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Mother of Dragons!

3/31/2013

The third season of Game of Thrones premieres tonight!

I'm a huge fan of the George R.R. Martin book series and I can't stay away from the TV show either.

(Though as a principled INFJ - or killjoy feminist, you decide - I do have some issues with the way both Martin and HBO handle race and gender. Ah, well, if I only watched TV that wasn't racist or sexist, I'd be watching nothing. Wait a minute - I do watch almost nothing. Gar. Anyway, back to GoT...)

So, Emilia Clarke. You've been wondering too, right?

I love Daenerys. But that white-blonde Targaryen hair is so not her. Her coloring's not delicate like that. It makes her seem ghostly.

So probably no Light Spring or Light Summer here.

The natural brown's so much better, isn't it? Just look at this. So real. So beautiful.

The black blazer isn't quite the thing, though. Much darker than she is. Ixnay on any palette that contains black. (That's all three Winters, Dark Autumn and Bright Spring.)

Just to belabor the point: NOT a Winter.

My very first thought about her was Soft Summer. My first thought is often wrong, but in this case I think it may have been correct.

These Summery colors are not at all bad, but don't they need to be just a little deeper and warmer? Emilia's skin is a tad richer than these hues.

This is fantastic. Is that one of Soft Summer's teals? It looks like it could be.

True and beautiful. These look like Soft Summer colors to me.

Soft Summers, what do you think? Is Daenerys Targaryen one of you?

Try figuring out your own true colors at home.

12 Comments

Linda McAllister

4/4/2013 07:29:11 am

Hi Rachel, Amelia Clarke and I have the same colouring, eyes ,hair and skin. In the picture of her wearing the blue blazer (above) you can see roots of her real hair colour also at the temple. It looks like more ashy brown , than warmer.
I am wondering why you didn't consider Soft Autumn as well as Soft Summer. I am not questioning your judgement, its just that I have been told I'm Soft Autumn, and it didn't seem that you considered that and I'd love to know why you ruled out Soft Autumn. I can wear many of the Soft Summer makeup and lipstick colours and get tons of compliments, but there is a darkish , very muted mauvy brown, that looks like I have grey skin when I wear it!. Love to hear/read your answer.
A fan!

Rachel Arnt-Schemmel

4/4/2013 10:17:13 am

Oh, please do question my judgment! I like to figure out what's true, and if I'm getting it wrong I hope someone will help me see it. :-)

In this post I didn't give examples of every season I'd eliminated, but the short answer to your question is that I couldn't find examples of her looking well in SA colors or makeup. If you think you've found one, please link it! I could be wrong.

Regarding the similarity between your coloring and hers: you'd be surprised how often two people who seem to be identically colored are different seasons. I attribute it to undertone - the mysterious quality whose presence within the skin we infer but can't observe directly... It only suggests itself in the context of other colors.

Nirmala

4/8/2013 08:59:49 pm

Agreed! 100% Soft Summer! You can just tell that softness is more important than anything else with her, with coolness a very close second. Thanks for posting that, it's nice to see more Soft Summers added to the ranks :-)

Mary

4/14/2013 04:23:15 am

Really? soft summer? I thought she was a bright spring! It must be a side effect of seeing her without the wig, then.

I'm curious about what you think about the other GoT ladies. Lena Heady looks like a Dark Autumn to me. And Sophie Turner (Sansa) always wears black, and it makes her look ghostly pale. I think she might be a light spring, because her hair is so yellow in her childhood pictures, and the red hair suits her. You should add her to your "natural blonde" list, just look at her growing ih this picture http://wicnet.tumblr.com/post/45729106315/stark-queen-sophie-turner-at-game-of-thrones
She could be summer too.

And Maisie Williams (Arya), definetely a kibbe romantic
http://fanlingo.tumblr.com/post/45726191937/maisie-williams-at-game-of-thrones-season-3-red

By the way, I remember asking you for help in your facebook page more than a year ago. I had some troubles with facebook, so I took the pictures down. If you didn't get to see my thank you message I say it now: thank you!

Rachel Arnt-Schemmel

4/14/2013 07:28:21 am

You're welcome! I love to help.

