Seasonal Color Analysis: Can I be neutral in skin, hair, eyes or season?

• You don't feel identified with any of the 12 Color Seasons. 🤔

• You get diagnosed by a color expert and receive a Color Season you never expected. 🎨

• You take a Color Season test and get a result that surprises you because you never thought it would be yours. 😮

• You try on clothes in the tones of the Color Season you think you are, but they don't look quite right on you. 👗

• You try colors from the opposite Color Season and they actually suit you. 🔄

• You find colors outside your Color Season that you think look good on you. 🌈

And now you're wondering, what do I do?
Why is all this happening?
This is a real mess! 😵
So, does this mean I'm neutral?

Today we’re going to talk about this, so I can tell you everything I know about Neutral Colorimetry. 💡

Can I be neutral in skin, hair, eyes or season?

For a long time, it was said that neutral colorimetry doesn’t exist. But over time and after many analyses, I can now tell you that yes, it does exist, although it appears in very specific and exceptional cases.

People with neutral colorimetry are not the majority, but they do exist. And they have one thing in common: they are in the middle of all the key color traits—between warm and cool, light and dark, soft and bright—in their skin, hair, and eyes.

In these cases, what often happens is that the basic 12 Color Seasons theory falls short. That’s why I developed a more complete approach that includes 20 Color Seasons, to cover those intermediate and neutral nuances that were previously overlooked. (Yes, this means your Color Season might be one of the 20 Color Seasons and not one of the traditional 12.)

If you feel like you don’t fully identify with any classic season, you should take the 20 Color Seasons test which is designed to help you explore the 8 additional Color Seasons beyond the traditional theory. It's crafted precisely to help you find your true tone with greater accuracy right here: 20 Color Seasons. 🔍

What does Neutral Colorimetry really look like?

Let’s take a look at how people with Neutral Colorimetry actually appear. Pay close attention to this: a neutral person might look like one Color Season in a photo, but in real life (under different lighting) that’s when it becomes clear they may belong to a Neutral Season.

In neutral individuals, the skin may have such a perfect balance between warm and cool undertones that it seems to shift depending on the environment. Warm light makes it look warm, cool light makes it look cool.

The hair might not have a clearly golden or ashy undertone—or it might have highlights that change with the lighting. And the eyes might blend cool and warm tones or have an unclassifiable color (like greenish-gray with brown), sometimes even changing color in different situations. 🧑‍🎨

It’s truly fascinating to see how many different cases exist, right?

These traits cause confusion: you might look good in some cool colors and also some warm ones, but none feel completely right. That’s a clear sign you may be in a neutral zone. ⚖️

So, what’s the solution?

The key is to have a color analysis that takes exceptions into account—something more advanced than what we typically see everywhere (and this really excites me, so I’m going to clear up all this confusion for you). 💬

Traditional methods that only consider 12 seasons aren’t enough. We need to look at the subtleties.

That’s why you should take a closer look at your face and hair in the context of the 20 Color Seasons. As I mentioned earlier, there are 8 additional seasons that stylists often don’t use to analyze clients—and they’re rarely talked about, but they definitely exist.

The second step is to determine whether you’re a Neutral Color Season. To do that, you need to check whether you meet the parameters of neutral colorimetry. You can take my test here to find out if you truly have a balanced and exceptional colorimetry that doesn’t align with any of the existing seasons. ✅

Always remember: it’s not that there isn’t a season for you—it’s that until now, no one had shown you all the real possibilities. 🌟

But how do I detect the tones of my hair, skin, and eyes?

Even after knowing whether you belong to a Color Season or are neutral, doing a deep color analysis of your hair, skin, and eyes will help you better understand your true tones—not just the surface-level aspect of colorimetry. It’ll help you understand why you are or aren’t neutral. 🧠

To better understand your skin, for example, you can use this skin tone analysis guide, where I explore how to detect those neutral undertones that are often hidden at first glance.

For hair, I’ve also created a specific method for identifying your dominant tone, even if you have contradictory highlights or changes based on lighting. 💇‍♀️

And if you have doubts about your eyes, you can learn to recognize the real dominant tones with the help of this visual eye color analysis, which is especially useful when colors seem to blend or aren’t clearly defined. 👁️