Warm · deep · rich
Warm and deep, usually with dark hair against warm skin. Colours need weight — pale ones wash out beside you.
Three, not thirty. A palette is a prediction about which tones lift your face, not a list of banned colours — and a long avoid-list is the fastest way to make a useful idea useless.
Deep Autumn is warm colouring carried at depth: dark hair against skin with a golden or olive cast, and eyes usually dark brown or deep hazel. Depth is the defining axis, warmth the family. Pale colours do not so much clash as evaporate — they sit next to the face without registering.
Depth first, temperature second.
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Deep Winter
Temperature, and it is the whole question. Both are deep; Deep Winter's skin has a cool or neutral cast and takes true black, Deep Autumn's is golden and prefers espresso to black.
True Autumn
Depth. If mid-range rusts suit you better than near-black browns, you are True rather than Deep.
Depth and warmth together; this season can carry a strong lip easily.
Dark chocolate, deep auburn, black-brown with a warm cast. Lightening this season is the expensive mistake — the depth is a large part of what the palette is built on.
Antiqued and yellow gold, bronze. Silver is possible in an oxidised finish but never as the main note.
Depth first, temperature second. Dark chocolate brown and deep olive should look better on you than any pastel, without effort. Then decide temperature: if deep warm colours work and deep cool ones look slightly severe, you are the autumn side rather than the winter one. Cream and warm bone should beat optic white; if optic white wins, you are Deep Winter.
Oxblood, Dark gold, Pine, Walnut, Burnt umber and similar tones, with warm bone, tobacco, dark chocolate as the neutrals that carry them.
Antiqued and yellow gold, bronze. Silver is possible in an oxidised finish but never as the main note.
Dark chocolate, deep auburn, black-brown with a warm cast. Lightening this season is the expensive mistake — the depth is a large part of what the palette is built on.
Temperature, and it is the whole question. Both are deep; Deep Winter's skin has a cool or neutral cast and takes true black, Deep Autumn's is golden and prefers espresso to black.
Depth. If mid-range rusts suit you better than near-black browns, you are True rather than Deep.
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