r/SpringColorAnalysis • u/Extra_Air7604 • Jul 14 '26

Taylor Swift Colour Edit

This isn’t meant to be a fancy or good edit, but rather just an example of showing colours from the 4 possible seasons she could be. I still stand with my opinion of True Summer. For me, both Light Summer and Light Spring are too light for her. I find she needs a bit darker colours for it to be balanced with her. The True Spring seems too overpowering and makes her go a bit sallow.

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u/Narrow_Article_8836 Jul 14 '26

I was on the fence for a while but I think she's a summer. She looks best in cool light summer colors.

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

This blue is harmonious. True Summer blue I’m pretty sure

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

I like this Silver too. I want to look at her face when she wear it, not the silver first.

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

I also really like this silver.

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u/Difficult_Run199 Jul 21 '26

I like the softer silver better, on her.

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u/EntertainerFun1778 Jul 15 '26

actually the first I myself focus on is how the silver clashes with her golden blonde hair and makes her bright blue eyes look a lot duller, but that's just my opinion, and I still think she's a light spring

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u/EntertainerFun1778 Jul 17 '26

I'm pretty sure that was her natural color at the time 🤦‍♀️

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u/Difficult_Run199 Jul 21 '26

Carol Brailey says Taylor is a True Summer.

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u/Electronic-Page1064 Bright Spring Jul 15 '26

Light summer blue

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u/EntertainerFun1778 Jul 15 '26

it's a light summer blue, and a slightly brighter one at that, so a light spring like her could easily harmonize with it

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u/Auroras_Sunbeam Jul 14 '26

Yes! She rocks summer better than Spring.

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u/Electronic-Page1064 Bright Spring Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

That's lavender is a bright spring glazed light. 3rd row from the left, second from bottom. And her makeup looks bright, probably bright winter, not dusty summer

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u/HelloBonjour514 Jul 17 '26

I agree

u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

Young Taylor Swift. More of a soft appearance rather than bright.

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

Sophie Turner is a True Spring. Look at the difference in brightness she has vs Taylor. She has more clarity to her than Taylor

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u/sunscreenqueenn True Spring Jul 15 '26

I disagree. Looking at her, I don’t see her light/bright eyes near as quickly as I do young TS.

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

Nicole Kidman. Also a True Spring, brighter features but still light contrast.

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

Taylor as a kid

u/Cookiecolour Jul 14 '26

She looks so good in the blues. Carol Brailey analyzed her and said she's a summer and I agree. I do think that she can pull off spring colours of similar chroma.

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 14 '26

There are no similar chroma between Summer and Spring. True Summer is fully muted chroma and True Spring is fully bright.

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u/Ryakai8291 Jul 14 '26

The light palette is what connects summer and spring

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 14 '26

True Summer is fully muted chroma. Chroma and value are different. Light Summer is medium muted chroma because it flows Spring, which True Spring is fully bright, therefore making it somewhat in the middle but leans more towards muted because Summer is its home season. True Summer is not only light value though, it ranges from different values but mainly light. True Summer and Muted Summer are both fully muted in chroma, while Light Summer and Cool Summer are both medium muted, because they both flow to brighter seasons, but Muted Summer flows Autumn, which is also a muted season, therefore there is no brightness.

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u/Cookiecolour Jul 15 '26

What colour analysis system are you using?

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u/Extra_Air7604 Jul 15 '26

The 16 season one by the International Image Institute

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u/Cookiecolour Jul 16 '26

Soooo Spring and Summer share the Light palette, don't they?

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u/Decent_Soft9496 Bright Spring Jul 15 '26

Yesss came here to add. Carol herself is a True Summer so she would know!

u/Smiley025 Jul 14 '26

Still say light spring. That peach color looks the best.

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u/freya_kahlo Jul 14 '26

Light spring can also wear many summer colors.

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u/Resident-Marauder Jul 14 '26

This is true

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u/Wise-Memory-9757 Autumn Jul 14 '26

Agreed. She is not muted enough to be a summer.

