitable for representatives of the Winter color type: pink, lilac, anthracite, night sky color, dark purple, silver, dark green, snow white, lemon gold. To make the look more expressive, you can bring the upper eyelid with black eyeliner or a pencil: purple or metallic blue, to emphasize the inner eyelid, you can use a white or white pencil. blue flowers. Mascara can be both classic black and extravagant blue, green, purple, as well as other trendy shades.
Lipstick and lip gloss:
The whole cold pink palette is ideal: plum, lilac, fuchsia, cyclamen, raspberry, cherry red, transparent silver.
The perfect wardrobe
Base group: outerwear, dresses, trousers, suits, skirts
The basis of the base group can be the color of dark chocolate, "royal" blue, cobalt, dark purple and blue-violet. Also, things of burgundy, azure, phlox, lilac, coniferous green, dark emerald, ruby and red-brown colors will look great on a “winter” girl. Of the gray shades, charcoal gray, steel and anthracite will come in very handy. A distinctive feature of the natural color of the girl-winter is that, like no other, it withstands deep black and boiling white (snow-white) colors.
Light group: knitted tops, t-shirts, underwear, shirts, sundresses.
In the light group of the representatives of the “Winter” color type, the pastel range of icy shades should prevail: white, white-sand, gray-beige, moon yellow, bluish-white, icy pink, icy blue, rich mint, light lavender.
Bright group: wear for sports, parties and outdoor activities.
As we have already said, extravagant and dynamic colors are suitable for a girl of a winter color type. A bright wardrobe group is a real field for experimentation, because the “winter” girl has no restrictions on flashiness. Perfect colors for a bright group there will be: purple, lemon, bright turquoise, fuchsia, rich lilac, azure, juicy green, cyclamen, indigo, ultramarine, bright red.
fabrics
When choosing fabrics for a winter girl, you need to pay attention to the texture. It is worth choosing materials with a brilliant sheen (thick silk, satin, patent leather, organza, velvet) or textured, well-kept shape (lace, brocade and cotton). The representative of the winter color type is one of the few on whom fur products will look great: silver fox, dark broadtail, arctic fox (black), dark chocolate mink.
Drawings
The pattern on the fabric should be dynamic, exotic and expressive. The patterns should have clear lines. Welcome: patterns, cold in tone, as well as a cage of various sizes, a contrasting "chicken foot" and "animal" print.
Shoes and accessories
Shoes and bags are better to choose from dense, harsh leather with a distinct sheen (lacquer). Exotic skin will also look good: crocodile, ostrich. A win-win color scheme will be black, black and blue, dark gray or any other color from the base palette. In order to emphasize the extravagant image of a "winter" girl, you should choose bags of a rigid, clear shape, pumps with a pointed toe, a straight stuffed heel or a "bold" hairpin.
Decorations
Accenting, highlighting, bright spots: the main rule of the winter color type applies in jewelry - cold colors. Jewelry of a winter girl should shine, sparkle and sparkle, and, of course, diamonds come first. Other stones are also acceptable, but it is important to remember the catchiness: blue sapphire, rich turquoise, red garnet, black onyx, rock crystal - best friends"winter" girl. Perfect for a classic "going out" look. fit black or white pearls with a pearly undertone. For everyday outings, a winter girl can afford jewelry made of icy-cold materials: glass beads, shiny beads, rhinestones, glass. A good frame for jewelry will be metals that have a bluish coldness: gold: white or cold lemon color and silver.
Optics
A universal option would be expressive glasses with a black, metal or white frame and glasses in darkened shades: black-blue, bottle green, thick brown, gray-violet, anthracite or chameleon glasses.
The name of this color type sounds cold, but meanwhile, the emphasized winter beauty is very noticeable and attractive. Dark hair(often the color of a raven wing), light skin - it is impossible not to stop with your eyes on such a girl. In addition, winter ladies come with a little more blonde hair(brown, chestnut or ashy), but, of course, always a cold tone.
No wonder that best color hair for the winter color type is dark. You can start with a black bluish red or blue tint. They will noticeably freshen up your onions.
Contrasting shades
frosty chestnut
Frosty chestnut (red chestnut) is one of the most sought after in this range. Crimson waves, with which curls shimmer when walking, will greatly decorate the owner of light eyes with beige, olive and peach skin.
Cold dark shades
Just dark colors with a cold undertone are also your option. Dark chocolate or chestnut, graphite is the key not only to an unmistakably successful image, but also to a successful career, according to psychologists.
blue-black
The palette of black shades of hair is also created for the winter color type. The most fashionable in this palette is blue-black. He has always been associated with magic and passion. Well, who doesn't want to create an aura of mystery for themselves! This hair looks great with blue eyes. A swarthy girl with such hair will look like an Asian.
Brown-black hair color for winter color type
Brown-black is the darkest in this family. Those with a sweet tooth call it glasse or dark chocolate. In fact, hair dyed with this dye looks black - but when moving, it shimmers brown. This color will please a natural brunette, almost without changing her image - however, making it "with a twist."
Black coffee
Black coffee is another black and brown chameleon. It will suit the owner of any skin, provided that her eyes are brown.
Mahogany
Mahogany or mahogany - not flashy, but very exquisite color. He is loved by ladies in years, as this noble shade paints over gray hair without losing, and besides, it does not “highlight” such facial imperfections as wrinkles. Mahogany is a chameleon: red and brown undertones are mixed in it, which appear quite noticeably on some hair.
Bordeaux hair color for winter color type
Burgundy is similar to mahogany, but this color is even redder. It is especially suitable natural brunette with brown eyes.
soft shades
Ash chestnut
The ash version of chestnut is a neutral hair color for the winter color type, and therefore there is practically no woman who would not suit it. Especially this winter image (black "mane" with snowy notes) will appeal to the blue-eyed beauty.
chestnut blond
Chestnut-blond is also a cold tone, and therefore it takes its rightful place in the winter range. But do not forget: it noticeably highlights facial features. That is why this tone should be chosen by ladies who are satisfied with their appearance.
