"For_White_Chicks_Only"?
Some Black, Asian, and Latina women have criticized seasonal color analysis, saying that it only describes White women well and fails to account for the full
variety of human beauty.
To quote one thoughtful blog post: "This system fails for women of color because it fails to acknowledge that women of color are a spectrum."
In practice, this has unfortunately been true_in_many_cases. Women with deeper complexions, along with many brown-haired, brown-eyed women, have found themselves automatically typed "Deep Autumn" or "Deep Winter," without a real consideration of their coloring.
Here, I aim to provide examples of women of color from a variety of seasons.
I may not succeed in finding examples in all 12 seasons; pale-skinned, light-eyed women do dominate Light Spring and Light Summer, just as Deep Autumn and Deep Winter are dominated by women with deeper coloring.
But I hope to succeed in demonstrating that not all women of color are "Deep," and that seasonal color analysis is truly for everyone.
I'll add more celebrity examples as I discover them. If you know of some, please contact me!
variety of human beauty.
To quote one thoughtful blog post: "This system fails for women of color because it fails to acknowledge that women of color are a spectrum."
In practice, this has unfortunately been true_in_many_cases. Women with deeper complexions, along with many brown-haired, brown-eyed women, have found themselves automatically typed "Deep Autumn" or "Deep Winter," without a real consideration of their coloring.
Here, I aim to provide examples of women of color from a variety of seasons.
I may not succeed in finding examples in all 12 seasons; pale-skinned, light-eyed women do dominate Light Spring and Light Summer, just as Deep Autumn and Deep Winter are dominated by women with deeper coloring.
But I hope to succeed in demonstrating that not all women of color are "Deep," and that seasonal color analysis is truly for everyone.
I'll add more celebrity examples as I discover them. If you know of some, please contact me!
 Soft Summer |
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Bright Winter
 Warm Autumn |
 Warm Autumn |
 Warm Autumn |
 Warm Autumn |
Soft Autumn
Additional_Resources
Christine Scaman's written a wonderful article featuring a brown-eyed, brown-haired, half-Korean Bright Spring in several of her season's drapes. Check it out here.
Check out Donna Fujii's excellent and underappreciated book,
She proposes an extensive system of color categorization for Asian, African-American and Latina women. This system hasn't yet caught on, but I think it deserves more attention.
Darlene Mathis has a wonderful book,
with several examples of women from all four primary seasons.
