Hey, it's Cindy 🌱 This gets you a free color analysis from one selfie: your exact season, palette, and hex codes, straight from ChatGPT.
A proper color analysis in person can cost hundreds of dollars. A stylist drapes fabric against your face, works out your season, and hands you a palette so you stop buying clothes that wash you out. It is genuinely useful, and genuinely expensive.
This does the same read from one selfie. You upload a natural-light photo, paste the prompt, and ChatGPT works out your undertone, your contrast level, and your exact season from the 12-season system, then builds your palette as labelled swatches with real hex codes. It even tells you your best metals, hair colours, and makeup tones. It is not a perfect substitute for a human eye, but for free, in 30 seconds, it gets you most of the way there.
the basics
What this does 🧠
It reads your colouring from one selfie and turns it into a palette you can actually shop and dress by.
- 🌡️ Finds your undertone and season. It works out whether you are warm, cool, or neutral, your contrast level, and your exact season from the 12-season system.
- 🎨 Builds your palette with hex codes. It gives you your power colours, best neutrals, and best accent colours as labelled swatches with actual hex codes you can match.
- 🚫 Flags your avoid colours. It calls out the shades that wash you out or clash with your undertone, so you stop buying them by accident.
- 💍 Matches metals, hair, and makeup. It tells you whether gold or silver suits you, which hair colours harmonise, and which makeup tones match, then finishes with styling tips for what to wear near your face and in photos.
the setup
How to run it 📸
- 🤳 Take a selfie in natural daylight. No makeup and no filter, near a window, so your true undertone actually shows.
- 💬 Upload it to ChatGPT and paste the prompt. Drop the photo in, paste the main prompt below, and send.
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The mega prompt 📋
This is the color analysis prompt from the reel. Upload your natural-light selfie, then paste this underneath it.
🎨 the colour analysis prompt
You are a professional colour analyst. From this natural-light selfie, work out my undertone (warm, cool, or neutral), my contrast level, and my exact season from the 12-season system. Then give me my power colours, my best neutrals, and my best accent colours, each as a labelled swatch list with hex codes. Add an avoid palette of colours that wash me out, also with hex codes. Tell me which metal suits me (gold or silver), which hair colours would harmonise, and which makeup tones match. Finish with styling guidance on which colours to wear near my face and what to wear in photos. Explain your reasoning briefly so I understand my season.
go further
3 bonus prompts to run next 🎁
Same chat, same season. Run these once you have your palette to turn it into outfits, makeup, and photos.
👗 The capsule-wardrobe palette. Using my season and palette from above, build me a capsule wardrobe colour plan. Give me a core set of base, neutral, and accent colours that all mix and match, with hex codes, plus example pieces (tops, bottoms, outerwear, one statement piece) in those colours. Make it work for [my lifestyle, e.g. work plus weekends].
💄 The makeup-palette match. Using my season and undertone, recommend my best makeup shades: foundation undertone, blush, lipstick (everyday and bold), eyeshadow tones, and eyeliner. Give specific shade descriptions and hex codes where it helps, and tell me which shades to avoid because they fight my colouring.
📸 The what-to-wear-in-photos guide. Using my palette, tell me exactly what to wear for photos so I always look put together: my most flattering colours near my face, which colours to keep away from my face, what backgrounds make me pop, and which shades photograph badly under different lighting. Give me 3 go-to outfit colour combinations.
the craft
How to get the most out of it 🎓
- 🪟 Lighting is everything. A warm indoor bulb skews the result toward warm. Shoot near a window in daylight for the most accurate season, and if you can, take two photos in slightly different light and compare the reads.
- 🌈 Ask it to show the swatches visually. After it lists your palette, ask ChatGPT to generate a colour swatch image so you can see your season at a glance and save it to your phone.
- 🛒 Take the hex codes shopping. Screenshot your palette and match the hex codes when you shop online, so you stop buying almost-right colours that quietly wash you out.
- 🪜 It works at every level. New to colour analysis? Paste the main prompt as-is and let it teach you your season. Already know your colouring? Feed it your guessed season and ask it to confirm or correct it and explain why.
what to watch
The honest bit ✅
A human analyst with fabric drapes in person is still the gold standard, and your screen and lighting can shift the read. Treat this as a free, fast, surprisingly accurate starting point. Run it twice in different light, and trust the colours that keep coming back.