Bright SummerversusSoft 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 Soft Summer palette belongs to the Summer family: The Soft Summer palette is a nuanced and elegant collection of cool, muted colors. If you're a Soft Summer, your features have a gentle, dusty quality, and you shine in colors that are blended and soft, rather than bold and bright. Think of a tranquil, misty landscape – those are your colors. 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 Soft 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 Soft Summer is anchored by tones like Powder Pink, Sky Blue and Lavender Gray. 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 Soft Summer is characterised by cool & muted 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 Soft Summer palette include Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Jessica Parker and Leona Lewis. These examples are illustrative — your own colouring is the most reliable guide.