TruHue™TruHue™You have a beautiful cool balance — medium depth with muted, sophisticated coloring. Think ocean-inspired, cool, and composed.
If you've been told you're a True Summer, it means your natural coloring — skin undertone, eye color, and hair — harmonizes best with a specific set of warm, medium-depth shades. Understanding your True Summer palette means never second-guessing a lipstick shade or blush color again.
These are the colors that make you glow. Use them as your guide for makeup, clothing, and accessories.
slate blue, mauve, soft raspberry, cool cocoa, dusty purple, medium blue-grey, cool rose
bright orange, golden yellow, warm brown, tangerine, lime green, warm coral
These are products that score YAY for True Summer in the TruHue app — perfect matches for your palette.
True Summer is the 'classic' Summer in the 12-season system. It describes cool-toned coloring with medium depth and moderate chroma. True Summers have balanced, sophisticated coloring and look best in muted, cool, medium-depth colors.
True Summers shine in cool, muted, medium-depth shades: slate blue, mauve, soft raspberry, cool cocoa, dusty purple, and blue-grey. The key is cool + muted — your colors should feel sophisticated, never loud.
Avoid warm, bright, or vivid shades: bright orange, golden yellow, warm brown, tangerine, lime green, and warm coral. These warm or high-saturation colors will overpower your naturally soft coloring.
Both are cool and muted, but Soft Summer is even more muted and greyed-down. True Summer can handle slightly more color saturation. Soft Summer's best shades are dustier and more subtle.
They're related but not identical. True Summer is the balanced middle of the Summer family. Some systems call it Cool Summer, but in the 12-season system, True Summer specifically means medium depth + moderate chroma + cool undertone.
Take our free color analysis quiz and find out if you're a True Summer — then score any makeup product YAY, OKAY, or NAY.
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