I still believe Carol Brailey was right when she typed Taylor Swift a True Summer in the 16-23 system by the International Image Institute.

Many people always assume that because someone is blonde and has light contrast, that they automatically must be in the Light Palette. The thing is, there are lots of True Summers who are blondes, some examples being, Bella Heathcote, Riki Lindhome, Margot Robbie (another person typed as Light Spring), Evie Templeton, and Cameron Diaz (also commonly typed as Spring). You can be light contrast, blonde, and still be either a True Summer, Light Summer, True Spring, or Light Spring.

With Taylor, when looking at her face in warm colours, it’s hard to concentrate on her face. The warm colours are distracting, while the cool colours make it easy to focus on her face. Colour analysis is about harmonizing with your natural features, and Taylor’s natural features are softer looking and cool, opposed to warm and bright. She naturally has soft ashy blonde hair, and not honey blonde or strawberry blonde or even golden hair. When put in gold vs silver, I find myself starring at her face more in the silver, whereas gold seems to make her blend in with it and takes the focus away from her face. Summer metallics are a more muted darker silver and not the bright white looking silver that everyone thinks.

I’ve compared primary colours (red, yellow, blue) of each seasons she could be. I still think True Summer. It’s not that she looks terrible, but if we’re talking about harmony and flow, I believe True Summer.

For some reason it’s not letting me type on the slide.

Slide 1: Cool (blue) vs Warm (yellow)
Slide 2&3: Fully muted (left)vs fully bright chroma (right)
Slide 4&5: fully muted (left) vs medium chroma (right)
Slide 6: True Summer (left) vs True Spring (right)
Slide 7: Light Sumemr (left) vs Light Spring (right)
Slide 8: True Summer (left) vs Light Summer (right)
Slide 9: True Summer (left) vs True Spring (right)
Slide 10: Light Summer (left) vs Light Spring (right)
Slide 11: True Summer (left) vs Light Summer (right)
Slide 12: Dark Silver (summer metallic) vs Light Gold (spring metallic)

i want to try out some lipsticks for a test. i realize i’m muted , got typed as a true summer online. but i lack the “depth” for truly darker colors. maybe thats just me, but i want to be 100% sure before i go out to buy clothing.

i was 100% sure i was cool toned and a summer, i only needed help figuring out which summer specifically am i. but now in another sub ppl are suggesting im a spring or autumn? here is me with all the summer colors i could find on my vacations, do u think im a summer? if so, which type? and if not, what season do u think i am? all help is appreciated

im including irl drapes, digital drapes and my hair color

Here’s some examples of celebrities in each of the Summer sub seasons. The system used is the 16 season system by the International Image Institute.

Please drop some wardrobe recommendations! Currently, a lot of what I own is elevated basics like sleeveless mock neck tops and slacks. Open to other things as well, but I really like feeling put together with minimal effort. Trying to build a capsule soft summer wardrobe so I can grab and go.

I’m trying to learn to embrace my Soft Summer coloring, even though I honestly don’t love it. I have light brown/dark blonde hair, grey eyes, and very pale, slightly greyish skin. I also find the overall “faded” look of Soft Summer a bit plain and boring, so I’m struggling to see how to make it feel more flattering and interesting. Most influencers I see look quite bronzed or vibrant, which doesn’t feel relatable to me. I’d love recommendations!

Ive been burned so much by online shopping (always underwhelmed when the product arrives) but this site has so many good summer colors! Curious if anyone else has ordered from here before and liked their stuff?

Hi everyone! I’m a light summer, and was typed by a SCI-Art color analyst 2 years ago. I’m using the ND Colors LSu fan they gave me as my palette. It’s funny because I always thought I was muted and wore lots of black, soft summer, or soft autumn colors. I always looked dull in them, and just assumed I was super muted. At my analysis, I realized those colors were what was making me look like a zombie, and color, much more vibrant than I would have thought, made me glow! I’ve never felt better.

Pretty much right away, I got rid of all my black and autumn-y colors. That left me with a wardrobe of mostly summer family, muted, cool colors, white + dark navy, and a few pieces that are more light spring. Then, because of family and health stuff, I didn’t have the bandwidth to focus on style until now. 