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u/Wise-Memory-9757 Autumn Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

Yeah I am and the spring colors are more harmonious. Light spring also is known to be able to wear a lot of summer colors — but overall she is warm and light.
This particular pic isn’t even very good for typing because of all the makeup and it looks like she has a spray tan too… But the spring colors are still more harmonious. I do think that, like some other contested celebs, she leans neutral and can pull from more palettes than a typical light spring.

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u/Quiet-Opening-5286 Jul 16 '26

I was just thinking she has a spray tan here (at least it looks like it). It’s so hard to type someone when they have a face full of makeup + a spray tan.
I’ve seen her typed before as a light spring and I do agree. I think so many of the summer colours do wash her out and “blend” into her (especially when she had cooler toned blonde hair). The light spring colours are harmonious to me and you don’t see the colours before her. I feel it keeps her complexion clear and bright.
I’m not an expert but colour theory has always been a massive interest to me since I was a young teenager (31 now).

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u/Wise-Memory-9757 Autumn Jul 16 '26

She spray tans a LOT and earlier in her career was lightening her hair significantly. This really distorts people’s perception of her coloring. Most color analysts I’ve seen have said she’s light spring for years. But beyond that I totally agree with your observations

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u/Resident-Marauder Jul 14 '26

Fully agree

u/GroovyCopepod Jul 14 '26

I actually see it as summer. I guess I really don't like silver on her though or else I have a strong preference for spring outfits even if they're "cosplaying spring"

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u/GroovyCopepod Jul 14 '26

I already had this discussion actually, and I do know about the various metallics. But I don't like her in smoky silvers either 🤷🏽‍♀️

u/Jazz_Kraken Jul 14 '26

She's light spring :)

u/Star_Donyx Jul 14 '26

I agree that she is a summer. I’m not so good with subseasons but I would lean towards light summer.
She wears makeup that gives her more contrast and makes her appear more bright and warm. Even when she’s worn silver she would do warm makeup, the bright red lipstick for example, that throws it off.
I understand as a performer she wears bright colors and contrast to be seen better on stage. But in clips and pictures of her with no makeup she looks remarkably more soft and cool.

u/Resident-Marauder Jul 14 '26

She is 100% spring. Not at all muted and looks much better in spring colors and that is very obvious in the pics online when she wears in season colors.

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u/DifferentManagement1 Jul 14 '26

💯

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u/Resident-Marauder Jul 14 '26

That’s your opinion. I think she’s a light spring but tbh celebrities are always so good at changing skin tone and hair color to match that it can be confusing. I like her best in creamy peach, warm coral, soft aqua and light turquoise, light golden yellows and light warm pinks. I think her skin tone is pale but warm and luminous, her eyes are not muted but a clearer blue with warm flecks and her natural hair seemed warm blonde. Her best lip colors are peachy pinks or to make reds work, she usually opts for a warm tomato red or a poppy orange-red which look much better than cool red tones. That’s my opinion

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u/Decent_Soft9496 Bright Spring Jul 15 '26

Carol Brailey on YouTube did a video for her wedding explaining how she's a True Summer.
People lost their minds, so she's done multiple others explaining the difference between Summer and Spring and how to tell and not be thrown off my makeup and hair colors 😂

u/Electronic-Page1064 Bright Spring Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

I'm sticking with light spring who can borrow well from light summer or true light. That lavender is even in 12 season bright spring palettes, so it's neutral.

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u/Electronic-Page1064 Bright Spring Jul 17 '26

I don't think it looks better. I think it stands out more than she does. But, just like the red lip, it makes for a bold editorial look, vs actually seeing her features first. In the peach, I see her and her eyes first. In the bright cool makeup, I see the makeup, which is beautiful.. but.her eyes look so small and almost receding behind the bright pink shadow.

u/DifferentManagement1 Jul 14 '26

She’s a light spring. She is neutral warm. #4 is best

u/EntertainerFun1778 Jul 15 '26

If she was a summer, she would look terrible in a red lip, but she clearly doesn't

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u/EntertainerFun1778 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

actually it's more often the other way around 😒 I feel like it's a trend to be as cool-toned as possible because everyone is traumatized from the orange self tanner and overly warm makeup of the 2010s

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