SOFT SUMMER COLOUR GUIDE
CHARACTERISTICS
Skin Colours
Eye Colours
Hair Colours
SOFT SUMMERs main characteristic is muted and cool. On the other hand, they are the warmest in summer family since they are close to Autumn season according to flow theory. Your skin, eye and hair colours blend together meaning there is low contrast between them. Your eyes are grayish blue or green. Your skin is neutral cool with ashy and pinky undertones. Your hair has ashy tones as wee, ranges from ash blonde to dark ask brown. Your hair colour is mostly darker than the other summer seasons.
CLOTHING COMBINATIONS
Technically you can create colour combinations by mixing and matching colours in your colour palette. You can combine your accent colours with your basic colours or with your dark or light neutral colours.
SOFT SUMMERs have soft, muted, medium value colours with cool undertones in their palette. These colours are lighter and cooler than the Autumn palettes but slightly warmer and darker than the other Summer palettes. Neighboring the Autumn season adds more deep and warmer tones as well as couple brown tones into Soft Summers colouring. They also have low contrast between them.
Since you have low contrast in your features, we recommend you to choose monochromatic or analogous combinations, which means, combining the different shades of the same colour or combining neighboring colours. You have many option to do these combinations in your colour palette.
Avoid clear and bright colours and high contrast and bold combinations (complementary, triadic or tetradic) , otherwise you look washed out behind your outfit. Black is not in your palette, cause its too dark for you. Try deep gray and cool brown shades instead of black. White is also too bright for you, you can choose other light neutrals in your colour palette for your combinations.
PATTERNS&PRINTS
Since your natural look has low contrast, your patterns should reflect the same. Your colour palette has medium value colours meaning neither dark or light. Best to choose the same colours in your palette for your patterns and prints.
Small to medium scale, loosely arranged and light colour patterns such as flowers, water colour designs, delicate shapes would be nice options for your natural look. Avoid too dense, big or sharp shapes and geometric patterns.
Similar patterns, different shades
Low contrast, soft summer background, small scale flower pattern. Good example for Soft Summers.
Low contrast, also good choice for Soft Summer combinations.
Medium contrast, bright background, not from Soft Summer Palette, best left alone.
Other examples of Soft Summer patterns and prints
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JEWELRY
Your best metals are silver, white and yellow gold. Prefer matte, brushed and hammered metals instead of shiny ones. Make sure they are not too blackened.
Pinkish Pearls, Rose quartz, Smoke Quartz and Flourite are good options for you.
MAKE-UP COLOURS
Foundation&Concealer
You have neutral-cool skin complexion with ashy and pinky beige undertone. Its better for you to choose the similar foundation colour to your skin tone, preferably the ones with matte and smooth finishes.
Blush
Blush colours should reflect your natural soft look. There are many different cool pink shades in your palette that you can choose. Matte finishes will blend with your skin tone naturally.
Lipstick
Your lipstick colours are blue based pink tones. Avoid glossy and shimmery finishes, choose the matte ones instead.
Eye shadows
Your soft and muted colour complexion needs to be repeated with your make up colours. Therefore matte eye shadows would be better for you. Avoid bright and too dark colours as well as shimmery finishes.
Eyeliner&Mascara
You have many different colourful options for eyeliner. Make sure that they are matte and not overly bright. Dark grays and browns are good choices for mascara.
Your make-up colors are taken from your fashion colour palette. Cosmetic companies have their own colour names for their products. You may not be able to find the exact names in the market when you are shopping for make-up products, but this colour palette will guide you to find your best colours that would match your complexion, you can try to search for similar colours as possible.
If you are not Soft Summer, than check out the other seasons below!
