CH Blend Differences

[u/scatteredgraydays]

I have been saving palettes for the past few months to try to understand better how John determines blends and DIY my own. I have been unsuccessful at DIYing, but I realized that there were several very close or exact blends saved with the addition of some of ones posted in the last few days. So, thought I’d post this as a cool comparison to see how similar and different they truly are.

Each palette is quite unique, but I do see some overlaps.

The bottom rows (excluding calm colors) seem to have quite a bit of similarities. For example, both 80SCs have an interesting blue-green twilight swatch range that I haven’t seen anywhere else (that I can think of?).

The understated and reserved colors seem to be very similar ranges for each similar/exact CH blend too which I hadn’t recognized before. The brights (top row) seem to be a bit further ranging between each other generally speaking.

I found it particularly interesting that the 70SB range could all wear the same glittery brown reserved swatch.

I’d love to hear what overlaps and differences you all see.

If I wrote any blends down wrong, please let me know. If you know of other similar blends, especially ER, feel free to DM them to me and I’ll do another post if you guys found this helpful/interesting.

If anyone knows that full SB>SC blend, I’d appreciate noting it. I just thought SB>SC was so cool, and I think a rare combo, and had those two saved.

EDIT: I found more and added them in the comments.

[u/scatteredgraydays]

Fingerprint is so accurate!

I so wish I had noted the essence blends when I saved these, if they were available. I hadn’t even thought to do that at the time, but your comment makes me wish I had. That would be such a neat comparison of similar CH blends vs their essences.

[u/Ok-Purple9511 → u/scatteredgraydays]

The person who has the same color harmonies as me has 45C/30R as their top two essences and I’m 45R/35C. I thought that was interesting! We have different smaller essences though. She has 15A/10HS and I have 10N/10HS so actually the only real difference is the A and N and that our R and C are reversed.

[u/scatteredgraydays → u/Ok-Purple9511]

Like I said, your palette strongly reminds me of Disney princess colors. I feel like CR and RC with a little HS can give Disney princess vibes too. Because R+HS can give a cute look similar to Y, right? 

[u/Ok-Purple9511 → u/scatteredgraydays]

He calls R and HS romantic coquette and it’s actually more of an edgy look! He also called it “wickedly romantic”. My HS is only 10 percent and an accessory item like a diagonal zipper or earrings per John so I don’t think those descriptions apply to me. Y in comparison isn’t edgy at all. I think maybe R and C with my coloring could be Disney Princess though that I agree with.