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True Summer Colors: Your Complete Palette & Style Guide

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True Summer Colors: Your Complete Palette & Style Guide

Quick answer: True Summers have a distinctly cool undertone with medium contrast and a cool, balanced appearance. Your power colors are royal blue, medium orchid, pale violet red, cadet blue, and slate grey. Silver is your signature metal. Celebrity True Summers include Jennifer Aniston, Emily Blunt, and Kate Middleton.

If your color analysis result is True Summer, you are the essence of cool elegance. Blue-based, muted jewel tones are your signature. Your coloring has a refined, sophisticated quality that shines in cool hues with moderate depth, while warm or overly bright colors clash with your naturally cool, composed beauty.

True Summer Characteristics

  • Undertone: Distinctly cool with a blue or pink cast
  • Contrast: Medium with a cool, balanced appearance
  • Hair: Ash brown, cool medium brown, grey-brown, dark ash blonde
  • Eyes: Grey-blue, cool brown, blue-grey, steel blue, soft blue
  • Skin: Cool pink, rose beige, neutral cool olive, pink-ivory
  • Overall impression: Refined, cool, sophisticated, and composed

Your Best Colors

As a True Summer, you shine in cool, blue-based tones with moderate depth:

  • Blues: Royal blue, steel blue, slate blue, cadet blue
  • Purples: Medium orchid, slate purple, medium violet
  • Pinks: Pale violet red, cool raspberry, medium violet red
  • Greens: Sea green, cool teal, muted emerald
  • Greys: Slate grey, light slate grey, blue-grey
  • Neutrals: Cool charcoal, soft navy, cool taupe (never warm beige)

Colors to Avoid

Steer clear of:

  • Dark orange and tangerine
  • Gold and golden yellow
  • Coral and warm salmon
  • Dark goldenrod and warm bronze

Makeup Guide

  • Lips: Cool raspberry, mauve, soft berry, cool plum, rose pink
  • Foundation: Choose formulas with pink or neutral-cool undertones
  • Blush: Cool rose, soft berry, mauve pink, dusty plum
  • Eyes: Slate grey, cool taupe, soft plum, steel blue, silver shimmer

Your Metal

Silver is your signature metal. Its cool undertone perfectly mirrors your natural coloring. Avoid gold and warm-toned metals, which can look out of place against your cool features. White gold and platinum are excellent alternatives that maintain that cool, elegant feel.

Celebrity True Summers

Jennifer Aniston, Emily Blunt, and Kate Middleton are all True Summers. They consistently look their most polished in cool, muted jewel tones — think slate blue, soft raspberry, and cool grey — and tend to avoid warm, golden looks that compete with their natural coolness.

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