Our lives are surrounded by colours. We look up to a blue or grey sky; we might choose a brown or red couch; or we might own a white or black cat.
Often, we wear colours to reflect a style or mood. However, not all colours are suitable for everyone. Even your favourite may not work for you. This is where colour analysis comes in.
Colour analysis uses a person's physical traits to decide if they fall into the warm category or the cool category. Further analysis will put them into one of four categories - summer, winter, autumn or spring.
'It is based on the science of colours and uses the Munsell system. We test people to see which group [of colours] they fall into, based on their hair, eyes and skin tones,' says Eve Roth Lindsay, managing director of Savvy Style, Colour Me Beautiful in Central, and a Glamour Guru for Young Post.
Albert H. Munsell, an American artist in the 1900s, invented a numerical way to describe colours, based on HVC: hue, value and chroma. Hue is an attribute by which we distinguish, for example, red from green. Value is the lightness or darkness, ranging from pure black to pure white.
Chroma is saturation or how strong or weak a colour is. Munsell's system has been adopted by painters, fashion designers, makeup artists and other design professions.
Lindsay is one such follower. She helps clients find their perfect colours which they can use for make-up, clothing and accessories. 'Winter colours are cool and crisp, spring is full of bright new leaves and flowers, summer reminds us of the blue sky, and autumn makes us think of leaves changing colours.