Summer family · cool undertone · medium depth · soft chroma
True Summer color palette
Cool and soft — dusky blues, rose, and twilight.
Who is a True Summer?
True Summers are the coolest of the cool seasons, with a soft, dusky quality. Ash brown or dark blonde hair, grey, blue, or cool hazel eyes, and skin with pink or blue undertones that never looks golden.
Signs you might be a True Summer
- Warm bronzer looks muddy; cool pink blush looks natural
- Yellow-based colors like mustard and orange drain you
- Silver jewelry looks like it belongs; gold looks borrowed
- Your contrast is gentle, never dramatic
Check with one selfie, free Vienne drapes you in your worst and best colors so you can see it, not guess it.
True Summer best colors
Cool, soft, and medium-depth: dusty blue, mauve, raspberry, slate, soft teal, plum, rose. Neutrals are cool grey, navy, soft white, and taupe. Skip black and anything warm or neon.
The full 60-color True Summer palette
The palette walks each of the season's twelve hues from light to deep within the True Summer range. Every True Summer on Vienne gets this with their result, plus their own three most striking colors.
Colors a True Summer should avoid
These come from your opposite season, True Spring. They pull your face in the wrong direction on every axis: warm where you are cool, medium where you are medium.
Neutrals
Metals
Silver, pewter, and brushed white gold.
Makeup
Mauve and rose lips, cool pink blush, slate and plum shadow. Warm bronzer muddies you.
Hair
Ash brown, cool dark blonde, soft black with no red. Avoid copper and gold.
Not sure between seasons?
The other Summer seasons share your coolness but differ in depth or clarity: Light Summer and Soft Summer. Your opposite is True Spring. The fastest way to settle it is to see your own face on both.