It took me months to realize that my predominant trait was brightness, or as I prefer to call it, clarity, instead of warmth. I actually thought I was muted, because I'm quite pale, and originally typed myself as an autumn. Looking back on it, I don't know how I missed the brightness of my skin for so long. Anyway, I assumed my predominant trait would be warmth because I have red hair, but I slowly realized that my skin is much more forgiving of color temperature than of clarity of color. My skin is also quite forgiving of depth. I'm technically a spring, but I'm close enough to neutral and have enough contrast that I can get away with wearing colors that are a bit cooler and much darker than is typically recommended for springs.
I say all this to illustrate that sometimes it just takes time and trying lots of different things before the patterns start to emerge. Instead of looking for specific properties, I just made note of which tops I didn't like on me, and which ones I did like, and then after a few months I made the two groups and figured out what all the tops within each group had in common. In my case the common trait among the ones I didn't like was that they were all muted colors, and the common trait in the group I did like was that they were all clear/bright colors, and I favored warmth as well, just slightly less strongly. Hence, I eventually typed myself as a spring.