Like the beach in the morning, Cool Summer is a muted, yet a surprisingly intense season. Cool Summers are…you guessed it, very cool, with 50% brightness and 50% saturation. Sitting halfway between Summer and Winter, Cool Summers carry the muted palette from Summer with some of the intensity of Winter, giving your season quite the color card. You will usually have lighter skin with pink and blue undertones and medium dark hair but with lighter or brighter eyes.

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 influencer. So, if you are a Cool Summer, look no further! Let us walk you through this stunning color palette and get ready to watch the compliments (and confidence!) roll in.

Cool Summer’s Best Colors

With cool undertones and medium-contrast features, Cool Summers favor colors that are very cool and in the middle of brightness and saturation. If a color is warm or overly-saturated, you will probably notice that it can muddy your complexion or overpower it completely.

Once you embrace your color season, everything clicks. You’ll be throwing together outfits like a pro, you’ll quit second-guessing your makeup routine, and the compliments will start rolling in. Every day is your red carpet, lady!  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 a no-brainer over here!

Cool Summer Features

If you are a Cool Summer, being cool is your dominant feature, like Light Summer’s lightness or Bright Winter’s intensity. You are cool, yes, but you’ll find your palette has a fair amount of range, sitting in a Goldilocks zone of saturation and lightness. You will typically have fair to tan shades of skin that is cool. You will also probably have light brown to dark brown hair, maybe even mousy red hair if your skin is pretty fair.

Your eyes can be light or bright, but are typically blue. In some cases, you could have green, muted hazel, or even brown eyes.

Ready to find out for certain? Book a Your Best Colors Consultation here.

Cool Summer Make Up

When shopping for make up, remember that when you wear your best colors, you can expect to wear less make up than usual. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with wearing more or less make up. It’s just that if you are working with your features to enhance what is already there, there is less work to be done than if you were working against your features.

For foundation, you can go for liquid or powder, as a shine or matte finish is both fine for you. You may also opt for just concealer in a few areas. We don’t recommend bronzing or contouring, as these often lean warm. Instead, opt for a pink-based contour or skip it all together and go straight to blush! One of the benefits of a color analysis is that wearing your best colors near your face is akin to a layer of foundation.

When choosing eyeshadow, remember to lean cool. Never reach for a gold or bronze, instead opt for soft whites, grays, and taupes.  And be sure to toss out your black mascara and eyeliner and replace it with a deep gray or navy. For eyeshadow, opt for silver, gray, navy and muted whites.

For blush, refer to your full color palette for cool pink inspirations. The perfect shade will depend on the shade of your own skin. Roses, plums, berries, mauves, and orchids are good places to start looking. Just remember that there are no hard and fast rules for naming lipsticks, so you will have to pull out your color card and compare the colors yourself to decide if the lipstick is cool or warm. Matte or glossy will work for you!

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

Cool Summer Celebrities

As you can see, these celebrities have medium contrast between their skin and their hair, and they also all have cool undertones. These celebrities look cohesive and put together in their Cool Summer Palette. The blues and grays look lively on them and support the lightness and coolness in their features. The medium, cool pink you see on Kimberly Williams-Paisley and the blue on Luke Thompson is a nice pop of color without being too overwhelming or dragging their features down. If you are also a Cool Summer, then you can be sure the same colors will make you glow as well!

Cool Summer Jewelry

We can’t forget jewelry! Because your main attribute is cool, your jewelry should reflect that as well. Opt for a silver, white gold, or even platinum and avoid big gold pieces close to your face.

For stones, white, pink and grey pearls are always a good idea. Moonstone, rose quartz, aquamarine, blue lace agate, and amethyst are also great for your season.

Start Dressing in Your Cool Summer 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 get started with your current wardrobe.

• Pick 2-3 colors out of your palette to start experimenting with. You may have already searched “Cool Summer 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 learning your body shape!)
• However, if you do have some pieces in your closet that are not in your Cool Summer palette that you have never liked, then odds are that nothing will ever convince you to like them, because they just don’t support your natural beauty. You have our permission to donate it!
• 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.

If you are ready to add a few intentional pieces to your wardrobe, you can use this handy dandy link here to find my handpicked jewelry and clothing suggestions for Cool Summers.

What if I hate my best colors?

You’ve pulled up Pinterest and seen one outfit after another that look so much more colorful than how you normally dress. But don’t panic! Give yourself time to explore and slowly incorporate your colors piece by piece starting with what is closest to your face. Now that you know what colors suit you best, that information will never change or go out of style.

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.

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