Here’s mine:
When I was younger and my mom still bought my clothes for me, I would make an effort to wear everything she bought so I would get use out of it. I would always gravitate away from lighter colors especially, but didn’t really understand why. I liked the colors themselves, but not when I wore them. I eventually stopped wearing those colors altogether.
Fast forward a few years and I’m either watching or thinking about a movie (don’t really remember the specifics here). Quite a few of the 2000s and 2010s movies I watched had scenes with girls mentioning they were a “winter” or an “autumn”, and I had always wondered what that meant. I finally decided to google it, and everything from before made sense. I began looking for my own season (and I think that’s how I found this subreddit).
Light and bright colors are the worst for me. They both make my face look shadowy. I quickly narrowed my seasons down to deep winter, any of the autumns, or soft summer. I assumed I was one of the deep subseasons (as many darker-skinned people do), and spent a good amount of time deciding between deep winter and autumn. I noticed I leaned warm, but cool colors weren’t terrible, so I decided on deep autumn. For a few years, I had the mindset that this was my season, and bought clothing in the appropriate colors, but it never felt completely right.
A few weeks ago I was virtually trying on glasses. I went to the website assuming gold, dark brown, and other warm and dark colors would work best for me. To my surprise, rose gold and muted medium browns actually worked best. I tried glasses on in person, and had the same experience. Dark brown was too harsh. I recently got a multicolor pack of scrunchies, and there’s one that’s an orange-ish dusty rose, or maybe “warm mauve”, color. Again, to my surprise, this made me GLOW.
After years of thinking I was a deep autumn, I’m starting to think I may actually be a soft autumn!
How common is it to go years thinking you’re one season when you’re actually another?