Color, with a Brazilian accent.
A forty-year-old method, rebuilt for every skin tone and carried past the wardrobe into hair, makeup and mood — by a fashion designer who could not stop thinking about color, and an advertising director who knew how to make people listen.
How Drops de Cor started
Drops de Cor began in Brazil, in the space between fashion and beauty, with a question neither industry was answering properly: why does the same colour lift one person and flatten another?
Seasonal color analysis already existed — it had existed for more than forty years — but it had been written for a narrow range of complexions and it stopped at the wardrobe. Sissa rebuilt it: the seasons reworked to read every skin tone and every ethnicity, with a fashion designer’s eye, and extended into hair, makeup and the mood someone wants to project. That rebuilt 12-Season Expanded Method — and then a school, and then a company that makes its own drapes, palettes and decks because nothing on the market was precise enough to teach with.
Today the method is taught on three continents, the tools ship from a U.S. warehouse, and the community of certified consultants is the part we are proudest of. Our colors have changed the lives of thousands of people.
Sissa Germann
Seasonal color analysis is more than forty years old. Sissa did not invent it — she rebuilt it, for the people it had been leaving out and for the way people actually live with color today.
Born in Brazil, she spent ten years abroad — Vienna, London, Miami — and came back with an outsider’s eye for how differently color behaves on different skin. The charts she had been taught from had been drawn for a narrow range of complexions; she reworked the seasons so they read every skin tone and every ethnicity honestly, and she brought a fashion designer’s eye to them, so the result looks like now and not like 1985.
She also took the method past the wardrobe. What had been advice about clothes became direction for hair, for makeup, and for the mood a person wants to project — their own chromatic harmony, read from their individuality rather than from a chart. That multicultural, fashion-forward version of the 12 seasons is what Drops de Cor teaches, and she still teaches every certification course in person herself.
“Research, and a deep respect for each client’s individuality. That’s the whole method.”
Rapha Coutinho
An advertising director before he was a founder, Rapha spent his career building campaigns for brands that needed a story rather than a slogan.
At Drops de Cor he is the one who turned a method into an identity — the voice, the colors, the way the brand shows up in fourteen cities and still sounds like one company. The Brazilian flair on an American storefront is deliberate, and it is his.