Cool and Delicates can be further broken down into three varieties: Cool Summer (flowing into Cool & Brilliant), Light Summer (sharing qualities with Warm & Fresh), and Soft Summer (dipping into Warm & Rich).
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Thanks for this break down! When I was reading the post in my Reader I was pretty confused, as I knew I was somewhere in between. But I should have known you wouldn't let me down! As I kept reading I'm definitely a light summer, cool and delicate. Good to know!
Andrea, so happy I could be of help!
I always had all the caracteristics of a cool summer but in all places that i read about it doesn't have any information of black eyes and i was always very confused about my seasonal coloring. I don't have enough contrast to be a deep winter (I wear primary colors just awful) and i don't have warm skin color at all. My eyes aren't that black but they definitly don't have yellow undertones, in fact i think they are brown but very ashy. Now, reading your blog i know that probably i am a cool summer for real. Including the colors you say that look bad on me are completly true.
And sorry about my english, i understand almost every thing but my writing is sux. Thanks for the help!
I agree with the others this post (and this blog are excellent!). But I'm still a little confused. No where does this post mention brown eyes. I know I'm a summer because bright colors wash me out and I can't do any shade of orange; it's my worst color.
And while I have ash brown hair now (a medium shade I call "dead mouse #5"), I was born blond (I was blond until I was about 5).
But my eyes are brown. It's a brown on the hazel side but it's clearly brown. The winter post mentions brown eyes once (black-brown eyes -- you could never describe my eyes as black-anything).
I still think Soft Summer sounds closest.
Digne, i think we are at the same place! When i was little i had blonde hair too, but now my hair is somewhere between gray, brown and dark blond. My eyes aren't light and i don't have enough contrast to be a deep winter either. It's very complicated analize people with dark eyes that aren't winter or autumn. I think that if you know the only thing that is different from soft summers caracteristics are your eyes, you are a soft summer. I think i am a cool summer because i'm sharing qualities with winter more than with spring or autumn. But i am still very confused too.
Digne, I think you are correct in assuming soft summer. Feel free to try out the colors in your palette and see what you think.
Ana, I think cool summer sounds like a good spot to start. Try the colors and see what you think. Even if you don't fit the exact stereotype, if the colors flatter you, you are in the right category.
Thank you for the information! However, I am still confused. I was analyzed in the 80s when there were only 4 seasons. I was a summer. Now that color analysis has gotten fine tuned, I'd like to know where I fall. I am having a hard time distinguishing my skin tone. Any tips? I have very blue eyes with some white webbing in them. I color my hair mixing 90% Clairol Lightest Ultra Cool Brown and 10% Clairol Medium Ultra Cool Blonde. My natural color was a dark mousy brown. I am definitely not a Light Summer, but am not sure about the other two. Could I possibly wear colors from both palettes well?? Thanks for any help!
Karen,
Whether you are a soft summer or a cool summer depends on how warm or cool you are. And your skin tone will be the determining factor. If you tend to tan easily and have a warm, peachy or olive undertone to your skin, you are probably soft summer. If you are generally fair with rosy or pink undertones to your skin, you are probably cool summer. As a summer you can pretty safely wear colors from all of the summer palettes, but you particular category will suit you best.
What if your coloring is mostly cool: pale pink skin and dark ashy hair but you have very warm eyes. Like a Honey Amber color?
I'm pretty sure I am a summer, but I don't know which one. I'm leaning towards Light Summer. I have blue-green eyes and bluish green veins. I get a lot of compliments when I wear colors like teal and turquoise. I also love purple.
I'm unsure of my natural hair color. I was blonde as a child, and my mom says that I had golden highlights. But as I got older, my hair darkened up to more of a dirty dishwater blonde. I have colored it for years and am now wearing a natural blonde shade that tends to go golden.
I just don't think that ash toned hair compliments me.
I was recently matched for a foundation called "natural beige" but its a little bit dark for me.
Any ideas of which summer I might be?
Thanks!
I love it!! I am definitely cool summer, spot on, and I have always gravitated towards those colours. I also find that I can wear ONE variant of yellow, a maize yellow.
Many thanks for this,
Jenny Ekberg, Australia
PS. And by "maize yellow" I mean a pale, dusty yellow looking a bit like your "chiffon". I have some red dresses, I have really tried, but I just never end up wearing them! Time to donate.....
Jenny, glad I could be of help :)
Rachel,
Thanks for stopping by! I would love to help you. Unfortunately, I have been getting so many complimentary color typing requests, I was falling behind on my other orders. If you would like a color analysis, please find the $12 color analysis service at the bottom of this post.
Hope to hear from you again soon :)
Reachel
As i said before, i have very fair skin (pale and cool), brown eyes (not too light, but definitly not dark) and dark blond/ light ash brown hair.
I was very confused about my season and after you said to me that i should try both (cool and soft) summer's color chart, i went to a store and i tried on everything that could possibly say to me what season i was. I look much better in ruby than in raspberry and light gray make me glow much more than the darker ones. I think that spruce look great on me and i had lots of compliments when i tried on mint pieces. Sea green, pine and coral doesnt make me look bad too and pink beige, baby pink, icy pink and shell pink make me feel amazing. Even do soft summer colors are very similar with cool summer and both worst colors make me worse, afterall, i think that i am a soft summer for real. So, thank you very, very much for your help. I am ready to buy the right colors now!
Ana, So happy I could be of help :)
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