Makeup Tips for Summer Seasons

If you’re a Summer in the seasonal colour analysis system, your palette leans cool, soft, and muted, and you’re makeup should mirror this. Summers look best in delicate and subtle makeup, think English Rose, nothing too warm, loud, or heavy. 

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Makeup for Light Summer

Light Summers have cool-neutral undertones, low contrast and soft and light colouring. You’ll look best in fresh, airy shades. Think of something ethereal or even fairy-like. Since Light Summers border the Spring seasons, you’ll be able to borrow some tips from Light Springs if you want something brighter and warmer. 

Foundation

Your foundation should match your undertone, cool-neutral. Go light. Heavy, matte foundations can suffocate your delicate colouring. Use a sheer or light-medium coverage foundation with a natural finish.

• Cool-neutral undertone

• Light-medium coverage

• Sheer, satin finish

Lips

Light Summers look magical in tones like fresh rose, soft raspberry, and any kind of light pink or even light mauve. Avoid shades that are too dark or harsh, like dark red, purple, brown, and orange. Instead of a classic red lip, opt for a soft raspberry shade.

• Fresh rose

• Soft raspberry

• Light pink

• Light mauve

Eyes

You’ll want to emphasise your light eyes. Grey and taupe eyeliner can suit you better than pure black eyeliner, which might look a bit harsh against your delicate colouring, particularly if you have light eyelashes and eyebrows. 

• Eyeliner/Mascara: Grey, taupe or silver

Blush/Bronzer

Summer seasons in general suit blush much better than bronzer, which can look muddy. Cool pink blush can give you a lovely soft glow. 

Blush: cool pink, soft rose

Bronzer: N/A

Eyeshadows

Soft shimmer or satin finishes work best. Think shimmery silver, lavender, mauve, icy pink, soft taupe, light blue — not golds or warm browns.

• Shimmery, light and delicate

• Silver, lavender, pink, soft taupe, light blue, mauve

Makeup for True Summer

True Summers have cool undertones with no warmth at all, they’re typically medium contrast, and have the same icy glow as a True Winter, but softer and gentler. Think of the classic English Rose type beauty - cool, sophisticated and gentle. 

Foundation

Stick to cool bases with a satin or demi-matte finish. Avoid anything too warm, dark or yellow.

• Cool undertone

• Medium coverage

• Satin or demi-matter finish

Lips

True Summers shine in all kinds of berry shades, cool pinks, rose and mauve. Think berry, rose, cool pinks, or mauve. Avoid tones that are too warm, like corals, browns, nude and orange, and tones that are too dark or harsh, like dark red, purple,and bright pink. 

• Berry shades

• Cool pink

• Rose

• Mauve

• Raspberry

• Soft cool red

Eyes

True Summers look lovely in grey, taupe and plum eyeliner and mascara. You can wear black mascara and liner, but give those other colours a try! 

• Eyeliner/Mascara: Grey, charcoal, taupe, plum

Blush/Bronzer

Skip the brunzer and go for the blush instead. Rose, dusty pink, and mauve blushes were basically made for you. 

Blush: Rose, dusty pink, mauve, soft red

Bronzer: N/A

Eyeshadows

Stay in the cool zone: smoky lavender, silvery taupe, cool pinks, dusky greys, dusty blues, sage green. Avoid anything too golden or orangey, as well as anything too bright or wild.

• Smoky lavender, silvery taupe, cool pink, dustry gray, dusty blue, sage green, silver.

Makeup for Soft Summer

Soft Summers have neutral-cool undertones, low contrast, and muted colouring. You look best in more earthy and dusty neutral tones, nothing too bright or dark. Since you border the autumn season, you might be able to borrow some makeup tips from Soft Autumn. 

Foundation

You need a neutral to cool-neutral base with a soft finish, not too glowy, not too matte. Balance is the name of the game. 

• Cool-neutral undertone

• Medium coverage

• Soft satin finish

Lips

Muted rose, mauve, soft berry, terracotta look lovely on you. You might be able to borrow some more nude shades from Soft Autumn. Stay away from anything too bright like fuchsia, orange or crimson. Think elegant, not loud.

• Muted rose

• Soft berry

• Mauve

• Natural pink

• Terracotta

Eyes

Smokey, diffused lines with soft browns, greys, plum and mauve liners look amazing on you. Black can be a little harsh on you, and more natural tones work better. 

• Eyeliner/Mascara: Soft brown, grey, charcoal, mauve, plum

Blush/Bronzer

Blushes should be muted rose, mauve, terracotta or soft plum. Bronzer should be cool-toned and used very lightly.

• Blush: Muted rose, mauve, terracorra

• Bronzer: minimal; cool-toned beige/camel/taupe

Eyeshadow

Your eyeshadow should complement your cool undertones and soft, muted features. Bold or overly vibrant shades can look out of place, so stick to cool, muted colours that enhance your natural eye colour. 

Look for shades like soft taupe, dusty pink, muted lavender, and cool grey. Soft Summer eyeshadow colours should be cool and slightly dusty, blending seamlessly with your skin tone. For a more dramatic look, try deeper shades of cool plum, charcoal, or mauve.

• Soft and muted

• Soft taupe, dusty pink, muted lavender, cool grey, cool plum, mauve, charcoal

For Summer Seasons, subtlety is power. The biggest makeup mistake is thinking you need bold pigment to look polished. You don’t. The right shades — soft, cool, and harmonious with your undertones — will always make a bigger impact than an orange bronzer or a fire-engine red lip ever could.