The combination of eco-friendly materials and a sustainable production with a high fashion look, is truly what makes my fashion loving heart beat a little faster. I'm officially obsessed with ethical fashion. 

If you don't have NETFLIX, and can't watch the "THE TRUE COST MOVIE" (you can find it on iTunes as well), you can find most of the same information in my post "THIS IS THE TRUE COST OF FAST FASHION".  
"BEFORE THE FLOOD", is a special focus on the environmental changes on this planet do to pollution, and is free on youtube for a limited time, so don't put off watching it if you want to watch it for free. These two documentaries combined will inform you about the most important things you as a consumer need to know about how our lifestyle affects the world as a whole.

The problems associated with pollution and the effect is has on the environment is no longer a thing of the future, as it has already started to affect us. It is no longer an issue of if the planet will become less inhabitable, but when. 99,5% of scientist agree that man made global warming is a reality (previously 97% and now 99,5 according to Obama), and the consequences are already upon us in the form of climate change, creating storms and disasters, and as a result drought and famine. In short, if we continue to live as we do, there won't be anything left for anyone sooner than we would like to believe. To prevent the world becoming toxic and uninhabitable, we all have to pull together in the same direction and change our ways before we deplete all our natural resources. The leaders of the world are those that are stuck with the difficult task of implementing sustainable options for all the industries that we have grown to depend on, but that doesn't mean we can't all contribute in our own way. Every little effort counts, and the natural first step is to educate yourself about the reality and severity of the situation.

All of us have to wear clothes at some point, so it's logical to start making changes where you already have an impact, and the clothing industry is one of those big environmental sinners that need to shape it up big time. Not only for the environment, but just as much for ethical and humanitarian reasons. Warning! If you keep reading, it might ruin the fun of shopping for you. At least until something is done, so we again can buy clothes with a clear conscience.
Luckily, we don't have to just sit there and wait for big brands and big leaders to get things done. There are so so many ways we as consumers do our part and fast track the change. Belive it or not, it is actually in the power of the consumer to decide what will be the new main stream, also when it comes to consumerism. Changing the way we live our lives and the choices we make, can be of great assistance to those who are trying to save the environment.
The fact that most companies are only concerned with the bottom line, is actually the exact thing that can work in our favour, but only if we start living a more conscious life and send them the right message about what we will and will not purchase. For example, if you only buy clothes that cost little from companies that produce large quantities all year around, you're telling these companies, "Hey, I like to buy a lot and I like it cheap, so continue selling more of the same things". As a result they will change nothing, and have to continue their practice of pressuring the prices down on production cost, to keep up with their low sales prices while still increasing their yearly income (Which is the basis of capitalism. To keep expanding and increase earning. Our society is based on capitalism, and so this is an inevitable cycle if nothing is done). This will again lead to the production of cheap material, outsourcing for cheap labor, and not having room in their budget to consider the environmental og humanitarian impact of their ways.
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The world now consumes about 80 billion new pieces of clothing every year. This is 400% more than the amount we consumed just 20 years ago. As new clothing comes into our lives, we also discard it at a shocking pace. The average American now generates 82 pounds of textile waste each year. That adds up to more than 11 million tons of textile waste from the U.S. alone. Historically, clothing has been something we have held onto for a long time, but with cheap clothing now abundantly available we are beginning to see the things we wear as disposable. The result is, massive productions and a lot of resources used, for things we use briefly and then stow away or throw away to buy new stuff as the trends change. 
About 4.7 billion pounds of clothing are donated by Americans each year. Only 10% of the clothes we donate to charity are considered good enough to being resold in the retail store. The rest of that ends up in landfills, some of it is recycled into rags and insulation, and some of it ends up in the markets of Sub-Saharan Africa where it collapses their own clothing industry. In the last 10 years, local industries, such as garment-making and tailoring in these countries, have collapsed, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers unemployed. People will argue that the second-hand clothing industry in Africa is booming, but the global trade of second-hand clothing is a multi-billion dollar industry for developed countries. With our clothing waste being sent overseas by the tons, there’s little chance of African countries, as a whole, developing their own textile trade. Over one-third of Sub-Saharan Africans wear second-hand, and the reality is that for as long as the second-hand clothing industry thrives, African economy is unlikely to improve.
Another important thing to consider, is that most of the clothing being produced in fast fashion is not biodegradable, and end up at garbage dumps where it release toxic fumes into the air for about 200 years.
​Clothing realising toxic fumes, is another great reason for buying organic cotton.

