Color Analysis COOL

Color Analysis COOL - Is this your color palette?

Looking your best starts with understanding your natural coloring and echoing it with the the colors you wear. Translate it further still into the colors you use for your hair and makeup.

If you are Color Analysis COOL, you will always look your best when you're wearing rose or blue toned shades that echo your Cool blue undertone. 

Colors with a Warm or golden undertone can make your complexion look quite yellow - and you look ill. 

COOL is your Color Family and your color direction.

You're not Summer and you're not Winter!

If you've landed on this page from the Free Color Quiz you are certainly drawn to some of these colors! You might even have previously been analyzed as Summer or Winter. But you probably feel that ...  

SUMMER colors are really pretty, but too soft and dusky for you!

WINTER colors are stunning but can feel rather harsh for you!

COOL colors will, therefore, be JUST RIGHT - as Goldilocks said!

Although the COOL colors include some of the shades from both Summer and Winter, there are other elements that don't relate. 

These are purely COOL, not soft and dusky, nor are they bright and deep!

Cool tones from a range by Kettlewell Colours

Can you match your coloring? 

Not Summer, not Winter just COOL

Amongst the true COOL shades, some are stronger than others allowing for mood and occasion to influence your choice of colors. 

Your overall look: can be misleading and, at times, you might feel colorless, sallow or even florid. A change of tone brings it all into perspective and you will find your natural coloring enhanced by the glorious colors in this palette.

Your eyes: will be blue, green, blue/green, brown or hazel. Whatever color they are they will have a gray cast with a gray rim around the iris. 

Your Skin tone: has a blue undertone with blue/purple toned veins. Your complexion may be ivory, rose beige, through to mid or deep beige; even olive skins can be Cool. Although it's not always visible all of these skin tones have pink in their makeup and it can be difficult to spot! 

You may often appear sallow which doesn't sound at all like 'pink' but any true beige foundation will look very 'flat' as you need a modicum of pink in your base to bring your coloring into balance.

Your Hair: may be from light mousey brown (dark blonde) through to a strong ash brown - always leaning towards an ash tone. No hair is 100% cool so a few red highlights may occur naturally but if you want to add highlights keep them Cool, ash toned. 

Celebrities with Cool coloring

COOL blue undertones create balance

You will always look your best if you echo your own coloring in the clothes and makeup colors you wear - this creates COLOR BALANCE. 

The cool and sophisticated tones of the COOL palette will match and enhance your natural cool coloring.

Your skin will look fresh and clear, your eyes brighter and the shade of your hair more intense as you create Color Balance.

Even when your hair begins to transition into gray, or more likely a stunning silver as Helen Mirren below, you will retain the beautiful contrast that welcomes the blue undertone of the COOL colors so well. 

Helen Mirren transitioned into grey hair retains her beauty with Cool colors

Your Cool colors include

• clear and strong jewel tones

• pretty pastel pink through to luscious raspberry and magenta

• clear blues through to blue/red and maroon

• lavender through to a strong cool purple

• blue greens, jade green, violets 

• Your best neutrals are taupe, silver grey, charcoal, navy or black

The 'new' Cool, mushroom ash brown!

How to visualize your colors...

It can be difficult to visualize how the colors from your swatch come together in an outfit.

For real visual inspiration take a look at the beautiful range of jersey separates in Cool tones from Kettlewell Colours. 

You might like to add in some of the colors from Summer and Winter palettes that appeal to you. 

Cool tones from Kettlewell Colours

The cool and sophisticated tones of your COLOR FAMILY will match and enhance your natural cool coloring.

Your skin will look fresh and clear, your eyes brighter and the shade of your hair more intense as you create Color Balance.

Your most flattering colors are always those with a blue undertone.

How to cope with the 'wrong' colors

I shouldn't use that word really because all color is glorious but we know that some colors are more flattering for you than others!! 

These are not your best...

• any colors that we think of as Autumn colors
• yellow and orange tones, most browns especially gingery tones
• yellow toned greens such as lime, chartreuse, moss or olive toned khaki
• peachy pinks, salmon, flamingo - all have yellow undertone
• orangey reds
• rich creams and yellowy beiges and tans

You may already have some garments in your closet which aren't your best. No worries, just introduce some of your new flattering shades close to your face and soften the effect!

You might choose a scarf, a collar over a jacket, even a pair of white pearl earrings will bring light and the best tones to your complexion. 

If you have a black evening dress, just wear a slightly lower neckline and wear a wonderful pearl necklace - choose white pearls rather than cream toned pearls. 

Blue blood?

There's no such thing as 'blue blood', even though with cool skin your veins will appear blue. 

But it's strange that our late QUEEN and our beautiful FUTURE QUEEN had/has Cool coloring. Although their eyes are different colors they both enjoyed and looked fabulous wearing many of the same colors.  

Perhaps there is something about BLUE-BLOOD after all!

The late Queen and Princess of Wales in Cool colors

Don't know your color palette? 

Then do consider Online Color Analysis where I work with both Tonal and Seasonal Color Families to ensure that your natural coloring is accurately determined. It will save you both time and money - and lasts a lifetime!

But there are plenty of excellent color professionals around the world if you'd rather be face to face with someone.

The 10 Color Families

Ready to bring your colors to life?

The COOL Color Brief   £4   digital

Ready to download and print all the concise information you need to start wearing and enjoying the SPRING Color Family. 

With 48 colors, advice for makeup, hair, jewelry and glasses frames. This is a digital product!

The COOL fabric swatch will bring your colors to life!

Cool colors in the fabric color swatch

48 fabulous shades in an attractive suedette covered fan, handbag size 12.5 x 6.5 cm. With a wealth of information about how to wear and co-ordinate your colors.  

No more mistakes,save TIME and MONEY! It costs £44 and the colors will last a lifetime!

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