How Do I Know If My Coloring Is Warm or Cool?

Back in the day, when color analysis was on everyones´lips, I was training people from all walks of life on colors and how they can be used for their benefit.

Everyone seems to understand that everything is vibrations and frequency, including colors. When colors are in harmony, like they are in nature, we take it for granted that we feel good looking at it.

The more I think about it, I feel that there must also be a connection with colors and health. We feel good when we are healthy. Books have been written about color and health and color therapy is nothing new.

Beauty attracts everyone and beauty is most often made up of colors, but we don´t seem to take notice of that.

A Difference in Color

People live all over the world. There are many colors of people and there is a reason for that. Different people from different parts of the world have different coloring. Just like animals and plants. We tend to have a coloring that makes us fit into our surroundings.

For the past years, people have been moving around the globe like they used to move only within their own country.

This has created a lot of problems that never existed before.

People are afraid of things they haven´t seen or experienced before. This is true also when people are meeting people, who are not the same color as they are.

We seem to be in a stage that all people of the world are mixing with each other. Therefore, their colors are mixing too.

What can be the result of this in the following hundreds of years? My guess is that there will only be one color of people because of the law of color.

When you mix up enough colors for a long time, they become one single color. This must be the case for the coloring of people too.

I´m sure that for the next hundred of years or more, we still have different colors of people.

It is quite new for people to think that they also have a coloring. As far as I know, it was only in the 1980s that color analysis was discovered. There is much more to what was discovered when we started to categorize people according to color with the “4 Seasons” thinking.

It was a brilliant “ahaa” moment to put the colors of people into four categories and name them according to the seasons. The seasons had similar colors as people. It was simple. Therefore, many people “got it”.

Except, people wanted to simplify the system even more. That did not work out very well.

When starting out with something new, it takes time and experience. Time will tell which way things go.

Mother Nature is the Best Judge

Today, we know much more about how colors work with different colors of people.

We need to look at nature and learn from what we see, feel and hear. Mother Nature was here before us and will be when we have left.

The same system that has worked always in nature, works also with people. The problem is that people think they are superior to Mother Nature. We need to wake up and start working with Mother Nature instead of against it.

Every person can do their little bit. We need to recognize that color is much more than just color. Colors are quiet vibrations and frequencies that have an effect on everything. Also, on people and their wellbeing. We have a quiet energy in the background at all times.

Just because most people don´t feel or hear colors, it doesn´t mean that it is not possible for them to exist. For years, I didn´t dare tell anyone that I hear the colors snapping when I worked with them. One reason being that I didn´t understand what the snapping sound was.

A Turning Point in Understanding

One turning point in my understanding was when a mother brought her blind teenage daughter to color analysis at my studio. At the time, I didn´t think that it was peculiar because the mother could see and therefore would be her “eyes” at the session as well as when going shopping for her.

That session gave me a new view on things. The girl wanted to touch each color that was put on her and feel how it felt. That was new to me. I learned a lot during that color analysis sesson.

She was feeling the colors and responding by smiling to the colors that “agreed” with her coloring. She frowned when I put colors, she didn´t like on her. Those colors were not resonating with her coloring.

That was the first time I started to understand that colors had a much bigger role in the world than just sitting there being pretty. Colors have a purpose. It is as if colors tie us to be a part of the world.

When we look at pictures of people and cities 100 years ago, we can see that the colors are more in harmony. Today colors are screaming.

This must have an influence on people and their wellbeing.

Who can stand screaming all day long? Nobody.

Training at a beauty school

I remember when I was training beauty school teachers on colors and how to find out which colors would be good for different colors of people. All seemed to go well, and I thought they understood the concept.

After a time, I found out that there must have been too much information in a too short of a time because the end result was not what I had expected.

As the result of our trainings all the students were “analysed” to see if the colors they needed were either Warm or Cool and nothing else!

It is a good start, of course, but for most people, Warm or Cool is not the issue. Warm and Cool are only two of the dominant color characteristics. Just as important are Clear, Soft, Light and Deep color characteristics.

A person´s coloring can resonate with e.g. Soft or Deep colors without them being Warm or Cool. This is because each person has more than one characteristic. Warm colors can also be Light or Deep. They can also be Soft or Clear.

That´s why it is easier to find your best colors by looking at your dominant color characteristic, which are: Light, Deep, Soft, Clear, Warm and Cool.

It is great that people are interested in colors and finding out which ones resonate with their own colors. Unfortunately, it is not as easy to know what the colors are saying to us. You need to see and compare similar colors to find out which ones love you back.

There is a reason why wolves are grey, and lions are yellowish. They belong and their coloring is an extension of where they live.

People are moving around the planet landing in places that don´t resemble the surroundings they are used to. Many are feeling out of place because of their coloring.

Everyone´s colors are beautiful, and they are exactly what they are supposed to be.

We are happier when we accept our own coloring for what it is and emphasize its beauty by using colors that resonate with it.

Today we are seeing too many colors that are screaming at us 24/7.

This cannot be healthy for anyone. We need nature´s way of being. Anyone can have access to this by not following the screaming, out of place coloring that has been the trend for too long.

There must be a change coming along soon.

I do hope so.

To answer your question of “How do I know if my coloring is warm or cool?” I can tell you that for most people it is not the dominant color characteristic most people need to pay attention to. The other four dominants: Light, Deep, Soft or Clear are equally, and many times more important.