As for cotton, it represents nearly half of the total fiber used to make clothing today. More than 90% of that cotton is now genetically modified, using vast amounts of water as well as chemicals. Cotton production is now responsible for 18% of worldwide pesticide use and 25% of total insecticide use. The largely untested impacts of these chemicals on both the land and human health are beginning to be questioned by those working in the industry. As our skin is the largest organ, these chemicals are passed into the bloodstream of the people wearing these clothes. In Punjab, India, where a large amount of the worlds cotton production takes place, they now grow GMO cotton, so that they're able to spray entire fields with pesticide to ensure good crops. The consequence of putting the bottom line and successful production above human life, is that the people in close proximity to these GMO cotton farms get anything from cancer, metall illnesses, servere skin deceases, to children with birth defects or being still born. 240 000 Indian cotton farmers have committed suicide so far, as a result of this dire situation. 
Leather production is also a big problem, and is increasingly linked to a variety of environmental and human health hazards. The amount of feed, land, water and fossil fuels used to raise livestock for leather production come at a huge cost to the health of our world. In addition to raising the livestock needed, the leather tanning process is among the most toxic in all of the fashion supply chain. Workers are exposed to harmful chemicals on the job, while the waste generated pollutes natural water sources leading to increased disease for surrounding areas. Studies have found that leather tannery workers are at a far greater risk of cancer, by between 20% – 50%. A good example of this is the Ganges, which is the holiest river for 800 million hindu people and considered to be the life line of northern India. At the moment this important river is being polluted and killed by leather factories in Kanpur, India. Increasing demand for cheap leather is one of the main problems, as Kanpur is the main export for cheap leather. The cost is, human health and the contamination of the only source of drinking water, as well as the environment connected to it. The groundwater is contaminated with large amounts of krom, so all the food grown is contaminated too. The people living in these areas affected get plentiful of health problems, such as skin disorders, stomach problems and even cancer. The krom in the water affects the liver and cause liver cancer, and so many people have to use all their savings trying to cure themselves and their families from these diseases.
If you include the fact that it takes around 1800 gallons/6813 liters of water to grow enough cotton to produce just one pair of regular blue jeans, 400 gallons/1514 liters of water to grow the cotton required for one ordinary cotton shirt, and 1247 gallons/4720 liters to make a pair of sneakers (Numbers may vary a little from one source to another, but the reality is that the numbers are incredibly high allover), and then these clothes needs to be shipped to another country, and then shipped to different vendors again, you have to recognize that this is a very water and pollution heavy cycle. Considering there is a worldwide water crisis on the horizon, and political tensions over water already having created violence in regions where water is scarce, it is clear that this can't be the best way to doing things in the future (200 billion people are suffering from water shortage as we speak). If the problem keeps growing it can affect food production, and also, without water we cannot live. 

