What goes around comes around, and winter is coming

Color draping seems to be all the rage again these days. I’ve known that I am a winter since I was first draped in the 1980s, but there was always a question in my mind because my eyes are bright green and my hair color is dark auburn . As for lipstick, I don’t suit the darker shades of the winter palette, and the lighter shades don’t work well either. Recently, there have been additions made to the color draping world, and now, instead of the 4 seasons, there are 12 to choose from . Each season now has 3 different types. For winter, you can be a true winter, a dark winter, or a bright winter . And now my original draping as a winter makes sense to me. I’m a bright winter, which is the lightest of the winters. On the chart below, you will see it sits between true winter and bright spring.

What this means, if you are a bright winter, is you should think about your color palette like this. What happens when you bring spring into winter?  The bright winter palette is cool toned, the hue is mid toned, and the chroma is bright or highly saturated. Bright winter can even wear neons. We can also look good in some of the colors from true winter and bright spring. If you’re unsure about a shade, no matter what season you fall under, I highly recommend Christine Scaman and her youtu.be channel. She recently did a comprehensive dive into teals and blue/green for all of the seasons. She also has a website 12blueprints.com that is a fantastic resource and includes her youtu.be videos.

Since lipstick was always a hit and miss proposition for me for the past 40 years or so, I thought I’d share 13 shades of Revlon lipsticks that are perfect for the bright winter palette I wore no makeup for these photos except the lipstick shade noted below each photo and included Revlon’s official description of each shade . It’s recommended for bright winter gals to wear lipstick with a sheen and not matte, which works for me as I tend towards dry lips .

Cherries in the snow, originally launched in 1953. Revlon describes it as a creamy fuchsia, I would say dark fuchsia.

The last two shades are from the super lustrous glass shine lipstick line and I highly recommend it for older women as it’s a lovely balmy formula that is extremely comfortable to wear, however it will have to be touched up more frequently. The other shades are from Revlon’s super lustrous lipsticks, and they wear longer.

I hope this helps other bright winter women with some choices of lipstick that not only work but are affordable and easy to find.