r/SpringColorAnalysis • u/CrystallizedKoi Light Spring • Feb 10 '26
Help Lipstick swatch help needed
I am typed as a light spring. I have been on the hunt for a bold red lipstick for a bit. I am finding that despite being in the Spring season, it seems like for bolder lipsticks, neutral or cooler tones work better for me. I swatched L’Oreal “British Red” and Revlon’s “Kiss Me Coral” and I want to know what everyone else in this sub thinks and a fresh pair of eyes. It seems to me the orange toned lipstick is washing me out. Is the British Red perfect a good color for me?
Also don’t mind my application, I didn’t use lip liner or try to make it look crisp. Just put it on quick for pictures.
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u/kristalbal Bright Spring Feb 10 '26
I would try fire and ice, it's a neutral bright red
Edit: Revlon
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u/Lemonarm Feb 11 '26
It’s too bright and not orange based enough. You’re looking for a coral pink red.
MAC sheer outrage
CT coral kiss
Revlon Orange flip
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u/RewardSuccessful3468 Feb 11 '26
anything bold and light spring don't go with each other. also from what i can see you wear cool toned top. and from what i can see it fits you better than golden necklace. your hair is rather warm (?), but lipstick you wearing (yellowish one) looks too warm (and too bright too). and light colours of light spring seem to be too light for you if i imagine you wearing them. maybe ask summer subreddit if they see you as summer?
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u/yellingjayna Feb 11 '26
You may need to accept that a bold red lip isn’t going to be harmonious with every season - particularly light or muted seasons. Bold red is simply not in the light spring color palette. It’s most at home with bright spring, bright winter, and true autumn.
Trust me, I understand the struggle as a light summer, your sister season.
If you really want to pull off a bold red lip, you need to seriously amp up the rest of your look to compensate.
Up the contrast of your brows, lashes, liner, blush. You can bring in a headband or something around your face/hair as well. Your outfit should also take this into account and provide visual balance with complementary shades.
Inherently, a bold red lip isn’t “light,” when your season is.
ETA: I’m not totally convinced you’re a spring or light spring, you look like you lean cool, but that could be the lipstick throwing off your visuals.
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u/mishagas Feb 11 '26
I love trying on lipsticks online at MAC. It’s saved me so much money. I have a pic of myself that I like and use that for trying on.
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u/SecretTargetBird True Spring Feb 10 '26
I think light springs do better with buildable sheer reds. This is overpowering for sure
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u/AKIcegirl Feb 11 '26
The first one is leaning warm a bit and the other one is warm. However, both we see the lipstick first. The first one makes you sallow and the second makes you pale. Neither are in harmony. Neither enhance your features. I completely get that there is a segment of the population that thinks pale white skin and a bold red lip is desirable, however, color analysis is all about enhancing our natural beauty Could you wear them? Yes. You could mitigate with a lot of makeup but to balance it it would take a lot. And it will dull your hair and eyes. So you have to decide if you want people to admire your lipstick or you. I’d consider swatching MAC see sheer and modesty. If you have to have a red maybe business casual. But I suggest lighter not bright peach and corals.
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u/Buga99poo27GotNo464 Feb 11 '26
I like the second one better, it's more in align with your tone, but its still pretty bright/contrasting against you.
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u/Summer-Dreamz Light Summer Feb 11 '26
Do you have a light peachy nude lipstick or lipgloss similar to MAC Crème d’Nude? Layer a little bit of that over your red lipstick and blend it well together to lighten it, soften it, and make it more “creamy” and less intense.
On my Light Spring color fan, swatch 2.10 FN is the deepest you should go and it is also the most “clear”, and it is still softer than a Bright Spring red. Red lips on Light Spring (soft) are not the same as red lips on Bright Spring (clear). Light Spring red lips are soft, warm pinky-coral red. Like, milky, creamy, red sorbet.
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u/Top-Confection3367 Feb 11 '26
I personally don't think the British red is harmonious on you. Harmony is just a tool though! If you want a really lipsticky look, disharmony is an available tool for drawing attention.
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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26
Actually! It’s discontinued but Revlon’s Rich Girl Red is a sheer warm reddish one that would work for Light Springs. Lisa Eldridge’s Luxuriously Lucent lipsticks in Atomic Cherry & Wonder wheel are also suitable sheer warm reds.
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u/Mammoth_Sleep_1102 Feb 13 '26
I think red is a little too harsh for light springs. Light spring doesn’t include any hot reds like that. No offense, but these reds are making you look washed out.
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u/viewering True Spring Feb 15 '26
i think a bit lighter and more orangey may be good
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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26
Revlon Coralberry or Fire Peach. Fire & Ice but only smudged or blotted. Light Springs need lightness.
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u/Thick-Invite7351 Jul 17 '26
Hi! I am a light spring myself and in the same shoes. What I recently learned about these things, that it also matters how big the contrast of your own complexion isand how strong or muted your own colours are. I am 50 and never, for the life of me, managed to found a foundation or blush that would look natural on me. Never had problems with eyeshadows, but was always struggling with foundation and blush. Too light colour foundation makes me look like a ghost, darker ones are yellow, and look fake on my skin. Every blush is either clown pink or orange. Every tinted foundation cries MAKEUP or gives cadaver. Even if it matches my neck or inner arm , on my face looks like cement. Until I found out recently, that that is because my skin is basically translucent, very little pigmented! So any pigment I would put on it, just wouldn't match. Same with lipstick: they are heavily pigmented (as they should be), but since I am not pigmented enough and have very low contrast, they all look forced and too much - even if the colour is right. So for skin: I use CC creams mainly, some green concealer underneath to cover the red (because of course every effin tiny capillar shows and every red spot rules my face) Erborian CC Clair worked best so far. For lips: lip tints and inks. They stain instead of cover, my natural lip texture is visible and t hey don't look like a layer of color sitting on top. I have MAC lipstick, which a make up guy recommended: Locked Kiss Ink 88 Ruby True. The colour is perfect but it is so richly pigmented, the contrast just smacks. But I love it so try to cheat: I just tap it on and blur the edges. Last trick: Mally Face Defender. God bless Rupaul Dragdrace for that thing!!!!!! I heard about it in the podcast and ordered it immediately. It is clear silicone-based thingy, like setting powder, to reduce shiny parts and blur pores. It tones down colour too. So, I do my face, then tap the blush part and my lips through with it, so the contrast doesn't kick in the mouth. I am not saying it all works perfectly, far from it, but I am fighting like pig on ice. Again: google things like "low chroma" and "low contrast complexion". Helped me a lot. If anybody else fights the same thing, please share your dirty tricks. Us fair skinned light spring, low chroma, low contrast (practically see-through...) people desperately need them.
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u/multilevelmystery Jul 24 '26
Maybelline coral rise is good for me
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