Colour Analysis: Build a Kitchen That Complements You

17 Feb 2025

It seems every beauty influencer is getting a colour analysis on TikTok or YouTube right now. If you’re unfamiliar with the trend, it’s simple: someone visits a “colour analyst” who helps them carry out a seasonal colour analysis to determine what clothing and makeup colours suit them best.

Why hire a professional? In essence, finding “your colour” is said to accentuate your strongest features, improving your looks. What’s more, your favourite colours won’t necessarily match your best ones according to colour-consultation rules, so finding what complements you isn’t easy to do without “expert” knowledge.

Straightforward, but is it legit? Is even a free colour analysis worth it? Today at Sigma 3 Kitchens, we cover everything, including whether picking the right colours for your kitchen can improves how others perceive you. So, read on for the ultimate guide, plus the scientific verdict on colour analyses.

An Ashbourne Light Grey and Oxford Blue range by Sigma 3 Kitchens Cardiff East

Colour Palette Analysis: How It Works

Colour analysts follow a logical playbook. After you search “colour analysis near me” and book an appointment, you will usually get to choose between an online colour analysis or a salon appointment.

If you choose the latter option, an analyst with a beauty-adjacent businesses will then welcome you into a sterile room and perform their personal colour analysis, which they’ll split into three phases:

• Assessing your skin tone, hair colour and eye colour
• Identifying the “season” that reflects your facial features
• Recommending harmonious colours that complement you

While they’re working, analysts will hold swatch books of coloured fabrics under your chin to help them deduce whether you suit “cool” or “warm” tones. In doing so, they will identify your “season,” with the end goal of revealing the colour palette that will best complement it.

Although analysts typically portray a sense of authority, it’s possible to deduce your own season by identifying which basket of grouped features describe you. The system is simple once you know it. Hence, here we’ve identified the features for each season, as well as the colours that suit them.

Spring Colour Analysis

According to most guides, someone with a medium skin tone, blonde, copper or light brown hair, and blue, green or light hazel eyes has a spring palette. In that case, a tonal colour analysis would indicate that warm and bright colour analysis swatches make a good match.

A Hawksmoor Sea Salt range and a H-Line Sutton Autumn Blush range.

Peach, yellow-gold, turquoise and coral all complement a “spring” face. Take this Hawksmoor Sea Salt range or this H-Line Sutton Autumn Blush ensemble. Both use pastels but are still striking because they follow the key to a spring colour analysis: avoid dark or muted colours.

Summer Colour Analysis

Do you have light-to-medium skin with pink or blue undertones, ash blonde, light brown or soft grey hair, and blue, grey or hazel eyes? If so, you’ll suit summer colours. Compared to the spring range, it’s best to make these muted. Think lavender, soft blue, rose or pastel pink.

A H-Line Lumina White range by Sigma 3 Abergavenny

Not too warm or bold, this H-Line Lumina range’s Coastal Mist doors and steel handles perfectly sum up the colour scheme an analyst would prescribe to someone with a cool summer colour analysis result. Forget the elusive British summertime. Using these colours, summer will be a year-round affair!

Autumn Colour Analysis

In most cases, golden, olive or darker skin will give you an autumn colour analysis result, alongside red or auburn hair, and dark brown or green eyes. If that sounds like you, we’re sure you’ll… ahem…  fall for our true autumn colour palette, which favours earthy colours and natural tones.

A H-Line Madoc Urban Suede range and a H-Line Ligna Farmhouse Oak range by Sigma 3 Esher

Imagine any colour you’d see during a walk in an autumnal park and you can’t go far wrong. Popular autumn colour analysis palette choices include olive, mustard and chocolate brown, for both rustic and modern kitchens. Unlike spring and summer, this is one case where you want to avoid cool pastels.

Winter Colour Analysis

Hair colour often takes precedence when assigning a winter colour analysis palette. This is because winter is the season of high contrast, and the most notable facial feature is hair. Hence, if you have dark brown, black or silver hair, with brown, blue or cool hazel eyes, you’re likely a winter.

A Solva Graphite range by Sigma 3 Kitchens Cardiff West

Only an equally high-contrast kitchen can accentuate a winterfolk’s features. Thus, in this case, you need to focus on black and white. If you do opt for colours, bold ones work best, like navy or a striking ruby or sapphire – anything that isn’t muted.

"This Solva Graphite kitchen range [above] has a white quartz worktop and silver D handles – ideal for those who love high-contrast backdrops. When I designed it, I added in-frame Shaker doors, which balanced out the minimalist workspaces, amplifying the effect."

Colour Analysis: The Science Explained

Understanding how to identify your “season” is simple, right? But does science actually back up getting a colour analysis for your skin tone, hair colour and eye colour? Well, we’ve read the research papers and unearthed the conclusion: most studies lack a big enough sample size to confirm or deny.

According to one of the more reputable studies by researchers, who used electrodes to monitor brain activity in 18 participants, different colour combinations do stimulate the brain in a variety of ways. And while their results showed a link between colour harmony and perceived pleasantness, it’s weak.

What does that mean for you? In essence, while you can take a scientific approach, the impact of personal preference overshadows any impact you might get by following a colour analyst’s advice. If you feel good in it, you’ll look good in it. So, whether you’re choosing a kitchen or your wardrobe, choose whatever colour you like best.

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