7 REASONS WHY THE SEASONAL COLOR ANALYSIS IS FLAWED
Personal stylists and hobby fashion influencers will tell you to use the seasonal color analysis to find your color type and your best colors.
They will consider your undertones and natural hair color to determine which colors suit you best.
Once they are done with the analysis, you would turn out to be either Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter (and there are subcategories).
But that is not as simple and perfect as you think!
7 REASONS WHY THE SEASONAL COLOR ANALYSIS IS FLAWED
1 Lack of Representation
One of the most common criticisms is that the seasonal color analysis historically focused on a limited range of skin tones, often neglecting the diversity of skin tones in the real world.
This lack of representation can make people with non-European or non-white skin tones feel excluded or misunderstood.
They end up with the wrong color type and the wrong colors.
Eurocentric Standards
The seasonal color analysis was developed based on Eurocentric beauty standards, which prioritize certain features and color palettes.
This can reinforce the idea that Eurocentric features and colors are superior or more desirable, leading to feelings of racism or cultural bias.
Cultural Appropriation
When the seasonal color analysis is used inappropriately to suggest that certain colors or styles are reserved for specific racial or cultural groups, it does perpetuate cultural appropriation and contribute to racist stereotypes.
2 Stereotyping
It also leads to stereotypes, such as assuming that people with certain color palettes should only wear specific types of clothing. This is problematic when applied without considering your preferences and cultural backgrounds.
3 Limited Scope
The seasonal color analysis is primarily focused on external appearance and does not take into account important cultural, social, or historical factors that influence your style choices.
Reducing your identity and style to a seasonal category oversimplifies your unique complexity.
4 Misapplication
When the seasonal color analysis is used by individuals or professionals without proper cultural sensitivity, it leads to misunderstandings or misinterpretations of your color palette, making you feel excluded or misjudged.
5 Spectrum of Beauty Standards
Beauty standards are not static and universal and have evolved over time.
The seasonal color analysis focuses heavily on beauty (a very subjective concept) and does not account for these changes, and can perpetuate outdated or harmful notions of beauty and unhealthy competition.
Many women and men are falling into the standard trap and scale of beauty and claim they possess none or only a little of it, which is why they believe it wouldn´t matter what they are wearing, they would always remain ugly.
Something we see discussed harshly on social media: how people rate the beauty level of other people (mostly men rating other women).
It is more fruitful and smart to focus on radiance, something everyone can achieve regardless of their beauty level. It is a scientific concept that can be measured.
6 Limited and Non-Scientific System
The SCA bases your color palette on your undertones, a concept non-existent in science.
Colors are collected into seasonal palettes based on the warm vs cool theory, which has no scientific basis in relation to human color harmony. These concepts are borrowed from art and design practices developed more than 100 years ago.
The newest scientific research on human biology and physics is not considered in the seasonal color analysis, which makes it an outdated system not fitted for the future of color analysis.
It ignores your style type, body type, polarity profile, and other factors that determine your best colors and color combinations.
7 Ignoring The Full Spectrum
The SCA puts you in 4, 16, or 20 color categories, while in reality, there are 8 billion color types.
Your True Color Type is as unique as your fingerprint.
Categorizing people into stiff boxes when it comes to chroma (bright vs soft and light vs dark) ignores all the color types that are in between (the full spectrum of diversity), which forces every color analyst to put you into a category even if you are not fully aligned with it.
This ultimately means that the colors you receive are either not aligned at all or almost aligned.
But almost is not good enough when you want to look radiant.
This is something many color analysts have told me - something they struggle with when working with clients.
They see the flaws in the system but can´t do anything about them because, till now, there was nothing more accurate on the market.
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