TRUE AUTUMN SEASONAL COLOUR GUIDE

TRUE AUTUMN COLOUR GUIDE

WARM & MUTED

Undertone

TRUE AUTUMNs have warm, rich, earthy, golden undertones. The overall appearance is soft and muted.

Contrast

There is LOW TO MEDIUM CONTRAST between your skin, eyes and hair. All colours in your features are blended to each other, but your skin appears lighter than your hair and eyes which creates low to medium contrast.

Skin

You skin has warm golden undertones. It ranges from fair to dark. You may have freckles. According to metal test, Gold flatters you more than Silver.

Eyes

Your eyes are generally brown, green or hazel, they appear soft and muted. For detailed eye pattern analysis click here.

Hair

Your hair has golden and red tones such as copper, auburn and dark golden brown.

TRUE AUTUMNS

COMPARISON

True Autumn sits between Dark Autumn and Soft Autumn on the seasonal flow chart. True Autumn colours are the warmest in Autumn family. They are warmer, brighter and darker than Soft Summers; also warmer, lighter and more muted than Dark Autumns.

Both True Spring and True Autumns have warm undertones in their features, but True Spring is clear and bright with high contrast, True Autumn on the other hand is muted and soft with lower level of contrast.

True Autumns have warm, rich, earthy, golden undertones whereas True Springs have warm, fresh, yellow undertones. Also their colours are darker and less saturated than True Springs vibrant, fresh colours.

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.

TRUE AUTUMN has typical rich and golden based autumn colours, it is the warmest of all Autumn colour palettes. Golden greens, oranges, warm reds and yellows are creating colourful appearance.

Since there is low to medium contrast between your features, its better to choose monochromatic and analogous combination types, which means same colour with different shades (such as light green and dark green) or colours with similar undertones (such as orange and pink) that are close to each other on the colour wheel.

True black and white are not in your colour palette because they have cool undertones, also they are either too light or dark for you. But you have different options such as brown and beige tones in your colour palette.

PATTERNS&PRINTS

Since your natural look has low to medium contrast, your patterns should reflect the same. Best to choose the same colours in your palette for your patterns and prints. Small to medium scale and light colour patterns such as earthy elements, flowers, wood shapes, leaves would be nice options for your natural look. Avoid too small or dense and sharp geometric patters.

Similar patterns, different shades

Medium Contrast, Medium scale, OK

Medium Contrast, Medium scale, OK

High Contrast, Disharmonious background, NO

Other examples of True Autumn patterns and prints

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JEWELRY

Your best metals are gold, copper, brass and bronze. Prefer matte, antiqued, oxidized and hammered metals instead of shiny ones.

You can use wood and other natural stones as well. Yellow and green stones such as Umber, Jade and Peridot are also harmonies with your warm features.

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MAKE-UP COLOURS

Foundation&Concealer

You have natural warm skin complexion with beige and golden undertone. Its better for you to choose the similar foundation colour to your skin tone, preferably the ones with yellow based matte or satin finishes.

Blush

Salmon, peach and rusty tones are best option for blush colours. Make sure that you choose warm, light and yellow based colours with matte finishes.

Lipstick

Warm, copper reds and oranges will comply with your blush colours. They are better when they have a slight golden shimmer.

Eye shadows

Your soft and muted colour complexion needs to be repeated with your make up colours. Therefore matte eye shadows with warm undertones, earthy colours would be better for you. Avoid cool and blue based colours as well as shimmery finishes.

Eyeliner&Mascara

You have option to choose different green colours in your palette since they harmonize with your green or brown eyes. For mascara, brown tones are better for you.

Nail Polish

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Your make-up colours 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 colors that would match your complexion, you can try to search for similar colours as possible.