Free color analysis from one selfie: your exact season, palette and hex codes (ChatGPT)

Act as an experienced personal colour analyst. I've attached an unfiltered natural-light photo of myself. Work through this in order, and do not name a season until the last step.

1. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE. Only what's actually visible: the depth of my skin, the depth and tone of my hair, and my eye colour including any secondary tones in the iris.

2. UNDERTONE. Warm, cool, neutral-warm, neutral-cool or true neutral. Name the specific visual cues that took you there, like how my skin reads against the whites of my eyes or against anything white in the frame.

3. VALUE. How light or deep my overall colouring is.

4. CONTRAST. The gap between my hair, skin and eyes, as low, medium or high. This matters as much as undertone and almost nobody talks about it.

5. CHROMA. Whether my colouring is bright and clear or soft and muted.

6. SEASON. Only now, give me my two most likely seasons from the 12-season system, most likely first, and tell me exactly which of the above would settle it between them.

Then: tell me plainly what you could NOT determine from this photo, and whether anything in the lighting made this harder. Do not flatter me and do not soften a conclusion to be nice.

Using that reading, give me two lists with real hex codes, because colour names alone are useless when I'm shopping.

First, 15 colours that flatter me, grouped into my neutrals to build a wardrobe on, my power colours for near my face, and my accents for small doses. For each one give the name, the hex code, and one line on why it works with my undertone and contrast.

Second, 8 colours that work against me. Name each one, give the hex code, and say precisely what it does to my face, whether that's dulling my skin, pulling out redness, or flattening my features by sitting too close to my own contrast level.

Then add the practical bit: if I already own a lot of something on that second list, tell me how to keep wearing it. Away from my face, on my lower half, or with something flattering layered at the neckline.

Act as a professional hair colourist. Using my colouring from above, work out what hair colour actually suits me.

Start by identifying my natural depth on the professional level scale, 1 being black and 10 being the lightest blonde, and tell me what you're basing that on. Then name my underlying pigment, since levels 1 to 4 pull red, 5 to 6 pull orange, and 7 to 10 pull yellow when lifted. That's what decides how a colour turns out on me, not the picture on the box.

Then give me three directions: one that's a subtle shift from where I am now, one that's a bigger change, and one you'd talk me out of, with the reason. For each, give the depth level, the tone or reflect (ash, gold, copper, neutral, violet), and what it would do to my skin.

Finally, tell me what to actually say to a colourist so I don't get something different from what I meant.

Act as a makeup artist. Using my undertone and depth, build me a palette I can actually shop for.

Give me my foundation undertone in the language brands use, then blush, lip for everyday and lip for bold, eyeshadow tones, and eyeliner. For each one give the shade family, a hex code where it helps me picture it, and why it works on me.

Then the useful half: name the shades that fight my colouring and say what they do, so I stop buying them. And tell me the one shade in my palette that will do the most work if I only buy a single thing.

Act as a jeweller. Tell me which metals suit my colouring, but go past the gold-versus-silver binary, because that's a starting point rather than a rule.

Cover the default my undertone points to and why, then how finish changes it, since matte, brushed and polished versions of the same metal reflect differently against skin. Tell me whether I can wear the other metal too, and under what conditions. Then cover rose gold and mixed metals, and which stone colours sit well against my colouring.

Be specific about where it matters most, because a ring is a long way from my face and earrings are not.

Act as a hairdresser. From my photo, read my face shape and my hair texture, whether it's straight, wavy, curly or coily, and how fine or thick it looks.

Then give me three cuts that would work, and for each one explain what it's doing: where it adds width, where it takes it away, where the shortest point sits, and how much upkeep it needs in weeks between trims.

Also tell me one cut that gets recommended for my face shape that you'd actually avoid given my texture, because texture overrules face shape more often than people admit.

Act as a stylist working on necklines. Using my face shape, jawline and neck length from the photo, tell me which necklines and collars work on me and which fight me.

Cover crew, scoop, V, square, boat, turtleneck, collared shirt and open collar. For each, say what it does to my proportions rather than just yes or no.

Then give me the three I should default to, and the one I should be careful with plus how to make it work anyway, whether that's with a necklace, a layer, or an open button.

Act as a brow specialist. Look at my current brow shape, my face shape and my brow's natural thickness and direction.

Tell me where my arch currently sits and where it would sit better, how much of the tail is working, and whether my brows are too close together or too far apart for my features. Give me the shape I should be growing toward and roughly how long that takes.

Then tell me what to ask for, and what to say I do NOT want, since that second part is what stops a brow appointment going wrong.

Act as an eyewear stylist. From my face shape, brow line and the width of my face, recommend three frame shapes that would suit me and one to avoid, and explain what each one does to my proportions.

Cover shape, but also frame width relative to my face, where the top bar should sit against my brows, and whether metal or acetate suits my colouring better given my undertone.

Then tell me the two measurements I should actually check on a listing so I can buy online without trying them on.

Turn my palette into something I can type into a search bar, because no retailer labels anything by hex code.

For each of my main shades, give me three to five colour names shops actually use for that family, like the difference between camel, tan, biscuit and toffee, and flag which of those tend to run warmer or cooler so I know which listing to trust.

Then tell me the three shades to buy first if I only have budget for three pieces, and why those three. Finish with what to watch for when buying online: how studio lighting distorts a product photo, which fabrics shift a colour's warmth, and how to sanity check a listing against my palette before I buy.

I'm going to describe or photograph what's already in my wardrobe. Audit it against my palette.

Sort what I own into three piles: keep and wear near my face, keep but move away from my face, and stop buying more of this. For anything in the second pile, tell me how to make it work rather than telling me to get rid of it.

Then find my gaps. Tell me what my wardrobe is missing to make the pieces I already own work harder, and give me a shopping list of no more than five items in specific shades.

Using my palette, tell me exactly what to wear when I'm being photographed.

Cover my most flattering colours near my face, which to keep well away from it, what backgrounds make me stand out rather than disappear, and which of my shades photograph badly under indoor or artificial light even though they look fine in person.

Then give me three complete outfit colour combinations I can default to, one casual, one smart, one for an event.

Now teach me the logic, so I can judge a colour myself without asking you again.

Explain the three things that decide whether a colour suits someone: undertone, value, and chroma. For each one, tell me what mine is, what happens visually when a garment matches it, and what happens when it clashes. Plain language, not industry jargon.

Then give me a three-question test I can run in my head in a shop that gets me to yes or no on any garment in under ten seconds.

Then quiz me. Name six colours one at a time, wait for my answer each time, and tell me what I got right and what I missed. Make at least two of them close calls rather than obvious ones.

Now argue against your own reading.

Make the strongest possible case that I'm actually the second season you named rather than the first. What in the photo supports that? What did you weight too heavily the first time?

Then tell me the single cheapest test I could do in real life to settle it myself, using something I probably already own, and tell me exactly what I'd be looking for when I do it.