I haven't seriously studied the other cast members yet, but I have guesses about Sophie and Lena.
Sophie. I have thought may be a Soft Autumn, because muted colors seem to suit her when they're warm. (Light Spring/Soft Autumn can be a close call, so perhaps your guess is right. It can be tough to tell the difference between softness and delicacy.)
Lena, I'm guessing is some sort of Summer. As Spring Cersei her coloring's awkward, but I've seen her in cool pastels with her natural brown hair, and it's very good.
Please do link me to some pics of these women in colors that suggest a season, if you find some. :-)

Mary

4/14/2013 01:51:59 pm

I have to admit my guesses about Lena are show related, which could be a bit tricky (make up, wig, professional photographers...). I thought she could be a dark autumn because of her red dresses. They have given her a new red dress each season, each darker than the other. I think the last two look better than the first:
season 1- http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/28400000/Game-Of-Thrones-S1Ep7-You-Win-Or-You-Die-lena-headey-28482548-1920-1080.jpg

season 2-
http://hieloyfuego.wikia.com/wiki/Cersei_Lannister?file=Cersei_Lannister_HBO.JPG

season 3-
http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/2730364/lena-headey-peter-dinklage-game-of-thrones-season-3-set-01/

I googled her after reading your answer, and you are right, she looks good in cool pastels too. May be soft summer? Some of them can go pretty dark, no?

And Sophie, I hadn't considered soft autumn. It could be, since SA don't look good in black, just like the lights. The only picture I've seen of her where she is not wearing black is this one:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/game-of-thrones-q-a-sophie-turner-on-sansa-starks-survival-skills-20130409

That could be a soft autumn dress, and she doesn´t look bad. The lipstick is off, though.

Have you noticed that they seem to be color coding some characters this season? Dany is blue, Cersei is red, Margaery light blue/greens and Sansa dark purples/grey.

I thought that blue dress Dany was wearing in the ep1 was gorgeous on her. OTOH, I think the colors Sansa is wearing this season are too heavy and kind of grim. I liked the blues she was wearing in S1 better.

This is a long post! I think you can tell I'm a big GoT fan, haha!

Morgan

5/31/2013 04:52:12 am

Why do you have ruled out Winter so quick? There are Winters that aren´t good at black clothes, but they are good at black eyeliner, and Emilia is. She has a skin that contrasts a lot with her natural dark hair, and I see she is definitely cool. I see her as a Winter and I can´t see the softness you have atributed to her!

Rachel

5/31/2013 06:35:01 am

It's possible that I'm wrong about Soft Summer, of course. But I do think it's safe to rule out Winter if black isn't flattering. Black is in all Winter palettes, and on all Winters black should look balanced, not overwhelming, as it looks here.

Head-to-toe black wouldn't be the loveliest on a Bright Winter, it's true - but not because a BW would be overwhelmed by it. It just wouldn't be enough. At any rate, I don't think she's a BW. :-)

Kate

2/13/2014 04:04:39 am

Oh my god! It is soo hard to tell the season when not being a professional. I have very similar colourings as she has (only difference is my skin nad hair is warmer and my eyes are more blue). I thought I was a clear spring according to online self tests. But if she is a soft season I do not know anymore :P The more I learn about season colourings the less I seem to understand. I Have to keep reading and learning. Thank you for your post! :)

Katie

9/27/2014 03:25:51 pm

The purple dress, I feel that the colors are TOO muted.
I know Emilia is a brunette, but did you consider Light Summer for her? Maybe that's why people are commenting "I thought she was bright winter/spring."
She's not that great in black, but she can handle some saturation:
http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/t_full/v1377806500/emilia-clarke-photoraph.jpg
http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Emilia-Clarke-Game-of-Thrones.jpg
http://static1.celebrityredcarpet.co.uk/articles/4/30/44/@/11358-actress-emilia-clarke-who-plays-592x0-2.jpg
http://images.latinospost.com/data/images/full/15591/emilia-clarke.jpg
Don't like muted colors:
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2014/01/19/1226805/240294-25f121de-80ba-11e3-b083-4501be1aafce.jpg
http://media2.onsugar.com/files/2013/02/06/4/192/1922398/cdd1f5b4a983d721_160853147_10.xxxlarge/i/Emilia-Clarke-got-cozy-Zac-Posen-inside-amfAR-Gala.jpg
http://img2-1.timeinc.net/ew/i/2012/09/17/game-of-thrones-Daenerys-Targaryen.jpg
But even in the god-awful wig, I love the Light Summer outfits on her:
http://pedrowp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/daenerys-targaryen-costumecosplay-island-view-costume-nocturnal-blossom---daenerys-targaryen-tf6utgxr.jpg
http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/files/costumes/8805/71741/CI_71741_1354472292.png
http://clothesonfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Game-of-Thrones_Emilia-Clarke-blue-dress-side_Image-credit-HBO.jpg
Here's a good post I found on a blog about a brunette that tried to live in winter colors, but looks great in Light Summer.
http://www.coloressential.net/2013/02/the-lotus-flower.html
Medium chroma. Neutral-cool. Can't handle too dark colors. Light Summer is a good fit to me.

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Lucy

3/19/2017 06:07:43 pm

If you look at the colours Emilia wears in the show, she looks amazing in blue, greeny blue, silver, lilac and good in earth tones. They never put her in red, even though that would be an obvious dragon colour. They have put her in quite a soft black. I think she is some kind of summer.

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