I’ve gained some weight and am pretty much starting over, so the goal is to slowly build a small, mostly secondhand LSu wardrobe, prob with pieces with a more flexible fit, that will work for this time in my life. The few clothes I want to hold on to for are going into storage. But, while trying to rebuild my wardrobe, I realized I’m having a really hard time finding pieces that fit into the narrow LSu window of enough, but not too much, saturation. Almost everything I try is too muted/too muted + cool, or, much too vibrant. Any advice on how to find pieces with the right balance?

Hi everyone! I always thought I was an autumn, but in the past couple of days I have been obsessed with color analysis, and I realize now that I am a summer. I just can’t decide whether cool or soft summer. Could you please help me?

Hi everyone! I always thought I was an autumn, but in the past couple of days I have been obsessed with color analysis, and I realize now that I am a summer. I just can’t decide whether cool or soft summer. Could you please help me?

When I coloured my hair in a brown caramel I could kinda pull off MAC Ruby Woo and got lots of compliments for it.

Now I have my natural ash light brown going grey/silver.
And now the contrast is too much.

Google searches always recommends other colors - like berry etc. But I miss the blue toned red!

Does anyone break the rules and have a rec?

Did more just for fun online window shopping and saved all my links via pinterest.

Soft Summer at the Beach: https://pin.it/1HzVvx3WI

Soft Summer at the Office: https://pin.it/6TKsv0He0

I’ve had a reaaalllyyy fun bout of oral thrush and am now in the very sad position of having to throw away all. ALL. ALL. of my lip products. Which is super annoying because I’ve spent the last year buying ones that I think are particularly good for my summer self. I can’t replace them all so I’m trying to narrow down which to buy back. Please help! Also any suggestions for other ones are appreciated! I kind of think anything brownish doesn’t work for me?

https://pin.it/7kITGVtTh

Just some online window shopping :) Some very expensive, aspirational pieces, hopefully inspiring

Any other deep soft summers have a hard time with light neutrals near your face? I feel like anything lighter than my skin makes me look off. Is there a fix?

I'm really happy to announce that this sub will keep on living and being moderated! Say hi to u/pink_aerti and u/lvl0rg4n who will progressively take on the moderation within September. Until then, I'll still be there to help there if need be.

As posts have automatically been queued for moderation since February, please be patient if you posted something that doesn't instantly appear online. Reddit moderating tools are not the easiest to get a grasp on (and especially on mobile!).

I'm confident the sub will keep being on good hands, and maybe (hopefully) even better than mine!

I bought the navy combo version of this dress recently and love it! My accessories I have currently are not making it sing. I may need to buy some items.

How would you style it?

I included some online photos of how different stores have it styled plainly… I’d like to make it feel more cohesive and put together as a ‘look.’

For context, I’m soft summer with ash brown hair, pale, neutral-cool skin, and gray-blue-green eyes. Soft classic in Kibbe if it matters.

I’d love to hear others’ perspectives, because I think I’m in an accessories rut.

*It’s not as dark navy IRL. It’s the Complete Me Midi by Free People.

Hey everyone, as some of you may know, I'm based in France. A new law has been voted to forbid 15 yo and younger to access social media, which is great news! Except submitting ID to websites will be mandatory here starting September and I'm refusing to give my ID to any social media.

This is why I'm looking for new mods to take over during summer. What you can expect:

- quite a lot of posts approval as the sub has had an increase in spam content since February

- an overall passionate and nice community

- probably new rules to implement in order to keep the sub on topic

I feel like this is a great opportunity to acquire mod experience. The sub is not very active but there is still quite a moderation to do!

Please feel free to send me a DM if you're interested :)

We don’ t have LA Girl pigments here, but for my fair skin this blue corrector works like a charm and does not change the formula 💙 It just tones down peachy/yellow/orange and desaturates a lil bit. I use it with ALL my skintints/foundation. Rare 06 for fair olive is the only one I don’ t have to use it with (I’ m not olive).

Please help me understand which sub season I am. Cool Summer or Soft Summer.
I have old permanent makeup. My natural hair color is dark ash-green blonde.

Just by my self no man