Cool Winter (True Winter) color palette
Icy, pure and sharp. Cool Winter has coolness as its dominant with a clear, intense secondary. Its palette is blue-based and crisp: cobalt, fuchsia, pine, icy tones. It is the coolest of all twelve seasons.
What is Cool Winter? Cool Winter has coolness as its dominant with a clear, intense secondary. Its palette is blue-based and crisp: cobalt, fuchsia, pine, icy tones. It is the coolest of all twelve seasons. It is also called True Winter in other 12-season systems.
What does a Cool Winter look like?
Dark ash-brown or black hair, sometimes early silver; cool blue, grey or dark brown eyes; cool or pink-toned skin with high contrast. Every person is unique: coloring is confirmed by draping, never by hair or eye color alone.
Best neutrals
Black, pure white, charcoal, navy, cool grey.
Best metals
Silver, white gold and platinum.
Makeup
Blue-red, fuchsia or cool berry lips, cool pink blush, grey or black liner.
Colors to avoid
Orange, golden yellow, camel and warm browns.
The Cool Winter palette
Cobalt, Fuchsia, Pine teal, Royal purple, Icy grey, Black, Blue red, Emerald, Icy pink, Navy, Magenta, Icy blue.
Close seasons
Cool Winter is often confused with Deep Winter, Intense Winter, Cool Summer. The difference lies in the dominant: a professional analyst compares the seasons side by side with fabrics to see which one truly lights up the face.
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