I really need your help, advice, suggestions, etc...

You look great in that photo with the dark hair!

Sorry I don't know much about colorfix to give you any advice there.

Its hard for me to tell from the photo (because the flash was so bright in your face, and also because it may be hard to tell from a photo anyway without seeing the person in real life). So, you will have to say for yourself, what colors compliment your complexion most when you wear them? Meaning, not necessarily what colors you like to wear best, but what do you wear that makes people say "Oh you look great today!". If its bright or neon colors, and you would call your skin tone more yellow than pink, you may be a "spring", and you would look best with golden tones as opposed to ash. If its pastel colors, you may be a "summer" and do better with ash. If its black and white, you may be a "winter", and do better with ash than anything golden. "autumn" is golden and dark.

It's hard to describe the whole season thing without showing you colors in person, (if you're not already familiar with it that is) so, what I would suggest is decide if you would call your skin tone more yellow based, or more blue based. If you're blue, you don't look good wearing yellow, so your hair won't look good golden either, and I'd go with an ash shade. If you're yellow, you look better with more yellow, and ash tones make you look very yellow and with gray looking hair, so you can then use a golden shade to look your best.

I went on way longer than I meant to, and am not sure I make sense...let me know.

Again, it's hard to say just from a description. If you have auburn hair and dark green eyes and eyebrows, you sound like an autumn to me, but then you should look good in yellow. If no bright or lemon yellow, I think we could rule out spring. The yellows autumns look good in are more browny yellows, how about those? Autumns should look good in orange though.

How about lavendar? A winter and summer can look great in it, it's not so good on an autumn or spring. How about silver or gold? Gold is for springs and autumns, silver is best on winters and summers.

The best thing to do I think, since I'm not sure anyone can tell you without seeing you and "doing your colors", is to do them yourself. Get some friends to come over and bring any solid color clothes they can find. Cover your shirt and hair in white towels or sheets so you only see your face and neck. Try different swatches (drape them over you like a shirt front) and let your friends agree on whats the best for you, then compare to the books or websites' swatches. Here's a site that has some samples. I don't agree with everything this site says about it, but it's pretty close. (It's kind of a funny site for men, as if they often care about coordinating their briefcase with their skin tone! But anyway, it works...) Scroll down to the color swatches.
http://www.theexecutivescloset.com/advice.htm#Which%20Season%20Are%20You

Let me know how it goes!



Ya know, regardless of what your season winds up being, if you don't feel you look good in yellow or orange, I'd go with an ash blonde.

Never tried Clairol try it on Studio, sounds like fun though.

Julia Roberts in that picture looks sort of half golden, half ash to me...in the middle somewhere. Hey, if you want it, go for it! Let us know how it goes!

Thanks for the avatar compliment! I couldn't sleep so I sat up playing with the paint program.