Another Look at Vivid Autumn

Last week, we looked at deep spring/contrasting spring. This week, we are taking on clear/bright autumn or in Color Alliance terminology, vivid autumn.

Because I believe that a lot of women of color will be some combination of warm and clear and deep, I think I will be color analyzing a lot of vivid or contrasting springs and vivid or contrasting autumns. This summer, we discovered a famous pair of vivid autumns in the President and Mrs. Obama.

But there's also me, and my cutie-patootie son, who is a vivid rich autumn...

In Color Alliance, Vivid Autumn has a specific definition...

Vivid: Your skin, hair, and eye coloring is mid-value to dark. Your best color combinations are bright and dark colors worn together. Your best single colors are bright.

Autumn: Your coloring is warm, rich, and earthy. Your colors include rich harvest colors and slightly muted colors with golden undertones.

The name that goes in the middle is where your specific coloring comes in, whether your hair is reddish brown or black, your eyes a deep green or topaz, and your skin peachy or golden brown.  For example, the contrasting emeraude autumns whose fans are in my signature box below have green eyes.

As we head into fall, here are great outfit ideas for vivid autumn...

And here I am, wearing a couple of these vivid autumn colors...

By the way, there are always exceptions. As I have mentioned before, my beautiful mother, is not a vivid autumn. She is a light carmine autumn.

I am linking up today to BonBonRoseGirls for this week's Monday Mingle and to Not Dead, Yet Style for Visible Monday. On Tuesday, I will link up with Real Girl Glam. And on Wednesday, I will link up with Lindsey at The Pleated Poppy for What I Wore Wednesday, and Melaina at Transatlantic Blonde for What I Wore Wednesday.

Have you been wearing any autumn colors this season?

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"When we find the set that enhances you above all the others, what we have really uncovered are the exact pigments already in your skin, in your body. When you then wear the colors you already are, you look like magic because your person and your attire is sending the same wavelength of energy to the viewer." ~~Christine Scaman, 12 Blueprints