Deep Winter
This is your palette
Cool, deep and slightly muted. Depth carries the palette; the muting only keeps it from becoming a Bright Winter.
Also called Dark Winter.
If this is your palette
Your colouring is blue-based, deep in value and softened in chroma. Those three properties are the whole of it – every rule below follows from them.
Shades that share all three sit quietly beside your face. Shades that miss one are usually still wearable at a distance from the face; shades that miss two are the ones that make people ask whether you are tired.
Colours that suit you
- Deep Marine#234B77
- Indigo Violet#46459E
- Deep Amethyst#5F3E84
- Wine Berry#8C2A52
- Dark Forest Cool#1B5C43
- Muted Gold Olive#7C7440A deep cool season can wear olive if it is dusty and dark.
Your white and your dark
- Best whiteCool Cream WhiteBest white for you. A shade off optic, which suits the muting.
- Best darkSoft BlackUse instead of true black – a hair softer, and it shows.
Colours to keep away from your face
Harder next to your face – warm, golden or earthy against cool deep colouring. Lower down, or as a small accent, they can still work.
- Pumpkin OrangeWarm and bright. Nothing in a deep cool face answers it.
- Camel GoldThe warm neutral that makes you look tired.
- Moss Yellow-GreenYellow-green turns your skin sallow.
- Peach CreamA warm pastel simply vanishes against your depth.
- Coral SalmonOrange-pink. Your pink is Antique Rose Deep.
- Warm Beige SandGolden beige. Wear Silver Ash.
Make-up and hair
Everything you put near your face follows the same three rules: keep it blue, keep it deep, keep it softened.
- BaseCool or neutral bases. Warm, yellow-based foundation turns sallow within an hour on blue-based skin.
- EyesGrey-brown, slate and soft mauve. Definition without a hard edge.
- BrowsYou can carry a fully defined brow – under-filling reads as unfinished against depth.
- LashesBrown or soft charcoal. Black lashes cut a hard line across soft colouring.
- LipsRose, plum and muted raspberry.
- NailsSheer neutrals, or one muted shade. High-gloss brights sit oddly against soft colouring.
- HairStay cool or neutral. Warm gold highlights pull against blue-based skin.
- EveningDeepen, do not brighten. The same shades one or two steps darker, never a new vivid one.
Metals and stones
Metals
Yellow gold reads brassy next to blue-based skin. Rose gold is the one warm metal that still works.
Stones
Vivid, glassy stones overpower soft colouring. Choose the milkier version of the same stone.
By eye, hair and skin colour
Colour combinations
Check it at the mirror
In daylight, by a window, hold these two colours under your chin in turn.
- Deep WinterDeep Marine
- True WinterTrue Blue
Whichever makes your skin look clearer and the shadows under your eyes softer is your side. If it is the second, compare the two palettes:
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How to find your palette
Colour analysis reads three things in your colouring: warm or cool, light or deep, clear or soft. The quiz asks about your eyes, hair and skin, looked at in a mirror by a window in daylight. It never photographs or scans your face, and the palette it finds is yours to keep.
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