Can a Colour Analysis be Done Online?

In case you hadn’t noticed colour analysis is having a moment. However, in this current digital world we live in full of apps and AI can you really do a Colour Analysis online and get an accurate result? 

Adverts are constantly popping up on my socials telling me to download an app, simply upload a photo and I will be given a diagnosis. So guess what, I thought I would try it myself. 

First, I thought I would give AI a try. So, I took a photo of my bare face in natural light and asked Chat GPT to tell me which season I was in. 

You can guess what happened right?

Funnily enough, AI got it wrong! It told me I was a winter, when in fact I’m a spring. 

My hair is very dark, and it seems AI based its analysis upon this. It’s seen dark hair and a light skin, presumed a cool skin tone and diagnosed a winter. 

Although I have light skin I have a warm skin tone, and I have a yellow undertone to my skin. Something that cannot be detected unless you see someone face to face in the flesh, a computer can not work out or even guess your undertone.

I also have warm tones to my hair, although it’s very dark it has lots of red running through it making it warm not cool. Also, something a computer can’t detect. 

So far: computer 0 - Style by KPA 1.

Next, I decided to complete an online survey to determine my season, Can you tell I fell down a rabbit hole with this? 

This time I came out as an Autumn. I can only presume that this was based upon having warm brown hair and brown eyes. It didn’t ask me about the undertone of my skin at all, it asked me about my overtone (something that can change seasonally) but not my undertone which for me is the determining factor. 

Update: computer 0 - Style by KPA 2.

When I’m running a Colour Analysis session I am primarily analysing your skin tone. The undertone of your skin is the most important factor to me. Your hair colour can change and so will the overtone of your skin at various times of year but your undertone is your DNA, that’s why I make it central to all that I do.

This is something that can’t be determined from a photo or questionnaire, it can only be done face to face and observing how your skin reacts to my coloured drapes and I’m often not just looking at your face, I’m looking at the back of your neck, the inside of your wrist where your skin is less impacted by environmental factors. 

So in answer to my initial question; Can Colour Analysis be done accurately online? 

No, it can’t! You can go through the process but the outcome will most probably be incorrect.

Not a week goes by where I don’t meet a lady for a Colour Analysis session and she tells me she’s tried to figure it out online, and guess what? Every time that online diagnosis is wrong.

There is a minefield of information about Colour Analysis online, not to mention two different systems, quite frankly it's all very confusing. The best and only way is to see how your skin tone reacts to drapes and see it happening in the flesh with someone who is trained in the subject.

Plus computers can’t give you all the added information that you will get from a Qualified Colour Analyst. They won’t give you hints and tips on how to pair colours together, how to wear colour with confidence and the best make-up shades for you. 

So if you want to have your colours done go and see a qualified Colour Analyst or Personal Stylist who will run a bespoke session leaving you full of colour confidence and feeling like a million dollars. 

If you would like to know more about a KPA Colour Analysis session please contact me on 07968 177 576 or karen@stylebykpa.com I am a qualified Personal Stylist and Colour Analyst. I run individual and duo Colour Analysis sessions from my Style Studio in Kings Langley, Herts. I also run colour parties across Herts, Beds, Bucks and North London upon request.