Cool Winter Color Season
Icy, clear, and powerfully cool — Cool Winter radiates in electric blues, icy pinks, and the sharpest contrast.
Find Your Season FreeWhat Is Cool Winter?
Cool Winter is the purest expression of Winter — the most intensely cool-toned of all 12 seasons. Your coloring has almost no warm undertone whatsoever. Skin is distinctly pink or bluish-cool, eyes are cool blue, grey, or dark brown, and hair is dark with no red or gold undertone. Against this backdrop, icy and vivid cool colors perform spectacularly.
Skin
Very fair with cool pink, bluish, or porcelain undertone. Or deeper brown/ebony with clearly cool cast.
Eyes
Icy blue, steel grey, cool dark brown, or black. Rarely any warm hazel or greenish quality.
Hair
Dark brown to black, or platinum blonde — notably absent of warmth. Blue-black in some cases.
Contrast
Medium to high contrast, clearly cool. The cool quality is unmistakable rather than subtle.
Cool Winter Palette
Colors to Avoid
Style Tips for Cool Winter
- You are built for contrast — black and white combinations look phenomenal on you.
- Icy colors (very pale blue, icy pink, icy lilac) near your face are like switching on a light.
- Hot pink, electric blue, and vivid purple are everyday colors for you, not statement pieces.
- Silver and platinum only. Gold makes you look sallow.
- Avoid any color with a yellow or orange base — it ages and drains you visibly.
- Vivid or deep cool lip colors — fuchsia, berry, plum, cool red — are your strongest make-up look.