Search

Are you a Summer-Winter (Cool Summer)?

Learn more about the Cool Summer seasonal color palette on 30somethingurbangirl.com
Update from September 2018: I uploaded a new photo with face examples for a better understanding of this seasonal color palette. Although I can’t be certain about the celebrities’ exact seasonal color palettes I would like to show some examples to visualize each color palettes.
As well as, I added a new color palette with the names of the shades 🙂

 

Cool Summer seasonal color celebrities by 30somethingurbangirl.com

 

Emily Deschanel / Emily Blunt
Kate Winslet / Queen Elizabeth 

• • •

 

You are a Summer (cool) woman who flows into Winter (cool). Your dominant and secondary seasons are both cool so this palette is also called True Summer. You have contrast on your face as Winters have but in a more delicate way. Your overall look is classy and elegant. 

 

Your hair: medium or dark ash blonde, light to medium ash brown, extra light ash blonde, gray
 
Your skin: cool or natural beige with a rosy undertone
 
Your eyes: grayish blue or green, aqua, slate
 
Your colors: soft and cool

 

Best colors for Cool Summer seasonal color women; Cool Summer color palette

 

Your basic neutral colors: soft white, navy, and grays
 
Avoid: bright and warm colors, browns and oranges
 
 
Cool Summer color palette promo photo
 

 

Your makeup: use your palette colors to your eyes, lips, and nails, foundation, and blusher should be rosy and cool undertones, don’t use bronze blusher
 
Your jewelry: silver, white gold, rose gold
 
Your style: classic and dramatic 
 
Your sister color palette: Cool Winter (Winter-Summer)

 

Note: You can wear the pastel colors of the palette of the Cool Winter season.

 

More famous Cool Summers: Kimberly Williams, Miranda Lambert, Ruth Wilson, Eniko Mihalik, Barbara Palvin
 
Also known as Cool Soft

 
Find more style and outfit tips in my Pinterest board:

Do you need help to find your colors?
Are you not sure of your seasonal color palette?
Try my FREE Seasonal Color Palette Quiz or order a professional analysis in my shop.
Did you liked it? Share the Post:
TAGS:

Do you need help?

I'm here to help you determine your seasonal color palette and suitable style to create a chic and clever wardrobe.
Check out my renewed Your Unique Palette or Your Unique Wardrobe Guides!

Let's chat:

15 Responses

  1. I’m not completely convinced I’m a cool summer(I was read as cool summer virtually by a professional but feel like virtually reading may not be good decisions for those of us who are easily misread ) but I think my very clear bright eyes may be throwing me off? I naturally wear cool colors but always try to find jewel toned colors as well because muted and muddy clothes just look blah on me. I find shopping for quality clothing in vibrant colors difficult but these cool summer colors are nearly impossible to find! Wear is everyone finding their palette??? I’ve been growing my old blonde highlights out of my hair since the start of the pandemic. My hair is much darker each time more blonde is cut out. I’ve wanted to try red hair but looks like it might be difficult to find the right share for either a cool summer or cool winter. I’m bummed out lol

    1. If you are a true cool summer. Then you will want to do a darker red with purple and red mixed with brown. I’m a hairstylist for 5 years now

  2. Hi so my eyes are gray but change with what I wear and my mood… my veins are mostly bluish I would say but I guess depends on lighting because I swear I’ve seen green and blue but lean more toward a blue purple. My hair was blond when I was born and turned strawberry blond as a toddler then ash or firstly blond and finally the color of a mother freaking mouse hahaha in summer it’s prettier much a dark ask blond or light ash brown I think…. I can tan but always have to burn first in the summer to begin tanning and then tan pretty well but my skin is pretty fair and looks to have an almost natural blush effect…. I have noticeable but also subtle freckles.. when I dye my hair the ash blondes white blondes icy blondes look the best champagne blonde… if I do red it has to be deep red or burgundy and no orange yellow or brassy type colors… if the hair color is too ash or too brown I look washed out but if it’s too dark I look too pale and actually I look good in earthy colors but also good in bright colors but it more goes with what color my hair is too because my eyes and skin show differently… I feel like I fit a lot of places and still get I’m a cool nowhere lol I’m cool toned I know but idk what season must be a little bit of all idk

  3. “Cool Summer” is the most perfect season to leave this comment under because as a “Cool”, vacillating between “Cool Summer” and “Soft Summer”, I’ve struggled to get to this place for years.