​All of the issues above are alle connected to the same thing, Fast Fashion, which is the name given to the fastest growing part of the fashion industry. There used to be four fashion seasons a year, and now there's 52 collections dropped instead (One collection a week). The Fast Fashion industry is able to maintain it's low prices and high production rates through outsourcing the production to third world countries, and pressuring the prices down by pinning the competition towards each other. Whoever offers the lowest price and can finish production the fastest, gets the job. The factories are so desperate for money that the fashion brands can pick and choose. 
Outsourcing could be a good thing and benefit economic growth in third world countries, it could be a good job for the workers too, but the way it is at the moment, it's not. More than 40 million people work in the garment industry world wide. They are among the lowest paid workers in the world.
The most important part of making cheap clothes and fast fashion a viable possibility, is a thing called a Sweatshop. The definition of a Sweatshop is a textile factory in which employees work for long hours at low wages and under unhealthy conditions. Sweatshops deliver clothes to the largest clothing companies in the world. The fact that most of the average western persons clothing comes from a sweatshop, is a problem. The workers in a sweatshop get yelled at, work unbelievable long hours (12 hour days, and only 8 hours on sundays), many faint or die at work do to the poor working conditions, and if they come forward or voice their opinion about this injustice they get fired. They're also denied contracts, as a contract would give them job security, but instead they're fired before they've worked there long enough to have any rights (about 3 months). This is a way of controlling the workers (often illegally) and making sure they don't put up a fight. The short time contracts and corporate greed is the root of the problem, as the workers can be fired on minimal basis. The boss not liking you can be reason enough to be dismissed, and they need a long term contract to join a union. 
People who join worker unions to try and improve their working conditions get fired, and are unable to get a new job if they are "outed". When buyers come to inspect the factories, the workers are prepped and told what to say, ordered to clean up and say that everything is great, so that the factory will appear good. It's a fasade, and when the buyers leave, they are treated as they're worth nothing again.
Then there is home production, which is the definition of all the unregulated textile production. These workers are the lowest on the ladder, and have no rights and the lowest pay. 
The ride to work for many of these workers is a dangerous affair on an open back truck, where they're standing like cattle in the back. Every year a 100 textile workers dies in accidents on these trucks. Several hundreds are injured. 
85% of textile workers are women, and pregnant women are being discriminated by 2 out of 5 factories, by for example getting fired, not being allowed time off to go to their medical checkups, and have to take leave without pay. On top of that, the workers can't afford to bring their children with them and have to leave them in the village where they're from, as they don't have anyone to care for them in the city where they have to live and work. Most of them only see their children once or twice a year, so that they can work, earn money and give their children a better life
The true cost of Fast Fashion, is that people are dying from the horrible standards of their work environment.
Two of the worst disasters in the history of fashion occurred​ in Dhaka, Bangladesh when 931 people died from the factory collapsing on top of them. The workers had tried to voice their concern about cracks in the building, but it wasn't taken seriously. A few months later, a factory fire killed a 100 more. These people earned about 2$ a day. 
​If that wasn't enough, the workers are payed a minimum wage of only about 140$ a month. A living wage (an amount of money you are paid for a job that is large enough to provide you with the basic things, such as food and shelter needed to live an acceptable life), is considered to be 180$ a month. These people work harder than most, but are yet denied a dignified life, basic human rights, and a just pay for their hard work. They get no overtime and have no right to take vacations or breaks. ​The workers themselves are dispirited about these conditions, and all they want are viable working conditions.
We are profiting from their desperate need to work, and using them as modern day slaves.

There is just so much wrong with this level disregard for a life. The truth is, these people's lives are just as valuable as any one else's. Is it ok that some people have to starve, so that others can be rich? That some people have to suffer to make the clothes we buy cheap? In the words of the Norwegian poet, Arnulf Øverland in his poem, "Dare not sleep"( from 1937), "You must not tolerate so well the injustice that doesn't affect you yourself!"

Fast Fashion brands are the only ones getting rich of of this scheme, by creating the illusion that we the consumers actually can afford so much, by selling it so cheap. HM, for example (The second largest Fast Fashion brand in the world, only second to Centrury 21) make 18 billion dollars a year, and because these fast fashion brands don't own the factories they can disclaim any responsibility and profit hugely. 
Capitalism and consumptionism is the reason the fashion industry looks the way it does today. 
Consumptionism, is when people treat the things you use (cars, homes, electronics, clothes), as the things you can use up (food, candles, beauty products, pencils), and the main thing in capitalism is to create profit, and more profit than your competitors. Between our ever growing consumerism and corporate greed, our current ways has proven to have a global impact and taken it's tole on the planet as a whole. 
​Major steps needs to be taken towards a more sustainable future for all, and the current system should be replaced by better methods as fast as humanly possible.

If you're still following, I know... everything seems wrong at this point. To make it worse. Here's another "fun fact". If we completely stop buying clothes from these big brands, then the under paid workers will become unemployed workers. Everyone needs a job. We all just need to pull together, in order to fix the broken system. ​
The good news is that people get more and more conscious about what they buy and as global warming has been more and more evident, big brands such as HM and many more have started to do the transition over to a more sustainable fashion industry. It's still a long way from where we need to be, and green fashion seem to be step 1 (A lot, due to pressure from the public). Fixing the issue of having new items in their shops every week, under paid workers, worker rights, child labor, extreme waste of water and pollution from factories, has to be the next goals on our "To do" list. The recourses and technology to improve all these issues are already there. It's only a matter of actually prioritizing ethical and eco-friendly production, and be willing to pay for the cost of that transition.
It's already possible to grow fabrics from bacteria, 3D printing can create the most incredible designs as well as being a great way of recycling used materials, and we have the option of organic cotton and recycled fabric.
Buying second hand or having swap parties are some other great ways of being able to get your hands on ethical and green fashion, and a really good way of lowering your carbon footprint..

