True Summer
This is your palette
Cool, light and clear. Icy rather than dark: the clarity comes from the colours being clean, not from them being deep.
Also called Cool Summer.
If this is your palette
Your colouring is blue-based, light in value and clear 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
- Icy Aqua#6FC8D6
- Clear Periwinkle#7A8FE0
- Cool Orchid#C87BC4
- Raspberry Rose#D9528A
- Icy Lemon#E2D362The one yellow a cool light season can wear.
- Clear Mint#63C9A6
Your white and your dark
- 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.
Colours to keep away from your face
Harder next to your face – warm, golden or earthy against cool light colouring. Lower down, or as a small accent, they can still work.
- Jet BlackCuts a hard line across a light face. Wear Cool Graphite.
- Burnt OrangeThe most warming colour there is, and you cannot carry it.
- Avocado GreenYellow-green turns your skin sallow.
- Cream BeigeCream is your enemy where Icy White is your friend.
- Rust BrickEarth red. Your red is Raspberry Rose.
- Camel TanGolden neutral. Wear Cool Dove Grey instead.
Make-up and hair
Everything you put near your face follows the same three rules: keep it blue, keep it light, keep it clear.
- BaseCool or neutral bases. Warm, yellow-based foundation turns sallow within an hour on blue-based skin.
- EyesCharcoal, navy and cool plum. You can carry a defined line where softer colouring cannot.
- BrowsKeep them a shade lighter than your hair and softly filled.
- LashesA defined lash suits you. Black works if your colouring is deep, brown if it is not.
- LipsTrue red, berry and cool pink.
- NailsA single saturated shade from your signature range, or a clean sheer.
- HairStay cool or neutral. Warm gold highlights pull against blue-based skin.
- EveningDeepen and saturate. Evening is where your palette can go to its fullest strength.
Metals and stones
Metals
Yellow gold reads brassy next to blue-based skin. Rose gold is the one warm metal that still works.
Stones
Cloudy or heavily included stones look dull beside clear colouring – the stone should have some light in it.
Colour combinations
Check it at the mirror
In daylight, by a window, hold these two colours under your chin in turn.
- True SummerIcy White
- True SpringIvory Silk
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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