How it works
What used to require a booked appointment with a trained colour consultant now happens in under a minute. Here's exactly what the algorithm does with your photo.
A clear portrait is all you need
Take or upload a portrait in natural daylight — facing a window is ideal. No filters, no heavy makeup, no sunglasses. Your photo stays on your device the entire time and is never uploaded anywhere.
Your colouring zones are located
The algorithm identifies the key areas of your face — cheeks, forehead, jawline — and separates them from features that would distort a reading, like shadows, lips, and eyes. Everything runs privately in your browser, nothing is sent to our servers.
Your skin, eyes, and hair are read separately
Rather than averaging your entire face, each zone is sampled individually. Your eye colour and hair are measured separately too — because each contributes something distinct to your season. This is exactly how a trained consultant reads a client in person.
Four traits reveal your colour identity
Every person's colouring can be described across four dimensions: how warm or cool your undertone is, how light or deep your overall colouring runs, how clear or muted your natural hues are, and how much contrast exists between your hair and skin. Together, these place you in one of 12 seasons.
Your season is identified
Your four traits are matched against the 12-season database. The algorithm finds your closest season and returns a confidence score — the higher it is, the more clearly your traits align to a single season. When two seasons are close, both are shown.
Your palette is ready
Instantly see your season, your best colours, what to avoid, and why. Free results include your season name and a palette preview. Unlock the full report for your complete colour guide — wardrobe, makeup, style notes, and more.
The science behind the seasons
Personal color analysis traces its roots to the Munsell color system — a century-old framework that describes color in three independent dimensions: hue, value, and chroma. Suzanne Caygill brought it to fashion in the 1950s, and Carole Jackson's landmark book “Color Me Beautiful” (1980) made the four-season model a cultural phenomenon.
The modern 12-season system — refined by analysts like David Zyla and Kathryn Kalisz — breaks each season into three nuanced subseasons, capturing the full spectrum of human coloring with far greater precision than the original four.
Seasons
12 profiles
Skin zones
4 sampled
Time to result
~60 seconds
Processing
On your device
The same analysis. A fraction of the price.
A trained colour consultant charges $150–$500 for a session that follows the same 12-season methodology. ChromaMe puts that science in your hands — privately, instantly, and free to start.
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