Light AutumnversusSoft Autumn

The Light Autumn palette sits in the Autumn family: The Light Autumn palette is warm, golden, and luminous. If you're a Light Autumn, you have delicate features with warm undertones that look best in light, warm colors. Your best colors are gentle, golden, and radiant. The Soft Autumn palette belongs to the Autumn family: Soft Autumn is a warm, muted palette that blends the warmth of Autumn with the softness of Summer. Its colors are gentle, rich, and earthy, like a hazy late-afternoon in autumn. 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 Light Autumn and Soft Autumn are variations within the Autumn family, so they share an overall temperature and mood but differ in the specific shades, contrast, and saturation that flatter you most.

Light Autumn leans on shades such as Warm Peach, Golden Honey and Soft Coral, while Soft Autumn is anchored by tones like Warm Beige, Olive Green and Terracotta. 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. Light Autumn is characterised by warm golden undertones, whereas Soft Autumn is characterised by neutral-warm 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 Light Autumn palette include Blake Lively, Jennifer Aniston and Cameron Diaz. Examples linked to the Soft Autumn palette include Gigi Hadid, Drew Barrymore and Mary-Kate Olsen. These examples are illustrative — your own colouring is the most reliable guide.