Deep WinterversusSoft Summer

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 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.

No. Deep Winter is a Winter palette while Soft Summer is a Summer palette. Because they come from different seasonal families, they differ in undertone, contrast, and the colours that bring out your natural features.

Deep Winter leans on shades such as Black, Pure White and Ruby Red, 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. Deep Winter is characterised by neutral-cool 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 Deep Winter palette include Anne Hathaway, Penelope Cruz and Sandra Bullock. 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.