A bad consultant will get your season wrong even in the most controlled environment in person.A good consultant will be able to seasonally type you even if they need to use pictures.Often in-person color analysis is the only way sci/art consultants will evaluate somebody’s seasonal type. It is not something a computer could do! But it’s considerably more systematic than other systems that work by elimination based on the client’s skin, eye and hair color.
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There is still a part of skill on the consultant’s ability to understand color and how the skin reacts to the different colors. It ignores typical preconceptions about eye and hair color and goes only by how the skin reacts to the drapes. Sci\ART™ analysts work in a colour neutral environment, use full spectrum lighting and cover themselves in grey clothes to make sure the only thing affecting the client’s skin is the drapes. The goal is to remove the consultant opinions from the mix, and use specially color coded drapes to compare the effects they have on the client’s skin. It was developed in 2000 by the late Kathryn Kalisz, and tries to make the process as systematic as possible. This school of color analysis claims to be closely based in the Munsell 3-dimensional color system. However, there is no hard numbers that would allow you to evaluate a person coloring, so at the end of the day two analysis may disagree.
At the end of the day, it is unlikely that one system claims a person is a Bright Spring, and in some other system she is analysed as a Soft Summer. While in theory you would get the same results on different systems, the palettes are different and you may suit one more than others.
There are several different 12 season color systems, and they have different methodologies. However, they don’t really exist in any of the mainstream 12 season color analysis systems.
There are reasons both in favour and against Spring/Autumn and Winter/Summer blends, and other systems such as the 16 seasons system try to make room for them. You may be wondering about some of the missing combinations, for example a muted spring or a higher contrast summer.