I Tried AI Tools to Find My “Color Season” for Free (My Results Are Surprising!)

It’s been a few years since the concept of color analysis invaded my algorithm, but I still lean on my own Copper Spring palette (think: glowy, warm and clear). As someone who loves quizzes and personality assessments, I’ve centered my shopping according to my own seasonal color analysis; it also helped me declutter my wardrobe.

In 2026, many major cities have color analysis studios — but many people turn to online services. I started with Color Guru, and while I had already gravitated towards hues like royal blue, peach, sunny yellow, and amethyst purple, my Copper Spring grade gave me even more of a framework for shopping (and decluttering!).

But professional color analysis isn’t exactly affordable; my own experience was priced well over $150. A full analysis conducted in person easily runs several hundred dollars more; price tags can be an absolute obstacle. Your next best bet? Free online options, including the ever-handy ChatGPT, a workaround for seasonal color analysis. As someone who already had a solid understanding of the process, I decided to put it to the test.

A seasonal color analysis is a holdover from the 1980s that has made a recent resurgence. The premise is that everyone’s skin, hair, and eyes align with a season: winter, spring, summer, or fall, and the analysis tells you which season’s colors you should dress in to look and feel your best. Some analyses even break it down one step further based on whether you look good in clear or muted colors — that’s where my Copper Spring comes into play. It’s a warmer, more saturated take on spring colors.

Once you know your colors, you have a guide for how to shop for clothing, which colors look best, which to avoid, what color metal jewelry to wear, and which makeup shades to use. It’s supposed to make shopping easy, showing you exactly which colors make you pop versus the ones that will make you feel less than your best.

In the three years since I jumped on the seasonal color analysis bandwagon, dressing for your season has blown up. It’s all over social media now, so I knew it wouldn’t be long before AI would shake hands with color seasons. 

This TikTok video explains how you can skip the pricey color consultation and instead use AI to do a color analysis. Here’s how:

• From there, you can get specific, asking which greens might look best on you or whether you should wear gold or silver jewelry.
• Take a selfie in natural light and upload it to Photoshop, Canva, or another design tool.
• Use the color picker in the design tool of your choice to find the exact hex code of your complexion, hair, and eyes. 
• Enter those hex codes into ChatGPT, letting it know which feature each hex code belongs to. Then ask ChatGPT what season you are.

I obviously had to try it — and I wanted to see if I would get the same results as when I had a professional color analysis in 2022. I uploaded a selfie into Canva, then used the color picker to land on what I thought was an accurate representation of my colors. I asked ChatGPT, based on my skin tone, which season I am. 

Spring or autumn, it said. But it would need to know my hair and eyes for a better analysis.

I entered those two in and, according to ChatGPT, I’m an autumn. 

I understand its confusion. Spring and autumn are closely related in terms of seasonal color analysis, but one quick look at the colors suggested by ChatGPT for an autumn, and I felt confident my spring analysis was, in fact, correct. Earth tones, rust, burnt orange, and terracotta topped the list, and while those colors are fine on me, they don’t pop the way a rich purple or a deep cobalt blue does. Knowing the difference between clear and muted colors is key here, and it seems to be a nuance ChatGPT hasn’t mastered. 

Still, in the name of journalism, I kept going. Green is a color I struggle with. According to my Copper Spring color palette, I should look best in a grass green, lime, or even olive. But I’m never quite able to find just the right shade. I decided to pull ChatGPT into the mix.

It suggested forest green, olive green, moss green, and khaki green. Forest green? I’ll try that. 

But things went off the rails when I asked about blues. I wear blue more than any other color, and I like to think I know the shades that work for me. Clear royal blue, vibrant cornflower, or a bright sapphire are all regulars in my rotation. But ChatGPT suggested teal, turquoise, navy, and slate blue. Teal and slate are awful on me — they’re too muted and wash me out. The others are fine, but not great. 

While ChatGPT’s color analysis wasn’t perfect, it did help me declutter my closet by giving me new criteria to consider. When I originally had my colors done, I realized that pastels are not for me. All of a sudden, it made sense why a pale green cardigan sat unworn in the back of my closet — despite loving the color, every time I put it on, I felt tired and drab. The analysis told me it’s because pastels wash me out. 

When it came to culling my wardrobe, however, the professional color analysis had limitations. There are only so many colors on my seasonal card. I can see that a clementine orange or a glacier blue are good colors for me. But what about a chocolate brown? An emerald green? Those colors — or anything like them — aren’t in my analysis. However, using ChatGPT, I could add in the exact colors I have in my wardrobe to find out if I “should” wear them or not. 

I went through my closet, specifically pulling out items that I want to like but don’t find myself wearing often. With each one, I took a picture and used the color picker tool to figure out the hex code. I asked ChatGPT if someone who is a ‘Spring’ should wear that color.

If the answer was yes, I put the item back in my closet — but if the answer was no, I decided that was where I’d make my cut. It’s far from a perfect approach, but the code feedback is more helpful than intuition alone. Using ChatGPT’s color analysis allows you to dig deeper, even if it’s not necessarily 100% accurate. 

Would I recommend you try this wallet-friendly AI color analysis hack? Yes, though you need to be willing to do more work than you would with a professional — or you can use it to further flesh out what you already know your color season to be.