Hue Are You?
We're here to help college students discover how understanding their personal color palette through color analysis can lead to greater confidence and improved focus. With the demands of classes and deadlines, wearing colors that naturally enhance your features can make it easier to feel put-together, energized, and ready to take on the day.
Photo courtesy of Mitch West
Color Analysis
Color analysis is the process of identifying the colors, usually in clothing, makeup, and accessories, that best complement a person’s natural features. Specifically their skin tone, eye color, and hair color. The goal is to help individuals choose colors that enhance their natural appearance and make them look more vibrant.
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House of Colour is a UK-based company that specializes in personal color and style analysis. Through a structured, science-backed approach rooted in color theory, House of Colour provides clients with personalized seasonal color palettes.
Cost Breakdown
​Individual Session: $300 for approximately 2 hours.
Two-Person Session: $600 total ($300 per person) for about 3 hours.
Three-Person Session: $900 total ($300 per person) for around 4 hours.
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What's Included in a Color Analysis Session?
Personalized Color Palette: A fabric fan or leather wallet containing your best colors for clothing, makeup, and accessories.
Comprehensive Style Guide: A booklet with tailored advice on makeup choices, jewelry, and hair color that complement your unique coloring.
Expert Guidance: A detailed process to uncover the colors in clothing and makeup that make you look your best.
Darcie Zauha
Color Analyst and Stylist
House of Colour | West Omaha
"I don’t like being told what to do when it comes to clothes. I liked being able to grab clothes in my season and know they would harmonize automatically. I liked the simplicity of knowing what to wear and knowing it would look good on me and I wanted to help others find that."
Are You Interested In Getting Your Color Analysis Done?
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Cindy Ronspies
South Lincoln, Nebraska
Expertly Trained Stylist & Color Analyst
Kacie Loverude
Papillion, Nebraska
Expertly Trained Stylist & Color Analyst
Jordan Peppmuller
East Lincoln, Nebraska
Expertly Trained Stylist & Color Analyst
Nikaela Schroeder
West Omaha, Nebraska
Expertly Trained Stylist & Color Analyst
Seasonal Breakdown
Skin: Blue and pink undertones
Hair: Ashy blonde or light brown
Eyes: Gray, blue, soft hazel
Best Colors: Dusty rose, lavender, cool blues, soft grays
Summer (Cool & Soft)
Skin: Golden or olive undertones
Hair: Dark red, auburn, golden brown, deep blonde
Eyes: Green, brown, amber
Best Colors: Mustard, olive, rust, warm browns, cream
Autumn (Warm & Deep)
Skin: Blue or pink undertones
Hair: Dark brown to black, or very cool blonde
Eyes: Icy blue, dark brown, gray
Best Colors: Jewel tones like emerald, cobalt, fuchsia, black, white
Winter (Cool & Clear)
Skin: Peachy or golden undertones
Hair: Light blonde, strawberry blonde, light auburn, warm brown
Eyes: Blue, green, aqua, light hazel, or topaz
Best Colors: Coral, salmon, golden yellow, warm turquoise
Spring (Warm & Light)
How Does It Work?
Color analysis is based on Color Theory. Color theory is the study of how colors interact, the feelings they evoke, and how they can be combined to create visual harmony. Color analysis explains how colors interact with one another and how they relate to human features like skin tone, hair, and eyes. Colors are factored based on three principles: ​
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Temperature
Temperature refers to the perceived warmth or coolness of a color. It’s a way to describe how a color feels rather than its actual temperature.
Warm Vs. Cool
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Depth
Depth refers to the visual sense of dimension created through the use of color. Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.
Light Vs. Deep
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Clarity
Clarity refers to how clear, distinct, and vivid a color appears. It's often used to describe how easy it is to perceive a color in a composition
Clear Vs. Muted
Photo courtesy of Mitch West
Methodology
The Draping Method
The draping method for color analysis is a hands-on technique used to determine which colors best complement a person’s natural features.
