True Winter
This is your palette
Cool, deep and clear. Blue-based throughout, with real black and real white as working neutrals rather than as a last resort.
Also called Cool Winter.
If this is your palette
Your colouring is blue-based, deep 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
- True Blue#0F52BA
- Cool Cobalt#2E6FE0
- Royal Purple#5C2D91
- Emerald Green Deep#0F7A46
- Cherry Red#C8102EBlue-based red, never tomato.
- Magenta Fuchsia#C42A8E
Your white and your dark
- 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.
Colours to keep away from your face
Harder next to your face – warm, golden or muted against cool deep colouring. Lower down, or as a small accent, they can still work.
- Golden CamelThe warm neutral that puts yellow into your skin.
- Warm PeachWarm pastel; it fades to nothing beside your contrast.
- AvocadoYellow-green. Your green is Emerald Green Deep.
- Rust OrangeEarth red. Your red is Cherry Red.
- Oatmeal BeigeGolden neutral. Wear Icy Pearl.
- Dusty SageGreyed and warm at once – the one shade to keep away from your face.
Make-up and hair
Everything you put near your face follows the same three rules: keep it blue, keep it deep, 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.
- BrowsYou can carry a fully defined brow – under-filling reads as unfinished against depth.
- 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.
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.
- True WinterTrue Blue
- Bright WinterClear Cerulean
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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