Deep WinterversusTrue Winter

The Deep Winter palette sits in 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 True Winter palette belongs to the Winter family: The True Winter palette is the quintessential winter palette - cool, clear, and intensely saturated. If you're a True Winter, you have cool undertones and can handle the most vibrant, pure colors. Your palette is like a crisp winter day with brilliant clarity. 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 Deep Winter and True 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.

Deep Winter leans on shades such as Black, Pure White and Ruby Red, while True Winter is anchored by tones like True Black, Ice White and True 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. Deep Winter is characterised by neutral-cool undertones, whereas True Winter is characterised by purely 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 Deep Winter palette include Anne Hathaway, Penelope Cruz and Sandra Bullock. Examples linked to the True Winter palette include Elizabeth Taylor, Courteney Cox and Megan Fox. These examples are illustrative — your own colouring is the most reliable guide.