True Summer
As a True Summer, the key features of your colouring are:
The pure True Summer palette, without warming from any other Season • Pure cool (or true cool in PCA) • Span from pearl to asphalt (bitumen)
When you shop...
- Imagine soft pastels and peaceful watercolours that would fit into a Japanese garden, along with cool gray stone, waterfalls, and the fresh, cool greens of shrubs and trees.
- Don't invest in colours that are bold, sharp, golden, or earthy.
- Focus on colours that are cool, calm, and refreshing, as well as, softly muted. These are the colours of early summer grasses and cool forests.
- Know that your black is soft charcoal.
- Look for grays that remind you of driftwood, mushroom, mole taupe, pink taupe, and dark blue whale.
- Find your white in cotton white.
- 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). Your other light choices start around light-medium, including sky blue, wisteria, and soft mint.
- Use the technique demonstrated by your colour analyst for checking colour warmth/coolness (hue). Your level is purely cool. 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.
