Discover Your Perfect Look | Dark Winter Colour Season

Are you a dark winter? The dark winter colour season is deep, vampiric, and moody. In this video I break down how to see if you are a dark winter, your best shades, celebrity examples, and how to actually put an outfit together

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🎀 My name is Ellie-Jean, a style analyst and content creator from Norfolk, UK. I make videos that make style systems easy, in order to help you curate a personalised AND flattering wardrobe.

⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 what is the dark winter?
0:29 are you a dark winter?
1:27 celebrity examples
4:23 dark winter colours
5:38 examples
7:40 how to put an outfit together

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[kayla.r.w]

This is the first time I’ve heard DW described as a more medium contrast vs high contrast and it made it make so much more sense for me!

[amaanmansour]

Finally FINALLY I was able to conclude that I am in fact a dark winter. It was so hard to verify it because all the examples that are normally used are celebrities and I think it’s so hard to compare my „normal“ face and body to theirs. But after I saw the pictures you’ve included of „normal“ people without makeup I realized that my features are exactly like theirs - so thank you for the great examples!

[purevenus]

Ellie, Icey Pastels are also within the palette of Dark Winters. I suppose that falls under cool tones. But I wanted to mention it since it wasn’t mentioned in your video. Anything that Is mixed with white and or black is great for a dark winter imo. Loved this video however it was super helpful and gave me a new perspective on silver and gold.

[citycloudnine]

Please talk about different olive skin tones: warm, cool + neutral 💕

[vericab]

Dark winter colors are the best and most beautiful!

[mariacuevas]

Oh please tell me you're doing all of them in a series 😭😭😭 that would be terrific

[milo_thatch_incarnate]

Oooooh, so cool! I would LOVE to see this for Soft Autumn/Soft Summer (I am pretty neutral in skin undertone and can do both, though I'm technically Soft Autum I think)

[LizabetaMusic]

As someone who long denied being dark winter because I was insecure of how pale I was and dark my hair was, this video had helped me to accept it.

[lettie.garcia]

Color seasons can be so tricky! I always thought I was in the autumn range, but it turns out I'm a dark winter! During color draping, I had "mixed results", so the colorist suggested that I might be an olive tone. We tested various colors to find the palette with the most matches (dark winter). If you can afford it, I highly recommend doing it! Even if it’s just for the experience of seeing how different colors look against your skin and gaining that perspective. I don’t regret it at all. I may not fit neatly into one category, but now everything makes sense, and I feel more confident.

[lenakarlova]

I had a hard time deciding if I'm a dark winter or dark autumn - but later I found that it's totally normal, as those two seasons are more neutral and can borrow from one another. I have a red undertone to my skin, not grey, so yellows, oranges and purples with a red undertone look best on me even if they are warm (mustard yellow, carrot orange etc). And yes, brights except white look off on me. And I prefer wearing navy to black, as black is also too high a contrast.

[tdbd]

Great video ❤️ Could you please expand upon this and do a piece on how dark winter ages? And how ageing affects our colouring? I was identified as a deep winter over 25 years ago, and can see how my colouring has faded and my hair is now very silver (which I love!). I’ve heard that deep winters can turn to cool winters, and should dress according to those colours. Or do we just move to an even more smoky, soft palette?

[SchoggiGurke]

As a dark winter, I'm soooo excited about this video!

[katem]

I absolutely love the deep winter colours. I'm more of a bright winter, though. I really gained a lot from the outfit you put together using the picture as your influence. I could watch you do these types of outfits for hours 😊 I'm a visual person, so for me, this is very inspiring. Thank you 💗 💜

[pouchika]

I love the idea of creating a mood board! I’ve started working on it and used keywords associated with the bright winter palette. Then, I separated the images into "my style" and "not my style". Although all the images in the "my style" section were randomly chosen based on their colours, I noticed they either had elements of ethereal, dramatic, or romantic essence. These are essences that I suspect I have. It also helped me visualise how those essences look as a blend in my colour palette and made it clearer where my aesthetic preferences lie.

[preciousypenguino]

Is anyone else naturally drawn to their season in colors for everyday life, like decorations or wall paint?? Just curious 🤷🏻‍♀️

[cora.ann.s]

Dark Winter and Dark Autumn can be very similar, making it a little difficult to figure out which season you belong in.
I experienced it myself: I have a light skin tone and hair "as black as ebony".
“Unfortunately” my skin also has this olive tone that appears superficially yellow-golden (=warm) in summer. And all the autumn colours suddenly looked terrible on me! That's when I realised that I DON'T have a warm undertone 😅A lipstick and eyeshadow test made it official: dark, cool colours suit me so much better - I must be a Dark Winter.

[YGhappyvirus]

I am much more of an Anne Hathaway kind of DW. Dark brown hair but still much lighter than my fellow Asian friends, quite pale white skin as well, which gives me that very intense high contrast. I considered True Winter for myself as well since I’m quite “light” compared to most DWs and black sometimes look a bit dark next to me but I’ve found that bright reds, bright blues overwhelm me quite badly, I look much much better and get so many more compliments in dark, jewel colours! It’s like Lucy Liu in that bright purple dress vs black, the purple just overwhelms her

[lucyinthesky]

Im not a dark winter but still loved! I hope you will do autumn :)

[helloneurons]

I would love to see one for deep/dark autumn!! ❤

[misslyntheena]

I was fighting it for so long but as soon as I embraced it, I started to shine. Always assumed I was Dark Autumn bc I am more neutral in my undertones, but the olive/ashy skin colour totally makes sense.
I still shy away from bright and cool colours which often are included in these palettes (magenta/fuchsia for example) but Navy and Burgundy are my go tos.