Light Spring
This is your palette
Warm, light and gently muted. Spring is defined by clarity, so nothing here is dusty – it is Light Spring with the volume down, not Soft Autumn.
If this is your palette
Your colouring is golden, light 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
- Peach Bloom#EE8A66
- Warm Apricot#F8C97F
- Fresh Leaf#A8C96F
- Spring Turquoise#5FC0B4
- Cornflower Periwinkle#8299DCYour blue. Warm-leaning, never inky.
- Sweet Violet#CBA2DELight Spring can wear violet; it just has to stay light.
Your white and your dark
- Best whiteWarm IvoryBest white for you. Optic white looks blue against this skin.
- Best darkCocoa BarkUse instead of black. This is your dark neutral.
Colours to keep away from your face
Harder next to your face – cool, icy or blackened next to warm, light colouring. Lower down, or as a small accent, they can still work.
- True BlackFlattens a light warm face. Wear Cocoa Bark.
- Optic WhiteReads blue on you. Wear Warm Ivory.
- Oxblood BurgundyBlue-based and heavy; it ages the whole outfit.
- Gunmetal CharcoalCold grey drains the warmth out of your skin.
- Blackened PineToo dense. Your green is Fresh Leaf.
- Cool FuchsiaBlue-pink. It shouts over a light palette.
Make-up and hair
Everything you put near your face follows the same three rules: keep it golden, keep it light, keep it softened.
- BaseWarm-toned bases, and finishes from matte to a soft sheen. Anything with a cool grey base will look ashen on you.
- EyesSoft bronze, olive and warm taupe, blended rather than lined.
- BrowsKeep them a shade lighter than your hair and softly filled.
- LashesBrown or soft charcoal. Black lashes cut a hard line across soft colouring.
- LipsTerracotta, brick and muted apricot.
- NailsSheer neutrals, or one muted shade. High-gloss brights sit oddly against soft colouring.
- HairStay within warm or neutral tones. Ash and cool-toned dye fights golden skin.
- EveningDeepen, do not brighten. The same shades one or two steps darker, never a new vivid one.
Metals and stones
Metals
Bright silver sits cold against golden skin. If you like a pale metal, choose a warm-toned pewter.
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.
- Light SpringWarm Ivory
- Light SummerSoft White
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:
Often confused with
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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