    I’ve always known and have been told that I’m a “Cool” because I look worst in warm colors. I love orange and peach but I can’t wear them, except for the iciest shades. When I ask my family and friends to honestly tell me what colors look the least harmonious on me, they say some variation of orange or peach. My boyfriends always wanted to see me in powder blue. I’ve been draped before and had an in-store makeup consultation and both times, the person assessing me jumped to “Cool, definitely cool.”

    People look at me and likely see “Brunette” but I’m not dark and of contrast enough to be a “Winter”. Standing next to friends who are “True Winters”, it’s clear in pictures that I’m so much lighter, foggier looking than them. But I’m not blonde, despite having hair that would highlight in the sun to almost white, as a child. Red hair makes my face look gray but despite being very fair, red hair makes me look like putty, like unbaked porcelain.

    This is how I knew I wasn’t an “Autumn”; I just can’t handle the warm highlights or bronzed lightening. But people always assume that if you don’t have light hair and you’re not a “Winter”, you must be an “Autumn/Fall”. However, the most neutral of “Soft Autumns”, that lean towards “Summer” can even struggle with the warmest of oranges, too.

    That’s when it hit me: I find “Summers” to be the most aesthetically misunderstood of color seasons. Why do I think this? Cultural influences regarding concepts of beauty and age: “Summers” are naturally gray. We are all a range of grays, from almost silver “blonde” to gunmetal gray “brunette”.

    “Ash” is just an artistic way of saying “that pile of gray stuff leftover after something has burned down”. “Sable” just refers to a horse mane color of powdery, brown-purple gray. “Platinum” is silvery gray, leaning towards very light gold. “Sandy blonde” is actually a mix of grayed golds and whites, like the color of sand: Salt rolled grains of rock. “Flaxen” is like wheat that’s been dried and bleached gray-beige in the sun. “Cool Summer” brunettes have hair that looks — at its darkest — more like flint rock than a bar of chocolate.

    When you accept this as a “Summer”, everything else about color palette dynamics becomes so much easier. You start looking at best colors as things that compliment light-dark gray.

    We grow-up with the common classifications of Blondes/Brunettes/Redheads as some variation of Yellow/Brown/Black/Red but the truth is, those classifications better apply to “Warms” than “Cools”. As “Summers”, we’re some variation of gray — and that’s okay! Embrace it!

  4. Finally, I KNOW what colors to add for my BEST LOOK!!!! Your Cool Summer Color Palette has been a tremendous help….could NOT have done it without YOU. Now that I am in my 70’s the clothes just seemed to be missing something???? You have given back to me the “life” they were missing. With my hair having gone more platinum white I needed to drop anything with a warm tone or too dark for me. Things really took on new life when I updated all my makeup to compliment the Cool Summer Palette clothes I am now wearing. Cannot wait to go shopping with my “new palette” in hand. Just keeps getting better!!!! Thanks so much.

    1. I have dark blonde ashy hair, green eyes with graish blue specks. I avoid the sun, so I’m very close to makeup color natural ivory. My undertone is blue. I am so confused and have been reading the different seasons repeatedly, trying to find my season. Is there anyone who could help me? Or, who knows what I am based on my description? ? I would greatly appreciate any reply.

  5. Hello,

    I am wondering about accessories, being a cool summer.
    Would cool tone brown shoes or handbag be ok to go with outfits?
    I bought a chloe nut brown messenger bag that I wanted to use for spring and summer
    and I have some cool tone brown shoes. Should I not buy any brown anything and keep to greys?
    Thanks

  6. Thank you for this test! I have lived my whole life vascillating between Winter and Summer. Even though I am a brunette I always had trouble making the strong Winter colors work. Your test was so simple and to the point, revealing that I am a Cool Summer. No wonder its been so hard to make Winter work for me even though I look like one – I'm not a Winter! Now I can work on perfecting my wardrobe in Cool Summer colors, which are effortless for me. Thank you!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Start the new season with your power colors and style!

20% Off

Summer sale until 31st of August!

Use the code: summer2023 on the Cart page!