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Light Summers are often fair, or have particularly light colouring for their ethnicity, across hair, eyes and skintone, and darker colours in clothes or hair dye look artificial and heavy on them. If your outfit feels a little ‘much’ with a stronger colour, try wearing it more tonally - eg Periwinkle is paired with softer denim blues and blue-greys to anchor it.Īlso known as a Pastel or, rather whimsically, a Cotton Wool Ball Summer, the most noticeable characteristic of Light Summers is the lightness of their skin, hair and eye colour, although they still retain Summer’s cool and soft traits. When colour combining, the classic Summer guideline of layering tonal colours (not too much contrast, not too many different colours within one outfit) is usually the best place to start.

They can be any shade, from rose pinks to denim blues and pinky burgundy, but they share that equal balance of coolness, lightness and softness that you also hold. They are, unsurprisingly, the most definitively Summer colours. You still have your own very best core of colours though.

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This means that it isn’t often helpful to add a tonal direction to the shopping filter on the Shop by Colour page, as adding in colours from other seasons rarely helps you - simply choose from the full Summer palette and you’ll never go far wrong! The flip side is that you look the best in the widest range of Summer colours, as you really do sit bang in the middle of this palette.

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For all skin colours, there is generally not a great deal of contrast between hair, skin and eye colour - a black and white photo wouldn’t show extreme contrast here, and there is a softness which is overwhelmed by the strongest shades.īecause you sit right in the middle of the Summer palette - there is no ‘leaning’ towards any of the other three seasons, by being deeper, lighter, warmer or cooler - the best colours for these True Summers really are, very simply, the colours of the Summer palette! Cheating on your palette by shopping from colours in another palette is never going to work as well for you as one of the other types of Summers, who can push into their neighbouring season. True Summers often (although not always) look like the ‘classic’ summer - ashy mid-brown hair, grey or blue eyes, and skin that isn’t in high contrast with either hair or eyes. Also known as a Sweet Pea Summer, the True Summer (and their palette) has an even balance of Summer’s cool, soft and light characteristics.