Welcome to the True Summer Season!
Now that you've discovered your unique color palette, this guide will take you on a deep dive into everything that makes this season shine. From your best colors and those you’ll want to skip, to ideal prints, patterns, and makeup choices—we’ve got it all covered to help you get the most out of your season.
If you are one step ahead and want to always have your best colours with you (and stop spending money on garments that don't flatter your natural beauty), make sure to check our digital and physical colour swatches. Think of this as your ultimate style companion!
Intro
True Summer's palette has a cool and serene quality, evoking the feeling of misty mornings and tranquil waters. These colors bring a calming and refreshing effect, much like the sensation of cool water against the skin. They capture the hues of nature's waterscapes—the soft blues and greens of rivers, lakes, and deep seas.
Colour Dimensions
On the three dimensions of colour, True Summer has the following settings:
Hue
True summer colours are cool. That means they contain blue undertones but no yellow undertones.Â
Chroma
The colours are medium in chroma and lean towards the muted end of the scale. They are soft rather than bright.
Value
The cool summer colour palette ranges from light grey to dark brown and is quite broad. Overall, most colours sit in the middle of the value scale.Â
Your beauty and contrast
If you are a true summer, your primary colour aspect is your cool undertone (hue), meaning blue based colours suit you a lot better than yellow based colours.
Your secondary colour aspect is the softness of your features (low chroma). Your colouring is muted – meaning your features blend rather than contrast each other.
Overall, the level of contrast between your features is medium. Compared to light and soft summer, True Summer is usually the most contrasted.
The contrast is important when we talk about hair colour, makeup, prints and patterns, and the rule never changes: if you want a harmonious look, repeat your natural contrast!
True summer colour palette
The true summer colour palette combines coolness with softness.
The palette has the gentleness and delicacy typical of the Summer family. The colours are mid-range, meaning you don’t go all the way to black nor all the way to pure white.
Blues, turquoises and greys feature heavily on the palette. Cool browns and greyish blues work well as neutrals, accented by brighter hues, like pinks, purples and greens.
Due to the softness of your natural colouring, true black is too dark and harsh. In its place, you have darker greys, blues and browns, which you can use as dark neutrals.
True white also does not go well with your appearance because even though it’s light, it’s also bright. Instead, you have light sand tones, very light greys and greyish blues.
Pinkish nude tones tend to work a lot better for you, as they bring the softness that matches your beauty. You can use them as your light neutrals.
What if I still want to wear white or black?
No one is going to stop you. Remember, this is a collection of the best colours, what works best for you, but you also get to decide how and when to apply that information.
Colours to avoid
Since True Summer’s colour aspects are coolness and softness, your worst colours are the opposite of that: warm and bright.
Warm colours, such as bright yellow, and earthy colours with yellow undertones will clash with your natural coolness.
Bright colours, such as dark purple, black and white, will overpower your soft appearance and you better avoid.
If you want to learn how to use the colours that are not in your palette, make sure to read this post.
Colour Combinations
One of my favourite things about colour analysis is how effortlessly it makes mixing and matching. When you have a colour-coordinated wardrobe based on your ideal shades, every piece works in harmony with the others. It’s like having a personal style formula – no more second-guessing or wondering if that new top will go with your favourite trousers!
Each item complements the next, making it easy to create fresh, stylish outfits without the stress. With your personalised palette as your guide, your wardrobe becomes a curated collection where everything flows together beautifully.
For a Clean, Sophisticated Look:Â Monochrome is your go-to.
For a Harmonious, Balanced Outfit:Â Analogous combos.
For Bold Outfits:Â Complementary combinations are perfect to create that impactful look.
Patterns and Prints
Since your natural colouring has medium contrast, opt for patterns that reflect this natural contrast level.
Below you can find an example of low, medium and high contrast respectively.
The best prints will always be the ones that contain True Summer colours only. But what if most of the colours in a pattern are True summer, but there’s one that clearly isn’t? Does it matter?
1. Try checking it against your face. If the colours are right, you’ll see similar effects to what you saw during your colour analysis (maybe your skin is brighter, your eyes pop, etc).
2. As a rule of thumb, an off colour is less likely to ruin a print if it’s:
a neutral;
from a nearby tone, like your sister palettes
a smaller element in the print
See below some perfect prints if you are a true summer:
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Now, let's get personal, shall we?
Firstly, getting acquainted with your new palette takes time. Many people get surprised with their results, so make sure to give it some time to sink in and to explore your new palette.
Secondly, you absolutely don’t need to discard everything that is out of your season or buy a whole new wardrobe. Instead, start by replacing one clothing piece you wear regularly with a similar piece in your palette. And remember, your palette has a range of colours, so if you don’t like pinks don’t start with pinks – let's keep it simple.
Over time you will develop a new baseline and begin to see how the new colours can work for you and how versatile and easy to mix & match your wardrobe is.
Embracing your palette is not just about following rules, but celebrating your unique self. If you have any questions or need help with anything—whether it's how to use your swatch or styling tips—please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’m always here to support you along the way!
Yours in style,
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