Soft Autumn is muted and warm, sitting between Soft Summer and Warm Autumn on the Seasonal Color Wheel. If you are a Soft Autumn, then you thrive in muted, warm colors like dusty peach or a soft, warm powder blue. Your sister season is Soft Summer.

If you fall into this color season, then you will, of course, have a slightly warm skin tone, and your skin can be light or dark—the important thing is that you have muted coloring and little contrast–meaning your hair sits within a few shades of your skin. When you look in the mirror, not one of your features stand out as brighter or darker than the others, your features all fall into a similar range, like Drew Barrymore or Tyra Banks. 

Knowing your best colors will help you streamline your shopping, trim down your closet to your absolute favorite pieces, and save you from wasting time wondering why certain outfits don’t look as great on you as they did on your favorite celebrity. So, if you are a Soft Autumn, look no further, help is on the way! Let us walk you through this gorgeous, soft color palette and get ready to watch the compliments (and confidence!) roll in. 

Soft Autumn’s Best Colors

With 50% warm undertones and low-contrast features, Soft Autumn’s favor colors that are also somewhat warm and muted. Your worst colors don’t honor your natural features, and will either be too cool, too bright, or too dark for you. 

Once you embrace your color season, everything clicks. You’ll be throwing together outfits like a pro, you’ll quit second-guessing your outfits, and the compliments will start piling up. Every day is your red carpet!  It’s not because you’ve discovered the perfect brow gel, or whatever it is this month on the tiktok-gram, but because you’re working to enhance your already beautiful natural features instead of trying to work against them. We call that an absolute win over here.

Soft Autumn Features

If you are a Soft Autumn, your eyes can be any color, but the important thing is that they fall within a similar color range as your skin and hair. (So, if you have eyes like Alexandra Daddario, you should probably find a different color season!) You don’t have a dominant feature–your dominant trait is even coloring between your skin and hair. 

Your skin can range from fair to dark, but will be on the warm side, meaning you can wear silver, but gold and warmer metals will always look better. You hair can be blonde or brown, and can have an ashy tint or even golden highlights–the most important thing is that your hair color is close to your skin color and leans warm and muted.

Ready to know your Seasonal Color Palette for certain? Book a Your Best Colors Consultation here.

Soft Autumn Make Up

When shopping for make up, remember that when you wear your best colors, you can wear less make up than usual, with similar results. Of course, there’s absolutely nothing wrong or right with wearing more or less make up. However, when you are working to enhance your already amazing natural features, then it’s so much easier to find a look you are satisfied with when your make up is in harmony with your other features.

For Soft Autumns, your skin can be dark or fair, but will have a slightly bronze glow. Your perfect foundation will take some trial and error, like usual, but you dont want want anything to cool or even too warm. Ideally, something in the middle that leans warm. Since you do have a somewhat warm skin tone, you can give a light brown or peach-tinted bronzer a try if you’d like as well. Just make sure it’s not too shiny and that it is darker than your foundation! (And make sure to blend, blend, blend to harmonize with your already low-contrast features.) Also it is good to remember that one of the benefits of a color analysis is that wearing your best colors near your face is akin to a layer of foundation. 

For eye makeup, neutrals are your best friend, and you have plenty of browns and creams to choose from! You can also add in peaches, muted oranges, blues, or greens. When choosing eyeshadow, remember to lean warm. Never reach for a silver, instead opt for gold or bronze when you want some glamour. Trust us, this makes all the difference. 

Your best mascara and eyeliner is a soft brown instead of a black! If you’re feeling funky, you can experiment with grays and other soft colors.

For blush, refer to your full color palette for warm pink and peach inspirations. The perfect shade will depend on the shade of your own skin. Soft peaches and even browns are a good place to start.  

For lipsticks, you can try soft, warm peaches, warm pinks, and even some browns, just remember that there are no hard and fast rules for naming make-up, so you will have to pull out your color card and compare the colors yourself to determine if the lipstick is cool or warm. For a dramatic look, opt for a darker, reddish brown or a muted plum. Because your dominant feature is softness, make sure to blend all your makeup in very well. You want an ethereal level of blending. 

For nail polish, you can pick a color straight from your palette! You can even choose from this full color palette here.

Soft Autumn Celebrities

As you can see, these celebrities have low contrast between their skin, hair and eyes, and they also all have warm undertones. These celebrities look cohesive and put together in their Soft Autumn colors–the taupes and muted pinks look perfectly harmonious. The blue on Robert Pattinson looks amazing and doesn’t overpower him. The red on Billie Jean Hamlet does the same. If you are a Soft Autumn, you can trust that the same colors will look magnificent on you as well.

Soft Autumn Jewelry

We can’t forget jewelry! Because your main attribute is muted and your second characteristic is warm, your jewelry should reflect that as well, to a degree. Avoid shiny and bright metals, instead, opt for brushed, matte, satin, and hammered metals. Antique metals can work for you, as long as they aren’t too dark and intense. Because you’re neutral leaninf warm, you can do silver but you want it to be a soft muted silver, but pewter, bronze, rose gold, and soft yellow gold would be better. Copper is going to be too warm and orange-y for you, so stay away, except we give you permission on King’s Day!

When choosing stones, smooth stones when possible and stones that are in your color palette, like amber, citrine, amethyst, or heliodor. Because you have low contrast, don’t opt for a stone in a complimentary color to your outfit–try to stay within the same color family (so a pink ring with a red dress, instead of a green ring with a red dress.)

Start Dressing in Your Soft Autumn Palette

If you don’t already dress in your best colors and the idea of a whole wardrobe overhaul overwhelms you, you can book a Closet Review , a Shop With Me or a Shop For Me package. But in the meantime, if you are excited to start wearing your best colors, here are my three tips to start embracing your new palette.

1. Pick 2-3 colors out of your palette to start experimenting with. You may have already searched “Soft Autumn Color Palette Outfits” and seen the gorgeous color combinations this palette has to offer, but don’t feel like you need to throw out your entire closet and replace it right away. There’s more to finding your style and optimizing your closet than just color. (Like dressing for your body shape and comfort level!)
2. However, if you do have some pieces in your closet that are not in your Soft Autumn palette that you absolutely never reach for, then odds are that nothing will ever convince you to like them in the future, because they simply don’t support your natural beauty. You have our permission to donate them!
3. Experiment with a new make up routine! Now that you know what colors suit you, it’s the perfect time to freshen up your make up. 

What If I Hate My Best Colors?

You’ve pulled up Pinterest and seen one outfit after another that looks so far from how you dress. But don’t panic! Give yourself time to explore. Now that you know what colors suit you best, that information will never change or go out of style. You can sit on this new information until you’re ready to use it. 

If you’re happy and confident in the wardrobe you have now, that’s amazing. You are not obligated to wear only your best colors all the time! If you want to treat your Best Colors like a secret weapon you pull out for weddings, job interviews, photoshoots, or first dates, that’s totally fine. 

However, once you start raking in those compliments, it’s really difficult to go back to those colors that weren’t serving you well. Once you’re used to seeing your skin glowing in the mirror, it’s hard to go back to colors that deliver subpar results.

When you’re ready to lean deeper into your best colors and choose outfits that also actually work for your body shape and lifestyle, book a Closet Review , a Shop With Me or a Shop For Me session!