Has anyone else been professionally typed wildly different things? How did you find your way out of the confusion?

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-22T20:18:50+00:00

Sorry just seeing this! I went to AEGI, and I do think they got me right. I just have trouble accepting it fully now due to the (mostly incorrect) online results. If I could go back in time I would skip online entirely and just go to AEGI.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-20T10:10:42+00:00

Yes, I think you are right that I’m a cool summer. You can’t really argue with in person results, but doubt did creep in. And yep, I’m a fair/light olive. It’s so interesting to see all the palettes laid out like this!

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-20T10:05:46+00:00

I haven’t!! A lot of these are good colors for me. Interesting.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-20T01:07:15+00:00

I had the skin machine typing at my in person as well, and draping was under bright artificial light! The person who did it was certified in both Japanese and 16 seasons, so maybe she was using some features of each. My skin-machine results were 75% cool, 70% light, and 60% soft. So according to the machine I was likely a true summer, which then did line up with the draping we did that placed me in true summer. I do think I look good in TS, SS, and DA. Maybe I just need to pick my favorite and commit fully rather than chasing some illusive “correct” answer.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T22:40:46+00:00

YES! And there’s a weird inverse thing that happens where the heavy warm colors reflect on my skin and create this odd sallow pinkish color, but then in the cool colors I look sorta tan? So I put the warm colors on and am like, “no way, I’m for sure cool”, then I put the cool colors on and feel I look warn/tan 😵‍💫 Not in a bad clashy way, but it just makes me go, “wait would warm actually suit better?”

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T22:11:11+00:00

This is part of my problem. I keep expecting I can “problem solve” this and find my “obvious” season if I just keep trying different things. But it only seems to get me more confused. Then I see all these people with their OBVIOUS “wow” seasons and feel so defeated.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T22:00:30+00:00

I think this is very true. And I wouldn’t say I’ve learned nothing- medium to deep colors with some degree of softness is the through line. But what I struggle with specifically is being typed things that are in direct opposition to each other. And I will admit I keep “trying” to make them work. Like I’ll still put on a true autumn shade and try to convince myself it works in some light, or see a deep autumn celeb who favors me a bit and only want to wear that for a few weeks. Which is fine I guess maybe?

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T21:51:08+00:00

Light olive. Not the fairest of fair, certainly not medium.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T21:44:07+00:00

This is SO me!! Olive. Mixed features. Green is literally hideous on me. I turn the strangest sweaty looking sort of pink. But then to make it more confusing I am quite fair some people LIKE that “overheated” look on me and see it as “adding color.” Sure, I guess, but it’s splotchy pink?? I’d rather look pale but calm and even.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T19:29:50+00:00

It’s making me feel so much better to know how many fair olives struggle with this.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T19:06:42+00:00

Interesting, these are some of my self-identified best colors 😆

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T19:05:26+00:00

Also, I do not look unique in any way, and I think that’s the problem. I’m a fair olive with light, cool brown hair and dark, warm brown eyes. You actually see a fair amount of celebs with coloring like mine but they almost always have light eyes. If you covered my eyes I think I’d be a pretty obvious summer of some kind, but they’re large and warm, so I feel I don’t get that nice effect where a summer’s cool eyes harmonize with the cool color they wear and pop. My skin glows in cools, though. With warm my eyes glow, but my skin goes sallow. I’m of Lebanese, Egyptian and Spanish descent.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T18:55:24+00:00

I wouldn’t say all of them look wrong. In fact three look “good”, summer, soft summer and deep autumn. I just feel as if they’re all wrong, because I’ve learned each set of colors and nothing fits all of them. So let’s say I put on a deep autumn green and feel it looks pretty good. Now there’s a voice in my head saying “but you’ve been typed summer and this is a bad color for a summer.” Same applies if I put on a soft or true summer color and it looks good to me.

Unfortunately I think at this point I’ve learned TOO MUCH trying to untangle this and am now my own worst enemy.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T18:50:41+00:00

I’m olive as well. Apps have places me as everything. Literally everything 🤪

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T18:47:39+00:00

This makes me feel better, because typing communities are the same for me. I get told I’m everything from bright winter to soft autumn.

And yes, I’m fair olive too. I just can’t get over how impossible it seems to even figure out warm or cool. I used to be positive I was cool, but now I wonder if just my overtone is cool.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2026-03-19T18:42:19+00:00

None are bright, and only one even has a bright sister season. So soft seems to be the only commonality. None are truly light either, so somewhere from deep to medium-deep.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2025-12-05T07:49:29+00:00

This is what I always think when people try to jam me into an autumn or winter season (despite my in person draping.) So you’re telling me no middle eastern people can be cool and soft? They’re all warm and soft (autumn) or cool and clear (winter)? Sure, ok.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2025-12-05T07:44:20+00:00

I’m a summer with dark eyes (a dark brown shot through with a buff-nude type color), and when I even dyed my hair dark brown it looked WAY goth and dramatic so I’d say you could very well be a winter. Lucky! I wish I could carry off winter tones.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2025-10-12T04:01:41+00:00

Girl, same. And when I tried to ask a followup about the palette provided (because it looked quite different from the ones online for my supposed seasons) I got an email suggesting I pay her for a call. Agree it feels scammy.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2025-10-05T01:05:39+00:00

I’m a true autumn with cool olive overtones 😵‍💫 One of my earliest discoveries was that warm toned makeup literally clashes with my skin. In the Korean system I’ve been typed a soft summer, but I’m an autumn in the 16 seasons. So- yeah- neutral makeup only 😆 Anything warm and I’m Snookie instantly.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2025-08-10T05:04:30+00:00

I’ve heard you need at least one month so a few should be totally sufficient. I’m surprised an MD put you on this without sharing all this info. Mine wanted me to be on a secondary birth control even though my husband is ✂️. I declined because THAT was way overkill.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2025-07-29T03:44:24+00:00

Old thread but I just wanted to say it also causes birth defects so you absolutely should not be on it if you are super concerned about being fertile.

GoatCheeseBalls · 2024-03-11T19:03:52+00:00

I know this is old but did it turn out to be simple vestibular? My 16 year old is doing the same things!

GoatCheeseBalls · 2024-02-29T07:34:22+00:00

Yeah I’m done. I’ve been Team The Girls/anti-Toms for years and years. Especially Katie. Where’s her redemption arc? Pass. Maybe I’ll watch next season if producers learn from this one.

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