Soft Summer
As a Soft Summer, the key features of your colouring are:
A blend of Summer and Autumn colours (a Neutral Season), mostly Summer • Medium-cool (or cool-neutral in PCA) • Span from vintage white to dark pewter
When you shop...
- Your colours are softly heathered, light and powdery, or deep and dusty. They are elegant, sophisticated colours with enough warmth to feel velvety.
- Don't invest in colours that are pure white, crayon bright, or warmed with peach, tan, orange, or gold.
- Focus on colours that are softened with dove gray. The gray may be noticeable or the colour might seem to have a lot of pigment without being bold or jewel-toned, like grapes and blueberries. Shine is optional and soft, like opal.
- Be flexible about the lightness or darkness of individual items, aiming for an overall medium light to fairly dark level.
- Know that your black is moose black.
- Look for grays that remind you of clamshell, shadow, cool smoke, mauve gray, taupe, gray mink, and Ragdoll cat.
- Find your white in off-white, like handmade lace.
- Know that your lightest colours are pastels (you remember colours from your PCA that were icy, not pastel, and learned how to tell the difference).
- Use the technique demonstrated by your colour analyst for checking colour warmth/coolness (hue). Your temperature level is cool-neutral. Every colour is selected for that amount of coolness. Getting the colour temperature right is key for good results, and hard to 'guesstimate' without comparing to a fan.
