Summer PalettesCool Summer
Dominant Characteristic: Cool Secondary: Muted The Cool Summer's primary goal is to avoid wearing warm, golden colors. Blue is a Cool Summer's best friend. Almost all shades of blue...from sky blue to Navy look great on you. Besides avoiding warm colors, make sure they are on the soft side. Nothing bright and clear or overpowering. Where brown in a common neutral color for the warm seasons, grey is a good neutral for you. Black will be too overpowering but a soft charcoal or navy will look great. Avoid: Golden browns and yellows; yellow-green, orange Light Summer Dominant Characteristic: Light Secondary: Cool Like her sister season Light Spring, Light Summers need light and delicate colors to look elegant. The Light Summer, though, needs the cooler colors like soft greys, soft blues, dusty rose, etc. Monochromatic colors look fantastic on you-for example: a light navy jacket, a soft blue blouse and a sky blue scarf would be terrific. Avoid high contrasts in colors. Because of your delicate coloring, its easy to get overpowered. A perfect example of this is Hillary Clinton. Because of the expected conservative look expected in politics and perhaps because she doesn't want to look too 'weak' maybe, she often chooses these 'power colors' like royal blue, black and red which simply wash her out. If she wore only her best colors within her Light Summer palette, she would actually command more respect since her look would be right on target. Avoid: Black; dark colors, bright colors, overpowering reds and blues. Soft Summer Dominant Characteristic: Soft and muted Secondary: Cool There are both warm and cool colors in the Soft Summer palette but most are cool. The most important thing to remember is that your want to keep your colors soft and muted, nothing clear and bright and overpowering. Because of the soft coloring, it can be easy for a Soft Summer to appear "mousy" or bland if she doesn't wear her best colors. But when she does, her coloring takes on a beautiful soft elegance that's anything but bland. Avoid: Electric Pinks and Blues, Clear bright oranges and corals, Black Leave the Summer Palettes for the Autumn Palettes...
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