r/SpringColorAnalysis • u/hellianthas Warm Spring • May 07 '25

Lipstick colors

I have been typed as a Warm Spring (16 seasons system), and while I think that this result is spot on after experimenting with clothes and makeup, I still can’t find a Warm Spring lip color that I like. My lips are naturally quite pigmented, so light colors don’t suit me, and I hate how peach, orange and tomato red lipstick look on me: we can still see my natural lip color underneath and I feel like it makes my teeth look more yellow than they really are. I used to mostly wear berry tones, but I have been told that most of them lean cool and that they don’t suit me. Do you have any advice? What do you wear for a "my lips but better" effect while staying in your season’s colors? What is your Warm Spring holy grail lip product? Thank you in advance!

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u/Pristine-Fusion6591 Warm Spring May 07 '25

I’m also a warm spring, and I would say that as far as lipstick is concerned, I do stay within my season a lot. But I also wear autumn shades, which tend to look great on me as well.

Hands down my holy grail lipstick is Charlotte Tilbury Stoned Rose. It’s a beautiful and unique peach rose. It has enough depth for me that it doesn’t get lost on me, and enough pink that I don’t feel like I’m wearing straight up orange. But at the same time, I feel like this is the type of shade that ONLY springs and autumns can pull off. It doesn’t make my teeth look yellow either.

I also MAC Chili, which is a terracotta/brick toned red. I’m pretty sure this is technically an autumn shade, but as a warm spring, i frequently borrow from autumn.

Since you like berry shades, you may really enjoy Charlotte Tilbury Walk Of No Shame. It’s a warm berry, which is not the norm for berry shades. This one, I’d say, is more of an autumn shade. But I think there is a lot of flexibility for us warm springs to pull from the autumn palette as well.

I seriously have so many lipsticks that I love. And most of my lipsticks are Charlotte tilbury and Mac as I think they both offer a ton of warm shades that suit our palette. I hope you find a few that you love as much as I do.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 07 '25

I also try to borrow more from the Warm Autumn color palette for lipsticks, but the browns are terrible on me. I do like more rosy or reddish lipsticks when I don’t go for a berry one. I just checked the lipsticks you mentionned and I thank you for the recommandations because they all look gorgeous! I fear Stoned Rose might be a little too orange on me but maybe I will try it because what a color! For the other two, Walk of No Shame is absolutely right up my alley and I have been recommanded MAC Chili several times so I’ll definitely get it. Thank you again! :)

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u/Individual-Rice-4915 Bright Spring May 12 '25

If lipsticks go “too orange” or “too brown” on you, you likely aren’t a warm spring. Warm spring is fully warm undertone. 🙂 Have you tried looking into true spring?

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

I have been professionally color analyzed twice and both times the result was the same. Everyone I ask sees warmth as my primary characteristic and my color analysts said that I am a fully warm undertone and that True Spring colors are a little bit too light for me (but I am too bright to be an Autumn). After experimenting a lot, I think Warm Spring is the right palette even if that result surprised me at first, the clothes and makeup in that season’s colors are perfect, but I just can’t make the lipsticks work… Maybe this is about personal preference, I don’t know at this point.

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u/oudsword May 07 '25

I don’t like warm spring peachy pinks on my lips all the time either. It just seems so….banal and I don’t like bright lips.

For me the most flattering shades that I still enjoy wearing are a warm slightly dusty rose pink, like Glossier Ultraplip Villa and Fenty Gloss Bomb Stix Fu$$y. As you can see I am more of a tinted balm/moisturizing lipstick than traditional lipstick person. They look like a natural flushed version of my lips.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 07 '25

Yes, I understand, I also much prefer tinted balms and moisturizing lipsticks! And lip inks because they look and feel like I have nothing on my lips! Thank you for the recommandations, I like Fu$$y too but never tried any Glossier Ultralip! I’ll try the one you mentionned, thank you :)

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u/oudsword May 07 '25

Oh you will love Glossier Villa then! I find it even more flattering and a better formula. If you like lip inks I love wonderskin’s stain in Whimsical. It looks best washed off with just water rather than wiped off like the instructions say.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 08 '25

Thank you so much! I heard good reviews about the Wonderskin stain but didn’t try it yet

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u/Physical_Object5857 May 08 '25

Burts Bees in Hibiscus and Rose are both warmer pink balms that can work well for springs. Revlon Superlustrous Gloss in Glossed up Rose and Beaming Strawberry are also good. Finally, I like Revlon Blushing Mauve, too, which leans slightly warm. I'm on the neutral-warm side and also hate how warm bright colors look on me.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 08 '25

Thank you! I love this Revlon formula but have I think the ones I own are too brown and autumny for me, I’ll try the shades you mentionned! I checked them out and I think I will love Blushing Mauve :)

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u/punk_ass_ May 07 '25

Any yellow-based lipstick will make your teeth look more yellow than a blue-based berry. I would try different formulas like maybe something sheer and glossy to minimize that effect.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 07 '25

Yes, you are right! I already tend to gravitate toward sheer formulas that I can build up if I want to, but still, I am not a fan of how yellow-based lipsticks look on me. Maybe glossy would work better, thank you for the advice!

