How to Use Your Seasonal Color Fan

A Simple Guide to Harmonizing Colors

Your seasonal color fan shows the full range of colors that belong to your season.

When you’re choosing clothing or makeup, the fan helps you decide whether a color truly belongs with your palette.

This guide will help you understand harmonization — how colors work together.

Step 1: Trust the fan

Your fan is already curated specifically for your season.

When checking a color, don’t ask:

“Do I like this color?”

Instead ask:

“Does this color belong with my fan?”

If it belongs to your season, it will visually fit in with the fan.

Step 2: Compare color to color

Hold the clothing or makeup directly next to the fan blades. For clothing, it helps to hold the fan a few inches away from the garment.

Flip through all the colors or if a garment is in a certain color family, e.g. blue, you can just use those particular blades of the fan.

Use natural daylight if possible. Stand by a window were the sun is not streaming in.

Compare color to color, not against your face

This is about how the colors relate to each other.

Step 3: Look for “blend or break”

As you compare, notice what happens:

Blends

• Looks like it could be another blade in the fan

→ ✔️ In your season

Almost blends

• Works with a few colors, but not most

→ ⚠️ Borderline (use thoughtfully)

Breaks

• Looks too bright, dull, heavy, gray, yellow, or sharp

→ ❌ Outside your season

The best colors usually look calm and ordinary, not dramatic.

Step 4: Look for harmony across many colors

A color doesn’t need to match one blade perfectly.

Ask yourself:

“Does this color work with many colors in my fan?”

Works with several → In-season

Only works with one or two → Likely out-of-season

Your season is a complete system, not a single perfect match.

Remember

If a color belongs to your season, it won’t stand out next to your fan.

Trust what you see. With practice, harmonization will start to feel natural.