Soft SummerversusTrue Winter

The Soft Summer palette sits in 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 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.

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

Soft Summer leans on shades such as Powder Pink, Sky Blue and Lavender Gray, 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. Soft Summer is characterised by cool & muted 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 Soft Summer palette include Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Jessica Parker and Leona Lewis. 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.