Cool · deep · clear
Cool and deep, usually dark hair with cool-toned skin. Colours need depth and a blue base to hold their own.
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 Winter is cool colouring at maximum depth: dark hair, cool or neutral skin, and usually dark eyes. Depth defines it and coolness sets the family, so the palette runs to colours with weight and a blue base — burgundy, midnight, pine, plum. Pale and warm colours do not clash so much as vanish beside the face.
Depth first, then temperature, then clarity.
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Deep Autumn
Temperature. Same depth; the whole decision is cream versus optic white and espresso versus black.
True Winter
Depth. If clean mid-tone cool colours suit you as well as the dark ones, you are True rather than Deep.
Deep and cool; strong lip colour is easier here than almost anywhere.
Cool dark brown to true black. Lightening costs this season the depth its palette is built on; warm highlights fight the temperature at the same time.
Silver, white gold and platinum. Gunmetal and pewter also work; yellow gold does not.
Depth first, then temperature, then clarity. Burgundy and midnight should look better on you than any pastel, easily. Optic white should beat cream, and true black should look natural rather than heavy. If deep warm shades — espresso, rust — beat the deep cool ones, you are Deep Autumn instead.
Burgundy, Midnight, Deep teal, Plum, Forest and similar tones, with crisp white, graphite, black as the neutrals that carry them.
Silver, white gold and platinum. Gunmetal and pewter also work; yellow gold does not.
Cool dark brown to true black. Lightening costs this season the depth its palette is built on; warm highlights fight the temperature at the same time.
Temperature. Same depth; the whole decision is cream versus optic white and espresso versus black.
Depth. If clean mid-tone cool colours suit you as well as the dark ones, you are True rather than Deep.
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