“I Tried The Chat GPT Colour Analysis Trending On TikTok”

Why it’s trending

If you’ve ever looked into getting your colours done, you’ll soon realise that it’s not cheap. In London, colour analysis starts at around £100 and can go on to reach some pretty steep sums. So, if there’s a way to get all that insight from the comfort of your own home – and for free – it’s worth entertaining. It’s also a bit of fun. I mean, who doesn’t like being told what looks good on them?

How to do it

If you’re interested in giving it a go yourself, here’s how to do it.

Start by taking a selfie in natural light. Next, hit ‘edit’ on your photo, and use the colour picker tool to find the specific hex colour (AKA the # code) for your skin, hair and eyes. Then, enter all three numbers along with their corresponding area into Chat GPT and ask it which skin tone ‘season’ you are (in terms of summer, spring, autumn or winter). Next, ask which colours technically suit you most, along with those you might want to avoid.

*Of course, let’s remember this is a bit of fun so take Chat GPT’s recommendations with a [huge] pinch of salt.

I have to preface this by saying that I’m not a big fan of wearing colour. Baby blue and neutral tones, along with classic black and white, are about the only shades I have in my wardrobe (save for the occasional sunshine yellow piece), so colour analysis might not be my vibe generally. But hey, we move!

To start, it was a bit fiddly finding the right colour codes, with the colour picker. The tool somehow managed to find shades of brown in my eyes (my eyes are blue) – which shows that you have to be quite vigilant with the photo setup.

On the first attempt, Chat GPT told me I had an autumn skin tone, and recommended I wear the following colours: “warm earth tones like terracotta, olive green, and warm browns, as well as softer pastels like peach and dusty rose. Avoiding extremely cool or extremely warm colors might be beneficial.”

It also said to avoid cool shades and pastel tones because these might wash me out.

Here’s where I had to sense-check things… Given shades like peach and terracotta highlight the redness in my face, and pastel blue is about the only colour that seems to work on me, I thought this sounded off, so I tried again with another selfie in a slightly different light.

Sure enough, my season then changed to ‘Autumn’ or ‘Summer’. ” Summers typically have cool undertones and look good in soft, cool colors like pastels, icy blues, and lavender,” according to Chat GPT. So, basically, two opposing recommendations. And yes, maybe I’m a combination of the two, but I think the idea of colour analysis is to make things simpler, not more confusing.

One TikToker who shared a similar experience with ChatGPT recommended trying out colorwise.me instead. So I gave it a go and, voila, it told me I’m a ‘Classic Summer’ palette, and that the below shades supposedly suit me best. Do I love pinks, greys, teals and greens? Absolutely not, but hey, it feels like it makes a bit more sense than terracotta.