For a real change to happen in the fashion industry the sales numbers need to be there, as "big business" is motivated by the bottom line and customer demand. So, if we fine-tune the message we the consumers are sending the fashion industry and buy fair trade and eco-products, then the demand will be for fair-trade and eco products. If you cant beat them, join them, and make the planet eco-friendly by living a more conscious life. Do what you can with the options you got. 
I know it might be hard to find the styles you like in the (very limited at the moment) green/fair-trade "section". But, you can start small by for example switching to organic cotton basics, fair-trade jeans, and ecological beauty products. In short, if you get as much as you can from those sources, it will make a difference. 
To help the rookies making the transition over to ethical eco-town, I'm starting a new series in the Eco-style genre, focusing on several ways to live a more eco-friendly fashion existence. In this series I will try to bring attention to all the great options that are already there, and prove that it's easier than you would think.

Click the button below, to get your Carbon Footprint calculated. Or go to carbonfootprint.com

Sources: The documentary "The true cost" movie, "Fair Trade: The first step", and the series "Sweatshop", ​https://www.one.org/us/2014/03/14/what-really-happens-to-your-donated-clothing/, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unions-reveal-garment-minimum-wage-goal-2017, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/obama-ups-climate-change-consensus-paris-995-scientists.

IF YOU ARE A LIGHT WARM, YOU MAY HAVE
Eyes: Turquoise blue, blue, mixed blue, gray, gray-green, mixed green, green, olive green, topaz (brownish), light hazel, light pale brown. Most likely light eyes.
Hair: Very bright, golden and deep blonde hair, light to medium golden blonde, dark golden blonde, light or medium to dark golden brown or neutral brown, or even deep brown in very rare instances. Coppery red, strawberry blonde or soft auburn. May have light and soft red hair, with blonde or red highlights.
​(Signs of ashiness may indicate that you're a SOFT COOL instead, e.g. Jennifer Aniston, Bianca Balti and Leona Lewis, or maybe even a LIGHT COOL or a SOFT WARM). 
Skin: Ivory, light ivory, ivory with warm pink or peach undertones. Light peach, porcelain, neutral beige, olive and also warm beige, golden beige, and light brown. May have freckles. Is usually light skinned with a warm or neutral undertone.

Don't be too concerned with whether or not the people in the photos match your identical color combination, such as skin, hair color and eyes. The most important thing is that you have the right contrast level, and look good in the colors on the chart. If you do feel the need to identify with the LIGHT WARM "poster girls", best to google the names above without makeup, natural hair color and in daylight. Makeup, lighting, spray-tans, and photoshop can change the overall appearance a lot. ​​

The stereotypical LIGHT WARM is usually a natural dark blonde, but was probably blonde or strawberry blonde as a child. Most LIGHT WARMs lighten their hair, because it's so flattering on them. This is the "sunny blonde" that has peach cheeks and an innocence to their allover happy and fresh look, but the LIGHT WARM consists of many other variations than just that. They can have a wide range of skin color (as long as it has a warm or neutral undertone. Usually warm.), and many of the LIGHT WARM can get a good tan, but is usually quite fair skinned without sun. They can have any hair color from blonde to brown, as well as shades of red, and a wide range of eye colors. Signs of ashiness might indicate that you are a SOFT COOL/WARM or a LIGHT COOL. The LIGHT WARM will usually lean towards the lighter specter of hair, eye and skin colors. LIGHT WARM, simply means that you have a light contrast level and a warm to neutral undertone to your hair, eyes, and skin, as well as a preference for the sunny, warm colors. 
​Gold suits you best because it has the right glow for your warmth, but silver can look good too. 

