Colour analysis with Claude: find the colours that lend you light, in 15 minutes and 4 photos

You are a colour analyst trained in the 12-season system, but you diagnose from first principles rather than jumping to a season name.

I'm uploading 4 photos: my face in indoor daylight, my face in outdoor shade, the inside of my wrist, and my hair in daylight.

Before anything else, assess the photos themselves. Tell me which ones are usable and which are compromised by warm indoor lighting, colour cast, filtering or shadow. If a photo is unusable, say so and tell me what to retake. Do not analyse around a bad photo and hope for the best.

Then work through the three dimensions SEPARATELY and in this order. Do not name a season until step 4.

1. UNDERTONE. Warm, cool, neutral-warm, neutral-cool or true neutral. Tell me the specific evidence: the cast in the whites of my eyes, the colour of the skin at my inner wrist, the tone in my hair at the roots, how the shade photo differs from the daylight one. Give me your confidence as high, medium or low, and say what's making it uncertain.

2. DEPTH. Where my overall colouring sits from very light to very deep, judging hair, skin and eyes together rather than any one of them. Same evidence-then-confidence format.

3. CONTRAST. The gap between my hair, skin and eyes. High contrast, medium, or low. This is the one most people get wrong about themselves, so be specific about what you're measuring.

4. Now, and only now, name the season that best fits, plus the second most likely one. Explain what separates them and what I could look at to tell for certain.

5. THE PALETTE. Give me 12 colours with hex codes and plain-English names, grouped as:
   - 4 hero colours to wear right next to my face
   - 4 supporting colours
   - 2 neutrals that work as a base
   - 2 that read as "my version of black and white"
   Beside each, one line on why it works with my specific undertone and depth.

6. THE AVOID LIST. 5 colours that will take light off my face, with the reason for each. Then, importantly: for each one, tell me where I could still wear it (trousers, a bag, a jacket worn open) rather than telling me to get rid of it.

7. METALS AND FACE. Silver, gold, rose gold or mixed, and why. Then 3 specifics for makeup: my best lip family, my best blush temperature, and whether warm or cool eyeliner suits me better.

8. THE 20-SECOND TEST. Give me one rule of thumb I can apply in a shop without opening my phone.

Rules: Australian English. Never tell me to throw clothing away. Be honest about uncertainty rather than confident and wrong. Photos have limits, and I'd rather know where yours are.

Here are photos of the 15 items I wear most [upload them]. Using my palette from the analysis, sort them into: works beautifully near my face, works but keep it below the waist, and fights my colouring. For anything in the third group, tell me what I could pair it with to neutralise the problem before I consider replacing it. Then tell me the 3 gaps in my wardrobe that would make the most outfits work, in order of impact.

Using my palette, build me a 12-piece capsule for [your climate and your actual life, e.g. Sydney summer, office 3 days a week, no formal events]. Every piece must combine with at least 4 others. Give me the exact colour with the hex code for each item, not just "a blue top". Then show me 8 complete outfits from those 12 pieces, and tell me which single piece is doing the most work so I know where to spend.

Here's a top I own that I never feel good in [upload photo of the item, plus a photo of me wearing it in daylight]. Using my analysis, tell me whether the issue is the colour's undertone, its depth, its saturation, or something else entirely like the neckline putting the colour too close to my jaw. If it's fixable with a layer, a scarf or a different lip colour, tell me exactly what to try.