Cool Summers: Best lipstick colours

Cool Summer palette lipsticks

Cool Summers look best mixing the stronger, cooler colours in their palette with their pastel versions. Think about achieving that balance before choosing the makeup you will be wearing with any outfit.

Cool Summers' best lipstick shades:

1. Soft rose pinks and mauves.
2. Browns: rose brown and cocoa.
3. Blue pinks: from deep rose shades to soft fuchsia.
4. Reds: yellow red like tomato (or geranium), true red and strong shades like ruby.
5. Red blues: plum, purple, and burgundy.

Cool Summer: Lipstick colours by Caroline Grant.

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Cool Summer: Looks

What do Cool Summers look like?

• General appearance: cool and soft.
• Natural hair: ash brown, deep ash blond, deep ash gray.
• Eyes: gray, gray blue, or blue green.

Cool Summers' complexion is stronger that that of the Light Summers and colder that that of the Soft Summers (who can wear a lot of warm colours). CMB's description says that they look great in blue, but I really find they look amazing in emerald turquoise, soft teal, and spruce (a blue-ish shade of pine green). On the other hand, they share tons of colours not only with Cool Winters, but also with Clear Winters. I actually think they should be called Clear Summers, it would make things easier to understand, as they are the colder counterpart of Clear Springs.

Cool Summer Looks by Caroline Grant. I wasn't enjoying looking for people for this palette until I remembered Vivian Leigh, because I really hate using celebrities for anything in my blog, and least of all, people who have done nothing but marry someone else. However, this is not a palette which is not exactly "overflowing" with people, as this combination of hair colour, eyes, and skin tone is really rare, as far as I can tell.

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Soft Summers: Best lipstick colours

Soft Summer palette lipsticks

Soft Summers look best in blended shades (not primary or secondary shades, but tertiary, ie. the mixture of those, you can read more here).
Soft Summer best lipstick shades:

1. Rose browns like tan pink and dusty rose.
2. Red blues like soft amethyst and plum tones.
3. Blue pinks: from rose shades to stronger ones like orchid, raspberry, burgundy.
4. Soft reds like watermelon.

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Soft Summer palette: Looks

What do Soft Summers look like?

• General appearance: muted and dusty.
• Natural hair: ash blonde, medium brown, mousy gray. Often natural highlights in their hair.
• Eyes: gray green, blue gray, soft hazel, or soft blue green.

Soft Summers: Favourite Characters by Carolin Grant.

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Soft Summer palettes: Best colours

The Soft Summer is very elegant and subdued. The idea is to enhance their natural elegance by choosing shades that will make them glow, not be overwhelmed, so they have to be extra careful with their choices of colour. Harsh shades like neon or electric ones are not good on them, they need instead either pastels like mint and rose beige or rich shades like burgundy, amethyst and purple. Very dark colours would not be good on them either: their darkest shades are rose brown, charcoal, and light navy.

Best neutrals:

• Light navy.
• Charcoal and medium gray.
• Cocoa, rose brown, and rose beige.

Other colours:

• Pinks in the rose family.
• Blues like purple, periwinkle, and amethyst.
• Green blues like teal, jade, and turquoise.

Colour combinations:
As with other Summers, mixing the richer colours in their palette with their pastels and muted shades is better than putting strong shades together.

• Rose brown and rose pinks.
• Light navy and mint or rose pink.
• Rose beige and cocoa or rose brown.

Soft Summer palette: Blues, greens, and yellow by Caroline Grant.

Soft Summer palette: Purples, reds, and pinks by Caroline Grant.

Soft Summer palette: Brown, gray, and beige by Caroline Grant.

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Light Summer palette: Best lipstick colours

The Light Summer palette is full of harmonious shades that complement their soft, delicate complexion.

Light Summer best lipstick shades:

1. Nudes: rose beige to cocoa or rose brown, depending on the colour of your skin.
2. Soft pink tones like warm pastel pink and powder pink.
3. Rose shades of pink, but not as dark as fucshia.
4. Reds, from watermelon to clear blue reds, not as dark as burgundy.

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Light Summer palette: Looks

What do Light Summers look like?

• General appearance: soft and delicate.
• Natural hair: ash blonde, gray blonde, cool gray.
• Eyes: soft blue, blue-gray, gray.

Light Summer palette: Looks by Caroline Grant.

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Cool Summer Palettes: Best colours

Any blue or gray without warm undertones looks great on the Cool Summer. Cocoa, rose brown and rose beige all have cool undertones, so they are fine on them too.

Best neutrals:

• Navy.
• All cool grays
• Cocoa, rose brown, and rose beige.

Other colours:

• Soft pinks in the rose family.
• Blues with red inside: plum, purple, periwinkle, lavander.
• Green blues like soft teal, spruce, green turquoise, and aqua.

Colour combinations:
Try mixing strong colours with pastels instead of with other strong shades, that gives the most interesting options for Cool Summers.

• Taupe and rose.
• Navy and mint or aqua, or rose.
• Rose beige and cocoa or rose brown.

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Cool Summer palette: Blues and greens by Caroline Grant.

Cool Summer palette: Purples, reds, and pinks by Caroline Grant.

Cool Summer palette: Brown, Gray, and Beige by Caroline Grant.

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Light Summer Palettes: Best colours

About their colours

The palette for Light Summers is mostly soft: soft blue grays, rose colours (from light to deep), watermelon red and other soft blue reds, and blue-greens. The general impression is very elegant.

Best neutrals:

• Gray-blue.
• Medium blue.
• Rose brown.
• NOT black.

Colour combinations:
There is not a lot of contrast in it. Shades of similar intensity create an unbroken line, harmonious.

• Gray-blue and lavender or powder pink.
• Blue-greens: soft teal, spruce, and aqua.
• Medium blues and clear aqua.

Makeup for the Summer palettes

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Light Summer palette: Blues and greens by Caroline Grant. Plenty of blue-greens and soft red blues, plus medium intensity shades like true blue and teal. Spruce is the deepest green, a shade softer than forest or pine green and therefore more suitable for Light Summers.

Light Summer palette: Violet, reds, and pinks by Caroline Grant. Soft reds and pinks are best for the Light Summer.

Light Summer palette: Browns, grays, and beige by Caroline Grant. Very soft, creamy shades plues grays with a certain amount of blue inside. 

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