This group have a very low contrast level, and most grow up to have dark blonde to light brown hair. So to avoid a "mousy" look they need bright, light, warm, and fresh colors to reach their fullest potential. Your best colors are the ones that look as if they have been bathed in sunlight and mirror the color of your eyes. A LIGHT WARM is at it's best when hair color, makeup, clothing, and everything they wear looks just like that.
It's also important to point out that a LIGHT WARM's need for contrast is different from that of the CLEAR WARM, as it's not about going wild with colors, or a light and dark kind contrast. For a group with a low contrast level, it means that the best colors for this type has to have more or less of a medium to low contrast level as well. Basically, bright, fresh, warm, colors that have some white added to the mix to lighten them. Saturated, but not too strong, bold or dark. Even the LIGHT WARM's darker colors on the chart, is more or less fresh and colorful.

The LIGHT WARM has the CLEAR WARM and the LIGHT COOL as sister groups. This means that this group can look ok in some light cool or clear warm colors as well. For example, light blue, ballerina pink and lilac is a good example of cool colors that look very similar to those on the sister group chart, and can therefore easily be shared, as well as many of the lightest colors on the CLEAR WARM chart. Even though their own version would be better, it can work quite well, preferably with makeup. The colors to be more careful with are those that are the coldest, boldest and deepest, such as the grey-browns, grey-blue, and CLEAR COOL, DEEP COOL colors in general. "Sister group", just means that these types have a lot in common, but they are still different enough to have different needs.
​Some LIGHT WARMs, such as the LIGHT WARM neutral, is flowing into the sister group LIGHT COOL, and can therefore use colors from both groups with great success. It can sometimes be really difficult to decide which group the LIGHT WARM neutral belong to, and SOFT WARM, SOFT COOL and LIGHT COOL, might come to mind. The trick is to see how they react to the coldest and warmest colors on the LIGHT WARM and LIGHT COOL chart. A LIGHT WARM should look great in yellow and peach, and less striking in a shade of cold grey-blue and grey-brown. Berry colors are also a good tie-breaker, as they are also too dominantly cool for the LIGHT WARM. A neutral can maybe pull them of, but the warm colors will be better. The trick to borrowing from cusping groups, or if you want to wear a color that's not even close to your preferred hues, such as black, is to balance the look with the help of your own color chart. E.g. wear peachy pink lips when wearing an all black outfit, or add an ivory white shirt instead of pure white to your black suit. It can also be a good idea to use makeup to crank up your contrast level or to make sure you don't loose your warmth, just to hide the fact that a color is actually too strong, too cold, and so on. It's obviously best to only wear colors that suit your natural coloring, but the reality is that most people still love wearing dark colors, so it's best to know how to go about it to not look completely washed out. Another good survival method to keep up with a black outfit for a LIGHT WARM, is a black-brown wet-liner, and some blush/sun powder to give extra color to the cheeks and add more contrast to your face. The better the condition of your skin, the easier it will be to get away with, and the more delicate you skin is, the more you have to cheat to not look drab. The tolerance for other colors will usually be defined by the LIGHT WARM's own glow. A bright look and a fresh skin tone is crucial for this type to look it's best. The right colors will do that, but a LIGHT WARM with a tanned skin and bright warm hair, can get away with a lot more than one with a pasty winter skin and a mousy hair color. It's a little bit like with the body types, you can't break more than one rule at a time. For a group this delicate and light, you always have to compensate for the rule you break with adding a little extra of your best.

Bright and golden hair is usually the best look for a LIGHT WARM, but which exact hair color would look the best can vary a little from one LIGHT WARM to another, depending on the sub-group. All three LIGHT WARM sub-groups have a slightly different take on warmth, because they are flowing in slightly different directions. "The true" is flowing towards the CLEAR WARM, "the soft" is flowing towards the MUTED/SOFT WARM, and "the neutral" towards the LIGHT COOL. For example, since the LIGHT WARM soft is flowing into an autumn type, they might actually be a natural red head, and one of the few natural red heads that can dye their hair bombshell blonde, and it will most likely look as natural on them as red. Anything from strawberry blonde, copper, soft copper, or a rondette look, to an ombre, bronde, caramel, hazelnut, golden brown, chocolate, or highlights, to golden, bright warm blonde, and so on, is all a good look on the LIGHT WARM. As long as it's a light and warm shade, it's considered pretty safe for this type. Just make sure that the balance between you eye, skin, and hair color gives you the warmth and brightness level that your particular sub-group needs. If in doubt, go for a shade of golden blonde, or strawberry blonde if you are a LIGHT WARM soft. 

