Colour analysis
True Spring or True Summer?
This is your palette
The difference is temperature: one palette is warm, the other cool. Depth and clarity are the same.
How to tell them apart
- Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist in daylight: green-leaning veins point warm, blue or purple ones point cool.
- Hold gold and then silver jewellery against your skin: whichever makes it look even and clear, rather than sallow or grey, is your side.
- Compare a warm ivory with an optic white under your chin: warm colourings come alive in ivory, cool ones in the cleaner white.
Side by side
True Spring
warm, light and clear
Warm, clear and golden. Everything is lit from inside; nothing is greyed.
- Golden Poppy
- True Marigold
- Grass Green
- Clear Turquoise
- Warm CornflowerYour blue. Warm-based, so it sits beside gold.
- Spring AmethystViolet with warmth in it – not the cold plum of Winter.
- Best whiteIvory SilkBest white for you. Warm and soft, never chalky.
- Best darkEspresso BeanUse instead of black. Your best dark.
True Summer
cool, light and clear
Cool, light and clear. Icy rather than dark: the clarity comes from the colours being clean, not from them being deep.
- Icy Aqua
- Clear Periwinkle
- Cool Orchid
- Raspberry Rose
- Icy LemonThe one yellow a cool light season can wear.
- Clear Mint
- Best whiteIcy WhiteBest white for you. Cold and clean.
- Best darkCool GraphiteUse instead of black – black is a shade too hard for a light season.
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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.