Bright SummerversusLight Summer

The Bright Summer palette sits in the Summer family: The Bright Summer palette is electric, vibrant, and cool. If you're a Bright Summer, you have the ability to wear the most vivid cool colors with stunning results. Your best colors are bright, saturated, and cool-toned. The Light Summer palette belongs to the Summer family: The Light Summer palette is fresh, airy, and delicate. It's a blend of cool and neutral undertones, with an emphasis on lightness and subtlety. If you're a Light Summer, you'll glow in ethereal colors that are neither too bright nor too muted. The clearest way to tell them apart is to compare their signature shades side by side and notice which set feels more harmonious against your skin, hair, and eyes.

Both Bright Summer and Light Summer are variations within the Summer family, so they share an overall temperature and mood but differ in the specific shades, contrast, and saturation that flatter you most.

Bright Summer leans on shades such as Electric Coral, Vivid Turquoise and Hot Pink, while Light Summer is anchored by tones like Powder Blue, Primrose Pink and Lavender Haze. Holding these signature colours next to your face is the simplest way to feel which palette harmonises with your colouring.

Seasonal colour analysis matches a palette to your natural undertone, contrast level, and the depth of your skin, hair, and eyes. Bright Summer is characterised by cool vibrant undertones, whereas Light Summer is characterised by neutral-cool undertones. Drape the key colours of each palette in natural light and choose the set that makes your skin look clearer and more even.

Faces often associated with the Bright Summer palette include Taylor Swift, Emma Stone and Scarlett Johansson. Examples linked to the Light Summer palette include Naomi Watts, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. These examples are illustrative — your own colouring is the most reliable guide.