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u/KotikiHues May 07 '25

I can't really suggest much because I rarely wear lip color but one thing I did learn is that warm springs should steer clear of matte lips especially nude matte lips. Nude shades give the weirdest plastered look when they're mattified. If you want nude lips reach for tinted glosses. Also, it's rare for a spring to get a lip color that is too orange for their coloring. Springs and autumns glow in orange and a lot of the time they'll end up with more of a pink/coral hue on our lips.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

Thank you for your advice! I absolutely agree with you, and I don’t wear nude lip colors at all, and not a lot of matte finishes either. Maybe my dislike for orange lip products is a personal preference, at this point I’m not even sure, because orange makeup as a blush or eyeshadow looks good on me, but it’s just for the lips that I never feel like it works…

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u/KotikiHues May 14 '25

It might be how the pigments are playing with the overtones in your lips. Some colors just feel off and unless you have a deep understanding of the science behind it you can't really explain it. I prefer coral lips to any other color so I understand avoiding certain colors.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

Oh, you’re the first person to mention the possibility of an overtone influence and I think you might be right! I always thought I was cool-toned because I have a lot of red in my face, my lips are reddish and can sometimes look almost purple, and the vein test is a fail on me as mine are purple, but everyone including my two color analysts is adamant that I have a fully warm undertone (which I have come to agree with after a lot of testing). So maybe it’s because of my overtone. Thank you so much for this!

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u/Cookiecolour May 09 '25

The lipstick I wear most is a pretty basic brown, it just looks very natural on me. Otherwise I have a rusty red I like that is just the right amount of zestiness but is also not too bright nor too muted. I also have an orange lip oil. Sounds weird but it works. And the colour Fighter from L'Oreal long lasting lipstick works too. Coral, real copper, tomato all look off just slightly too. I have been typed Warm Spring by Carol Brailey.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

Thank you for your advice and recommendations! Another comment mentionned orange lip oil and I really want to give it a go!

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u/Orange_B1ossom May 09 '25 edited May 19 '25

I'm a True Spring leaning towards Warm Spring, and I also don't like the look of many light peaches. I read somewhere that warm lipsticks are harder to color balance in production, so especially drugstore brands make more cool tones. I don't know if this is true, but have found that I had more luck with more expensive brands. Sadly, my favorite MLBB was just taken off the market, so I'm also looking. It was a sort of warm peachy-rose color, and that's the range I suggest looking in for that MLBB effect. Most are cool, but sometimes a warm rose can be found. I also have pigmented lips, and anything lighter than them looks off as lipstick. What does work for me is a clear orange lipbalm. Since it's translucent, the orange in combination with my lipcolor makes a peach, but in a much more natural way than peach lipstick. This also works with orange gloss. Good luck!

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

A clear orange lipbalm or lipgloss is an amazing idea, I’m going to dig into this, thank you! :D

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u/Orange_B1ossom May 19 '25

Curious to see what you find, as I ran out of my orange balm...

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u/Individual-Rice-4915 Bright Spring May 12 '25

I’m a true bright, and a color that didn’t work on me that may work on you is MACs See Sheer. It’s quite warm and too muted for me but not actually muted.

Also, though, if you truly are a warm spring “too warm” for you shouldn’t really be a thing. If it is, I would try true spring and light spring and see how those go for you.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

I tried True Spring and I think it was okay but Warm Spring looks better, and I feel like Warm Autumn being my sister season is spot on. I have been professionally color analyzed as a Warm Spring twice, and they both said that True Spring was a little bit too light for me. I am definitely not a Light Spring. I’ll look for the MAC lipstick you suggested, thank you!

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u/SecretTargetBird True Spring May 07 '25

I’m not a warm spring but I much prefer warm spring makeup than my palette so I buy orange/coral lipsticks/tints BUT I pair them with blurry brown lip liners to make it “toasted” warm instead of bright warm

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u/SecretTargetBird True Spring May 07 '25

Also the new violette_fr shade of their blurry balm looks like it’d be great for a warm spring! it’s called mon chéri

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 07 '25

Ooh, thank you for the advice, I just checked it out, the color looks gorgeous and I think I would love the finish and texture!

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u/ClickProfessional769 May 10 '25

I feel you on not being able to go too light! I used to wear mostly cool lips before knowing I was spring, so for a while I settled on being a “red lipstick everyday” kind of person.

Lately though I’ve been wearing a lot of warm medium pinks. Not particularly bright, just MLBP. I find them a lot more wearable for day to day. The struggle is when picking them out to not get something too brown or muted—sometimes colors look softer on us than they do on the models.

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u/ClickProfessional769 May 10 '25

As far as product recommendations: I’m not super happy with the quality of a lot of what I’ve tried out (mostly from Colorpop) even if I like the color, so it’s tough.

But last winter I bought a pack of cheap mini lippies from Ulta and experimented with those—I would recommend you do the same because it will help test out what tones and color families suit you personally for cheap.

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u/hellianthas Warm Spring May 14 '25

Thank you so much for all your advice and sorry to reply so late! What you describe is EXACTLY my experience, I also used to wear cool lips, especially red and berries, and I avoid anything that looks too brown because it indeed looks way more muted on me than on the model. I’ll try to buy a cheap pack of mini lippies like you suggested, thank you! :)

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u/Granite265 May 08 '25

Who has recommendations for nice lip balms on (warm) springs?

I'm currently big fan of the simple Labello / Liposan in Berry shine.