How to do a Complete Seasonal Color Analysis if you are a Stylist

I wanted to write this article because I have many tools for stylists (and non-stylists) that help carry out a complete seasonal color analysis, with which we can ensure that we have obtained the correct result for our clients.

Doing a Complete Seasonal Color Analysis if you are a stylist, it should be about more than just comparing colors. Comparing colors to the client's face can lead to errors. I have created all my tools by learning experimentally, and especially with my own case, since I am a person who varies a lot in tone depending on the light to which I am exposed. My natural hair and eyes change color when the light hits me slightly and I go from dark hair to light hair only with a slight light. So, there are many cases similar to mine and each client must be studied well to obtain a correct result

These are the steps that I advise you to perform a Complete Seasonal Color Analysis if you are a stylist, and ensure a correct result:

1. Ask your client for several photographs and a video: you need several photographs of your client, one in normal light, neither too strong nor in very low light, such as the light of a room with white light. This would be the basic thing you should ask of your client, but to do a more exhaustive and complete analysis, ask your client for a photograph in sunlight, and a video where you can see how her face and hair moves in a bit of light. to see how their colors change. This will give you a complete idea of how its colors vary in light.

2. First calculate. Before seeing how the colors look on the client, it is interesting to hypothesize what her colorimetry is. So use my calculator to rate your hair, skin, eyes and eyebrows with respect to the value, chroma and hue parameters using neutral photography (in a room with white light that is neither very strong nor very weak). Once this is done you get a main season and subseason for your client. You'll notice that you get other high-scoring subseasons that you can also use to complement the color palette of your client's main subseason.

3. Now check your result. Use my digital Canva filters to see how the color palettes of each subseason look on your client. You will also evaluate its hue, value and chroma parameter with the filters. Now you will check if your calculated result is correct. Otherwise you will have to recalculate the result. You can also do this step physically with your client.

4. Finally, fill out your client's report where you explain the analysis you have performed. Reminding your client that she can choose from her color palette those that she likes the most. You can use my template to create your complete color analysis report.

The more we customize the color palette to make it exclusive for our client, the more we will ensure that the result is the best. Therefore, although we use seasonal color analysis as a means to reach an optimal result, we can still personalize the palette and achieve a perfect result.

Remember that you can also complement the analysis with cases of what would happen if the person changes the shade of her hair, because then her season and her color palette can change. Likewise if she changes her makeup. But it may also happen that his current hair color is not the right one. Then you should make hair color recommendations that you can change to.

The final palette does not have to be just one exact season, since as I said before, changes in the shade of a person's eyes and hair in the light can add more colors to the palette. Like in my case, I am a cold person, but in the light the warm ones reveal themselves. And this especially happens to people with highlights in their hair. So remember that in addition to giving your client their season, personalize the result for your client, give a good explanation and you will have a happy client.