Video courtesy of Mia Bowling
This method involves placing various colored fabric swatches or drapes next to an individual’s face to see how each color interacts with their skin tone, eye color, and hair color.
Video courtesy of Mia Bowling
Video courtesy of Mia Bowling
The ultimate goal is to select colors that enhance an individual's natural features to create a harmonious and flattering overall appearance. By choosing shades that complement one's natural beauty.
More Color Analysis Methods:
12-Season Color Analysis
This method is a more detailed expansion of the four-season system and breaks it down into 12 sub-seasons. It includes variations such as Cool Winter, Warm Winter, Light Spring, and others.
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The 12-Season Color Analysis provides a more nuanced understanding of someone's ideal color palette, helping to tailor recommendations based on the intensity, contrast, and undertones in a person’s natural coloring.
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This system is particularly useful for individuals whose coloring doesn’t fit neatly into one of the basic four seasons.
Cost: $150-$500
The Color Wheel Method
The Color Wheel Method uses the classic color wheel to analyze a person’s undertones. It focuses on selecting complementary, analogous, or contrasting colors based on their position on the color wheel.
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A person’s undertone (cool or warm) is identified first, and then colors that either complement or contrast their undertones are chosen. For example, people with warm undertones often look great in colors like golden yellow, orange, and brown, while people with cool undertones shine in colors like blue, purple, and green.
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This method can be more simplistic than other methods but can still provide valuable guidance, especially when pairing colors for outfits or makeup.
Cost: $100-$500
The Fitting Room Method
Color Typology
The Fitting Room Method is used in retail and involves trying on clothing in different colors to see which ones look the best in natural lighting.
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This method relies on real-time observation, with customers viewing themselves in a full-length mirror while wearing various colors in the store. The focus is often on seeing how different colors complement the natural features under store lighting, which can sometimes give immediate feedback.
Cost: $200-$500
This method takes into account not only the person’s undertone but also their overall "color profile," considering various elements such as intensity, value (lightness or darkness), temperature (warm or cool), and clarity of their natural coloring.
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Color Typology provides a highly personalized approach, analyzing how your overall features work together to create a unique color identity or “color DNA.” It’s designed to ensure that the individual wears colors that bring out the best in their specific combination of features, focusing on skin tone, eye color, and hair color in more dynamic ways.
Cost: $100-$300
SURVEY RESULTS
We surveyed 75 college students from a wide range of different majors, ages and genders.
Would you be interested in getting your colors done?
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Have you gotten your color analysis done?
98%
of college students believe that knowing their colors has positively impacted both their confidence and style.
Hue Review
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Students
Alison Day | Junior | Spring
"Knowing what looks good against my skin tone and what colors look good on my body, make it so much easier to pick out clothes everyday."
Charli Coil | Sophomore | Winter
"It was so much easier to shop knowing what jewelry, makeup, and clothes look good. I know what section to shop in rather than wondering around aimlessly."
Kamryn Crouch | Junior | Summer
"When I wear something in my palette and one of my WOW colors I get so many compliments and I know its because it looks good on me."
Maddie John | Sophomore | Autumn
"Knowing what shades and tones my makeup and hair should be has boosted my confidence and makes me feel better about myself."
We Did It!
WARM AUTUMN
Photo courtesy of Abby Dragoo
Taggart Wilson's color analysis reveals a distinctive and warm aesthetic. With brown eyes that have a golden hue, dark hair with an ashy undertone, and fair to medium skin, Taggart's natural coloring aligns with the characteristics of an Autumn season. This classification is based on the warm, golden undertones that shine through his features, creating a harmonious connection with nature's rich, earthy tones.
As an Autumn, Taggart's ideal color palette consists of deep, warm shades that evoke the beauty of fall. Think burnt oranges, golden browns, warm terracottas, and olive greens. These colors complement his natural warmth, enhancing his overall appearance by harmonizing with the richness of his complexion, eyes, and hair. Soft, muted tones like camel, mustard yellow, and rust also work well, highlighting his warm undertones without overwhelming his features.
