All seasons Summer family
Cool Summer Color Palette
Cool and refined — soft jewel tones with a blue heart.
Cool Summer — also called True Summer — is the purest member of the cool, soft Summer family. Your undertone is clearly cool: skin with a rosy or blue cast, ash or cool-brown hair, and soft cool eyes. Your colours are blue-based and gently muted, like a garden at dusk — refined, never icy or warm.
- Temperature: Cool
- Depth: Medium
- Clarity: Medium-soft
Cool Summer colors to wear
These 27 shades are the heart of the Cool Summer palette. Save them to your phone and use them as a reference when shopping for clothes, accessories and makeup.
Colors to avoid
Warm and overly bright colours clash with Cool Summer's blue-based softness. Orange, mustard and warm browns make cool skin look sallow — reach for blue-reds and cool jewel tones instead.
Best neutrals & metals
Neutrals
Metals
Silver and white gold are your most flattering metals, with cool-toned rose gold also working well. Yellow gold reads too warm against cool skin.
Cool Summer makeup
Choose makeup in the same family as your clothing palette so your face and outfit work together. These shade families flatter Cool Summer colouring:
Lipstick
Blush
Eyeshadow
Shop Cool Summer shades
Looking for makeup and wardrobe pieces in your colors? Curated Cool Summer lipstick, blush and clothing picks make it easy to build a palette-perfect look.
See recommended Cool Summer products →
Some links may be affiliate links. See our disclosure.Hair colors for Cool Summer
Cool brown and ash tones flatter Cool Summer: ash brown, cool medium brown, soft cool blonde and silvery greys. Avoid golden, copper and warm chocolate dyes.
Cool Summer celebrities & examples
It helps to picture the Cool Summer look on real people. Rather than show copyrighted photos, here are the kinds of colouring that typify this season:
Outfit color combinations
Three flattering ways to combine Cool Summer colors in an outfit:
Not quite you?
Cool Summer sits in the Summer family. If the palette doesn't feel right, you may be one of its neighbours — compare:
Cool Summer FAQs
Is Cool Summer the same as True Summer?
Yes. Cool Summer and True Summer are the same season — the most clearly cool member of the Summer family, where a blue undertone leads rather than lightness or softness.
Can Cool Summers wear red?
Yes, but blue-based reds like raspberry, blue-red and watermelon rather than warm tomato or orange-reds. The red should feel cool and slightly soft.
What colours should Cool Summer avoid?
Warm, earthy and very bright colours — orange, mustard, camel and warm brown — which fight the cool undertone and dull the complexion.
Not sure you're a Cool Summer?
Take the free Color Analysis Quiz to confirm your season — 8 questions, instant results, no email.
Take the quiz →