Check the input
A useful result starts by asking whether the submitted evidence is clear enough for the question being answered.
METHODOLOGY · TRUST CENTER
How Style Look Lab approaches analysis
The shared standards behind every analysis—and a clear path into the detailed method for each product that is actually available.
SHARED ACROSS PRODUCTS
The rules before the result
Separate evidence from judgment
Observable signals, deterministic transformations, and model interpretation do different jobs and should remain distinguishable.
Keep uncertainty visible
Confidence describes support in the available evidence. It is not a guarantee, a laboratory reading, or a statistical accuracy claim.
State the boundary
Every method explains what photos can distort, what the analysis does not infer, and when a retake or real-world check matters more.
Test for avoidable bias
Skin depth, ethnicity, age, or body size must not become shortcuts for a styling category that should be based on relevant evidence.
Give the user control
Photos have a stated purpose and retention policy. Account tools provide export, and support handles verified deletion requests.
DETAILED METHODS
Read the method behind each live analysis
AVAILABLE NOW · VERSION 2026.07
Seasonal Color Analysis
How photo quality checks, estimated CIELAB evidence, deterministic color traits, model judgment, the 12-season framework, confidence, and privacy fit together.
The framework itself is laid out season by season in the visual guide to the 12 color seasons.
AVAILABLE NOW · VERSION 2026.08
Body Shape Classification
How four circumference measurements, ratios instead of fixed inch differences, published cut-off lines, two-candidate handling at the boundaries, and the sources behind each threshold fit together. The result names a proportion group; it does not rank one.
The six groups, and why six rather than the more common five, are laid out in the guide to the six body shapes.
Self-assessment
Personal style: seven style essences, measured as preference
The personal style quiz reads what you keep choosing — the lines, structure and texture you pick between outfit pairs, plus how your week is actually spent — and scores it locally in your browser. It does not look at your face or body, so it measures the preference layer of style, not the line-of-the-body layer. The two are different jobs, and the result page says which one you are looking at.
The seven type names — Dramatic, Natural, Classic, Romantic, Gamine, Ingenue and Ethereal — come from the seven style essences recorded by John Kitchener of Personal Style Counselors, who describes the last of them as Angelic (or ethereal), identified in 1987. His practice types people in person from face and body; this site does not, and what you read here is an independent reading, not affiliated with him or his practice.
We use three names for the same seven types: "style archetype" on the guide page, "style type" on your result card, and "style essence" here, where the source is named.
Sources & limitations
The cited color-science sources support measurement concepts and known image limitations. They do not establish the 12-season system as a biological or medical classification. The essence system types face and body lines in person; our style quiz measures preference and self-description, and the two are not interchangeable.
- CIE 256:2025 — Measurement of Human Skin Colour — Measurement conditions and limits for human skin colour.
- He et al. (2022) — Facial skin colour from digital images — Evidence on estimating facial skin colour from images.
- Wang et al. (2018) — Skin colour measurement variability — Shows why location and measurement conditions affect readings.
- Sharma, Wu & Dalal (2005) — The CIEDE2000 color-difference formula — Reference for perceptual colour-difference calculations.
- Google — Improving skin tone representation with the Monk Skin Tone Scale — Google’s introduction to the 10-tone representation scale; it does not define undertones or validate this site’s questionnaire.
- John Kitchener / Personal Style Counselors — Meet John Kitchener (The Kitchener Essences) — Originator of the seven style essences, including the Angelic (ethereal) essence identified in 1987; his typing is done in person from face and body and does not validate this site’s questionnaire.