How to Find Your Color Season: True, Soft & Light SUMMER Color Analysis

For those struggling to find out which season subcategory they are, it helps to use makeup. For example either a cool or warm lipstick will tell you right away if your undertone is cool or warm, much like the silver/gold jewellery test. Trying on different lipsticks can also show if you look better in bright or muted colours like for example a Barbie pink versus a mauve lipstick... the right one will make you look healthy but the wrong one makes you look pasty and sick. Makeup can also reveal your level of contrast like, for example, does a heavy smokey eye overpower you? Can you use black liner or would a taupe or dark brown liner look more natural on you, or even just using eyeshadow instead of a liner? If you find you can't handle harsh contrast it's probably because the natural contrast between your features is lower. Another useful contrast test can be, does a bold lip make the rest of your face look faded, or is the bold lip in harmony with the way your other facial features also stand out? Even things like the white of your eyes standing out or not, or maybe an iris with a dark line around it are indicators of your natural contrast.

I’m a soft summer, and my wardrobe shows it too. It’s nice to confirm these things. I wish I was warm though, I love warm colors so much more 😂 but I’ve always known they wouldn’t work on me

Yay. Finally figured out I am a soft summer, and I see my wardrobe mostly reflects that. Platinum white hair, lightly tanned and freckled skin and medium hazel (brown, not grey) eyes. The platinum hair, which is long, is dominant. The hazel eyes were throwing me off a bit, in the analysis, so I never could slot myself in perfectly, but I fit the best in soft summer. Thanks!

I’m so close to neutral that my color analyst struggled at first to determine whether I was warm or cool. But when she put a pale greenish-blue (a color we used to call aqua), vs. a warm-toned one on me, there was no question, definitely cool-toned. The aqua made my skin look like it had foundation and blush on and made my eyes brighter, it’s still my best color. Back then, 40 years ago, the Color Me Beautiful analysis I had didn’t subdivide the seasons. So, your video was helpful, based on your information, I think I must be a Soft Summer. I have brondish to light brown hair (depending on sun exposure) which is naturally always very streaky with many different shades in it, very pale skin and hazel eyes that are a green/gray with some golden brown flecks. I always prefer soft white and lighter colors from my Summer palette because I’m too pale and have hereditary undereye circles that can’t be completely covered. I can wear gold-toned jewelry well enough, if it’s not too dominant in size (not a problem for real gold, who can afford chunky gold pieces)? I always thought a good first-look cool/warm test is to hold up a warm camel beige, then a cooler taupe, and watch which flatters the face better. Despite learning towards neutral, yellowish, peachy, yellow-green or orangey tones just look awful on me. This suggests I’m closer to cool than warm. I didn’t know Soft Summer leans toward Autumn, no wonder I look good in khaki green!

Great explanation! I’ve recently been struggling to place myself between Soft and True Summer, but this really cleared it up for me.

True summer= cool, muted, medium contrast between all the features. Not very bright coloured eyes. Muted hair , more ashy. Soft summer: muted, cool, medium to low contrast Eye colours slightly grey Hair colours more muted and ashy Skin colour neutral or neutral cool Light summer: light, cool, low contrast Light eyes greyish undertone (no brown)

So helpful and really well explained. I am a Light Summer!

Light summer ! This helped so much

2:01 True Summer 5:05 Soft Summer 8:01 Light Summer Thank you for these videos, I still don’t know which season I am but I am getting closer (I hope). It would be great if you could make a video on finding skin undertone on olive skins

One color analyst identified me as a light summer, and another identified me as a true summer. I’m definitely a summer, just can’t figure out which one. I pull off blonde well, and was blonde as a child, so I feel like maybe a light summer? But I can also pull off light brown hair if I also darken my eyebrows….

I used to think forever that I was neutral warm, most likely soft Autumn, since forever. But recently I've come to notice that I look 10x more stunning, softened, and enhanced in cool tones- especially muted or/and sometimes grey, not too dark in color value though. Warm tones make me look off, aged, sweaty, and sometimes tired. Colors that are clear or just bright, even jewel tones (which sucks), wash me out. In clothing, my biggest compliments have come from cool tones. I can look good in neutra-warm tones but mostly the ones Soft Summers can get away with too. I have a very muted complexion, and I lean neutral-cool. The issue is that I'm South Asian (Pakistani), while I have a light-medium complexion (lighter than most SA tbh), the way Soft Summer is described is almost tailored for ppl with Eurocentric looks or mixed. My eyes are a very dark brown and I have black hair, not an obvious brown in my hair and in pictures it almost feels as if it has a ashy wash over it but not rlly at the same time. I think the eye thing bothers me bc it doesn't feel grey to me- I have a faint grey rim and faint glass pattern, it's just in the sun, it's obviously brown. I will admit not honeyed or very orange, nor high chroma, but still dark brown. In the grand scheme of things, I don't have high contrast in my features (complexion, hair, etc.) I really think I'm a Soft Summer, but I almost want to crawl back to Soft Autumn bc it's "easier" and more trendy lol. The eye thing is making me have an identity crisis lol. I do know I'd be in a cool season no matter what, maybe I need to keep exploring but my gut and logic is telling me soft summer

This helped so much! I knew I was a summer but Light Summer is the only one that had my hair color and eye color and those colors just made me happy immediately! Olive green has always been my go to color and go to neutral. Like, I crave it, i just have to have it. Thank you!

I have always known I am a summer. There was never a question about it. With these subcategories, I would always get confused. I know I am not a true summer. And I can look great in both soft summer and light summer colors. My hair was platinum as a child and darkened a bit as I got older. It can get natural highlights and I tend to gravitate towards the soft palette when given the choice (like, I might LIKE the light shirt better than the soft shirt, but once it's on, I like the soft shirt better). I THINK I finally figured it out. I am a soft summer! Yay!

I was so confused by color analysis this really helped.

You just helped me figure out (finally!) that I’m a light summer. Thank you! How frustrating this can be lol

I’m a light summer!

I know I'm a summer, but I find it so hard to tell which sub type I fit the best. I have slightly dark eyes, hard to tell the exact colour - mostly grey but tones of green and blue. Pale cool toned skin, and light brown saturated hair, with some red and golden blonde tones only visible in sunlight. I lean toward soft summer as it's the palette I usually gravitate toward in clothing anyway, but I'm just not sure 😭

I must be a light summer But I also have noticeably strawberry-blonde hair and I like wearing gold jewelry (maybe it looks more cohesive with my hair?) But my skin is cool undertone. I can see a clear difference wearing a pastel icy blue, olive green, or teal when compared to any other color. It's like someone breathed new life into my features lol Plus those colors make my hair look even more red! Which I like :) I have also explored being a light spring, but I just couldn't see myself in it And my hair grows near the root an ashy blonde, but it is red further down. It's not due to the water in my house, and my hairdresser said it didn't really look like sun damage, and in fact was very confused by it lol So not sure how it's there. But my mum's hair was the same at my age!

You look like a dark summer 🎉

So hard to tell cool vs soft summer. Had white blond hair as a baby but def dark ash blond to med ash brown depending on where it grows on my head as a adult. Very dark int he back...