Cool Summer Color Season
Crisp, clear, and decidedly cool — Cool Summer radiates fresh elegance in blue-toned roses, lavender, and soft blues.
Find Your Season FreeWhat Is Cool Summer?
Cool Summer is the most defined Summer type — clearly cool-toned, with medium contrast and a fresh, clean quality. Where Soft Summer is hazy and diffused, Cool Summer has a crisper quality without reaching the high contrast of Winter. Think of the light on a cool, bright summer morning rather than a hazy afternoon.
Cool Summers are often confused with Winters because both are clearly cool-toned. The difference is depth and contrast — you are lighter and softer than Winter, and pure bright colors look slightly too harsh on you, while softened cool tones look perfect.
Skin
Fair to medium, with distinctly pink, rosy, or cool beige undertone. May flush easily. No golden warmth.
Eyes
Cool blue, grey-blue, cool grey, or grey-green. Often have a clear, icy quality.
Hair
Cool ash blonde, cool light brown, mousy, or medium brown without red or gold tones.
Contrast
Low to medium — less contrast than Winter, but clearly cool and clean rather than Soft Summer's haze.
Cool Summer Color Palette
Soft, cool, and slightly muted — blue-pinks, periwinkle, lavender, cool rose, and blue-greens. Nothing warm, nothing too vivid.
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Colors to Avoid
Style Tips for Cool Summer
- Silver, white gold, and platinum are your metals. Yellow gold clashes with your cool undertone.
- Navy and cool charcoal work as your dark neutrals — far better than black or brown.
- Opt for blue-based pinks and roses rather than peach or coral tones.
- Soft lavender and periwinkle are unusual neutrals that work brilliantly for you.
- Cool-toned make-up with rose or berry lip and cool taupe eye shadow flatters you most.
- Avoid over-saturating — your palette is beautiful muted. High saturation reads as costume.
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