DETERMINING YOUR COLOURS SUMMER 2 SKIN
Look usually visible in their skin. Some summers are very fair and look pale without a little blush. Some summers have very pink skin, with high color, while others have rose –beige skin, ranging from fair to relatively deep rose-beige. Other summers have sallow beige skin, making it hard to see the blue undertone. Sallow summers improve their appearance dramatically with summer’s cool colors. Black summers have a soft grayish tone to their skin and their skin is fairly light.
HAIR
Occasionally a summer has warm blonde hair or hair with auburn highlights, especially if she gets lot of sun. The summer woman greys gracefully (often prematurely) to a soft blue-grey or pearly white tone. Summers of all the seasons, most often feel the need to ‘brighten’ themselves with hair color or frosting. A summer woman truly benefits from wearing her colors, as her colours alone bring ‘life’ to her face.
EYES
Summer eyes are most often blue, green, aqua, grey or soft hazel.
TRYING YOUR COLOURS
Summer is the pastel woman and the woman who wears soft neutrals especially well. You should think blue, rose and soft. Even though you may be a summer who favours her bright colours, you should think of yourself as feminine, looking more for softness than for sharp contrast. On you the pastels look strong and vibrant enough. Soft white (with no yellow) is summer’s best white. Ironically, this is the shade called ‘winter white’ in the shops. Your beige and brown always have a rose tone. Wear any shade between your rose-beige and rose-brown swatches, including cocoa, but avoid yellow-beiges, grey-beiges, and dark browns. You can wear greys from very light blue-grey to any soft charcoal blue-grey.
You are in your territory in most blues, eliminating only the royal or Chinese shades of winter. Your swatches for blues are simply guides. Keep your aqua light to medium and your navy greyer and softer than the strong navy of winter. Greyed navy brings out the beauty of your softer complexion. Blue-greens, ranging from pastel to deep, also belong to summer, as do all pastel pinks with a blue undertone. You may carry your pinks into deep rose tones, including fuchsia, but often they are best when powdered or muted. Your reds, like your greys and greens, have blue tones. Your watermelon leans a bit toward coral, but you should avoid orange or orange-reds.
The whole family of lavender, orchid and mauve pastels belongs to summer. All of them are for you. In addition you have the darker tones of plum, burgundy, and raspberry, though fair summers may need to keep a softer shade near the face. Summer has only one flattering shade of yellow: light lemon. You should stick closely to your yellow swatch and avoid gold tones. All summers should avoid black, yellow-beige, gold, orange, yellow-greens and all yellow undertones.
