Can your colour season change as you age or change?

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So I had my colours done a while ago, and I really enjoyed the process. I came out as a soft autumn, and I had brunette hair and green eyes. I bought lots of clothes that fit that season, but then I got cancer and now I have short grey hair and am a bit paler, I think. ChatGPT has bought me out as a summer instead, a soft summer. Obviously none of the clothes I have now fit or suit me. I wondered if we can change season as we get older or go through body changes.

Sorry to hear about your illness. I hope you have made/are making a full recovery 💐

I had my colours done 30 years apart and am still winter. When I first had them done it was just the four seasons with no sub divisions. The second session revealed that I am a jewel winter.

Not much had changed except the colour hyacinth from the first time round was wrong, and the consultant added emerald green to my colour palette.

Thanks @RampantIvy I am recovering well. Your palate sounds lovely!

I guess I will have to to and try some stuff on

You won’t ever move out of the season. However you could change within the season. For example a young jewel winter, might move into more of a burnished winter as she gets older as hair and skin colour fade and change

Just to add though, that grey hair can be confusing re seasons.
you’ll still be a warm season because of your warm toned skin (if the autumn analysis was correct) but grey hair does change our overall look quite a bit. If your grey hair is cooler toned than your hair used to be, then it potentially will change how you see yourself in those autumn colours and confuse things. But if you went to summer clothing, that would probably look wrong with your skin tone. I’d stick with the autumn pallette if you think that was right, but potentially look at other colours within it.
i definitely find that some of the brighter winter colours suit me less than they did when I was younger, and I can even get away with some summer colours which previously would have been too soft for me, but the winter pallette remains the best for me. I’d never move to spring or autumn colours ever though as they’re just so wrong next to my face

there are a range of shades of every colour in your season. I’d suggest you may suit some of the lighter/ more muted ones now but your overall skin tone and eye colour won’t have changed.
hope you make a good recovery op x

I was analysed as a paintbox spring when I was 40 (bright spring now I think). My skin tone was always neutral but my contrast was high.

10 years later I got an online analysis and came out as a true summer. My contrast levels have reduced - I have sort of faded a bit. Summer made a bit more sense because I have pale skin, grey eyes and light brown hair but I know it’s about more than that.

anyway, have definitely moved away from the very bright colours to more of the ‘blue spring’ end of things and suit a lot of the stronger summer colours as much.

there is the tonal colour system which I find works for me a bit better (I think I’m a light).

From my experience the soft aspect blurres the boundaries. I am a soft summer (icy-blue eyes like a vampire from a low budget horror film, ash blonde) but my skin has a very obvious warm undertone so I often wear soft autumn colours. I look like Peppa Pig in cool toned makeup.

Your season won't change but your subseason can. I've morphed from a brighter anemone summer twenty odd years ago to a brown summer.

If your skin is obviously warm, I’d question your summer analysis. You can’t really be a summer if cool toned make up looks awful and you have warm toned skin.
I think hair can be a bit of a red herring sometimes.

The only thing I know for sure is that I am soft. My skin is very fair and I usually use a mix of neutral-toned and warm foundation. I have visibly blue veins and warm brown freckles.

Hi OP,

I am so sorry that you have been ill! That's terrible. How traumatic for you! Sending you lots of hugs xxx 💐 If it helps, I had the opportunity recently to ask an oncologist if we might ever cure cancer, and he said that many are cured but that, even among those who are terminal, we are turning it into something that you live a natural lifespan with, like HIV. And that treatments are getting better every year.

Here are some useful links that I thought you might like. The first talks about soft autumn and soft summer in terms of how they relate to each other - they are sister sub-seasons, which means they are right next to each other on the season flowchart. That website has a ton of information. The last two links specifically address greying hair and how it affects your colour analysis.

https://theconceptwardrobe.com/colour-analysis-comprehensive-guides/soft-autumn-a-comprehensive-guide

https://stylesolutionsforyou.com/blog/does-your-color-season-change

https://insideoutstyleblog.com/2022/02/warm-vs-cool-grey-hair-and-how-going-grey-may-change-your-wardrobe-choices.html#:~:text=Warm%20Grey%20vs%20Cool%20Grey,compared%20to%20my%20cooler%20grey.&text=In%20fact%2C%20when%20Alison%20dropped,change%20how%20your%20grey%20appears.

Once you've sorted out what colours suit you best now, if you can afford it I think you should buy yourself from nice new clothes.

I have. Was a true winter - blue-white flawless skin, piercing blue eyes, dark brunette with no warmth.

With age my hair has faded to a red base - not much grey yet, my skin's more beige than white, eyes don't seem as blue but that might just be the contrast with my skin.

I used to wear jewel colours but only bright teal suits me now, been recoloured as a summer.

Thank you so much for this, it makes a lot of sense.

You know what, I think i will have a little shopping trip once radiotherapy is out the way.

I think people do tend to get cooler and softer, and soft summer/soft autumn are right next to each other anyway. BUT everyone I have asked ChatGPT about has come out as ‘soft summer’, so I’m dubious!

You definitely should! Cherish yourself a little, dear OP.

Ah interesting! Claude has me as cool too or neutral. Bit confusing! I might just go for what i like like in the old days

You dont change season, you just start to suit the lighter/more muted colours from your colour pallet as you age and your skin, eyes and hair start to lose intensity.

For example, a warm spring could veer more towards a light spring.

I am on the border of soft summer / soft autumn. If you can, get your colours done again in person as a post-treatment treat. Then you’ll feel more confident shopping. X