We used this ChatGPT hack to get our color analysis -- for free!
Are you a summer? Or perhaps a winter? No, I’m not asking you about your preferred season. I’m talking about color analysis – the latest TikTok phenomenon that might just change the way you get dressed in the morning. Born from the hyper-personalized K-Beauty industry, the concept has quickly spread westward, driven by viral clips of Korean influencers discovering their ideal color palette.
One video of fashion influencer Lyn Jiang getting her analysis done in Seoul by a famed color consultant has a staggering 42 million views, and one of Aussie travel blogger Xixi Liu has 18 million and documents her travels to Korea to get the same service done. For those who don’t have a couple of grand spares to make an international pilgrimage to find your “true colors”, you’ll be glad to know that specialized studios have been popping up down under, such as AEGI.Lab in Sydney and Colour Analysis in Melbourne.
The Concept of Color Analysis
Color analysis operates on the concept that each person’s natural features—like skin tone, eye color, and hair color—align with a specific season. Each season has a tailored palette of clothing colors, makeup shades, nail colors and even jewelry that promise to suit you the most and enhance your natural beauty.
For fashion and beauty enthusiasts, the steep price for a bespoke consultation is justified, given you receive recommendations that can inform future purchases. It’s also proved popular among people going through life changes, such as women trying to grow out their greys who feel they need to embrace a new color palette to match.
But, if that’s not you, and you’re still curious to find your colors, don’t worry, you still can! For free! Thanks to the advent of tech tools like Snapchat filters, dedicated apps, and AI platforms, the exclusive and covetable service is now accessible to everyone.
For more personalized color recommendations, you can try tools like ColorBot on ChatGPT that analyze your season and suggest ideal clothing colors based on just a selfie. It's a convenient and cost-effective way to discover your true colors.
Our Experiment with ChatGPT
As a self-confessed fashion obsessive on a budget, I was keen to try them before forking out hundreds at the fancy salons. I set out wanting to see if an online tool could offer the same result as an in-person one-to-one session, so I tested out the ChatGPT approach with two of my colleagues.
There are plenty of TikTok videos that explain how to use ChatGPT for color analysis, like this one, but for your average person, it still seems a little complicated. However, I found an easier hack within ChatGPT.
Now it's your turn to give it a whirl and discover your true colors for free!
The ChatGPT Hack
Once you create a free account in ChatGPT, you’ll see a button on the left that says ‘Explore GPTs’. Once you click it, you’ll be taken to a massive marketplace of ‘GPTs’, which are basically customized versions of ChatGPT that people have created for specific purposes.
Due to the hype around color analysis at the moment, there are hundreds of ready-made tools to choose from that will tell you which season you are and give you your personalized recommendations. I chose the top one, called ColorBot, because all you have to do is upload a selfie and it will spit out details, including your season and ideal clothing colors. You can then ask it hyper-specific questions back.
That’s literally it! No need for complicated hex codes or professional consultations.
