The True Autumn native looks the most stunning when they embrace a restrained golden radiance. Soft suedes, raw leathers, moderately contrasted snakeskins, brushed velvets, and corduroys can offer great texture. When considering materials, True Autumns look best in slightly light-absorbing and diffusing fabrics- the opposite of anything very prismatic or reflective. Overly polished and brilliantly cut gemstones will usually look a bit too severe. Turquoise, ruby, emerald, amber, and amethyst are some of the more common gemstones available in a slightly opaque and raw finish. Softly polished gemstones easily accommodate the warmth of the True Autumn. Oppositely, very bright and shiny surfaces will look too harsh and overly textured and very dull finishes will look heavy. Another important aspect of metal choice is the finish- slightly textured or antique finishes to slightly shiny and polished metals will mirror their even glow. True Autumns are richly warm and look best in deep golds, bronze, brass, and copper. True Autumn Metals, Stones, and Materials True Autumn natives would do best to avoid very bright, cool, and very light value colors (pastels) as these will look very separate from their golden warmth. In between, there is also an emphasis on olives, khakis, and dark taupes. True Autumn neutrals range from warm ivories and creams to smoky warm greys and browns. True Autumn Color Palette True Autumn Neutrals and Colors to Avoid These natives possess an even dispersion of rich color all throughout their features. Overall, there is low to moderate contrast between their hair, eyes, and skin. Their hair often also has a bronzed, brass, or walnut tone, and can range from warm light blondes to warm deep blacks. True Autumn natives can possess golden, olive, and warm pink and brown skin with bronzed or tawny pink and apricot/honey undertones. The colors are tinged with the golden glimmer of a clear sunset and the shades all carry an earthy sensuality. Overall, the palette is gently luminous, rich, and inviting. The palette focuses on colors with slightly soft to moderate chroma (in between very muted and very bright) with an emphasis on the warmer hues (yellows, oranges, warm reds and pinks, blue-greens, and various shades of grey and brown). True Autumns falls between Soft Autumn (Soft and Warm) and Dark Autumn or Deep Autumn (Dark and Warm). If kept to one area at a time, such as upper eyelid or lips, the effect is beautiful.In the 12 Seasonal Color System, True Autumn is a season dominated by warmth and softness or muted-ness (Warm and Muted). For some, shimmer may appear artificial, especially if near to Soft Autumn. Metallic effects, especially in earth tones, is so successful on Autumn colouring that it may work well in makeup also. Here are the basics:Īre you a True Autumn? Look at Clinique lipstick in Paprika, Lancome Couture Suede, and Revlon Sandalwood Beige. The colour palette offers many options for cosmetics. A warm gold eyeshadow, placed as a dot in the center of the upper eyelid, just above the eyeliner, then covered with the neutral eyeshadow, adds dimension and accentuates the gold. They also can have metal colors (gold, copper, bronze) in the iris of the eye, a most amazing effect, and even more when repeated in the natural highlights in the hair. Pink blush is not ideal, but a touch of warm gold creates golden russet or adobe blush, which along with the bronzer, is hard to beat. Bronzer is a fabulous way to heighten the warm burnish of the skin. The skin of True Autumn wearing her colours appears lit by an Arizona sun. True Autumns are often practical people who don't care for show and fuss and may need time to get comfortable with the glowing warmth. Pumpkin, curry, warm turquoise and teal, deep periwinkle, and bronzed red and purple are a long way from dreary. Are the colours drab? Maybe if the only colour in the outfit is army green. Gold is grayer than yellow, hence the earthier colours of Autumn relative to the fruit salad feeling of Spring. The warmth gives a look that is so rich that colours, alone and together, may seem brighter than they are. The unity of the colours is created by gold. As with Summer, colours are still softened, including the dark ones. It is when the entire palette is fanned out that we perceive more overall darkness. The palette colours reach a darkness level similar to that of coffee. True Autumns generally look medium in darkness. In 12 Season colour analysis, the natural colours of 3 to 4 times more people falls into the 8 Neutral Seasons, meaning the blends of 2 True Seasons. True Autumn is one of the 4 True Seasons.
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