WORST COLORS ARE Dark and dusty colors. The warmer your coloring, the worse dusty, cool, berry colors will get too. 
The only dark or dirty colors you can get away with are those that are warm and still has some colorful brightness to them.
​Pitch black, and deep, dark, and too bold colors, as well as icy cool blonde, or cold shades in general, are not hair colors for your light and sunny look. ​
Remember that your biggest no colors are the ones that will clash with either your eye, skin or hair color, no matter if everything else tells you it should be great. 

Now that you know which "season" you belong to, and what type of colors that suit your warm intensity, you might feel that you can pull of some colors that aren't on the LIGHT WARM chart. This might mean you have a "soft" or "neutral" tendency, and that you look your absolute best in one type of the LIGHT WARM colors, such as the softer and warmer. It can also mean that you are flowing into a different group, such as CLEAR WARM, LIGHT COOL, or SOFT WARM, but if you borrow colors outside of your group, never go too soft and muted, or all cool, or too bold and bright. You can still run the risk of looking faded and dull, because you are above all a LIGHT WARM, and need hues that reflect that. These colors are based on your natural coloring, and might vary a little from one LIGHT WARM to another, but that's what the "add on" is for. 
Basing you type on looks alone might not be the safest way to find your sub-group. For example, I have seen a LIGHT WARM true with green eyes and an overall coloring that said SOFT WARM, but during the color analysis the LIGHT WARM colors all matched perfectly, and the SOFT WARM colors were a little too dull for her.
​It might be difficult to find someone with your exact color combination to compare yourself with on the chart, so if you can't quite decide, try out the group you lean towards the most and work your way from there. If that's not quite right either, try the next. A good tiebreaker for people who wonder if they are a LIGHT WARM, is that a LIGHT WARM must look great in lemon yellow, and if you don't, look towards the LIGHT COOL, SOFT WARM or SOFT COOL.
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​All the sub-groups look good in the same colors, they just have a different set of "best colors", a different approach to combining colors and prints, and are cusping towards different (sister) groups.
The best way of finding your sub-group, is to figure out which ones are your "best colors", and if they are the lightest or warmest, or if you suit LIGHT COOL colors almost equally as good.

For example, you can be a 
LIGHT WARM true, or should I say simply light and warm, and the closest to the CLEAR WARM (Busy Phillipps and Brittany Snow). In traditional systems, I would call this type a typical spring, and they will usually find themselves in almost all color systems out there. This type will usually have blue eyes, but can also have green, mixed, or something similar. Their skin tone is most likely a type of beige or ivory that has a peach or warm pink undertone. They're naturally somewhat light skinned, but tan well (But don't get too focused on the skin tone. The most important thing is that you have a warm, or at least neutral undertone). They're usually natural dark blondes, and was probably blonde as a child. Because of this, most of them look their best with golden blonde hair. But, dark golden blonde, light golden brown, caramel, strawberry blonde, or soft copper hair colors can be great too. Blonde is definitely the most stunning look for a LIGHT WARM true, as it will make them look like sunshine. Highlights, baylage, or an ombre is also a really good look. Just remember that platinum, white blonde, or icy cool blonde is too cold, and more of a LIGHT COOL thing.
This sub-group is the closest to the CLEAR WARM, and can sometimes borrow colors from that group. Just be sure the clear colors don't overpower your delicate coloring. Fresh colors make them pop, and muddy, dark colors can mute their fresh and sunny look. This type is usually their best when hair color, makeup, clothing, and everything they wear look warm, sunny and bright. The fresher the colors, the fresher the LIGHT WARM true will shine too (but remember to use the right kind of light colors).
Their "best colors" are the lightest, brightest, sunniest and freshest on the LIGHT WARM chart, such as lemon yellow, aqua blue and warm pink. If you are a LIGHT WARM true, the typical spring look should work more or less perfectly for you.

