Colour analysis
True Summer or True Winter?
This is your palette
The difference is depth: one palette is lighter, the other deeper. Temperature and clarity are the same.
How to tell them apart
- Compare your hair and your skin in daylight: the deeper the two are together, the deeper the palette that carries you.
- Hold a pale grey and then a charcoal near your face: the one that sits quietly is closer to your depth, the other either swamps you or washes you out.
- Look at a black-and-white photograph of yourself: if it reads mostly light, start with the lighter palette.
Side by side
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.
True Winter
cool, deep and clear
Cool, deep and clear. Blue-based throughout, with real black and real white as working neutrals rather than as a last resort.
- True Blue
- Cool Cobalt
- Royal Purple
- Emerald Green Deep
- Cherry RedBlue-based red, never tomato.
- Magenta Fuchsia
- Best whitePure WhiteBest white for you. Optic white, and it is correct.
- Best darkJet BlackYour best dark neutral – one of the few seasons for which it is.
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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.