color Analysis

What is my approach to color analysis?

professional background


  • Foundation in Color and Design: Beginning with a fine arts degree, followed by experience in the art world and working in the design industry, I bring over twenty years of expertise in color, including thirteen years focused on Personal Color Analysis (PCA). I use the 24-subseason Caygill method, the 16-flow seasonal theory, and key color theory principles to create harmonious palettes and to help clients discover their unique position within seasonal color analysis.

    A fun fact: Training in the Caygill method involves painting each client's skin tone to accurately identify undertones and hues. Applying color theory with precision is at the heart of successful color analysis!

  • Advanced Tools: Utilizes over 600 colors and fabric swatches, integrating advanced color theory to precisely identify hues, color families and palettes.

  • Thorough Categorization: Rather than letting the drapes decide, I am able to identify the precise hues in an individual’s skin, hair and eye. From here, I evaluate individual’s color temperature, value, and saturation. You can be all warm, all cool, all neutral or any combination of these three. It is possible to be warm, cool and neutral-in which case it is important to find specific hues that embrace all three. You may look great in both gold and silver. Conversely- you may not do well in either. Accurate color analysis is more than just looking younger, or avoiding the ‘washed out’ look; it’s about applying color theory to find your familiy and the specific hues in your family that will reflect and highlight your natural beauty.

  • Personalized Approach: We will identify your unique season and subseason. You will also receive custom colors and information on specific hues that work best for you within your range. Each client is a fresh canvas, and I love helping them feel confident and find their just-right color range and season.

Standard Seasonal color Analysis

  • Integrated Expertise: Merges the popular method of seasonal color analysis with a deep professional understanding, offering an affordable yet thorough introduction to personal color analysis. I use my color lab for all color consults.

  • Beyond Basic Categorization: Provides a detailed analysis that goes beyond simple seasonal labels to clarify your specific color qualities, where you land within the seasonal flow system as well as identifies specific hues.

  • Insight: Equips you with the knowledge and confidence to identify and embrace your unique season and any applicable subseasons.

  • Practical Application: Teaches you how to utilize these insights and tools in your wardrobe right away. Learn how your palette is unique to you! For example, a silver haired winter will have different color ranges compared to a chesnut haired winter. A spring with jet black hair and caramel skin will have a different palette than a blonde haired spring with golden undertoned skin. Even two people both typed as ‘warm spring’ will have unique variations in their palettes.


Seasonal color analysis and custom fabric palette

Foundational Method: analysis facilitated by a certified color lab, implementing advanced tools for a more nuanced approach.

Sophisticated Resources: The comprehensive hue range includes hundreds of industry-sourced fabrics. These colors incorporate the wide variation of human coloring with a dedicated section for the full range of skin, undertones, hair and eye colors. This is instrumental in identifying exactly where one falls. Each feature is assigned a hue, temperature and value. This is the most advanced way to utilize color theory for your face.

Elevating Standard Methods: Transcends ordinary color analysis techniques with a more precise and custom-focused approach.

Seasonal Customization: Beyond preset palettes, there are multiple hue options for each season and subseason that incorporate your ideal light and dark neutrals, reds, whites, metals, high and low saturated (or subdued) colors, makeup and nail color options.

Fabric Swatch Palettes:Constructed from industry-sourced fabrics, these palettes offer an authentic representation of colors, which facilitates precise and easy color matching. Unlike paper prints or plastic cards, fabric swatches reflect true-to-life hues, ensuring the colors you choose for your wardrobe and makeup are accurately matched and consistently applied.


Individual color Services

  • In this appointment, I will conduct a personalized color analysis using both traditional draping techniques and my advanced color lab system. This process will identify your most compatible "mainstream" season, such as Soft Autumn, Bright Spring, or Deep Autumn, providing you with clarity about which seasonal palette aligns best with your natural coloring.

    In addition, I will create a fully customized palette using my color lab, tailored specifically to your unique skin, hair, and eye color. Unlike preset palettes, this personalized collection includes additional hues that more accurately reflect your individual coloring. If you can wear colors from other seasonal families, those will be incorporated as well. During the appointment, we’ll focus on an in-depth discussion on how to pair and utilize your colors effectively in your wardrobe for professional, personal, and social use.

    If you would like to book with a friend or family member, the price is $350

  • For groups of three or more the price is $350. Four or more, $300. Each person receives a custom palette and a dedicated 1 -1.25 hour analysis.

  • Comprehensive analysis. We will find your ideal whites, range of reds, light and dark neutrals, skin, blush tones, makeup (if worn) and your ‘color’ colors; the highest intensity colors you can wear without the color wearing you. We also find your subdued and softer colors. All of these colors are created into a personalized fabric fan. This consult also includes a PDF guide on leveraging your new color insights for optimal impact. Additionally, if booking a subsequent appointment, a package rate applies. If booking with a friend a $50 dollar per person discount is applied. The additonaal fabric fan which is made of custom fabric swatches made by a color lab. These fabrics and swatches are not preset palettes.

Shorter, Overview Color Appointments and Group Color

This appointment is geared towardsa a group experience and an overview of seasonal analysis

  • This color appointment is an overview. We won’t have time to go into nuances, or customization. You will receive your basic seasonal qualities and most compatible subseason.

  • This color appointment is an overview. We won’t have time to go into nuances, or much customization. You will receive your basic seasonal qualities and most compatible subseason.

  • This color appointment is an overview. We won’t have time to go into nuances, or much customization. You will receive your basic seasonal qualities and most compatible subseason.

  • Item description

  • Interested in a corporate event or color party for your special event? Please contact me directly at 415-521-9316 or reach out via my contact page.

Group Color Analysis

Color Parties:

  • Interested in more of an overview? 

  • Unsure of your color qualities?


Discover Your Palette with Kathryn Griffin

  • Dive into the vibrant world of color analysis, led by color expert, Kathryn Griffin. In these lively and engaging workshops, you'll learn about the hues and undertones present in your skin, hair and eye- and the best colors that flow with your own unique color story.


What to Expect:

  • Presentation: Learn about the season and sub-season systems and the color theory behind it.

  • Personalized Analysis: Receive individual attention to determine your place within the seasonal spectrum.

  • Take-Home Tools: Walk away with a visual so you can begin identifying your colors right away.

Event Details:

  • Duration: Depending on amount of parcipants. Individuals will receive 25 minutes of individual time.

Transform the way you see color and yourself. Walk away feeling confident about your ideal season and color palette.


Please contact me directly to book your color party or group event.

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“All of my friends noticed a difference in me immediately although they could never put their finger on what had changed. Several people asked me if I had changed my hair, which I had not. I even had a complete stranger tell me how beautiful I looked and how much she liked my hair. I know without doubt that Kathryn's assessment of what colors worked best for me were spot on.”

-Tova Mott, Business Owner