LIGHT WARM neutral, a.k.a "The Spring flowing into summer" (Amanda Seyfried, Scarlett Johansson and Heather Graham). This sub-group is above all LIGHT, and for some, just minor differences are what keep them in the WARM family. This type is borderline LIGHT COOL and can handle a lot of LIGHT COOL colors. I some cases they can use LIGHT COOL colors in the winter if they are pale, and LIGHT WARM colors in the summer while they have a tan. The only way of knowing which group the most neutral of the neutrals truly belong to (as they usually have a neutral skin tone and very little visible warmth), is to test and see what their worst colors are. If berry colors, grey-brown and grey-blue is stretching it a little too far for you, and if yellow is good on you. That would mean that you're probably slightly more towards a warm and therefore a LIGHT WARM neutral. This group can with ease combine LIGHT WARM and LIGHT COOL colors too, but the absolute best way to do it would be to keep the look dominantly warm through hair and makeup, and then experiment more with clothing. The neutral can come in many variations, but will still look amazing with golden blonde hair, wearing lemon yellow and peach.
This sub-group's biggest enemies are not cold colors, but rather dark, deep, and bold colors that are too saturated and will wash them out. Berry colors will always be difficult for any LIGHT WARM, no matter the sub group, but will not be horrible on the neutral. 
Remember that for this sub-group it's not so much about what you can't do, but more about what you can do - Like taking advantage of your "sub-features" to get away with even more colors. 

LIGHT WARM soft, a.k.a "The Spring with a hint of Autumn" (Amy Addams, Nicole Kidman, Deborah Ann Woll, Lauren Ambrose, and Christina Hendricks). The LIGHT WARM soft is the warmest of the LIGHT WARM sub-groups, and the reason for that is that this type is flowing into MUTED WARM or SOFT WARM, depending on your color combination.
This sub-group will usually have either, blue, grey, hazel, or green eyes. Their natural hair color is usually red (ginger or strawberry blonde) or light brown, but can also be dark blonde to light blonde. Their skin is usually quite fair with a peach or warm pink undertone (anything warm or neutral really), but can also be warm beige, golden and so on (tanned looking). It is this combination of warm features that aren't quite warm and muted enough to be an earth-toned type, that defines the "soft", and in this case the LIGHT WARM soft. Many identifying with this type have probably never really found a perfect match in classic color systems, although spring was probably their closest fit. The LIGHT WARM soft is often confused for the SOFT WARM or SOFT COOL (summer-autumn mix), as they have some similarities. For the SOFT WARM however, the dominating feature is autumn with a hint of summer, and the other way around for the SOFT COOL. For the LIGHT WARM soft, the dominating feature is spring, but as I've mentioned before, with a dab of autumn. Because of this mix, the LIGHT WARM soft look their best in the softest or warmest colors on the LIGHT WARM chart (e.g. the golden yellow is even better than the lemon yellow). The LIGHT WARM soft, should always try to add more color and warmth to their look, and be careful not to drain their naturally fresh glow by going too earthy or too bold. Colors that are too soft, cold, or faded will make you look dull, and too saturated colors will overpower you. For the best LIGHT WARM soft look, combine your warm and sunny colors with the golden and soft. Even though you can borrow colors from the autumn groups, you can only really pull of the ones similar to the freshness of the colors on your own chart. Don't go too earthy, you're not an autumn even though you might be a green eyed red head.
All hair color other than the natural and neutral look, has to be in a warm shade. Adding more warmth to the hair and turning up the heat on your look, can help you appear even more fresh faced (especially if you have some neutral colored features). Think warm and fresh hair colors, not muddy and ashy. Colors that are too dark, or red with cold undertones are especially harsh and draining for this type. Just, never go colder than a neutral. 
​The little hint of autumn tones in the LIGHT WARM soft, still has an impact, so I would recommend strawberry blonde, a warm golden blonde, a dark golden blonde, warm brown, chocolate, caramel, toffee, soft red, rondette, or even a bright copper tone for this sub-group. This is also actually one of the few natural red heads that can dye their hair blonde and get away with it. It will most likely look as natural on them as red.

Last, but not least. Remember that the only thing that really matters is what looks and feels good on you. The rules are only there to guide and help you, not control you.