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What Season Am I? Get a 12-Season Color Analysis from a Selfie

We ran a daylight selfie through Color Analysis and got Soft Autumn, a palette card with hex codes, a best-vs-worst drape test and three outfits. Here's how to read it.

A woman's portrait inside a ring of colour swatches
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Seasonal colour analysis sorts people into twelve seasons — three springs, three summers, three autumns, three winters — based on whether their colouring is warm or cool, light or deep, clear or soft. Knowing your season makes shopping simpler: you stop buying the mustard sweater that makes you look tired.

A session with a colour analyst involves sitting under neutral light while they hold fabric drapes up to your face. Color Analysis on ImageGPT does a lighter version from a selfie: it looks at your skin undertone, eye colour, natural hair colour and contrast, picks a season and builds your palette.

What you get

  • Your season, out of twelve.
  • 12 best colours, 4 neutrals and 4 colours to avoid, each with a hex code.
  • The jewellery metal that suits you, hair colours and lip shades.
  • Up to three pictures: a Palette card, a Suits / doesn't suit drape test and Outfits in my colours.
  • A written breakdown saved in your history, including a note if something in the photo limited the analysis.

Example: Soft Autumn

We uploaded a selfie of a woman by a window in daylight: chestnut hair, a warm beige sweater, little makeup. The result was Soft Autumn — muted, warm colours of medium depth. Her palette: sage and olive greens, soft teal, peach, terracotta, mauve. Colours to avoid: stark white, black, bright royal blue and fuchsia.

Woman with chestnut hair in a beige sweater by a window
Selfie
Soft Autumn palette card with the woman's portrait, her colours, neutrals and crossed-out colours to avoid
Palette card
The palette card: season, your colours, neutrals and colours to avoid with hex codes, and a gold ring icon for the metal.

The drape test puts the best colour from the palette next to the first colour from the avoid list, like an analyst holding two fabrics under your chin. Only the fabric changes. In this example the sage drape warms her face up; stark white makes her look washed out.

The same woman with a sage green drape on the left and a white drape on the right
Suits / doesn't suit
Three outfits on the same woman: casual olive trousers, a teal blazer, a terracotta slip dress
Outfits
Drape test and Outfits in my colours: casual, work and evening. The selfie was waist-up, so the AI drew the full figure and poses itself.

How to take the selfie

  • Daylight by a window, facing the light. No direct sun and no warm indoor bulbs — they shift your skin tone.
  • No filters or beauty modes. Turn off the phone's automatic face smoothing if it has one.
  • Light or no makeup, so the AI sees your real skin and lips.
  • Hair visible. The AI tries to see past dye, but the closer the photo is to your natural colouring, the better.
  • Neutral clothing near the face: white, grey or beige tops reflect less colour onto the skin.

Step by step

  1. Open Color Analysis in the Photo section and upload your selfie.
  2. Tick the pictures you want: Palette card, Suits / doesn't suit, Outfits in my colours.
  3. Click Find my colours. The AI analyses the photo first, then draws the pictures.
  4. Read the full breakdown in your history: palette with hex codes, metal, hair and lip colours.

Why 12 seasons, not 4

The classic four-season system sorts people by one thing: warm or cool undertone. In practice plenty of people sit in between — warm but muted, cool but light. The 12-season system adds depth and clarity to undertone, so each season splits into three. Soft Autumn differs from Deep Autumn not in warmth but in intensity: it suits calm, dusty colours rather than rich, dark ones.

Putting the palette to work

You don't need to replace your wardrobe. Start with what sits closest to your face: scarves, collars, shirts and sweaters, glasses frames, lipstick. Colours from your avoid list can stay lower down — in trousers, skirts and shoes they barely affect how your face looks. Save the neutrals for pieces you'll wear for years, like a coat, a blazer or a good bag, and keep the palette card on your phone for shopping trips.

Take it with a grain of salt

A photo isn't a session under calibrated light. Camera white balance, the room, even the colour of your walls can push the result a step warmer or cooler — the difference between Soft Autumn and Soft Summer can come down to lighting. Use the palette as a starting point: if a recommended colour looks wrong on you in a real mirror, trust the mirror. Running a second selfie in different daylight is a good check.

Pricing

Each picture costs 10 credits and the analysis is included, so all three pictures cost 30 credits. Pictures that fail are refunded. New accounts get 6 free credits.

Upload a daylight selfie and find your season.

Find my colours

How the 12 seasons work, with more examples.

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