Silver is the new Black- Will going gray change my season?
This question is something the experts don’t quite agree about. I have heard color consultants who says that if you are a Spring or an Autumn your season will change if you go gray, and I have heard color consultants say that your season never changes no matter what.
From my point of view I think that for some it can change their season. Our season is determined by the combination of our skin tone, hair color and eye color. The dominant temperature is what determines the season. Let’s say you have a cool skin tone, but warm eyes and hair, then you will fall into one of the warmer seasons Spring or Autumn. If your natural grey is a cool grey than the dominant temperature will be cool and your season will change.
However there are also warm grey colors like sandy grey and dove gray which falls into the Spring and Autumn season. In the Color Alliance system there’s 124 descriptions of Autumns and some of these also includes gray hair, the same applies to Springs. So it’s fully possible to be a Spring or Autumn with gray hair, but the fact is often Springs and Autumns don’t gray that well, so for many of us dying our hair is still the best option.
They say Queen Elizabeth II was an Autumn when she was younger, now she’s a Summer. It also could be she was one of those dark Summers who often are mistaken to be either Winter or Autumn. They can be really hard to analyze btw.
What is very common though is that your contrast level will change when you go gray or silver. Queen Elizabeth has gone from being a Contrasting to a Light for instance. How beautiful is she in that soft aqua outfit above? This outfit is both the right color and the perfect contrast level for her. Talk about aging gracefully.
When you go gray you will most likely find that colors you suited before now can make you look drab or overwhelm you. When you have a color analysis and get a color palette some of the colors enhance your hair, some your eyes and some your skin. Then they are put together to enhance your overall coloring. As an example; If you have blue eyes orange will be a color which intensify your eyes, but if you are a Summer or Winter with blue eyes you won’t get any orange in your fan as orange work against your overall coloring. The orange will look good with your eyes, but terrible with your skin.
If you had your colors done before you went gray I would strongly advise you to redo your colors. Give yourself the possibility to really shine, the right colors can make you go from a bit drab to radiant.
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On Facebook there’s numerous groups where you can get more ideas, information and it’s always good to be part of a community where the people are going through or have been through the same as you. Here’s some of the groups my clients are members of. Silver Foxy, Silver Sisters, Growing Gray Gracefully, Silver Revolution, The Silver Circle to mention a few.
This is the second blogpost in this series, in the next blogpost I will talk about if going gray will change your season. And I have asked some of the women in my group to share their transitioning stories. So stay tuned.
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I`m a Contrasting Panache Autumn, which season are you?
