Soft Summer Colour Palette

Summer family · Soft · cool-leaning · blended

Your colouring is gentle and harmonious, with little contrast. Smoky, greyed colours look elegant on you, while bright or stark shades can overwhelm.

UndertoneNeutral (leans cool)
Value (depth)Light to medium
Chroma (clarity)Soft and muted
ContrastLow

The Soft Summer colour palette

The colours that flatter Soft Summer colouring most, best worn near the face.

Dusty rose#C08A93
Sage#9AAE98
Muted teal#5E8C8A
Mauve#9C7A93
Slate blue#6D82A0
Soft plum#7E5A73
Heather#A495B0
Muted seafoam#8DB3A8
Rosewood#A65E6B
Smoky blue#7A93AB
Soft berry#A0566E
Grey green#8A9A88

Soft Summer neutrals

The backbone of a Soft Summer wardrobe: coats, trousers, bags and shoes.

Oyster#E8E2DA
Taupe#9E9086
Cool cocoa#6E5E58
Blue charcoal#4A5160
Pewter#8C8F94

Colours Soft Summers should avoid near the face

Black#141414
Bright orange#FF7A00
Neon pink#FF2E93
Stark white#FFFFFF
Best metalsBrushed silver, pewter or rose gold
Best whiteOyster or soft white
Season familySummer

Are you a Soft Summer?

Soft Summers often have:

  • Neutral to slightly cool skin with little contrast
  • Ash or mousy brown, dark blonde or 'mushroom' hair
  • Soft grey, grey-green, hazel or muted blue eyes

These are common traits, not rules: any skin tone can be any season. The surest way is a daylight selfie.

Soft Summer or a similar season?

Soft Summer vs Soft Autumn

Soft Autumn is just as muted but leans warm, suiting earthy, golden softness. See the Soft Autumn palette

Soft Summer vs True Summer

True Summer is clearer and more clearly cool. See the True Summer palette

Soft Summer make-up and hair

Lipstick shades

Rosewood, Dusty rose, Mauve nude.

Hair colours

Cool brown: Cool ash brown, Mocha, Taupe brown; Cool blonde: Ash blonde, Beige blonde, Cool champagne, Silver blend.

In the full report

A 45-colour extended palette, blush, eyeshadow and foundation shades, hair colours to ask your colourist for, a style guide for your shape, and a try-on studio to see it all on you.

Find out if you're a Soft Summer

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