Bright WinterversusDeep Winter

The Bright Winter palette sits in the Winter family: The Bright Winter palette combines the coolness of Winter with the brightness of Spring. If you're a Bright Winter, you have cool undertones but can handle extremely bright, saturated colors. Your palette is electric, dynamic, and show-stopping. The Deep Winter palette belongs to the Winter family: Deep Winter (also known as Dark Winter) is a palette of depth, clarity, and coolness. It combines the coolness of Winter with the depth of Autumn. Your best colors are highly saturated, dark, and vivid. 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 Winter and Deep Winter are variations within the Winter family, so they share an overall temperature and mood but differ in the specific shades, contrast, and saturation that flatter you most.

Bright Winter leans on shades such as Electric Blue, Hot Pink and Lime Green, while Deep Winter is anchored by tones like Black, Pure White and Ruby Red. 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 Winter is characterised by cool & bright undertones, whereas Deep Winter 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 Winter palette include Anne Hathaway, Liv Tyler and Zooey Deschanel. Examples linked to the Deep Winter palette include Anne Hathaway, Penelope Cruz and Sandra Bullock. These examples are illustrative — your own colouring is the most reliable guide.