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ChatGPT Color Analysis Prompts

Upload a selfie taken in daylight and these prompts walk ChatGPT through a seasonal color analysis: undertone, contrast, your season, and what to do with it in your wardrobe and makeup bag.

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My Best Colors as a Palette With Hex Codes

Turns your season into a shopping palette: 20 colors with hex codes, grouped into neutrals, main colors and accents, plus the colors to avoid.

You fill in season, e.g. Soft Autumn

Gemini · ChatGPT
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Capsule Wardrobe From My Color Season

Plans a 25 to 30 piece capsule wardrobe in your season's colors, with outfits and a shopping list for the gaps.

You fill in seasonwhat a normal week looks…e.g. cold winters…+2 more

Midjourney · Gemini · ChatGPT
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Makeup Shades and Hair Color for My Season

Suggests lip, blush, eyeshadow, foundation undertone and hair colors for your season, each with a hex code so you can match it in any brand.

You fill in season

Gemini · ChatGPT
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Seasonal Color Analysis From a Selfie

Reads your undertone, value, chroma and contrast and names your season out of twelve, with a runner-up and a confidence level.

You fill in natural hair color…

Gemini · ChatGPT
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Warm or Cool Undertone Check

Works out whether your undertone is warm, cool or neutral from your photo and the vein, jewelry and white-shirt tests.

You fill in blue or purple, green…gold, silver, or bothcrisp and good, or harsh+2 more

Gemini · ChatGPT
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Virtual Drape Test Image

Draws six copies of your portrait, each wrapped in a different colored drape, so you can compare warm and cool colors side by side.

You fill in three warm colors…three cool colors, e.g. navy… · add your photo

Gemini · ChatGPT

How a ChatGPT color analysis works

Seasonal color analysis sorts you by three things you can see in a face: undertone (warm, cool or neutral), value (how light or deep your coloring is) and chroma (whether clear, bright colors or soft, muted ones look better on you). The combination gives one of four seasons, or one of twelve in the finer system: Light Spring, True Summer, Soft Autumn, Deep Winter and so on.

ChatGPT can read all three from a photo of your face, hair and eyes. What it cannot do is see you in person, and that is the whole limitation: a phone camera decides how warm your skin looks before the model ever sees it. So the prompts below ask for the reasoning behind each call and a confidence level, and the best result comes from comparing two or three photos rather than trusting one.

Taking a photo that won't mislead it

  1. Daylight, facing a window. No direct sun, no lamps, no ring light. Indoor bulbs make almost everyone read warm.
  2. Bare face, or close to it. Foundation and bronzer change the undertone the model sees.
  3. Hair visible, pulled back from the face. Hair color is part of your contrast.
  4. A white or light gray top. A colored top reflects onto your skin.
  5. No filter and no beauty mode. Many phone cameras smooth and warm skin by default. Turn it off if you can.

Reading the result

A good answer names your undertone, value and chroma separately before it names a season, and says which of them it is least sure about. If it calls you «warm» but you have always looked washed out in orange and gold, believe your mirror: ask the model to compare the two seasons you are between and list a test color for each. Then hold something in each color under your chin in daylight and see which one makes your skin look clearer and the shadows under your eyes lighter.

Once you know your season, the prompts for a wardrobe palette, makeup shades and hair color turn it into something you can shop with. For changing a photo of yourself in other ways, see the ChatGPT photo prompts.

ChatGPT Color Analysis Prompts: questions people ask

How accurate is a ChatGPT color analysis?

Treat it as a good first guess, not a verdict. The model sees your photo, not you, and a phone camera's white balance shifts skin tone toward warm or cool. Two photos in different light can give two different seasons. The prompts below ask for the reasoning and a confidence level so you can see where the answer is shaky.

What photo works best?

Daylight from a window in front of you, no direct sun, no makeup or only your usual minimum, hair pulled back from your face, a white or gray top, and no filter or beauty mode. Take two or three and upload the one that looks most like you in a mirror.

What are the seasons in color analysis?

Seasonal color analysis sorts people by three things: undertone (warm or cool), value (light or deep) and chroma (bright or soft). Spring is warm and bright, Summer cool and soft, Autumn warm and soft or deep, Winter cool and bright or deep. The 12-season version splits each into three, such as Soft Autumn or Clear Winter.

Is it a replacement for an in-person analysis?

No. An analyst drapes real fabric under controlled light and watches your face change, which a photo cannot do. A ChatGPT analysis is useful for deciding whether that appointment is worth it, or for narrowing your season down to two before you test colors yourself.

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